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appy You Chinese Restaurant speaks for itself. It is whole, sound and, like Clark’s Wallabees or Total Eclipse of the Heart, cannot be improved upon. If it were a product of this era, it would be happYou and it would promise some industry-disrupting life hack that would end up just being quinoa paste and a Magic Eye poster.

Happily for me, Alex Ben Falik and So Chu decided to open a restaurant in the waning days of the last century, when happiness was less about the instant gratification of handheld technology (excepting the length of one’s Discman skip protection) and more about what David Brooks described last week as “defeating self-sufficiency for a state of mutual dependence.”

“By planting themselves in one neighborhood, one organization or one mission,” Brooks argues, “they earn trust. They have the freedom to make a lasting difference. It’s the chains we choose that set us free.”

When Alexis shared her parents’ retirement news online last month, I took solace in the continuity of cuisine with Chef Paul as the new owner. But at 20 plus years, Happy You may be my longest adult relationship. I needed closure. Also lunch.

Born in Hong Kong in 1951, Alex grew up swimming competitively and developing pictures in his home darkroom. In 1971, the Chu family emigrated; his older sister stayed behind, ineligible to join them.

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still left Holbrook, Ariz., with fewer than 5,000 people. Holbrook — once “the town too tough for women and churches,” the seat of Navajo Countyy and beneficiary of Chinese rail laborrers — had one Chinese restaurant, owned by Alex’s uncle.

After two years in Holbrook, Alex went into near-constant motion until his journey culminated d in a Keego Harbor storefront. First, San Francisco, home to extended family.

Then seven years on the road — working in Chinese restaurants and taking stock of the variations in quality and service — that led him to Michigan.

On his first trip back to Hong Kong, he reconnected with old family friends, including So. They settled in Michigan and started a family, but Alex’s drive kept him moving. Birmingham Carrie Lee’s.

Head chef at Carrie Lee’s Lake Garden in Waterford. Peking House in Royal Oak. Then Manchu Wok, training and district management for 20 locations as far afield as Minnesota and Iowa.

The Tao of Alex, “Happy You,” served as pledge and promise to customers and his family. He chose Keego Harbor to be close to home and designed the kitchen to be open — visible from the tables and even the sidewalk — to showcase his fresh, made-to-order fare.

Senior year of high school, Keego Harbor was about as far as I could get before my underdeveloped sense of direction would betray me and make me tarde for Señora Kulhavi’s class. It might have been a journey of 10,000 miles for Alex to develop his all-natural General Tsao recipe, but it took only a single step for me to surrender.

Happy You had everything, except a

serviceable water pitcher pitcher, so I picked up a Brita during my semi-weekly sample smorgasbord at Costco. (Pour one out for Andover open lunch.) With her smile radiating from behind the counter, So reciprocated with a free lunch worth more than the gift.

It hardly seemed fair to limit the happy we to those seniors who could fit in my Saturn station wagon. Like most of my ventures since, the Wassify Weekly Friday Fried Rice delivery service subscribed to the Vaudeville school of business — we lost money on every sale but made it up on volume.

The dividends were clear: lo mein liberation for freshmen whose pantries were suffering under the brutal Y2K Atkins regime. Three of our carbedup customers went on to work at the Happy You. According to Waleed Brinjikji, now a radiologist at the Mayo Clinic, “Working there as busboy/waiter/fry boy/dishwasher/janitor/chicken cleaner in high school was a great experience and taught me so much about hard work … and … don’t throw away the chicken feet!”

Just as Alex has shared his good fortune with those around him, I feel I can share my fortune, courtesy of cookie, with him: “You will continue to take chances and be glad you did.” ■

example, or be a mentsh — a good person — to your spouse; but performing mitzvahs like that make one ritually “impure.” Ritual purity might not be so positive, he teaches. Ritual impurity might not be so negative.

Clarity! The temple service is truly unearthly. We study it as a special subject, he says, to “impart lessons and values.” But then the rabbi hits us with the two “scapegoats” of Yom Kippur.

No, Rabbi Horwitz, with all respect:

God never commanded Jews to send a goat “to the demon Azazel.”

