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Jews On Forbes List

The number of Michigan Jews on the
annual Forbes magazine list of the 400
Richest People in America list has
dropped to two, as one long-term stal-
wart failed to meet this year's mini-
mum requirement of a net worth of
5725 million.
Still on the list are William
Davidson of Bloomfield Hills at No.
124, and Max M. Fisher of Franklin at
the No. 380 position.
Davidson, 77, CEO of Auburn
Hills-based Guardian Industries Inc.,
and owner of the Detroit Pistons, was
down from the No. 112 position he
held last year. His net worth of 52.1
billion makes him one of the 298 bil-
lionaires on the list.
Fisher was also down from his ranking
in last year's list, when he finished at
268. But his net worth of $760 million
was enough to keep him among the
400. At age 92, he is the oldest on the
list.
Dropped from the list was A. Alfred
Taubman of Bloomfield Hills, who, in
1999, was ranked 275. Taubman, 75,
a shopping center magnate, now
appears second on the "Near Miss"
list. His net worth is listed at $720
million.
Two former metro Detroiters who
are Jewish also finished in the top 400.
Steven Anthony Ballmer, the 44-year-
old chief executive of Microsoft, took
seventh place with $17 billion. Last
year, the Washington State resident
finished fourth.
Eli Broad, 67, of California actually
moved five notches up the list this
year to rank at No. 43. Broad has
made $5.2 billion in real estate and
financial services.
The total net worth of all 400 mem-
bers on the list is $1.2 trillion.

— Alan Abrams

Erev Eruv A Miracle

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9/29
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Miracles do happen, says Larry Brown
of West Bloomfield. And because of a
miracle at Detroit Edison, dozens of
young families who use the 1 1/2-year-
old West Bloomfield eruv should be
able to get to shul on the High
Holidays. The ancient concept of estab-
lishing an eruv around a residential area
allows observant Jews to carry and push
strollers on Shabbat and holidays.
The new housing development at
the southwest corner of Walnut Lake
and Orchard Lake roads required the
removal of some of the utility poles
and wires that make up the eruv. The
West Bloomfield eruv is bounded

roughly by Walnut Lake, Orchard
Lake, Maple and Farmington roads.
The poles at the construction site were
removed several weeks ago.
Brown heard through his son, a
member of Congregation Ohel Moed-
Shomrey Emunah, that the eruv had
been "broken." The telephone lines
and Lech. i — half-round moldings
attached to the poles — form figura-
tive archways making a "home" where
it is permissible to carry.
Brown, a member of the West
Bloomfield Planning Commission,
called Gary Shapiro of Ivanhoe
Builders, who was very concerned
when he learned his project had dis-
turbed the eruv. Brown also called
Detroit Edison, and a company repre-
sentative met Brown and Ohel Moed's
Rabbi Eli Jundef at the site on
Tuesday
Edison's Leo Batchelor promised
that the eruv would be repaired by
Friday, Sept. 29, erev Rosh Hashanah.
"That's a miracle," said Brown.
"Something like this usually takes
weeks."
To determine if the eruv is intact,
call the eruv hotline at 6:45 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 29, (248) 788-6782.

— Alan Hitsky

Honest Mistake

An oversight caused the financial arm
of the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit to give money
to a group that supports school
vouchers.
A check for $5,000 was mistakenly
sent to Kids First! Yes!, a pro-voucher
organization, from a United Jewish
Foundation support foundation, said
Mark Davidoff, Federation chief
operating officer. Normally, a corn-
mittee reviews a request from a
Foundation donor who wants to
direct some of the funds to charitable
institutions or qualified organiza-
tions, he said. A check is cut from the
Foundation's account with the
donor's name included.The
Foundation handles Federation's
banking.
In this particular case, the distribu-
don should never have been made
because the organization is not a
qualified non-profit charitable organi-
zation (501-C3).
"An IRS manual which lists every
501-C3 organization showed about
10 Kids First! organizations in differ-
ent states, but Kids First! Yes! wasn't
on the list," Davidoff said. "Our
name got picked up by Kids First!
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