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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.

here’
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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