“Azazel,” my handy Torah commentary says, means, roughly, “out of here” or “gone.”

Rashi, the Midrash, the Talmud and Maimonides say it’s a just a place name referring to “a high peak” or a mountainous area. Leviticus 17:7, in the very next chapter, forbids paying homage of any kind to demons. It’s mostly just the Biblical Documentary

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Last week’s, on ritual purity, of all things, Leviticus 14-16, was deep and thought-provoking. The writer, Rabbi Dan Horwitz, shows that the Torah’s unearthly Temple rite statutes often work at cross-purposes with the moral commandments. It’s a Torah mitzvah, a “sacred connection opportunity,” as he puts it, to help bury the dead, for

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wo days after our fractious, inward-looking election left us exhausted and dispirited, we Israelis turned our eyes skyward. The Beresheet project of SpaceIL, an audacious, privately funded effort to land a probe on the moon, was nearing realization of its five-year mission. In the manner of everything Israeli, few had paid attention to the effort in the weeks and months Alan D. Abbey leading up to the landing attempt, but at “daka tishim” (the 90th and last minute of a soccer game), everyone tuned in.

Beresheet began in 2014 as an effort to claim Google’s $20 million prize for a private landing on the moon. Despite displaying a mockup of the Beresheet (“In The Beginning”) lander in BenGurion Airport for three years, where hundreds of thousands walked past it, the project interested only a few space geeks. Google’s prize went unclaimed by the 2018 deadline and other competitors dropped out, but the little Israeli space capsule that could chugged along.

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website, but it fell off the homepage a few hours later. Its five-week trip to the moon in ever-increasing concentric orbits didn’t receive a fleeting mention during a political season that dragged us through muck and mire.

On April 11, though, we all tuned in to the live video stream from Beresheet headquarters. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat in the front row. President Reuven Rivlin and scores of schoolkids watched from Jerusalem.

The ship left orbit successfully and began its descent … 25 kilometers …

22. After its leisurely flight, Beresheet was careening toward the moon’s craggy surface at breakneck speed. We held our collective breaths. The altimeter clicked

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down … 18 … 15 … 10. It wasn’t slowing. Mission control lost contact. A gasp escaped my daughter’s lips. “It’s so stressful,” she said.

Mission control regained contact. The crowd cheered. So did we. As the little ship approached the moon’s surface, a bearded, kippah-clad man said, “Trying to start the engine.” No luck. Trying again. And again. Silence. A man in the control room clamped his hands behind his head in frustration. The other engineers and scientists remained glued to their computer monitors, typing commands on their keyboards.

The speaker returned. The landing wasn’t successful, he said.

The crash brought me back to a bright

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Saturday morning in Florida more than 16 years ago. The families of Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first and only astronaut, those of the other astronauts and hundreds of others, gathered at Kennedy Space Center for the expected landing of Space Shuttle Columbia.

Their lives and an Israeli Shabbat afternoon calm were shattered by Ilan Ramon news that the shuttle had disintegrated upon reentry to Earth.

The connection between these two events is more than it seems. Each time, Israel lifted its collective head from its usual immersion in the Holy Land’s daily traumas. Each time, we suffered losses.

In one case, it was seven astronauts’ lives; in the latest case, it was our chance to claim that Israel would be the fourth country to land a vehicle safely on the moon.

The loss of Ilan Ramon left Israel determined to return to space. Beresheet was the spunky startup trying to do that.

But we know many startups fail. We know that Moses didn’t make it into the Promised Land. We’ve had so many losses, we know how to deal with them. We lifted ourselves off the ground, shrugged our shoulders, wiped away the tears and got back to work. ■ Alan D. Abbey is media director of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. He is the author of Journey of Hope, the Story of Ilan Ramon, Israel’s First Astronaut.

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Riding the Waves of Change

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hroughout life, change is inevitable.

Sometimes change comes smoothly and naturally, and other times change comes with various challenges. Some changes are positive, some are negative, and others are neutral. Life is all about changes because that’s how we grow.

