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Jews in the D Out in the Open 13 NEXTGen Detroit Balance seeks to destigmatize mental illness in young adults.

Behind the Spotlight

18 Shabbat Lights Shabbat starts: Friday, March 13, 7:19 p.m.

Shabbat ends: Saturday, March 14, 8:21 p.m. * Times according to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah calendar.

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Understanding the Dangers of Anti-Semitism 32 Why Sheriff Bouchard brought new officers to the Holocaust Memorial Center.

Moments 41

Spirit Torah portion

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Reporter’s Notebook: AIPAC’s 2020 Conference Tilts into Partisanship

Arts&Life Lovitz on Lovitz 44 An interview with the wisecracking comedian who got his break on SNL.

14 Howard Handler returns to Detroit to lead events company 313 Presents.

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Prudence, Not Panic

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18 Synagogues and temples factor the coronavirus into congregational life.

Book Review: A Survivor’s Story into a Spiritual Journey

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Keego Harbor Business Shines 38 Two Chaldeans and a Jew are on a mission to make the world glow.

Parts of it, anyway.

Fresh!

Metro Detroit Jewish Schools Actively Prepare for Coronavirus 18

Does Pluralism Have a Future at AIPAC?

Q&A with Yossi Klein Halevi: Israeli Interfaith Scholar

Ron Weiser Gifts $10M for U-M’s New Real Estate Center

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Celebrity Jews 48

On the Go Events/Editor’s Picks

Not Kosher Enough?

Gilbert is Back in Action

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26 Lawyer objects to use of Conservative rabbi to certify prisons as kosher.

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The Exchange Soul Danny Raskin Looking Back

Here’s To

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ou are watching TV and there it appears on the screen: “Breaking news …” You are on vacation at the seaside and you get up early to enjoy the dawn breaking. Just how often are Sy Manello Editorial Assistant we employing the break concept in our conversations?

Let’s see.

Going to Las Vegas? Why not play all the machines?

Go for broke in the hope that you will break the bank!

Of course, if you get involved with any money

lenders, you may end up with broken bones by ignoring a payback date. This is not a concept to confuse with the good-luck wish to a performer, “Break a leg.”

When things go especially right for you, are you tempted to break into song?

Having to perform any task can be a joy if you do not have to break a sweat.

We may read in the news about someone who broke out of prison. He had been incarcerated for breaking and entering, which he had accomplished by hacking security — breaking a code.

Recaptured, he is now a broken man.

If your daily grind gets to be too much, you may wish to break for lunch before you break down. A real break away may involve seeing waves break on the shore.

An intense wave of summer heat may break a record; you will seek air conditioning until the heat wave breaks.

A referee at a boxing match often has to break a clinch between the opponents. This is not the same as having to break up with someone.

If you’re thinking I need to put a brake on all this, you will not trap me with your homonym tactics. Just give me a break!

woman and embrace that part of me. I am also grateful for the many warm families and individuals in the Metro Detroit Orthodox Jewish community who have treated me with kindness and respect. So, it saddens me when I get comments asking why I became religious or encouraging me to join a different sect of Judaism.

As someone who has had many different Jewish experiences, from Reform to Orthodox, I can say that racism or unconscious bias is a widespread issue across the Jewish community. That said, there needs to be less blam-

ing and finger-pointing at different sects of Judaism and more solution-focused thinking. Also, don’t assume that your fellow Jew of Color is not having any issues in the Jewish community because they’re not Orthodox. There is ignorance everywhere, and there is no escaping that. To end, we don’t always know what someone is going through until we walk in their shoes — so it’s important to be kind, have compassion and remember to treat others the way you’d want to be treated.

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Jews of Color I would just like to start out by saying thank you to the Detroit Jewish News for starting the conversation on the issues that Jews of Color face in the Metro Detroit Jewish community (“Hues of Jews,” Feb. 20, page 14).

Since the article has been published, I’ve been receiving a lot of comments from people that seem to have misinterpreted the article in ways that made it seem like I wasn’t happy in the Orthodox community. To be clear, I love my life as an Orthodox

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Our Mamaloshen: Yiddish

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y first clinical position as a young physician in the 1970s was working for the clinic’s Jewish owner, a doctor in his late 50s.

Knowing I was Jewish, he often spoke to me in hushed Yiddish.

For 13 years I nodded and smiled knowingly whenever he took me aside to tell Fred Gold me something he didn’t want anyone else to hear. I can now confess that, alav hashalom (peace be upon him), I understood maybe one word in 20.

In reading through so many of the interesting posts on the Jewish History Facebook page,

the stories, the food, the people and places of treasured memory, there is often a common thread, either spoken or implied, that bridges generations past and present to one another. And that’s our Mamaloshen, our mother tongue: Yiddish. It is an integral part of our cultural mosaic, forming the nexus that bonds us to our unique heritage.

Most of our English words are Latin derivatives. I took Latin for two years; it is very technical and sterile, almost devoid of emotional depth. But whereas Latin may be the language of the brain, Yiddish is the language of the heart. It seems to emanate from deep within the soul, embracing us with its nuance and warmth.

I wish only to pay homage to this wonderful, rich language that was spoken frequently by my father’s generation (often to keep secrets from the kinder, or children). Sadly, Yiddish is now just a quaint, fading remnant of its former self, sustained by descriptive words or phrases and epithets.

I believe that Yiddish is the most descriptive of all languages.

Everything else appears anemic and two-dimensional in comparison. It’s almost like comparing a painting to a sculpture.

“Fat” in English becomes shmaltz in Yiddish; the word almost oozes out of our mouths as it reminds us of the taste and globby, soft, smooth texture of our Bubbie’s knadlach

(matzah balls) with chicken fat.

It was the first thing I asked for after they pulled out the chest tubes following my bypass surgery, but sadly, it wasn’t on the heart-friendly menu at Beaumont.

One of my personal favorites is shmatte. It makes me smile whenever I say it. I can sense its dismissive connotation as you visualize every detail of the ragged old garment. The word also implies a negative critique of the wearer, as in, “Look at that woman, wearing such a shmatte!”

Tchotchke, which has, at last count, 19 different spellings, is the catch-all word for anything of little value, yet the word is not necessarily demeaning continued on page 10

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o some policy makers, numbers in budgets made in Washington, D.C. are simply that — numbers. Yet to the people who receive that funding, they mean so much more. They mean the difference between fear of war and hope for peace.

For Israelis and Palestinians, foreign aid directly supports efforts for a peaceful resolution to the conflict. Cutting foreign aid directly impacts orgaZach Schenk nizations that bring Israelis and Palestinians together in people-to-people programs. Without funding, these organizations are unable to continue work on behalf of reconciliation. Congress should restore their aid. It should also create an International Fund in support of a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Trump administration cut fund-

ing for the Palestinian government and population when it took office. It has pressured Palestinians to support the administration’s skewed plan for peace.

Given the reaction by both the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian population, its approach has not worked.

Peacebuilding programs are a better approach. They change the people who participate in them. Israelis and Palestinians actively engage with each other. In the short term, these programs force participants to challenge their biases and prejudices of the “other” and form relationships. In the long term, they allow leaders to be willing to make concessions in negotiations with less concern for the backlash of their constituents.

These programs can create a movement of nonviolent activists who support peace.

Such programs are needed because support for a two-state solution is dropping, and support for a zero-sum view of the

conflict is increasing. In the short term, more nonviolent activists give legitimacy to peaceful protest. In the long term, nonviolence may make both sides willing to negotiate because they do not feel that concessions will be met with violence.

Some say that neither Israelis nor Palestinians want to negotiate. That is exactly why we should invest in peacebuilding now, so that negotiations can have a chance to succeed in the future. Giving up on young Israelis and Palestinians will make a two-state solution more difficult to achieve. Investing in them gives peacebuilding a chance.

Currently a bill is going through Congress that explicitly supports peace building. The Partnership Fund for Peace Act creates an International Fund for Israeli-Palestinian peace. The fund would support peace building and economic development. It has bicameral and bipartisan support, and the support of continued on page 12

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because it can include items of fond memory or interest.

The word is almost playful and much more descriptive than its English equivalent, “knickknacks.” It has the added bonus of amusing us when non-Jews try using it in a sentence.

“Pride” in English becomes kvell in Yiddish. You can almost feel your chest swell with happiness as it comes from deep within your soul.

Saying kvetch in Yiddish actually contorts your mouth, mirroring the complaining, cantankerous mood it represents.

Meshuganeh, describing a crazy person or a state of mind, requires almost no translation at all; but it helps if you can roll your eyes and stick your tongue out at the same time. It’s used so often, it has its own abbreviations: meshugah or meshug.

The word “shame,” often just a mild reproach in English, becomes the much

more visceral shandah in Yiddish. The word is often spoken slowly to add emphasis and in somber tones describe the offense. You can really feel the severity of the condemnation.

Nosh. You gotta love “nosh,” a quick little snack which is reflected by its single-syllable pronunciation. You can actually feel the anticipated joy of something special to eat when you say it. I always thought the best name for a deli, hands down, was the Nosherie!

Genius!

Schlep. Describes not just the act of carrying something, but also imparts an additional nuance: the mental image of the struggling schlepper, usually me, huffing and puffing.

I could go on, but I’ll leave it to you to fill in your own special words and memories.

Zei gezunt (Be healthy).

Dr. Fredric Gold is a retired physician, residing in Bloomfield Hills, who tries to see the humorous side of life.

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Not the Whole Story The op-ed “Finding Hope in a Spring” (Feb. 27, page 6) begins with a dishonest analogy pretending that segregation exists within Israel. That’s demonization. A more honest analogy would have us imagining having to pass through checkpoints to get into Canada, where visitors could be refused entry. Oh wait.

There are two checkpoints between Detroit and Windsor.

Curse Canada’s brutal military occupation!

I’m kidding, of course.

There is no brutal Canadian

military occupation. Neither is there an Israeli one. And don’t forget that Israeli checkpoints were erected in response to Palestinian terror attacks. The author would have acknowledged this if she really honored the desire of Israelis to live safely.

With that in mind, it’s obvious that the author and her group’s trip to Ein Albeida Spring was merely a piece of anti-Israel theater peopled with the requisite good guys and bad guys in order to create drama. But because the only photos are of that group, continued on page 12

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Soul Café Feeds the Soul, Empowers Adults with Special Needs

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est Bloomfield is home to a fine dining experience that is transforming the lives of adults with special needs. Opened in 2016, Soul Café is dedicated to empowering adults through on-thejob training in this state-of-the-art kosher restaurant.

“The inspiration for Soul Café began between 2011 and 2013 when we started hearing from our Friendship Circle families who had been with us since we began in 1994,” says Friendship Circle Co-Founder Bassie Shemtov. “Some of our first buddies were now adults and were at home without any real purposeful things to do.”

Once again, Shemtov was inspired to create a space for these amazing souls to shine and connect with the community. The Friendship Circle team began looking for a space to create vocational training when they heard about cafés in other parts of the country that were being managed daily by individuals with special needs.

“Many adults with special needs are not able to get jobs,” Shemtov says. “But they want to give back and work. This idea has inspired not only us, but so many other companies are now seeing the amazing shift in the dynamic of their organizations by bringing in these incredible people to work with them.”

General Manager Shalom Shomer runs the café. It also includes Epic Kosher Catering/Milk & Honey.

Supervision is by the Council of Orthodox Rabbis. Currently, the restaurant offers hands-on training to adults with special needs in areas of food prep, cooking, hosting and serving, and other skills. Chef Frank Turner heads up the Soul Café with more than 30 years of experience in

culinary arts and teaching. The café offers a full kosher menu featuring gourmet soups, salads, sandwiches pizzas and pastas.

“This model is so inclusive,” Shemtov says. “Our staff with special needs work alongside our training staff to strengthen their skillsets and get them ready to work with customers.”

Soul Café has 25 full- and parttime employees; seven of whom are being trained and five who have graduated from the training program.

Unique to Soul Café, two of its former team-members graduated the program and are now employed at other restaurants in the area.

