Business 8( Professional
Memos
Jane Cohen of
Bingham Farms
is part of the new
sales team for the
Monarch in Troy by
Joseph Freed Homes.
Elizabeth Hoyle Goldberg, of West
Bloomfield was presented with the Faculty
Member of the Year for the College of Arts
and Sciences at the University of Phoenix
graduation exercises on June 10. She has
received the award for the past three years.
Cohen
Dr. Robert I. Boorstein of West
Bloomfield Nvas awarded the General
Surgeon Trainer of
the year award at
the annual Botsford
General Hospital
graduation dinner.
He was honored with
the 25 Years Service
Award for his dedi-
cation and loyalty to
Boorstein
the Farmington Hills
hospital.
Jason Brown of Oak Park is a new
account manager at the Hermanoff &
Associates public relations/marketing firm
in Farmington Hills. He will lead several
consumer, healthcare
and government
sector accounts and
new business efforts
as well as provide
strategic media
relations program
execution and sup-
port on several key
Brown
accounts.
Dr. Jeff Spinner-Haley has become
the interim director 2006-2007 for the
Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. He is
the Kenan Eminent Professor of Political
Ethics in the Political Science Department
at the University of North Carolina.
He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Edward
Rosenbaum of Southfield and the late
David Spinner.
Scott Raskin, former Detroiter, has
been named chief executive officer of
Mindjet Corp., a provider of computer
productivity software for visualizing and
managing information with headquar-
ters in California.
Raskin, a graduate
of Southfield High
School, holds a
bachelor of busi-
ness administra-
tion degree from
the University of
Texas at Austin. He
Raskin
is the son of Danny
Raskin, Jewish
News columnist.
Alan T. Ackerman, managing partner
of Troy-based Ackerman & Ackerman
P.C., was one of three area attorneys
, who received
Distinguished
Service Awards from
the Oakland County
Bar Association at
its recent meeting.
Ackerman has been
a member of the
association since
Ackerman
1985.
Frank T. Mamat
of West Bloomfield, a
partner in Dickinson
Wright PLLC's Labor
& Employment prac-
tice group, has been
named to the list of
Top One Hundred
Labor Attorneys in
Mamat
the United States for
2006, as compiled by
Labor Relations Institute Inc., a leading
industry information source.
Dr. George Mogill of Bloomfield
Hills has been selected by the Michigan
Academy of Family Physicians Board
of Directors to receive a Lifetime
Achievement Award.
On June 17, Sue Marx Films received a
23rd Emmy statuette for the film A Heart
to Heart Partnership, seen locally on
WXYZ-Channel 7. It documents events
from the late 1940s and early 1950s,
when engineers on loan from General
Motors worked with doctors at Harper
Hospital in Detroit to develop a mechani-
cal heart pump; then, in 1952, the first
successful open heart surgery in the world
was performed at Harper Hospital.
Satawa
Mark A. Satawa
has been elected to
the board of direc-
tors of the National
Association of
Criminal Defense
Lawyers. He is a
principal in the
law firm of Kirsch
& Satawa PC in
Southfield. He practices criminal law in
both trial and appellate courts.
David M. Deutsch, a Commerce
Township photographer, has won the
Fujifilm Masterpiece
Award for photo-
graphic excellence,
recognizing excel-
lence in wedding,
portrait, commercial/
industrial, illustra-
tive/unclassified,
electronic imaging
and three art/tech
Deutsch
categories.
Dr. Henry Sonenshine of West
Bloomfield was the recent recipient of
the Special Board of Governors Award
of the American Osteopathic Colleges of
Opthalmology and Otolaryngology-Head
and Neck Surgery.
Larry R. Shulman and Laurence B.
Deitch, partners in the Detroit office
of the law firm Bodman LLP, have been
honored as two
of Michigan's
leading business
attorneys in the
2006 edition of the
journal Chambers
USA: America's
Leading Lawyers
for Business.
Shulman
Shulman, a resident
of Bloomfield Hills,
was ranked as a
top attorney in the
Banking & Finance
category. Deitch, a
resident of Bingham
Farms, was ranked
as a top attorney in
the Corporate/M&A
category.
Deitch
Dr. Lowell R. Schmeltz of West
Bloomfield has joined Associated
Endocrinologists P.C. in West Bloomfield.
He treats patients with diabetes, thyroid
conditions, osteoporosis and other endo-
crine conditions.
Schochet
P. Rivka Schochet
of West Bloomfield,
a principal at the
law firm of Miller
Canfield, will be a
featured speaker
at the annual
International Work
Congress on Work
Injuries Prevention,
Rehabilitation and
Compensation in Hong Kong. She will
present on "Defining Psychiatric Industrial
Injury for Workers' Compensation."
Here's To
Jerome Kanter of Huntington Woods
and Louis Milgrom of West Bloomfield
took part in the American Technion
Society annual mission to Israel in May.
The participants in the mission pledged
$49 million to the Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology in Haifa.
Rabbi Jason Miller of Ann Arbor is
one of 19 rabbis throughout the country
selected to participate in the 2006-2007
STAR Peer Executive
Leadership Program.
The program gives
rabbis of all denomi-
nations a year to
study with world-
renowned rabbis,
sociologists and
organizational prac-
Miller
titioners.
D. Dan Kahn of
Bloomfield Hills has
been awarded an
honorary fellowship
by the Technion-
Israel Institute of
Technology in Haifa.
He and his late wife,
Betty, supported
Kahn
many essential proj-
ects at the Technion.
He serves as a member of the Technion
International Board of Governors.
The new officers of the Metropolitan
Board of Jewish Educators are Keren
Alpert, president; Rabbi Aaron Starr,
vice president; Daniella Mechnikoy,
treasurer; Jennie Allan, recording sec-
retary.
Miriam Lewis and Tim Carlson of
Washington, D.C., both former Detroiters
and graduates of Berkley High School,
have teamed up in a theater production.
The Divine Mn Average is being pro-
duced this summer at the Capital Fringe
Festival in Washington, D.C. Carlson is the
playwright and Lewis is the director.
Martin Shichtman of Eastern Michigan
University will participate in Brandeis
University's Summer Institute for Israel
Studies. The institute will train faculty
members in a range of subjects about
Israel to they may use the training to
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