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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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