Soul Café is located at the Friendship Circle’s Farber Center and was dedicated by Alene Landau, Graham Landau and Larry Jackier, trustees of the Louis and Edith Blumberg Foundation. The Farber Center is home to the Dresner Foundation Soul Studio as well as the Soul Café. Both provide a loving and inclusive environment for artistic self-expression, vocational training and employment opportunities.

Soul Cafe is also a part of the vision that was made possible by the Farber Family.

“In the year before he passed away, Bill Farber spent a lot of time in the café. In fact, his favorite dish was blintzes, and now we call them ‘Bill-intzes’ in his honor,” says Levi Shemtov, co-founder of Friendship Circle.

“I once approached Bill and I saw him really having nachas while looking at the full crowd in the café. He asked me if I knew why people kept coming back here to eat. Bill said, ‘The food is good. But, it’s not because of the food. It’s because eating here fills their Jewish heart.’”

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numerous interfaith organizations. Forty-seven members of Congress have signed on as cosponsors, including four from Michigan: Reps. Jack Bergman (R), Andy Levin (D), John Moolenaar (R) and Elissa Slotkin (D).

In 1986, the British and Irish governments created a similar fund, the International Fund for Ireland. The Fund invested in co-existence and peacebuilding programs.

Thirteen years later, leaders signed the Good Friday agreement, ending much of the violence of the Troubles.

Investments in peace are not

a quick fix, but the future rewards are great.

Peace requires policy makers to focus on the future.

When they are no longer privileged to serve in office, what happens to the people living in the midst of conflict?

Now is not the time to abandon the people who support peace.

Zach Schenk is a Metro Detroit native and a graduate student at the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University.

He is also the chair of Israel Policy Forum’s young professionals’ network in Washington, D.C..

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we have to imagine the bad guys based on the writer’s description. Photos of the settlers who allegedly harassed her group and tore down their banner might have made her drama more believable.

Israelis are regularly accused of denying Palestinians access to water. When these charges are examined honestly, there is always more to the story than the Palestinians and their apologists let on.

And if the writer and IfNotNow were truly interested in peace, their moral conscience would demand that the Palestinians be held accountable for their refusal to live in peace with Jews.

Palestinian leadership will never give up their brutal genocidal dream of “From the River to the Sea” as long as they have allies like these.

— Harry Onickel Ferndale

Different Views Appreciated I appreciated this editorial note (“At the Dinner Table,” Feb. 27, page 6) very much. The op-ed about the Palestinian spring was an important read, and a perspective our community is rarely exposed to — perhaps an eye-opener for some who have not been aware of this pattern of settler appropriation of springs on the West Bank.

Sometimes it feels to me like the DJN letters section, in particular, tends to over-represent one small but very vocal segment of our community at the expense of other voices. I hope the new editor will take a look at that and make some improvements to help the letters section serve as a more accurate reflection of the various viewpoints held by people in our Metro Detroit Jewish community.

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Out in the Open NEXTGen Detroit Balance seeks to destigmatize mental illness in young adults.

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he stigma surrounding mental health makes it difficult to talk about openly. To help counter that stigma, NEXTGen Detroit has created Balance, a program intended to bring awareness to (as well as provide education and resources about) mental health in the young adult Jewish community.

Balance is the brainchild of NEXTGen Detroit Board members Marni Lieberman, Michael Baum and Alex Scharg. They said their main goal over the next year is to help break the stigma around mental illness among young adults with programming that increases awareness across a variety of related topics.

“For a young adult, there is a lot of change in adjusting to living on your own, starting a new job and living in a new community,” Baum said. “It is also a time of increased responsibility: entering a serious relationship, getting married, becoming a new parent, getting a promotion at work or starting a business. There is a higher likelihood of feeling isolated during these times without a strong support system.”

That’s where Balance comes in, as well as programs such as Federation’s “We Need To Talk” (WN2T) initiative, which is a key partner in NEXTGen Detroit Balance’s work. WN2T is a youth mental health initia-

tive aimed at changing the way our community thinks and acts regarding youth mental illness.

Balance initially launched Dec. 18 with a program featuring former University of Michigan lineman Will Heininger, who suffered from depression throughout college. He shared his story and answered questions from participants.

The team is currently brainstorming ideas for upcoming programs, including an event exploring mental health issues for new parents, meal prep on a budget with a chef/nutritionist, managing stress in the workplace and how to help a grieving loved one.

“NEXTGen Detroit does not claim to be mental health experts, nor do we think we can solve the very complicated issue of mental illness,” Baum said. “However, we can help bring in experts to educate and we can promote the importance of mental health-related tools and resources, such as WN2T. org. We want to encourage people in our age bracket especially, who are experiencing so much change in their lives, to live in balance and to pay attention to their mental health.”

Find NEXTGen’s events at jewishdetroit.org/events or follow it on Facebook and Instagram. Sign up to receive WhatsNEXT e-blasts at jewishdetroit.org/get-involved/nextgen.

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Spotlight Howard Handler returns to Detroit to lead events company 313 Presents.

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fter 35 years, Howard Handler has returned to Detroit. His family has made an impact here for generations. Now it’s his turn to make his mark as the first official president of 313 Presents, which manages entertainment operations for a range of Detroit-area venues, including Little Caesars Arena, the Fox Theatre and DTE Energy Music Theatre.

Raised in suburban Detroit, Handler is no newcomer to many of these venues. His family lived on Pontchartrain Drive in Southfield, not far from Southfield-Lathrup High School (he was Class of 1979) and Congregation Shaarey Zedek, where he became a bar mitzvah. He earned undergraduate and M.B.A. degrees at the University of Michigan, but before that, he was a regular at Detroit-area music venues.

“My mom (Marlene) took me and my best friend, Neil Spector, to see The Wiz when it opened in Detroit,” he said. “I have memories of shows at Cobo and Olympia and Pine Knob.

And those experiences led to a lifelong love of music, theater, and live enter-

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tainment.”

His oldest sister, Missy, introduced him and their sister Meg to the Beatles, Elvis and Aretha Franklin, and she helped him get an early job as a security Ranger at Pine Knob (now DTE Energy Music Theatre).

“That was a big deal,” Handler said.

In tandem with his love of entertainment, Handler’s attachment to Detroit also is tied deeply to family history.

His great-grandfather Charles Handler moved to Detroit shortly after World War I. He and his wife, Millie, both originally from from Bialystok, Poland, moved here from Newark when Charlie saw an opportunity to sell coal in Michigan.

Within a generation, their son Max, Howard Handler’s grandfather, would become a noted businessman and philanthropist.

In an April 17, 1947, photo found in the Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History, Max is shown at an emergency campaign event to help the 1.5 million liberated Jews in the days after World War II. The meeting was

held at the Leland Hotel, which is now undergoing a $120 million renovation.

The hotel is steps away from where Max’s grandson Howard Handler now works and lives.

Handler says his father — “a man of honor and integrity” — is a major influence in his life. Wallace Handler is a Detroit litigator known by colleagues as the “dean of the bankruptcy bar.”

Howard’s great-uncle Lou Handler, a pioneer in the sports business, was a one-time boxer who refereed and promoted professional championship fights, including Joe Louis’ first Golden Gloves title. Lou also founded and operated Camp Tamakwa in Ontario, Canada.

Michael Budman, current Tamakwa owner, goes back decades with the Handler family.

“It’s always great when Howard Handler finds his way to Camp Tamakwa on South Tea Lake, which was founded by his family in 1936,” Budman told the JN. “Moving back to Detroit will be a great step forward because Howard is extremely talented and savvy. I’m sure he’s going to create a great experience in the world-class venues in my hometown of Detroit.”

Throughout his life, Handler says he also has been inspired by the late David Hermelin, the Detroit-area real estate developer who became the U.S. Ambassador to Norway.

“David was a true giant in business and philanthropy and community leadership; but, most of all, he was a family man and a friend and a confidant to a huge number of people,” Handler said. “David was just a true Renaissance guy and inspired me, for sure. I grew up at his house and have a close relationship with the family.”

A succession of marketing jobs, many dealing with entertainment, led Handler to 313 Presents. He became

FACING PAGE: Portrait of Howard Handler in his office.

senior vice president of marketing at Viacom, where he headed marketing for MTV, and was later a senior vice president of the National Football League and chief marketing officer for Major League Soccer.

One of his pinnacle career achievements was as chief marketing officer for Virgin Mobile. “We built a billion-dollar company and we took it public on the New York Stock Exchange,” he said.

A combination of factors made the 313 Presents job a winning deal for Handler: the chance to work with iconic venues, committed partners, a growing business and a city on the rise.

When he spoke with his wife, Wendy, about the job, he just thought it was the right time to come home “because I can make an impact and do something positive for the city that I’ve always loved.”

The couple have two adult children, Rian and Eli. And his parents, Wally and Marlene, still live in the area.

“I can make an impact and do something positive for the city that I’ve always loved.”

— HOWARD HANDLER

ON THE JOB Handler, 58, arrived back in Detroit the day after Thanksgiving 2019, caught the Michigan-Ohio State football game and then set up an apartment downtown. The official announcement of his new role at 313 Presents was made Dec. 5.

The company is a joint venture started in 2017 between Olympia Entertainment, a division of Ilitch Holdings, and Palace Sports & Entertainment. Handler replaces Tom Wilson, interim president since the company’s creation. Wilson now serves as president emeritus.

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“He not only has fantastic work achievements behind him, but he also has deep roots in the city.

We are looking forward to his contributions to the community in the years to come.”

— ARN TELLEM

TOP: Handler’s office desk: photos of his two children and his wife — and a U-M Red Wings cap. ABOVE: This AP photo hangs in Handler’s office. It shows his great-uncle, referee Lou Handler, declaring “The Raging Bull” Jake LaMotta the 1950 Middleweight Champion in a win over Frenchman Lauren Dauthielle.

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sure venues have the right performers and events. He will focus on finding ways to grow the business, including attracting highly competitive national events to the city. He also has oversight on marketing campaigns, integration of the latest technology trends and front-end and back-end operations. Recently, he launched the redesign of 313presents.com.

Handler has inherited some top-grossing venues. DTE Energy in Clarkston was named the No. 1 amphitheater in the world, with close to 600,000 paid attendees in 2019, according to Pollstar, an industry trade publication that provides year-end rankings.

Little Caesars Arena, home of the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Pistons, moved up to No. 2 in the U.S. for top arenas for concert ticket sales, behind only Madison Square Garden (where Handler also once worked). LCA sold more than 900,000 tickets last year.

“I love every one of our venues,” Handler said. “Meadow Brook Theatre is almost like a summer camp, nestled in the woods at Oakland University.

Comerica Park will be the host of four very, very big concerts this summer, and it provides a tremendous atmosphere in the great outdoors.”

Among its seven venues, 313 Presents also operates the intimate 400-seat Sound Board at Motor City Casino Hotel and the historic and grand Fox Theatre in Downtown Detroit and produces events at Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill County Park in Sterling Heights.

Handler views his new role as a way to impact economic activity in Detroit. “More quality events and shows will result in more activity downtown,” he said.

He’s most looking forward to helping the team achieve its full potential. “There are 40 people on the team now. I think they’ve got incredible talent,” he said.

“We want to do some big ambitious things together.”

To that end, 313 Presents will be hosting the 2020 Frozen Four on April 9 and 11. That will be the second of four NCAA events at LCA. The company also will host the NCAA Men’s Basketball first and second rounds in 2021.

And it’s got the NCAA Wrestling Championships in 2022. All four bids were awarded before LCA opened its doors.

313 Presents partners with the Detroit Sports Commission, which prioritizes the region’s efforts to secure these big events.

Arn Tellem, vice chairman of the Detroit Pistons and a board member of the Detroit Sports Organizing Corporation, said he is excited to have Handler on board at 313 Presents.

“He not only has fantastic work achievements behind him, but he also has deep roots in the city,” Tellem said. “We are looking forward to his contributions to the community in years to come.”

