Metro

Women Of Vision

Huffington advocates community solutions.

Above:

Event co-chairs: Sharon Lipton and Cathy Cantor;
Jennifer LoPatin is not pictured.

Left:

Honorees Eleanor Josaitis and Amy Good flank guest
speaker Arianna Huffington

Keri Guten Cohen
Story Development Editor

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hree women involved in improv-
ing lives in Metro Detroit were
honored with the Josephine S.
Weiner Award for Community Service at
"Women of Vision," National Council of
Jewish Women–Greater Detroit Section's
annual fundraising luncheon on Oct. 13 at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield.
Lois Granader of Bloomfield Hills, an
active NCJW member for more than 37

years, is a hands-on volunteer known for
her work on behalf of victims of domestic
abuse. She has chaired NCJW's Domestic
Abuse Prevention Committee for 20 years.
Amy Good of Detroit was honored for
her work with Alternatives for Girls, an
agency she co-founded in 1988 to help
homeless and at-risk girls and young
women by providing emergency shelter
and services to transition them to inde-
pendent living.
Eleanor Josaitis of Detroit co-founded
Focus: HOPE with Father William T.

Cunningham after the 1967 Detroit riots.
The agency is dedicated to overcoming
racism, poverty and injustice through its
wide-ranging programs.
Guest speaker Arianna Huffington,
author and editor-in-chief/co-founder
of the online Huffington Post, told the
honorees and NCJW members, "I am so
grateful to you for the work you are doing,
for community solutions. This work is so
important in a time like this. You are dem-
onstrating that solutions exist; and they
won't happen without your participation.

"Right now in the national conversation,
everyone is focusing on deficits," she told the
crowd of 425 in her motivating speech. "We
need to recognize we have an abundance of
time, skills and resources to tap into to turn
things around. We all need tikkun olam, to
repair the world — not just by government.
There is an enormous amount we need to do
in our own communities"
Irma Glaser is local NCJW president.
Co-chairs for the event were Sharon Lipton
of Waterford, Cathy Cantor and Jennifer
LoPatin, both of West Bloomfield.

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