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HMC Gains New Sculpture
L
orraine Goldberg of West Bloomfield recently donated her cemetery-themed
ceramic sculpture,"Resilience," to the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman
Family Campus in Farmington Hills, where it will be displayed.
Goldberg, 75, is retired from a psychology career. Interested in art, she took art
classes at Oakland Community College's Orchard Ridge Campus in Farmington Hills
and the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.
She was inspired to create "Resilience" after she took a trip to a Jewish cemetery in
Prague, where she sketched the tombstones. About a year later, "Resilience" was fin-
ished. The 50-pound sculpture is made in three parts and is composed of clay mixed
with gravel, glass pieces and other Earth materials. El
Lorraine Goldberg
with her artwork
Akiva's
Banquet
A
kiva Hebrew Day School
in Southfield held its 47th
Annual Banquet on March 27
at the Hyatt Regency Dearborn with 450
attending.
Honorees were Rabbi Judah and Beth
Isaacs, who received the Keter Shem Toy
Award, and Rabbi Eliezer Cohen, a teacher
for 37 years at the school, with the Ahavat
Torah Award.
Judah Isaacs was executive director of
Federation's Alliance for Jewish Education
for 17 years; Beth Isaacs was an Akiva
teacher. They now live in New Jersey.
Cohen was introduced at the banquet
by two current students and two past
students, all were touched by this
commitment to his students and the
learning of Torah.
The annual banquet is the school's
primary fundraising event each year.
Above: Rabbi Eliezer Cohen being presented with the Ahavat torah award by
current students Elizabeth Kirshner and Avi Mendelson and past students
Mikey Skoczylas and Dr. Shani Bechhofer.
Top Right: Nirit Talmid of Oak Park and Renana Hayun of Southfield
Right: Pearlena Bodzin of Southfield and David Tanzman of Oak Park
HMC Examines Armenian Genocide Through Art
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April 7 = 2011
Pho tos by Jos hu a Now ic ki
A
new traveling exhibit opened
March 27 at the Holocaust
Memorial Center in Farmington
Hills. About 100 people attended the
opening reception for "Barsamian: 20
Years Searching for the Answer" by Dallas
artist Robert Barsamian.
The exhibit, which goes through July
10, poses questions about the Armenian
genocide through art.
At the opening, speaker Dr. Ara Sanjian,
director of the Armenian Research
Center at the University of Michigan-
Dearborn, gave an in-depth presentation
on the history of the Armenian genocide.
Barsamian also spoke about his grand-
mother's childhood memories that moti-
vated him to turn to this topic. I I
See related stories on pages 47 and 74.
Susan Katz of Farmington Hills with artist Barsamian
Artist Robert Barsamian with Dr. Ara Sanjian, director of the Armenian
Research Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and Stephen M.
Goldman, executive director of the Holocaust Memorial Center