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2022

FEBRUARY
» COVID still rages — JARC has run more than 25 vaccine
clinics at the Jewish Federation of Metro Detroit’s Max
Fisher building since 2020.

» Davidson Foundation announces $6.5 million in arts and
culture grants in honor of Byron and Dorothy Gerson.

» Feb 14 — Local community leader Guy Stern, professor
emeritus from Wayne State University, WWII “Ritchie
Boy” and former director of the Zekelman Holocaust
Center, observed his 100th birthday.

» The Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Archive at
Temple Beth El and the Leonard N. Simons
Jewish Community at the Jewish Federation
of Metro Detroit announce a collaboration:
The Center for Michigan Jewish Heritage.

LEFT: Robbie Terman and Laura Gottlieb
» Frankel Jewish Academy introduces
Shorashim Grants providing all students up to
$10,000 toward tuition.

» Feb. 20 — JGrand, a new program of the
Jewish Community Center’s JFamily targeted
at grandparents and their grandkids, held its
first event, a grandparent-only “pep rally.”

Feb. 24 — Russia invades Ukraine, which
has a deep affect upon hundreds of Jewish
Detroiters with Ukrainian heritage and rela-
tives still living there.

A JARC
vaccination
clinic
Byron and
Dorothy Gerson

RIGHT:
Gigi Debbie
and Papa
Mark
Landau with
grandchildren
Nolan and
Emma.

DEBBIE LANDAU

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