Can you imagine if we never changed from the day we were born? We’d all be infants! Change can be hard, Jillian Lesson but nothing is harder than staying in a place you have outgrown. Change can be extremely uncomfortable because often you must take chances and give up certain things.

Last summer, I experienced my final summer as a camper. I had a difficult time at camp because I was experiencing internal challenges — namely, I was changing. Since the age of 7, going back to camp every summer was a given. I went to school and then I went to camp. I spent my difficult moments at school looking forward to how happy I would be at camp. It was where most of my daydreams took place. It was my haven. I will be forever grateful that I was able to spend nine consecutive summers there.

Even though I struggled at camp last summer, I never questioned not going back the following summer for the coveted CIT year.

Yet, I could not figure out why I was having

such a hard time having fun. Camp was exactly the same — it had not changed.

However, I felt my camp friendships shifting. I felt myself disconnecting from activities I once loved. I couldn’t figure out what was happening to me.

It wasn’t until I came home that I felt how profound this change was. I was sad; I was confused. I was grieving for the best senior camper summer that never was. The week between camp and school was the hardest week of my life. I experienced countless emotions and, at the same time, I had a ton of summer homework to complete. I was almost grieving my camp summers. It felt like the end of an era.

I spent hours crying, feeling depressed and angry. Everything felt so different. I didn’t recognize this “me” that felt differently about the place I spent nine years loving. My dream of having the best summer was defeated.

I did not yet understand that I was in the midst of changing and growing, and that sometimes change and growth involve pain.

It was by some sort of miracle that I was able to complete my homework. I spent my last week of summer feeling miserable, taking notes on history while riding the jarring and confusing waves of change.

As I started school, I slowly began to feel better. I wrote in my journal; I spoke with a few trusted adults; I made music playlists that soothed my soul. I allowed my changes to

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Hypothesis — today’s prevailing doctrine, originated by anti-Semitic 19th-century German academics, that the Bible is just a messy assemblage of different people’s texts eventually clumsily “redacted” into one text that calls Azazel a demon.

Probably the Jewish people’s biggest problem today is that we mostly no longer think of ourselves as being a holy people.

A big reason for that, I think, are teachings like this, that make the Torah seem ridiculous.

Choosing between two interpretations of Torah, one making sense and the other obviously pagan, barbaric and absurd, let’s go with the one that makes sense.

We owe the Torah the benefit of the doubt, not the denigrating pseudo-science of the Documentary Hypothesis.

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It was a great day for affluent America Jewry on April 6 when President Donald Trump addressed the annual Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) in Las Vegas.

These individuals deserved the honor.

They lived the American dream, made lots of money and gained enormous status while fighting and tolerating the overt and covert anti-Semitic barriers thrown in front of them.

Just think of how great the day would have been and how swollen the ranks of the RJC would have been if the U.S. government in 1939 had allowed the German passenger ship St. Louis to deposit its human cargo of 937 Jews fleeing persecution at the hands of the Nazis on American shores?

Yet, for some reason, the United States, with its huge statute sitting in New York Harbor begging the world to give us the people they don’t want, said, “Sorry, folks, we’re closed for business; we don’t want your people either.”

integrate inside of me. To this day, I continue to improve, and this year has been one of the best years of my life.

One of my core values is staying true to myself, and this year I have been myself more than ever. As time goes on, I realize more definitively that my needs have changed.

Usually during the school year I craved an escape, which was camp for me. This year I find myself much happier in the present moment. I find myself wanting a different kind of summer, one that involves seeing new places, traveling, learning and spending time with family. Although I still love camp and I may go back as a counselor one day, my own personal needs have changed. I have changed.

I will spend this next summer living outside of my comfort zone. Although my nine years at camp have provided me with so much growth and with so many irreplaceable experiences, and I am forever grateful, I look forward to this summer of change.

The next time I feel sad and confused about why a constant in my life suddenly feels drastically different, it’s probably me. It’s my soul telling me it’s time to step out of my comfort zone. Life is all about growth and change and learning how to ride those waves.

And of all the life lessons that I learned at camp, this one may be the most important. ■ Jillian Lesson is a 10th-grader at Frankel Jewish Academy and a contributor to thejewishnews.com.

