Top to bottom:
Jeff Herman and his

son Charlie, 2, enjoy
the race and the perfect

weather.

Steve Tapper, JN Editor

Robert Sklar and

JN Publisher Arthur
Horwitz help distribute
medals to the finishers.

Israel Friends

The newly formed Detroit Young Leadership Chapter of the Friends of the

Israel Defense Forces was represented in New York on March 21 at an FIDF
event that raised $10.5 million for Israel's soldiers. Among the guests was
Bloomfield Hills resident Stefenie Sasson, right, an executive member of
the Detroit Young Leadership Chapter. She attended with Tamir Oppenheim,

beside her, executive director of the Michigan FIDF. The Young Leadership
Detroit will next meet on Thursday, May 11, at Cinq nightclub, 419 S Main,

Royal Oak. (e-mail: tamir@israelsoldiers.org). Also pictured in New York are
Major General (Res.) Yehiel Gozal, FIDF national director; and IDF Chief of

Staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz.

Adam Cutler, 11, Noah

Cutler, 9, and Eli Tukel,

9, show off their
medals.

Decisions, Decisions

Jewish volunteers from Jewish Apartments & Services, Jewish Family

Service and the Area Agency on Aging 1-B on April 10 assisted seniors try-

ing to make sense of the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan at the Huntington
Woods Library. Eight Jewish volunteers trained and certified as Medicare

Plan counselors assisted about 50 seniors from Oak Park, Berkley, Madison

Heights, Huntington Woods, Southfield and elsewhere around southeast

Michigan. Seniors spent about an hour each looking at options and picking a

plan that will serve them best. In the picture, Fran Cook of the Jewish Family

Service assists a senior. Seniors must sign up by May 15.

Clowning Around

Myrna Messenger
of Sterling Heights

and Phyllis lwrey of
Southfield performed

on April 21.

Messenger was Patti
Cake the Clown; lwrey
was Carrot Top the

Clown. They enacted
a comedy magic trick.

Proud husbands David

Messenger and Iry
lwrey were in the

audience.

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