Handler sees many positive opportunities to sell Detroit to outsiders. “I think we perfected R&B and punk and hip hop, in addition to Motown and techno,” he said. “Detroit is looked at as a sports-loving town. The four major professional teams are beloved. I think people see Detroit is a city with a vibrant and still-emerging food and restaurant scene. I think a lot of people see Detroit is a city of industry and creativity and art and design and innovation.

“So, I think there are lots of different ways that people view and embrace and are inspired

by Detroit — Detroit is making its mark.”

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Prudence, Not Panic Synagogues and temples factor the coronavirus into congregational life.

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he coronavirus was part of this year’s planning as local synagogues and temples prepared for Purim celebrations and congregational life.

Hand sanitizer was plentiful, and congregants were urged to take precautions but not overreact.

To date, no events had been cancelled. “We are focused on community and gathering in the face of fear with an eye to health and responsibility,” says Rabbi Aaron Starr at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield.

At least three local congregations — Shaarey Zedek, Temple Beth El and Temple Shir Shalom — have established medical advi-

sory committees comprised of physicians, other congregants and staff members. Dr. Carl Lauter, an allergist and infectious disease specialist, spoke at an educational program after Shaarey Zedek’s Shabbat services on March 6.

Several congregations have sent out special emails to members or included virus-related information in their weekly messages. Congregations have cited enhanced cleaning of public areas in response to guidelines from the Oakland County Health Department and provided guidance for handwashing and alternative methods of greeting rather than hugs and handshaking.

Communications from Temple Beth El and Bais Chabad in West Bloomfield advise against directly kissing the Torah or mezuzot.

“We are aware of what’s going on but not feeding the panic,” says Brian Fishman, executive director at Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield. Like other congregations, the temple is providing hand sanitizers and recommending frequent handwashing to those who visit.

The Orthodox Union sent a letter to member congregations last week, including Young Israel of Southfield, urging calm and prayer for those with the coronavirus. “However, it is extremely important that if anyone has

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Administrations are pushing good hygiene but have yet to change upcoming travel plans to Israel and elsewhere.

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sick children at home. They are also asking faculty and staff to do the same.

The schools have been actively enforcing good hygiene by encouraging students to wash their hands regularly and cover their sneezes and coughs. They are also allowing teachers to provide students with several periodic hand-washing breaks, including before and after lunch and restroom use.

Along with good hygiene practices among students and faculty, the schools are also periodically disinfecting door

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Resources for Congregations and Individuals

Metro Detroit Jewish Schools Actively Prepare for Coronavirus

s concern over the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to grow, Metro Detroit Jewish schools are preparing for the possibility that the virus will directly impact the community. Hillel Day School, Farber Hebrew Day School and Frankel Jewish Academy (FJA) are all implementing new protocols and emphasizing basic health practices.

Hillel, Farber and FJA have all sent memos to parents outlining what the schools are focusing on and advising parents to keep

symptoms of illness, including fever, coughing, stomach bug or any other sickness, that they refrain from coming to shul or other communal gatherings, either during the week or on Shabbat. This is true even for a mourner saying Kaddish.

Protecting and preserving communal health supersedes other considerations. Anyone experiencing such symptoms should immediately contact their physician for further guidance,” the letter states.

Rabbi Simcha Tolwin of Aish Torah in Oak Park, said that the congregation is looking at World Health Organization guidelines

handles, faucets, bathrooms, drinking fountains, tables, desks and countertops.

As of now, there is no plan to close any of the schools. Farber Head of School Rabbi Scot Berman told the Jewish News that they are in “contact with the Oakland County Health Department and other medical professionals to keep informed as to proper measures.”

Hillel and FJA are also both actively engaging with “local, state and federal agencies and will continue to reevaluate steps and actions regularly,” according

to their memos.

However, if it is in the best interest of the schools to close, Farber, Hillel and FJA are all beginning to explore and discuss strategies to provide remote instruction via technology to ensure that students’ learning is not disrupted.

In addition to protocol inside the schools, Hillel is also closely monitoring travel advisories.

The eighth grade is scheduled to travel to Israel April 20-May 6, and the seventh grade is supposed to head to Washington D.C. in May. Neither of those trips have been cancelled yet.

“We are keeping an eye on the situation,” Hillel’s statement read. They also advised parents who travel internationally for Passover to closely monitor travel advisories and to “be aware that Hillel will need to follow any governmental recomcontinued on page 20

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and that “We have ways to respond.” He points out that a year ago the local Jewish community was experiencing a measles outbreak.

For individuals who chose not to attend services, several congregations, including Beth Shalom in Oak Park, livestreamed the Megillah reading or regular services. Fishman says that Temple Shir Shalom provides live online adult education classes.

Overall, the focus is one of reassurance along with preparedness. David Goodman, executive director at Congregation Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield, points out that precautions for the coronavirus are similar to guidelines for avoiding seasonal flu. These may become the new normal all year long.

mendations relating to individuals who have returned to the country after traveling overseas.”

FJA is also thinking ahead regarding future spring trips, including a 12th grade visit to Poland and Israel. They already had two travel opportunities for students changed due to the outbreak.

Students were scheduled to compete in the International Robotraffic competition at the Technion in Israel and attend the Moot Beit Din (Moot Jewish Court) conference in New York City. The Robotraffic competition has been rescheduled by the Technion to October 2020 and the Moot Beit Din conference will now be done virtually.

As of March 9, there have been no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Michigan.

Detroit Public Television (DPTV) believes in telling the stories of the past to impact the present and help build for the future.

Nowhere is that more evident than in the hundreds of hours of historical and documentary programming DPTV broadcasts each year. On Sunday, March 15, that programming will focus on Jewish history during the station’s Jewish Heritage Night.

From 7-10 p.m., this live, prime-time event will feature in-studio guests, fascinating looks at Jewish history and culture, and reflections on Jewish Detroit’s past. Plus, two documentaries: Detroit Remember When: The Jewish Community and GI JEWS: Jewish Americans in World War II.

NCJW Sponsors Video Contest National Council of Jewish Women, Michigan (NCJW|MI) is again sponsoring a youth video contest for Oakland County high school female students. Girls will create a 30-second public service video announcement answering the question “How can we make a positive impact on climate change?”

Three finalists will be recognized and awarded monetary prizes during the award ceremony on Tuesday, May 12, at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills. First place will win $1,000; second place, $750; and third, $500.

The submission deadline is midnight Monday, March 23.

For details, an application and release forms, go to NCJWMI.org or call (248) 355-3300.

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ossi Klein Halevi is an Israeli author, senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem and co-director of the institute’s Muslim Leadership Initiative, where he discusses the IsraeliPalestinian conflict with young Muslim Americans. He will speak at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 16, about his spiritual journey into interfaith relations, especially Jewish-Muslim relations.

YOUR MOST RECENT BOOK, LETTERS TO MY PALESTINIAN NEIGHBOR, IS A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO WRITE THIS BOOK? It’s an outgrowth of several things. One is the experience I have co-directing MLI. MLI taught me a language with which to speak about Israel and Zionism to Muslim leaders.

Unfortunately, there are very few

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Usually, the way that interfaith works is that American Jews and American Muslims agree tacitly or explicitly not to speak about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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years ago into Palestinian Islam and Christianity.

WHAT LESSONS HAVE YOU LEARNED BY BRANCHING OUT INTO DIFFERENT FAITHS? The first lesson I learned is that we have an opportunity in this generation to take interfaith encounters to a deeper level.

Much of interfaith remains on a superficial level — let’s all be nice to each other, let’s not hate each other, let’s not kill each other — and that, of course, is far preferable to the alternative, but it’s still not going deeper.

What I am proposing in my work is a model for how Muslims and Jews can take a much riskier encounter, with the potential payoff of a much richer relationship. And so, I base my approach on several points. One is the need to face the Israeli-Palestinian conflict forthrightly and to prepare ourselves for a respectful disagreement over irreconcilable differences, but where we at least begin the process of listening to each other’s concerns, narratives, hopes and fears.

The second approach is to experience something of the other’s relationship with God and of the other’s experience with prayer. On the journey that I took into Palestinian Islam and Christianity, I joined the Muslim prayer line. I went into mosques; I went into monasteries and I participated actively in the prayer life of the communities that had invited me in. While shared social action or sharing holiday meals together is an important way to experience interfaith relations, I’m trying to push our communities to go a little deeper.

WHY DO YOU THINK IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND AND DIVE INTO EACH OTHER’S FAITHS? We’re living at a time

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where we can no longer barricade ourselves in our separate religious traditions for a very simple reason. The emergence of secularism has turned all religious people, regardless of what religion we belong to, essentially into one cap, the cap of religion.

Now, there’s a certain irony or complexity here for me as a Jew, because on the one hand, as a member of the Jewish people, I have something in common with fellow Jews whether or not they believe in God. A Jewish atheist is as much my brother or sister as a Jewish believer, even though I’m a religious Jew. And yet because I’m religious, I also function in a kind of parallel identity, which connects me to believers of all other faiths. And that’s something that didn’t exist in the pre-secular era.

WHAT ARE THE TOPICS THAT YOU WILL BE DISCUSSING AT YOUR LECTURE? I am going to be speaking about my journeys into other faiths — into Islam, into Christianity, into the Palestinian narrative and my experiences with American Muslims. All these different facets of my outreach work over the last 20 years will be discussed with the audience.

WHAT DO YOU HOPE PEOPLE’S TAKEAWAYS WILL BE FROM YOUR LECTURE? Do not be afraid of the deeper interfaith encounter. That means taking risks, making oneself vulnerable and listening to opinions that may be difficult or hurtful on all sides. This may be hard for some people, but the reward is worth it.

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Conservative rabbi cannot certify Michigan prisoners’ meals as kosher, according to an attorney representing incarcerated Jews who sued the state corrections department.

Two weeks after observant Jewish prisoners in Michigan won the right to eat meat and dairy kosher meals in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Michigan, the plaintiff ’s counsel, Daniel Manville, claims the Michigan Department of Corrections is violating the terms of the settlement by contracting with a Conservative-run kosher-certification agency instead of an Orthodox one.

As part of the settlement, MDOC either had to provide prisoners with pre-packaged and wrapped meat or dairy kosher meals or have their kitchens certified as kosher.

MDOC decided to certify its kitchens. “To plaintiffs’ dismay, the defendant has obtained illegitimate kosher certification of its prison kitchens by a Conservative rabbi,� Manville wrote Feb. 25 in a motion to enforce the settlement agreement. Kosher Michigan, which won the MDOC contract, is owned and operated

by local Conservative Rabbi Jason Miller.

Prior to the settlement, MDOC provided its kosher-observant prisoners with vegan meals, as well as the option to purchase prepackaged kosher meat and dairy products in the commissaries.

According to Chris Gautz, spokesman for MDOC, the settlement agreement that requires prisoners to be provided with kosher meals does not cover meat and dairy kosher meals. “That issue was litigated by the parties separately,� he said, adding that MDOC offered to arrange loans for prisoners who could not afford to purchase the kosher meals through the commissaries.  “Plaintiffs claimed that making them buy the meat and dairy at the commissary created a substantial burden on their ability to exercise their religion,� Gautz said. “After a trial, the court sided with plaintiffs. MDOC plans to appeal this decision.�

MDOC AND KOSHER MICHIGAN According to Gautz, Miller certified 17 of MDOC’s kitchens as kosher and notice was given to plaintiffs’ counsel as required. The Michigan continued on page 28

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Attorney General’s office had learned about Kosher Michigan during the legal proceedings and suggested MDOC contract with it.

“After receiving notice, plaintiffs have an opportunity to inspect the kitchens with their own expert. Instead of coming out to inspect the kitchens, plaintiffs’ counsel filed a motion to enforce the settlement agreement,” Gautz said.

But Manville argued in the motion that kosher certification from a Conservative rabbi does not comply with the settlement agreement because the plaintiffs are Orthodox Jews.

Manville is asking the court to issue an order that “certification from a Conservative rabbi will not accommodate plaintiffs’ sincere, Orthodox Jewish beliefs and continues to impose a substantial burden on their beliefs.”

