Event co-chairs Mandy Garver of Bloomfield Hills and Bobbie Lewis of Oak Park, speaker
Nancy Spielberg, Hadassah Greater Detroit President Carol Ogusky and past president
Sue Curtis

Hadassah Opening Meeting

Film producer Nancy Spielberg talks about her
documentary projects.

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Warsaw Ghetto Jews who wrote and buried
their history in Polish soil before they were
killed by the Nazis.
President Carol Ogusky showed a film
about the great progress Hadassah Medical
Organization has achieved in treating mul-
tiple sclerosis.
Grand prize raffle winner was Ruth
Newman, who won a beautiful necklace
created by MB Jewelry Design. Wendy
Kohlenberg won a $500 gift certificate
from Kroger.

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Susan Brodsky of West Bloomfield and
Dina Brodsky of Franklin

A Hero’s Welcome FIDF women’s

luncheon hears from wounded IDF helicopter pilot.

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ome 200 women gathered Sept.
22 for the Friends of the Israel
Defense Forces (FIDF) Michigan
Women’s Luncheon at Tam-O-Shanter
Country Club in West Bloomfield. Funds
raised there will benefit the FIDF Impact!
Scholarship Program, which grants full
academic college scholarships to Israeli
combat veterans of modest means.
Speaking at the luncheon was wounded
Israeli hero and Paralympic gold medal-
ist Noam Gershony, who had an amazing
sense of humor and upbeat demeanor.
Six years before he won the gold medal
for wheelchair tennis at the 2012 London
Paralympics, Gershony’s Israeli Air Force

Apache helicopter crashed in Lebanon,
killing his co-pilot and severely wound-
ing the future champion.
Co-chairing the event were Lisa
Brandes, Enid Goodman, Beverly
Leuchter, Nancy Pomish, Janet Stein,
Brenda Wayne and Karen Weiss.
“Gershony’s story is one of inspiration-
al resilience,” said Wayne, also an FIDF
Michigan Chapter executive committee
board member. “The price he paid to
protect Israelis — and Jews everywhere
— was steep. The least we can do is help
support programs for other brave soldiers
like him.”

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Photos by Lieberman Photography Inc.

ilm producer Nancy Spielberg drew
close to 500 people to Hadassah
Greater Detroit’s Opening Meeting
Sept. 13 at Congregation Shaarey Zedek.
Spielberg talked about growing up in
Phoenix in a very creative family of three
sisters and one brother (filmmaker Steven
Spielberg). She showed clips from her docu-
mentary film projects, including Above and
Beyond, the story of the Israeli Air Force and
its critical importance during Israel’s 1948
War of Independence. Her latest project is
Who Will Write Our History, the story of

FIDF supporters Julie Sherizen of
Huntington Woods, Susie Kresch of
Oak Park and Sarah Kornblum of Southfield

Karen Pollak calling raffle winners,
including Wendy Kohlenberg, both of West
Bloomfield

Marcia Bednarsh and Morry Bednarsh of
MB Jewelry Design flank grand prize
winner Ruth Newman of Farmington Hills,
wearing the necklace they donated.

Luncheon co-chairs Janet Stein, Beverly Leuchter and Brenda Wayne, all of West
Bloomfield, and Karen Weiss of Birmingham flank Israeli IDF hero Noam Gershony.

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