Raises funds to assist parent
organization, Israel Cancer Association,
in fighting cancer in Israel. The ICA
receives no government funds and
assists with cancer research, and other
cancer fighting programs.

Jewish National Fund*

Labor Zionist Institute

17100 W. Ten Mile Road
Southfield, MI 48075

25900 Greenfield Road
Oak Park, MI 48237
(248) 967-3170
Contact Person: Helen Naimark

Israel Numismatic Society of
Michigan, Inc.

FAX: (248) 557-2412

P.O. Box 942

Royal Oak, MI 48068
(248) 398 4465
Contact Person: Leo Silber

Israel coin club that meets the fourth
Tuesday of every month, September-June.

Jabotinsky Society

1470 Kingston
Oak Park, MI 48237

(248) 548-3073
Contact Person: Simon Cieck

Israeli organization that holds parties,
meetings and other activities. All ages
welcome.

Honorable Menschen

GRin
Farmington Hills

(248) 557-6644

(800) 557-6644 Tributes

The American fund-raising arm of its sole
agent in Israel, Keren Kayemeth Leisrael,
Inc., Israel's official environmental agency.
Supports KKL in land reclamation,
environment, water, recreation,
agriculture, immigration concerns.

Labor Zionist Alliance

Detroit's auxiliary of the Labor Zionist
Alliance.

Michigan Committee for a Safe
Israel

P.O. Box 35165
Detroit, MI 48235
(313) 862-1474

25900 Greenfield, Suite 205A
Oak Park, MI 48237

FAX: (313) 862 1474

(248) 967-3170

To help save our land and people, we
distribute literature to synagogues,
churches, media, schools and to
Washington. We also provide videos and
speakers.

FAX (248) 967-1211

Contact Person: Dena Greenberg, president

The LZA is a worldwide organization of
Zionists who share a common view for
Israel's future and are committed to the
principles of social and economic justice,
pluralism and peace.

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Contact Person: Hymie Cutler, director

hen we talked, Micki had just finished work-
ing her third "Housing the Homeless" week at
"Volunteering
Congregation Adat Shalom where she's part of
keeps me out
the social action committee. As co-chair, she was
pumped from too little sleep and liberal doses of good
of trouble."
will and miracles.
"The program is mindboggling. Fifty-two congregations
and churches each take one week to house their homeless in
their building. We have a group of doctors who volunteer to give exams and booster
shots. It's overwhelming to see the kindness people do. I'm so
privileged to be in their company."
A widow for 13 years, with grown kids, Micki began volunteering as a productive
way to use her free time. "It's a good way to be with people. You don't have the stress of
the business world. You're just doing something you can feel good about with people
who have the same dedication. It feels great."
It feels so good she can't get enough. With her usual upbeat attitude, she gives her
energy to a variety of projects and causes. She's site coordinator for 600 volunteers
participating in Federation's Christmas Day Extravaganza. She also coordinates World
Food Day for the Jewish Community Council, which garners 7 percent of the day's
profits from local restaurants for food banks. Once a month, she's a docent at the
Holocaust Memorial Center. She chaired the Fall Fix-Up for Jewish Family Service and
is co-chair of a JFS Jewish holiday project for New Americans. She also mentors those
readying for citizenship exams.
"I like the people who come to help," she says. "You only meet nice people who want
to give of their time to help others.

Keri Guten Cohen

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