24 | DECEMBER 29 • 2022
OUR COMMUNITY
AUGUST
Ann (Hannah)
Newman, notable
local businesswoman,
Polish-born immigrant
from Israel, died at 94.
Ann Arbor’s nationally
known innovator in
Jewish education,
Harlene Appelman,
died at 75.
Prominent local
Holocaust survivor
and Holocaust
educator, Michael
Weiss, died at 97.
SEPTEMBER
A legal giant in Metro
Detroit’s Jewish
Community, a promoter
of Yiddish culture,
former Wayne State
University governor,
and one of the main
engineers of the
“Grand Bargain” that
allowed Detroit to exit
Bankruptcy, Eugene
Driker, died at 85.
Attorney, Oakland
County circuit
judge and
communal leader
Deborah Tyner
died at 66.
Radio and
Broadcasting
legend Specs
Howard
(Jerry
Liebman)
died at 96.
Michigan heath
care leader, former
president and
CEO of Botsford,
Gerson Cooper,
died at 88.
American culinary
authority and curator
of Culinary History
at the University of
Michigan, Janice
Bluestein Longone,
died at 89.
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