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ven Barbra Streisand slept alone!” This is the phrase my best friend, Tim, and I would say to each other when holidays like Valentine’s Day were fast approaching.

Why did we say this? Because Barbra Streisand is America’s Queen, at least to Jews. In a career spanning six decades, she Sara Berkowitz has won Academy Eaker Awards, Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Tony Awards and the freaking Presidential Medal of Freedom.

From 1971, when she divorced Elliot Gould, until 1998 when she married James Brolin, she slept alone.

This Jewish Goddess, one of the greatest recording artists of all time, with more than 68.5 million albums in the U.S. and with a total of 150 million albums and singles sold worldwide slept alone.

Yes, Valentine’s Day will soon be upon us. No, this is not a Jewish holiday. Does it silently sadden most single people? Yes, it does — even those who call it a “Hallmark holiday” and then weep in the shower.

But you know what? It is still hard when you are single and you are at Plum Market just trying to buy some of

their deliciouss Hungarian mushroom ou soup and you see endless arrays of hearts earts explodingg all over the place, pink marshmallow allow hearts and “Be Mine” candy lates sold in packs of paper plates 10 for the Valentine’s’s Day party that you will NOT be attending.

You try to fight your way through the endless bouquets of flowers bursting in pinks and reds in your face just to pick up your grapefruit-flavored La Croix, even though it tastes like a single Skittle dissolved in water. You can’t even get to the bread section without See’s candies laughing in your face that you will not be devouring a heart-shaped box of assorted nuts and chews. Sorry, maybe next year.

It is OK to be alone. In fact, a recent U.S. census reported there are another 110.6 million who will also be single on Feb. 14. It is OK to be single, especially during holidays that celebrate love in epic proportions.

Mother Teresa, who you probably did not realize is really the love expert, not Barry White, said, “Let us always meet each other with a smile, for a smile is the beginning of love.”

Sara Berkowitz Eaker has been a professional writer for 15+ years. She also taught English, drama and sex education to high schoolers in South Central Los Angeles. She has a penchant for Sno Balls and Yiddish. She now lives in Metro Detroit.

mom came out of the house holding a book. “Joel, you have to read this,” she said. I took the book from her and looked at a beautiful picture of Tahquamenon Falls. The caption underneath the picture read: “... and the Jews, the tribe accursed, mocked him, scourged him, crucified him.”

I turned to the cover and read the title, The Land And Waters Of Hiawatha, edited by Penrod Hiawatha Press, a small Michigan publisher that printed picture postcards and souvenir books about the Great Lakes. Of course, we went to the Boyne City Library, got a copy of the Longfellow poem and sure enough, the line was taken directly from the classic poem

by the great American poet.

When I got back to work in the fall, I related this story to one of my coworkers who taught English.

She asked me if I would mind if she brought this up to her husband who worked in the civil rights department at Solidarity House, national headquarters of the United Auto Workers Union. A few days later, he called me and told me that, in his opinion, this might be a violation of the ElliotLarsen Civil rights Act because I had purchased the book in a bookstore located in a state park and a good argument could be made that taken in its context, the quote was inflammatory because it bore absolutely no

Love does not have to be marri married Pi with children living off of Lone Pine and Middlebelt. Love does nott have ha to be a 2-carat cushion-cut diamond.

Love is snowplowing your elderly neighbor’s driveway. Love is buying yourself a bunch of peonies, your favorite flowers and Oprah’s, too.

If love is meeting someone with a smile, start smiling some more. Smile at that preschool mom you can’t stand.

Smile at the mailman. Smile at your mom. You will feel the love. Most importantly, never forget that if you are sleeping alone right now, Barbra Streisand did, too … for an insane amount of years. Now, go smile. ■

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Anti-Semitism in Northern Michigan Ken Winters’ “Anti-Semitism Has Never Left — Even in Rural Northern Michigan,” (Jan. 17, page 5) brought to mind an incident in my own life.

It was the summer of 1983 or 1984 and we had decided to take my mother with us on our one-week vacation to paradise … Lake Charlevoix. We had rented a house on the north shore of the lake, and I was ready for a week of white fish, camp fires and relaxation. No phone, no bills and no newspapers.

I was sitting on a lounge chair under a huge evergreen tree when my

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he 116th Congress has barely gotten settled, and already BDS and efforts to combat it are wreaking havoc across the Democratic Party and between Democrats and Republicans. Earlier this month, there were accusations of dual loyalty, allegations of secret support for BDS, and thinly veiled efforts to use Israel and BDS, specifically, as a wedge issue for political gain.

Michael J. This is almost cerKoplow tainly a preview of what is to come rather than an aberration, and it adds to the urgency that Democrats already feel to maintain the party’s historically pro-Israel bent while effectively beating back attempts to cast support for Israel as being the sole province of Republicans.

All the rancor sprouted from Senate legislation targeting BDS, which had been introduced as part of a package of four pieces of legislation comprising the Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act of 2019. The first, but less important, episode was freshman Michigan Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib’s charge that by introducing anti-BDS legislation in the very first Senate bill

of the new session rather than passing the House bill funding the government and ending the shutdown, senators “forgot what country they represent.”

There are two ways to read this statement; one is that Tlaib is accusing senators of dual loyalty in putting Israel’s interests before those of the U.S., the other is that Tlaib is accusing senators of forgetting that the U.S. is a country that protects free speech through the First Amendment. The argument for the first interpretation is that this is the plain and most obvious reading of Tlaib’s tweet, and that her focus on Israel is unsurprising given her public support of BDS. The argument for the second interpretation is that the four sponsors of the legislation are not Jewish, and it would be odd to hurl the dual loyalty charge at them; additionally, the rest of Tlaib’s tweet reads, “This is the U.S. where boycotting is a right and part of our historical fight for freedom & equality. Maybe a refresher on our U.S. Constitution is in order, then get back to opening up our government instead of taking our rights away.”

Whatever Tlaib’s intended message was, many American Jewish organizations understandably interpreted it as being an accusation of dual loyalty, and the debate almost immediately

moved to whether Tlaib is a hypocrite on the dual-loyalty issue given her outspoken defense of Palestinian rights and embrace of her Palestinian identity.

The mistake in this approach should be evident; rather than refute the dual loyalty canard, it, in effect, concedes the point but says that Tlaib cannot credibly wield the accusation, which is the very definition of cutting off your nose to spite your face.

It also leads to the bizarre scene of American Jewish groups pointing to affinity for a foreign country as a core component of one’s identity as being problematic, which is an argument that will never end well for American Jews no matter who is on the other side.

The Tlaib episode was alarming, but it was only the undercard. The real fireworks came from the Senate machinations over the bill itself. On the heels of procedural criticism from Senate Democrats — including Jewish senators Chuck Schumer, Ben Cardin and Bernie Sanders — that the only bills that should be considered by the Senate during a government shutdown are ones that would reopen the government, Sen. Marco Rubio alleged in a tweet that Senate Democrats’ objection to the Middle East security bill was not due to the

shutdown, but was actually because “a significant # of Senate Democrats now support #BDS & Dem leaders want to avoid a floor vote that reveals that.”

Rubio’s allegation about Democratic support for BDS was curious given that not one Democratic senator has ever gone on the record with such a position and because Cardin had tried to have the Senate pass an anti-BDS bill just last month as part of the spending package to avert a shutdown. There was speculation on social media that some Senate Democrats were telling grassroots activists that they support BDS but were unwilling to admit so publicly, although there is zero evidence for such a charge, not to mention that it would break every rule of politics for BDS activists not to leak such an enormous public relations coup were it actually true.

DEEPENING POLITICIZATION OF ISRAEL What is actually going on here is the ever-deepening politicization of Israel and an early sign of what the next two years are going to look like.

There is absolutely zero evidence for the claim that a “significant number of Senate Democrats,” let alone any Senate Democrats, now support BDS. But that does not mean that Senate continued on page 10

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relation to the picture of the waterfall.

He outlined a course of action for me to follow, and the upshot was that the book was pulled from every bookstore owned by the state of Michigan until such time that the editors removed the offensive quote. It took a couple of years; but eventually, a new edition was released with the same photographs but with a different caption taken from Longfellow’s epic poem.

I am a strong believer in the First Amendment to the Constitution. I also believe words can and do hurt. Like many of you, I have been called a kike, a dirty Jew and other names that don’t belong in a family paper. It is my duty as a Jew and American to fight hateful words whether they are spoken or printed, and I plan to do this as long as I have the strength to do it.

— Joel Hearshen (former Detroiter) Tampa, Fla.

Anti-Semitism Comes From Left & Right I am truly bemused by the Jewish bipartisan finger pointing over the issue of anti-Semitism. Apparently, Republicans believe “liberal” Democrats pose a risk to the state of Israel, and Democrats assert that the ultra-right-wing fringe of the Republican party is growing and is virulently anti-Semitic.

Both sides are correct. Both right and left wingers have ample numbers of those who would rally against Jews and rally against Israel. The end result will be the same, a threat to the Jewish people. Whether it’s the anti-Israel sentiment of Black Lives Matter or the vicious anti-Semites who marched at Charlottesville, we Jews have no dearth of enemies. What is a Jew to do? How is a Jew to vote?

In the interest of full disclosure, this Orthodox Jew (and attorney) is a liberal and left-leaning Democrat as to domestic politics and social issues, and a not-so-moderate right-leaning Republican when it comes to foreign policy.

One thing is certain. We, as Jews, have always been surrounded by ample sources and numbers of anti-Semites.

Voting one party or the other will never change this sad but persistent reality. For myself, therefore, I do not vote a ticket simply because I believe

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one party or the other will support Israel or Jews because, in the end, the only lasting support for Israel and Jews is Torah and HaShem. Rather, I vote for the candidates, regardless of which side of the aisle, who will support the causes I champion. And, I pray for peace every day.

However, there can be no peace as long as Jews demonize each other and turn the fight inwards. Then, the fringe wins on both sides.

— Laurel Stuart-Fink West Bloomfield

Why Should We Give These People a Pass?

“The right may have a handful of neo-Nazis and the isolated insane …” said one of your letter writers in the Jan. 17 issue. A handful? It’s mindboggling that anyone would float such a notion. Try Congressman King, Stephen Miller, the Charlottesville Nazis, the white supremacist who massacred churchgoers and the tiki-torch boys for starters — all of those “very fine people.”

The letter writer cited a survey done in the EU where people identify harassers as “left-wing.” How did they know, and how does the writer know the difference between what’s considered “left-wing” in Europe versus the U.S.?

As Aaron Sorkin wrote after the 2016 election: “[The country elected] a thoroughly incompetent pig with dangerous ideas, a serious psychiatric disorder, no knowledge of the world and no curiosity to learn … And it wasn’t just Donald Trump who won last night — it was his supporters, too. The Klan won last night. White nationalists.

Sexists, racists and buffoons. Angry young white men who think rap music and Cinco de Mayo are a threat to their way of life (or are the reason for their way of life) have been given cause to celebrate.”

When did the Jewish community give a pass to these people?

— Cynthia Brody Beverly Hills

Answer to Water Insecurity Must Come from Lansing Access to water may be a human right, (“Water Is a Human Right,” Jan. 17, page 6) but if the water is elsewhere

and not potable, that’s a political and legal problem. It costs money to treat water to make it safe. It costs money to move it to people because it does not flow uphill by itself. It costs money to build the infrastructure to process and convey water to people. Who pays and how much? Voluntary or forced?

Prior calls for action on water have fallen on deaf ears, and this new one from religious leaders will be no different.

During my tenure with the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD), we had numerous discussions in senior staff meetings regarding those who can’t afford our service, but we never found a workable solution within the bounds of Michigan law.

By Michigan law, water must be sold at the cost of the service. Until that law is modified, the utility’s hands are tied.

(The law was created to keep Detroit from exploiting its ownership of the regional system, and this is a consequence, intended or not.)

Michigan politics are dominated by radical libertarians and legislators for sale, who believe failure is earned or who are on the payroll of corporations that exist without conscience to make profits for stockholders.

Michigan Republicans are in control of the legislature, and they get their marching orders from the Chamber of Commerce, which opposes any and all new taxes (even if proposed by fellow Republicans and the will of the people, as when they blocked a bill needed to bring equity to the Farmington Hills Road millage). Any rate increase to subsidize the poor would be seen as a new tax.

Overcoming the legal blockade is just the first obstacle. The logistics of determining need and policing use limits can be overwhelming. How do you prevent waste if the waster has no money to pay a fine or maintain their plumbing? How do you distinguish accidental or unknown waste from negligence and abuse? How do you incentivize conservation when penalties and fines are unenforceable except for the most extreme measure of a cutoff? Answering these questions is pointless until you solve the problem in Lansing.

— Dennis L. Green DWSD Head Water Systems Engineer (Retired)

If Not Now Doesn’t Understand The letter “Tlaib stands for justice” in the Jan. 17 issue, page 8, is written by young, politically left Jews from the “If Not Now” movement. This movement is from the millennial generation of Jews who see the Holocaust as just “history.” They are too young to have seen what it was like to live at a time when desperately persecuted Jews had nowhere to escape to. No Jewish homeland/Israel.

They do not understand that Israel must do whatever is necessary to survive, surrounded by neighbors who deny their right to exist/want to push Israelis into the sea.

