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… worked alongside Peters to secure support and physical security for the organizations. Growing up as a member of Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills, BBYO and University of Michigan Hillel…
… University in 2017, majoring in hospitality and minoring in business information systems. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has appointed Ryan Hertz, the president and CEO of Light- house, to the Michigan Intera…
…- gency Council on Homelessness. Hertz, a resident of Huntington Woods, joins a council designed to develop, adopt and update a dec- ade-long plan to end home- lessness in Michigan. The plan includes…
….S. House of Representatives as a legislative correspondent and research assistant. “Breaking in [to the field] can be diffi- cult and takes a bit of luck,” Feldman says. “Once you break into the Hill…
…, you have a lot of ability to succeed.” This was the case for Feldman. He then returned to the committee, where he worked as a research coordi- nator before being promoted to senior research…
… analyst and later deputy research director. Serving in a leadership role in politics prepared him to take on his next job as Peters’ chief of staff, where he remained until this year. His tenure with…
… Peters marked a time in politics where monumental moments and changes occurred. “When Gary got elected to Congress, it was during the beginning of the Great Recession and the auto crisis,” Feldman…
… JEWS One area of his work hit particularly close to home. At the beginning of 2017 when Jewish community organizations were receiv- ing bomb threats, including Jewish Community Centers, Feldman…
…, Feldman is proud of the help his team was able to provide for the local Jewish community. Peters helped lead the Senate to a win that saw all 100 senators signing in favor of having all efforts…
… possible from the federal government being used to investigate the threats against Jewish organi- zations, which in the first two months of 2017 alone saw at least 98 incidents. Now, Feldman is looking…