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CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK
PRESENTS
Stephen M.
Goldman, execu-
tive director of the
Holocaust Memorial
Center Zekelman
Family Campus in
Farmington Hills, is
one of several con-
Goldman
tributing authors of
the recently released book The Radical
Museum: Democracy, Dialogue er
Debate. His chapter, "Accessibility and
Historiography: Meeting the needs
of Constituencies in the 21st Century
Museum:' focuses on the need of
museums to do what they can to make
sure that what is available and on dis-
play is of interest to as broad an audi-
ence as possible.
Wednesday
September/
at 7:30 IDA
Featuring
Cantor Simon & Aliza Spiro
also featuring
The Beth Tzedec Choir of Toronto
& Cantor Meir Finkelstein
Performing well-known & beloved son
and accompanied by a nine-piece ban
For more information, or to RS
please contact Martha Goldberg
at 248/357-5544 x46 or e-mail
mgoldberg@shaareyzedek.org
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GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY
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Michigan resident Liz Cohen was
awarded a fellowship in the visual
arts. The Kresge Foundation made
the award. Each fellowship includes
an unrestricted prize of $25,000 and
customized professional practice
opportunities. Cohen is represented by
David Klein Gallery and is an artist-in-
residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Barbara Lewis, APR, director of
communications at Lutheran Social
Services of Michigan, received an
Award of Excellence in the 2011
Apex Awards for Communications
Excellence competition, for a video
series designed to introduce new
employees, volunteers and friends
to the organization. The series was
produced by UnoDeuce Multimedia
Productions of Lansing. Lutheran
Social Services of Michigan provides
a wide variety of services for children
and families, senior adults, refugees
and persons with disabilities.
Eva Packard, member of the League
of Women Voters of the Oakland Area,
received the Belle Brotherton award at
the league's bi-annual convention in
Traverse City in May. This award hon-
ors an individual whose outstanding
leadership and significant accomplish-
ments have benefited the citizens of
Michigan, inspired others and fostered
greater public participation in the
democratic process. A 48-year mem-
ber of the league, Packard has served
in multiple leadership roles in several
local leagues. She has devoted much
of her time to voter service and most
recently, she led the most comprehen-
sive league state voter service plan
ever initiated, assuring sample ballots
were accessible to all Michigan voters.
Oakland County Commissioner
Marcia Gershenson will walk the
halls of Harvard University as a mem-
ber of a select group of elected offi-
cials participating in the prestigious
Taubman Fellows program. The fel-
lowship program will give Gershenson
the opportunity to learn from the
leading representatives in manage-
ment and public sector leadership. She
is the first female commissioner from
Oakland County's board to be selected
as a Taubman Fellow.
The Consortium of
Multiple Sclerosis
Centers has hon-
ored a Wayne State
University professor
and department
chair for his lifetime
of commitment
Lisak
and research to
combat the condition. The con-
sortium presented Robert Lisak,
M.D., of Bloomfield Hills, chair of
the Department of Neurology, with
its lifetime achievement award in
June during its annual meeting in
Montreal. Lisak has served in lead-
ership positions and on commit-
tees of the American Academy of
Neurology, the American Neurological
Association, the International
Society of Neuroimmunology, the
National Multiple Sclerosis Society,
the Guillain Barre Syndrome/CIDP
Foundation and the Myasthenia
Gravis Foundation of America. He also
has been editor of the Journal of the
Neurological Sciences and the Journal
of the World Federation of Neurology.
Andrew Zureick,
a 2009 gradu-
ate of Andover
High School and a
soon-to-be junior
at Dartmouth
College, was named
editor-in-chief of
Zureick
the Dartmouth
Undergraduate Journal of Science.
A recent article he wrote about his
experience as a summer intern at
the National Institutes of Health was
published in the winter 2010 issue of
Dartmouth Medicine magazine.
Rabbi Francine Roston, formerly of
Farmington Hills, will be teaching at
the Jewish Theological Seminary in
the upcoming academic year. Rabbi
Roston has been asked to be one of
two section leaders for the JTS Senior
Seminar, a weekly gathering of the
graduating class of cantorial and rab-
binical students that is designed to
help them mark the transition from
student to professional.