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Where Are The Leaders
To Repair Our Roads?
The overwhelming defeat of Proposal
1 [for road repair] on May 5 should be
an explosive signal to the politicians
to get busy, get serious or get lost. The
people really stuck it to the turkeys in
Lansing. Where are the Steve Jobs, the
Lee Iaccocas or the Roger Penskes when
we need them? Where are our leaders?
What we really need is a bunch of
critical thinkers who can think and/or
act outside the box, outside the lines and
way, way beyond the obvious. Oh, we do
have a few like Dan Gilbert and the Mike
Ilitch crew, but we need several more,
at least until we have a critical mass of
movers and shakers.
For most of my life and career, I func-
tioned as a "ghost" of sorts. My vision
was designed to get the job done; turn
the problems into challenges and/or
opportunities and have them dealt with
successfully. Credit was not on my list;
solving the challenge was.
I followed my own agrarian reform
process: Plant the seed, fertilize, irrigate
and hold on. Eventually, the seed would
sprout and grow. It could take a few
minutes, a few hours, a few days, a few
weeks, a few months and, sometimes,
even a few years.
When enough ready, willing and able
folks bought in to the project, it would
proceed and take off quickly, effectively
and efficiently.

Joel G. Busse

West Bloomfield

Walk-Run For Israel
Is Called A Big Success
The sky was blue with white clouds
looking down over the hundreds of
blue-and-white Israel flags and our
Stars and Stripes as 2,000-plus advo-
cates for Israel celebrated Israel at
our annual Walk (and Run) for Israel
hosted by Temple Shir Shalom in West
Bloomfield on Sunday, May 17.
We danced, we sang, we hugged, we
kissed and we greeted our pro-Israel

brethren, both Jewish and non-Jewish
brothers and sisters, before and during
the walk down and up Orchard Lake
Road.
I congratulate our remarkable leader,
Walk for Israel CEO Andre Douville,
and his team for their extraordinary
effort in making this joyous, yearly
event happen.
See you next year: Sunday, May 15,
2016.
Am Yisrael Chai!

according to each of our delegates —
was the desire to both continue and
expand this kind of program.
Thank you to StandWithUs-MI
president Barbara Moretsky and SWU
Central Region High School Program
Coordinator Vida Velasco for encourag-
ing this program to occur, and we thank
the students and advisers who took the
time to participate. Its importance and
need to continue will only grow as time
goes on.

Ed Kohl

Rev. Tim Munger

West Bloomfield

StandWIthUs-MI Board Member

Greater Detroit Section

Did you know that NOW members
are leaders in our community?

We welcome our new board for
2015/2016 who will serve proudly
as we enter our 125th year in 2016.

President
Susan Marwil

Vice Presidents
Susie Jacob
Sandi Matz
Sandy Lada
Judy Robinson
Jennifer LoPatin
Treasurer
Maxine Sherman

Recording Secretary

Marian Littman

ion S I I 7er

Clarifications
• In "Paying Homage" (May 21, page
17), the late Capt. Allan Cherry, who
was born and raised in Detroit, and
wife, Russi, had two children, Howard
and Lisa, who died young. The story
incorrectly stated they were Russi's chil-
dren from a later marriage.

• The photo on
the cover of
Open Door in
the May 14 issue
(page 25), as
well as the pho-
tos in the story
"Beauty &
Brains" (pages
28-31) were

Participants in the Youth Summit

Youth Summit On Israel
Was Interfaith Event
Five teens met at the Jewish
Community Center in West Bloomfield
to discuss Israel in an interfaith Youth
Summit On Israel, Sunday, April 26.
Sponsored by StandWithUs-MI, this
event marked a groundbreaking oppor-
tunity for Jewish and Christian high
school students to talk about both
standing for Israel in an increasingly
hostile world, and confronting that
hostility in their own schools and com-
munities.
The Jewish participants included
two StandWithUs MZ Interns, Talia
Gothelf and Ilana Sherizen, and MZ
intern alumni Zach Herschfus, along
with StandWithUs (SWU) Campus
Liaison Andrew Moss. The panel also
featured two evangelical Christians,
Ashley Worden and Caleb Eckhart. The
outcome of the event — unanimously,

taken by Beth Singer.

Rachel Jacobs

• Because of a pro-
duction error, the
obituary for Rachel
Jacobs did not print
correctly in the May
21 issue. Read the
obituary in its entire-
ty beginning on page
72.

Asst. Recording Secretary

Jacqueline Elkus

Corresponding Secretary
Deede Auster

State Policy Advocates
M. Catherine Cantor
Irma Glaser

Executive Director
Susan Gertner

Board of Directors
Lori Abel
Sharon Leider
Liz Bank
Randie Levin
Helene Cherrin
Sallyjo Levine
Lynn Lieberman
Sandy Collins
Amy Cutler
Arlene Oppenheim
Marion Freedman
Sue Rollinger
Sharyn J. Gallatin
Sharon Schmidt
Jan Goldfarb
Susie Serwer
Terry Hollander
Shayna Silverman
Gail Smith
Rebecca Ingber
Lori Issner
Dottie Wagner
Gail Katz
Carol Wiseman
Haven King
Linda Yellin
Joan Krieger
Ruth Zerin
Suzanne Lasser

Honorary Directors
Nena Dillick
Sissi Lapides
Doris Lee Goldman
Sally Mayer
Claire Kretchmer
Joyce Sherman
Ellen Labes

Past Presidents
Linda Bloom
Sonia Macey
M. Catherine Cantor
Sondra Nathan
Carol Sue Coden
Judith Rosenberg
Myrna Edgar
Esther Rosenblum
Irma Glaser
Marta Rosenthal
Barbara Grant
Sally Schottenfels
Helen Shevin
Sheila Guyer
Florence Herrmann
Suzanne Simon
Terran Leemis
Jessie Stern
Sandra Leshman
Phyllis Welling
Sharon Lipton
Ann Zousmer

Advisory Directors

Volunteer Honored For
Years Of Service
On May 4, Brenda Betel, 91, was
honored with a retirement lun-
cheon at DMC's Berry Surgery
Center in Farmington Hills to
mark her 22 total years of volun-
teer service. She first volunteered
at Sinai Hospital as a translator

Brenda Betel

for Russian patients in the 1990s
and continued her service at
the Berry Center assisting with
patients in the recovery room
and then helping the administra-
tive staff, who said her presence
at the center will be missed.
Betel lives in Meer Apartments
in West Bloomfield.

Marjory Ansell
Joyce Blum
Edie Broida
Fern Ettinger
Carol Freedman
Marlene Goodman
Lois Granader
Nancy Josephson
Fern Katz
Ina Katz
Ruth Klueger
Myrle Leland

Marilyn Levine
Joyce Rubenstein
Deane Safir
Rose Lynn Schlussel
Carolyn Schreiber
Mary Schwartz
Libby Sherbin
Ellie Slovis
Fran Stern
Beverly Stone
Paula Wolfe

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