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Jaffe Raitt Heuer &
Weiss P.C., a Michigan
business law firm,
announced that Nicole
Hertzberg was elected
as a first-time board
member to the Jewish
Federation’
s NEXTGen
Detroit Board of
Directors. She will plan and execute
programming and events, develop
strategy and act as an ambassa-
dor of Jewish Detroit. She has also
been appointed co-chair of EPIC,
NEXTGen Detroit’
s largest and pre-
miere annual fundraising event.
Nicole
Hertzberg
After a decade of
service to medicine
and medical edu-
cation as founding
dean of the Oakland
University William
Beaumont School of
Medicine, Robert
Folberg is moving to a new oppor-
tunity to serve. He became the
associate dean for faculty affairs
at the Michigan State University
College of Human Medicine and
professor of physiology in the
Division of Human Pathology.
The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute announced that
David I. Sternberg, M.D., thoracic surgeon, has joined its
medical team. Board-certified in general and cardiothoracic
surgery and specialized in minimally invasive chest surgery,
Dr. Sternberg will serve on Karmanos’
Thoracic Oncology
Multidisciplinary Team. He will work at Karmanos’
main cam-
pus in Detroit, Karmanos’
Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Cancer
Treatment Center in Farmington Hills; and he will also see
patients at Karmanos at McLaren Oakland. Sternberg will serve
on Karmanos’
tumor board, lending his expertise to other locations within the
Karmanos Network.
Robert Folberg
Diane S. Blau, Ph.D., and the Michigan School of Psychology
in Farmington Hills recently received the Charlotte and
Karl Buhler Award at the 2019 conference of the American
Psychological Association. This award, granted by the Society
for Humanistic Psychology, is given jointly to an individual
and an institution that have made outstanding and lasting
contributions to humanistic psychology. Dr. Blau co-founded
the Michigan School in 1980, served in multiple faculty and
administrative positions and retired as its third president in September 2018.
She also received the distinction of Fellow of the American Psychological
Association in recognition of outstanding and unusual contributions to the
science and profession of psychology.
Diane S. Blau
David I.
Sternberg
Holocaust Survivors’
Pensions to Increase
The Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany (Claims
Conference), announced an approx-
imately $50 million increase over
last year in funding for social welfare
services for Holocaust survivors from
the German government on behalf of
Jewish Holocaust survivors.
In addition to expanded home care
funding and pension increases, the
Claims Conference reached a few
“first ever” agreements during this
year’
s negotiations. For the first time,
an agreement on a Surviving Spouse
Payment has been achieved. This
new agreement will allow a surviving
spouse, as of Jan. 1, 2020, to receive a
payment for a period of nine months
to aid in funeral expenses, living
expenses and other financial adjust-
ments.
Additionally, Righteous Gentiles
will be recognized. For the first time
in history, it was agreed that for those
who were recognized as Righteous
Among the Nations by Yad Vashem,
and are in need, the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs is going to pay a
monthly pension. Those heroes who
risked their lives to save Jews were
first acknowledged through a support
program by the Claims Conference
in 1963. Further details have to be
determined.
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