metro » NEW RABBI COMING TO B’NAI MOSHE KOL AMI TO WELCOME NEW RABBI, SOLOIST Rabbi Brent Gutmann Cantorial Soloist Hilary Duberstein Faith Brasch Rabbi Shalom Kantor takes the pulpit at Congregation B’nai Moshe in West Bloomfield on Saturday, July 2. Kantor, his wife, Shana, and their three children, Noam, Rena and Ari, are in the process of relocating to Michigan from Miami, where he served as rabbinic fellow at Congregation Beth Torah Benny Rok Campus. Prior to moving to Miami, Kantor served as the Hillel campus rabbi at Binghamton University in New York. He received his Rabbi Shalom ordination from the University of Judaism Kantor in 2007. Temple Kol Ami in West Bloomfield will welcome Rabbi Brent Gutmann and Cantorial Soloist Hilary Duberstein at ser- vices 7 p.m. Friday, July 1. Gutmann grew up in Dayton, Ohio. After graduating Indiana University and spending three years in banking and marketing, he returned to school to attain rabbinical ordination from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati. He most recently served at Beth Shalom Progressive Jewish Congregation in Auckland, New Zealand. Duberstein has a master of music degree from Indiana University and served as cantorial soloist at Moses Montefiore Temple in Bloomington, Ill. Since she has been in Michigan, she has worked as a Jewish educator at Congregation Sharrey Zedek, Temple Shir Shalom and the Jewish Community Center. Faith Brasch will serve as the new reli- gious school education director. She has worked at Hillel Day School, Adat Shalom and, most recently, with the Jewish Community Center where she is a teacher and Jewish family educator. * FOOD KITS GIVEN TO HUNGRY KIDS Higher Hopes!, led by founder Bill Birndorf, gave $10,500 to Gleaners, enough to distribute 1,400 complete meal kits this summer through its Summer Mobile Pantry program. “These are the months where families and children suffer the most from hunger because kids are not in school, and there is less of a focus on helping at this time of the year,” Birndorf says. “The food kits will consist of protein, like a 10-pound package of chicken, whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, and canned goods. Each kit will contain around 40 pounds of food and provide meals for 10 to 12 people.” For more information about Higher Hopes!, to make food or monetary donations to help this year’s cause, visit www. higherhopesdetroit.org. * * ON EXHIBIT NOW! Holocaust by Bullets YAHAD-IN UNUM TEN YEARS OF INVESTIGATIONS This powerful exhibit showcases Father Patrick Desbois and Yahad-In Unum’s historic undertaking to ensure that 2.2 million Jews and Roma executed by Nazi mobile killing units in Eastern Europe won’t be forgotten. Holocaust by Bullets Summer Sunday Tours Holocaust by Bullets Book Club Sundays, July 10, 17 & 24 at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 13 10 a.m. (brunch) or 7 p.m. (dessert) Special docent-led tours of Holocaust by Bullets, followed by a presentation from a Holocaust survivor. ADMISSION: Free with museum admission or with membership ■ SPACE IS LIMITED – RSVP to Gail Cohen at 248.553.2400, ext. 110 ■ Contest Winner MAZEL TOV! Jodi Maza Weiss is our weekly winner of a $100 gift certificate to Jodi Maza Weiss Steven Lelli’s Inn on the Green. Want your chance? All you have to do is like the Jewish News on Facebook. One winner will be chosen each week! ADMISSION: $10 members $13 nonmembers ■ RSVP by July 11 to 248.553.2400, ext. 112 hannah.iwrey@holocaustcenter.org ■ Books are available for purchase at our Doris and Eric Billes Museum Shop ■ HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER ZEKELMAN FAMILY CAMPUS 28 June 23 • 2016 Ken Goss of West Bloomfield is the new president of Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills. Goss has served in lay leadership roles with Hillel Day Ken Goss School, Federation and Jewish Senior Life. Also elected at Adat Shalom’s annual meeting last month were: First Vice President Sandy Vieder, Vice President Joan Chernoff Epstein, Secretary Joyce B. Weingarten, Treasurer Joe Wener and Executive Committee Members-at- Large Maria Pacis Biederman, Jerome Pesick and Rick Tyner. Newly elected members of the syna- gogue board of trust- Alan Chandross ees are Gordon Leff, Mickey Levin and Jennifer Sobol. Also, Alan Chandross of West Bloomfield has been elected president of the men’s club. Also named are Joey Lebovic, senior vice president; Larry Kaplan and Lon Zaback, programming vice presidents; David Shevrin, membership vice president; Steve Woronoff, treasurer; David Flaisher, recording secretary; Les Berman, corresponding vice president; and George Dickstein, immediate past president. Serving as trustees will be Jeff Diskin, Michael Feldman, Steven Goldsmith, Aaron Greenspon, Morry Katzman, Marty Kaye, Roger Lewis, Gary Morof, Don Rudick, Harold Schiff and Aaron Pearlman. Men’s club officers and board mem- bers were installed June 10. For informa- tion, call (248) 851-5100 or go to www. adatshalom.org. * Edie Broida will facilitate two discussions of The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews by Father Patrick Desbois. 0SDIBSE-BLF3Et'BSNJOHUPO)JMMT .*www.holocaustcenter.org ADAT SHALOM INSTALLS LEADERS 2104780