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Groves High School
student Lexy
Schusterbrown has
been named one of
more than 4,500 can-
didates in the 2019
U.S. Presidential
Scholars Program. The candidates
were selected from nearly 3.6 million
students expected to graduate from
U.S. high schools in the year 2019.
Maddin, Hauser, Roth
& Heller P.C.
announced that Julie
Beth Teicher was
inducted as a fellow of
the
American
College
of
Bankruptcy
on
March 15
in California. Fellows are
selected by a
board of regents from
among recommendations of the
Circuit Admissions
Counsel
in
each
federal judicial circuit.
The Jewish Museum of
Florida announced that
Amy Borman Somek,
formerly of
Birmingham, has been
appointed the museum’
s
new director of devel-
opment. She will direct the new capital
plan, handle fundraising strategies,
major gifts and will cultivate the muse-
um’
s donor base.
Dr. Michael D.
Seidman, former
Michigander of Florida,
was nominated to run
for the presidency of the
American Academy of
Otolaryngology —
Head and Neck Surgery. The election
will take place in May 2019. He has
served in numerous positions on
behalf of his patients and academy for
30 years.
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s to
Henry Friedman of
West Bloomfield
speaks in many com-
munities and is a
noted speaker at the
Holocaust Memorial
Center in
Farmington Hills. He speaks to
groups of children and adults about
his experiences in captivity.
Recently, he gave a lecture to the
Catholic Felician Sisters, as well as
other invited community guests, on
the topics of Jewish Holocaust his-
tory, religion and traditions.
Arthur Horwitz has been awarded the Midwest Archives
Conference Presidents’
Award in his role as president of the
Detroit Jewish News Foundation. MAC is a regional professional
archival organization for 13 states. The award is designed to rec-
ognize significant contributions to the archival profession by
individuals, institutions and/or organizations not directly
involved in archival work, but who are knowledgeable about its
purpose and intrinsic value. Horwitz was honored for the development and
establishment of the foundation’
s William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish
Detroit History, which holds the pages of the Detroit Jewish News/Detroit Jewish
Chronicle in an online, open source database.
Berl Falbaum, veteran
journalist/author and
contributor to the
Jewish News, recently
published his memoir,
Recollections and
Reflections: From a
WWII Shanghai
Ghetto to Journalism, Politics and
other Journeys along the Way. The
book captures stories that Falbaum
said he believed needed to be saved,
from which he learned important
lessons.
Ryan Steven Schmeltz (Reuven Tzvi), will be called to the
Torah as a bar mitzvah on Saturday, April 6, 2019, at B’
nai
Israel Synagogue in West Bloomfield. He is the son of Ilana
Glazier and Lowell Schmeltz, and brother of Benji and Kobi.
He is also the grandson of Paula and Lou Glazier, and Sheila
and Ralph Schmeltz.
Ryan is a student at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan
Detroit in Farmington Hills.
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