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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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