JVS At 70

Annual meeting celebrates agency's

accomplishments and leader Nurenberg's 20th year.

E

ven though the theme of JVS' recent
annual meeting at Pine Lake Country
Club in West Bloomfield was "70 and
Growing:' the subtext of the evening was pursuing
and achieving excellence.
JVS President and CEO Barbara Nurenberg,
who was honored for her 20th year at the agency,
announced that JVS had received a Grain's Detroit
Business "Cool Places to Work Award" as well as
Corp! magazine's "Champion of Diversity Award."
Both are fitting awards for an agency designed
from the outset to care for the most vulnerable
in the community. And both are testament to
Nurenberg's leadership and evolution of the agen-
cy over two decades.
Under her watch, JVS has become a hub of pro-

JVS board members Steven Frank, Eva

Shapiro, JVS COO Leah Rosenbaum and

Patti Aaron

active services for students, seniors, people with
disabilities, and individuals who are unemployed
and disadvantaged. And it has grown from a $6.5
million vocational service agency to a $20 million
human services organization that helps people
from all walks of life.
"As it is written in the Pirkei Avot, our Jewish
tradition teaches us that it's not up to us to finish
the task, but neither may we desist from it," she
said. "That is why I, and many of my Jewish com-
munal colleagues and the volunteer leaders in this
wonderful community, continue to work so hard."
Event co-chairs were immediate past JVS board
chair Brian Meer and current JVS board chair Lee
Hurwitz. I I

Brian Meer, immediate past board chair, with JVS President

and CEO Barbara Nurenberg and board member Greg Hirsch

JVS board chair Lee Hurwitz takes Renee Epstein, Jim Taigman and JVS board
over from immediate past chair
members Michelle Taigman and Bob Epstein
Brian Meer

Former board president Nora and

Guy Barron

Shalom To All

Temple Emanu-El's welcome

picnic helps transition

members from summer to

the holiday season.

Right: Rabbi Joseph Klein treats

Emanu-El families to a magic show

at the recent welcome picnic

at the Oak Park synagogue.

Zach Walter and Mitchell Hart, both of

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Laura Topf of Huntington Woods, Rou Rou Hutchinson of Bloomfield Hills,

Seth Dunlap of Gibraltar has his face

Huntington Woods, Eric Goldstein of Southfield

Hannah Stoller of Royal Oak and Sydney Newman of Huntington Woods

painted by Sierra Onickel of Ferndale

and Joel Topf of Huntington Woods chow down

on watermelon.

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