Manville argues that the plaintiffs’ Orthodox beliefs rely exclusively on the Shulchan Aruch (Code of Jewish Law) and require a qualified mashgiach tmidi (continuous kosher supervisor) during kosher-sensitive production, rather than the Magen Tzedek protocols established by prominent leaders of Conservative Judaism.

Kosher Michigan follows Magen Tzedek in its certification process, according to its website.

Miller objected to Manville’s argument.

“The claim that a non-Orthodox rabbi cannot establish a facility or product as certified kosher is completely unfounded in Jewish law and is used as an unfair business practice to maintain a monopoly in the kosher-certification

industry by a handful of established kosher-certification agencies,” Miller told the JN. He declined further comment due to the pending litigation.

(Miller is also a JN contributor.)

MDOC maintains it has held up its end of the settlement. “The word ‘Orthodox’ does not appear anywhere in the document and was not negotiated by the parties,” Gautz said.

But Manville said that when he received notice from MDOC that several of its facilities had been certified by Kosher Michigan, the plaintiffs’ expert, an Orthodox rabbi, said it would be futile to inspect a kitchen that had not been certified by an Orthodox rabbi.

WHAT COMES NEXT? A hearing on the motion will be scheduled later this month, after MDOC has had a chance to respond and the plaintiffs’ attorney gets the chance to counter their response.

Manville wrote in the motion that he realizes on-site supervision would be a daunting (and expensive) task for Michigan’s prisons.

But he believes the problem could easily be solved with pre-packaged kosher meals.

He said he’s willing to provide MDOC with a list of potential Orthodox food providers.

“But if [MDOC] insists on certifying its kitchens, it must do so to Orthodox standards,” he wrote.

MDOC has until March 28 to appeal the court’s decision that Jewish prisoners should be provided meat and dairy kosher meals, Manville added.

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A Deep Dive Federation, others to host LGBTQ+ ally and advocacy training for Jewish educators.

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ewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, Stand with Trans, JFamily and the Youth Professionals Network are partnering to present an LGBTQ+ Ally and Advocacy training series for Jewish educators and youth professionals.

The trainings, which began March 11 at the JCC, start with a basic course on LGBTQ+ 101.

There, participants will learn the basics of gender identity and sexual orientation, including terminology, while also learning about the importance of paying attention to the mental health needs of these teens.

“We’re finding that more and more Jewish teens are struggling with gender and sexual identity,” Katie Vieder, director of teen engagement at the JCC, said. “But our professionals are also struggling because a lot of them don’t yet have the tools to support these teens.”

While there have been other community trainings with an LGBTQ+ focus, this is the first event that allows participants to take a deeper dive into this topic, Vieder said.

The Youth Professionals Network and the Michigan Board of Jewish Educators helped by connecting professionals and Jewish educators who work with grades 6-12 to this free training.

“When we were brainstorming topics to cover, we did receive a lot of input from the community,” Vieder said. “We asked youth professionals what they were struggling with, the difficulties they were facing and

how we could provide support.”

Roz Keith, president of Stand with Trans, was consulted to provide input on the three sessions. Based in Farmington, Stand with Trans was founded in 2015 by Keith and is a nonprofit organization that provides tools and support to transgender youth.

“We wanted the training to be comprehensive … We knew it couldn’t be done in 90 minutes or one two-hour session,” Keith said. “We worked to identify the topics and areas that would be the most appropriate and have the most impact for this particular audience.”

The second and third portions of the series will be held on March 18 and March 25 at the JCC. The second session is a deeper dive into gender diversity, featuring a panel of young adults who don’t identify with a gender or sexuality norm.

The final session will focus on navigating physical spaces.

This can include a scenario like sending a child off to camp and ensuring that showers and bathrooms are available for youths who don’t identify as male or female. It is also geared toward support for parents and educating professionals on how to be an ally for teens, parents and peers.

“I firmly believe that education is really the key to acceptance and support — the more we can learn and the more we can grow, the better equipped we are to support our teens who identify as LGBTQ+,” Keith said.

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LEFT: The Holocaust Memorial Center.

RIGHT: Sheriff Bouchard with Rabbi Mayerfeld.

Understanding the Dangers of Anti-Semitism Why Sheriff Bouchard brought new officers to the Holocaust Memorial Center.

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akland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard brought his senior command staff from the Oakland County Sheriff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office to visit the Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC) in Farmington Hills March 2.

Bouchard and his senior staff members have visited the HMC in the past but decided to coor-

dinate a tour for new staff members with HMC CEO Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I personally have been to the HMC numerous times and have also visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., and Yad Vashem in Israel,â&#x20AC;? Bouchard said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have always found this opportunity to be impactful. Each time

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The 35 staff members took a tour of the museum and explored a special exhibit on the capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann. The group also listened to Holocaust survivor Edith Maniker. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the most penetrating

messages I got from the museum were the images of German police who not only stood by, but participated in rounding up Jewish people,â&#x20AC;? Bouchard said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So my message to my senior staff is that we have to always hold paramount that we are the line that stands between the evil and their potential victims.â&#x20AC;?

Mayerfeld encourages local law enforcement to come for tours and participate in deeper education about the Holocaust. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the rise of anti-Semitism both internationally and nationally, but also with the rise of hate, these are important steps for law enforcement to take to learn these lessons,â&#x20AC;? Mayerfeld said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People must understand that anyone is capable of doing horrible things, but we are also capable of doing amazing things.

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Reporter’s Notebook:

AIPAC’s 2020 Conference Tilts into Partisanship Editor’s note: In what is surely a first for journalism, two different contributors with the same name attended the same event for the same publication. Benjamin Freed (top) is a Washington, D.C.-based policy journalist who covered this year’s AIPAC conference for the Jewish News as a member of the press. Ben Freed (bottom) is a Michigan-based rabbinical student and former journalist who attended AIPAC as a participant and wrote a first-person perspective for us. We hope you enjoy the coverage provided by both Ben Freeds.

WASHINGTON — One of the most familiar refrains heard while walking around the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference is that the group is bipartisan; that the relationship between the United States and Israel is something that bridges political factions.

But whether because the conference, held March 1-3, occurred during pivotal elections in both countries — the Super Tuesday primaries for the U.S., the third Knesset contest in less than a year for Israel

AIPAC

BENJAMIN FREED CONTRIBUTING WRITER

— or because a sitting Republican administration has been courting AIPAC aggressively, naked partisanship was never far from the surface over the three-day event.

The first day’s speakers made clear a vast majority of AIPAC’s attendees didn’t think too highly of Bernie Sanders. The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, opened the conference by dismissing the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate as an “ignorant fool,” and even a panel of self-styled “progressive” U.S. activists distanced themselves from Sanders.

On Monday, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, then still in the race

for the Democratic nomination, and Vice President Mike Pence also laid into Sanders. But things took a darker turn that evening when David Friedman, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, took the stage.

“To my friends on the left: Hating Donald Trump is not an Israel policy,” Friedman said. “Had President Obama — with whom I had profound disagreements — had he moved our embassy to Jerusalem, had he recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, had he restored tough sanctions on Iran and authored President Trump’s vision for peace, I would have been the first to applaud, and I’d still be applauding today.”

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s a rabbinical student, I had plenty of reasons to consider not going to this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. The conference’s large plenary sessions have a habit of making me uncomfortable — and that’s before you account for the fact that this year’s conference, which was held March 1-3, would occur during both an Israeli election and Super Tuesday.

Weeks ago, the dueling

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hashtags #SkipAIPAC and #AIPACProud started hurling around the Twitterverse. And the acrimony only intensified over the past two weeks as multiple Democratic candidates announced their intentions to not address the gathering.

Despite the best efforts of some, Israel was starting to feel like a partisan issue. Add in the increasing concerns over the coronavirus outbreak and gathering with 18,000 people in a convention center to talk

AIPAC

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AIPAC President Howard Kohr

about Israel, and attending the conference started to seem like a pretty bad idea.

So why was I there with my extra hand sanitizer? Well, for one thing, this conference is fun. While the conference is certainly about policy, it would be more accurately described as a confusing cross between an Israel expo, a family reunion, a pep rally, a summer camp reunion, a three-day political stump speech, a fraternity/sorority reunion and a synagogue kiddish.

But perhaps more than the

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Later in his speech, defending the Trump administration’s recent proposal to give Israel unilateral control of the West Bank, Friedman said that “the Biblical heartland of Israel, Judea and Samaria, will never be judenrein.” It was far from the only defense of the White House’s peace proposal at AIPAC, but it was the only one to invoke Nazi slang, as Friedman had previously done when he referred to leaders of the left-leaning pro-Israel group J Street as “kapos.”

The ambassador’s speech seemed to have unnerved AIPAC’s leadership. Minutes after it ended, the Jerusalem Post’s Lahav Harkov reported that the organization was “unhappy” with Friedman’s partisanship and would exclude

his speech from its online video channel. As of Monday, March 9, however, the video remained up.

Friedman’s inveighing against Trump’s enemies, real and perceived, played out, while 6,000 miles away, Israelis were voting once again to determine if either Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or his centrist rival, Benny Gantz, could finally form a stable governing majority.

When day broke in Washington on Tuesday, results in Israel seemed to be tipping toward Netanyahu, while Democrats in 14 states headed off to make their own preferences.

But by then, any sense of bipartisanship at the AIPAC conference seemed like more of a written promise than reality.

Democratic Party leaders could

still be found, as could one hourlong panel on the current status of the Israeli left. (The takeaway was that they’re largely in the wilderness, said Rami Hod of the progressive Berl Katznelson Center, resigned to throwing in with Gantz’s centrist Blue and White Party.)

It was a conference designed for dueling political crises, with turbulent dynamics in both countries. And, in another timely twist, AIPAC notified conference attendees Wednesday that they had potentially been exposed to a visitor who tested positive for the coronavirus.

And yet, as it wound down, the partisanship continued to intensify.

“I do not mean this as a partisan jab, but we must recognize these tendencies are more

prevalent in one party than the other,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, noting that Bloomberg was the lone Democratic candidate to make an in-person appearance. (Joe Biden and Amy Klobuchar sent video messages.) McConnell also criticized House Democrats for “slow-walking” a resolution condemning the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, despite the House’s overwhelming passage of such a measure last July.

That McConnell’s Democratic counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, followed him on the AIPAC stage did little to repair the breach. As AIPAC’s 18,000 attendees began filing out, partisan divisions were as bare as ever, and the politics just as tumultuous.

people have for criticism of Israeli government policy.

I have lived in Israel multiple times; I love Israel deeply and I strongly identify as a Zionist.

It is for those very reasons that I find it troubling when some politicians and leaders indicate from AIPAC’s stage that a lack of criticism is a prerequisite for friendship of Israel. James Baldwin famously wrote, “I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

I recognize that it is not AIPAC’s mission to critique the policy of the Israeli government.

But in breakout sessions that occur throughout the conference, it is possible to hear a wide variety of views on Israeli domestic and foreign policy.

There were sessions offered on Israeli LGBTQ+ activism and the

rights of minorities within Israel, among a wide variety of other sessions. I personally attended a session on the foundations of Christian Zionism and one on how — and whether — to think of Israel as reishit smichat geulateinu, the first flowering of our redemption.

Unfortunately, those conversations were off the record, so I can’t share more about them. I can say that I believe that if more of the content of those conversations made their way to the main stage, I — and others — would feel differently about AIPAC as an organization.

I am deeply concerned about the rapid escalation of rhetoric between the left wing of the Democratic party and people at AIPAC who style themselves as “the most pro-Israel.” I am distressed that Sen. Bernie Sanders felt that he could deliver a speech at Liberty University, but that

attending AIPAC was somehow a bridge too far. I am also disturbed by the name-calling and insults directed at Sanders from Israeli officials, as well as not-so-thinly veiled messaging from AIPAC CEO Howard Kohr about who is — or is not — a “friend of Israel.”

