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ANGELS AND DREAMERS
Eight-year-old Noah Ostheimer is a dreamer. He wanted to start a charity to help others but
didn't know how to do it. Rabbi Daniel Syme of Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township
was touched by Noah's vision and set out to make it happen, creating the Angels and
Dreamers Foundation. Noah is "chairman of the board:'
AUGUST
JULY: Noah Ostheimer and Paula Marks
Bolton became good friends over lunch.
Noah's dream was to take Bolton, a
Holocaust survivor, out for a special
AUGUST: In Detroit in 2008, these
Maccabi athletes from Brooklyn displayed
the enthusiasm that permeates the
Games that came to Detroit Aug. 17-22.
lunch.
MACCABI & ARTSFEST IN MOTOWN
Some 650 athletes and artists streamed into Detroit for a week of intense play, performance
and instruction at the 2014 JCC Maccabi & ArtsFest. Opening ceremonies were held at the
Fox Theatre Downtown.
AWASH IN WATER
Jewish organizations in Detroit and around the country rose to meet the needs of flood
victims as rapidly as the waters rose in the streets and basements during August's historic
flood. They provided hands-on assistance, from hauling out damaged carpets and soggy
sofas from basements flooded with smelly sewage to offering financial assistance and loans.
SEPTEMBER
NEW GROUP FOR JEWISH LAWYERS
The Jewish Bar Association of Michigan held its inaugural event Sept. 17 at Local Kitchen
& Bar in Ferndale. Hundreds of lawyers had fun, networked with other members of
Michigan's legal community and learned more about the new organization for attorneys
that was formed this year.
SEPTEMBER: The first event for JBAM
te r.
AUGUST: Spencer Cherrin of Huntington
attracted a packed house.
Woods stands in his flooded basement.
Damaged prayer books there were taken
to Congregation Beth Shalom for proper
burial.
JCRC UNVEILS NEW STRATEGIC PLAN
The Jewish Community Relations Council formed a Strategic Planning Committee that
reworked its mission and vision, now tied to Jewish values, refocused what the agency does
and came up with plans to transform the community perception of its work.
OCTOBER
SHABBOS PROJECT
Detroiters joined in the worldwide Sabbath observance, including a Great Big Challah Bake
on Oct. 23, which was the opening local event of the 2014 Shabbos Project, a global effort
designed to bring Jews all over the world together in celebrating the Sabbath.
NOVEMBER
DJN FOUNDATION RECEIVES MAJOR GIFT
The William Davidson Foundation provided the DJN Foundation
with a transformative endowment gift of $2 million that will assure
the Detroit Jewish News and the soon-to-be digitized Detroit Jewish
Chronicle are protected, maintained and enhanced — and available to
the community free of charge — in perpetuity.
SEPTEMBER: JCRC brings Israel advo-
cacy trainer Neil Lazarus, right, here
each year to provide training to Jewish
adults and teens.
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OCTOBER: Jaimee Wine of Royal Oak
and Orah Burham, 11, of Oak Park at the
Great Big Challah Bake.
NOVEMBER: President Bush: "I love the
mission of honoring a great religion and
recognizing there's a benevolent God —
and not being afraid of saying that."
YESHIVA CELEBRATES 100 YEARS
Former president George W. Bush was the speaker before a sold-out
crowd of 2,600 at Yeshiva Beth Yehudahs 100th-anniversary dinner at
the Marriott Renaissance Center in Downtown Detroit.
NOVEMBER:
William Davidson
RABBI WITH LOCAL TIES MURDERED
Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky, 43, who grew up in Oak Park, was one of
the victims killed in the brutal terrorist attack at the Kehilat Bnei
Torah synagogue in the Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood on Nov.
18, when two Palestinian cousins burst into the morning prayer ser-
vice brandishing an axe, knives and a gun.
NOVEMBER:
CSZ OPENS NEW EDUCATION CENTER
Rabbi Aryeh
Congregation Shaarey Zedek celebrated the grand opening of the
Berman Center for Jewish Education. The center is on the main floor Kupinsky
of the educational wing of the CSZ building in Southfield; it features
seven state-of-the-art classrooms, plus a library, resource room, Beit Midrash and a lobby
lounge.
DECEMBER
NOVEMBER: The renovated library
space in the Berman Center.
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DECEMBER: Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan
speaks at Menorah in the D celebration.
MENORAH IN THE D
As Detroit emerges from the darkness of bankruptcy into the light of regrowth, this year's
fourth annual "Menorah in the D" celebration held particular significance. Organizers of
the Chanukah event saw it not only as a celebration of the victory of the Maccabees, but a
victory as well for the people of Detroit.