Yeshiva Beth Yehudah 2017 Dinner

JIM HONORING CORY Yeshiva
HACKETT BOOKER Beth Yehudah
MATTHEW J.
PRESIDENT SIMONCINI U.S. SENATOR ANNUAL DINNER
AND CEO, NEW JERSEY
FORD MOTOR PRESIDENT Sunday, October 29, 2017
COMPANY AND CEO, GUEST 4:30 PM
SPEAKER
GENERAL CHAIRMAN LEAR Detroit Marriott
CORPORATION Renaissance Center

M AT T H E W J . S I M O NC I N I is president, C O RY B O O K E R received his undergraduate degree
chief executive officer and a director of Lear from Stanford University where he played on the varsity
Corporation, effective September 1, 2011. In this football team. While at Stanford, he also was awarded a
role, Simoncini is responsible for the strategic Rhodes Scholarship and went on to study at the University
direction and operational leadership of the company. of Oxford where he received an honors degree in History.
Booker then completed his education at Yale Law School,
Formerly, Simoncini was senior vice president and receiving his J.D. in 1997.
chief financial officer of Lear Corporation, a role he had
held since September 2007. As SVP and CFO, he was At the age of twenty-nine, Booker was elected to the
responsible for Lear’s global finance operations, including Newark City Council from the city’s Central Ward. Starting
external financial reporting, corporate business planning in 2006, Booker proudly served as Newark’s mayor
& analysis, corporate strategy and business development for more than seven years. During his tenure, the city
as well as information technology activities worldwide. entered its largest period of economic growth since the
1960s. In addition, overall crime declined and the quality
In August 2006, he was named senior vice president of of life for residents improved due to initiatives such as
global finance and chief accounting officer where he was more affordable housing, new green spaces and parks,
responsible for Lear’s worldwide operational finance, increased educational opportunities, and more efficient
accounting and financial reporting. Prior to that, he was city services.
vice president of global finance, a position he had held
since June 2004. On October 16th, 2013, Booker won a special election to
represent New Jersey in the United States Senate. On
Born and raised in Detroit, Simoncini earned a bachelor’s November 4th, 2014, Senator Booker was re-elected to
degree from Wayne State University. In addition to his a full six year term. As New Jersey’s junior Senator, Cory
responsibilities at Lear, he is a member of the board of Booker has brought an innovative and bipartisan approach
directors for the Wayne State University Foundation, to tackling some of the most difficult problems facing New
Detroit Economic Club, Business Leaders of Michigan, Jersey and our country.
Michigan Opera Theatre, Downtown Detroit Partnership,
Bing Youth Institute and the Detroit Mayor’s Workforce Booker serves on the Senate's committees on
Development Board. Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Small Business
and Entrepreneurship; Environment and Public Works;
and Homeland Security and Government Affairs. He is the
ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Surface
Transportation, the Senate panel responsible for overseeing

Amtrak and passenger rail in the U.S.

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE

YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH
ANNUAL DINNER

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2017 4:30 PM
MARRIOTT HOTEL RENAISSANCE CENTER DETROIT, MICHIGAN

HONORING

MATTHEW J. SIMONCINI

PRESIDENT & CEO, LEAR CORPORATION

CORY BOOKER JIM HACKETT

UNITED STATES SENATOR PRESIDENT & CEO

NEW JERSEY FORD MOTOR COMPANY
GUEST SPEAKER
GENERAL CHAIRMAN

MATTHEW LESTER ARTHUR A. WEISS DAVID PROVOST

DINNER CHAIRMAN

MAX BERLIN DANIEL J. LOEPP MICKEY SHAPIRO
HAROLD BEZNOS RALPH E. MCDOWELL GARY SHIFFMAN
STEPHEN D. STEINOUR
JONAH BRUCK PETER REMINGTON MEL STEPHENS
MARK DAVIDOFF JAMES SETTLES ARN & NANCY TELLEM
ETHAN DAVIDSON NEIL M. SCHLOSS HAU THAI-TANG
DAVID T. FISCHER THOMAS SHAFER ALAN ZEKELMAN

COMPLIMENTARY PARKING DINNER CO- CHAIRMEN MODEST BUSINESS ATTIRE
COUVERT $250 PER PERSON RSVP 248.663.8299 OR [email protected]

Jonathan Aaron GENERAL CO-CHAIRPERSONS* Susie and Norm Pappas
Barbra and Peter Alter Meryl Podolsky
Marcia and Eugene Applebaum Miriam and Fred Ferber
Becky and Tzvi Friedman Christine Provost
Robert Aronson Drs. Lynda and Conrad Giles Jane and Larry Sherman
Fran and Joseph Badalamenti Nancy and James Grosfeld
Eleanor and Larry Jackier Tziril and Avi Smith
Alice Berlin Nancy and Dr. Joe Jacobson Mary Shafer
Elana Berlin Shari (Ferber) and Alon Kaufman Sara Shapiro
Barbara Beznos Lisa Shiffman
Penny and Harold Blumenstein Diane Klein Lois Shiffman
Stacy and Ron Klein
Jo Bruck Malke and Gary Torgow
Lois and Avern Cohn Nicole Lester Henrietta Weisberg
Vivian and Dr. George Dean Beverly and Arthur Liss Trudy Weiss
Andi and Larry Wolfe
Margie Dunn Liz and Alan May
Fran and Ken Eisenberg Gloria and Edward Meer
Chana and Dr. Maury Ellenberg
Anita and Bob Naftaly
Ann Newman

