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New Federation president
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14 January 26 2012

etired businessman
Douglas Bloom of
Birmingham, a long-
time volunteer and leader in the
Jewish community, has taken the
reins as president of the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit. Last month he replaced
immediate past president,
Michael Horowitz, who had
completed only one of his three
one-year terms when he left to
become executive director of the
Atlanta Federation.
Bloom, 73, brings keen busi-
ness expertise to the job, gained
in dealings with the Big Three
motor companies and other
major corporations through his
former business, Bar Processing,
which grew to include five factories
in four states. He sold the business
when he retired in 1999.
A father of three sons — Matthew
in Washington state, Andrew and
David in Metro Detroit — and
grandfather of one boy and four girls,
he possesses a playful sense as well.
He and his wife, Barbara, are intrepid
hobbyists. She furnishes elaborate
dollhouses; and he has an 0-gauge
Lionel train set-up in his basement
that spans nearly 1,800 square feet.
"I've been nuts about trains since
I was a little boy:' he said. The last
train trip the couple took was on the
famed Orient Express from Paris to
Venice. When he entered the dining
car in a tux, with Barbara in a formal
dress, applause erupted.
This kind of fashion flair extends
to his personal style back home, too,
as he is known for his round red eye-
glasses and his frequent bowties.
A member of Temple Israel and
Temple Kol Ami, both in West
Bloomfield, Bloom became a bar
mitzvah at 61. He also studies weekly
at his home with a rabbi as part

of Southfield-based Yeshiva Beth
Yehudah's Weiss Partners in Torah.
Bloom deems himself a realist, and
promises he'll bring humor, surprises,
seriousness and passion to his presi-
dency.
Many in the community rec-
ognize Bloom's name from the
annual Barbara and Douglas Bloom
Matzah Factory held each year at the
Jewish Community Center in West
Bloomfield. Hundreds of local Jewish
children learn how to make matzah
the exacting, traditional 18-minute
way every Passover.
"We're proud of the matzah fac-
tory, and we get to see the benefits
while we are alive," Bloom said of the
program.
He and his wife also sponsor the
Barbara and Douglas Bloom Acts of
Loving Kindness Fund, which helps
seniors with financial difficulties to
remain in Fleischman Residence.
Bloom says he ramped up his vol-
unteerism after a 1985 community
mission to Israel, first rising through
the ranks to become president of the
JCC, then moving to its executive
committee.
At Federation, he has been involved

