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Federation of Metropolitan Detroit cam-
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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