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Women’s
World
CSZ Sisterhood event
features Andrew Gross,
honors Sandy Schwartz.
B
est-selling author Andrew
Gross will speak about
his writing career at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Sisterhood’
s Lois Linden Nelson
Women’
s World on May 1. The
event, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., will
also honor Sandy Schwartz as the
Woman of Valor.
Manhattan author Gross has writ-
ten more than eight New York Times
best-selling books. He will speak
about his career in the field of thrill-
er novels and his move into histori-
cal fiction. He is best known for his
collaborations with prolific mystery
author James Patterson.
Gross received his undergrad-
uate degree from Middlebury
College, his master’
s from Columbia
University and attended the Writers
Program at the University of Iowa.
It took him three years to finish
a draft of his first book, Hydra,
a political thriller. Although he
received many rejections, it was the
manner in which he developed his
female characters that eventually led
to the call from Patterson to collab-
orate on what became The Women’
s
Murder Club series.
His recent books have been
historical thrillers, with The One
Man based on family stories in the
Holocaust and The Saboteur fictio-
nalizing an Allied raid to prevent
Nazi Germany’
s development of an
atomic bomb. Button Man, based on
his grandfather’
s experiences in New
York’
s garment industry during the
Depression, is his
latest novel.
Sisterhood
will honor long-
time synagogue
volunteer Sandy
Schwartz with
its Woman of
Valor Award.
She is a former
Sisterhood pres-
ident and a community activist with
a long, influential volunteer history
within Jewish Detroit. Schwartz
has organized, fundraised for and
helmed some of the most critical
philanthropic efforts in our com-
munity in the past 50 years. She is
a Board Member of Jewish Family
Service and the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit as well as
a founding trustee of the Jewish
Women’
s Foundation.
With friends Michele Passon and
the late Patti Nemer, she co-created
the Cancer Thrivers Network for
Jewish Women. This is an empower-
ing network — not a support group
— for women living with or recov-
ering from cancer. “To celebrate life,
we all need three bones: a wishbone,
a backbone and a funny bone,”
Sandy said.
This network, numbering more
than 300 women, meets regularly to
talk, learn and develop friendships,
and to enjoy life and each other.
Sandy and husband, Alan
Schwartz, include son David and
daughter-in-law Jodi and their
children Sam, Zack and Andrew;
and son Mark and daughter-in-law
Denise and their children Elena and
Ian.
Sisterhood’
s Lois Linden Nelson
Women’
s World is the group’
s premier
event of the year and also features
pop-up boutique shopping from an
array of local and Israeli vendors,
offering clothing, accessories, Judaica
and creative art. Pop-up shopping is
free to access and open to the com-
munity. The luncheon and program
are available at several ticket levels.
For tickets and patron opportu-
nities, go to llnwomansworld.org or
contact the Shaarey Zedek Sisterhood
office at (248) 357-5544. ■
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