YadEra LET ALL .1Y110 ARE HUNGRY COME AND EAT Help ensure that everyone in our community has a fulfilling Passover by feeding families in need. Yad Ezra and Moles Chetim will use your donation to purchase Passover food to distribute to local vulnerable families. Michigan attendees: Avi Yazdi, board member Aliza Nivy, Michigan Region executive director Tamir Oppenheim and wife, Elian Oppenheim, Marilyn Karbal, Michigan chairman emeritus and board member Ann Newman, board members Eugene Sherizen and Joshua Berkovitz. Julian Josephson, FACTS ABOUT PASSOVER national president; Nily Over 1,500 families will receive a holiday package. Packages include all the food items needed to celebrate a Seder. Over 150 volunteers give the time and energy to sort, package and deliver food, ❑ ❑ 1 Falic, national chairman; honoree Ann Newman of Bloomfield Hills; Tamir Oppenheim, Michigan Region executive director; and Maj. Gen (Res.) Jerry Gershon, 1 CASE Of CIMIN S82.00 1 COE rf 1111.4 FISI S64.00 1 CM 01 MAILA 558.00 I CASE Of GEFFITE fISR S55,00 Salute To Soldiers from page 10 1 LSE Of ICI MONS S44,00 .1 Ea Of GRAPE JUKE S44,00 la% Of EGGS S42,00 CASE Of HORSEMAN 530,000 1 USE Of SOUP/Mak BAR MIX S22,00 ex-combat soldiers who lack funds to attend college or advanced education- al schools (the local group has spon- sored 171 scholarships), and Dignity, which provides soldiers and their families with critical aid to help them through difficult economic times. Moved by a personal connection he made at the Detroit FIDF dinner last year, Sheldon Yellen of Bloomfield Hills flew to New York just to see IDF Capt. Seva, who lost the use of his legs after he took a bullet while saving one of his soldiers during a mission in Gaza. In Detroit, Yellen spent three hours at a restaurant talking with this IDF hero. He says they left as brothers. Seva was so touched by Yellen that he took the elite sniper's medallion off his uniform and gave it to him. "He told me he dreamed his whole life of getting this pin, and he insisted I take it," said Yellen, who took the pin after much arguing. The two corresponded and swore they would meet again. Yellen jetted into New York for a brief meeting before the dinner. He gave Seva a letter telling him what it meant to him to be in the presence of such a hero, then gave the pin back. When Seva tried to give it back, Yellen told him it belonged to him, then turned and left. He was in Cincinnati for business by the time A San PACK4GE FOR A EOM' Of : national director 560,00 II SEDER PMKAGE FOR 10 SMAII FAMES $250.00 A SBER PACKAGE FOR 20 MU WILLIES $500.00 Enclosed is my check of $ for cases of Passover food as a tax-deductible contritution to Yad Ezra to help feed Waits in need. ease make out ch Leck and manta: Yid Ezra/Moles thetim Appeal MO W. 11 Mite Rog igrkky, kil43072 name: address: city/state/zip: phone: ( ) email: tow VISAMosteCofd Or O&M!: (Suggested rriaitwodootico forrchargP.s •$1EA AI (hay chap Wurall-rbiliv card number: exp, date: signature; name on card; 3 digit code: (please print) YtIti an Mateo too - C d Q wvAtvadezrazrE 1733830 12 March 22 2012 the IDF dinner started. Special Honor Ann Newman, a founder of the Michigan Region FIDF group, received special recognition and an award of appreciation for her years of service and support to the organization at the national FIDF board meeting March 14. Newman, a Metro Detroit philan- thropist and president/owner of the Frank W. Kerr Co., a wholesale drug distributor in Novi, was introduced by national FIDF director Maj. Gen (Res.) Jerry Gershon as a "good friend of the State of Israel and our soldiers?' "Ann is a tremendous supporter of Israel and other Zionist causes:' he said before explaining that Newman was in the Irgun and Lechi as a combat soldier in the 1948 War for Independence. "I would say she is a woman of valor?' "Thanks for the wonderful honor:' Newman said at the meeting. "There is no question that Israel is my life and our work. I am physically here, but spiritually I am in Israel. I was a sol- dier in 1948. I love the soldiers. "There is a long history of why Israel will never be forsaken," she said to the FIDF board members. "Without Israel, we are no one." ❑ Keri Guten Cohen attended the gala dinner as a guest of the Michigan Region FIDF.