She is the daughter of Lauren and Randy Lesson, and the younger sister to Josh and Corey. She also is one of the JN’s inaugural Rising Stars. See the story on page 10.

Trump hurled his bewildering volley of half-truths, anger and hate at the smug conventioneers, and they ate it up, shouting “four more years.”

But the last straw, for me at least, was when he told the cheering crowd that the U.S. borders are now closed to immigrants.

Have these people sunk so low? Now that they have gotten theirs, they believe they can walk away from everyone else? That is not the Jewish credo that I was raised in.

But, for Jews, this game is far from over.

Sure, Trump pats himself on the back for doing the legally and morally questionable things of messing around with maps in the Middle East to satisfy them.

But when a gunman kills Jews in Pittsburgh and Nazis march in Charlottesville; and Trump stands quiet and cowardly before our centuries-old enemies, then this battle is far from over, or even won.

— Steve Raphael Bloomfield Hills

Online Comments Readers responded online to last week’s cover story on innovations at area religious schools.

Gail Nachman Greenberg: Proud to share the innovations happening at Temple Kol Ami! Thank you for a beautiful article!

Marcie Bensman: My son is in the Temple Israel high school program and he’s having a blast. He gets to pick electives and, this semester, he picked an art class and has made some incredible pieces. I even told him how much better it is then when I was in religious school. Kudos on a good job, TI! Suzan Kass Tepman: Adat Shalom also has an incredible Hebrew school program!

Jennifer Sima Ostroff: Partners in Torah is creating an amazing learning space on Tuesdays. My kids ask to go — even my teenager.

Steven Podvoll: Thanks for recognizing several innovative programs in our community. But I’m a bit surprised by no mention of Temple Israel’s program, which now has to rent class space from local public schools.

Editor’s Note: Look for a follow-up story on innovative programs at other congregational schools in the next few weeks.

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hen the Jewish News partnered with the JCC’s JFamily and its Youth Professional Network to recognize young members of the community in grades 6-12, we knew we were going to find some terrific people to highlight, but we couldn’t have predicted the sheer number who deserve to be honored and the huge impact they’re having on Detroit’s Jewish community. The six local judges were challenged to choose just 18.

Here, we introduce you to the rising stars in our community. Get used to hearing these names — we’re sure we’ll be hearing more about these people as the years go by. These are merely snapshots of each winner — we didn’t have space for all their accomplishments!

SAM ARNOLD Sam Arnold of Farmington Hills, a senior at North Farmington High School, belongs to Congregation Shaarey Zedek, BBYO and USY. His goal is to one day be ordained a Conservative rabbi.

Sam’s goal is to “live a life full of passion and meaning.” He has volunteered at Forgotten Harvest and, as a member of the Jewish Fund Teen Board, helped allocate grants totaling $50,000. He’s volunteered at the JCC, working with

very young students and at the Hillel Early Childhood Center Day Camp as a counselor. He also serves as chair of the J-Serve Teen Board Committee.

He runs cross-country and plays the viola in the school orchestra. He attended the JustCity Leadership Institute at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the AIPAC Policy Conference and the Schusterman Conference as a USY representative. He was the Torah Bytes Fellow for USY Central Region and Shaarey Zedek’s representative for Motor City USY. Sam has worked at CSZ, Aish Detroit and Adat Shalom teaching Hebrew to third-through sixth-graders, and recently helped a congregant learn to read Torah and Haftorah for her 50th bat mitzvah anniversary. He is a regular Torah reader, Haftorah reader and Megillah reader at CSZ. He started his own blog on Times of Israel so he could share his love of Torah and his thoughts with the world.

WILL BLOOMBERG Will Bloomberg of Farmington Hills is a junior at Frankel Jewish Academy and a member of Adat Shalom Synagogue; he excels at sports and uses his athletic ability to help others.

Will is captain of the FJA varsity soc-

cer team. He was named “All-Catholic” for the FJA soccer team by the Catholic High School League for the 2018-19 season and played for the FJA varsity basketball team in his sophomore and junior years. He was named “AllAcademic” for the FJA basketball team by the Catholic High School League for the 2018-19 season. He did all this while maintaining a 4.1 weighted grade point average in a dual-curriculum school.