One of the most impactful sessions I went to challenged me to think about the moral compromises I make myself and the ones I allow — or don’t allow — from others. We make certain sacrifices — and yes, moral compromises — to be a part of a bipartisan gathering like AIPAC. My fervent hope is that Americans of all political stripes will continue to engage in conversations at this conference and back home that will make them uncomfortable.

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personal enjoyment, I was there because this conference also makes me uncomfortable.

I grew up in Young Judaea, a Zionist youth movement that prides itself on being pluralist. One of my mentors in the movement, Edana Appel, once told me that being pluralist does not mean making everyone equally comfortable, but rather making everyone equally uncomfortable. We do not learn or grow by seeking out the comfortable places and surrounding ourselves only with like-minded people.

Now, I am not suggesting that AIPAC makes everyone equally uncomfortable. There are thousands of people who attend the conference, and some certainly find more to agree with on the main stage than others. One thing that stuck out for me this year was the different tolerance levels

Ben Freed is a rabbinical student from Metro Detroit.

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en years ago, the lives of brothers Alex and John Ketty, and Jeremy Eckhous converged onto a shared path — and it happened to be fluorescent.

“Alex came to my home to quote a replacement price for our deck,” explains Eckhous, who formerly worked in the corporate world before becoming a serial entrepreneur. “My wife showed him several samples of a new, luminous compound that I had obtained from a British engineer. Alex was immediately struck with the possibilities.”

Today, the three West Bloomfield men are the owners of Glow Path Pavers, a Keego Harbor-based business making paver stones that glow in the dark.

That initial encounter sparked their collaboration, but it didn’t exactly progress at lightspeed.

“For seven or eight years we would meet every couple of months to brainstorm applications, develop prototypes and research competitors,” Eckhous recalls.

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product concepts, but also a genuine relationship.

“We didn’t really activate any of the ideas,” he continues, “but we did generate a close friendship.”

Their professional backgrounds proved complementary.

“We brought different perspectives,” Eckhous says. “I’ve done more technical stuff, and I think more corporate — I’m more cautious about committing time and money. They’ve learned by doing, through owning their small business [Creative Brick Pavers, also in Keego Harbor].”

They also come from different faiths. But that hasn’t dimmed their prospects. To the contrary.

“We share the same values,” says Eckhous, who grew up in Huntington Woods, graduated from Berkley High School and Michigan State University and made his bar mitzvah at Temple Israel. “I think Chaldeans appreciate the same things Jews do: education, family, integrity and honesty.

“In our business, that means creating an

GLOW PATH PAVERS

Two Chaldeans and a Jew are on a mission to make the world glow. Parts of it, anyway.

honest product that does what it says it does and makes life simpler and more environmentally responsible and sustainable.”

Eckhous does not consider himself religious. “My worldview hasn’t been that Jewish,” he says, “but I am dedicated to the Jewish culture. I really ascribe to being outgoing, generous, kind and thoughtful and committed to living a good life without harming others or causing trouble or being dishonest in any way.

“My dad reacted to his Orthodox New York upbringing by kind of going the other direction, but he also believed that if you’re good to people and honest and you believe in carrying yourself with integrity, good things are going to happen,” Eckhous adds.

“So that’s what’s guided me throughout my life.”

As for the Kettys, Alex describes himself and his brother as “very religious”

BUILDING THE BUSINESS In 2015, the trio patented a process for creating a concrete block speckled with chips that absorb the sun’s ultraviolet rays and give off a blue, green or aqua hue at night. But only in the last half-year or so has business begun in earnest.

In that time, Glow Path has finalized a contract with a manufacturer in Southern California, showcased at the World of Concrete fair in Las Vegas and booked doz-

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Catholics. Yet he marvels at the similarities between them and their Jewish partner.

“I have a couple close Jewish friends and we always talk about being Jewish and being Christian and how close they are. The main thing of religion is to love one another. That’s the ground we’re all on,” he says.

One of their attorneys, Alex jests, has even joked that Eckhous is, in fact, more Chaldean than Jewish: after all, Abraham originally came from Ur of the Chaldeans before journeying to Canaan.

“Even our dialect is similar,” Alex says with a smile. “Chaldeans speak [a form of] Aramaic; Jews say shalom, we say shlonukh.

It’s amazing how close we are.”

Ron Weiser Gifts $10M for U-M’s New Real Estate Center CORRIE COLF STAFF WRITER

Ron Weiser, chair of the University of Michigan Board of Regents, gifted $10 million to the U-M Stephen M. Ross School of Business last month to help expand student courses with the launch of a new real estate center.

The new Weiser Center for Real Estate will give students the opportunity to learn from real estate professionals and apply their knowledge with practical training.

The center will also work alongside other schools on the U-M campus, including the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Gerald R.

Ford School of Public Policy.

Weiser, who is Jewish, graduated from the Ross School of Business in 1966 and is the founder of a national real estate company, McKinley Associates Inc., based in Ann Arbor.

The new center will offer undergraduate and graduate courses ranging from real estate finance to sustainable development. It will also help Ross further develop U-M’s current real-estate certification program, in coordination with the Taubman College. A minor in real estate will also be curated.

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Gilbert Is Back in Action ALLISON JACOBS DIGITAL EDITOR

Dan Gilbert accepting his award Feb. 21 in Detroit

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uicken Loans Inc. founder Dan Gilbert spoke late last month at Crain’s Annual Newsmaker of the Year luncheon. It was his first time addressing the public since suffering from an ischemic stroke nine months ago.

The 58-year-old Detroit entrepreneur was inaugurated as the first member of Crain’s Newsmaker Hall of Fame.

“A leader’s job is not to create more followers — a leader’s job is to create more leaders,” Gilbert said. “I think we had the honor of doing that in our family of companies, which is why it could continue in my absence.”

According to Crain’s, Gilbert spent eight months at a rehabilitation facility in Chicago and continued physical and occupational therapy at home.

According to the report, Gilbert’s speech is clear, yet he is still experiencing paralysis on

his left side.

Gilbert is now back at work about two days per week. He is using a wheelchair and has a service dog in tow.

“The award is really for everyone, not just the guy that happens to be the leader of the food chain,” Gilbert said.

Real-estate developer and philanthropist Stephen Ross was also honored as Crain’s Newsmaker of the Year and is partnering with Gilbert on the University of Michigan “Innovation Center” slated for Downtown Detroit.

here’s to Jessica Goldberg, 18, of Farmington Hills was named one of Michigan’s top youth volunteers of 2020 by the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards, a nationwide program honoring young people for outstanding acts of volunteerism. As a state honoree, Jessica will receive $1,000, an engraved silver medallion and an all-expense-paid trip in early May to Washington, D.C., where she will join the top two honorees from each of the other states and the District of Columbia for four days of national recognition events. During the trip, 10 students will be named America’s top youth volunteers of 2020. Goldberg, a senior at North Farmington High School, built a support network for the siblings of young people dealing with mental illness, providing them with support groups, social events, networking opportunities, an advocacy voice and other resources.

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ens of orders.

Now they are going to market.

“We’re talking to big box stores — Menard’s, Home Depot, Lowe’s,” Alex says.

“And we’re working with landscape architects to get them to specify our materials with their clients.”

Glow Path has already built a patio for a West Bloomfield home. They are now targeting markets in California, Arizona and Nevada.

The owners envision several possible uses for their products. One is to illuminate public spaces.

“City plazas, parks, amusement parks, retirement communities, college campuses, Las Vegas casinos and hospitals are perfect examples of potential clients,” Eckhous says. “It’s a unique product and serves in many ways as an alternative to low-voltage lighting.”

No electricity is needed, and because the material is nontoxic, it’s environmentally

friendly. “Theoretically, you could eat it.”

The luminous stones could also, the owners say, help people navigate benighted sidewalks, curbs or steps. There are marine applications, too: swimming pools, fish tanks and koi ponds.

“We may also eventually provide other sizes for accents and borders, and designs like arrows,” Eckhous says.

Wherever the possibilities take them, the Glow Path guys plan to stick to their values.

“We share the perspective that you should treat people as you’d like to be treated, with respect and honesty. And that you’ll likely get that returned to you if you commit to it,” Eckhous says.

Alex adds, “The good part about all this is it’s going to be here for a long, long time, even after we leave this world. It’s going to be here, and people are going to see the effect we’ve made on the world — that we’ve made the surface glow.”

Volunteers for Israel has announced that Ed Kohl of West Bloomfield is the publisher of the Volunteers for Israel Volunteer Connection newsletter to be issued quarterly to all Volunteers for Israel veterans and applicants. As publisher, he will solicit, edit, approve articles and the publication. Volunteers for Israel is associated with Sar-El, a nonprofit organization that administers the program in Israel at which volunteers spend one-to-three weeks living and working on a non-combat IDF army base alongside Israelis and other volunteers from around the world.

Sib4Sib, a support network for the siblings of people who struggle with mental health or have developmental or cognitive differences, hired Breanne Ott of Huntington Woods as its first executive director. She has a decade of nonprofit management experience, most recently with the American Cancer Society. Her goal is to ensure that each child feels nurtured, understood, safe and, above all else, to count on Sib4Sib as their “home away from home.”

SHOOK Research and Forbes have named Paul A. Toby and Paul J. Monacelli, both senior vice presidents for wealth management at UBS Financial Services Inc., as 2020 Best-State-Wealth Advisors for Michigan.

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Jordan and Ryan Fishman of Birmingham are thrilled to announce the birth of their son, Moishe Chaim.

Excited brother is Ariel Emanuel. Proud grandparents are Ann and Marc Fishman of Bloomfield Hills, and Stewart Shifman of Waterford. He is named for, and is also, the grandson of the late Cindy Shifman.

Sophie Paige Cohen will be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on Saturday, March 14, 2020, at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township. Joining in her celebration will be her parents, Josh Cohen, and Carrie and Steven Stillwater; brother, Isaac Cohen; grandparents, Steve Brown, Connie and Barry Silverman, Michael Cohen, Beverly and Marc Jonas, Randi Brown and Larry Stillwater. Also celebrating this joyous occasion will be Sophieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great-grandparents, Elaine Kohner and Bernie Jonas. Sophie is the loving grandchild of the late Janice Cohen.

Sophie is a student at Warner Middle School in Farmington Hills. As part of her mitzvah project, she enjoyed volunteering at Fleishman Residence in West Bloomfield as well as at various soup kitchens and with Meals on Wheels.

Jacob Reese Friedman (Nadav Refael) of Huntington Woods will become a bar mitzvah at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield on Saturday, March 14, 2020. Participating in the ceremony will be his parents, Jennifer and Lowell Friedman, and his older brother Max. Proud grandparents are

Lawrence and Mei Lerner of Bloomfield Hills, Sandra and Leonard Gutman of Southfield, Susan Friedman of West Bloomfield and Melvyn Friedman of Surprise, Ariz.

Jacob is a student at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington Hills.

His most meaningful mitzvah project has been connecting with and serving students at Coleman A. Young Elementary School through Repair the Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PeerCorps program.

Brooke Peyton Radner, daughter of Melanee and David Radner, will lead the congregation in prayer on the occasion of her bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Friday, March 13, 2020. She will be joined in celebration by her siblings Aaron and Devin, and her proud grandparents Sandra and Larry Schiff, Susan and Edward Radner, and Barry Peltz.

Brooke attends West Hills Middle School in Bloomfield Hills. As part of her most rewarding mitzvah project, she raised funds for Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s research. In conjunction, she organized the donation of memory games, which she delivered to the Brown Center, and interacted with those who spend the day at the special memory care center.

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anette and Marshall Klein of West Bloomfield are thrilled to announce the engagement of their daughter Devin Nicole Klein to Cody Daniel Farber, son of Mark and Lori Farber of West Bloomfield.

Devin earned her bachelor of arts in elementary education from Michigan State University. She works as an elementary school teacher for South Lyon Community Schools and is a real estate agent for Howard Hanna.

Cody received his bachelor of arts in communication from Oakland University. He works at Clark Construction as a project manager and is a real estate agent for Kleinworld Real Estate Services.

