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camp, as a prescription, rather than
quality of a family's life raising a child
just writing the typical prescription
with special needs are what make the
for more medication and therapy:
Center for Exceptional Families much
she said. "We serve the whole family,
more than just a medical clinic or reha-
so parents and siblings participate as
bilitation center; Morris said. "Being
well and become involved in becoming able to celebrate the joy along the way
active and healthy"
makes the journey a successful one for
"The Center for Exceptional
the entire family"
Families is built on passion: said
Victor said a plaque mounted in
David Farbman, a long-time supporter a prominent spot at CEF highlights
who serves on the CEF Board. "So many Oakwood's gratitude for the Jewish
families and their children have found a Fund's generous gift.
fit where there was nowhere else to turn
"All who enter our doors, of any race,
for help:"
creed or color, will know of the Jewish
Morris added, "These vital programs
dollars being given to a Dearborn institu-
and our subsequent ability to impact the
tion:' she said.

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For more about the Jewish Fund, visit www.thejewishfund.org . For more
on the Center for Exceptional Families in Dearborn, visit www.oakwood.
org/cef. Building an endowment to perpetually fund the services
provided through CEF continues to be a strategic philanthropic priority
for OHS. To learn how you can help, contact Tonia Victor at antonina.
victor@oakwood.org or (313) 586-4931.

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M

etro Detroit Jews historically have not chosen
to live or work in Dearborn, perhaps because
of the city's association with auto industrial-
ist Henry Ford. He ranted about "the Jewish plan to
control the world" in his own newspaper, the Dearborn
Independent (circulation allegedly 700,000), distributed
free at Ford dealerships. Hitler considered Ford a good
friend.
Today, Dearborn is home to a growing population of
Dr. Malcolm
Muslims, both foreign and native-born, with perhaps the
Henoch
largest concentration of Muslims in the United States.
In 2010, 95 percent of students were Muslim at the city's
Fordson High.
Against this backdrop, Maureen D'Agostino of
Southfield, who is Jewish, interviewed for a position at
Oakwood Healthcare System in Dearborn 20 years ago —
and is still there.
In her rise from business manager to a senior vice presi-
dent in the corporate suite, she still recalls, "I received such
Bill Isenstein
flak about even considering going to work in Dearborn, a
very anti-Semitic community at the time
D'Agostino and her husband, Louis, retired from their
family's painting business, are former members of New
York-based Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring, the progres-
sive, Yiddish cultural organization. Their only child, Carly,
now 21, became a bat mitzvah at the Oak Park branch of
the Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring.
Additionally, D'Agostino has three Jewish colleagues in
Maureen
the Oakwood Healthcare System administration.
D'Agostino
Tonia Victor came to this country from Poland in 1969
with the help of HIAS, a Jewish resettlement organization.
"It was at the time of renewed anti-Semitism when I was
informed that as a Jew, I will not be allowed to fmish the
University in Vroclay. I owe a great deal to the Jewish com-
munity:" She and her husband, Malachy Browne, M.D., live in
Bloomfield Hills. They are parents of married twin daughters.
Malcolm Henoch, M.D., is a specialist in gastroenterology
as well as senior vice president and chief medical officer for
Tonia Victor
Oakwood Healthcare Inc. He and his wife, Vivian, a com-
munications professional who works part time at the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, live in Northville.
Bill Isenstein is a senior vice president of Managed Care for Oakwood. He
and his wife, Sheryl, live in West Bloomfield. ❑