SPONSORS*
Edmunt T. Ahee Jewelers  Ascension, St. John Providence  American Axle & Manufacturing  Barclays  Barris Sott Denn & Driker, PLLC

 Mandell L. & Madeleine H. Berman Foundation The Blackstone Group  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan  Bodman PLC  Brooks
Kushman  Chemical Bank  Cooper Standard  Credit Agricole  Marvin & Betty Danto Health Care Center  Deloitte  The Detroit
Pistons  Factory Steel & Metal, Carmen & Saltsman Families  Ford Motor Company  Great Lakes Recycling  Jaffe Law  JP Morgan
Securities LLC  Kirkland & Ellis, LLP  Lear Corporation  Magna International  Northern Trust  Irving & Ethel Palman Foundation 
Princeton Enterprises  Production Tool & Supply  Prudential Financial, Inc.  Olympia Group  The Remington Group  Rehabilitation
Physicians, PC  Rich & Campbell, PC  Societe Generale  Sophie Rohlik Foundation  St. John Providence Health System  Team Rehab

 Tenneco Inc.  Harold P. Wade Foundation

HONORARY CO-CHAIRPERSONS*

Mr. & Mrs. William Berlin Mr. & Mrs. Gene Goodman Mrs. Helen Levitz Mr. & Mrs. Sam Shamie
Mr. & Mrs. Greg Bischer Mr. & Mrs. Seymour Greenstein Rabbi & Mrs. Dov Loketch Mrs. I. William Sherr
Drs. Barry & Celia Braver
Mr. & Mrs. Martin Brin Mr. & Mrs. Ethan Gross Dr. & Mrs. Aharon Meer Mr. & Mrs. William Sider
Mr. & Mrs. Tzvi Burstyn Mr. & Mrs. Bernie Groveman Mr. & Mrs. Brian Meer Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Siegel
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Cummings Mr. & Mrs. Reuven Meer Mr. & Mrs. Paul Silverman
Mr. & Mrs. Meir Hennes Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Mindell Mr. Robert A. Stewart
Mrs. Mala Dorfman Mrs. Doreen Hermelin Rabbi & Mrs. Yosef Nusbaum Mr. & Mrs. Joel Tauber
Mr. & Mrs. Mickey Eizelman Mr. & Mrs. Spencer Partrich Mr. & Mrs. Steven Weisberg
and Dr. Mel Lester Dr. & Mrs. Marcel A. Reischer Mr. & Mrs. George Weiss
Dr. & Mrs. David Farhy Mr. & Mrs. Selwyn Isakow Dr. Devorah & Mr. Ephraim Rich Mr. & Mrs. Herschel Wrotslavsky
Mr. & Mrs. David Feber Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Rosen
Dr. & Mrs. Philip Friedman Mr. & Mrs. Joel Jacob Mr. & Mrs. Sandy Rosen
Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Goldenberg Mr. & Mrs. Ira Jaffe Mr. & Mrs. Jared Roth
Hon. & Mrs. Mark Goldsmith
Mr. & Mrs. Pinkas Jarcaig
Dr. & Mrs. Lawrence Kurz
Mr. & Mrs. Roger Leemis

PATRONS*

Dr. & Mrs. Jack Belen Drs. Helen & Larry Brown Mr. Jerry Lane Dr. & Mrs. Allen Stawis
Mr. & Mrs. Adam Becker Dr. & Mrs. Fred Fischer Dr. & Mrs. Noah Levi Mr. & Mrs. Mickey Stern
Mr. & Mrs. Albert Ben-Ezra Mrs. Nancy Fordonski Mr. & Mrs. Jay Levin Mr. & Mrs. Harold Strom
Mr. & Mrs. David Ben-Ezra Mr. & Mrs. Seymour Mandell
Mr. & Mrs. Isaac Ben-Ezra Rabbi & Mrs. E.B. Freedman The Tapper Family
Mr. & Mrs. Jack Blumenkopf Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Garden Mr. Kenneth Nash Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Traison
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Borsand Mr. & Mrs. Louis Glazier Mr. Mitchell Ribitwer
Mr. & Mrs. Seymour Bresler Mr. & Mrs. Martin Goodman Mr. & Mrs. Abe Schwartz Mr. & Mrs. Steven Traison
Mr. & Mrs. Ed Hersch —in memory of Zelda Schwartz Mr. Nathan Zack
The Brodsky Family Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Kaufman Dr. Janet & Mr. Stuart Snider
Mrs. Hyman Brown Dr. & Mrs. Richard Krugel Dr. & Mrs. Gabriel Sosne Dr. & Mrs. Michael Zuroff

*In formation

YESHIVA GUARDIANS

Hillel and Ethel Abrams  Robert Aronson  Alice Berlin  Madge Berman  Penny and Harold Blumenstein
 Marlene and Paul Borman  Lois and Avern Cohn  Miriam and Fred Ferber  Nancy Grosfeld  Doreen
Hermelin  Hilary and Selwyn Isakow  Eleanor and Lawrence Jackier  Diane Klein  Gloria and Edward
Meer  Ann Newman  Anita and Robert Naftaly  Spencer and Myrna Partrich  Mickey Shapiro 
Harriet Sherr  Lois Shiffman  Lisa and Gary Shiffman  Trudy and Arthur Weiss  Andi and Larry Wolfe

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