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Stars Shine At JN
Anniversary Gala

T

he Detroit Jewish News paid
tribute to a host of business and
professional stars as well as its
advertisers and community leaders at an
April 9 reception held at the Skyline Club
in Southfield. About 250 people attended.
The gala celebrated the first anniver-
sary of the JN's expanded monthly busi-
ness section.
IN Publisher Arthur M. Horwitz kicked
off the brief formal program by issuing
a call to "buy local" and patronize local
merchants. He earlier issued the same
call in a Publisher's Notebook column
Feb. 7 that elicited widespread commu-
nity support.
Gala Master of Ceremonies Jeff Zaslow,
a locally based Wall Street Journal
writer, spotlighted each of the first year's
monthly business-community Doers and
Comebackers. The Doers were selected
based on their business and communal
involvement. The Comebackers signify
young business and professional stars
who grew up locally, went away to school
or to work, and have returned to Metro
Detroit and hold gainful employment. 0

Left to right: Hulya Erol-Garvett and Mark Warren of Keller Williams Realty • Carolina Di Cesare, Chris Brandemihl, Advanced Strategies Group • Brian
Satovsky, Doer award winner of Yale Financial Group, and Lyle Wolberg, president of Telemus Capital Wealth, Doer award sponsor • Alan Hitsky, JN
associate editor, Mindy Soble and Ron Miller, associate broker of Century 21 Today Realtors

Left to right: Boris and Irena Gorovets of Accessible Home Health Care of Oakland • Gala Master of Ceremonies Jeff Zaslow and JN President/Publisher
Arthur M. Horwitz • Josh and Shayna Levine, Coming Home awardee of ePrize, with Matt Gurwin and Daren Shavell

Left to right: Florence Abel of Real Estate One Realtors • Jerry Kaufman and son Brian, partners in Kaufman Insurance and Financial, flank Jay Hack •
Howard Novetsky and Cheryl Feldman of Real Estate One • Pam Turner and Hazel Bender, employees of JN business office

Left to right: Ady Peleg and family, of Danielle Peleg Gallery • Rick Bloom, Bloom Asset Management, Glen Warsh • Cyril and Lois Levenson, owner Guys N Gals • Dr. Sharon Havis and Carol Shapiro • Bruce
Balmas, vice president, and Patrick Fehring, president, Level One Bank

Left to right: Kerry Grushoff, Mike Bassirpour, Nathan Zack, Great Lakes Electronics Corp. • Pam Ode and Jan Woznick of Focus on You Photography with Nadine
Providence Hospital • awardees Carly Leipsitz and Jason Charnas, Fresh Air Society/Tamarack • A sampling of the awards the JN presented

Cook, community relations director of

Left to right: Richard Simtob, Wireless Toyz, F. Kevin Browett, COO Renaissance Media • Sue Loussia owner of Eleganza Boutique, Judy Berne • Lois Haron, owner of Designs in Decorator Woods and
Laminates Furniture, and husband, Marty • Brian Goodman, Capital Mortgage, Rick Nessel, JN senior account executive, and wife, Patty Nessel, of the Law Offices of Patty Nessel, Eric Wolf

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May 8 • 2008