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Nancy Kaplan was hon-
ored at Shabbat Chanukah
services Dec. 12 at
Congregation Beth Ahm
in West Bloomfield for her
nine years as daily minyan
coordinator. Kaplan took
on the challenge in May
Kaplan
2006 and built a large and
diverse network of more
than 100 minyan regulars and backup help-
ers — many of whom were at the Shabbat
Chanukah services to express their appre-
ciation. Kaplan will continue to serve Beth
Ahm as ritual assistant to Rabbi Steven
Rubenstein.
Moran
Suzanne Moran joined
the William Davidson
Foundation as its new
grants manager in August.
She will be responsible for
working with grantees,
grant seekers and founda-
tion staff to develop and
manage its grant-making
processes
Alterman
The William Davidson Foundation
announced the addition of two
senior program staff to their grow-
ing team of professionals. The
appointments of Kari Alterman
and John Ziraldo — as senior
program officers for the founda-
Kovan
The National Association of Professional Women
honored Carolyn Krieger-Cohen as a 2015-2016
inductee into its VIP Woman of the Year Circle.
She received the distinction for her leadership
and longevity in business. NAPW is the nation’s
leading networking organization exclusively for
professional women, with 850,000 members and
over 200 operating Local Chapters. Krieger-Cohen
Krieger-Cohen
is founder of CKC Agency in Farmington Hills, a
dynamic, full-service firm that provides public relations, marketing,
and social media services as well as Web-based strategy and content,
and special events coordination.
Labe
Bick
Williams, Williams, Rattner &
Plunkett P.C. announces that
several of its attorneys were
selected for inclusion in the
22nd edition of Best Lawyers
Frank
Rattner
in America 2016 and/or the
2015 edition of Michigan Super
Lawyers, including Robert Bick,
Sidney Frank, Robert Labe and
Richard Rattner.
Ashley Aidenbaum has been appointed the newest member of
the Baldwin Public Library Board of Directors. Aidenbaum was
selected to fulfill the final two years of a four-year term that ends in
November 2017.
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Ziraldo
tion’s Southeast Michigan and
Jewish Life portfolios respec-
tively — herald a new phase in
the foundation’s ongoing efforts to
build a world-class organization.
Ziraldo will serve as the founda-
tion’s senior program officer for
Southeast Michigan, where he will
lead efforts to contribute to Metro
Detroit’s economic and cultural
vitality. Alterman will serve as the
senior program officer responsible
for leading the foundation’s engage-
ments and grant-making in the
Jewish community regionally and
nationally.
A Michigan State University senior is among 32
Americans selected as Rhodes scholars. Sarah B.
Kovan of Okemos will pursue a master’s of philosophy
degree in development studies at Oxford University in
England. Kovan will receive bachelor’s degrees in com-
parative cultures and human biology at Michigan State
in East Lansing; her academic research includes evalu-
ating options for economic development in Sri Lanka
for low-income women.
Saum
Erica Saum, LMSW, senior
director of Family Life and
Wellness Services at Jewish
Family Service of Metropolitan
Detroit, was recognized in
November for her contributions
to a two-day event on human
trafficking held last year by
the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners.
Nonprofit Kadima, which serves
individuals with mental health
needs, honored Chad Techner
of Royal Oak as the organiza-
tion’s Distinguished Volunteer
of 2015 at the Association
of Fundraising Professionals
Greater Detroit Chapter’s
Techner
Annual National Philanthropy
Day Dinner in November. In
the past year, he helped initiate
programming to engage young adults in Kadima’s
work and created a new community vegetable gar-
den to encourage positive hands-on experiences
for those who visit the activity center. He is also
chair of the Education and Outreach Committee,
where he is leading new marketing initiatives to
help grow awareness for Kadima’s mission.
Michigan League for
Public Policy President
and CEO Gilda Jacobs
was recently honored
by the Food Bank
Council of Michigan at
its Michigan Harvest
Gathering, becoming
Jacobs
a recipient of the Food
Bank Council’s Hunger-Free Michigan
Award. The award goes to individuals and
organizations in Michigan who are work-
ing to eliminate hunger and poverty in
Michigan. As head of the League, Jacobs
has had a strong record on working to pass
state policies that promote and protect vital
safety net programs and help get food and
support to those who are struggling.
For the second consecutive year, JVS, a
nonprofit human services agency head-
quartered in Southfield, was named a
finalist in Crain’s Detroit Business Best-
Managed Nonprofit contest. The agency
was recognized for launching eCycle
Opportunities (eCO), a JVS subsidiary
that recycles electronics to reduce landfill
waste while creating jobs for people with
disabilities and generating revenue for JVS
services for people with disabilities. In the
six months eCO has been in operation,
more than 65,000 pounds of eWaste have
been collected.
MSU’s former Jewish
Studies director and
professor emeritus
Ken Waltzer will head
the new Academic
Engagement Network
(AEN). This is a diverse
network of college and
Waltzer
university faculty and
administrators on campuses across the
United States that will counter anti-Israel
rhetoric and activity that calls for univer-
sities to endorse boycotts, divestments
and sanctions.
Rabbi Jay Henry
Moses has been pro-
moted to vice presi-
dent of the Wexner
Foundation. Moses, a
University of Michigan
graduate, grew up in
the Detroit area, was
Moses
ordained at Hebrew
Union College and
served as associate rabbi at Temple Sholom
in Chicago before joining the Wexner
Foundation in 2003, a private Jewish phi-
lanthropy dedicated to strengthening lead-
ership in the Jewish community in North
America and in Israel.