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Jeremy Schaap presented the Dick Schaap Humanitarian Award to Brown. The Hank Greenberg Memorial Golf Invitational is the major fundraiser of the Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation. The MJSF has raised more than $1 million for cancer research and education over the last 25 years. ❑ Melissa Litvin, Heidi Martin, Rick Nessel, Dharlene Norris Senior Sales Assistant: Kim Metzger Business Offices Customer Service Assts.: Maya Brodsky, Jan Shain Billing Coordinator: Pamela Turner Collections Analyst: Hazel Bender Creative Services creative@thejewishnews.com Creative Director: Deborah Schultz Contributing Graphic Designer: Lindsay Schwartz Production By VERTIS INC. Site Manager: Scott Drzewiecki Designers: Iris Dembeck, Jeffrey Meyer, Pam Sherevan, Michelle Sheridan Photography Staff Photographers: Angie Baan, Armando Rios Editorial Cal Ripken Jr. signs autographs for Greenberg Tournament participants. Editor: Robert A. Sklar rsklar@thejewishnews.com Associate Editor: Alan Hitsky ahitsky@thejewishnews.com Story Development Editor: Keri Guten Cohen kcohengthejewishnews.com Arts Editor: Gail Zimmerman gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com Senior Writer: Shelli Liebman Dorfman sdorfman@thejewishnews.com Senior Columnist: Danny Raskin dannyraskin@sbcglobal.net Columnists: George Cantor, Robin Schwartz, Steve Stein Copy Team: Senior Copy Editor: David Sachs dsachs@thejewishnews.com Copy Team Assistant: Sy Manello smanello@thejewishnews.com Platinum: Editor: Lynne Konstantin lkonstantin@thejewishnews.com Executive Editor: Gail Zimmerman gzimmerman@thejewishnews.com 1 %ler Sports radio personality Mike "Stoney" Stone auctions off a signed Cal Ripken jersey as Ken and Stephen Eisenberg watch the bidding. Love Of Learning The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's Alliance for Jewish Education has announced the 2009 winners of the Diane & Emergy Klein Award for Excellence in Jewish Education. Both winners are congregational school teachers at Temple Israel, West Bloomfield. • Michelle Markzon of West Bloomfield is a sixth-grade Judaica teacher who has been instrumental in introducing a new curriculum for her students. •Amy Scapelliti of Farmington Hills is a kindergarten teacher who strives to find new and creative ways to connect Judaic content for her students. The Kleins, of Southfield, endowed the award in 2006 to "recognize the dedica- tion and creativity of those teachers who demonstrate a love of Jewish learning and bring their talents and energy to the classroom." Winners earned scholarships to attend a professional conference. — Robert Sklar, editor A8 June 25 • 2CH:::: The first place golf team of Jeff Weber of Birmingham, Clayton Friend of Chicago, event co-chair Brian Eisenberg of Bloomfield Hills and Rubin Kuznitsky of Chicago got to pose with basketball legend Campy Russell. 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