I am proud to support the Jewish
community programs and invest
more dollars into our roads.

I

Michael Rubyan, NEXTGen Detroit
event chair, Do It For Detroit

Larry Oleinick of Heart 2 Hart

used immediately to enhance the cur-
rent growing season.
Commenting on the goals of the
program and the outcome of the
evening, Michael Rubyan, NEXTGen
Detroit chair of the event, says, "The
Do it for Detroit Fund is about con-
necting NEXTGen Detroit into the
grassroots movement working to
improve the city of Detroit — giving
our community a chance to play a
direct role in transforming Detroit into

a thriving city.
"This event was a great opportu-
nity to become more aware of the
good work that is being done by
so many dedicated members of the
community to help ensure that our
city's most vulnerable families are
protected from going to sleep hun-
gry:' he says.

posted on Facebook the morning
before the funeral that her mother
had passed away.
Stern spent the entire day away
from home, first going to the funeral
and then to the shivah at her son's
house. When they arrived home, her
daughter mentioned that the door
in the garage leading into the house
had been left unlocked. "I didn't
think much of it because I was just
so mentally exhausted," Stern said.
It wasn't until two days after the
funeral that she noticed that her
house had been broken into.
"It wasn't until Tuesday that it
registered that I had taken off a
diamond necklace but hadn't put it
away," Stern said. "I went to look for
it, but I couldn't find it. Basically
everything was left in order. All of
my jewelry boxes were sitting as if
they hadn't been touched. When I
opened them, they had been touched
and everything was taken."
Other jewelry in other rooms was
taken as well. Thieves also took
silver dollar coins from around the
world, a refund check from Costco
and cash out of Stern's purse.
Stern and the first victim are
convinced that the break-ins are
connected. They reported each
other's incident numbers to the West
Bloomfield Police Department and

Oakland County Sherriff's Office
respectively.
Although what they lost has not
been recovered, both women want
to make sure this doesn't happen to
anybody else.
"I spoke with Ira Kaufman and
told them that when someone goes
to a funeral, they should tell people
to have somebody in their house to
watch over it:' the first victim said.
Although Ira Kaufman does not
provide such a service for families,
they warn families to be protective
of their house when at a funeral.
"We like to caution families if
you're sitting shivah somewhere
else, make sure your alarm is on,
or have dogs or something of that
nature to protect the house," said
David Techner, funeral director at
Ira Kaufman.
"We haven't had a problem with
that yet:' said Jonathan Dorfman,
owner of Dorfman Chapel, "but if
it's something that starts coming up
in our community more, we'll talk
to families about it — nothing has
happened to any of the families here
at all:'
Stern added extra words of warn-
ing. "People need to be aware that
these things do occur. I never
thought it would occur, but I should
have."

❑

Vivian Henoch is editor of myjewishdetroit,
where this story first appeared.

❑

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