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obin and Bob Schwartz of Huntington Woods, and Kay and Ira Abrams of Garrett Park, Maryland, announce with pride the upcoming wedding of their children, Andrew Joseph Schwartz and Leah Rose Abrams.

Andrew attended the University of Michigan, earning a bachelor’s, master’s and, ultimately, a doctorate degree in biomedical science.

Andrew is a postdoctoral fellow at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Leah received a bachelor’s degree from Emory University and attended the University of Michigan to earn a master of public health. She is a doctoral candidate in health policy and will start as a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies in the fall.

Rabbi Hazzan Rachel Anne Hersh of Adat Shalom Reconstructionist Congregation will marry Andrew and Leah on Sept. 6, 2020, before friends and family at the Accelerator Space in Baltimore.

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ennis and Karen Boren of West Bloomfield are delighted to announce the upcoming marriage of their son Joshua Aric Boren to Alyssa Nicole Bruell, daughter of Drs. Marc and Rachel (Stern) Bruell of Chesterton, Indiana.

Alyssa graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a bachelor of arts in English. She is employed by the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles in donor experiences.

Joshua graduated from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, with a bachelor of science in economics. He is the director of business development and marketing strategy for RCLCO Real Estate Advisors in Los Angeles.

A spring wedding is planned in Michigan.

arry Kappy recently celebrated his 95th birthday at a party in Boca Raton, Florida. Sharing in this wonderful simchah were his sons and daughters-in-law, Irvin and Barbara, Ira and Ilse, and his loving grandchildren Brandon and Michelle. Also helping him celebrate were his special family, friends and clergy from Detroit, Florida and Toronto. Garry enjoys his retirement from the men’s clothing business by spending time with his family and numerous friends. All wish him many more years of good health and happiness.

HOW TO SUBMIT ANNOUNCEMENTS Mazel Tov! announcements are welcomed for members of the Jewish community. Anniversaries, engagements and weddings with a photo (preferably color) can appear at a cost of $18 each. Births are $10. There is no charge for bar/ bat mitzvahs or for special birthdays starting at the 90th.

For information, contact Editorial Assistant Sy Manello at smanello@renmedia.us or (248) 351-5147 for information or for a mailed or emailed copy of guidelines.

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details To read more from Jon Lovitz, especially about his recent return to SNL as Alan Dershowitz, go to the full version of this story at thejewishnews.com.

going through a huge social change again in society, like the hippies in the ’60s. So now I talk about what we’re going through — and trying to understand it all — from my perspective at age 62.

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on Lovitz is having a banner first few months of 2020. He returned to his home turf of Saturday Night Live to play Alan Dershowitz Jan. 25. He’s the wise-cracking voice behind a new game, Little Diablo, and he returns to Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle in Royal Oak to perform his stand-up act on Sunday, March 22.

JN: A few weeks ago, the world was introduced to Little Diablo, a built-in sequence memory game marketed as “un-shutup-able.” It features your voice.

How did that come about?

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TV series Monk and wrote the movie Rat Race that I was in, developed it when he started a toy company. He’s very inventive. You play it like the game Simon with the colored lights.

And, as you’re playing it, you hear my voice heckling you and you can’t shut it off. It’s very funny. It’s pretty dirty and extremely annoying.

JN: Like the two shows you will be performing at Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle? They’re being advertised as for the 18-plus crowd.

Lovitz: Yes, It’s rated R for adults. It’s not like it’s filthydirty or anything; it’s just that the audience is coming to hear my sense of humor, so that’s what I’m presenting.

JN: That’s really cool. How many people can say they’ve had a toy created for them?

Lovitz: I know. It’s very exciting. I’ve had figures made of some of my characters from the Simpsons, but this is so fun.

It makes me laugh; it’s so ridiculous. And it’s definitely for adults only.

JN: Would you say you have a particular style of comedy?

Lovitz: I just decided I didn’t want to limit myself to one genre, so I do a little bit of everything. My act ends up being more about me and my opinions. I talk about what’s going on in the election and being Jewish. I feel like we’re

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JN: When did you start doing stand-up?

Lovitz: I left Saturday Night Live when I was 32 and started doing stand-up 14 years later. I would get onstage and be so nervous. It was so nerve-wracking. I started at the Laugh Factory once a week for three months, but I stopped because it was very difficult.

Then the next year, I started up again and I stuck with it. At age 46, it was really like starting over. It was tough, but I did it.

It was really hard. It was like learning a whole other craft.

JN: Who gave you tricks of the trade?

Lovitz: Dana Carvey is one of my best friends. He’s a great stand-up. He said the most important thing for being on stage is to have fun and set up the topic in as few words as possible. Then stay on topic and do a lot of jokes before you switch to another topic. Those tips made a giant difference — they literally saved me years because, otherwise, you’d have to figure that out on your own.

JN: How many shows do you do a year?

Lovitz: Usually two to three weekends a month.

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On the surface, To the End of Sorrow is about war, Judaism, suffering and daily life. Yet, in an original way, none of the plot elements corresponding to these themes — long slogs through swamplands, debates about religion, daily life matters like eating, cooking, dreaming and burying the dead — are represented through literary realism.

Instead, there is a kind of spiritual realism, in which roundness of character and texture of history take a backseat to parable, myth and folktale.

In that sense, Appelfeld — who died in 2018 at the age of 85 — has been rightly compared to Franz Kafka.

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Appelfeld himself grew up around the same time and in the same region. His mother and grandmother were murdered by the Romanian army when he was 9, and he and his father were sent on a forced march to a labor camp.

Appelfeld escaped the camp and wound up disguising his identity and working as a shepherd for Ukranian peasants for three years. Twenty years later, he was reunited with his father, whom he thought had been killed during the war.

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AT THE MOVIES In 2012, the low-budget indie film Beasts of the Southern Wild was the surprise hit of the year. This magical realist story about how a young girl survived a major flood won many major awards and scored four Oscar nominations.

Benh Zeitlin, now 37, received nominations for best director and best adapted screenplay.

His second film, Wendy, is a wildly reimagined telling of the Peter Pan story. In Zeitlin’s version, Wendy is kidnapped and taken to a mysterious tropical island where no one grows old. Advance reviews are mostly good. As with Beasts, Zeitlin is highly praised for the otherworldly atmosphere he creates via photography and sets, and criticized for uneven storytelling. Zeitlin directed Wendy and wrote the screenplay with his younger sister, Eliza Zeitlin (who also was the production designer). Their parents (father, Jewish; mother, Protestant) are both folklore experts and college professors. Benh had a bar mitzvah. (Maple Theater, Bloomfield Township; Landmark Theater, Royal Oak).

Never Rarely Sometimes Always is about two teenage cousins from Pennsylvania who travel to New York City following an unplanned pregnancy. The film was directed and written by Eliza Hittman, 40.

It received universal good reviews when it played Sundance (100% on Rotten Tomatoes) and was given a special Sundance award for “neorealism.”

NEW STREAMING The Plot Against America is a sixpart HBO series that starts March 16. It’s based on the novel of the same name by the late Philip Roth.

The novel and series posit an alternative American history. Franklin Roosevelt is defeated in the 1940 presidential election by Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator who was, in real life, a xenophobic isolationist. Lindbergh turns the nation toward fascism, tinged with more than just a little anti-Semitism.

The impact of Lindbergh’s policies is told via its effects on a New Jersey working-class Jewish family called the Levins in the HBO series.

The story is mostly told through the perspective of Philip Levin, a 10-year-old boy. The cast includes Winona Ryder, 48, as Evelyn, Philip’s aunt, and Morgan Spector, 39, as Herman, Philip’s father. The series was co-created by David Simon (The Wire), 60, and he wrote or co-wrote four of the episodes.

If you are older, share this viewing tip with young friends and show them how hip you are. On March 2, the New York Times published a long profile of the unlikely career of David Burd, 32, AKA rap star “Lil Dicky.” A Jewish guy from Philly, he got good grades and went to work for an ad company after college. But then he made (in 2013) a comedic rap video that got millions of views on YouTube. Hit albums followed and now he has a semi-autobiographical TV series called Dave (began March 4 on FXX cable; also on Hulu).

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10 am, March 14. Join Rabbi Rachel Shere and yoga instructor Mindy Eisenberg for Soulful Yoga at Adat Shalom Synagogue. Connect body and soul as they apply the wisdom of Torah to the gentle practice of yoga.

No yoga experience necessary. Free and open to the community. Dress comfortably and bring a mat if you have one. Info: 248-851-5100.

1-5 pm, March 16. Learn about Global Yiddish Networks at Rackham – West Conference Room, 202 S. Thayer St., Ann Arbor. Frankel Institute Fellows Dov-Ber Kerler, Amy Kerner, Eli Rosenblatt and Nick Underwood and guest scholars explore the global networks of Yiddish. Research will be presented on the presence of Yiddish in places such as Argentina, France, China, the Soviet Union and the Caribbean.

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PARENTING SERIES 9:30-10:45 a.m., March 15. Navigate parenting through a Jewish lens with Jackie Issner, PhD, LP, and Rabbi Rachel Shere at Adat Shalom Synagogue. The series, intended for anyone with a role caring for children age 7-12, is co-sponsored by the Adat Shalom-Beth Achim Learning Community, Adult Learning Department and Sisterhood. No charge for Adat Shalom members; non-members $5 per session. RSVP by the Thursday before each session: 248-626-2153, sshapiro@adatshalom.org.

KNITTING CIRCLE 9:30 am, March 15. Join the Adat Shalom Synagogue Sisterhood as they make scarves, hats and afghans for charity. At the synagogue. No experience necessary. Info: (248)8515100.

ON WAR CRIMINALS 12:30 pm, March 15. At Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills.

Eli Gabay, featured in the film The Devil Next Door, will speak of his role of prosecutor in the documentary film about John Demjanjuk. (Also at 4 pm.) Free and exclusive for members of HMC. RSVP by March 10: events@ holocaustcenter.org.

MONDAY, MARCH 16 TORAH & SONG 11:45 am, March 16. Davey Rosen, rabbinic intern at Adat Shalom, will present a lunchtime learning program. (Also on March 23, 30) He will explore spiritual meaning and modern insights of Torah and Talmud through text, study, discussion and songs, with guitar. Free. Bring your own dairy/parve lunch. Drinks and dessert will be served. Reservations requested: Kellie Yost, 248-851-5100, ext. 246, or kyost@ adatshalom.org.

5:30 pm, March 16. The Dorothy & Peter Brown Adult Day Program holds free monthly family caregiver support group meetings at JVS (29699 Southfield Road, Southfield) for family caregivers of all older adults.

For information or to RSVP, contact Dorothy Moon at 248-233-4392 or dmoon@jvsdet.org.

A FAITH NARRATIVE 7:30 pm, March 16. At Temple Beth El, 7400 Telegraph, Bloomfield Township. Yossi Klein Halevi of the Shalom Hartman Institute will speak on “Entering Each Other’s Lives” A Religious Jew’s Journey into Islam and Christianity.” Free event. A dessert reception will follow the lecture.

Register at Shalomhartman.org/ midwest.

APOCALYPTIC LITERATURE 7-8:30 pm, March 16. At the Max M. Fisher Building. “The End Is Only the Beginning: Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature” with Dr. Justin Sledge. (Also March 23, 30; Apr. 20, 27; May 4, 11, 18) Look at the Book of Daniel, the Book of Enoch, the catastrophic War Scroll in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Book of Jubilees, mysterious gnostic literature, the nightmarish Book of Revelations in the Christian Bible and others. Tuition: $145. Register: 248-205-2557 or jLearn.online.

TUESDAY, MARCH 17 ANCESTORS’ ADVENTURES 10-11:30 am, March 17. At the Jewish Community Center. “Amazing Adventures of Our Ancestors” with Rabbi Mitch Parker. (Also March 24, 31; Apr. 21, 28; May 5, 12, 19, 26; Jun. 2) Each week , study a different pivotal period of Jewish history by reading texts written by people who thrived, endured and suffered as a result of the challenges of the time period in which they lived. Tuition: $180. Register: 248-205-2557 or jLearn.online.

