Noveck

spending 3'/2 hours a day there, plus
most of Shabbat, when he also is lay
cantor.
A member of the various Young
Israel synagogues for almost 50 years,
Mittelman is a past president and
board member in Oak Park, always
visiting sick members in hospitals,
nursing homes or at their homes.
"Our shul is a very big part of
Manny's life," said Rabbi Reuven
Spolter. "He is the mainstay of Young
Israel, donating generously to chari-
ties, counseling children, helping
needy families and giving a great deal
of his time and energy."
Mittelman spent three years doing
hard labor in German concentration
camps until he was freed from
Auschwitz at the end of World War II.
His parents and three siblings died; he
and three others survived. He contract-
ed tuberculosis and spent three years at
a Swiss sanitarium.
He then became a kosher milkman;
met his wife, Bessie, and came to
America in 1954. They have six chil-
dren, 22 grandchildren and 13 great-
grandchildren. He operated ServBest
Heating & Cooling Co. in Detroit for
many years.
"I'm thankful I can help people and
be at the giving end," Mittelman said.

Evelyn Noveck

Noveck, 85, is a dedicated Zionist,
devoting many years to several nation-
al and local Zionist organizations,
serving on the board of the Labor
Zionist Institute and as president of
Labor Zionist Alliance, Branch 7. The
Zionist Federation honored her as
Woman of the Year. She got strongly
interested in Zionism after joining a
Zionist youth group and Hillel at the
University of Michigan.
"My life has been very much
involved with the Labor Zionist
Movement," she said. "My parents got
me interested in this, and I'm proud
to be part of the effort."
She holds two master's degrees from
Wayne State University — in social
studies and library science. She was a
teacher for 36 years in the Detroit •
school system, mostly at Redford

Pasternak

Reinstein

Schon

He and others succeeded by "going
door to door and making many phone
calls," he said, and raising $375,000 to
finish mortgage payments.
In recent years, Schon, 80, became
president of Jewish Home & Aging
Services during one of the most chal-
lenging times in its history. He under-
took a similarly difficult job of closing
two homes for Jewish.senior adults,
and "going through a critical and
Norbert Reinstein
Prohibited by the Nazis from complet- troubled period."
He was successful again as he "met
ing medical studies in his native
the challenge and has been part of the
Austria, Reinstein was freed from the
success story of our home as we know
Dachau concentration camp at the
end of World War II, came to America it today," said Carol Rosenberg, asso-
ciate director of Jewish Home &
and earned a master's degree in Public
Aging
Service. "He's a strong and
Health Education from the University
effective 'leader of leaders' in the com-
of Minnesota. He then settled in
munity who always gives of himself."
Detroit for a long career as a health
During World War II, Schon, while
care professional, spending 45 years as
in his late teens, was a medic under
chief health care planner for United
fire in the U.S. Army and returned
Way and acting as a mentor to many
with
Gen. Douglas MacArthur to
health care professionals.
Abe Pasternak
Leyte
in the Philippines. He then
He also taught at Wayne State and
When Pasternak is asked why he is
graduated
from Wayne State
involved in so many community activ- Central Michigan universities, win-
University's
Law School and later was
ning
a
Service
Recognition
Award
at
ities, he replies, "How dull life would
in
a
law
firm
with former Gov. G.
Wayne
State.
be without being involved; it's what
Mennen
Williams
and former U.S.
After
suffering
a
stroke
at
age
89,
makes life interesting." His life has
Rep.
Martha
Griffiths.
Still practicing
Reinstein,
ever
the
educator,
chronicled
been anything but dull.
law
part
time,
Schon,
80,
was honored
The native of Romania is a Holocaust his experiences in a published, first-per-
as
a
50-year
member
of
the
State Bar
son account: The Stroke and Me:
survivor who suffered atrocities in the
of
Michigan
and
has
been
involved
eriences
and
Recollections
of
a
Patient.
German concentration camps and lost
"My sheer willpower and determina- with many professional associations.
most of his family there. After coming
He and his wife, Florence, have
tion
were key factors in my recovery
to America, he was an acting chaplain
been
married for 59 years and have
and
rehabilitation,"
he
said.
He
haS
in the U.S. Army and, ironically, was
three
children and three grandchil-
written
four
books.
sent to help protect the German people
dren. ❑
Reinstein, 91, and his wife,
from the post-war Russian economic
Marianne, have been married for 64
blockade. He was recalled later to serve
years and have two children, five
during the Korean conflict.
Eight Over Eighty honorees will
grandchildren and three great-grand-
A member of the Holocaust
be inducted into the Senior
children. They were co-chairs of
Memorial Center executive board, he
Adult Jewish Hall of Fame at 11
Congregation Beth Shalom's cultural
speaks to many groups there and at
a.m. Sunday, May 15, in
commission for more than a decade.
colleges and has been quoted in sever-
Handelman Hall at the Jewish
He's past president of the former
al books. Another irony was that he
Community Center in West
United Hebrew Schools. He belongs
spoke at Royal Oak's Shrine of the
Bloomfield. Brunch will be fol-
to the Institute of Retired
Little Flower church — the former
lowed by the induction ceremony
Professionals and was a member of
pulpit of the anti-Jewish propagandist
at noon. Emcees will be Sherry
many professional associations during
Father Charles Coughlin.
Margolis of WJBK Fox 2 News
his career.
Pasternak, 81, translates survivors'
and Alan Muskovitz of the Dick
transcripts in the "Voice-Vision"
Purtan Show. (104.3 WOMC).
Jack Schon
Holocaust project at the University of
Cost is $65 for adults, $36 for
Michigan-Dearborn; is working with a In the 1970s, Schon, as president of
children younger than 12. For
Beth Abraham Hillel Moses (now Beth
former math professor who invented
reservations, call (248) 592-1102.
Ahm), took on the daunting task of
math in Braille; is proofreading the
paying off the synagogue's mortgage.
transcription of an ArtScroll siddur;

High, and also was social studies
department chairperson for 13 years.
She is past president of Na'amat, a
working woman's group formerly
known as Pioneer Women.
After her husband, Harold, died at
age 80 in 1998, Noveck donated
$25,000 in his name to the "low
vision" section of the Meyers Library
at the Jewish Community Center in
West Bloomfield. She was instrumen-
tal in establishing and equipping the
"low vision" section with large-print
books. "I also have made donations to
other Jewish charities in my husband's
honor," she said.
Noveck also is active in the Jewish
Community Council of Metropolitan
Detroit, Jewish Historical Society of
Michigan, ORT, Hadassah and other
organizations. She has two sons and
four grandchildren.

volunteers in the Meals on Wheels
program; helped the Sinai Guild raise
money for medical equipment; and
continues Torah study sessions at
Congregation B'nai Moshe.
He's a winner of the community
Heart of Gold Award. He and his
wife, Gerry, have two children and
two grandchildren.

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2005

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