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To Life!
GENERATIONS
Harold Berry
Norm Katz
Phil Elkus
Eva Lieberman
Marvin Danto
Ida Nathan
Ethel Goldenberg
The Shenkmans
Elders Honored
Eight Over Eighty event highlights communal leaders.
Pete Wurdock
Special to the Jewish News
0
n May 20, Jewish Apartments
& Services (JAS) presented the
14th annual Eight Over Eighty/
Tikkun Olam Awards. Senior adults age 80
or older are nominated by family mem-
bers, friends and community agencies.
Eight are chosen by a panel of judges to
receive this honor.
The event raises money for the JAS
Quality of Life Fund and provides items
not covered in a JAS resident's basic rent,
such as activities, special transportation,
Jewish cultural programming, Butzel
camp and more.
The following honorees were selected
for the Eight Over Eighty/Tikkun Olam
Awards because their exemplary leader-
ship in their professional and personal
lives has had a marked impact on the
Detroit Jewish community and beyond.
Harold Berry
Berry has enthusiastically thrown him-
self into almost every imaginable area
of Jewish organizational life, helping
sustain the Jewish community and ensur-
ing a Jewish future. His involvement is
varied, from United Jewish Foundation,
Federation's Annual Campaign, Metro
Detroit Convention and Visitor's
Bureau past chair, the Commission for
Dissemination of Jewish History and
Oakland County-based Congregation
Shaarey Zedek. His enormous range of
experience has helped many Jewish causes
throughout the years.
held a number of positions with the Jewish
Federation of Detroit. He is a member of
the Jewish Federation Quarter Century
Club and has been a member of the
Commission on Jewish Eldercare Services
(COJES) board since its inception in 1996.
He consistently works for the needs of the
Jewish community, from helping young
people meet their potential while support-
ing the arts and education to providing
opportunities for the frail and indigent.
Phil Elkus
He possesses the energy of a man half
his age. This energy has been poured into
his family, friends and community. While
pursing his career for Levi's and rais-
ing his three boys, he became active at
Congregation Beth Shalom, Oak Park. A
consummate fundraiser, he was instru-
mental in starting the daily minyan, the
weekly bingo and its Mr. & Mrs. Club. His
leadership helped the synagogue maintain
its spiritual, fiscal and social responsibility.
Ethel Goldenberg
She has an amazing capacity to give of
herself completely and selflessly. A deter-
mined Holocaust survivor, she has shared
her story with the world. As a matriarch,
she has set an example of how to help
oneself and the world around her. In addi-
tion to attending services each Sabbath,
Goldenberg served for 15 years as a board
member of the Adat Shalom Synagogue
Sisterhood, Farmington Hills. She was
treasurer, recording secretary, and vice
president. Her activities for the sisterhood
continue to keep her busy.
Marvin Danto
Norm Katz
Active in numerous civic and profes-
sional organizations, Danto has served on
numerous boards and foundations and
Katz has been an attorney for 57 years.
After beginning his practice, he immedi-
ately became active in professional asso-
40 May 24 • 2007
ciations, always feeling the need to give
something back to the profession. He has
also been extensively involved with United
Hebrew Schools, Allied Jewish Campaign,
Federation's Young Adult Division,
Federation's Education Committee,
Oakland County-based Congregation
Shaarey Zedek and the Detroit Historical
Commission.
endowment dedicates the Shul-Chabad
Lubavitch in West Bloomfield in their
name. They have created a chair at the
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
in New York and a library at Yeshiva Beth
Yehudah in Southfield. They are active
supporters of Friendship Circle in West
Bloomfield and a host of other causes
throughout Metro Detroit.
Eve Lieberman
At 93, she is still active every day as a con-
cierge at the Hechtman Jewish Apartments
in West Bloomfield. She devotes time
each day to assist Alzheimer's patients at
Fleischman Residence in West Bloomfield.
She is a lifelong volunteer, fiercely devoted
to assisting individuals who have experi-
enced hardships. She's a devoted Zionist,
staunch supporter of Israel and a life
member of Hadassah.
Donations to JAS honoring the 8 Over
80 honorees will help improve the quality
of life for the nearly 900 JAS residents in
Oak Park and West Bloomfield. The event
was sponsored by the Detroit Jewish News,
Hospice of Michigan, Huron Valley Sinai
Hospital, Henry Ford Health System and
the Matt Prentice Restaurant Corp. I
Pete Wurdock is marketing director for Jewish
Apartments & Services.
Ida Nathan
She taught the speech and language
impaired in the Detroit Public Schools for
24 years, and second-graders at Temple
Israel in Detroit/West Bloomfield for 40
years. She created and wrote curricula,
songs, poems and coloring books to teach
tzedakah, the alef bet and why the temple
is a special place. She's been given numer-
ous awards for her community involve-
ment and has been active member of the
Cooperative Council of Jewish Women's
Organizations and Jewish Women
International.
Jack and Miriam Shenkman
The Shenkmans recently made a generous
gift to endow the Caregiving Fellowship
Team at the Southfield-based Jewish
Hospice and Chaplaincy Network. This
program will support the training and
education of hospice caregivers. Another
New Rabbi In E. Lansing
Former Detroiter Rabbi Amy Bigman
is leaving her part-time position with a
Reform congregation in St. Joseph, Mo.,
to become the full-
time spiritual leader of
Congregation Shaarey
Zedek in East Lansing as
of July 1.
Rabbi Bigman was
ordained at Hebrew
Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion in
Rabbi Bigman
Cincinnati in 1992. She
moved to St. Louis in 2000 to become
the associate rabbi of Congregation
Temple Israel. She spent five years there,
served four months as interim rabbi of
Congregation Kol Am in Chesterfield, Mo.,
and a year at Temple Adath Joseph.
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