Cancer Thrivers Network for Jewish Women
presents
Fr om Oy
To Joy
jews d
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the
multigenerational families
Help us turn the OY of drug costs into the
JOY of fair pricing for oral chemo drugs.
Dave Almeida
Featuring
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Knollwood Country Club
5050 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield,MI
Registration & Brunch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:30 am
Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:00 am
This event is free and open to the community thanks to a generous
grant from the Sandra and Alfred Sherman Women’s Health Fund.
RSVP to Tracy Agranove at 248.592.2267
or tagranove@jfsdetroit.org
Dave Almeida serves as the Regional Director of Government
Affairs in the Midwest for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS).
Using his extensive experience in both non-profit and corporate
sectors of state government, Dave is guiding the coalition to
make Michigan the 44th state to enact drug cost containment
laws. He is coordinating ADVOCACY efforts of stakeholder
organizations to make cancer treatment more accessible and
affordable to Michigan residents.
The heart of a
STRONGER COMMUNITY
For 90 years
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Eidelman Family –
Yad Ezra Volunteers
BARBARA LEWIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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When Sandy isn’t helping custom-
ommunity service runs in the
ers find food items, she works in the
family for Alan Eidelman, his
office.
wife, Sandy, their two daugh-
The Eidelmans’ older daughter,
ters and their five granddaughters.
Lisa Cutler, has a demanding job
One thing they all enjoy is vol-
as senior director of philanthropic
unteering for Yad Ezra, the kosher
operations and commu-
community food bank in
nity development at the
Berkley.
Jewish Federation that
The Eidelmans of
doesn’t leave her much
Commerce Township
time to volunteer, but
are both retired educa-
her daughters, Emma, 13,
tors. He taught social
and Lexie, 11, like to work
studies at Clawson High
at Yad Ezra when they
School for many years
have a day off from Hillel
and then at the Academy
ABOVE: Alan and Sandy
Day School (where their
of the Sacred Heart in
Bloomfield Hills. Sandy, a Eidelman (in yellow) with father, Josh, teaches).
Younger daughter Lori
math teacher, also ended their daughters, sons-in-law
and grandchildren.
Langenderfer of Canton
up at Sacred Heart after
is a middle school social
teaching at Frost Middle
studies teacher. When
School in Oak Park,
there’s a school holiday, she and her
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah and the now-
daughters often join Alan and Sandy
closed Bishop Gallagher High School
at Yad Ezra. Zoe, 13, and the twins
in Harper Woods.
Payton and Riley, 11, help with the
The Sacred Heart girls did a ser-
potatoes, pack fresh vegetables or
vice project every Thursday, and
help clients find what they need.
Alan Eidelman frequently took his
Eidelman says he and his wife tried
students to volunteer at Gleaners
to pass on to their daughters the
Community Food Bank. The school
belief that it’s important to help oth-
closes for a week every spring so the
ers. Now they are passing the same
students can do service projects,
lesson on to their grandchildren. •
often out of town. Sandy Eidelman
took students to New York (six times)
and several other states.
When they retired, the Eidelmans
Weekly through May 3, when the
used their new-found free time to
JN holds its 75th anniversary gala,
volunteer for the Jewish community.
we will run profiles of multi-genera-
In addition to working at Yad Ezra,
tional families involved in the com-
Alan is a docent at the Holocaust
munity. Readers are invited to share
Memorial Center. Sandy has a been a
their multi-generational photos, a
day chair at Bookstock. Both work on
brief description of those pictured
NCJW’s Back-to-School Store in late
and contact information via email to
summer.
At Yad Ezra, Alan is often “the
msmith@djnfoundation.org. Digital
guy giving out the potatoes.” He also
photos need to be 1mb jpgs. Mail
enjoys working the “Borsht Belt,” dis-
print photos to the JN, with your
tributing bottles of borsht and pack-
description. To learn about the gala,
ages of kasha to Yad Ezra’s Russian
go to djnfoundation.org. Thanks!
clients.