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Jewish News Foundation Taps
New Board Members, VP
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att Friedman and Scott
Eisenberg have been
elected to the board of
directors of the independent, non-
profit Detroit Jewish
News Foundation. Their
terms were effective Jan.
1, 2019.
Friedman and
Eisenberg are well
regarded for their pro-
fessional and communal
achievements.
Friedman is the
co-founder of Tanner
Friedman Strategic
Communications, where
he works directly with
clients to develop and
implement traditional
and emerging commu-
nications strategies. He
is a recognized commu-
nications leader who has
helped guide organiza-
tions of all sizes through
periods of change.
He currently serves as
chair of the Children’
s
Hospital of Michigan
Foundation Board of
Trustees and on the
boards of the Legacy
Detroit Medical Center,
the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame
and the Detroit Regional Chamber
Foundation. He also chairs the
Regional Chamber’
s PR/Marketing
Advisory Council and serves
on the board of advisers for the
ChadTough Foundation. He is
a graduate of the S.I. Newhouse
School of Public Communications
at Syracuse University.
Eisenberg is a partner and
co-founder of Amherst Partners,
where he specializes in advising
middle-market companies on
restructurings, mergers, acquisi-
tions, financings, business valua-
tions, turnarounds and litigation
support. He serves on the advisory
board of the Stratford Cambridge
private equity group and previously
served on the advisory board of

Princeton Capital.
Eisenberg is a past president of
the Young Adult Division of the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit, a former member
of Federation’
s Executive
Committee and a past chair
of its Finance Committee.
He is also former treasurer
of JVS, Hillel Day School
of Metropolitan Detroit
and past president of the
American-Israel Chamber
of Commerce of Michigan.
He is a graduate of the
University of Illinois and
possesses an M.B.A. from
Indiana University.
Additionally, current
board member Larry Jackier
was elected vice president
of the Detroit Jewish News
Foundation. Jackier is a
past president of the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit and a recipient
of its prestigious Fred M.
Butzel Award. He has led
myriad organizations and
initiatives on behalf of the
Detroit Jewish community
and Israel. Jackier cur-
rently serves as chair of
the International Board of
Governors for the Technion-Israel
Institute of Technology in Haifa.
He is a graduate of the University
of Michigan and Yale Law School.
The Detroit Jewish News
Foundation is an independent, 501-
c-3 nonprofit entity governed by a
15-member board. Among its ini-
tiatives is the open-access William
Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish
Detroit History, comprising more
than 330,000 pages of content
from the Detroit Jewish News and
its predecessor publication, the
Detroit Jewish Chronicle. Spanning
more than 100 consecutive years,
the archive is accessible via www.
djnfoundation.org and is part of
the permanent collection of the
University of Michigan’
s Bentley
Historical Library. ■

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