Will is a certified soccer referee and worked during the spring 2018 soccer season and plans to do the same this year. He also volunteers for Peace of Pizza and Bookstock. Will and two friends created a 3-on-3 basketball tournament, open to all high school students, that took place in March at Friendship Circle to raise money for FC and Friends of the IDF. He’s also a member of the National Honor Society.

that have required more than 30 hospitalizations. Despite the physical and emotional challenges he faces due to these conditions, he is an energized, charismatic and outgoing teen who strives to spread happiness.

He is an involved member of Temple Israel’s youth group, YFTI, and recently received its Youth Group Citation Award and the Rabbi Leon Fram Award. He also is an active volunteer for organizations including Make-aWish and Friendship Circle.

Matthew treats others with pure kindness and is always looking to lend a helping hand. He is welcoming to all and has created positive change for his peers and the community. Matthew has overcome diversity and will be attending college next year, which is a wonderful achievement for him because of all his medical challenges.

EMILY FELDMAN MATTHEW CHAYET Matthew Chayet of West Bloomfield is a champion for inclusion and overcoming obstacles, inspiring everyone around him with his positivity. The Bloomfield Hills High School senior has been dealing with multiple medical conditions throughout his entire life, including epilepsy, tracheomalacia and heart defects — conditions

Emily Feldman of Farmington Hills, a Hillel Day School graduate and junior at Frankel Jewish Academy, belongs to Adat Shalom Synagogue. She volunteers at her shul and at Yad Ezra.

Emily is an advocate and social justice warrior. She sees social injustice in this world and speaks up — through her words and actions — not only to advocate for those with a smaller voice, continued on page12

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but also to help inform and educate her community. Emily organized the student walkout protesting gun violence at FJA, where she has a 4.0 GPA. She founded the Social Justice Club at her school and leads the Girls to Women Club, where she advocates for equality and education. Emily was chosen by her administrators to head a task force regarding changing her school’s curriculum and schedule.

Twice Emily has been nominated for the David Hermelin Scholarship Award. She excels at Hebrew. For her bat mitzvah at Adat Shalom, Emily conducted the entire service, beginning with Shacharit. She chanted all the readings from the Torah and gave a d’var Torah that was thoughtful and truly related to her own life’s lessons. Since then, Emily has chanted Torah on many occasions at Adat Shalom, including Yom Kippur services each year. She truly loves her Yiddishkeit.

JENNA FRIEDMAN Jenna Friedman of West Bloomfield is a junior at Walled Lake Central and a member of UMatter.

Jenna has been an active volunteer at Friendship Circle for four years.

Every Tuesday, she volunteers at Social Circle with her buddy, Leila. Over the years, they have developed a deep connection and friendship. Jenna has also volunteered at many Friendship Circle camps and respite programs, logging more than 200 hours of volunteer service.

She has overcome her own mental health and social obstacles and is now using her journey to empower other teens to do the same. She is proudly 600+ days clean from self-harm and has found solutions for her own OCD, depression and anxiety, which has made her a great role model for her peers.

Jenna is a teen leader on the UMatter board, where she is an advocate for mental health awareness. She helped lead her high school’s UMatter Week, ensuring the whole school was represented and included. Jenna

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noticed hallways with classrooms in the special education department were not decorated like the others, so she assembled a committee to make sure they were. Jenna also prepared special activities for those students to take part in during UMatter Week.

JESSICA GOLDBERG Jessica Goldberg of Farmington Hills is a junior at North Farmington High School and belongs to Adat Shalom Synagogue. She is on the executive leadership board of UMatter and Teen Volunteer Corps, which runs volunteer projects.

She is also part of the Youth United program, a cross-denominational group focused on improvement projects in her home community.

Jess is also founder of Sib4Sib, a nonprofit support network for individuals who have a sibling who struggles with mental health, whether it’s a learning disability or serious depression. She saw resources for parents, but not for siblings — so she created her own network. Now there are three groups: teens, kids ages 8-12 and a boys-only group. She secured a licensed social worker to lead discussions and fundraised and sought grants to enable kids to participate and enjoy the group dinner without cost.

