— 16U 3-on-3 boys basket-
ball: Gideon Lopatin, Shmuel 
Shottenstein.
— Golf: Alex Lustig.
Gordon said Detroit’s 
flag-bearers in the Maccabi 
Games opening ceremony 
normally are four-year ath-
letes who are in their final 
year of competition.
There aren’t any this year, 
so four Detroit athletes 
who competed in the 2019 
Maccabi 
Games in 
Detroit — 
Ben-Ezra, 
Gesund, 
Hutton and 
Kleinfeldt — 
were expected 
to be Detroit’s 
flag-bearers 
in this year’s opening cere-
mony Aug. 1 at the Del Mar 
Racetrack.
Kleinfeldt, 15, of 
Huntington Woods, is play-
ing on a U16 girls basketball 
team along with girls from 
Boston, Cincinnati and 
Springfield, Mass.
The girls on the team and 
their coach planned to have a 
Zoom call, but no practices, 
before the Maccabi Games 
began.
“There are pros and cons 
to playing on a team with 
girls from other delegations,” 
Kleinfeldt said before leaving 
for San Diego. “It would have 
been nice to have a Detroit 
girls basketball team, but it’ll 
be fun meeting the other girls 
on the team.”
A Frankel Jewish Academy 
sophomore, Kleinfeldt was 
the starting point guard and 
Most Valuable Player last 
season for the Frankel girls 
basketball team.
She also was a star girls 
soccer player for Frankel — 
the team’s leading scorer — 
and she played volleyball for 
the Jaguars.

She’s also been a 
competitive swimmer and 
diver, and she’s a certified 
basketball coach and official.
Kleinfeldt played table 
tennis when she was 12 at 
the 2019 Maccabi Games 
in Detroit and won a silver 
medal in doubles.
“You can’t play a team sport 
in the Maccabi Games when 
you’re 12, so I chose table 
tennis,” she said. “I was the 
only girl in that sport among 
about eight players. I was 
paired with a boy from North 
Carolina, I think, in doubles.”
Her decision to compete in 
the Maccabi Games this year 
was an easy one.
“Basketball and Judaism are 
huge parts of my life,” she said. 
“I couldn’t miss out on going.”
San Diego was supposed 
to be one of two Maccabi 
Games hosts in 2020 along 
with Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 
“so they weren’t starting from 
square one to be a host this 
year,” Gordon said. “But, of 
course, they’ve had to adapt 
everything to the pandemic.”
And deal with a shortage of 
250 host families.
To make up for the 
shortfall, 500 boys including 
Detroit’s Drew and Eli 
Edelstein, Hutton, Juszak and 
Lustig are staying in dorms at 
the University of San Diego 
with adult supervision, paid 
security, bed checks and no 
visitors or deliveries allowed.
The boys in the dorms 
were expected to go to the 
San Diego Padres baseball 
game against the Colorado 
Rockies the night of Aug. 3.
All the athletes were 
expected to enjoy an evening 
at SeaWorld San Diego on 
Aug. 2 and the closing party 
Aug. 4 at the host Lawrence 
Family JCC in La Jolla. 

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GRACE KLEINFELDT

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Baruch 100th
L

eonard P. Baruch, of 
Southfield, turns 100 on Aug. 
13, 2022. He spent decades 
working for Congregation Shaarey 
Zedek in Southfield in various 
capacities. Leonard and his wife, 
Ann, recently rejoiced together at 
the simchah of their 71st wedding 
anniversary. They will celebrate 
Leonard’s birthday simchah during 
the 10 a.m. Shabbat service Aug. 
13, at Congregation Shaarey Zedek 
with Miriam and Mark Goldberg, 
Murray and Linda Baruch, Rhonda and Robb Feldman, their 
13 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, family and friends. 
The community is invited to a dairy box lunch following ser-
vices. To register and reserve, please call the Congregation 
Shaarey Zedek office (248) 357-5544 on Monday, Aug. 8, or 
Tuesday, Aug. 9. 

MAZEL TOV!

Hadassah, the Women’s 
Zionist Organization of 
America, announced 
the appointment of 
Stephanie Brovenick as 
managing director of 
Hadassah Midwest. 
 Brovenick, who 
previously served 
as senior manager 
of Grassroots 
Engagement for 
Hadassah, will be 
responsible for the 
operation and management 
of the Hadassah Midwest 
Geographic Area, which 
encompasses three regions, 
49 chapters and nearly 29,000 
members. The area includes 

Hadassah Greater Detroit, 
which covers Michigan, 
Northern Ohio and 
Western Pennsylvania. 

Brovenick will work 
with Hadassah’s volunteer 
leaders in these regions to 
achieve Hadassah’s goals 
in the areas of women’s 
empowerment, women’s 
health equity, Zionism 
and support for the State 
of Israel. 
She received 
her bachelor of arts in 
communications from Ohio 
State University and lives in 
West Bloomfield. She is the 
mother of two sons, Cooper, 
24, and Carter, 20. 

New Managing Director 
of Hadassah Midwest

Stephanie 
Brovenick

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