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Communal Leader

A Top Principal

A former staff member of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit is
the new executive director of the Jewish Family Service
of MetroWest in New Jersey. Reuben Rotman, 40, had
been acting executive director since last July.
Rotman has worked with JFS for nine years. His
communal resume includes Detroit Federation stints as
community resource development director from 1993
to 1995 and a planning associate from 1990 to 1993.
"The biggest challenge, like any nonprofit, is to sus-
tain funding and to really figure out ways to continue
to meet community needs," Rotman told the New

Dina Shtull-Leber, head of school at the Hebrew Day School
of Ann Arbor, was chosen as one of five Jewish day school
principals across the country to receive a grant from PEJE
(Partners for Excellence in Jewish Education).
The principals represented each of the religious denomina-
tions that sponsor Jewish day schools. Shtull-Leber was a rep-
resentative from the Solomon Schechter Day School
Association. The grant was used to attend a professional semi-
nar on school management sponsored by Independent School
Management, Inc., which offers workshops for private-inde-
pendent school administrators. PEJE will hold its annual
assembly to support the day school movement on March
19-21, 2006, in Boston.

Jersey Jewish News.
JFS serves 3,000 New Jersey families with an operat-
ing budget of $3.5 million.
Reuben Rotman
"The core service is outpatient mental health coun-
seling," Rotman said, "but we do a lot of work with sis-
ter agencies in terms of meeting the needs of their
members or residents or students, and we serve as the community safety net
for social services."
Rotman and his wife, Devorah Silverman, and their three yourig daughters
live in Teaneck, N.J. Devorah is youth, initiatives director at JESNA (Jewish
Education Service of North America).

— Robert A. Sklar, editor

Looking for Shleppers

Dr. Sam Millstone is a happy man.
The retired dentist from Farmington Hills has returned from another
round of volunteering at the free dental clinic in Jerusalem he has supported
for so many years.
"It's in a larger
building and is
running five full
days a week," he
said of the Trudi
Birger Clinic,
named after the
Dental Volunteers
for Israel clinic's
founder and presi-
dent who died in
2002.
The clinic serves
about 600 chil-
dren a month, and
has been operating
for about 25 years.
He has collected
more than 400
Dr. Millstone in the dental clinic in Israel
pounds of much-
needed supplies for
the clinic, and one of his two suitcases was filled with supplies.
Two 70-pound suitcases are allowed for tourists visiting Israel, he said. "If
we try to ship these materials, the customs people will charge the clinic duty,
and the clinic cannot afford it."
With about 350 pounds of supplies still in his home, he is seeking some
volunteers to shlep the rest of the supplies to the clinic.
"All the person has to do is get to Jerusalem, call the clinic and someone
will come and pick it up," he said.
Dr. Millstone took El Al on his last trip. He was summoned and ques-
tioned by security in New York about the second suitcase, but they let it
through.
"Could anybody get into problems doing something like this? Absolutely
not," he said. "And this would be considered a big mitzvah."
For more information, call Dr. Sam Millstone at (248) 855-1726.

Dina Skull-Leber

— Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor

Helping Kids Kick Cancer

Livonia-based Hometown Mortgage Lending will be holding its annual charity golf
outing on Tuesday, Aug. 2, at the Links of Novi. Proceeds will benefit Kids Kicking
Cancer Inc., a Michigan-based martial arts program that partners with local hospi-
tals to provide free classes for children with serious, acute and chronic illnesses. Its
focus is on pain management, courage, meditation and breathing.
Guest speaker at the golf outing dinner will be Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg,
founder of Kids Kicking
Cancer. He holds a black
belt in the martial arts and
is a father who lost his first
child to cancer in 1983.
"Rabbi G" created KKC
after serving for 12 years as
the director of a New York-
based summer camp for
children with cancer.
Hometown Mortgage
Lending has been sponsor-
Rabbi Goldberg with his "kids"
ing an annual golf benefit
since its inception. "We real-
ize there is more to life than just our work, and we wanted to find a way to give
back to the local community," says Janet Schwartz, company president. "Helping
children has always been an issue close to our hearts, which is why we support char-
itable organizations that benefit children with illnesses."
Cost for the golf outing is $99 per person and includes 18 holes of golf, lunch
and dinner. Tickets for dinner only are available for $39 per person. There will also
be a silent auction with proceeds going to benefit Kids Kicking Cancer. To register,
help sponsor the event or make a donation to the silent auction, contact Adam
Layne at (734) 432-1313 ext. 15 or e-mail him at adamloan@aol.com .

— Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor

Quotable

"For our 100,000-member Iranian Jewish community, the second largest in
the Middle East, the re-emergence of the Ayatollah was the beginning of
the end. The new regime's condemnation of Israel as Iran's greatest enemy
reawakened anti-Semitic sentiments."

— Roya Hakakian in "In Khomeini's Shadow,"
in the summer issue of Reform Judaism magazine.

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