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Fundraiser to Fight Substance Abuse

The Jamie Daniels Foundation 
(JDF), an initiative of the Children’
s 
Foundation, is preparing for its very 
first event, The Celebrity Roast of 
Mickey Redmond, which will take 
place Sept. 7, at the MotorCity Casino 
Hotel’
s Sound Board. Mike “Doc” 
Emerick, TV voice of the NHL on 
NBC, will serve as the emcee. Local 
celebrity “roasters” include John 
Davidson, Scotty Bowman, Ian Bagg, 
Marcel Dionne, Jim Ralph and Mike 
Babcock. Several current and former 
Red Wings players will also be in 
attendance.
The evening event includes both 
a live and silent auction including a 
unique, “jersey/ticket” drawing, allow-
ing event attendees to get their own Red 
Wings jersey or set of tickets. 
The event will close with perfor-
mances by the Jake Maurer Band. After 
8 p.m. tickets are available to purchase 
via ticketmaster.com. Tickets include 
appetizers, drinks and premiere seating.
The Jamie Daniels Foundation, 
which recently received a grant from 
Michigan State University was estab-
lished by FOX Sports Detroit Red 

Wings play-by-play broadcaster Ken 
Daniels and his family in honor of his 
late son, Jamie, to provide education, 
resources, guidance and support to 
people battling drug addiction
Proceeds raised during The Celebrity 
Roast of Mickey Redmond will sup-
port JDF’
s efforts to end the stigma 
associated with addiction and provide 
the guidance and resources needed so 
that lives can be saved. In collaboration 
with The Children’
s Foundation, JDF’
s 
long-term goal is to build a long-term 
recovery center in Metro Detroit as 
part of a collaboration with the state 
of Michigan. A long-term facility will 
improve access to trustworthy addic-
tion treatment and recovery services in 
Metro Detroit. 
“We chose to do a roast because 
Jamie loved to laugh, and there was no 
better choice than Mickey for our inau-
gural Celebrity Roast because he and 
Jamie had such a special relationship,
” 
stated JDF co-founder Lisa Daniels-
Goldman. “
As sure as this will be a 
night of laughter, we also want to keep 
the conversation going regarding sub-
stance use disorder.
”

Shalom Hartman to Expand Work in Detroit

Thanks to a grant from the William 
Davidson Foundation, Rebecca Starr 
has been named Midwest manager 
of the Shalom Hartman Insitute of 
North America. The funds are also 
making it possible for rabbis Aaron 
Starr of Congregation Shaarey Zedek 
and Ariana Silverman of Isaac Agree 
Downtown Synagogue to participate in 
Shalom Hartman’
s three-year Rabbinic 
Leadership Initiative. 
 Because of two new grants of $10 mil-
lion each to the Shalom Hartman, its 
work in Detroit will continue to expand.
The new funding for Hartman’
s 
Detroit presence will focus on develop-
ing more community leaders, conduct-
ing more research to help the commu-
nity tackle local challenges, and funding 
more campus and communal programs 
to engage the local Jewish community 
as well as runs programs that educate 
Muslim and Christian leaders about 
Judaism and Israel.
 The San Francisco-based Koret 
Foundation just made a $10 million 
grant. “The Shalom Hartman Institute 
is elevating the conversation in the 
Jewish community by encouraging us 
to live up to our core values,
” said Koret 
Foundation CEO Jeffrey Farber. “
At 

this critical time, when much of society 
is fraught with division and discord, 
Hartman is empowering communi-
ties to solve problems by training and 
equipping new leaders at a variety of 
organizations with the means to tackle 
more local challenges in communities 
across the country.
”
Jim Joseph Foundation, also based in 
San Francisco, gave Shalom Hartman 
a $10 million grant as well. The grants 
make up the majority of a $25 million 
business plan for the institute, which 
was founded in 1976 in Jerusalem.
Under the leadership of Yehuda 
Kurtzer, its American branch since 
2010 has expanded from a small office 
in New York to having staff in San 
Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, 
D.C., and Detroit. The grants will 
expand programs in each of those 
communities.
“We’
re extremely excited about 
and very grateful for these gifts,” 
said 
Rachel Jacoby Rosenfield, the 
organization’
s executive vice presi-
dent. “They enable us to deepen and 
expand our core work of developing 
ideas and training thought leaders, as 
well as to build out our infrastructure 
in significant ways.”

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