— 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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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
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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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