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Are you certified? What 
kind of training have you 
had?”
Cascardo said she under-
stands how some stroke 
patients have difficulty 
with physical, occupation-
al and speech therapy, as 
Rosenberg experienced.
“It’
s an experience where a 
person isn’
t able to calibrate 
their own mobility,” she said. 
“It can be frustrating and 
embarrassing for the person. 
If you have a novice or an 
inexperienced therapist, the 
(recovery) outcome is going 
to be radically different.”

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Rosenberg is a proven trail-
blazer. In business, she was 
the first female vice president 
of fashion marketing at J.L. 
Hudson Co., creator of the 
department store’
s wildly pop-
ular Santa Bear promotion 
and Lifetime Honorary Chair 
of the Detroit Institute of 
Arts’
 Fash Bash runway show. 
As an author and conve-
ner, she excels at bringing 
people with differences 
together to find a common 
thread they can use to weave 
something new together — 
as she has with Reuniting 
the Children of Abraham, a 
peace initiative that uses cre-
ative arts to build bridges of 
understanding between Jews, 
Christians and Muslims.
As one who uses her pos-
itive energy and momentum 
to effect change, she said she 
expects to experience a full 
recovery and that she is, by 
her own estimation, 95 per-
cent there. The only things 
she can’
t do yet are swirl a 
pot of spaghetti or use chop-
sticks. She has adjusted her 
diet to eliminate unnecessary 

fat, sugar and refined car-
bohydrates. And, she allows 
herself to take naps, which 
are essential to her recovery, 
she said.
She also has drawn upon 
her own spiritual communi-
ty to guide her through her 
recovery. She and her hus-
band of 53 years, Howard, 
belong to Temple Israel in 
West Bloomfield. She said 
after her stroke, five rabbis 
from the temple came to see 
her and that friends from 
the Christian, Jewish and 
Muslim community have 
provided emotional support.
“You know God will pay 
attention when Christian, 
Jewish and Muslim people 
are praying for this Jewish 
girl,” she joked. “Without 
the prayers, (my recovery) 
wouldn’
t have been as fast.”
Moving forward, 
Rosenberg said it’
s her goal 
to get health insurance 
companies on board to pay 
for alternative therapies 
like those she uses so that 
everyone can experience the 
health benefits. 
She said she also finds it 
meaningful that what has 
helped her recover are three 
therapeutic methods created 
by Jewish people.
“What an amazing way 
to combat anti-Semitism by 
showing how these methods 
heal,” she said. 
And about her own inten-
tions to continue to live a 
fully functional life guided 
by purpose, she said: “To get 
anything done, you have to 
have passion and creativity. If 
we can address what we need 
and if we can use creativity, 
there is no problem we can’
t 
solve.” 

 

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