She organized a fundraiser recently, bringing in significant funds to grow the program and offer services at a very subsidized rate or free.

It was not easy for Jessica to create this group because it meant “outing” her brother’s mental health challenges, and she worried about him being stigmatized. However, she, he and her parents recognized by doing so she could help so many others.

STACEY HIRSCH Stacey Hirsch of West Bloomfield is a junior at Bloomfield Hills High School; she belongs to Temple Israel.

Stacey was

diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in November 2016. Pediatric MS is very rare, and she has handled her diagnosis and accompanying physical limitations with grace and maturity.

Stacey has embraced this life challenge by becoming a strong advocate for pediatric MS, raising money for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) and creating a Walk MS team — FAMS (Families Fighting Against MS) — to help secure funds to find a cure. She is a founding and active board member of FAMS, a Michigan nonprofit.

Stacey is determined to pursue a career in medicine, particularly neurology, focusing on pediatrics and multiple sclerosis.

She is completing her second year as a board member of YFTI, Temple Israel’s youth group. She attends Monday night school and YFTI meetings weekly as well as all YFTI trips and events.

She is also a founding board member for the ORT Teen Board, area teens who raise money and support ORT America.

She is an honor student, pursuing studies focused on advanced science and math, and is a member of the National Honor Society, yearbook and poms.

LILY KOLLIN Lily Kollin of Farmington Hills is a senior at North Farmington High School; she belongs to Temple Israel.

She is a founder/ president of NFHS’ Students Demand Action (SDA) group, an advocacy group for gun violence prevention.

Lily organized two successful walkouts and a town hall meeting with community leaders and students. She also helped organize a multi-school trip to Chicago to participate with March of the Living efforts. She also has done public speaking, served as a panelist and performed her spoken word poetry at multiple venues.

For her efforts, she won the Optimist Leader Award and, with her fellow SDA members, won the NAACP Great Expectations Award.

Lily spoke at Temple Israel’s multifaith unity service following the Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh.

Within BBYO, she was chapter shlichah, president and is current regional shlichah.

Lily is an all-A student. She is a member of the school’s marching band and the Farmington United Percussion Ensemble. She also volunteers at Fleischman Residence, where she leads Friday night services.

Lily is working with the NFHS administration to bring Every Brilliant Thing, a play about suicide prevention, to the high school, and to bring in experts for a panel discussion and support for students and parents.

EVAN KRASNICK Evan Krasnick of Huntington Woods is a senior at Berkley High School and a Congregation Beth Shalom member.

He was one of five BHS juniors selected to participate in a yearlong diversity immersion program, Generation of Promise, through which he engaged with teens from 12 diverse Detroit-area high schools monthly, learning about other religions and cultures, while sharing his own.

Evan has also been involved with Teen Screens since his bar mitzvah year and now is president. This BHS organization donates computers and laptops to students in need. He works with local professionals to acquire used laptops/tablets, refurbish them and then donate them.

Evan studied in Israel with Jewish National Fund’s Alexander Muss High School in Israel program. He participated in his school’s community service trip to the Dominican Republic, volunteering and teaching English to underprivileged students.

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Evan was on the Jewish Fund’s Detroit Teen Board, a member of student leadership, a Peer-to-Peer committee leader with the National Honor Society and co-president of the school’s Volunteer Club.

JILLIAN LESSON Jillian Lesson of West Bloomfield is a sophomore at Frankel Jewish Academy and belongs to Aish HaTorah. She was recently accepted to a writing/journalism program at the School of the New York Times.

Jillian used writing as a tool for getting through hard times. As extreme emotional and social issues began in middle school, Jillian relied on her writing — prose and poems about losing friends, struggles with body image, feelings of depression and anxiety and loneliness, her love/hate relationship with social media, and other issues that affect adolescents.

In eighth grade, Jillian began publishing a blog called Journey to Jillian (journeytojillianblog.wordpress. com). There, she began writing about her challenges, about lessons that came from her challenges, about her thoughts and dreams and struggles, about her hardships and triumphs.

