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…APRIL 20 • 2023 | 57 Fran loved life and people; so, after Lloyd’s death, she moved to the Fox Run community in Novi and involved herself in every possible way. She was greatly loved and admired by all who knew her. Fran will be dearly missed by all whose lives she touched. Mrs. Finsilver is survived by her daughter, Dr. Karen Bolak; son and daughter- in-law, Stanley and Shari Finsilver; grandchildren, Amy and Steven Ben- Ezra, B...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 58 | APRIL 20 • 2023 DR. WILLIAM SANDFORD FLOYD, 90, of Boca Raton, Fla., died April 8, 2023. Dr. Floyd is survived by his wife of 46 years, Gayle Floyd; children, Jered Floyd, Brian Gibbons, Richard Nordin, Jennifer Floyd, Scott Floyd, Linda and Dan Berger, and Debbie Snoek; grandchildren, Hjalmar Floyd and Caitlin Berger; sisters-in-law, Lynne Levine, Karen Ginsburg and Suzanne Ginsburg; niece...…
…APRIL 20 • 2023 | 59 dear son-in-law of the late Elaine and the late Steven Fish. Contributions may be made to Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield, 5595 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322; Friends of Israeli Defense Forces, P.O. Box 999, Walled Lake, MI 48390; or Farber Hebrew Day School, 21100 W. 12 Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48076. A funeral was held at Hebrew Memorial Chapel. Interment took place at Machpelah Cemetery in F...…
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…APRIL 20 • 2023 | 61 B enjamin Ferencz, the last surviv- ing member of the prosecuting team at the Nuremberg trials that convicted Nazi ringleaders for crimes against humanity, died April 7, 2023, in Florida. He was 103. Ferencz was 27 and a graduate of Harvard Law School when he was named as the chief prosecutor at the Einsatzgruppen Trial, in which 20 mem- bers of the SS’s mobile death squads were convicted of war crimes and crimes...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 62 | APRIL 20 • 2023 Children Learning Hand in Hand O n our recent Israel adventure with the Federation of Metropolitan Detroit’s Motor City Mission, JN Editorial Director Jackie Headapohl and I took a diversity excursion in Jerusalem. It was a most enlightening experience. Our first stop was the Hand in Hand Center fo...…
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