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Longtime Commitment

Two families honored for their steadfast, multigenerational support to Hillel Day School.

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ore than 400 members of Detroit's Jewish
community attended Hillel Day School's 2014
Annual Dream Maker Dinner on Sunday, May
18, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. The
evening celebrated the steadfast commitment of two
families with multigenerational ties to the community
day school located in Farmington Hills.
Dr. Aaron and Rochelle Lupovitch of West Bloomfield,
surrounded by their children and grandchildren, almost
all of whom are Hillel alumni or students, received the
Rabbi Jacob E. Segal (z"1) Award for their commitment
to Jewish education. Their association with Hillel dates
to the 1960s, and Aaron organized the first tuition assis-
tance program at Hillel in 1975, based on the principle
that no child would be denied a Hillel education because
of financial status.
Miriam and Fred Ferber of West Bloomfield,
Holocaust survivors who have been an active part of
the global Jewish community for more than 40 years,
received the Dream Maker Award. Known as giants in
the community for their generosity, ardent Zionism and
support of local causes as well as institutions in Israel, the
Ferbers spoke emotionally, in the presence of their chil-
dren, all Hillel alumni, and many grandchildren, of the
way Judaism has enriched their lives and transforms the
lives of students who are educated in a Jewish day school.
The evening also acknowledged Distinguished Alumni
Award winners Steven Winkelman (Class of 1983),
Joseph Green (Class of 1986) and Oren Goldenberg
(Class of 1997).

Hillel Head of School Steve Freedman, Dahvi

Lupovitch and her grandparents, Rabbi Jacob
Segal Award Honorees Rochelle and Aaron
Lupovitch

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Eighth-grade speaker Noah
Goodman

Left: Distinguished
alums Joe Green and
Oren Goldenberg flank
Head of School Steve
Freedman.

Right: Attendees
Jill and Aaron Dones
and Dr. Joel and Marla
Goldman.

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Girls Only!

Dream Maker Honorees Fred and
Miriam Ferber

ORT sponsors second Drag Queen WINGO event to rave reviews.

ore than 400 women came to Congregation
Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield on April 30 for
ORT Michigan's annual WINGO (Women's only
BINGO). For the second year, the theme was "Drag Queen
BINGO:' with the caller being an over-the-top, tell-it-like-
it-is drag queen from Fivel5 in Royal Oak.
Terri Steam of Beverly Hills and Forest Wolfe of
Bloomfield Hills were also back this year as event co-
chairs. A committee of 28 women was instrumental in
planning the event, soliciting and securing prizes, and cre-
ating all of the centerpieces on the dinner tables.
The evening also included a silent auction, raffles, a

strolling dinner, dessert and flaming "Cosmo ORTini's."
This year's event raised $65,000. The Suburban
Collection, along with Infiniti of Novi and Troy, were
presenting sponsors. Proceeds raised from WINGO help
to fund ORT's educational programs around the world,
including those offered at the David B. Hermelin ORT
Resource Center inside the West Bloomfield Jewish
Community Center.
To learn more about ORT, call Nicole Miller, Michigan
director, at (248) 723-8860 or email her at
nmiller@ortamerica.org .

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1 WINGO co-chairs Forest Wolfe of Bloomfield Hills
and Terri Stearn of Beverly Hills

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Andi Wolfe, ORT America national board member of
Bloomfield Hills; Nicole Miller, Director of ORT America
Michigan Region; and Jennifer Teper, accounting
coordinator, ORT America Michigan Region

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June 5 • 2014

Members of the WINGO planning committee

