mitted to find-
ing ways to help
the uninsured
and underin-
sured," she said.
Shortly after
her husband
Steve died in
1987 of cancer,
she became a
Fuller
founder of
Gilda's Club
Metro Detroit, a cancer support
community for persons with cancer.
She continues as a board member.
She serves on the board of Camp
Mak-A-Dream, an organization that
sends children with cancer from
Michigan to a special summer camp
in Montana, cost free.
She is a board member of the
Michigan League of Conservation
Voters, a nonprofit group that pro-
duces an annual scorecard of how
state lawmakers vote on environmen-
tal bills. She co-chairs Birmingham
Public Schools' Community
Education Central Advisory Council
and also is active with the School
Neighborhood Committee.
Gershenson has a college-age son.
Recently, she married Ken Robinson,
a longtime area resident, who has
three sons.
Fuller, if elected, would work to
increase services for the mentally ill
and children at risk. "I also would
strive to stabilize funding from the
state for our roads," she said.
Fuller ran for state senator in 1998
and county commissioner in 2002.
"This is the campaign that I have
wished for, an open seat in my dis-
trict," she said. "It's a golden oppor-
tunity with a great chance of winning
this seat."
Fuller has been working on an art
program for the mentally ill and chil-
dren at risk. She owns and operates a
small business that recycles precious
metals.
She's committed to fighting breast
cancer and will walk the three-day
Walk for the Cure in celebration of
her 60th birthday.
She is a board member of
Michigan WAND (Women's Action
for New Directions). As program
director, she conducts educational
forms on topics such as mental
health, universal health care, the fed-
eral Patriot Act and prescription
drugs for seniors.
She is an officer at large of the
Oakland County Democratic Party
and serves on the executive board of
the Ninth District in Oakland
County.
Fuller and her husband, Arnold,
have three adult children.
District 22
Helaine Zack, D-Huntington
Woods, is seeking re-election for a
second term in the 22nd district,
which encompasses Oak Park,
Huntington Woods, Pleasant Ridge,
Royal Oak Township and the south-
east tip of Southfield.
Zack, a social worker for 25 years,
said she brings health and human
services expertise to the board. As a
commission finance committee mem-
ber, she said she oversaw and
approved a budget ensuring that
money was spent wisely without rais-
ing taxes or laying off employees.
On the public services committee,
she works on issues involving courts,
homeland security and emergency
funding to corn-
bat the emerald
ash borer infesta-
tion. She's a
Senior Taskforce
Prescription
Drug
Committee
member,
Democratic
Caucus chair for
the board, and a
volunteer with
the Jail
Diversion of the Mentally Ill Task
Force.
She serves on the boards of the
Oakland County Human Services
Coordinating Council, Substance
Abuse Advisory Council and
Citizens' Advisory Council of
Community and Economic
Development. She is an alternate to
the Area Agency on Aging and
Southeast Michigan Council of
Governments boards.
Zack is a former board member of
the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit Women's
Department and Jewish Family
Service.
She has been a social worker active
in the employee assistance program
field for 23 years, according to the
county Web site. She's a trainer and
presenter on topics such as adolescent
depression, sexual harassment, respect
in the workplace, and stress manage-
ment.
She and her husband, Andrew,
have three daughters. ❑
Shop For Israel
Ann Arbor Jews urged to show support
by shopping at Hiller's.
Hiller continues to donate pro-
ceeds from the approximately 3,000
Israeli products sold at Hiller's
Market to Israeli hospitals and edu-
Ann Arbor
cational institutions as well as for
ore than 2,000 e mails
medical research, he said.
went out earlier this week
"I feature them; I'm buying as
urging members of the
many Israeli products as I can," he
Ann Arbor Jewish community to
said.
"Stand with Hiller's Market" this
"I have choices, I can buy oranges
Sunday by shopping at the Arborland
from California or I can buy oranges
Mall store on Washtenaw Avenue.
from Israel, so I'm choosing to buy
The call to action by the Jewish
products that come from Israel as
Federation of Washtenaw County is
opposed to products from other
in response to the pro-Palestinian
places," he said.
group, Jewish Witnesses for Peace,
"So what I'm
whose members
doing is, I'm taking
have picketed the
products that origi-
store each Sunday
nate in Israel,
from 2-3 p.m.,
encouraging my cus-
urging community
tomers to buy them
members not to
and then taking
shop there because
every penny of the
of its owner's pro-
profit and sending it
Israel efforts.
back to Israel."
"We're distressed
Jeff Levin,
with Jim Hiller for
Federation executive
giving his money
director, said he
to support Israel's
hopes a large num-
behavior, which is
ber of community
so cruel to the
members visit the
Palestinians," said
grocery store
Marcia Federbush,
Sunday. Though 2'-
a Jewish Witnesses
3 p.m. is the prime
member who also
Jim Miler: buying from Israel
hour because of the
pickets with the
protesters' presence,
group at Beth Israel
shopping any time that day also is a
Congregation in Ann Arbor on
good show of support, he said.
Shabbat. "We're trying to say, 'Stop
"I want the community to stand
this, speak out, don't let this country
up for Israel," he said. "We have a
that you adore so much oppress oth-
Jewish merchans under attack, and
ers. "'
we have an obligation to stand up for
The pro-Palestinian group also
a fellow Jew who's doing the right
traveled to Birmingham recently to
thing, which is carrying Israeli prod-
protest when Hiller was honored by
ucts, supporting Israel's farmers and
the Juvenile Diabetes Research
producers and supporting Israel's
Foundation.
people through acts of charity.
Hiller said despite the threats and
"This is not an assault on Hiller
demands from the group calling on
alone or on the Jewish community of
him to cease all support of Israel and
to make a public apology for his sup- Ann Arbor, so we encourage anyone
who supports Israel to come and be
port, he refuses to be intimidated.
He has responded publicly, he said, with us on Sunday," he added.
"The protesters have the right to
to let the group know he had no
stand out there on the sidewalk call-
intention of backing down. And as
ing for Israel's destruction; that does-
far as business is concerned, sales
n't make it the right thing to do,"
have risen since the group appeared,
Levin said. "The Jewish response is
he said. So have his contributions to
to turn around and support Israel." ❑
Israeli-based charities.
KAREN SCHWARTZ
Special to the Jewish News
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