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The Because We Care program at
Jewish Family Service allows Jewish
youth the opportunity to engage
in service and work for meaningful
change through flexible b’nai mitzvah
opportunities. Thanks to the gen-
erosity of the Stephen H. Schulman
Millennium Fund for Jewish Youth,
the program will continue for a fourth
year.
“Because We Care serves an impor-
tant need in the community,” said
Brian Rothenberg, community grants
manager at the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit. “The committee
expressed a great deal of support for
the value of this program.”
Students can participate in monthly
hands-on service opportunities
planned by JFS; each program pro-
vides insight into how JFS helps the
community. Last year, participants
made Chanukah crafts and cards for

Participants in Because We Care’s Soothing
Sunday event made stress relief kits for JFS
therapists to present to teen clients.

JFS clients, prepared soup and basic
needs packages for homeless individu-
als in Detroit and created stress relief
kits for teens receiving counseling at
JFS, among other activities.
“We are very appreciative of the
Schulman Fund in helping us contin-
ue our program in the upcoming year,”
said Emily Croitori, volunteer services
supervisor. “Because We Care has had
hundreds of children and teens partic-
ipate. Not only is the program a great
opportunity for them to get in-service
hours for their bar or bat mitzvah, or
school requirements, but they get to
see firsthand how JFS impacts our
community.” •

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Tom Wexelberg-Clouser has retired Art on Treasures of Jewish Cultural
Heritage, including a letter from
as a major gifts director for the
Moses Maimonides
Jewish Theological
and a Haggadah print-
Seminary ( JTS) after
ed in 1350.
nearly 27 years.
“I have been blessed
Wexelberg-Clouser
to work with incred-
came to Detroit in
ible supporters,
1983 to work for the
including the Morris
Jewish Federation of
and Beverly Baker
Metropolitan Detroit
Foundation; the
as a planning associ-
Shiffman, Hermelin,
ate and then campaign
Graham families in
associate. In 1991, he
Detroit; the Gross
became the director of
family in Cleveland;
JTS’ Great Lakes and
Harold Wolfe and the
Canada region.
Tanenbaum family
During his tenure
Wexelberg-Clouser
in Toronto; the late
with JTS, Wexelberg-
George and Renee
Clouser, 68, of Oak
Levine and the Melton Foundation
Park, developed a partnership
in Columbus; and the Feldman
with the late Bill Davidson that
family in Dallas,” Wexelberg-
led to the founding of the William
Clouser said.
Davidson School for Jewish
In retirement, Wexelberg-Clouser
Education in 1996 with the larg-
and his wife, Sheyna, a hospice
est gift the seminary had received
social worker, plan to spend more
for Jewish education. Wexelberg-
time in New York City where their
Clouser also participated in the
daughters, Adina Chava “Chavie”
development of the David and
Lescher, 32, and Rena, 30, live. He’d
Inez Meyers Rabbinical School
also like to explore study oppor-
Leadership Program.
tunities in Detroit and Israel and
In 1999, he secured several
learn Italian. •
important pieces from JTS for an
exhibit at the Detroit Institute of