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=NIT JEWISH NEWS
6/25
2004
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Valiant drummer Brandon Goodman, 19, is a Bloomfield Hills Andover grad.
Jamie Schefman, 18, a student at
Birmingham Groves and guitarist
for the Valiant, performs.
SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN
Musicalfind-raiser yields a large crowd
and a substantial gift.
Justin's artwork onto the T-shirts.
"The concert was a phenomenal suc-
cess,"
said Jeff Chutz of Bloomfield
BILL HANSEN
Hills, who organized an adult corps of
Photographer
donors for the teen-planned and largely
teen-attended event. Donations have
y the time the 500 guests at the
exceeded $16,000.
June 15 Rockin' For Rochkind
Justin's dad, Sandy Rochkind of Oak
concert left for home, nearly half
Park,
was with Justin in Memphis, so
were wearing new shirts.
Justin's
mom and step-father, Lynne and
Selling T-shirts was part of a fund-rais-
Rabbi
Norman
Roman of West
ing plan for the event, organized to help
Bloomfield,
and
Justin's siblings repre-
offset travel and living expenses for the
family of 18-year-old Justin Rochkind of sented the family at the event. Justin's
cousin, acoustic guitar-player Jay
West Bloomfield, who is undergoing
Pliskow, 18, of Huntington Woods, was
cancer treatment at St. Jude Children's
one of the performers at the concert.
Research Hospital in Memphis.
Teenage electric bands played in
The cost of the shirts was underwrit-
Handleman
Hall at the Jewish
ten by an unlikely donor: 13-year-old
Community
Center in West Bloomfield,
Mickey Jacobs of Bloomfield Hills.
while duo and solo acoustic artists were
When Mickey, a musician — whose
down the hall before a standing-room-
mom Debra described him as "a serious
only crowd inside the Milk & Honey
guitarist with a passion for rock music"
restaurant.
— heard about the concert and about
Guests signed a memory book, which
Justin, he knew he wanted to help.
will
also be filled with photos from the
Mickey's $350 donation turned into
event
and given to Justin. "The entire
$1,000 from the sale of 200 shirts. The
show was videotaped so Justin can see
group was given a discount on the shirts
how much everybody loves him," Jeff
from Steve Steinway, owner of Preferred
Chutz said.
Embroidery and Design in Walled Lake,
Proceeds from the event — complete-
who also donated the cost of printing
ly underwritten by community
members and businesses — were
donated to the Temple Kol Ami
Justin Rochkind Chesed Fund.
Milk & Honey owner Matt
Prentice donated 50 percent of the
restaurant's proceeds for the day and
evening of the concert. Other dona-
tions for the fund have come from
former rabbinical school classmates
of Rabbi Roman, a sisterhood auc-
tion and a bottle drive by Kol Ami
religious school student Adam
Rosen, 12, of Farmington Hills,
who raised $467.
Mickey Jacobs' T-shirts raised $1,000.
"As a very touching gesture, every
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musician at the show autographed a
brand new Taylor Big Baby guitar as our
g ift to Justin," Jeff Chutz said of the
instrument donated by Temple Israel's
Evan Shapiro Fund for the Fight Against
Cancer.
"Evan's mom, Eva Shapiro [of West
Bloomfield], insisted we ask Temple
Israel to approve a donation from Evan's
Fund to help with the concert and a
donation to buy a nice present for
Justin." ❑
More photos:
www.detroitjewishnews.corn
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Stephanie Switch, 17, and Bella
Molnar, 18, both of West Bloomfield,
enjoy the concert.
Donations to the Justin Rochkind
Chesed Fund may be mailed to
Temple Kol Ami,
5085 Walnut Lake Rd.,
West Bloomfield, MI, 48323.
Checks should be made out to
Temple Kol Ami, with a notation:
Justin Rochkind Chesed Fund.