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Robert Labe of West Bloomfield, a
partner with the Birmingham firm
of Williams,
Williams, Ruby &
Plunkett PC, has
been reappointed to
a three-year term to
the Institute of
Continuing Legal
Educations' Business
Labe
Advisory Board. He
is vice chair of the
Oakland County Bar Association
Probate, Estate and Trust
Committee.

Scott Eisenberg of Franklin, manag-
ing director of Amherst Partners
LLC, was a panelist at the Strategic
Research Institute's annual Loan
Markets and Syndication
Symposium in Florida:

Steve Morris of West Bloomfield,
CEO of Southfield-based GVA
Strategis, a commer-
cial real estate bro-
kerage and consult-
ing firm, has been re-
elected president of
the University of
Michigan Business
School Alumni Club
Morris
of Detroit.

Joel E. Jacob of West Bloomfield,
founder and president of the Bottle
Crew, has been elected to the
national board of
directors of
MAZON: A Jewish
Response to Hunger.
Jacob is the founder
of CEO's Under 17
and Seeds of Peace in
Detroit. He serves on
Jacob
the board of advisors
of Yad Ezra and is a
board member of the United Way,
Karmanos Cancer Institute,
Students in Free Enterprise, Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
and the Wal-Mart Competitive
Edge Scholarship Fund.

Scott Z. Goldstein of West
Bloomfield has joined the Bingham

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Farms-based law firm of Trott &
Trott PC as CFO. He is responsible
to the day-to-day financial manage-
ment and longer-term strategic
direction for the firm and its affili-
ated companies.

Several local lawyers from the
Detroit-based firm of Honigman
Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
have been listed in the 10th edition
of The Best Lawyers in America.
They include, from the real estate
law department, Richard J.
Burstein, Alan M. Hurvitz, Joel S.
Adelman; and, from the business
litigation department, Norman
Hyman and Richard Zuckerman.

Julie I. Fershtman, Farmington
Hills attorney, has been elected to
the board of trustees for the
Michigan State Bar Foundation. She
is a member of the State Bar of
Michigan Board of Commissioners
and past chair of the
State Bar of
Michigan
Representative
Assembly. She is also
a director of the
Oakland County Bar
Association and a
Fershtman
fellow of the
Michigan State Bar
Foundation and the Oakland
County Bar Foundation. Fershtman
serves as of counsel to the law firm
of Zausmer, Kaufman, August &
Caldwell PC.

Schostak Brothers & Co. of
Southfield was recognized as a
recipient of a merit award from
community service in the corporate
category at the MAXI Awards cere-
mony at the International Council
of Shopping Centers fall conference.

Gerald G. Kaplan of West
Bloomfield has joined the staff of
the Michigan Division of Skanska
USA Building Inc. as senior project
manager. He is a registered architect
in Michigan and Israel.

For college age through 30-some-
thing. Send information to
ahitsky@thejewishnews.com

Dec. 6 Saturday, 8 p.m. U-M
Hillel Reform Chavurah Havdalah
and movie night at 505 Packard,
Apt. 2, Ann Arbor.

Dec. 6 Saturday, 8 p.m. U-M
Hillel Conservative Minyan
Havdalah and bowling at Colonial
Lanes. Meet at Hillel, Ann Arbor.
For information: Meredith at mer-
cerm@umich.edu

Dec. 8 Monday, 8 p.m. U-M Hillel
12th annual Flaming Menorah
Party. Latkes, dreidel and an alter-
native Chanukah story. Sponsored
by Ahava: The Jewish
LesBiGayTrans and Friends
Collective.

Dec. 10 Wednesday, 7 p.m. Hillel
of Metro Detroit women-only yoga
at Oak Park JCC. Cost: $5. RSVP
by Dec. 8 to Lesley Zwick, (313)
577-3459. or Hillelpd@wayne.edu

Detroit YAD "Carnivale" party at
the Parade Co., 9500 Mt. Elliot,
Detroit. Deserts, martini bar,
music, artists, parade floats. Cost:
$25 ($30 at door) plus $18 mini-
mum to Annual Campaign. RSVP:
wvvw.thisisfederation.org

Dec. 12 Friday, 7 p.m. Ann Arbor
GAP Chanukah potluck party at
Sharon Gourdji's. See GAP Web site
for directions:
vv-ww.si te maker.umich.e du/gap
Bring a vegetarian appetizer or
main dish to share. GAP will take
care of desserts and treats.

Dec. 12 Friday, 7:30 p.m. Detroit
YAD hors d'oeuvres-style dinner
and Shabbat service at Temple
Israel, West Bloomfield. Dinner:
$15. Advance reservations required.
RSVP: Alaine Waldshan, (248) 203-
1486.

Dec. 14 Sunday, 6 p.m. Young
Adults of Adat Shalom Chanukah
"Latke Bar," Farmington Hills.
Cost: $5. RSVP to Beth and Jeremy
Kahn, (248) 544-6433.

Dec. 11 Thursday, 8:30 p.m.

Teens Will 'Wrestle With God

All Jewish high school students are
invited to B'nai B'rith Youth
Organization's Jewish Heritage
Night, 6:45-8:30 p.m. Sunday,
Dec. 7, at Adat Shalom
Synagogue.
The program theme is
"Wrestling with G-D" and the fea-
tured presenter is Rabbi Baruch
Lazewnik of the Jewish Academy
of Metropolitan Detroit.
The program will discuss the
individual's struggle with belief in
a supreme being. After an opening
presentation, break-out groups
will be led by BBYO leaders.
Refreshments and socializing

will follow. There is no charge for
the program.
BBYO Jewish Heritage Nights
are held three times a year on top-
ics of interest to Jewish youth.
The programs are underwritten by
Noah Wofsy, an AZA alumnus of
Strauss BBYO in Mt. Clemens
who now lives in Washington,
D.C.
Coordinators for the Jewish
Heritage Night are Michael
Lieberman of Kishon AZA and
Zara Teicher of Achayot BBG. For
more information, contact the
BBYO Chapter Service Center,
(248) 788-0700.