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innovator but also as a teacher.
"She is effervescent, energetic —
when she teaches, she lights up a
room," Soble Siegmann said. "We all
have really mixed feelings here at the
Alliance. Everyone is incredibly proud
and excited but sad, too."
Appelman also has mixed feelings.
"I wouldn't have the new job if it
weren't for the wonderful partners I've
had," she said. "you look around and
see all these faces and remember so
many wonderful occasions."
Among her team's proudest accom-
plishments, Appelman lists the open-
ing and continued success of Shalom
Street and the Hermelin-Davidson
program for teacher education.
"We have the biggest — and proba-
bly the most enthusiastic — group [of
teachers] in the country," she said.
"Sometimes, its a little uncomfort-
able being on the cutting edge," she
admitted. "You get scraped on the
way."
Coming up in the Metro Detroit
community is "a major initiative on
preteen and teen education, improving
both formal and informal education,"
she said
Although she has accepted a job in
New York, Appelman will be around
to see how this new project is pro-
gressing. For the time being, she'll
keep her-home in Ann Arbor, where
her husband, Henry, is a professor of
medicine at the University of
Michigan. The family also includes
children Gabi, Avi and Naomi Adiv
and Brett and Avery Appelman. The
Appelmans also have one granddaugh-
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said she was thrilled that Appelman
had accepted the executive director's
job.
"She is an outstanding educator, a
genuine innovator and an able admin-
istrator," said Crown, whose Chicago-
based family created the foundation in
1990. "She has demonstrated wonder-
ful leadership, a commitment to excel-
lence and openness to talent wherever
it may be found. In many ways, Ms.
Appelman embodies the spirit and the
mission of the Covenant Foundation."
As executive director, Appelman
hopes to expand both the mission and
the visibility of the Covenant
Foundation. "We probably also are
looking to increase the financial base
to reward even more educators and
programs," she said.
"Every two or three years, I've had a
new start-up operation. This is the
next big adventure," Appelman said.
"I look forward to the opportunity to
help discover and nurture talented
educators, to provide them the recog-
nition they deserve but too rarely
receive and to offer them opportuni-
ties for growth."
Arthur Horwitz, Alliance co-chair
and publisher of the Detroit Jewish
News, has worked closely with
Appelman for 19 years on an array of
endeavors relating to Jewish education.
"I continue to be amazed by her cre-
ativity, passion and insight," he said.
"For Harlene, every day is like going
into a laboratory, with a formula for a
stronger, better educated Jewish corn-
munity the desired outcome."
Lisa Soble Siegmann, assistant direc-
tor of JEFF, said Appelman is one of a
kind — not only as a groundbreaking
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Former Detroiter Jason Ekus, 36, a
Las Vegas real estate agent active in
the Jewish Federation of Las
Vegas/United Jewish Community,
has been a bone marrow donor
twice through the National Marrow
Donor Program. The latest recipi-
ent was a 61-year-old woman fight-
ing a blood-related cancer in
Tucson.
"I didn't realize when I registered
that I had my own health issues,"
said Ekus, who had high blood pres-
sure. "I'm glad to have the opportu-
nity to really help someone."
So many Jewish bloodlines were
destroyed in the Holocaust that it is
hard to find a bone marrow match
for Jews of Eastern European ances-
try in the general population. The
Gift of Life Bone Marrow
Foundation (www.giftoflife.org) is
compensating by being geared to the
Jewish people.