Cancer Thrivers Network for Jewish Women presents Fr om Oy To Joy jews d in 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 26 March 22 • 2018 jn Eidelman Family – Yad Ezra Volunteers BARBARA LEWIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER C 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.