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Washtenaw County will honor
Detroit natives Judie and
Jerry Lax with the Claire and
Isadore Bernstein
Leadership Award at 3
The Graduate School
p.m. Sunday, Jan. 24,
in the Morris Lawrence
Building at Washtenaw
H. L. Miller Cantorial School and
College of Jewish Music
Community College in
Ann Arbor.
William Davidson Graduate School
of Jewish Education
This award is given
each year to Ann Arbor
The Rabbinical School
area residents who have
demonstrated outstand-
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The theme of this year's event,
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Law School. He has
established himself
as an outstanding attorney special-
izing in municipal and employment
set the tone for an afternoon of des-
serts, good cheer and wonderful trib-
law, litigation and alternative dispute
resolution. He is professor emeritus in
utes to a deserving couple.
Involvement in their community and
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Judie and Jerr y Lax
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He has served on the boards of
the Jewish Federation of Greater
Ann Arbor, Temple Beth Emeth,
Performance Network, Planned
Parenthood and the Ann Arbor
Summer Festival.
years) and also was active in several
synagogue youth groups.
The Laxes requested that proceeds
from the Jan. 24 event as well as
gifts in their honor be earmarked to
The Laxes met on a blind date in
May 1968 and were married a mere
Washtenaw JFS' Emergency Aid Fund.
To register, donate or learn about
three months later at Adat Shalom.
Both earned undergraduate degrees
from the University of Michigan, where
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