If Not Now supports the view that Arabs are occupied and persecuted

by Israel; they do not understand that Israel is willing to sit at a table to negotiate a two-state solution, but the Arabs refuse.

If Not Now does not recognize that if Arabs put down their arms and sat at the table, there would be peace. If the Israelis put down their arms, there would be no Israel.

By failing to recognize the importance of a Jewish state, If Not Now is refusing to consider the well-being or even the living reality of Israel’s 6.5 million Jews. It is refusing to acknowledge the importance of national sovereignty to an embattled Jewish people, which, after 2,000 years, is finally able to control its own destiny.

They are right to be unhappy about the occupation. But what is to replace the occupation?

And that means not one people ruling another, but two states: a sovereign, independent State of Israel that will rally the Jewish people to its side and strengthen Jews everywhere, and a sovereign, independent State of Palestine that will live in peace alongside Israel, providing justice and security to a Palestinian people long relegated to victimhood by their own leaders and neighboring Arab states.

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Democrats are itching for antiBDS bills on which to vote. The fact is that much of the anti-BDS legislation puts Democrats in an uncomfortable position, where they are forced into a bad choice of either being on the side of absolute support for Israel or absolute support for free speech, but not both.

While none of the senators support BDS, many of them would rather see the issue go away. That is not to say that the bulk of Democratic senators will ultimately vote down anti-BDS legislation on the merits, but like any wedge issue that splits elected officials from vocal parts of their base, it is not a great place for them to be politically.

The Republicans know this, and they are in turn playing a deeply cynical political game with the BDS issue. By raising the BDS issue in the very first piece of legislation coming from a new Senate but doing so while Congress was unable to pass a spending bill that President Donald Trump would sign, the Republican majority created a campaign issue that is good for them but terrible for Israel’s status as a bipartisan cause. It is glaringly obvious that Democrats are not going to allow legislation to proceed to debate that does not address the shutdown, but now Republicans are going to use Jan. 8’s cloture vote — in which only four Democrats voted to advance the bill — as alleged evidence that Democrats support BDS, including those like Schumer and Cardin whose pro-Israel bonafides are unimpeachable.

But Republicans did something even sneakier with the anti-BDS legislation than conflating objections on procedure with support for BDS. Rather than include the anti-BDS bill sponsored by Cardin and GOP Sen. Rob Portman targeting boycotts led by foreign governments and international organization that was the result of months of negotiations and revisions in response to free speech objections from the ACLU and other groups, they used an anti-BDS bill that would affirm the right of state and local government to pass antiBDS legislation that has in some

states already been struck down by courts as unconstitutional.

In other words, rather than ask Senate Democrats to pass a bill that was the result of painstaking efforts to mitigate free speech concerns, they asked them to pass a bill that protects state and local legislation to which Democrats have legitimate free speech objections and that has already been successfully challenged. The fact that Democrats, including Cardin, sponsored a version of this bill before it was successfully challenged in courts makes it even better for Republicans politically, since they can truthfully — but nonetheless misleadingly — claim that the bill is bipartisan, ignoring the fact that there is a heaping pile of changed circumstances. None of these facts or details will make it through to 99.99 percent of the public, who will simply hear that Democrats do not want to combat BDS and that only Republicans can be trusted to safeguard Israel from this wishing to erode its legitimacy and destroy it as a Jewish state. This is not good for Israel, and this is not good for pro-Israel Democrats, but it is a master class in how to use procedural chicanery and wild unsupported accusations to turn support for Israel into a cudgel with which to beat your political enemies.

Get used to much more of this as the 2020 presidential campaign season heats up. Democrats do indeed have a problem with some of their base on Israel, and Republicans are going to do all they can to make them take uncomfortable vote after uncomfortable vote, reaping whatever political wins they can rather than try and sustain bipartisan support for Israel as a policy goal. Praise the rock-solid support for Israel in the Republican Party all you want but ask yourself how pro-Israel it truly is to accelerate a process through which Israel becomes a partisan issue rather than trying to stem the tide. ■Dr. Michael J. Koplow is Israel Policy Forum’s Policy Director, based in Washington, D.C.

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srael facing the “Who is a Jew” issue, one of several religious dilemmas to confront the state. Clergy “challenged” by intermarriage, assimilation and Hebrew school inattention.

American Jewry confronting a nightmare of anti-Semitism and hate. A Supreme Court justice hearing rocked with intense scrutiny. An administration facing scandal dealing with a foreign nation and a country glued to news reports of it and the Congressional testimony around it, day after day. After day.

This was more than three decades ago. It seems like everything — from the flavors of Faygo to the challenges of our demographics to the soup stains on the Maxwell House Haggadah — has stayed the same, with the history and the headlines repeating themselves.

Thirty-one years ago, the initial Detroit cohort of the Wexner Heritage Fellowship, a North American leadership development program designed to provide a toolkit of Jewish knowledge for emerging community leaders, was assembled. Detroit participants were recruited for that initial group when the three youngest members of the current Detroit cohort (including this author) were not yet born. This was the era of

Sinai Hospital, still 10 years away from being sold off to DMC. This was the late 1980s. Boblo and Tally Hall were thriving, so I was told; Google and Uber were not yet envisioned, nor were JSwipe or Twitter or Amazon.

Over the last three decades, it seems like everything except the Amidah has changed. Yet, truth-be-told, that may now depend on your prayer book, which may be digital, colorful, more matriarchal or, for some, non-existent.

One thing is certain: Making sense of a confused, complicated, certainly uncertain world is assisted by education rooted in Torah, by community-building done in real time and with peers who easily become friends. This is Wexner 2017-19 — and Wexner 1986-88.

The program still allows participants the dedicated time with the highest-caliber scholars to discuss and deliberate around the core of who we are as a people, all rooted in the famous Pirkei Avot phrase that inspired the Wexner Heritage Program: “The world stands upon three things: upon Torah, upon Divine service and upon acts of kindness.

The 20 current fellows have discussed pressing issues with noted scholar

Deborah Lipstadt just as earlier ones did with Leon Uris, the famous author of bestsellers including Exodus.

Matthew Shiffman of Birmingham, already a passionate philanthropist and dedicated booster of the city and community, has found immediate value in the program.

“Having the opportunity to be part of an incredible group (chavruta), Wexner has provided me a lasting platform to further my Jewish education and prepare me to be an even better lay leader within our community. It’s been many, many years since this program has been in Metro Detroit, and I feel blessed to be part of it.”

THE PROGRAM’S ROOTS When Les Wexner decided to make a significant philanthropic investment in leadership in the North American Jewish community, he approached it entrepreneurially, said Rabbi Jay Henry Moses, vice president at the Wexner Foundation.

“He and his co-founder, the late Rabbi Herb Friedman, piloted the Wexner Heritage Program in Les’ hometown of Columbus, Ohio, in 1985. It was immediately clear they had hit on a winning formula. So, they reached out to

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neighboring communities, and Detroit, where Les’ dear friends and mentors Max Fisher and Al Taubman were pillars of Jewish life, was one of the first cities to respond to the call and embrace the leadership development opportunity that the Wexner Foundation was offering.

“So, the Detroit group of 1986-88 were pioneers, helping the foundation test and hone the approach to adult Jewish learning in the service of strengthening leadership.”

“As a native Detroiter myself,” Moses said, “I was especially delighted the trustees of the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Foundation, in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, had the vision to realize a generation had passed, and it was time to invest in developing volunteer leaders in the Wexner model again.

“Since the 1980s, we have watched with great interest as Detroit weathered economic and social challenges and began an inspirational renaissance in the last decade. In the Wexner program, we teach that leaders need to guide their communities to respond to changing circumstances with an adaptive mindset — as Jewish communities have done for three millenia.

“We work with communities all over North America; nowhere are we seeing more vision and energy than in the current Detroit cohort, which represents nearly every corner of Detroit Jewish life, from city to suburbs, secular to Orthodox, schools, community cencontinued on page 14

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As Detroit continues to ride the wave of creativity and renewed energy, these leaders will be at the forefront of exciting new initiatives that will strengthen the community and put Jewish values into action.”

To bring the Wexner program back to Detroit, Larry Wolfe, immediate past Federation president, offered local philanthropic support of $350,000 through the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Foundation.

The Wexner Foundation matches that amount to fund the two-year program cost of $700,000. No expenses are incurred by the participants.

“Educated leadership is a catalyst for

progressive ideas, programs and communal participation,” Wolfe said. “The Wexner program is in the forefront of establishing new leaders and giving them the tools to enhance our communal outreach.”

The Wexner Foundation has expanded to additional fellowships that span leadership development for Jewish communal professionals in graduate programs (Wexner Graduate Fellowship/ Davidson Scholars Program) and leadership development for Jewish professionals (Wexner Field Fellowship), to service learning programs for high school students (Wexner Service Corps) and programs to advance the civic sector in

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Israel (Wexner Israel Fellowship, Wexner Senior Leaders).

CURRENT COHORT The fellows graduate this July in Jerusalem after having two years of local courses and weeklong seminars in Aspen and Utah to learn with participants in other selected cities throughout North America; three new cities begin each year.

During the local courses, a scholar travels to Detroit for a four-hour seminar, usually held every other Wednesday evening. The curriculum span is from liturgy and the Bible and contemporary Israel society to European Jewish history, God and synagogue, and modern leadership topics in 21st-century American Jewry.

“During our first Wexner Heritage retreat in Aspen in the summer of 2017, Les Wexner addressed the group in his beautiful mountainside home,” participant David Kramer of Bloomfield Hills recalled. “He told us he created the program because he came to realize many of the most prominent lay leaders in the Jewish communal world had little to no education in Jewish history, Jewish ritual or Jewishly informed leadership skills.

“I quickly came to realize the principal benefit of the program is not only learning from amazing scholars about all things Jewish, but also understanding how to take that knowledge and apply it to Jewish communal leadership.”

The current participants are already active in a diverse array of leadership endeavors in the community.

For example, Yoni Torgow of Oak Park contributes his time and energy to advance Yeshiva Beth Yehudah; Rachel Opperer of Huntington Woods does the same with Farber Hebrew Day School; Reuben Maxbauer of Farmington Hills has been an active, engaged board member of the Frankel Jewish Academy, as Josh Levine of Huntington Woods has been with the Hillel Day School.

Gayle Gold, also of Huntington Woods, has worked to support the Jewish Federation’s endeavors focused on young adult mental health needs. Others of the 20 fellows give of their time by working on Federation, Jewish agency, day school and synagogue boards and committees.

Alicia Chandler of Birmingham, current president of Detroit’s JCRC/AJC, says being a Wexner Fellow has been the most powerful experience of her Jewish communal life.

“It has taught me how to connect my Judaism to my Jewish leadership,” she said. “The experience has helped root my leadership in Torah and tradition and helped me understand the ever-changing entity that is the Jewish community. It has also given me 19 amazing, smart, thoughtful friends. While our community, like all communities, faces challenges, this experience helps empower leaders to embrace the challenges and help our community thrive.” continued on page 16

Wexner Inspired Initial Detroit Alumni The track record of Wexner Heritage Fellows from 1986-88 is easy to see.

Many of the graduates have given decades of leadership and service to the Jewish community, which has included some of the most significant positions of philanthropy, policy-making and community-building within Jewish Detroit, and within the national and international communities.

Peter Alter, as an example, has served as local Federation and Anti-Defamation League president as well as on national Jewish boards. He also studied for more than 15 years with Rabbi Avi Cohen of Partners Detroit, which Alter says has been a very special, worthwhile and privi-

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leged experience for him.

Dr. Richard Krugel has chaired the Jewish Fund and been president of the Jewish Community Relations Council; Judge Susan Moiseev has chaired committees at the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan and at Jewish Senior Life; Marcy Feldman co-chaired the Federation’s Family Mission to Israel and was vice president of Federation’s Women’s Division; Phillip Fisher served as chair of the Investment Committees of the Jewish Foundation of North America and the boards of the Jewish Foundation and United Way of Southeast Michigan — and this list is just a tip of the iceberg for their involvement and that of other members of their cohort.

Looking back to their time in Wexner, Cheryl and Dan Guyer, who attended together, said, “We were exposed to different models of leadership, developed a more critical way of problem-solving,

and had the opportunity to study with nationally and internationally known Jewish thought leaders — Adin Steinsaltz, Joseph Telushkin, Deborah Lipstadt, Yitz Geenberg, Irwin Kula and others.

“We connected with peers in other Jewish communities across the country,” Dan Guyer said. “We studied with them and learned from them and developed a global picture of leadership through Jewish values that prepared me to take on leadership roles in local agencies and nationally. The return of the Wexner program to Detroit is an opportunity to create a group of educated, thoughtful, dynamic and Jewishly sensitive leaders to take on the challenges of our community.”

Cheryl Guyer is director of development at the Holocaust Memorial Center.

Krugel says his experience in Wexner was one of the most significant events of his early Jewish leadership development and was life-altering. “Those

years studying with some of the greatest Jewish scholars in the world, including Rabbis Adin Steinsaltz, David Hartman and Shlomo Riskin, among others, made me realize the importance of Jewish education for the future of the Jewish people and the need for adult Jewish education.”

Alter says it’s impossible to overstate the success and impact of the Wexner programs nationally and in Israel.

