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Brotherhood President
Gerald Cole was installed as the
69th president of the Temple Beth
El Brotherhood on June 2. A mem-
ber of Beth El since 1984, he has
served on the brotherhood board
since 1992. Chair of membership
since 1994, he has assisted with the
semi-annual blood drive, helped
pack Chanukah and Passover boxes
for Beth El college
students and coor-
dinated brother-
hood's Tee Off
For a Child golf
outing in 2002-
2003. More
recently, he served
on brotherhood's
executive board as
secretary and then Cole
second vice presi-
dent.
Serving with Dr. Cole this year
will be Marc Zupmore, Marshall
Hersh, vice presidents; Bruce Jacob,
Joel Behrmann, treasurers; Dr.
Adrian Christie, Mark Cooperman,
secretaries.
Newly installed members of the
board of directors include Jerry
Beigler, Martin Darvick, Harold
Dunn, Dennis Goodman, Roy
Goodman, Howard Gurwin, Jeff
Hollander, Leo Hollander, Larry
Imerman, Joe Inwald, Lynn Jacob,
John Kessler, Alan Lowen, Dr. John
Marx, Richard Shaye, Lee Turner
and Chuck Zamek.
National Council of Jewish Women
Greater Detroit Section has installed
new officers: president, Sheila
Guyer; vice presidents, Irma Glaser,
Carol Freedman, Marlene
Goodman, Sharon Lipton, Libby
Sherbin; secretaries, Paula Wolfe,
Joyce Sherman, Marsha Zucker;
treasurer, Fern Katz; financial secre-
tary, Ethel Rosenblatt.
First term, first-year board mem-
bers are Cathy Cantor, Sissi
Lapides, Deane Safir, Elaine Tell.
Second term, first-year board mem-
bers are Pola Friedman, Ina Jean
Katz, Ruth Klueger, Shayna
Silverman, Ellie Slovis. Serving
from the general membership on
the new nominating committee are
Barbara Mayer and Debbie
Weinstein.
Tikvah Group of Hadassah installed
officers and board members. Sherrie
Stern and Sue Kaufman will serve
as co-presidents in 2005-2006.
Outgoing Group co-president
Cathy Slavik presented the Woman
of the Year Award to outgoing edu-
cation vice president Sheila
Schiffer.
Other 2005-2006 officers and
board members are vice presidents
Sheri Rotenberg, Elaine Wolf,
Karen Pollak, Linda Sherr, Nancy
Jonas, Barbara Charlip, Sheila
Schiffer, Miriam Forman and
Rhonda Mandel; corresponding sec-
retary, Donna Phillips; recording
secretary, Nanci Kantor; and treas-
urer, Linda Glass.
Appointed members of the new
board are Betty Chernoff, Miriam
Cohen, Jean Dubin, Karen Eriich,
Linda Golding, Jackie Michaelson,
Barbara Moretsky and Cathy
Slavik.
Joan Epstein chaired the nomi-
nating committee with members
Lauren Bruss, Linda Glass, Sue
Kaufman, Jackie Michaelson,
Sheila Schiffer, Cathy Slavik and
Sherrie Stern.
Sue Kaufman and Sherrie Stern
Larry Fax was named volunteer of
the year at Southfield-based
Kadima, a mental health agency.
Nacha Leaf earned a staff excellence
award for five years of service as a
certified social worker on staff. New
Kadima board members are Jen
Lewis, Jo Elyn Nyman, James
Schmidt, Phyllis Strome and Ted
Wagner.
Temple Beth El honored its nursery
school graduates. Presented with a
"key" to the Temple were Austin
Chasnick, Paige Hackman, Evan
Harwood, Ethan Leaf, Rachel
London, Hunter Lopatin, Alec
Malin, Daniel Rotter, Zachary
Shaya and Jacob Waitzman.
Louis T. Klein of Farmington Hills,
retired attorney and member of the
Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court,
went to Washington, D.C., to
appear before the court and move
for the admission of his grand-
daughter Lisa M. Alexander of
Bethesda, Md., to the Bar of the
U.S. Supreme Court, one of three
attorneys admitted on an individual
motion.
The Congregation Beth Shalom
Men's Club re-elected Neil Weiner as
president for 2005-2006. Serving as
vice-presidents are Ted Friedman,
Mike Steingold, Rob Grodin, Ralph
McDowell and Yefim Milter. Others
officers are: recording secretary, Jack
Goldberg; corresponding secretary,
Helmut Bernard; treasurer, Richard
Racusin. Past president is Don
Berlin. Elected as trustees are Jack
Kahn, Michael Reiter, Jerry Efros,
Mike Levine, Peter Plotke, Randy
Davidson, Seymour. Rabotnick and
David Marks.
Twenty-six area students bound for
Israel on a variety of educational pro-
grams have been awarded with schol-
arship grants by the Scholarship
Committee of the Zionist
Organization of America Michigan
Region.
Scholarship recipients are Oz Ben
Amy, Jeremy M. Baruch, Solomon
Benaderet, Victoria Beneson, Brian
Blondy, Ahuva Blumenfeld, Esther
Carmen, Kayla Carmen, Isaac
Chelst, Dena Cohen, Sarah
Davidson, Rebecca Eisenberg, Avi
Friedman, Casey Horton, Jacob
Kohn, Daniel Kuhn, Sarah
Kuperman, Mara Kurlandsky, Aaron
Levine, Daniel Newman, Danille
Platt, Hallie Platt, Andrea Shuback,
Yocheved Stein, Dovid White and
Jerrin Zumberg.
Jane Berman of
Huntington
Woods graduated
from the
Reconstruction-ist
Rabbinical College
with a master's
Berman
degree in Hebrew
letters and the title
of rabbi. She has accepted a post at
Temple Beth El in Hammonton,
N.J., where she had served as a stu-
dent rabbi for two years.
Clara Stutz Surowitz of Franklin
graduated from Israel's Ben-Gurion
University of the Negev Medical
School for International Health in
collaboration with Columbia
University Medical Center.
In addition to three years at Ben-
Gurion, she spent two months in
Jerusalem completing a research
project on prenatal health care
among Orthodox Jewish women.
Surowitz is a graduate of Groves
High School and of Kalamazoo
College. Next year, she will enter a
residency program in obstetrics and
gynecology at Providence Hospital,
Southfield.
Erin Ellis of Farmington Hills grad-
uated cum laude from the Thomas
M. Cooley Law School, East
Lansing. She made the dean'slList
and honor roll and earned certifi-
cates of merit in family law and
child protection. She is the daughter
of Marcia and Harvey Ellis.
Atara Brett Abramsky received her
doctor degree in clinical and foren-
sic pathology from the California
School of Professional Psychology in
San Diego. She is the daughter of
Dr. Michael Abramsky of
Birmingham and Ariel Abramsky of
Novato, Calif.
Joshua Feigelson, formerly of Ann
Arbor, recently received his ordina-
tion from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah
Rabbinical School in New York. A
Wexner Graduate fellow, he serves as
a rabbinic intern at the Hebrew
Institute of Riverdale and will
become the campus rabbi of the
Fiedler Hillel Center at Northwestern
University, Evanston, Ill.
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