April 1, 2020
Where Leadership Counts
Vivian Henoch, Editor myJewishDetroit
On Wednesday, March 11, 2020 — within hours after the first two cases of COVID-19 in Michigan were reported — Mark Adler was on the job at Federation, meeting with the security staff. “There were four of us around the table, so we didn’t need much Purell at the time,” he tells us. But clearly, the gravity of what was about to unfold in the course of the day and the weeks to come weighed heavily on his mind.