“For Detroit, it was a privilege 30 years ago, for each of us participate in the program. It is a fantastic boost for Detroit to have Wexner back here. It, of course, enriches the community and creates a buzz, but, even more importantly, it helps to provide Detroit with a new generation of more informed, more educated, more enthusiastic and, therefore, better Jewish leaders. It allows many of the participants who have leadership potential to be/ become much better Jewish leaders. The entire community benefits.” ■

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Gold said, “The Wexner Heritage Program is an incredibly rich resource for the Detroit Jewish community. We are so fortunate that Wexner chose to come back to Detroit. The opportunity to study in a way that develops critical thinking has been truly inspirational for me. It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to stretch my brain in this way. It feels amazing.

“The end result will be a group of leaders with deepened relationships and heightened commitment to our community,” she said. “We will be armed with an enhanced skill set to effectively listen, problem solve and effect change — and, most importantly, the courage to do so.”

Kristen Gross of Farmington Hills said, “Experts have assisted me in honing my personal narrative; succinctly defining why I devote my time to Jewish philanthropic work. Wexner has given me the confidence to be bold and disruptive in certain areas and a thoughtful listener in others.”

Wendy Pittman of Huntington Woods said, “One of my favorite learnings is that pluralism is fundamental in Jewish history and this provides us

with a foundation to nurture, support and grow our community from a place of acceptance and unity.”

Rachel Opperer of Huntington Woods summed it up well: “From the community’s standpoint, Wexner has been a successful investment because we have taught a diverse group of Jews to talk with each other, to listen to each other, to respect each other, differences notwithstanding. The more opportunities we have for a community to act like a community, the stronger and more inviting our community will be.”

Scott Kaufman, Federation CEO, hopes to keep the program going in Detroit.

“In Jewish Detroit, we are blessed with a great pipeline of dedicated and talented emerging leaders,” he said.

“Among them are a cadre of leaders experiencing the Wexner program, a veritable masterclass in Jewish leadership. Wexner participants are developing expertise in the type of adaptive leadership that is essential in our rapidly changing world. Yet they are also gaining a deeper understanding of the Jewish texts and ethics that inform our enduring mission. Sort of a perfect balance of innovation and tradition that I see as an essential element of the Jewish experience throughout our history.

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Everyone should be talking about it,� said Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the center’s founder and director.

Lopatin aims to raise awareness of the ongoing crisis in Yemen, a wartorn country where Jews and Muslims coexisted for centuries, and also to showcase his organization’s approach to managing difficult conversation.

The event is being co-sponsored by the Detroit Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC and the Michigan Muslim Community Council and will feature speakers from both faiths.

It’s the first public event for the Detroit Center for Civil Discouse (DCCD), whose main goal is to offer a fellowship for Jewish and Muslim (and/or Arab) WSU students on conducting civil discourse. The fellowship will launch next fall with a cohort of 10 to 16 students, half of them Jewish, half Muslim and/ or Arab. It will start by providing an academic background on hot-button issues, particularly the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. That includes an overview of Muslim-Jewish relations

over the centuries, including the long periods of relative equanimity but also the flash points.  “Oftentimes, communities come in with fairly insular narratives,â€? said Saeed Khan, a WSU senior lecturer who will be serving as associate director for the center. “That then skews not only the overall discussion, but also prevents discussion from happening in the first place.â€?  On this firm foundation of facts, fellows will discuss tough issues — “no redlines,â€? Lopatin stressed. The goal for the students is not to change opinions, but simply to learn how to engage with one another. To that end, they’ll become versed in methodologies for carrying on fraught conversations in a respectful manner. “You don’t have to legitimize the other side; you don’t have to give up your own passionate feelings; and you can still come together — that’s the theory of civil discourse,â€? Lopatin said.  Lopatin, like the center, is new to the Detroit Jewish community, having come from New York last year to establish Kehillat Etz Chayim, a Modern Orthodox congregation based in Huntington Woods.  “The pulpit’s really all about the importance of the micro — of Jewish lives, of services, the smaller circle ‌ I wanted to really balance it on a personal level with the broader circle — the world,â€? he said.  To build the DCCD, Lopatin concontinued on page 20

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So far, funding for the center comes from private donors. Lopatin says the DCCD is now applying for nonprofit status and is in the early stages of seeking funding from foundations.

WSU has given the center space in its faculty building on campus.

The center’s focus on MuslimJewish relations is a reflection of its leadership — Lopatin being a rabbi and Khan a Muslim, and also of how strongly both populations are represented in Metro Detroit. However, the DCCD seeks to foster engagement among other groups as well.

For instance, in late January, the center helped bring 130 Farber Hebrew Day School and Hillel Day School students to Cass Tech High School to join Detroit public school peers in a National Day of Racial Healing.  Lopatin hopes, in time, to apply the civil discourse approach to all kinds of discord, from wars between economic classes to angry political arguments at the Shabbat table. “The idea really is that ‌ connections between diverse communities, even communities that have historically been seen as very much at odds with each other ‌ that this kind of connection can be really rewarding,â€? he said. â– The program on Yemen will be at 4 p.m.

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n ongoing efforts to bring sparks collaborative,” Horwitz said. “We of connection to a post-affiliation are excited to bring some of the best generation, Detroit’s youngest practices on the coasts to Detroit rabbis will hold “Shabbat Together,” and are crafting a non-denominaan innovative Shabbat experience tional spiritual experience. And, if with guitars, singing and a it works, we will surely do it farm-to-table dinner, 7 p.m. again.”

Friday, Feb. 8, at Jam Handy, Dahlen said he hopes partic2900 E. Grand Blvd. in ipants will come away feeling Detroit. nourished, peaceful and will More a collaboration of love have found an experience with and friendship than work, the depth and meaning they Yoni Dahlen the evening will best reflect have been seeking. the shared passions and He added the friendship, aspirations of rabbis such as mutual respect and love the Yoni Dahlen of Congregation rabbis have for Judaism and Shararey Zedek, Megan each other made the planning Brudney of Temple Beth El, a joy and not a chore.

The Well’s Daniel Horwitz, “The truth is that we aren’t Temple Israel’s Jen Lader and working together so much as Hazon’s Nate DeGroot. All are Megan Brudney we are dreaming and braineager to push the envelope on storming with one another,” innovative efforts to continue Dahlen said. “All of us are good to energize the next generafriends, and it’s truly a blessing tions of Detroit Jews. to be able to spend time togethLast spring, with help er to make this dream Shabbat from a William Davidson of ours into a reality. We get Foundation grant, Horwitz to make music together, share Dan Horwitz and Dahlen traveled to Los Torah with one another and Angeles for a Jewish Emergent shape prayer together. What Network conference to see could be better?” what they could bring home Lader was excited to be the to Detroit. Comprised of coordinating rabbi at Temple seven innovative Jewish comIsrael to work on projects like munities in coastal cities, this this for a “new, fun, upcoming movement seeks to reinvent generation of young Jewish Jen Lader and re-engage Jewish educaadults in Detroit.” tional and ritual practice to “My favorite kind of newer generations of post-afShabbat services are filled filiated Jews. with wordless melodies that An example is a “wordless allow the worshipper to interShabbat” The Well held in ject their own meditations January where 40 young adults and intentions rather than be ushered in a Friday night constrained to the words on with harmonious niggunim to Nate DeGroot a page,” she said. “This is a allow for private meditations generation craving spirituality rather than reciting psalms from a and relationships, and we wanted traditional siddur. to create a service that appeals to a Horwitz said the Feb. 8 service, wider audience. It will be as open geared to those 40 and younger, is and inclusive as possible. We want to not rooted in any one siddur but create a Shabbat experience where no will have the “arc” of a traditional one will feel like an outsider.” ■ Kabbalat Shabbat service with participants sitting in concentric circles. Due to donors, subsidized tickets are $14. To RSVP, go to temple-israel.org.

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Area religious leaders lead the Havdalah blessings at Havdalapalooza at Hillel Day School in Farmington Hills. More than 400 people celebrated together with community partmer organizations, including Adat Shalom, Aish HaTorah, B’nai Moshe, Shaarey Zedek, Beth Shalom, Temple Beth El, Temple Israel, Frankel Jewish Academy, JFamily, PJ Libary and Tamarack Camps.

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he Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation’s Bagels & Bragging Rights event is open to the public for the first time, and the foundation has lined up an interesting speaker.

Former Detroit Tigers pitching star and Detroit radio and television personality Denny McLain will speak Sunday, Feb. 3, at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.

The free event will be from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and include tours of the Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame and Bob Matthews sports exhibit.

An RSVP is required by calling foundation executive director Sari Circurel at (248) 592-9323 or sending her an email at Scircurel@ michiganjewishsports.org.

Circurel said the event in the past was an invitation-only celebration for Hall of Fame inductees and Pillars of Excellence award winners.

It still has that purpose, but now it has another one.

“It’s an opportunity for the public to learn in a casual setting what the foundation does in the community,” Cicurel said. “They’ll learn about our events, and the money we raise for scholarships, cancer research and the Hall of Fame.”

Circurel said she hopes to make Bagels & Bragging Rights an annual event, perhaps holding it in early fall.

McLain, 74, is as well known for winning 31 games in 1968 and helping the Tigers win the World Series as he is for his off-field problems, which landed him in prison twice.

He’s a popular speaker these days, with more than 150 engagements annually. And he recently launched a podcast with former local sportscasters Eli Zaret and Bob Page titled “No Filter Sports.”

There will be time for questions and answers after McLain speaks at Bagels & Bragging Rights.

FIRST-HALF CHAMPS They’re off and running in the second half of the Brotherhood-Eddie Jacobson B’nai B’rith bowling league season. The first night of competition in the second half was Jan. 21.

First half-winners were the Manute Bolers in the Pistons Division, the Dream Team in the Tigers Division, Pin Pals in the Red Wings Division and NeinandTenn in the Lions Division.

Each half has 14 weeks of bowling in the weekly league.

Three weeks of playoffs follow the second half. In the first week, the division winners in the first and second halves compete if needed. If a team wins both halves in its division, it gets a bye.

That sets the stage for the final four competing in the second week of the playoffs and the two surviving teams playing for the league championship the next week.

“Last year two teams won their division championship in the first and second halves,” said league spokesman Gary Klinger. “That was rare. Usually we have zero or one team win both halves.”

The big story in the league this season has been the scores. The league moved to the 300 Bowl in Waterford Township from Country Lanes in Farmington Hills, its home since 1986, and scores fell precipitously at the start of the season, mainly because the bowlers were unfamiliar with the lanes.

“Scores started coming back up about halfway through the first half and they’ve continued to climb,” Klinger said. “But it’s going to take a while for a lot of guys to get back to where they should be. Their averages were down 20 to 25 pins.”

Top first-half averages belonged to Mike Kolb (218), Aaron Radner (218), Dave Shanbaum (217), Klinger (217) and Phil Horowitz (214). Lyle Schaefer rolled a 300 game and Radner had a 792 series. ■ Send news to stevestein502004@yahoo.com.

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Sarah Madison Karp, surrounded by family and friends, will become a bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. She is the loving daughter of Bruce and the late Jennifer Karp and sister of Jacob. Sarah is the grandchild of Ronda and the late Morton Karp, and Nancy and Uri Sofer.

She is a student at Walnut Creek Middle School in West Bloomfield. As part of her most meaningful mitzvah project, Sarah volunteered for the housing of the residents of the South Oakland Shelter at Temple Israel. She has taken part in this special program for three years.

Rebekah Lauren Schwartz will be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. Joining in her celebration will be her proud par-

ents, Dr. Stacey and Mark Schwartz, and brother Ethan. She is the loving grandchild of Marlene and Dr. Elliotte Moss, and Carole and the late Hon. Michael D. Schwartz.

Rebekah attends West Hills Middle School in Bloomfield Hills. As part of her mitzvah project, she volunteered with Special Olympians from Oakland County Special Olympics. She found helping the athletes learn their routines for competition to be very meaningful.

Ethan Westin Winter (Gershom David), was called to the bimah to read from the Torah to celebrate his bar mitzvah at Chabad Southside in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019. He is the son of Nathan and Susie (Weiss) Winter, brother of Jesse and grandson of the late Nettie Weiss, Howard and Sherry Weiss, Cyndee Winter, and Wayne and Xinia Winter.

Ethan is a student at Kernan Middle School in Jacksonville, Fla.

Israeli Filmmaker Itai Anghel To Discuss ISIS Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC (JCRC/AJC) and Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit will welcome Itai Anghel, one of Israel’s most prominent TV journalists, to Temple Beth El (7400 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Township) on Wednesday, Feb. 6. His presentation, “ISIS — The Day After: A Look from Within,” will begin at 7 p.m. and conclude with a dessert reception — dietary laws observed.

Through clips and firsthand experience, Anghel will address what led to the rise and fall of the Islamic State and the jihadists in the Middle East, which influenced Israeli and U.S. foreign policy. In doing so, he will help attendees understand the possible re-emergence of the organization’s ideas.

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hat’s the point of prison? ing the offender to achieve atonement America is suffering and thus continue fulfilling his or her from a broken prison mission. system. We house 22 percent of the This is the beauty of Torah’s justice world’s prisoners while represystem. Criminals need to be senting only 4.4 percent of the punished, but the punishment world’s population. Statistics needs to be productive and show that almost seven out of encourage further growth.

10 released prisoners will be How can we apply this prinrearrested within three years. ciple to our justice system?

Are we doing it all wrong?