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TASTING EVENT NEXTGen Detroit presents a demo and tasting pop up at Leila, 1249 Griswold St., Detroit. This opportunity to try Detroit’s Lebanese cuisine includes a special craft cocktail demo and a lesson on how to make Leila’s famous grape leaves. Enjoy your handiwork in this plush new space and sample a spread of vegetarian appetizers. 6:30 p.m.; cost: $35. Fee includes cocktail and grape leaf making as well as appetizers after the demos. For information and to register, call Lauren Rubin at (248) 502-2854.

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DANNY RASKIN ON ONE DETROIT The JN’s own Danny Raskin will be the subject of a segment on this week’s episode of Detroit Public TV’s One Detroit. The story is about six minutes long and spotlights Raskin’s more than six-decade career as a newspaperman, dining columnist and Detroiter in the know. The program airs at 7:30 p.m. on DPTV (Channel 56), and will be available online after broadcast at OneDetroitPBS.org.

APRIL 1 MUSICAL FUNDRAISER Get your tickets now for the Tony Award winner of Best Musical, Dear Evan Hansen on April 1 at the Fisher Theatre.

A limited number of tickets are still available for a special presentation by Jewish Family Service, the JCC and Federation. Each ticket is $300 (plus tax) and includes a pre-glow reception at the Fisher and main floor seating.

JFS’ A Single Soul, which provides suicide prevention training to those in the community, will be a major beneficiary of the event. Get tickets at jewishdetroit.org/event/ dear_evan_hansen.

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MELTON CLASS 1-2:30 pm, March 17. At Max M. Fisher Federation Building. Melton presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;And (Social) Justice for Allâ&#x20AC;? with Rabbi Steven Rubenstein. (Also March 24, 31; Apr. 21, 28; May 5, 12, 19, 26; Jun. 2) This new course will draw from text and history to explore how social justice work goes beyond addressing short-term needs and looks at structural causes of injustice today.

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AUTHOR TO SPEAK 7 pm, March 17. Dr. Rebecca Erbelding, historian, archivist and curator at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, will discuss her award-winning book, Rescue Board: The Untold Story of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe. Room 1216 of the Mardigian Library on the campus of the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

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Hear Bailey Sisoy Isgro, author of Rosie â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a Detroit Herstory. Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of World War II; Bailey is the owner of Detroit History Tours. Refreshments will be served.

RSVP: Elaine Beresh 248-669-0417.

DROP IN & LEARN 1 pm, March 18. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Jews of Morocco: Modern History to Present Day.â&#x20AC;? At Beth Ahm. Watch and discuss a video lecture by Prof. Howard Lupovitch, which was delivered at Temple Israel on Feb. 13 as the concluding lecture in a three-part series on the long and fascinating history of

this illustrious Jewish community in North Africa. No charge; no reservations needed. Info: Nancy Kaplan (248) 7371931 or email nancyellen879@att.net.

ORIGINAL PLAY 7 pm, March 18. At the Berman Center for Performing Arts in West Bloomfield.

The Chaya Mushka High school will put on an original play, Upon Her Heart, with song and dance based on a true story of a heroic group of people who rescued â&#x20AC;&#x153;hidden childrenâ&#x20AC;? throughout Europe. Tickets online: adult $18, student $16. At the door: adult $20, student $18. Info: UponHerHeart@ gmail.com.

THURSDAY, MARCH 19 ANIMALS & TRADITION 11 am-12:15 pm, March 18. At the Max M. Fisher Federation Building. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lions and Tigers and Bears Oy Vey!â&#x20AC;? with Rabbi Robert Dobrusin. (Also March 25, April 1, 22, 29) Bring your lunch and enjoy. What does our tradition have to say about the animals with whom we share this Earth? There will also be time to consider how relationships with the animal members of our families have enriched our spiritual lives. Tuition: $75. Register: 248-2052557 or jLearn.online.

NOSH & KNOWLEDGE Noon-2 pm, March 19. NCJW/MI will host Rabbi Aaron Bergman of Adat Shalom Synagogue. Topic: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art with a Jewish Twist.â&#x20AC;? A dairy lunch will be served. At NCJW office, 26400 Lahser, # 306, Southfield. Cost: $10 for members; $15 for non-members. Info: 248355-3300, ext. 0 or NCJWMI.org.

A MUSICAL EVENT 2 pm, March 19. An afternoon with musician Avy Schreiber at Temple Beth El. Join the Beth Elders for lunch and an afternoon of entertainment by a one-man-band. Deli lunch from Pickles & Rye. RSVP by March 13 to Danielle Gordon at dgordon@tbeonline.org or 248-851-1100.

SECRETARY OF STATE 7 pm, March 19. At Temple EmanuEl in Oak Park. Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson provides an update to the community followed by afterglow. RSVP deadline of Monday, March 16. $20. (Discount price of $70 for four Spring Festival at Temple Emanu-El events).

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Her Trailblazing Spirit, Positive Energy Impacted the Community powered with creativity and oris E. “Dorie” beauty. Blessed with a brilShwedel, age 76, of liant mind and indomitable Bloomfield Hills, spirit, she leveraged her died on Feb. 29, 2020. creative passion to educate, She is survived inspire and uplift by her beloved her community. children, son Ari Dorie lived all the Shwedel of New varied aspects of York City, and her life with a pasdaughter Merritt sion that electrified Shwedel of Hong her colleagues, Kong; sister of friends and family.

Betty Lowenthal of Like many West Bloomfield; women of her genDoris E. “Dorie” sister-in-law of eration, she began Shwedel Carol (Barry) her career as a Kline, Del Ray teacher. Her first Beach, Florida. Also surjob was teaching English vived by many nieces and at Ferndale High School. nephews.

Her ingenuity and ambition She was the loving wife of soon led Dorie to use her the late Marvin S. Shwedel, talents in advertising, workdaughter of the late Sidy ing at Doner. She stepped and Sigmund Lowenthal, away from a promising and sister of the late Marion career to focus on raising (Alvin) Golman. her family.

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successful fundraising events, such as Strictly Business, that transformed the organization’s impact in the community.

Dorie and Marvin married in 1968. Their personalities were the perfect complement, and they were true partners for life. They built a serene home for their children, modeling a Jewish life filled with learning. Dorie brought a sense of humor and joy to parenthood that nurtured her children, encouraging excellence and supporting them in pursuit of their individual dreams.

Dorie’s creative pursuits extended to her community.

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Dorie lived life to the fullest. She created lasting memories for family and friends with holiday traditions, special events and seaside vacations. She left an indelible impression on everyone she met.

Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery.

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An Interviewer Both Sympathetic and Probing — with Detroit Roots SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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hen I turned the tables on famed show business interviewer James Lipton, he revealed his Detroit connections.

Lipton, who died of bladder cancer March 2, 2020, at age 93, freely answered questions about hosting the Emmy-winning program Inside the Actors Studio, other professional experiences James Lipton and his Detroit upbringing in 2007, the year he released his memoir Inside Inside.

“You cannot teach talent, but you can teach technique,” Lipton said in that interview. “The purpose of technique is to free the talent.”

Inside the Actors Studio, which originally aired on Bravo and then Ovation, reached some 94 million American homes between 1994 and 2018.

Long before celebrities, from comedian Andy Cohen to actor-writer-director Jeff Daniels, could tweet about how much they liked being on his show, Lipton revealed his work routine to the JN. He said he took two weeks to prepare for each NICK STEPOWY/VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

KARNI W. FRANK, M.D. (née Spitz) died Feb. 27, 2020, at Union Memorial Hospital following emergency cardiovascular surgery. She was 83 years old.

She and her husband, Dr. Robert N. Frank, had been visiting Baltimore from Bloomfield Hills, where they lived, to visit their daughter.

Dr. Frank was an accomplished physician and the daughter of a remarkable family. Her parents, Drs. Siegfried and Anna Spitz, fled Germany in the early days of Nazi rule with their son, Werner, and joined other Jewish settlers in what was then Palestine, where her father rebuilt his medical practice, treating Jews and Arabs alike.

Karni, who was born in 1936, often found the children of Palestinian patients playing on her bed while her father treated their parents. In the 1950s, after the re-establishment of a democratic West Germany, the family returned, settling in Frankfurt am Main.

There, Dr. Frank attended medical school alongside her mother at the Johannes Gutenberg School of Medicine and later received a research degree from Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. She trained in pathology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and then in ophthalmic pathology at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, D.C. It was there that she met Dr. Robert Frank, who was completing a residency in ophthalmology at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins. (It was, ironically, a blind date.) They were wed

interview, being prompted by notations on cards and intending to keep discussions focused on craft. He had a knack for getting celebrities to reveal personal revelations.

Lipton had demonstrated abilities in reading and creative writing before attending Detroit schools. He was encouraged by his parents, Lawrence Lipton, a beat poet who wrote for the Jewish Daily Forward, and Betty Weinberg Lipton, a teacher in Highland Park — although father Lawrence walked out on the family when James was a child.

“When I was a child, I would walk to the Fisher Theatre every Saturday afternoon and watch a movie,” he said about the venue that became the starting point for the Nederlander theater network. “I didn’t know the Nederlander family then, but I got to know some of the family members very well in New York. I told them what a profound influence the family had on my life.”

Lipton, who attended Central High School and

Wayne State University, had his first major acting job on The Lone Ranger radio program produced in Michigan. After moving to New York, he studied acting with Stella Adler, became a soap opera actor and produced television projects.

Venturing into writing for the stage, Lipton collaborated on the musical Sherry! with Central High friend Laurence Rosenthal, who married his melodies with Lipton’s lyrics and book. As dean of the Pace University Actors Studio Drama School in New York City, Lipton helped develop a master’s degree initiative with a seminar that morphed into the TV series.

The successes in Lipton’s life contrast with early struggles caused by his father’s departure.

“I don’t know why my parents distanced themselves from Judaism, but they were both atheists,” he said. “I’ve always been like my parents [in that way].

I hope that doesn’t offend anyone. I know so many people who are religious and do many good things and for whom I have the deepest respect.”

Lipton is survived by his wife, former model and real estate executive Kedakai Turner Lipton.

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‘An Icon in Dermatology’ Soul

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nown for his intellect and such as atopic dermatitis, psoriasis insatiable curiosity, Dr. and tuberous sclerosis.

Peter Jerome Aronson Dr. Aronson won five Teacher of applied his prodigious gifts to the Year awards at WSU and was the practice of dermatology. honored in 2013 with a lectureship Highlighting his 43-year career, in his name. he was assistant professor in the An enthusiastic audiophile, dermatology department at Wayne he particularly liked being home State University (WSU) School of with his wife, Debbie (formerly Medicine and a supervisor in derAbrams). They met on a blind date matology for more than 37 years at and were married in 1982.

John Dingell VA Medical Center.

The classical music they enjoyed With the passing of influenced their soprano Dr. Aronson, 67, of daughter, Justine Aronson, Bloomfield Township to become a professional on March 1, 2020, foropera singer. “My father mer patients, colleagues could recall every melody and students lost a in the classical musical brilliant diagnostician, canon,” she said. Peter and researcher and teacher.

Debbie were extremely Dr. Aronson was also a proud of Justine. kind, caring and devot- Dr. Peter Aronson Dr. Patricia Brown of ed family man. Rabbi John Dingell VA Medical Aura Ahuvia of the Center said her colleague, Aronsons’ Congregation Dr. Aronson, had a Shir Tikvah in Troy officiated at “remarkable influence” in building his funeral on March 4. the facility’s dermatology program.

Dr. Aronson was born in “He was an icon in dermatology.”

Chicago on April 19, 1952.

Dr. Aronson was the husband of Youngest brother Geoffrey Debbie Aronson, father of Justine Aronson lightened the mood by Aronson, son of Jeanne Aronson talking about the tall, skinny Peter and brother or brother-in-law of becoming a champion eater at John (Debbie) Aronson, Geoffrey summer camp. By contrast, his (Joanie) Aronson, Roz (Torry) brother John spoke of Peter’s calm- Duffy and Heather Wright. ing presence when they got lost He also was the son of the late skiing.

