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Free Listing Submission
Deadline is May 10, 2018.
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The Jewish News will honor all Jewish
students who are graduating this spring from
Michigan high schools in our Cap & Gown
Yearbook 2018, which will be published
in the May 24 issue.
Eugene Driker
ach year, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit honors individuals from Jewish Detroit for
their outstanding dedication, leadership and com-
mitment to our community. The awards recognize three
young leaders, as well as a group of lifetime volunteers.
Federation’s Awards Night event acknowledges these out-
standing role models. This year, the event will be held
at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 22, at the Berman Center for
Performing Arts, 6600 W. Maple Road, in West Bloomfield.
LIFETIME
ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
Free listings include a photo and up to
40 words listing your accomplishments.
Florine Mark
All listings must be submitted online.
Go to thejewishnews.com/cap-and-gown
to submit your free listing today!
New This Year: Thanks to the generosity
of Brenda and Howard Rosenberg, each
graduating senior will receive a free
academic-year digital subscription
to the Jewish News!
Questions?
The William Davidson Lifetime Achievement Awards,
established in 2000, will be presented to Eugene Driker and
Florine Mark.
Driker is a past president of JVS and a past board member
of the Jewish Federation.
He is passionate about Detroit and a lifelong resident of
the city. He has served on Federation’s Business Practices
Committee, the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
Steering Committee, the Max M. Fisher Jewish Community
Foundation Committee and the Professional Advisory
Committee. He is a member of the advisory board of Wayne
State University’s Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies
and the board of directors of the National Yiddish Book
Center.
Florine Mark is a past president of the Jewish Community
Center and past member of the board of the Jewish
Federation, the United Jewish Foundation and the Jewish
Fund. She is a past chair of Federation’s Annual Campaign
and Federation’s Marketing Committee.
Mark has a long history of supporting many communal
causes, including Gilda’s Club, Children’s Hospital and the
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. She shows
her support by actively engaging in causes that speak to her.
GREENBERG AWARD
Email Sy Manello at
smanello@renmedia.us
or call him at 248-351-5147.
Rachel Opperer
The Sylvia Simon Greenberg Award was established in
1965 by the late Samuel S. Greenberg and Ronald and John
Greenberg as a memorial to their beloved wife and mother.
It recognizes exceptional leadership potential and service to
the Jewish community on the part of a young woman.
Rachel Opperer is this year’s outstanding female leader in
the community. She will be in Israel on May 22 and will not
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