America should rethink the Let us turn to the civil laws guiding principles behind Rabbi Levi Dubov presented by God to Moses incarceration: Why are we Contributing Writer in this week’s Torah portion. locking people up? For what Included are the appropripurpose? What do we hope to Parshat ate punishments for certain gain from it?

Mishpatim: crimes but with one glaring Torah teaches us the correct Exodus omission. Incarceration, the approach: Focus on rehabiliprimary and most commonly 21:1-24:18; tation and reintegration, not Jeremiah used form of punishment in revenge and retaliation. If a 34:8-22, modern-day societies, is not fellow human being falls so low 33:25-26. mentioned. that he or she resorts to crime, But why would the Torah then that person especially is reject imprisonment as a form of pun- in need of our support and help. We ishment? Everyone agrees that every must ask ourselves, “How can we person should live in freedom and be assist this person to be a productive able to be productive. Western values member of society again? How can consider it a right that every human we help this human being to fulfill his being, if he so wishes, has the right to mission?” be productive.

This refreshing approach was But when one breaks the law, he is championed by the Rebbe, Rabbi forfeiting that, and we, as a society, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. take away that right of freedom.

Reaching out to the Jewish prison The Torah’s outlook is fundamenpopulation has been an integral part tally different: Human productivity is of the Chabad Lubavitch platform for not merely a right; it is an obligation. decades. As per the Rebbe’s request, It’s not that you can be productive; I often visit fellow Jews serving time you must be productive! Every perat local prisons, especially for Jewish son is entrusted with a unique Godholidays, to give them the support and given mission that only he or she can community they so desperately need. achieve, and the fulfillment of this Rather than view criminals with mission is critical for the trajectory of disdain, we should lend our support history. and genuinely try to help them rehaThis is why incarceration is not an bilitate, by cultivating from within option in the Torah. By locking some- them the sense of humanity that we one up, you are robbing him or her of all share, with the fervent hope that the ability to fulfill a God-given misthey, too, will eventually be able to sion. You are robbing humanity and reclaim their place in society. ■ the world at large from the contribuRabbi Levi Dubov directs the Chabad Jewish tion that it needs from this person.

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Proud as a Peacock Rachel Lutz helps return retail elegance to the city of Detroit.

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“These spaces give us a sense of place. They inspired the next direction for the business. Out of respect for the architecture,” Rachel Lutz says.

It was then that she embraced the brand’s current identity as a vintage and vintage-inspired dress shop, recalling the scenes of B. Altman in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

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he story of the Peacock Room is the story of drop ceilings. Or rather, the story of finding what’s underneath them. “You don’t get the real richness of Detroit without really peeling back the layers,” says Rachel Lutz, founder and proprietor.

The first drop ceiling was in 2010 in the Park Shelton, where the then-building manager (community member Jay Bassin) showed Lutz the last available retail space in a sign-less, lobby-entry-only room. After losing her luxury retail job in the recession, Lutz had been re-selling vintage and estate sale finds at pop-ups around town but knew she was in it for a brick-and-mortar.

She was driven by two realizations: First, that there was a gap in the market. She and other Detroit residents had to leave city limits to shop for apparel, an experience familiar in a city long underserved by national and local retailers that disinvested during decades of the city’s decline. Second, the kind of sustaining human connection shared while shopping in boutiques is not replicable online.

The ability to thoughtfully buy for customers of all body types and to show genuine warmth, openness for conversation and styling prowess is a unique experience only a brick-and-mortar business offers.

That day in the Park Shelton, Lutz figured she would find a way to offer that experience in the cramped shop space. And then, hidden under the low drop ceiling for so long no one could remember, they found high ceilings with original plasterwork from the building’s historic dining room.

Lutz reworked the brand entirely, shaping it to match the remnants of gilded age history dotted across Detroit’s cityscape like a treasure map — so rarely appreciated for how precious a local treasure our architectural legacy is.

“These spaces give us a sense of place … The space inspired the next direction for the business.

Out of respect for the architecture,” Lutz says.

It was then that she embraced the brand’s current identity as a vintage and vintage-inspired dress shop, paying homage to an era of women’s shopping we continued on page 30

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“I didn’t want to open another store, but I really wanted to save that room.

I wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate beauty for the sake of beauty.

We don’t build public spaces like that anymore.”

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might only recognize from our grandmothers’ anecdotes and the scenes of B. Altman in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Over time, the space in the Park Shelton doubled and moved into prized, Woodward-facing storefronts. Frida was born, another shop featuring colorful, bohemian clothing and copious references to artist Frida Kahlo, who famously lived in the Park Shelton with Diego Rivera while he worked on his iconic DIA frescoes. Lutz was thrilled and just beginning to breathe easier.

RETAIL RESURGENCE That’s when, in 2017, real estate agent Benji Rosenzweig was sitting in a retail strategy meeting in the Fisher Building office of the Platform, Peter Cumming’s real estate group that had recently purchased the building. They were talking about their vision for a creative combination of special national retail (like the City Bakery that opened in 2018 — the first location for the cult favorite outside of New York and Tokyo) and energetic, community-building local entrepreneurs creating magnets of unique experiences.

Benji immediBenji ately thought of Rosenzweig Rachel and started talking about her and pulling up her store’s social media to show Peter and his part-

ner, Dietrich Knoer, who stopped the meeting and said, “Go talk to her today and let her know we want her in the Fisher Building.”

And so, promptly dispatched, Rosenzweig drove down to the Park Shelton to sell Lutz on the idea. This new, friendly little Jewish mafia won Lutz over, sharing their conviction that there was no one better to do justice to the ground-floor arcade space occupied from the late 1920s-1970s by “Julie’s,” a two-story dress shop.

Lutz says with a sigh, “I didn’t want to open another store, but I really wanted to save that room.”

The first thing they did, per usual, was peek under the drop ceiling. Once again, arches with intricate moldings were on the other side. What else? Lutz inventories the architectural details she painstakingly preserved. “There were two-story beveled mirrors with glass rosettes; there was a fireplace, this gorgeous spiral staircase, bronze elevator doors with carvings of ribbons, unlike anything I’ve ever seen.”

Preserved is actually an understatement. With the help of artist Teresa DeRue of Paintworks Detroit, Lutz transformed the store into a masterpiece. They selected a Cinderella-esque color palette and set about adding intricate details and sourcing the perfect chandeliers (which Lutz still doesn’t think she got quite right).

“I wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate beauty for the sake of beauty,” she says. “We

don’t build public spaces like that anymore.”

The result is a jaw-dropping, completely transporting portal into the early 20th century. One doesn’t know where to look first: the glittering chandeliers, the gold mirrors, racks of colorful dresses (ranging from modest workwear to sparkly, floor-length numbers), towering stands of top hats, oddities like bejeweled purses shaped like pagodas, fancy embossed stationery full of swear words, anddevotional candles featuring illustrations of James Baldwin and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Along with the flagship Peacock Room, Lutz also runs Yama out of the Fisher Building.

Yama offers streamlined, sleek and simple women’s fashions.

The interior design is in step with the larger setting of the Fisher Building and New Center.

Built in the early-20th century around the GM headquarters in Cadillac Place, across Grand Boulevard, and with the premise this was a thriving business center, densely packed with offices and homes for white-collar employees and executives, the neighborhood’s density took a serious hit when GM moved to the Renaissance Center in 1996.

Only in the last few years is New Center starting to look like its former and future self. But a chicken-and-egg game keeps storefronts empty: Will the retail development and amenities come first or will their consumers?

The photos on the far left from the Detroit Historical Society show the room’s original look.

Today, the space contains vintage clothing, including tophats and bejeweled purses, embossed stationery full of swear words and devotional candles featuring illustrations of James Baldwin and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

NEW CENTER IS BACK Was it, therefore, a gamble to open a clothing store in New Center? Lutz responds with a vehement no. What she realized, sitting in the Fisher Building lobby with Rosenzweig, is that a huge population of office workers and diverse residential neighbors have been dramatically underserved for years. “The building and the neighborhood were bustling, but the business community missed the memo.”

Rosenzweig says 35,000 daily employees can be found in New Center. “Right now, Corktown is the big deal because of Ford. After Ford moves in, there will be 6,000 daily employees in Corktown. New Center has five, six times more than that already.”

Those populations are growing daily — literally hundreds of new people will be moving into residential developments opening in the next five years.

“If you’re looking to open a business today, you should be looking at New Center,” Rosenzweig insists.

The way Lutz sees it, those still-empty storefronts are a tremendous business, economic development and urban planning opportunity. “If nobody occupies these storefronts,” she reasons, “then nothing in these neighborhoods will change.”

That said, she pays tremendous respect to her retail neighbors, like the Fashion Place and Russel’s Pharmacy, that held down the fort for the neighborhood and its underserved foot traffic for so many years.

She also credits the Platform for its thoughtful, local business-forward redevelopment strategy, and for being

wonderful partners in recreating the building’s image and occupancy inclusively and compassionately.

The retail corridor emerging within the Fisher and New Center more broadly is much loved and lauded by thousands of neighborhood residents and workforce members, and Lutz wants to make sure the broader Metro Detroit business community knows there’s more demand to meet.

Retail can thrive in Detroit and engage in a meaningful conversation about neighborhood development and urban planning at the same time.

Every new business makes a measurable profit and difference. Lutz is humble, but Rosenzweig sings her praises, sharing anecdotes of an elderly couple who drove from Armada to Detroit to see the store, their first time in the city since 1994, and of the other businesses that the Peacock Room has helped to attract and support (“The tailor downstairs, William & Bonnie, is going gangbusters”).

“Rachel delivered exactly what we were hoping, which is that new energy,” he says.

One hundred years ago, we built beautiful public spaces in which to work, play and live. We then spent a decade slowly abandoning them, replacing them with surface lots, and plastering them over with drywall and drop ceilings. But good bones, good buildings last, standing in wait for imaginative people to fill them with new community assets. Rachel Lutz and the Peacock Room set a standard for just how thoughtfully and successfully we can do the work of honoring and refilling those spaces. ■

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he big day is nearly here. Next Sunday, Feb. 3, Americans (and the world) will indulge in watching Super Bowl LIII. When the New Annabel Cohen England Patriots and the Food Columnist Los Angeles Rams kickoff, hundreds of millions will tune in to the battle that determines which team is best.

Of course, we can’t watch the game on empty stomachs.

The Super Bowl is the perfect occasion to entertain without fuss. It is a football game, and it would seem silly to serve anything other than casual foods on disposable plates, right?

Well, mostly right. True, more pizza is served on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year (what’s easier than picking up the phone?). But, time out!

Make your own pizza — so easy using French bread (baguettes).

The following recipes are quite casual and easy to prepare in advance. Your own chili. In place of creamy commercial coleslaw, a fresh, light and homemade slaw. And you’ll win extra points with homemade pulled brisket sliders. Read on for more yumminess. Find a few more online at thejewishnews.com.

NO-BEAN CHILI This is a great chili to serve over hot dogs, with lots of chopped onions and yellow mustard.

2 Tbsp. vegetable oil 2 cups chopped onions 1 Tbsp. minced garlic 3 lbs. ground chuck

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1 large green bell pepper, chopped 4 Tbsp. chili powder 1 tsp. sugar ½ tsp. ground cayenne pepper, or to taste 2 Tbsp. dried parsley flakes 1 bay leaf 1 28-ounce can diced tomatoes with liquid 1 can (6-ounces) tomato paste 2 cups (or one 15-ounce can) beef broth Salt and pepper to taste Traditional method: Heat oil in large pot over medium-high heat. Add onions and garlic. Cook, stirring occasionally for 5 minutes. Add the beef and cook, stirring occasionally for 5 minutes more.

Add remaining ingredients and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover and cook for

1 hour. Remove cover and cook another hour until thickened. Adjust seasonings to taste and serve. Makes 8 servings.

Instant Pot method: To make this in the InstantPot, saute the onions and garlic on the “Saute” feature of the pot (uncovered). Add the beef and saute, breaking up the meat as you go along.

Add the remaining ingredients and cook on the “chili” setting. Allow to cool in the pot until you are able to open it (or release the steam), stir and adjust salt and pepper to taste.

PULLED BARBECUE BRISKET Although this is made in the oven instead of slow cooking on a barbecue, the flavor is sweet and spicy with a wonderful mix of flavors.

5 pounds beef brisket, most visible

fat removed 1 can (28-ounces) crushed tomatoes 2 cups finely chopped onions 2 Tbsp. minced garlic 1 tsp. ground pepper 2 Tbsp. kosher salt 2 Tbsp. brown sugar 2 Tbsp. chili powder Garnish: 1-2 cups favorite barbecue sauce 2 Tbsp. red wine vinegar 1 Tbsp. hot pepper sauce, such as Tabasco, optional Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Place brisket in a roasting pan or disposable aluminum pan and add the remaining ingredients to the pan (around the meat). Cover the pan with foil and cook for 5 hours. Remove from the oven and cool completely (you may cook the beef up to a day ahead).

Use your fingers (or 2 forks) to pull apart or shred the beef with the grain to thin small pieces. Place the pulled beef in a pot with accumulated juices. Add all the sauce ingredients and stir to combine. Cook over medium heat until very hot and saucy. (Alternately, place it back in the roasting pan and keep warm at 200ºF until ready to serve). Keep warm until ready to eat. Serve the beef on small rolls or burger buns. Serve with mustard or other condiments, if desired. Makes 20 “sliders” or more servings.

