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Hillel Day School honors Anaruth Bernard
with its Rabbi Jacob Segal Award.
DIANA LIEBERMAN
Staff Writer
Hillel eighth-graders Ben Chesterman of Huntington Woods and Josh
Rosenberg of West Bloomfield.
"My father and David Hermelin felt
they had to give something back to the
community that had given so much to
them," he told the audience as he
brought his father to the stage.
The two businessmen had been brain-
storming about Hillel, the younger
Goldman said, and the way the school
imparts family values along with a first-
class education.
"Something had to be done to assure
every child who wanted a Hillel educa-
tion could get one, and my father said,
`If I could afford it, I would like to send
them all.'
"Then, he paused, and said, 'Yes, I
will send them all."'
Harvey Weisberg of Bloomfield Hills,
who was Shaarey Zedek president when
Goldman served as vice president,
praised his friend's "quiet leadership in
philanthropy."
In addition to his generosity to Hillel,
Goldman can be counted on to con-
tribute to Shaarey Zedek, Israel Bonds,
the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit, ORT and many other Jewish
and secular causes, Weisberg said.
Added Brian Hermelin: "There are
people who do things because they have
to and others who do things because
they want to. Marty is one who wants
to."
Goldman downplays his contributions
to Hillel. 'All I did was write a check at
a time when David and I did well in a
deal," he said after the dinner. "The edu-
cational foundation we set up has done a
lot of good. We've seen kids go to Hillel
who wouldn't have been able to other-
wise."
A Network Of Friends
Goldman's gentle and giving personality
gained him friends from every walk of
life, Brian Hermelin said.
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These friends stood Goldman in good
stead on New Year's Eve 2001, when he
was hit by a massive stroke while on
vacation in Las Vegas.
"He was sitting at a table with his
friend Dick Scott when he developed
symptoms," said Goldman's friend,
physician and golfing buddy, Dr.
Leonard Aronovitz. "Dick had the pres-
ence of mind to call 911, and then he
called me."
Scott insisted that the ambulance take
Goldman to a hospital that specializes in
stroke and heart attacks, rather than the
hospital closest to the restaurant. Dr.
Aronovitz was called again from the hos-
pital emergency room, where he author-
ized the attending physician to adminis-
ter an injection of tissue-plasminogen
activator, the so-called "TPA shot," a
clot-busting medication that helps miti-
gate the effects of an ischemic stroke.
The medication could be fatal if the
patient is having a so-called "bleeding
stroke" in which an artery inside the
brain springs a leak, Dr. Aronovitz
explained. But, based on his patient's
medical history, he was willing to bet
that Goldman would respond favorably
to the medication.
Another friend, Harold Blumenstein,
flew Goldman back to Michigan, where
he spent the rest of his convalescence at
Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
"A stranger not knowing him wouldn't
know he'd had anything at all," Brian
Hermelin said.
Added Dr. Aronovitz, "He has some
residual weakness — but he's now play-
ing a better golf game than before the
stroke."
Goldman is still amazed at the
sequence of events that brought him
from near death back to the golf course.
"There's nothing better in the world
than great friends," he said. I1
A
naruth Bernard of Southfield began her involvement with Hillel Day
School of Metropolitan Detroit when her son, Ken, entered the school
as a kindergartner.
Thirty-five years later, she's still an integral part of the Conservative
day school, which honored her June 4 with its Rabbi Jacob Segal Award.
A former Hillel president, she also was founding chair of the school's tuition
allowance committee, which she led for many years, and began Hillel's bar and bat
mitzvah clothing exchange program. She was also co-chair of the Jewish
Theological Seminary's metropolitan Detroit board, former president of Friends of
Alyn Hospital and a member of the national board of the Solomon Schechter Day
School Association.
In her spare time, the mother of four went back to college to earn a master's
degree in business administration.
"She was the only mother who had the words 'Hi, Kids' taped to her mortar-
board at graduation,"-said her daughter, Rabbi Greta Bernard Brown.
"My mother encouraged us to speak our minds — for better or for worse,"
Rabbi Brown said as she prepared to introduce her mother to the audience at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield.
She encouraged her daughters to read the Torah on the pulpit of a Conservative
shul, which wasn't done at the time. And she was not above cornering a parent of
a prospective Hillel student to extol the virtues of a Hillel education.
To keep up with her four children, Anaruth and her husband, Henri Bernard,
took intensive Hebrew classes. The pair became very active with their synagogue,
Congregation Beth Shalom, and their home became a haven for all their children's
friends.
"My son became observant, in
part, because he went to their
house," said longtime friend
Florence Brownfain of Bloomfield
Hills.
"Anaruth is a very special per-
son, a beautiful human being,"
Brownfain said. "She is involved in
so many organizations I can't even
begin to list them, and yet she is
so thoughtful she e-mails and
shares information with all her
friends."
Brownfain's son, Benjamin, was
best man at Ken Bernard's wed-
ding, and the Bernard family
helped organize the dedication for
the Torah the Brownfain family
Anaruth Bernard, recipient of Hillel c
donated "Anaruth is a very pious
Rabbi Jacob Segal Award, with her
woman, and she's also a dear
mother; Pearl Oslik of Southfield.
friend," said Rabbi David Nelson
of Congregation Beth Shalom.
"She marks her life by the Jewish priorities of education, Torah and respect."
In addition to Ken Bernard and Rabbi Greta Bernard Brown, Anaruth and
Henri Bernard also are parents of Betsy Wolf and Miry Bernard Serlin — all Hillel
graduates. They also have 10 grandchildren.
Many members of the family and friends came to the June 4 dinner.
"Their presence is the greatest honor of all," Anaruth Bernard said. Ei
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