YeshiVa BETH YEHUDAH rrnrp nvw , During the coming week, the students of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah will study in memory of the following departed friends. In addition, Kaddish will be said during the daily minyan. 10 Kislev Nov. 22, 2015 Pearl Aronoff Alex Cohen Maurice I Davis Joseph Deutsch Joseph Gorman Paul Hoberman Sam Horowitz Lillian Levitin Michael Nosanchuk Pere! Schwartz Rose Hannah Solomon Isidore Sosnick 11 KislevNov. 23, 2015 Howard Stanley Bennett Harry Brown Rose Diskin Arthur Engel Albert Goldstone Rabbi Shraga Faitel Kahana David Katler Charles Katz Charles A. Komer Fanny Langwald Irving Rochman Sol Ryback Jeanette Schloss Victor Seyburn Frank Skolnik Zinaida Solomakhina Mary Stahl 12 Kislev Nov. 24, 2015 Channan Ben Shmuel Samuel P Goldstein Abe Gubin Cypojra Cecile Gubin Sanford Lloyd Ketchen Janina Krajewska (Kohn) Howard P. Liss Arthur Moss David Pinsker Rebecca Rubin Seymour Tilchin 13 Kislev Nov. 25, 2015 Jack Gold Max Goldfinger Sidney Gould Morris H. Kaner Mary Krass Lena (Ginsberg) Lavine Dorothy Mandell Regina Neimark Rebecca Rabinowitz William Rothman Jack Zalmanow 14 Kislev Nov. 26, 2015 Erwin Baker Joyce Cohn Julius Goldman Moses Grossberg Sheldon Isadore Hoenig Samuel Hornung Saul Kaplan Bessie Knoppow Mary Rebecca Levin Max Lindenbaum Sandor Solomon Shapiro Rose Staub 15 KislevNov. 27, 2015 Solomon Abrams Max Bernberg Samuel Black Sarah Frank Alex Gottlieb Lyman Harris Mina Lis Hyman Rudolph Arthur E. Scherr Ethel Weinberger Max E. Wolf Harold Braverman 16 KislevNov. 28, 2015 George M Brown Lillian Chernick Michael Feigelman Freda Frazein Beulah Gaylord Leonard Lemberg Melvyn Levin Rachel Raimi Marvin Rothman Nathan Shiovitz Sam Shtrom Anna Zucker Send a tribute in memory of a loved one –Visit wwq.v.YBY.org/Ntributes. 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Jack Shenkman, who lived in Hills, who officiated the funeral service Farmington Hills with Miriam, his wife along with Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov of of 75 years, died Nov. 11, The Shul in West Bloomfield 2015, at age 95. and Rabbi E.B. "Bunny" "There was no organi- Freedman of the Jewish zation he turned down; Hospice and Chaplaincy he quietly supported Network. so many organizations Although he had no for- without asking for name mal higher education, Jack recognition," said daugh- loved learning and acquired ter Elaine Beresh. "He knowledge in a variety of did big things, but he also fields that included law, engi- Jack Shenkm an did a lot of little things neering and medicine. Once quietly:' he established himself as a While his company, patriarch and a successful Jack Shenkman Properties, was a fore- businessman, Jack turned his energies to runner in the commercial property charitable causes, secular and Jewish. management field, creating shopping His philanthropy went far beyond centers such as Livonia Mall and financial support; he became person- Harvard Row, the first enclosed mall in ally involved with the organizations he Southfield, Jack was a self-made man supported, developing a course of action from humble economic beginnings. and making sure it was followed. His father, Sam, came to the United "Since I met Jack close to 40 years ago, States on a steamship in 1913, leaving I knew that one of the pillars of Jack's life behind the Russian pogroms where the was philanthropy" said Rabbi Freedman. rest of his family had perished. With lit- "I had the pleasure of knowing him inti- tle money to start a business or a family, mately, and I know that his values, com- Sam and his wife, Minnie, had children mitment and convictions were always and opened a tire business, where young dedicated to the betterment of all klal Jack helped out and learned as much as Yisrael [the Jewish community]. To me, he could. he is a legend that will be sorely missed:' Jack developed a passion for Judaism The Shenkmans were avid supporters and Israel at an early age and partici- of the Chabad-Lubavitch organization pated in an AZA youth group during and shared a close personal relation- high school. ship with its Rebbe, the late Rabbi Jack worked in an auto parts store Menachem Mendel Schneerson, whom and tried his hand at carpet cleaning, they visited every year between Rosh eventually buying a building insulation Hashanah and Yom Kippur. They sup- business before branching out into land ported the Chabad House in Ann Arbor, development and shopping centers. one of Michigan's first Chabad establish- When he was 20, he met and mar- ments and later, the Jack and Miriam ried Miriam, the love of his life, and the Shenkman Building of The Shul in West couple shared a 75-year marriage that Bloomfield. was an inspiration to everyone they "He used every moment of his life for knew. Together they traveled the world, good, to fulfill his mission:' said Rabbi spent winters in Florida, where they Shemtov. "Tzedakah [charity] was part became involved with the local Jewish of his persona — what is the next char- community, and nurtured a large and ity; what else can I be involved with?" ever-growing family that includes four Jack also provided generous support children, 23 grandchildren and 26 great- to the Yad Ezra kosher food pantry, grandchildren. the kosher food program at Jewish "They lived a full, full life," said Senior Life, Israel Bonds, the domestic daughter Elaine. "They were very happy violence prevention program of Jewish together" Family Service, the Jewish Theological Jack was known as "Mr. Fix It" Seminary and the Holocaust Memorial because of his ability to fix almost any- Center. He founded the Jack and thing. He took pride in his extensive tool Miriam Shenkman JARC home in West