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6 cups finely shredded green cabbage 2 cups chopped parsley 1 red bell pepper, minced ½ cup mayonnaise 2-4 Tbsp. red wine vinegar 2 Tbsp. fresh lime juice 1 Tbsp. sugar ¼ tsp. ground cayenne pepper Salt and pepper to taste Combine all ingredients (start with 2 Tbsp. vinegar) in a large bowl and

toss well (it’s most efficient to toss with your clean hands). Adjust vinegar and seasonings to taste and chill until ready to serve, up to a day ahead. Makes 8 servings.

TOFFEE PECAN BROWNIES 2 sticks (1 cup) butter or margarine 8 oz. good-quality, semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate chips or chopped chocolate 1¼ cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp. baking powder ½ tsp. salt 1½ cups sugar 4 large eggs 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup chopped pecans 1 cup chopped toffee pieces Preheat oven to 350°F. Line the bottom only of an 8-inch square baking pan with parchment paper.

Whisk together flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl. Set aside.

Combine butter and chocolate in a large microwave-safe bowl and cook on high for 2 minutes. Stir until smooth (if the chocolate is not completely melted, cook for 30 seconds more and stir again).

Add the sugar, eggs and vanilla to the chocolate mixture, stirring with a rubber spatula until uniform. Whisk or stir in flour mixture, then stir in nuts and toffee. Transfer the batter to the prepared baking pan.

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tary categories (full-length and short). I do want to highlight here the nominations of Jamie Ray Newman, 40, and her Israeli husband, Guy Nattiv, 45. Skin, a film they co-produced, is nominated for best short subject film. Newman grew up in Farmington Hills, attended Hillel Day School and graduated from Cranbrook. She’s had a very good, if not spectacular, acting career (mostly in TV) for the last 15 years. She married her husband in Tel Aviv in 2012. A full feature version of Skin, also called Skin, got good reviews at the 2018 Toronto Film Festival and was picked up for national distribution sometime this year. The full-length version, like the short version, was co-produced by Newman and was directed and written by Nattiv. It stars Jamie Bell as a neo-Nazi skinhead who risked his life to leave a white supremacist group.

It’s based on a true story.

Look for an interview with Newman and Nattiv in the Feb. 7 JN.

OSCARS PREVIEW The Oscar nominations were announced on Jan. 22. The awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, Feb. 24, on ABC. My full coverage of the Jewish nominees will appear in the JN Feb. 21.

Here are some of the Jewish nominees and a few related points of interest.

Rachel Weisz, 48, is the only Jewish actor nominated for an acting award. She played Sarah Churchill in The Favourite, a British film Rachel Weisz that explored Churchill’s relationship with Queen Anne, who co-ruled Great Britain in the early 18th century.

Two non-Jewish actors, Adam Driver and Melissa McCarthy, are nominated for playing Jewish characters. Driver played a Jewish police officer in Black KkKlansman and McCarthy played the late Marc Shaiman Lee Israel, a real-life Jewish journalist-turned-forger in Can You Ever Forgive BRIEFLY NOTED Me? Another “real� Jewish The original Netflix black person — Justice Ruth comedy series Russian Doll Bader Ginsburg, 85, is the premieres on Feb. 1. It has subject of the documentary kind of a Groundhog Day RBG, which is nominated premise. Natasha Lyonne, for best feature (full-length) 39, who co-created the documentary.  series, stars as Nadia, who Four of the fives movies is the guest of honor at a nominated for best adapted Ruth Bader Ginsburg party. Nadia’s problem is screenplay were co-written that time and time again

by Jewish nominees I will she finds herself going profile Feb. 21. Nicholas to this same party, dying, Britell, 38, (If Beale Street being mysteriously revived Could Talk) and Marc and doing it all again the Shaiman, 59, (The Return of next day.

Mary Poppins) are nominatCold War, a Polish film ed for best original score. about a romantic couple Shaiman scored another that takes place in the nomination (best song) for 1940s through the 1960s, a tune he wrote for Poppins will open at the Maple and vies in this category Theater in Bloomfield Hills Cedric Kahn with Mark Ronson, 43, who on Feb. 1. It’s a best foreign co-wrote a nominated song language film Oscar nomifrom A Star is Born. nee. Appearing in a supportThere are Jewish nominees, who I will ing role (“Michel�) is Cedric Kahn, 52, a cover in my Feb. 21 article, in the animat- French director and actor well-known in ed film category and the best documenFrance. ■GEORGES BIARD

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THURSDAY, JAN. 31 POTTERY CLASS 11 am-1 pm, Jan. 31. At JCC, 6600 W. Maple, West Bloomfield. The class for adults is taught by Allison Berlin. Cost: $15. Info: 248-432-5467.

BERMAN NIGHT OF LEARNING 7 pm, Jan. 31. “An Ironman’s Journey: From Fat to Fit, One Step at a Time” with Ira Goldberg. At Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. Info: 248-654-5477.

‘MUSIC MAN’ 7:30-10 pm, Jan. 31. At the Berman Center for the Performing Arts in West Bloomfield. Other performances: Feb. 3, 2-4:30; Feb. 7, 7:30-10; Feb. 9, 8-10.

Berman Center (for the Performing Arts), adjoining West Bloomfield JCC. theberman.jccdet.org or 248-661-1900.

BLUES FESTIVAL 7:30 pm, Jan. 31. At Jewish Ferndale, 1725 Pinecrest. Featuring singer/songwriter Gedalya. Suggested donation $10.

Handicap parking on site. Light kosher refreshments. Info: 248-798-5082.

FRIDAY, FEB. 1 SHAKE, RATTLE & TWIST 11:15 am, Feb. 1. At Adat Shalom in Farmington Hills. A special opportunity for parents and grandparents to spend time with their babies/toddlers, age 3 and younger. Older sibs are always welcome.

The group will sing songs and braid challah. The program is free for Adat Shalom members and $3/family for non-members.

Reservations are required. Contact Debi Banooni at dbanooni@adatshalom.org or 248-626-2153.

Judaism can make them happier. The community is welcome. Free. Info: call 248-851-5100.

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MONDAY, FEB. 4 JEWISH MYSTICISM 7-8:30 pm, Feb. 4. At Shir Tikvah in Troy.

FedEd will present Hazzan Steve Klaper for five sessions, “An Introductory Dive into Jewish Mysticism.” Tuition: $90.

ANTI-SEMITISM POLITICIZED 7 pm, Feb. 4. Michigan Jewish Action Council will host Rabbi Yaakov Menken of the Coalition for Jewish Values. At Adat Shalom in Farmington Hills. Free.

TUESDAY, FEB. 5 ROSH CHODESH STUDY 10-11 am, Feb. 5. Sisterhood of Adat Shalom invites women from the community to welcome the new month of Adar 1 with a study session led by Rabbi Rachel Shere. At the synagogue in Farmington Hills. No charge. RSVP to Rochelle.r.lieberman@gmail.com or 248-553-2498.

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Starts Jan. 31 “MIRROR, MIRROR” Join Friendship Circle’s Soul Studio in Detroit for “Mirror, Mirror,” an exhibition of artwork at the College for Creative Studies. “Mirror, Mirror” will feature a variety of large-scale artworks from animated sculptural tapestries to elaborate beaded curtains, to vibrant monumental abstract expressionist paintings. Each of the artworks has been produced over the last two years by Soul Studio artists, who include Jonathan Barnett, Jacob Baron, Rachel Fallert (whose work is shown, right), Andy Feinberg, Teddy Fitzmaurice, Alyssa Gold, Stephanie Harris, Lauren Ettinger and Dominic Hotz, Blake Jackson, Jason Luckoff, Brian Nanry, Devorah Newman and Aislinn Wendrow. The exhibition runs through March 30. Gallery hours: Tuesday -Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

SIMPLY DANCE 11 am, Feb. 5. At JCC, 6600 W. Maple, West Bloomfield. Led by Christine Stewart; no partner necessary. Cost: $7. Info: 248-432-5467.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6

FILM SCREENING IN ANN ARBOR 12:30-2 pm, Feb. 6. Join the J in Ann Arbor for a screening of 1993 film Groundhog Day. This event is a part of the J’s Lunch Cafe. An optional lunch will be available at noon for purchase. Call at least one day prior to reserve lunch. For info and to RSVP: SHABBAT APPELLA 5 pm, Feb. 1. At Adat Shalom in Farmington Rachael at 734-971-0990 or rachaelhoffenblum@jccannarbor.org.

Hills. The beautiful melodies of Kabbalat Shabbat are presented in intricate a cappella MOVIE MATINEE 1 pm, Feb. 6. At JCC, 6600 W. Maple, West harmony allowing you to participate in the spirituality of this special service to welcome Bloomfield. Jewish Americans, Part 1 (110 Shabbat. The service is open to the commu- min.) Info: 248-432-5467. nity. Info: 248-851-5100.

CONVERSION & IDENTITY 7-8:30 pm. Feb. 6. At the West Bloomfield T.G.I.S. JCC, the U-M Frankel Center Lecture Series 5:45 pm, Feb. 1. “Thank God It’s will host Ryan Szpiech. His topic: “He Is Shabbat” at Shaarey Zedek in Southfield.

Participatory musical Friday night services Still Israel? Conversion and Jewish Identity in the Middle Ages.” This talk will present feature the CSZ clergy and the T.G.I.S. Players. Come as you are. Leave uplifted. the stories of a variety of converts, including one story of forced “conversion” from SUNDAY, FEB. 3 Karaism within the Jewish community itself — to explore how changing religion affectMEDITATION & MINDFULNESS ed the understanding of Jewish identity in 9:30 am, Feb. 3. Adults of all ages are the Middle Ages. If you have a disability invited to join Rabbi Aaron Bergman at that requires accommodation, contact the Adat Shalom in Farmington Hills. The Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@ class is designed to help individuals find umich.edu or 734-763-9047. their internal spirituality and realize that

Starting Tuesday, Feb. 5 AMERICAN PANORAMA: A DSO WINTER FESTIVAL American Panorama is a three-week winter music festival celebrating the symphonic repertoire and wide-ranging musical spirit of the United States. Six programs will be led by Music Director Laureate Leonard Slatkin, showcasing Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess, Bernstein’s West Side Story and Copland’s suite from Appalachian Spring.

Look for expanded programming in The Cube, including a film viewing of The Beast with Five Fingers introduced

by Slatkin, whose uncle, Victor, contributed a left-hand transcription of a Bach chaconne to this 1946 film. Full schedule at dso.org/festival?0.

Through Feb. 9 “FIGURES & FLOWERS” “Figures & Flowers” exhibit at David Klein Gallery, 163 Townsend St., Birmingham, includes recent prints by Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, Emmy Bright, Peter Halley, Damien Hirst, Alex Katz (whose work, Purple Hat, is shown), Kelly Reemtsen and Donald Sultan.

Gallery hours are 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

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BAGELS & BASICS 10:30 am, At Kol Ami in West Bloomfield, a discussion on the topic of “The Jewish-Chinese Connection” with Rabbi Brent Gutmann. Coffee and bagels served. Free and open to the community.

RSVP to 248-661-0040 or cspektor@tkolami.org.

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THURSDAY, FEB. 7 LIFE ENHANCEMENT 10 am, Feb. 7. At Jewish Family Service, 6555 W. Maple, West Bloomfield. Cancer Thrivers Network presents Dr. Sheba Roy on “How to Fight Cancer, Heart Disease and Diabetes with Your Fork.” $12 includes kosher lunch.

RSVP by Feb. 5 to Tracy Agranove, 248592-2267 or tagranove@jfsdetroit.org.

A GUT-BUSTING HIT!”

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BERMAN NIGHT OF LEARNING 7 pm, Feb. 7. “Judaism and the Afterlife” with Rabbi David Fain. At Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. Info: 248354-5477.

FRIDAY, FEB. 8

A COMEDY FOR THE AGES. ALL

WINTER WONDERLAND 5:45 pm, Feb. 8. At Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, a Shabbat experience for families with children up to age 5. Tot Shabbat offers an age-appropriate kids’ Shabbat service featuring the CSZ clergy, followed by a dairy buffet dinner for the entire family and themed activities,

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crafts and games. Cost: $10 per adult, $4 per child. RSVP by Friday, Feb. 1, www.shaareyzedek.org or 248-3575544.

MUSIC CAFE & MORE 7 pm, Feb. 9. Havdalah, dinner and a show with Ron Coden at Temple EmanuEl. $18 per person. Sponsorships available $50, $10, $250 (Sponsors receive 2 tickets). RSVP by Feb. 6: 248-967-4020 or TempleFamily@emanuel-mich.org.

MAGICAL MOMENTS 7:30 pm, Feb. 9. Eleanor Roosevelt Hadassah will host a benefit for the ophthalmology wing at Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem, Israel. Wine, cheese, magic and desserts. Cost: $27 per person. Send check, payable to Hadassah, to 5030 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323. RSVP by Feb. 1. Info: Blanche at 248-851-6572.

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Micromanaging Your Child’s Diet: Helpful or Hurtful?

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icromanaging children’s lives has become a widespread issue in the last 15 years.

