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Dr. Harris Mainster, 
prominent 
local physician, 
communal leader 
and mentor, who 
traveled the world 
to perform surgeries 
for those in need, 
passed away on 
Oct. 10 at age 87. 

Arthur Frommer, 
founder of the 
famous travel guide 
company, passed 
away on Nov. 18, at 
the age of 95. 

Jeffrey Hale Miro, 
prominent local 
real estate lawyer 
and philanthropist, 
passed away on 
Oct. 4 at age 82. 

Bob Naftaly, 
legendary Detroit, 
Michigan and 
national Jewish 
civic and communal 
leader, passed away 
on Nov. 3 at age 86. 

Yehuda Bauer, 
internationally 
renowned, 
preeminent 
historian of the 
Holocaust, passed 
away on Oct. 18 at 
the age of 98.

Oscar Feldman, 
business leader 
and philanthropist, 
passed away Nov. 
27 at the age of 103.

Pauline Freed 
Snyder Kabcenell, 
local communal 
leader, including a 
stint as president 
of the Women’s 
Division of the 
American Jewish 
Congress (1960-
1962), passed away 
on Oct. 14 at the 
age of 104. 

Arnie Weiner, 
longtime regional 
director of BBYO 
Michigan, passed 
away Nov. 23 at age 
79.

Harriet Jacobson, 
pioneering female 
magician and wife 
to and mother of 
notable magicians, 
passed away on 
Oct. 9 at the age of 
80. 

Bernie Marcus, co-founder of Home 
Depot and generous philanthropist, 
who supported many American and 
Israeli causes, passed away on Nov. 5 
at the age of 95.

Dr. Sheldon “Shelly” D. 
Stern, prominent local 
physician and Jewish com-
munal leader, passed away 
on Oct. 28 at the age of 
94. 

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