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Drs. Candice Chen 
and Melvyn Rubenfire 
have been appointed 
to Authority Health’
s 
Graduate Medical 
Education (GME) 
Teaching Health 
Center’
s Board as 
co-chairs, responsible 
for co-leading the 
quarterly board 
meetings of the 
Authority Health 
Graduate Medical 
Education Consortium 
starting in May. 
Chen is an associate 
professor at George 
Washington University in the 
Department of Health Policy and 
Management; she is also a board-
certified pediatrician. Rubenfire is a 
professor of internal medicine and 
director of preventive cardiology at 
the University of Michigan. 

Dr. Candice 
Chen

Dr. Melvyn 
Rubenfire

Larry J. Glanz, CPA, APMA, 
CRPC, a private wealth advisor 
with Glanz Wealth Advisors, a 
private wealth advi-
sory practice of 
Ameriprise Financial 
Services Inc. in 
Farmington Hills, 
has qualified for the 
company’
s Circle of 
Success annual recognition pro-
gram. He established himself as 
one of the company’
s top advisors 
with 24 years of experience in the 
financial services industry.

The Jewish Federation announced 
that Dorothy Benyas 
is the recipient of 
the 2019 William 
Avrunin Professional 
Development 
Award. The award 
recognizes and 
honors outstanding 
Jewish communal professionals 
employed by the Jewish Federation 
of Metropolitan Detroit. Benyas 
began her career at the Jewish 
Federation as a senior accountant 
in 1994 and rose to the position of 
chief financial officer. 

Dr. Louis Soverinsky of 
Bloomfield Hills was chosen as 
the Volunteer of the 
Year for Fleischman 
Residence in West 
Bloomfield. Lou, 
often with two 
grandsons, provides 
a sing-along program 
once a month for the residents at 
Fleischman.

The National Association of Food 
Journalists has named Danny 
Raskin the next 
recipient of the 
Carol DeMasters 
Service to Food 
Journalism Award, 
an award reserved 
for individuals who 
have made a significant and last-
ing contribution to the field of 
food journalism. Raskin has been 
writing a weekly column in the JN 
since 1942. 

Martin B. Shichtman, a professor of English and literature and 
director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Eastern Michigan 
University, delivered the keynote address at the 2019 Official 
State of Michigan Holocaust Commemoration, in the rotunda 
of the State Capitol in Lansing.

Irene Butter, a Holocaust survivor, author of Shores Beyond 
Shores: From Holocaust to Hope My True Story, founder of 
the Raoul Wallenberg Medal and lecture at the University of 
Michigan, and co-founder of Zeitouna, an Arab-Jewish wom-
en’
s dialogue group in Ann Arbor, received the 2019 Robert 
S. Northrup Humanitarian Award at the Rotary Club of Ann 
Arbor’
s meeting April 24.

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Ours is to look after them.

For more information and to purchase tickets, contact:
michigan@fidf.org | 248.926.4110

Friends of the Israel Defense Forces

MICHIGAN CHAPTER

Women of Valor
Luncheon

2019

THURSDAY
, MAY 30

GUEST SPEAKER
Gadi Ezra

CO-CHAIRS


HONORING

Joan Chernoff Epstein

Adat Shalom Synagogue
Farmington Hills, Michigan

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