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THE MICHIGAN HOUSE

Generation
To Generation

Ann Newman shares her love
of Zion with her grandson.

Ann Newinan and her grandson J .

in front of the Michigan House at

Ariana Segal
Special to the Jewish News

to offer charitable chesed, or acts of loving-
kindness.
The Bloomfield Hills-based philan-
thropist said it has been her privilege to
live in three worlds: the shtetl in Poland;
being in Palestine as it emerged following
World War II as the State of Israel; and her
years in the U.S. as a corporate leader in
Michigan.
For the last 59 years, Newman has lived
in, and made an impact on the Jewish com-

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ew people understand the multitude
of challenges, dedication and hard
work that went into re-establishing
the Jewish state in the biblical Land of
Israel as Ann "Hanna" Newman does. She
also knows, from experience, that a strong
working ethic can lead to great success in
business, and in return, have the capacity

the Recreational Center in Ashkelon

munity of Detroit.

In Palestine, Newman joined the under-
ground movement Irgun (the National
Military Organization in the Land of Israel).
Later, she joined the Lehi, an organiza-
tion that responded more forcefully to
efforts of the British to restrict Jewish
immigration. Lehi, a Hebrew acronym for
"fighters for the freedom of Israel," was

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the smallest of three Zionist paramilitary
groups of Mandatory Palestine.
Newman met her late husband, Rudy,
in 1948. He was one of eight men from
Detroit and Windsor who volunteered
to fly for Israel in what was then the Air
Transport Command under the leader-

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