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Kadima clients.
 Simon has co-chaired
the Book Fair at The 
J for the past three 
years. She also bakes 
bread monthly for the 
nonprofit Kneaded with 
Love, which serves the 
unhoused, delivers Kosher 
Meals on Wheels, serves 
as a Friendly Visitor with 
Jewish Family Service and 
is involved annually in 
Bookstock. Her mother was 
active in NCJW|MI, as well 
as other Jewish causes, and 
Simon followed in her foot-
steps by becoming an active 
member as a young adult. 
 She is co-chair and par-

ticipant on multiple NCJW 
committees, was president 
from 2012 to 2014, and is 
most proud of initiating 
NCJW MI’s Back to School 
Store in 2014, which has 
become a national program. 
Simon’s extraordinary vol-
unteerism at NCJW/MI 
has not gone unnoticed by 
its national organization, 
which awarded her the cov-
eted Hannah G. Solomon 
Award in 2022, named after 
its founder. 

ABOVE: FJA student Lilly 
Moss interviews Eight Over 
Eighty Honoree Suzanne 
Simon. BELOW: From FJA, 
First row: Lilly Moss, Grace 
Kleinfeldt, Allie Applebaum, 
Sarah Krivishkin. Back row: 
Zachary Elbinger, Hayden 
Dean, Caleb Starr, Aryeh 
Gamer.

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