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paigns.
Flow Video’
s portfolio also includes Wayne
State University, Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss
P.C., Bloomfield Hills Schools, Level One
Bank and other businesses, schools and
nonprofits. He especially loves working with
local Jewish organizations such as Friendship
Circle, Hillel Day School and Jewish
Community Center of Metro Detroit.
His favorite place to shoot a sunset is at
Camp Maas, and if he can’
t get there, Belle Isle.
YIFAT CLEIN
Yifat Clein, 33, is an intake
coordinator and therapist
at Kadima, where she helps
individuals make their first
(courageous) step in seeking
mental health services and
provides trauma-informed
counseling to her clients. Since graduating
with her M.S.W. in 2015, Yifat has been ded-
icated to improving mental health access and
educating the community about the crucial
role mental health plays in overall well-being.
She is grateful that at Kadima she is able to
promote an integrated, holistic approach to
mental health.
A native of Kibbutz Sasa, Israel, Yifat
moved to the U.S. 11 years ago. She earned
her B.S.W. from the University of Washington
in 2013. Yifat’
s passion for social justice led
her to the University of Michigan School of
Social Work in 2014.
She has volunteered and worked at the
Women’
s Center of Southeastern Michigan,
Development Centers and Jewish Family
Service. Yifat belongs to the Downtown
Synagogue and B’
nai Israel Synagogue. She is
an active volunteer with Limmud Michigan
and encourages everyone to attend the day of
learning on March 31.
She lives in Detroit with her husband, Ruby
Robinson. At home, she enjoys yoga, reading,
watching The Great British Baking Show and
cooking vegan food.
SHIMON LEVY
Capt. (Res.) Shimon G. Levy,
33, has been proudly calling
Detroit home since November
2014. In Detroit, he previous-
ly served as principal at Secret
Sauce Capital and as the
senior strategic adviser at the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
His most recent venture, as the managing
principal of Northend Capital, was acquired
in November 2018.
Before coming to Michigan, Shimon
founded the Student Led Trips Initiative, a
project where top-tier university students
lead their peers on thought-provoking,
multi-faceted journeys to Israel. It merged
into iTrek in 2015 as a well-financed initia-
tive and, in 2018, brought more than 2,000
students to Israel. Shimon often consults,
writes and speaks on entrepreneurship, the
Middle East, millennial engagement chal-
lenges and leadership.
Shimon attributes his passion for the
Jewish people and Israel to his parents’
life
of service and his personal experiences as a
career IDF combat naval officer and a for-
mer government diplomat. He is involved
in numerous NGOs, locally and globally,
that build communities, support Israel,
Jewish peoplehood and combat anti-Semi-
tism.
He recently married his longtime sweet-
heart, Jennie, and they love renovating
(while complaining about) their 1925
German Tudor. They also love people, trav-
eling and big ideas that make an impact.
Shimon is a proud graduate of the
University of Haifa, IDC Herzliya and
Harvard Kennedy School, where he was
fortunate to represent his class as the 2014
commencement speaker.
JAMIE IDEN
STRASBERGER
Jamie is a true leader in the
Metro Detroit Jewish com-
munity by taking risks as an
entrepreneur and leading
by example with her com-
mitment to tzedakah in her
business ventures.
Jamie, 35, started Because of a Case, one
of the leading charitable phone case brands.
Her passion for mental health (as she
struggles with anxiety), led her to donate a
portion of each sale to Minding Your Mind.
Minding Your Mind is an education-based
nonprofit that provides training to teach-
ers and staff on improving mental health
through strategies like meditation and yoga.
Eventually, Because of a Case expanded
to many other causes and partnered with
celebrities to promote their causes and
cases. These include Operation Warm,
providing coats to those in need, and the
Wildlife Conservation Fund, helping save
and protect elephants. By creating a global
brand with a social mission, she is showing
the awesome things that can happen within
the confines of the Jewish community in
Metro Detroit.
The Strasbergers enjoy Shabbats with their
4-year-old son, Ezra, and enjoy being a part of
the family programming put on by The Well.
RACHEL FRANK
Rachel Frank, 33, is an inspi-
rational youth-services leader,
having worked in the field
for many years. As a member
of the Boys & Girls Clubs
of Oakland and Macomb
Counties’
team, she has been
named Professional of the Year for the club
and received an award for the Michigan and
Ohio region.
Chesed sums up her approach and action.
Rachel is the unit director for the Jack &
Annette Aronson Boys & Girls Club-Ferndale
Unit. This location serves dozens of youth
ages 6-18, where she is responsible for the
staffing as well as programming. She was
employed as a religious school teacher at
Temple Emanu-El and inspired her students,
served on the Temple Board of Trustees,
as well as on the Kol Limud Education
Committee and Educator Search Committee.
Rachel plays a role in strengthening the
Jewish community by exposing teens to
places outside their own community. It gives
the students a foundation to build upon.
Rachel lives in in Ferndale with her pup,
Khaya.
RABBI YARDEN
BLUMSTEIN
Whether at his full-time job
as teen director at Friendship
Circle of Michigan or leading
his minyan class at Frankel
Jewish Academy or on the
phone with a concerned parent
or troubled teen, Rabbi Yarden Blumstein, 34,
can be found listening intently, with patience
and full presence of mind and spirit.
As Friendship Circle’
s teen director/teen
mentor, he has focused on suicide prevention
and served as a teen mentor through UMatter,
an organization of Friendship Circle that cre-
ates awareness surrounding teen mental health
and empowers teens to support one another in
school and elsewhere.
He also worked to bring ASIST (Applied
Suicide Intervention Skills Training) to Metro
Detroit’
s Jewish community, facilitating work-
shops for local teens and adults interested in
learning practical intervention skills and devel-
oping a community-wide support network.
He combines spirituality with support sys-
tems by inviting teens into his home for Shabbat
dinners. Last year, Yarden and his wife, Bayla,
hosted more than 1,000 teens on Friday nights.
Yarden and Bayla have six children and live in
West Bloomfield. ■
Compiled and edited by Managing Editor
Jackie Headapohl.
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