Health & Fitness

JCC Honors Leaders With Alterman Awards

Israel Bonds Fetes Doctors

The Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan
Detroit has given recognition to two community lead-
ers.
The winners of this year's Susan
Alterman Center Leadership Award are
Maida Frank Portnoy and Susan Marwil,
both of whom have lent their talents and
given countless hours of volunteer time
to lead Center initiatives.
Maida Frank Portnoy of Bloomfield
Hills has served the Jewish Federation
Maida Frank
of Metropolitan Detroit, notably its
Portnoy
educational program planning and
as president of the Junior Division
(now Young Adult Division). She
won Federation's Boesky Award for
Achievement.
She has served on the boards of
Jewish Family Service and the Anti-
Defamation League and is now on the
JCC board.
Susan Marwil
She was co-chair of this year's JCC
Stephen Gottlieb Jewish MusicFest and is on the steer-
ing committee of the Center's annual Jewish Book Fair
as well as the advisory committee of the Lenore Marwil

The Professional Health Services Division of State of
Israel Bonds announces that the 2008 Maimonides Award
recipients are Dr. Jack E. Belen and Dr.
Carl B. Lauter.
They will be honored 6 p.m. June
18 at a tribute dinner at Adat Shalom
Synagogue in Farmington Hills.
Chairmen for the event, Drs. William
Leuchter, Arthur Lieberman and Harris
Mainster, have announced that the keynote
speaker will be Israeli Television cone-
Jack Belen
spondent Gil Tamary.
Dr. Belen serves on the board, is chief
of medicine and director of medical edu-
cation at Huron Valley-Sinai Hospital in
Commerce Township. He is a clinical pro-
fessor of medicine at Michigan State and
Wayne State universities.
Dr. Lauter is director allergy and
clinical immunology and a clinical
Carl Lauter
professor of medicine at Wayne State
University School of Medicine.
For dinner reservations or Israel Bonds information,
call Paula Lebowitz, (248) 352-6555, or Stuart Pavilack,
(800) 362-2669.

Jewish Film Festival.
She sponsors an annual Institute for Retired
Professionals spring lecture series and luncheon at the
Center in memory of her mother, Edith S. Frank
A Center board member for six years, Susan Marwil
of Bloomfield Hills was inspired by her parents'
community involvement. Her volunteerism includes
serving the JCC, the Women's Division of the Jewish
Federation board and advisory council; vice president
of the National Council of Jewish Women/Greater
Detroit Section; and with Congregation Shaarey Zedek
of Oakland County, the chair of the PR committee
for Women's World and a member of the sisterhood
board.
At the Center, Marwil served as chair and co-chair
of the Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival as well as
Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment (SAJE). She was
the first chair of the Young Writers Workshop program.
Established in 1988, the Center's Leadership Award
was renamed in memory of Susan Alterman, an active
member and Center leader who died in 1997. The Susan
Alterman Leadership Award was endowed by her hus-
band, Irwin, and son, Owen.
The awards were presented June 4 at the JCC's annual
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