Community

Millennium Mitzvah

Schostak family endows scholarship fund for Jewish Academy students.

T

he Schostak family, which has
been associated with day
school education since its
inception in Detroit more
than 40 years ago, has created a fund
that will enable high school students to
attend the new Jewish Academy of
Metropolitan Detroit.
With their gift of $1 million to the
Millennium Campaign for Detroit's
Jewish Future, the Schostak family —
Jerry and Elyse, Robert and Nancy,
David and Elise, Tzvi and Dorit and
Mark and Lillian — hope to make a
Jewish day high school available for all
children who desire an intensive Jewish
and general studies education.
Jerry and Elyse Schostak and their
family have played an active role in the
growth of Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit. Robert, former
president and chairman of its executive
committee; his brothers David, Tzvi and
Mark, and sisters Lindsey and Stefanie,
as well as many of the Schostaks' grand-
children, have graduated from or are
attending Hillel.
The Millennium Campaign, which is
sponsored by the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit and its. real
estate/banking arm, the United Jewish
Foundation, is designed to promote
Jewish continuity and identity programs
that will contribute to a renaissance in
Jewish life.
Explaining the importance of the

fund, Federation
President Penny
Blumenstein said that
formal Jewish educa-
tion enrollment drops
significantly at the
high school level, due
in part to limited high
school opportunities
and also to the high
cost of day school
education.
Federation allocates
nearly $2 million per
year to assist day
schools in meeting
their scholarship
needs, yet schools still
struggle to raise addi-
tional money so they
can provide a superior Jewish education.
The Schostak Family Jewish
Academy of Metropolitan Detroit
Millennium Fund is intended to pro-
mote quality programming and school
enrollment.
The donors saw establishment of the
fund as an opportunity to validate the
new Academy and its goal to assist fami-
lies wanting to give their teenagers an
intensive Jewish high school education.
The Schostaks said they felt they couldn't
let increased costs limit access or corn-
promise the quality of that experience.
Honored by Hillel Day School with
the Rabbi Jacob Segal Award for his life-

Brotherhood Names 0 cers, Board

Alan Goldberg will lead the Temple
Beth El Brotherhood for the second
consecutive year. He and his fellow offi-
cers were installed at a dinner on June 6
at the temple.
Also serving will be Peter Goldberg
and Stewart Levin, vice presidents;
Raymonde Wert II, treasurer, Curtis
Kuttnauer, assistant treasurer, Louis
Rose, secretary; David Hull, assistant
secretary. Joining them will be newly
installed board members Jeffrey Berger,
Myron Bordman, Dr. Adrian Christie,
Gerald Cole, Herbert Goldstein, Harvey
Goodman, Marshall Hersh, Steven
Kohler, Michael Levine, Alan Lowen,
Bruce Plisner, Jerry Schare, Byron Siegel,
David Snyder, Lee Turner, Lawrence
Warren and Charles Zamek.

6/23
2000

40

A highlight of the installation was the
presentation of the Robert L. Rosenbush
Award, given annually to one devoted to
brotherhood and emulating the qualities
of the late brotherhood president Robert
Rosenbush: scholarship, worship and
deeds of loving kindness. This year's
recipient, Lee (Buzz) Turner, was recog-
nized for his work as chair of the broth-
erhood's Coalition on Temporary Shelter
(COTS) program. Chair of the program
since its inception in 1991, Turner over-
sees and participates in the monthly pro-
gram in which volunteers prepare and
serve Sunday lunch to the COTS clien-
tele. Turner also serves on the board of
Don Bosco Hall and is involved in
Goodwill Industries and the Reggie
McKenzie Foundation.

Creators of the -
Schostak Family
Jewish Academy
of Metropolitan
Detroit
Millennium Fund
are, standing,
David, Jerry,
Robert, Mark and
Tzvi, and seated,
Elise, Elyse, Nancy,
Lillian and Dorit.

Nitait.1:0 *

long devotion and commitment to
Jewish education, Jerry Schostak chaired
Hind's fund-raising efforts for capital
improvements and endowments for the
school.
He is vice president and a board
member of the Jewish Federation, as
well as past chairman of its capital needs
division. Formerly on the board of Sinai
Hospital, he was named to the Detroit
Medical Center Board of Trustees. He
serves on the board of the Jewish Fund.
His wife, Elyse Schostak, has served on
the board of Hillel and chaired its edu-
cation committee and recruiting and
marketing committee.

Robert and David Schostak also serve
on the Federation Board of Governors.
David serves on several Federation com-
mittees, co-chairs the Odyssey 2000
program for future leadership and co-
chairs Federation's Annual Campaign
congregation division. The family is
affiliated with Adat Shalom Synagogue,
where David is an officer and a member
of the executive committee.
Jerry, Robert, David, Tzvi and Mark
all work together at Schostak Brothers,
an 80-year, third-generation real estate
company. Further, Mark , is president
and CEO of the family's 70-store restau-
rant company. 0

Luncheon Spotlights Political Issues

State Rep. Gilda Jacobs, center,
speaks at the Brown Bag Lunch.
Seated are Kathleen Straus, left,
and Lynn Alexander.

The goal was getting women more involved
in the political process, when five Jewish
organizations co-sponsored a Brown Bag
Lunch on June 5. About 50 women attend-
ed the event held at the Southfield offices
of the National Council of Jewish Women.
Lynn Alexander, director of the
Michigan Office of Services to the Aging,
spoke on elder care issues; Kathleen Straus,
a state board of education member, dis-
cussed educational vouchers; and State Rep.
Gilda Jacobs (D-Huntington Woods), dis-
cussed the problem of gun violence.
The sponsoring organizations were
Greater Detroit Section of NCJW, Greater
Detroit Chapter of Hadassah, Jewish
Community Council of Metropolitan
Detroit, Na'amat and Women's American
ORT (Organization for Educational
Resources and Training).