“Helicopter parenting” (HP) describes a hovering, overarching guard over a child well into his adult life. Other terms, such as the “Bubble Wrap Generation,” explain the result of extra precautions and limits put on children by their parents and how a new generation of adults might not be adequately prepared for the obstacles of life.

One study notes this parenting style stems out of the quest to appease parents’ own anxieties.” A further study revealed this anxiety transmits back to the child and counteracts the actual intention of micromanagement: to ensure strong performance in all areas of life.

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IMPACT ON DEVELOPMENT Independence is established at an early age. Exploring failure and success builds character and lasting life experiences that are compounded for a fully capable child to develop into a self-sufficient adult. Without living through these challenges, a child will be impaired to face challenges throughout life. This overprotective nature leads to poor consequences, such as lack of opportunity for independence that can last well until the child moves into adulthood.

Anxiety and depression are common in children with helicopter parents, thus translating into their academic, professional and personal life. Helicopterraised children often experience heightened anxiety when making life deci-

sions. Low self-esteem is created by the inability to be self-sufficient. The child does not know how to make appropriate decisions for himself such as what to eat, what to wear or even how to appropriately pack a backpack or lunchbox.

On a psychological level, HP can result in disordered eating patterns.

Dietary restrictions in early childhood have been shown to result in disordered eating later in life. When certain foods are restricted, it has been seen to actually entice children to desire them more, thus encouraging binge-eating behavior.

HP is also common among parents with children who are athletes or performers. Television shows highlighting such child-parent relationships regarding a performance activity (i.e. Dance Moms) display the overbearing nature parents provide to children to be the best and excel at their sport. This behavior has shown to be counterproductive to their success.

Nutrition plays an integral role in the success of children, adolescents and teenagers who are athletes. Fueling athletes’ needs, especially during teenage years, is all about balance and moderation. Incorporating enough calories into one’s diet is essential, as is getting appropriate amounts of protein, carbohydrate and fats. If uneducated, uninformed and baseless limits are set on food in families, there can be great pushback by children to parental micromanagement.

Gradually, the rules that helicopter parents use to “protect” their children eventually become barriers children will try to rebel against. If a child cannot have a certain food, for example, he may consume this food in mass quantities before it is restricted again. Lastly, a child severely restricted at home may go to others to seek foods, such as grandparents, friends, school, birthday parties and other outlets.

The child may also exhibit disordered food patterns, such as hoarding food, sneaking food and lying about their dietary intake to appease the parents.

This is all setting the scene for dysfunctional eating habits later in life.

support causal relationships between picky eating, pressuring feeding and growth in toddlerhood. In other words, pressure by parents for children to eat more healthfully does not necessarily create a healthy weight status.

Lumeng states, “In a nutshell, we found that over a year of life in toddlerhood, weight remained stable on the growth chart whether they were picky eaters or not. The kids’ picky eating also was not very changeable. It stayed the same whether parents pressured their picky eaters or not.”

The study did, in fact, find that parental behavior is one of the most influencing factors to child development — children will mirror parents eating habits and food choices.

Promoting a positive image to children can impact them greater over a long period of time and prevent damaging relationships with tension during mealtimes. The study further highlighted the need for parents to respect individual preferences and mindfully decide healthy alternatives rather than pressuring one option.

RECENT RESEARCH Some parents implement HP techniques when children are deemed “picky eaters.” However, a recent study out of the University of Michigan Center for Human Growth and Development led

by Julie Lumeng, a nutritional sciences professor, revealed results that do not

Stacy Goldberg is a nationally recognized nutritional consultant, registered nurse and the CEO of Savorfull (savorfull.com), a Detroit-based company that sources healthy, allergen-friendly foods and provides nutrition-consulting. Savorfull is part of the Quicken Loans Family of Companies.

FLY SOLO Children must be allowed to make their own mistakes and build the confidence to correct mistakes, even when it comes to making their own food choices. Life skills can be underdeveloped when parents are controlling many aspects of life, leading to poor communication, judgment skills and disordered eating patterns later in life.

Parents’ information-seeking behaviors, when done in the absence of other HP behaviors, were associated with children’s better decision-making and academic functioning. The solution to this is to allow failure, allow independence and allow children the opportunity to discover preferences, especially those related to food, on their own. Parents can establish loving relationships and healthy eating habits by allowing reasonable accommodation to children’s preferences while still giving them the freedom to explore what those preferences are. ■

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ome 14 percent of American adults suffer from migraines or severe headaches. Among women aged 18-44, the number soars to 23 percent. Currently, no cure for migraines exists, and over-the-counter pain relief medicines do not always work.

One of the most promising treatments is occipital nerve stimulation, where a small pulse generator is implanted at the base of the skull to send pain-relieving electrical impulses to the brain.

What if the same effect could be achieved without surgery — and for a lower cost than the tens of thousands of dollars required for an occipital nerve implant? That hypothesis launched Shmuel Shany and Amit Dar on their journey to establishing Neurolief.

Neurolief is developing a noninvasive neuro-modulation device that could be available for purchase in a general pharmacy for less than $500. The device looks a bit like Geordi’s visor in Star Trek: The Next Generation, except it sits on top of the head.

The Neurolief neuro-modulator stimulates six different nerve branches in the brain that regulate pain and mood. Each electrode in the device delivers a charge strong enough to

penetrate the skull.

“It needs to be done without causing pain to the patient and not causing damage to scalp tissue,” Dar tells ISRAEL21c, a nonprofit organization that publishes an online news magazine about 21st-century Israel.

The device is rechargeable, can be adjusted to a variety of head sizes and connects to both a mobile phone app and the Cloud, so that a particular patient’s experience can be compared with others to deliver a precise electrical “dose.”

By “dose,” Dar Amit Dar explains that the device can dial up and down the six electrodes individually, holding out the possibility to create a treatment plan personalized for each patient.

Neuro-modulation prevents the secretion of chemicals in the brain that trigger pain. But it also modulates the “activation threshold” of the neural system, so that the next time a migraine trigger is present (whether that’s stress, lack of sleep or even chocolate), the nerves will not react as severely as before. Neuro-modulation is mostly side-effect free.

SMALL AND PORTABLE One study of the product conducted

last year demonstrated an average 80 percent reduction in pain symptoms.

That’s double the rate for implanted devices and far more than a couple of Tylenol can achieve.

“We compete mainly against the strongest painkillers,” says Neurolief CEO Shany.

“We are not targeting patients whose symptoms are alleviated Shmuel Shany with Advil, but those who require drugs frequently.”

The Neurolief device is meant to be used only during a migraine attack.

Since it can fold up to the size of a sunglasses case, it’s small enough to carry in a purse or backpack.

Dar and Shany are not newcomers to the field of neuro-modulation.

The two started and sold NESSNeuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Systems, a company that builds neuromodulation products to help stroke survivors move paralyzed arms and legs.

After NESS’ new owners moved most of the company’s operations to California, Dar and Shany were free to develop their own non-competing neuro-modulation device.

NESS fetched a price of $75 million in 2007. Netanya-based Neurolief is still at the beginning of its journey and has so far raised $5 million since it was established in 2013. The financing was led by Terra Venture Partners.

Neurolief has developed a novel pricing model. Instead of purchasing the device for a one-time fee, patients will buy it “pre-loaded” with a certain number of treatments (10 to start).

“It’s like buying a blister pack of medications,” says Eran Schenker, vice

president of business development and marketing.

If the device works, a user can “turn on” more neuro-modulation doses remotely via the Internet. “It won’t cost more than the pills you already get,” Schenker says.

But don’t head to the local pharmacy just yet. Neurolief ’s product will not be available until sometime next year.

There are still a few trials to complete, including a study with 56 patients now ongoing. The company hopes to apply for a European Union CE mark by the end of 2018, with application to the FDA for approval in the U.S. to follow.

NEXT: DEPRESSION Neurolief started by targeting migraines because the clinical evidence from implanted devices has already demonstrated that neuromodulation works. But the same neuro-modulation techniques can be used for other indications.

Next on Neurolief ’s list is depression. Dar reports “remarkable results” from a clinical trial at a mental hospital in Israel. Neurolief ’s antidepression model could come as early as 2020.

There are other companies working on brain stimulation to treat depression, mostly using magnets.

“But these are large machines that can only be used in a clinic,” Dar says. “We wanted something that could be used at home, that allows for self-treatment.

“At the end of the day,” he says, “we will have a solution for multiindications, although each needs its own regulatory approval and may need a different device.” ■

Genetic Carrier Screening Thanks to a generous grant from the Detroit Medical Center Foundation, JScreen will raise awareness about genetic carrier screening in the Detroit community and will provide screening and educational resources.

“This grant will give us the necessary resources to get out into the community to increase awareness about genetic carrier screening and preventable genetic diseases,” said Karen Arnovitz Grinzaid, executive director of the JScreen program. “We are excited to partner with young professional groups and synagogues, and to have a presence at large-scale

community events.”

Organizations that are already planning events or are working on finalizing information based on this grant include The Well, Temple Israel, Adat Shalom and Grand Rounds at Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center. The University of Michigan Hillel has an event scheduled for Feb. 12, and Temple Beth El has one scheduled for April 28.

JScreen and partner organizations will share more information about genetic screening events as dates and locations are finalized. ■

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He was born in Detroit to Alice and Max Goldsmith. He became a bar mitzvah and was also confirmed at Adat Shalom Synagogue, which his parents were instrumental in founding in the 1940s.

Gifted with a stirring voice, he led youth services as a teenage cantor on High Holidays at the synagogue.

Following graduation from Mumford High School in 1955, he attended Wayne State University, ultimately earning a bachelor’s degree at UCLA. He honed his acting skills at the prestigious Old Vic Theatre in Bristol, England, and Liverpool Playhouse. He also served proudly in the U.S. Air Force.

In an acting career that spanned six decades, he played hundreds of roles. His Broadway and off-Broadway credits include Grand Hotel, Me and My Girl, Rex, Chemin De Fer, Minnie’s Boys, The 1940s Radio Hour, The Little Prince, Wanted, After-Play and Goldsmith Yours, Anne. He toured nationally c. 2010 in Fiddler on the Roof, appeared in the hit television series The Good Wife and had a recurring role for several years in the long-running television series Law and Order.

Based in New York City, he moved effortlessly between stage and screen, comedy and drama, musicals and plays. He was equally comfortable playing classic roles in Hamlet, Volpone and Hedda Gabler, as he was playing zany characters in Pal Joey, Playboy of the Western World and Room Service. His movie credits include Cadillac Man and Quiz Show.

Mr. Goldsmith contributed his energies and talents to numerous organizations, including the Century Association, the Players Club, Park Avenue Synagogue and Sigma Alpha Mu. U.S. District Judge Mark A. Goldsmith eulogized his brother during a graveside ceremony on Jan. 23 at Adat Shalom Memorial Park. “He has set an enduring example of a life well lived; a life of art and beauty; a life of instruction; a life filled with love of family; a live of devotion to Jewish values; a life of robust civic engagement. In the midst of our bereavement, we are strengthened by the towering nobility of the life he led.”

Mr. Goldsmith is survived by his wife, Barbara Parry Goldsmith; stepson Jamie (Katie) Parry; their daughter, Sally; siblings, Barbara Goldsmith Levin, Dr. Jonathan (Luba) Goldsmith, Steven Goldsmith and Judge Mark (Judy) Goldsmith; 14 nieces and nephews; 11 great-nieces and great-nephews.

Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Services and interment were held at Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia.

Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. ■

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RUTH BLUMBERG, 94, of Phoenix, Ariz., formerly of Michigan, died Jan. 22, 2019.

She was a past president of Jewish Women International.

Mrs. Blumberg is survived by her sons and daughter-in-law, Seth David Blumberg, Robin Jol and Linda Blumberg; brother and sisters-in-law, Herbert and Joyce Weberman, and Miriam Weberman; grandchildren, Jason Randolph and Dr. Michelle Blumberg, Zachary Simon and Kimberly Blumberg, Shawn and Rochelle Green, Ryan Blumberg, Brett Schmaidt; great-grandchildren, Ella Rose Blumberg, Olivia Hannah Blumberg, Alexander Green, Isabelle Blumberg, Eli Blumberg, Andrew Rasmussen; many loving nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

She was the beloved wife of the late Harry Blumberg; loving mother of the late Ivan Bruce Blumberg; dear sister and sister-in-law of the late Harry Weberman, the late David Weberman, the late Betty and the late Larry Silverman, the late Frances and the late Kenzie McGinneth.

Contributions may be made to Jewish Women International, 2868 Woodbine Drive, Waterford, MI 48328; or Yad Ezra, 2850 W. 11 Mile Road, Berkley, MI 48072. Interment was held at Hebrew Memorial Park.

Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

DR. EDMUND JOSEPH ELKINS, 98, of Boca Raton, Fla., passed away Nov. 16, 2018.

He was born Feb. 6, 1920, in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Samuel Elkins and Helen Rubenstein Elkins.

Edmund was a WWII Army veteran. His career in oral surgery was spent in Detroit at Harper Grace Hospital and a private dental practice. His retirement was enjoyed in Boca Raton.

Dr. Elkins is survived by his daughter, Karen Elkins (Craig Kennedy); and son, Brian Elkins.

He was predeceased by his wife, Beverly Elkins.