Teens began writing to Jillian, wanting advice or support. People she didn’t know would come up to her to tell her how much she was helping their child. The openness and candor Jillian expresses in her blog posts helped teens become more open with their own struggles. The message she hopes teens will get from her is that everyone has their challenges, no one is alone and finding a way out is most always attainable.

SARAH MEADOWS Sarah Meadows of Mount Pleasant is a senior at Mount Pleasant High School; she belongs to Temple Benjamin and Shaarey Zedek of East Lansing.

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Society, doing volunteer work such as peer-to-peer tutoring and working on school blood drives. Last spring, she went to Washington, D.C., for L’Taken to learn about social justice and advocate to legislators.

Sarah is on her high school honor roll as well as a scholar-athlete for each sport season. She’s done competitive cheerleading and swim and dive for four years (earning varsity letters all four years in cheerleading and the last three years in diving) as well as tennis for two. She is also a violist in her high school orchestra.

She’s the Class of 2019 secretary, a co-captain for the swim and dive team, and was honored as the Rotary Citizen of the Month, in recognition of service to her school and community. She is also the committee chair for NFTY-MI, helping to lead events for Jewish teens and working to rebuild NFTY-MI. She attends religious school and is a teacher’s assistant for preschoolers and kindergartners every Sunday.

PAUL SIEGEL NADIV Paul Siegel Nadiv of Huntington Woods is a senior at Frankel Jewish Academy and a member of Kehillat Etz Chayim.

He is active in BBYO and has held several leadership positions, including two on the regional board, with an emphasis on community service and teaching and performing Jewish rituals for Michigan BBYO Region (Shaliach).

He also served as a vice chair for BBYO Global Network and was involved in raising awareness and money for Jewish people in other countries. He was a coordinator of a two-week trip to Bulgaria and led programs engaging teens from the U.S. and Europe.

While in BBYO, he has mentored younger teens who have taken on leadership roles in their chapters or regionally. He has helped younger teens write speeches, create platforms and put together meaningful programming.

Paul sits on the Jewish Historical Society Board and has been to several AIPAC teen conferences in Washington, D.C. He has lobbied Congress multiple times and acted as head delegate. He is also senior class president at FJA and

has been part of student government for several years.

LINDSAY RANDEL Lindsay Randel of West Bloomfield is a freshman at Frankel Jewish Academy and a member of Adat Shalom Synagogue.

She is a fierce advocate on behalf of all people living with Type 1 Diabetes. After her diagnosis in 2014, she engaged with JDRF and supporter of all its efforts to turn Type 1 into Type None. She chairs an annual One Walk Team and has raised thousands of dollars to help research for a cure. She speaks regularly and publicly about her experiences of living with Type 1. Lindsay was selected to represent JDRF at its Congressional Congress this summer and is hoping to speak before Congress. She also makes herself available to speak to newly diagnosed kids to help them to adapt to their new normal.

She is an avid soccer player, who must sit out this season because she is a mid-year transfer to FJA. Still, Lindsay participates in every practice and plans to attend every game to cheer on her classmates.

Lindsay is an active member of BBYO. She was recently selected to chair the chapter’s upcoming Bittker Weekend. She will attend BBYO’s CLTC Leadership Camp this summer and was selected as a scholarship winner based on her video application.

BENNY SHAEVSKY Benny Shaevsky of West Bloomfield is a junior at Frankel Jewish Academy and belongs to Adat Shalom Synagogue and Temple Beth El. Since he was an infant, Benny has suffered from life-threatening nut allergies. He has risen above the bullying to be an advocate for those with food allergies. He has organized fundraising walks sponsored by the national Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) and has spoken at several FARE teen summits and at

several local fundraising luncheons sponsored by the University of Michigan Food Allergy Clinic. He has served as a general FARE teen ambassador.

He leads the Anti-Defamation Club at his school, is a minyan leader, plays varsity tennis and is a member of the National Honor Society. He is spearheading the first-ever tutoring by FJA NHS members of Hillel Day School students.

