Cover Story: Global Ambassador

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Richard Heideman is racing

A former Detroiter juggles personal business
and B'nai B'rith's agenda with style.

across continents for

B'nai B'rith International.

ALAN HITSKY
Associate Editor

Richard
Heideman is
committed to
ffnai B'rith.

e's been fighting jet lag for a
year, and he wants to keep up
the odyssey.
During three weeks in
i;
October, he gave speeches in London, Paris,
Lisbon, New York, Washington,
Philadelphia, Detroit and Chicago.
At the B'nai B'rith Youth Organization
75th anniversary event the night of Oct. 16,
his escort for the evening was his aunt,
Dorothy Selik of West Bloomfield. He
appeared on the Gem Theatre stage in Detroit
to laud Arnie Weiner on 30 years with
Michigan BBYO, then boarded a plane at 7 the
next morning for a B'nai B'rith Young Leadership
meeting in Chicago.
He is former Detroiter Richard D. Heideman,
and he has two jobs: head of a four-
lawyer practice in Washington,
D.C., and president of one of the
largest fraternal Jewish organizations
in the world, the 250,000-member
B'nai B'rith International.

11/19
1999

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