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Annual Awards Federation honors leaders of all ages for their work in the community.

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n May 21, the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit held its annual Awards
l g. Night at Hillel Day School in Farmington
Hills. Honored with the 2015 Lifetime Achievement
Awards were Harvey Bronstein and Margot Halperin.
Also honored were the 2015 Mark-Lis Family Young
Leadership Award winner Adam Blanck, the Sylvia
Simon Greenberg Award winner Regina Colton and the
Frank A. Wetsman Young Leadership Award Brian Y.
Satovsky. Awards Night was chaired by Lee Hurwitz and
Marcie Orley.
Federation President Larry Wolfe, United Jewish
Fund President Ben Rosenthal, Federation CEO Scott
Kaufman and Marcie Orley presided that evening and
helped present the awards to the honorees. A reception
was held in the Mercaz at Hillel Day School following
the presentation.

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Lifetime Achievement Award winner Harvey Bronstein, center, and
his family.

Margot Halperin, winner of the Lifetime
Achievement Award, with her husband,

Jerome

Greenberg
Award winner
Regina

Brian Satovsky, winner of the Wetsman
Award, with his parents Neil and Joan
Satovsky

Colton and
her family

Young Leadership Award winner Adam
Blanck with his parents, Stanford and
Roz Blanck

Blessed Brunch

JSL annual event honored community members age 95 and older.

n May 29, more than 500 people filled Congregation
Shaarey Zedek in Southfield for the 14th annual (the
late) Bessie Spector Oldest Jewish Americans Brunch
hosted by Jewish Senior Life in honor of all of the members of
our community age 95 and older.
Sen. Carl Levin offered greetings, Rabbi Aaron Starr blessed
the crowd, which included his grandfather Wolf Gruca for
the first time, and Lisa Lis brought opening remarks from the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
Approximately 80 honorees were present at the luncheon,

with another 100-some not in attendance. JSL Foundation
Director Carol Rosenberg emceed the program dressed as
Golda from Fiddler on the Roof
"Living to 95 means they must have done something right,"
said Barbra Giles, JSL associate director, who planned the
event. Many honorees walk into the room "the picture of well-
ness; you would never think they're 95 and older," she says.
There are usually more than two full tables of individuals
age 100 or older. The oldest honoree was 107.

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Rabbi Aaron Starr with his
grandfather Wolf Gruca

Oldest honoree Dr. Milton J. Ross, 107, with his son, Dr. Rob Ross, and
daughter-in-law, Deb Ross. (Dr. Milton Ross died June 3, less than a week
after the brunch. Read his obituary on page 61.)

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June 11 • 2015

The Bessie Spector family performs the
traditional blessing and cutting of the challah.

Event chairs Nancy Solway and Rosie
Schlussel flank Barbra Giles, JSL
associate director.