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ne of the giants of Detroit
Jel,vry, Marvin Berlin,
received the Kollel Institute
of Greater Detroit's Founders
Award posthumously at a March 6
dinner that honored two others as
well.
Berlin, the late president of New
York Carpet World, learned and
prayed daily and hosted a weekly
Chumash class for 20 years.
Described as "an enlightened phil-
anthropist," he gave jobs to hundreds
of people, especially Jews recently
arrived from the former Soviet Union.
Berlin supported not only the
Kollel, but also Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
in Southfield and Yeshiva Gedolah in
Oak Park and other communal institu-
tions.
A video retrospective of Berlin's life
was shown at the Kollel dinner.
Following was an award presentation
to his wife, Alice, and children Caren
and Jeff Goldenberg, Gail and Jack
Schwarcz, Bill and Missy Berlin and
Max and Elana Berlin.
Rabbi Shaiall Zachariash, the Berlin
family's rabbi and spiritual leader at
Shomrey Emunah, said: "Marvin
Berlin didn't want recognition during
his lifetime."
Others honored at the dinner were
former Kollel fellows Rabbi Dovid
Simcha and Rabbi Binyomin
Rothstein.
Rabbi Rothstein, recipient of the
Rabbinical Alumnus Award, was a
Detroit Kollel fellow from 1981-1983.
He is a high school teacher of
Halachah (Jewish Law) at the Sally
Allan Alexander Beth Jacob School for
Girls in Oak Park as well as a mash-
giach (kashrut supervisor) for many
local food establishments.
Rabbi . Simcha and his wife, Merel,
received the Avodas HaKodesh Award.
A founding member of the Kollel, he
is now in business, but continues to
learn.at the Kollel in the evenings. He
serves as the Kailas gabbai (sexton) as
well as the bawl tefilah (prayer leader)
on the High Holidays. Merel taught at
Beth Jacob and has been the program
director of Camp Agudah Midwest for
14 years.
The Oak Park-based Kollel Institute