Harold Aronson Jr. and brotherDr. Aronson graduated with in-law of the late Steven Davis. honors from the University of Interment was at Adat Shalom Chicago’s Pritzker School of Memorial Park. Contributions Medicine. may be made to Tuberous Dr. Darius Mehregan, chair of Sclerosis Alliance, 801 Roeder the WSU dermatology departRoad, Suite 750, Silver Spring, MD ment, said Dr. Aronson joined the 20910, (800) 225-6872, tsalliance. faculty “because he loved teaching, org/ways-to-give/ or Wayne State research and, most of all, seeing University-Gift Processing, Peter J. patients.”

Aronson, M.D., Endowed Lecture, Known as an advocate for his 700 Cass Ave., Suite 1200, Detroit, patients, Dr. Aronson wouldn’t MI 48202, (313) 577-2424, giving. give up until he reached a correct wayne.edu/donate. diagnosis. His particular interest Arrangements by Ira Kaufman was in dermatologic disorders, Chapel.

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Couple Dies Days Apart Morris (Marty) Garfinkel, 83, of Novi, died Jan. 30, 2020. His wife of 60 years, Eleanore Garfinkel, 81, died 10 days later on Feb. 9.

2020.

Morris and Eleanore met as teenagers and rarely spent time apart as they were truly best friends. They enjoyed going to the theater and movies together, as well as playing cards and Morris Garfinkel traveling.

Morris was a beloved teacher and department head at Frost/Roosevelt Middle School and also taught at Wayne County Community College. Eleanore was a beloved teacher’s aide at Hillel Day School’s Little Red Schoolhouse.

She was also an excellent paralegal.

They were the beloved parents of daughter and son-in-law, Jodi and Robert Weinfeld of Eleanore Garfinkel Farmington Hills; son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Stacey Garfinkel of Oak Park, California; devoted grandparents of David, Sara and Ilana Weinfeld, and Noah and Alexis Garfinkel. They are also survived by sisters-in-law, Myra (the late Louis) Sonshine and Susan (the late Richard) Banks; as well as nieces, nephews and a world of friends.

Interment took place at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. To further honor their memories, a donation may be made to the charity of your choice and, for those who are eligible, please consider a donation of blood or blood products. continued from page 55

shortly thereafter.

Dr. Frank practiced as an ophthalmic pathologist at the Kresge Eye Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, where she moved with her family in 1976. She later completed a second residency in family medicine, and practiced at the Detroit Medical Center/ Wayne State and then at the John D. Dingell U.S. Veterans Administration Hospital.

Her greatest love was her family, whom she encouraged to high educational and professional accomplishment as well as loving parenthood.

Had she lived, Dr. Frank would have had 12 grandchildren, with the 12th born less than 24 hours after her death.

She is survived by her loving husband, Dr. Robert N. Frank; children, Dale Frank (Elizabeth Hexner), Ariel (Andrew) Green, Stephen Frank (Adam Berger) and Gitta “Sissy” Frank (Paul Mitchell); brother, Dr. Werner (Anne) Spitz; and grandchildren, Leah, Anna and Noah Mitchell, Max, Daphne, Ethan, Benjamin, Hannah and Abigail Frank, and Isabel, Zoey and Aaron Green.

Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery.

Contributions may be directed to Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, 130 W. 30th St., New York, New York 10001, cbst.org/ content/chaicards; or Wayne State University School of Medicine, Office of Development, 4201 St. Antoine, Detroit, Michigan 48201, cardinal.wayne.edu/ wsugiving/give.cfm?deptid=13. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

DR. HOWARD GLAZER, 82, of Hartland, Michigan, died Feb. 28, 2020.

Dr. Glazer is survived by his wife of 25 years, Lisa Glazer; children, Dr. Michelle and Craig Zucker, Joni Glazer, Jessica Glazer, and Jimmy and Carey Abraham; grandchildren, Ryan Zucker and his fiancee, Arielle Wisbaum, Bradley Zucker, Joanelle Glazer, Vella Abraham and Ava Abraham.

He was the cherished father of the late Margo Glazer.

Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park.

Contributions may be directed to Horse Haven, P.O. Box 166, Howell, MI 48844, horseshaven.org; Kadima, 15999 W. 12 Mile, Southfield, MI 48076, www.kadimacenter.org; or a charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. continued on page 58

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MELVYN S. GOLDSTEIN, 78, of West Bloomfield, died Feb. 28, 2020.

Mr. Goldstein is survived by his wife, Robbie Segel Goldstein; children, Amy D. Goldstein, Ari D. Goldstein and Kris Seymour, Jodi GoldsteinDiVito and Marvin DiVito, and Mindy Goldstein; stepchildren, Niki and Todd Fink, and Amanda Segel; grandchildren, Molly E. Goldstein, Luca DiVito, and Maddie, Aerin, and Andrew Fink; brother and sisterin-law, Mark and Cynthia Goldstein.

He was the beloved husband of the late Marie L. Goldstein, and was also pre-deceased by his first wife, Carolyn Barnett-Goldstein, the mother of Amy and Ari. Interment was at Machpelah Cemetery.

Contributions may be directed to American Cancer Society, 20450 Civic Center Dr, Southfield, MI 48076, www.cancer.org; Karmanos Cancer Institute, 4100 John R., Mailcode: NCO6DS, Detroit, MI 48201, karmanos. org; or a charity of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

BETH GREENAPPLE, an active member of Jewish communities across the country from New York to Detroit, passed away in her home March 2, 2020, after a long battle with brain cancer. She was 62.

Originally hailing from New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Long Island, she was the

first child of Larry Greenapple and Emily Schneider Greenapple, of blessed memory.

After attending Carnegie Mellon, Mannes College of Music, and the College of New Rochelle, she spent many years teaching at various schools in New York state, including Solomon Schecter.

After moving to Metropolitan Detroit in 1995, she became a fixture at various Jewish institutions in the area and was known for her passion for music education. A former teacher at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit and at the Roeper School, Beth was a lifelong educator and lover of music.

As a friend and student of renowned Jewish musician Debbie Friedman, Beth brought her love for music, her singing voice and her guitar with her wherever she could, making an indelible impact on many in the Metro Detroit Jewish community.

She was a founding member and early president of the Jewish Gay Network of Michigan and made huge strides in pushing for the acceptance of LGBT Jews in the local community.

She is survived by her loving friend and partner, Julia Pais; devoted son, Nadav Pais-Greenapple of Southfield; loving father, Lawrence Greenapple;Â dear brothers and sisters-inlaw, David and Donna Greenapple of Westport, Connecticut, Steven and Bonnie Lauton Greenapple of Wilton Manners, Florida; nephews and nieces, Matthew Greenapple, Joshua Greenapple, Benjamin Greenapple, Tyler Anastasio,

Morgan Anastasio. She is also survived by her canine buddy, Mishka; other loving family members; and a world of friends.

Ms. Greenapple was the loving daughter of the late Emily Greenapple.

Contributions may be made to Yad Ezra, 2850 W. 11 Mile, Berkley, MI 48072; Good People Fund, 384 Wyoming Ave., Milburn, NJ 07041; Habonim Dror Camp Tavor, 4444 Second Ave., Detroit, MI 48201; or American Brain Tumor Association, 2720 River Road, Des Plaines, IL 60018. Interment was held at Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

DAVID GUTOW, 72, of Franklin, Michigan, died March 1, 2020.

Mr. Gutow is survived by his wife of 39½ years, Cheryl Gutow; daughter and son-inlaw, Lisa and Gary Berman; grandchildren, Liam and Tallulah; sister and brother-in-law, Carol and Robert Goldstein. Mr. Gutow is survived by loving cousins, nieces, nephews, devoted caregivers and a world of friends.

He was the devoted son of the late Dr. Benjamin and the late Ruth Gutow.

Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery.

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to ALS Of Michigan, 24359 Northwestern Hwy. Suite 100, Southfield, MI 48075, alsofmi. org; or a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

MARIAN B. KOHLENBERG, 93, of Huntington Woods, died Feb. 29, 2020.

Ms. Kohlenberg is survived by her daughter, Joyce Kinnard; sons and daughter-in-law, Dr. James and Linda Kohlenberg, and Dr. Kenneth Kohlenberg; grandchildren, Jeremy and Ashley Kinnard, Rachel Kinnard and Gonzalo Cordova, Dr. Samuel Kohlenberg, Dr. Matthew and Elizabeth Kohlenberg, and Dr. Anthony and Becky

Kohlenberg; and four great-grandchildren. She was the beloved wife of the late Norman Kohlenberg.

Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be directed to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

CHRISTOPHER E. MCVITTIE, 40, passed away Friday, Feb. 21, 2020.

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Chris was a 1997 graduate of Austintown (OH) Fitch High School and received a B.B.A in human resources management and services from continued on page 60

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DeVry University in 2006.

Since 2008, he was a valued employee with Allstate Financial Services and most recently served as a claims service leader with the Allstate Catastrophe Team.

Christopher was an advocate and president of Pride Softball and involved with the Poland Softball Organization. He was a volunteer with the Poland School District, often reading to students. Chris loved family and friends, all things Disney, Michigan Wolverines, traveling, the gym and obstacle course racing.

He leaves behind his wife, Melissa Ladesic; daugh-

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ters, Riley and Kennedi McVittie; stepson, Justin Ladesic (McKensey Healey); his parents, Kirk and Sandra Davidson-McVittie of Temple Kol Ami, and Sharon and William Long; father-in-law, William Young; grandmother, Susan McVittie Amacher; siblings, Erika (David) Ohl, Danielle Gotshaw (Eric Savard), Kameron McVittie, Kimberly Rivers, Brian (Shaine) Long and Matthew (Chrissy) Long.

Chris was much beloved by nieces and nephews, Dawson, Owen, Karlynn, Emilyn, Liam, Jordan, Alicia and Abbie; cousins, Elektra Petrucci (Michael Williams) and Nicholas McVittie; aunts

and uncles, Kent (Mary) McVittie, Maureen Petrucci, Matthew (Candace) McVittie and Charles Davidson.

Christopher was preceded in death by his grandparents, Joseph and Theresa Ziomek, James McVittie, and David and Bertha Davidson; and by his uncles, Robert Ziomek and Henry Petrucci.

Contributions in Christopherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memory may be made to his two children by Venmo, @MelissaLadesic1927, or mailed to Higgins-Reardon Funeral Homes, 2726 Center Road, Poland, OH 44514, higgins-reardon.com where all proceeds will be forwarded to the family.

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t was announced last week that demolition began at the Palace of Auburn Hills, home of the Detroit Pistons for nearly 30 years. The Palace is joining Joe Louis Arena, the Silverdome and the venerable Tiger Stadium as Detroit-area arenas that have disappeared over the past two decades. Of the venues that existed when the Palace first opened, only Cobo Hall — now known as TCF Center — still stands.

The story of the Palace is also a story involving three Mike Smith leading citizens from Detroit’s Alene and Graham Landau Jewish community. Costing Archivist Chair about $90 million in 1980s’ dollars (maybe $200 million today), it was a controversial project from the beginning because it represented competition for the other Detroit-area stadiums mentioned above, as well as a moment of classic suburb vs. city tension.

The Palace was privately funded by Jewish Detroiters William Davidson, David Hermelin and Robert Sosnick. Davidson made his fortune as an innovator in automotive glass. In the 1980s, he also owned the Detroit Pistons. Hermelin was an influential businessman who kept a low profile and was eventually appointed U.S. Ambassador to Norway. Sosnick was one of Oakland County’s premier developers and builders. All three of these men were not only extremely successful businessmen, they were also prominent philanthropists, supporting innumerable Jewish causes in Metro Detroit and Israel.

When the Palace opened, it was perhaps the most modern, innovative sports venue in America. It was a trendsetter as a professional basketball stadium and as a setting for other entertainments such as music concerts. The first scheduled event in October 1988 was an appearance by the musical artist Sting; the last event was a concert by Michigan’s own Bob Seger on Sept. 23, 2017.

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