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Community Pillars
Beth Yehudah lauds the Ferbers for helping
enlighten and enrich the Jewish people.
ROBERT A. SKLAR
Editor
S
hoah survivors, a local couple
who through tenacity rose
from the ashes of Europe to
create a legacy of devotion to
the Jewish people has earned Yeshiva
Beth Yehudah's highest honor.
At the Southfield-based day
school's 85th annual
dinner Sunday in
Detroit, philan-
thropists Fred and
Miriam Ferber of
Orchard Lake
received the Golden
Torah Award for
their devotion to
Jewish education
and Jewish survival.
"Compassion,
tzedaka (helping the
needy) and tikkun
olam (repairing the
world) are not just
words to them," said
Emery Klein, dinner
chairman. "They are
their way of life."
Fred is a survivor
of Mauthausen, a
German concentra-
tion camp. Miriam was saved when
her parents, in a last but courageous
act before dying in the war, entrusted
her with a righteous Gentile, who
raised her until she was 18.
Presenting the Golden Torah Award
before 2,340 dinner guests, Beth
Yehudah President Gary Torgow mused
how "these two special remnants of a
terrible world during a terrible time
were able to somehow become united
in a new and wonderful era."
"The crowning achievement of this
story," he added, "is that they, togeth-
er, recreated their lives with an energy
and gusto for life, an enduring sweet-
ness and a determination to create a
most beautiful family that no one
would have dreamed possible in 1940
in war-torn Poland."
"Far from leaving them embittered
and broken," said the Ferbers' daugh-
ter, Annette Adelman, the Holocaust
strengthened their resolve to make
),
the world a better place.
Married in 1962, the Ferbers have 10
CC
grandchildren. The Jewish Association
for Residential Care (JARC), Yad Ezra,
the Friendship Circle, Hillel Day
School, the Holocaust Memorial
Center, Children of Chernobyl and sev-
eral Israel universities all benefit from
the couple's generosity:
Daughter Shari Kaufman said she,
Annette and brother Ronny have dis-
covered through their parents "the
Fred and Miriam Ferber flank dinner
guest speaker George Stephanopoulos.
importance of modesty, kindness,
compassion and depth of feeling for
other people, without which our lives
would be lacking.
"You have instilled in us a sense of
purpose encompassing the teachings
of our Torah," Kaufman said, proudly
turning to her parents. "I tell you this
because your ideals, your visions and
your goals will be carried on in your
grandchildren and generations after-
wards."
In his remarks, guest speaker
George Stephanopoulos, former
senior advisor to President Bill
Clinton, told the Ferbers: "You
understand that being a good citizen
is practicing not only the art of the
possible but also the impossible — of
changing people's lives for the better."
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah has grown
from humble beginnings in 1914
Detroit, when it served primarily the
children of eastern European immi-
grants, to become the largest Jewish
day school in Michigan. Current