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Holocaust Center Dinner

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani addresses crowd
at annual fundraising dinner.

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Rudy Giuliani with
Jim Berk, master of
ceremonies

Photos by Brett Mountain

bout 1,200 people filled
Congregation Shaarey
Zedek in Southfield Nov.
1 for the Holocaust Memorial
Center’s 31st Annual Dinner.
Board president Gary Karp
and Rabbis Aaron Starr and
Harold Loss provided welcoming
remarks, followed by words from
the evening’s honorees, Larry
and Jackie Kraft, and Board
Chair Steven Grant. Master of
Ceremonies Jim Berk then sat
down with the evening’s key-
HMC Board Chairman Steven Grant, Rudy Giuliani and
note speaker, former New York
City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, for an HMC President Gary Karp
intimate question-and-answer
session.
dinner advisers were Jackie and Joel Smith;
“The evening was a resounding success,” Lori and Steve Weisberg served as the VIP
said HMC Executive Director Stephen
reception chairs.
Goldman.
Funds raised that evening will support
Honorary chairs for the event were
the HMC’s public tours, programs, exhibi-
Viola and Garry Kappy; dinner chairs were tions and outreach to schools and commu-
Barbara and Irvin Kappy, and Ricky Stoler; nity groups.

Dinner chair Ricky Stoler, honorary chair Garry Kappy, honorees Jackie and Larry
Kraft, and chairs Barbara and Irvin Kappy

Parenting Tools

AISH Detroit brings in speaker
to offer realistic parenting tools.

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ili Couzens, founding director of Jewish
Life Seminars (JLS), came in for two
educational programs sponsored by AISH
Detroit. JLS is a nonprofit organization dedicated
to raising the bar of Jewish education and Jewish
identity in the Philadelphia area. Couzens, a popu-
lar lecturer, is living with her family in Israel for a
year.
The first program was a women’s lunch and learn
at the home of Mary Aaron on Nov. 19. The topic
was “Raising a Mentsh.” The second program that
evening was for men and women, with Couzens’
address titled “I am a Total Stress Case”
Both programs were well attended and offered
participants realistic tools for parenting.

Randi Langan, West Bloomfield; Mindy Blumberg, Farmington
Hills; Estie Tolwin, Huntington Woods; Lori Palatnik, founding
director of the Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project’s MOMentum
Trip to Israel; and Elyssa Sardy, Beverly Hills

Julie Zalla, Bloomfield Hills; Stacy Goldberg, West
Bloomfield; Lisa Klein, Huntington Woods; and Michelle
Blau, West Bloomfield

Gary and Sara Kravitz, and Staci Giski, all of Farmington Hills

Jennifer Krieger of Huntington Woods and Mary Aaron of
Bloomfield Hills

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Guest speaker
Nili Couzens

14 January 7 • 2016