Raydiance*

(248) 855-8845
(248) 855-1950
Website: www.directrnart.com/rdindex.html

Designed to add fullness or added length
to hair. Successful use by women with
medical problems or thin hair. Blends
Raydiance hair fibers with existing hair,
adding fullness and natural look.

SALONS & SPAS

Gina Agosta Hair Color & Design
& Agosta for Men*

39831 Grand River
Novi, MI 48375
(248) 477-2266
FAX (248) 477-8121
Email: agosta@ix.netcom.com
Contact Person: Chris McCrory

A relaxing atmosphere at one of the
region's most successful salons.The
neighboring door offers masculine
clientele hair color and grooming. Salons
are open Monday through Saturday.

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and stay in a lot
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many organizations
of trouble."
both in the Jewish
and secular com-
munities.
"I have a lot of different interests; fortu-
nately I'm able to find outlets for the things
I like to do," says Sheri, whose involvement
includes the Anti-Defamation League, the
Jewish Federation, Jewish Apartments and
Honorable Menschen
Services, the Holocaust Memorial Center
and Birmingham Schools.
"My activism started in high school in
the '60s with civil rights, Soviet Jewry, so-
Birmingham
cial justice and reform," she says, adding
that her parents were always involved at
synagogue.
Her pet agency is the ADL, where she serves as a vice president on the
executive committee and is a driving force behind the agency's A WORLD
OF DIFFERENCE Institute, which is the ADL's educational arm. She also
hosts an ADL-sponsored monthly segment of "Open Doors" on WDIV-
Channel 4.
Diversity issues and intergroup relations are a hallmark of the ADL and
Sheri champions these causes by conducting A WORLD OF DIFFER-
ENCE teacher training workshops.
"This program provides rules for a changing world by teaching how to
get along with people who are different from yourself. You can see them
not as a threat, but a benefit," Sheri says. "This teaches teachers we're not
all the same, what that can mean and how they can care for others' needs."
As a docent at the Holocaust Memorial Center, Sheri marvels at the hu-
man spirit. "It's extremely rewarding, a privilege to work with these people
who have endured far more than I ever dreamed people could do to oth-
ers," she says.
For Federation, Sheri has served as vice president of the Women's Divi-
sion and was chair of its first Tzedakah Fair. She's currently heading the
Volunteer Network, which provides a one-stop volunteer experience with
the Food Bank of Oakland County.
She also is co-chair of the Community Education Central Advisory
Committee for Birmingham Schools and serves on an ad hoc committee
for Mothers Against School Violence, which emerged after the Columbine
High School shootings in Colorado.
"I'm fortunate I married late, had a couple of careers," Sheri says. "I fell
into volunteer work because I have to do work. I'm not into nails and
roaming the malls. I could volunteer and still raise kids. I hope my daugh-
ters have an understanding of giving back to the world. It's interesting and
gives me a lot of pleasure."

Keri Guten Cohen

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