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will find it.’ I’ll ask them for 
their wish list — maybe it’s 
a rosewood credenza or a 
certain style of chair — and 
we’ll go out and hunt for it for 
them,” Slobin said.
Clients and customers also 
don’t have to live in Michigan 
to use Le Shoppe Modern’s 
services. In fact, they’re 
nationally and internationally 
known. They’ve even had 
celebrity customers, like film director 
Peter Jackson, Food Network chef Rachael 
Ray and interior designer Leanne Ford, 
co-host of Restored by the Fords on HGTV. 
Most notably, about seven years ago, set 

decorator Shane Vieau purchased furniture 
from Le Shoppe Modern to be featured 
in the Academy Award-winning film The 
Shape of Water.
 “That’s our claim to fame. We like to 

joke that Le Shoppe ‘won an 
Oscar’ because Shane won 
an Oscar for production 
design for that film. He even 
mentioned us in an interview 
he had with Architectural 
Digest, which was unexpected 
and a very nice surprise. 
That’s how people hear about 
us; it’s all about word of 
mouth,” Slobin said. 

Le Shoppe Modern can now be found online 

at leshoppemodern.com and on Instagram @

LeShoppeModern. The showroom is located at 3325 

Orchard Lake Road, Keego Harbor, and is open 

Tuesday through Saturday from 11a.m. to 5 p.m.

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here’s to

Lori Klisman Ellis just 
published another fun, 
educational book called 
Ryan’s Magical Chair. The 
book encourages children 
to let their imagination go 
wild. Children discover how their imag-
ination and a “magical’ chair can cre-
ate endless entertainment. It’s free and 
easy to do. Ryan’s chair transforms into 
various vehicles such as a firetruck, a 
spaceship, a plane, a train. Children 
vicariously experience what it is like to 
be a fire fighter, an astronaut, a pilot, a 
train engineer and more for the day. 

Detroit-based Heroes Circle received a 
Michigan Regional Emmy nomination. 
The groundbreaking video series teaches 
martial arts and inspires self-regulation 
techniques, including standards-aligned 
school curriculum. The video series Teens 
Helping Teens in a Stressful World was 
created by Kids Kicking Cancer’s Jamila Carrington 
Smith (chief innovation officer) and Kelly Blankenship 
(director, Heroes Circle Innovation); it received a nomi-
nation in the Children/Youth/Teens category. Smith and 
Blankenship are credited for designing, developing, 
producing and directing the teen- and early adolescent- 
focused storyline. The series features six remarkable 
young people facing ordinary and extraordinary stress-
ors in their lives and how they process and cope with 
these situations. Founder and Global Director of Kids 
Kicking Cander is Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg.
Sarah Klein, a rabbin-
ical student from West 
Bloomfield, was selected 
from numerous applicants, 
during a very competitive 
process, to participate in 
the inaugural class of a 
brand new, innovative and first-of-its-
kind program to prepare and educate 
future rabbis for informed conversations 
about Israel. During the fellowship, par-
ticipants will explore an in-depth study 
of the history of Israel and the theol-
ogy of Jews, Christians, Muslims and 
Bedouins who call Israel their home. 
They will also grapple with deliberaely 
thought-provoking topics, including the 
meaning of a Jewish homeland. 

Dena Berlin, 
the daughter 
of William 
and Mellissa 
Berlin, 
earned a 
doctor of 
veterinary medicine 
degree from Midwestern 
University. She also 
earned a bachelor 
of science degree 
in zoology with a 
concentration in ecology, 
evolution and organismal 
biology from Michigan 
State University in 2015. 
While at Midwestern, 
she served as a board-
member of the Student 
American Veterinary 
Medical Association and 
the Student Chapter of 
the American College 
of Veterinary Internal 
Medicine Club. After 
graduation from 
Midwestern, Dr. Berlin 
plans to complete a 
rotating internship 
at WestVet Animal 
Emergency & Specialty 
Center in Boise, Idaho, 
as a Doctor of Veterinary 
Medicine.

Hillel of Metro Detroit announced that Jenna 
Friedman and Jeremy Soper are the 2023 recipi-
ents of the Elaine C. Driker Award; David Ibn Ezra is 
the 2023 recipient of the Direnfeld Scholarship. The 
award recognizes Hillel of Metro Detroit students 
committed to Jewish life in Detroit. Friedman, who 
lives in Detroit, is majoring in social work at Wayne 
State University and has been president of the Jewish 
Student Organization this past year. Soper double 
majored in supply chain and marketing and was pres-
ident of the Students for Israel organization. Ibn Ezra 
is a sophomore at Lawrence Technological University, 
studying mechanical engineering and an outfielder on 
the Lawrence Tech Blue Devils baseball team. He has 
been highly involved with HMD, including attending 
the IAC conference and participating in multiple cam-
pus activities.

L TO R: Terri Stearn, Leslie 
Weisberg, Julie Sundberg and 
Deborah Slobin. The Eames Storage 
Unit that sold for $48,000