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AUDREY GLADMAN, 94, of New York, died Jan. 20, 2019.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Ronald and Karyn Weingarden; daughters and son-in-law, Marsha Rosenberg and Valentine Pitheckoff, Iris Dianna; stepdaughter, Adrian Gladman; grandchildren, Lauren (Christopher) Foley, Jeremy (Cristina) Rosenberg, Kristina (Tommy) Young; great-grandchildren, Ashley, Gwendolyn, Charlotte, Julia and Ryan; sister, Florine Rothenberg; brother and sisterin-law, Raymond and Margery Franklin; many other loving family members and friends.

Mrs. Gladman was the beloved wife of the late Leonard Weingarden and the late Frank Gladman.

Interment was held at Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to Hadassah. Arrangements

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BERTRAM J. HARRIS, 95, of West Bloomfield, died Jan. 22, 2019.

He is survived by his beloved wife of 67 years, Sylvia Harris; daughter and son-in-law, Marcie and Alan Warsh; son and daughterin-law, Michael and Ronna Harris; grandchild, Parker Harris; sister-inlaw, Doris Taxe; many other loving family members and friends.

Interment took place at Beth El Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

SEYMOUR KLIGER, 82, of Farmington Hills, died Jan. 24, 2019.

He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Joyce Kliger; children, Nancy Kliger, Scott Kliger, Jill Kliger and Nabih Saliba; grandchildren, Nathan Kliger, Zachary Kliger, Shayna Kliger, Camden Kliger, Sam Saliba and Alana Saliba; brother-inlaw, Gary Milan.

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ARTHUR EDWARD LERNER, 71, died in Ann Arbor on Jan. 15, 2019, the oldest of five children.

He was born May 1, 1947, to George J. and Selma Lerner. He attended Mumford High School and the University of Michigan, where he received a B.A., and taught and worked toward a master’s degree in sociology.

As a teen, Art loved folk music and was an early and passionate supporter of The Ark until his death. He took an interest in the growing field of organizational development and was hired by the firm of Dannemiller Tyson as a consultant, where he worked for more than a decade. He continued working as a consultant on various projects for Ford Motor Company, Home Depot and other companies over the years.

Mr. Lerner is survived by his brothers, Kenneth (Katherine McDowell) and Joey (Alaine); sisters, Amy Slavitt and Rosanne (Dan Prindle). He will be missed by many.

ALLEN MALINOFF, 97, of Ann Arbor, died Jan. 21, 2019.

Born in St. Paul, Minn., Allen moved to Detroit with his c. 1942 family as a young child and grew up there. As a teenager, he learned to fly airplanes at Willow Run and Ann Arbor airports. After America entered WWII, he began flight training with the Civil Aeronautics Administration. He then entered the U.S. Navy and graduated as a naval aviator in 1943. Mr. Malinoff served as a fighter pilot aboard the USS Hoggatt Bay aircraft carrier in the Pacific until the end of 1946.

After his military service, he attended Wayne State University.

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married after their graduations in 1949. Allen worked for the Detroit Board of Education for 32 years, primarily as an elementary school principal. They moved to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula after retiring in 1981, where they lived until Rhoda’s death in 1989.

In 1990, Mr. Malinoff moved to Ann Arbor. In 1999, he married Ann Arbor native Carole McLean, who died on Jan. 7, 2019.

He is survived by his son, Herb (Lynn); their sons, Gabriel and Aaron; daughter, Julie (Keith); their daughter, Rachel; daughter, Lauren; Carole’s children, Laurie (Kerry), Mitchell (Amanda), Matthew; Carole’s six grandchildren.

Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund, 2000 Washtenaw, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, bethisraelaa.org; or Congregation Beth Israel-Asheville, 229 Murdock Ave., Asheville, NC 28804, bethisraelnc.org/support.

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CHARLOTTE MILGRIM, 78, of West Bloomfield, died Jan. 21, 2019.

She is survived by her daughters and sonsin-law, Lea (Michael Pevarnek) Thomas, Karen (Michael Regen) Benitez and Julie Robinson; stepdaughter, Victoria Fitts-Milgrim; stepson, Richard (Mari) Milgrim; grandchildren, Toby Milgrim, Avivah (Phillip DuGray) Bowen, Fred Milgrim, Natasha Fitts, Joshua (Jessica Kersh) Thomas, Hunter (Brandi Getzandanner) Benitez, Hannah Robinson and Tillie Robinson; great-grandchildren, Mara, Zen and Vienna Charlotte; many other loving family members and friends.

Mrs. Milgrim was the beloved wife of the late Paul Milgrim and the late Harold Roy Finstein; stepmother of the late Stacey Milgrim; mother-inlaw of the late Robert Fitts.

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NORMAN N. ROBBINS, 99, of West Bloomfield and Boca Raton, Fla., died Jan. 24, 2019.

He was a practicing attorney for more than 50 years and was listed in the Best Lawyers in America and Who’s Who in America. He served as a commander of the Jewish War Veterans, Silverman Post, Michigan, and was state board chairperson of the Michigan Veterans Trust Fund.

Mr. Robbins lectured for many organizations and authored more than 500 articles. He was post chairman of the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan and the first recipient of the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the State Bar of Michigan Family Law Section. He was also a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, retired.

He was the beloved husband of Pamela Robbins and the late Elaine Israel; the father of Susan and the late John Gareau, Aimee Robbins Friedman, Hilary Levy Friedman and John Friedman; loving grandfather of Julie, Doug, Liza, Carston and Quenton; dear great-grandfather of Willow and Caleb.

Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Wounded Warriors, P.O. Box 758516, Topeka, KS 66675, www. woundedwarriorproject.org; St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105, stjude.org; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

devoted son of the late Charles and the late Ethel Robinson.

Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Glaucoma Research Foundation, 251 Post St., #600, San Francisco, CA 94108, glaucoma.org; or to a charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

BUD ROBINSON, 92, of Southfield, died Jan. 23, 2019.

He is survived by his son and daughterin-law, Donald and Ellyn Robinson of Chicago, Ill.; daughters and sonsin-law, Amy and Richard Hanney of Munith, Mich., and Cynthia and Michael Wilson of Marietta, Ga.; grandchildren, Jessica Hanney, Kyle and Heather Hanney, Thomas Asher Wilson and Phillip Everett Wilson; great-grandchild, Cameryn Hanney; brother and sister-in-law, Berol and Shirley Robinson; sister, Davida Gale.

Mr. Robinson was the beloved husband of the late Phyllis Robinson; the

MILI SCHNEIDER, 90, of West Bloomfield, died Jan. 22, 2019.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Jimmy and Edie Schneider; c. 1960 grandchildren, Andrea Schneider, Emily Schneider, Julie Schneider. She is also survived by Cathy and Beau Sevy, Henry and Jody Schwartz, Alan Schwartz, Michael Sevy, Trudy Altman, Soozee Alterman; many other loving nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, other relatives and friends.

Mrs. Schneider was the beloved wife of the late Bernard Schneider;

DAVID ROTHENBERG, 72, of Bloomfield Hills, died Jan. 25, 2019.

He is survived by his beloved wife of 50 years, Ellen Rothenberg; daughters and son-inlaw, Amy and Jon Milenthal, Lori Reinke. He was the loving “Poppy” of Alana and Rylan Milenthal, Adam, Hailey and Bree Reinke. He is also survived by his sisters and brotherin-law, Barbara Starkman, Linda and Steve Kaplan; brother-in-law, Nathan (Nancy) Kolender; many loving nieces, nephews and world of devoted friends.

Mr. Rothenberg was the son of the late Nettie and the late Harry Rothenberg; the son-in-law of the late Gert and the late Babe Scheuer; brother of the late Judith Kolender; brother-in-law of the late Martin Starkman and the late Caryl Scheuer.

Interment took place at Beth El Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to the Friendship Circle, Hadassah or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

loving mother of the late David Schneider; dear sister of the late Morris Alterman, the late Ben Alterman, the late Elmer Alterman, the late Ida Schwartz and the late Ethel Petcher.

Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Interment was held at Beth Tefilo Emanuel Cemetery in Ferndale. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

LILA WAGMANN, 89, of Southfield, died Jan. 20, 2019.

She is survived by her brother and sisters-in-law, Dr. Melvin and Ellen Rosen, and Hadassah Rosen; many loving cousins, nieces, nephews, other family members and friends.

The family is very grateful for the kind and professional services provided by her many devoted caregivers.

Mrs. Wagmann was the beloved wife of the late Henri Wagmann; the sister of the late Irving Rosen.

Interment was held at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Contributions may be made to Yad Ezra, JARC or to

a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements

by Dorfman Chapel.

ABRAHAM WEBERMAN, 95, of West Bloomfield, died Jan. 25, 2019.

He is survived by his wife, Sima Weberman; sons and daughters-inlaw, Mark and Bella Weberman of Morton Grove, Ill., Steven and Elaine Weberman of West Bloomfield; brother-in-law and sisters-in-law, Jerry and Irene Flam, and Betty Flam; stepchildren, Mark and Agnes Yarsike, Sheldon (late Shari) Yarsike, Debbie and Charles Ball, Sandra Yarsike; grandchildren, Michelle and Michael, Mindy and Frank, Joey, Susie and Amedaio, Debby and Bob, Zachary, Matthew, Tyler, Alex, Ryan, Mollie, Sam, Brandon, Michael, Daniel; great-grandchildren, Brandon, Jordan, Deena Leah, Ashley, Page, Joshua, Mateo, Nicholas; sister-in-law, Frieda Weberman.

Mr. Weberman was the beloved husband of the late Dina Leah Weberman; loving father and father-in-law of the late Anna and the late Jack

Thibert; dear brother of the late Leo Weberman.

Contributions may be made to Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334. Services and interment were held at Hebrew Memorial Park.

Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

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Meshulam Riklis, Israeli-American Corporate ‘Takeover Artist,’ dies at 95 (JTA) — Meshulam Riklis, an IsraeliAmerican businessman who was called “perhaps the first corporate takeover artist” in the United States, has died.

Riklis had more than $1 billion in assets prior to several of his businesses going bankrupt in the early 1990s. One of the best-known was McCrory Corp., a chain of five-and-dime stores that was founded in 1882 and went bust in 1992 under Riklis. His critics accused him of gutting the firm and others, and of shifting around its wealth before terminating it.

It was the Baltimore Sun that described Riklis as the corporate takeover artist in the aftermath of the McCrory’s failure.

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Carol Channing, the Original Star of ‘Hello Dolly!,’ Dies at 97 (JTA) — Actress Carol Channing, who originated the starring role in Hello Dolly! on Broadway and won a Tony Award for her portrayal of the boisterous widow, died Jan. 15, 2019.

She was 97.

Channing was the daughter of a Jewish mother and a Christian father and identified as “part Jewish.”

At 16, she learned that her father was multi-racial, with an AfricanAmerican mother and a German father.

She wrote in her memoir of her five-year marriage to her first husband, Theodore Naidish, that she learned to speak fluent Yiddish from his grandfather, Sam Cohen, who lived in Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach.

The Seattle native first became a star playing flapper Lorelei Lee in the 1949 production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, where she sang the iconic “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best

Friend.”

Channing played Dolly Levi in Hello Dolly! winning the Tony in 1964. She played the role for the last time in a 1995 revival. Barbra Streisand was Dolly in the 1969 film version and Bette Midler also won a Tony for her portrayal in the 2017 Broadway revival.

Channing was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 1995 and was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981. She made guest appearances on many television shows including Sesame Street, where she performed a parody of Hello Dolly called “Hello Sammy,” a love song to the Jim Henson character Sammy the Snake.

She died of natural causes just days before her 98th birthday.

Channing was married four times and had one son. ■

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He lent money to his close friend Ariel Sharon, the late Israeli prime minister, to buy the Sharon family’s ranch in southern Israel, according to Israel National News.

His third wife, Tali Sinai-Riklis, said in 2015 that Riklis had donated about $190 million throughout his life to Israeli charities and pro-Israel causes.

He also was married to the actress Pia Zadora in 1977; they divorced in 1993.

Riklis had four children in total.

Riklis, in addition to producing the 1982 film Butterfly starring Zadora, financed G.L.O.W.: Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, a syndicated program featuring women professional wrestlers.

It was the inspiration for the current scripted series GLOW on Netflix, a fictionalized account of Riklis’ creation, which ran from 1986 to 1990.

Riklis was born in Istanbul, Turkey, to parents who were on their way from Russia to prestate Israel. He moved to the United States in 1947 when he was 23 and later became a citizen. He moved permanently to Israel about a decade ago. ■

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here was a time when folks would be told about this restaurant but had difficulty finding it …

However, most of the people were persistent enough to continue looking …

And are happy they did … With the choice result being their making it a regular must …and no problem finding it anymore.

La Dolce Vita on Woodward, four blocks north of McNichols, between Pinehurst and Cedarhurst, Detroit, is one of those authentic Italian restaurants with continental influences you seldom hear about because those who have been there prefer to keep it to themselves.

This hidden gem that opened in 1995 is noted for so many things, including an excellent Caesar salad that is in a properly rubbed bowl and made at the table, among numerous other fine dining features of culinary excellence … Not to mention the homey old Italian feeling of comfort and its traditional Northern Italian styles of cooking that include items not found on the menu along with its bevy of authentic dishes that also include recent additions.

Finding La Dolce Vita is not a snap …

There is only an LDV sign in front, and its entrance is off an alley in the back …

But so many people love a family-run restaurant they will always find it …

Enrico and wife Denice Rosselli’s son-inlaw-to-be Adam Kojadsulian is La Dolce Vita’s manager … Their daughter Erica has done much there, including hosting and managing … Denise makes many desserts

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friends and I loved Fredson’s Delicatessen on Wyoming for its wonderful real chicken soup and corned beef sandwich. The days of real food and adult servers seem to be gone. I relish the good times and food memories. The good old days? For sure!”

REAR VIEW MIRROR … When David and Doreen Hermelin gave a party at their home with Seymour Brode for Israel tennis … All the power went out in their Bingham Farms neighborhood …

Gary Cochran, then owner of Beau Jack’s, and David set up about seven or eight barbecue machines that David had rented for a previous party … On them, he and Gary cooked kosher hamburgers galore … When Dave was asked where he got all the barbecue machines without any notice, Dave said that they were rented for another party, but he was sending the company a check to buy them so he could have them on hand just in case an outage ever happened again.

OLDIE BUT GOODIE … One morning at breakfast, Harvey turns to his wife and says, “Joyce, listen to me. I don’t want to sound cruel, but your mother has been living with us for 20 years now.

Don’t you think it’s about time she got a place of her own?”

Joyce, eating her breakfast, dropped her utensils in shock. “My mother? I thought she was your mother!”

CONGRATS … To Dr. Stuart Kirschenbaum on his birthday. ■

and Enrico is in the kitchen much of the time … A true Italian restaurant like La Dolce Vita contains so much love and dedication.

Seating is for 165 during the winter months and 240 with a beautiful outdoor patio used when weather permits … Friday and Saturday evenings include a piano stylist, and a jazz group plays at Sunday brunch … Hours are TuesdayFriday lunch 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., dinner 5-10 p.m. … Friday, dinner until 11 p.m., Saturday, 5-11 p.m., Sunday brunch, 11-3.

A restaurant that thrives on its reputation rarely needs its customers to be reminded of the good dining experience it offers … Enrico Rosselli’s La Dolce Vita is definitely one of those restaurants.

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FARMINGTON HILLS $399,900

BLOOMFIELD TWP. $400,000

BLOOMFIELD HILLS $775,000

BLOOMFIELD TWP $629,000

Stunning Country Ridge remodel is move in ready. New Kitchen w/ stainless appliances, granite counter tops, island, & large pantry overlooks peaceful view in large private backyard. Access to elevated deck from breakfast room. Open floor plan for entertaining yet each room is defined and stands alone. Incredible view from wall of windows in Family room. Two sided gas fireplace between Family Rm & Library/Office.

Stunning chandelier in Foyer. Vaulted ceiling in Master Ste. . Master bath has Soaking tub, two vanities, shower and large walkin closet. Walkout finished basement has multiple storage areas including a cedar closet and brand new half bath. New Roof, Furnace, Carpet, Paint & beautiful hardwood floors. Well maintained sub division with walking trails.

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Don’t do a drive by! This is a MUST SEE! Click on the photos and enjoy this sprawling 3 BR, 2 full bath ranch that sits on over 1/2 acre in Bloomfield Hills. Thru the front door, the living room on your left has walls of windows, high ceilings and natural fireplace to cozy up to. Thru there, walk into your completely updated kitchen again w/high ceilings, granite counter tops and dining. Off the back thru the French doors is a huge year round sunroom. Windows all around to enjoy your beautiful setting. Laundry room off the other side of the kitchen offers loads of storage. Go thru to the mud room, currently used as an office, again w/ample storage to the 2 car attached garage. Three bedrooms at other end of home for privacy. Hardwood floors throughout the home. Ceramic tile in sun room. Bloomfield Hills schools. Updates include driveway (2018), sun room (2015), bathrooms (2017), flooring (2012) paint (2013), windows (2012). Buyers agent must be present for all showings. No virtual tours. 218112914

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One of a kind updated spacious ranch home near Kirk In The Hills. All the charm and grace show in this mid-century home with extensive addition. Livingroom w/cathedral ceiling shares a fireplace with extraordinary diningroom. Large windows provide natural light throughout home. Family room is large but cozy with walls of bookcases and warmth of fireplace. Diningroom features crown molding and new doorwall to backyard.

Master bedroom retreat has cathedral ceiling, new bay doorwall, 14x7 dressing area with sink and THREE walk-in closets plus a large updated bathroom with separate Jacuzzi and shower. Three add’l bedrooms, one of which is a princess suite. 2018 included two new bathrooms and kitchen floor. Custom kitchen with while cabinets, crown molding, granite island, stainless appliances, gas cooking nook and windows galore. Breakfast area has a bay window overlooking front yard. Lower level walk out is finished with a room that was used as a bedroom plus private bath. BTVAI 218119653 248-851-4100

Prettiest lot in Bloomfield-Completely rebuilt in 1994 and Expanded.Traditional Style Floor plan.Make this Beautiful Bloomfield Hills 4 Bedroom 3 Bath Updated Colonial your Forever Home!Bloomfield Hills Schools!Stunning 1.34 acres.Enjoy the wrap around Cape Cod porch that leads you to the back deck w/3 season enclosed porch.Hardwood Floors T/O ,Oak trim& French Doors in the Den/Study.There are so many updates in this beautiful home!NEW Stainless Steel Appliances Refrig/DBL oven 2018/Dishwasher/Washer/Dryer 2017 all included. NEW Roof 2013(tear off),NEW Tankless HWTank 2018,NEW A/C 2016 main Fl, Int/Ext paint2014, painted back deck 2018,Prof Landscaped front yard w/ beautiful curb appeal. NEW Granite Counters,Tile in kitchen 2014.Oversized master w/sitting area, sep. vanity & huge custom W/I closet.WALKOUT Basement has Tons of additional storage,Work Bench,Play area,2nd Fireplace.Wing LakePrivate Beach Access.Buyer/BATVAI.Professional Septic Inspection done10/2018 at Sellers Expense. 218089542 248-851-4100

BLOOMFIELD TWP $1,295,000

COMMERCE TWP $625,000

Million Dollar Wabeek Golf Course views & Bloomfield Hills Schools! Don’t miss out on this one of a kind updated beauty w/nearly 9,000 square feet of living space including beautiful spacious walkout lower level w/rec room, wonderful glass work out room, 5th bedroom, full bath, half bath & private rear staircase.

Updated professional cook’s kitchen & heated 4 car garage w/newer custom glass doors. Beautiful master suite w/bedroom sized closet & sensational master bath plus 3 additional bedrooms w/updated private baths. 8 flat screen TV’s including special outdoor TV on newer deck! Amazing Multi-Purpose Sports Court! The list goes on...newer windows, door walls, carpeting, paint, roof, interior & exterior LED lighting and alarm system w/cameras to your phone & TV! 2 laundry rooms with newer washers & dryers. Full house generator for your peace of mind. All measurements and data approximate. 218055501 248-851-4100

Beautiful 4 Bedroom 3 1/2 bath home located in one of the most luxurious neighborhoods of Commerce. Enter the two story foyer with winding staircase.

Living room on your right is open to the dining room, which leads to the sunlit kitchen with tons of cabinet space, granite counter tops, stainless steel appliances with sub zero fridge and second bar fridge under extra large island. Family room boasts cathedral ceiling, fireplace, and second staircase. First floor laundry, 1/2 bath and 3 car garage. Second floor has princess suite with full bath, two bedrooms, 2nd full bath and master suite with tray ceiling, bay window, master bath with jetted tub and huge walk in closet. Basement is unfinished but walkout leads to brick paver patio. Custom deck off kitchen overlooks nature preserve.

You will never have a neighbor behind you! Close to shopping center, hospital and library. BATVAI. Book your showing today! 218103296

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KEEGO HARBOR $1,499,000

GORGEOUS LAKE HOME

Custom home built in 1999 with 4262 sq ft of living space situated on all sports cass lake with 54 ft of frontage on the main lake with sea wall, sandy beach and dock. Large 2 story foyer with granite floors leading to a 2 story great room with fireplace with lots of windows and beautiful views of the lake. Large updated kitchen with granite countertops, subzero, stainless steel double oven, microwave , wine cooler and eating area leading to a sitting area with doorwall leading to a patio w/ spectacular views of cass lake. First floor master with hardwood floors , master bth and wic, spacious second floor master with master bth and balcony. Loft overlooking the great room with breathtaking views. First floor laundry: long driveway with lots of space for parking. Garage with lots of storage space. New roof in 2017. 218104307 248-851-4100

WEST BLOOMFIELD TWP $449,000 BEAUTIFUL SIGHT TO SEE!

Fabulous open/bright updated home in Bloomfield Hills school district. Six bedrooms, library with 5,000 square feet of living space. Professionally finished walkout with guest room, bath, wet bar, recreation room w/all brand new Pella windows and carpet. Updated kitchen w/new granite counters and top-of-the-line stainless steel appliances (2018). New Pella custom wood frame windows (2018). New carpet on 2nd floor, family room, recreation room, hallway and stairs (2018). New GE frontloading washer and dryer (2016). Bosch dishwasher (2015). Professionally finished brick paver patio, sidewalk and master bedroom wood balcony (2014). Hardwood floors in foyer, kitchen, nook, laundry room (2014). 2-zone heating and A/C with humidifiers and 50-gallon water heater (2011) and more.. Just move in this fresh and clean home and enjoy a hot coffee from brand new GE Cafe series french door refrigerator with Keurig-Kcup brewing system in the beautiful English garden style brick paver patio. 218030766 248-851-4100

WELCOME HOME!

GOLF, SPORT & CAR LOVER’S DREAM

FARMINGTON HILLS $330,000

A spacious foyer welcomes you to this beautiful detached ranch home with a fabulous floor plan. This well cared for home has had over $45,000 worth of improvements/ upgrades since 2012 including wood flooring in the foyer, hall, kitchen and nook, granite counters in the kitchen with a special tiled back splash, furnace, and water heater. The great room has a cathedral ceiling and a gas fireplace. The dining room is open to the great room and has a door wall to the deck. You will love the attractive kitchen with all the cabinet space. The library is off the foyer and has a bay window.

It could easily be converted to a 3rd bedroom by just adding doors for the closet. The master bedroom has a vaulted ceiling, a large walk in closet and a vanity make up area with a sink. The master bath is huge and has a tub and a shower. The basement is open and has over sized basement windows for sunlight. Well located in desirable brentwood park. Close to shopping, dining and xways. Batvai. Open House on Feburary 3rd from 2pm to 4pm. 218114753 248-851-4100

ONE OF A KIND

IDEAL HOME

NOT TO BE MISSED

BLOOMFIELD TWP $599,000

WELCOME TO YOUR DREAM HOME

Huge corner lot in the beautiful Franklin Mills sub. Walk right into the open foyer that leads to all rooms. Huge great room with vaulted ceiling, fireplace & wet bar. Spacious rooms throughout.

Lots of closets & storage space w/ custom built-ins everywhere.

Crown molding throughout entry level. First-floor laundry and second staircase leading upstairs. Two jack/jill baths. Master bed includes multiple closets and large sitting room. Massive finished basement with full bath, great for entertaining, etc. In-ground pool with all new mechanicals 2018. Full-house generator 2017. Newer 2 furnaces & 2 a/c units, 4+ car garage. Newer roof. Walk to Franklin Cider Mill and easy access to everything else. 218106561

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WEST BLOOMFIELD TWP $435,000

WEST BLOOMFIELD TWP $349,000

WOW! This home will sweep you off your feet. Elegant and absolutely stunning upgrades that will make you fall in love the second you walk in! This gem boasts over 2,750 square feet. 4 Bedrooms, 2 1/2 Bathrooms, plus an additional full bathroom in the finished lower level. No expense spared in the remodeling of this beautiful home located on a cul-de-sac in the heart of West Bloomfield. Recent Upgrades include but are not limited to; Elegant Entry Double Doors (September 2018) Entire Kitchen with state of the art appliances and quartz counter tops with full quartz back-splash (May 2018), Exterior Landscaping and Brand New and Extended Concrete Driveway (May 2018), A/C, entire home flooring, absolutely stunning Fireplace, all bathrooms with the exception of basement bath, all windows but 1 window, Blinds/Window Treatments, Indoor and Outdoor Paint, Roof. All new lighting fixtures. This home will not last.

MUST see this home to appreciate it. IDRBNG. 219001559

Tranquil & scenic pond setting will calm you after a stressful day. Walls of windows offer breathtaking views of the changing seasons & abundant wildlife. No one behind you; complete privacy. 3 season room opens onto multi level decking. 2,693 sq ft plus finished basement w/egress, full bath & built-ins offers 3,400 sq ft of living space. Basement egress window adds natural daylight. Huge rooms & circular floor plan. Custom kitchen cabinets. Living room w/gas fireplace. Dining room w/bayed door wall. Family room w/ French double door entry & bay windows. Large mud rm off garage. Huge Master Suite w/walk in closet, add’l closet & updated bath. 2nd flr laundry. Lots of storage. Wood flrs, solid wood doors, custom moldings. New windows & appliances 2015. 7 ceiling fans.

Water powered backup sump pump. Wood garage door. Brick pavers side parking & walkways. Invisible fencing. Sub parks w/playground & walking trails. Follow this link to an interactive floor plan where you can place your own furniture: http://smartfloorplan. com/mi/v412907/player.pl 218117738 248-851-4100

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