He’s serving his second year on the Teen Board of the Jewish Fund, helping to allocate grants totaling $50,000. Last summer, he interned with the Jewish Fund.

Benny participates in Tech Connect at Adat Shalom to provide free computer tutoring to senior citizens. He recently established a new tax-exempt organization called Tech 4 Seniors to visit homebound or mobility-challenged seniors and assist them with computer/Internet training.

TOMMY SHERMAN Tommy Sherman of Bloomfield Hills is a junior at Bloomfield Hills High School and a member of Temple Beth El and its youth group, BETY. He’s been a madrich since eighth grade for Sunday school.

Tommy participated in JServe and volunteers at Beth El’s Chanukah party and Purim carnival. He participated in a Birmingham Bloomfield Community Youth Action Board event focusing on the impact of substance abuse on teens.

He also volunteered as a counselor at Roeper Day Camp and as a tutor through National Honor Society.

In December, the New York Times held its annual “connect what you’re learning in school with the world today” essay contest. Out of 2,000 students nationwide, Tommy’s essay “Who Cares?

Immigration Reform: Who Cares?

Crumbling Infrastructure: Who Cares?

Climate Change: Who Cares?” qualified him as a semi-finalist.

Tommy plays junior varsity tennis and is the section leader of his school’s drumline. He plays in two jazz bands and in a rock band and plays percussion in the school band and orchestra. He also runs a small business making videos for bar

and bat mitzvahs.

He participated in L’Taken through the Reform Religious Action Center and went on Teen Mission last summer. He is the religious chair of his BBYO chapter.

RYAN SILBERG Ryan Silberg of Novi is a senior at Northville High School and a member of Temple Israel. He has been an active volunteer and philanthropist, as well as a promoter of social action and advocacy.

Ryan spent two years as a member of the Detroit Jewish Fund Teen Board, where he learned about grant making and philanthropy. Following a suicide at his high school, he decided to become an advocate for teen mental health and suicide prevention. He is a member of the UMatter Teen Board, an organization promoting teen mental awareness and suicide prevention.

Last summer, Ryan and his friend held a fundraiser at the Plymouth Art Fair and raised more than $1,200 for UMatter. Recently, during charity week at his school, Ryan raised more than $600 for the National Alliance on Mental Health.

Ryan belongs to the National Honors Society, the school choir, and plays soccer and lacrosse. He had a summer internship at South Oakland Shelter, where he helped organize a run/walk to raise funds. Currently, he works part-time as a desk manager at a yoga studio.

ISAAC SMITH Isaac Smith of West Bloomfield is a junior at West Bloomfield High School and a member of Congregation Beth Ahm, where he volunteers with children’s classes.

He also tutors students in math and in physics. He believes helping others to learn is a great way to assist in a better future.

An all-A student, Isaac takes college classes through Eastern Michigan University and Lawrence Tech.

He belongs to his school’s Laker Express Choir, an elite, auditiononly choir that recently accompanied Tenors Unlimited at the Berman Center. He performed at Carnegie Hall with 17 other students from his school plus others from around the country and competes in Michigan Schools Vocal Music Association. He’s a summer camp counselor at Oakland Yard Athletics in Waterford.

Isaac formed a close friendship with an 88-year-old member of his congregation. As soon as he got his driver’s license, he offered to drive his friend to shul.

He frequently leads services at Beth Ahm and sings with the small choir on High Holidays. Additionally, he reads Torah, Haftorah and Megillah, and frequently leads minyan on Shabbat and during the week. He attends classes to expand his knowledge. He also tutors youngsters for b’nai mitzvah.

SAMMY VIEDER Sammy Vieder of Huntington Woods is a freshman at Berkley High School and a member of Adat Shalom Synagogue.

He has been cooking for nearly half his life. His passion and talent in the culinary arts exceeds the average 14-year-old. He was a contestant on Master Chef Junior, which had many in the community watching every week rooting him on. Even after being on such a big TV show and getting recognized, he remains humble. He did cooking demos on Detroit news channels and for Friendship Circle.

Sammy’s smile and radiant positivity are contagious. People say he has a way of making you feel like you’re the most important person in the room. Sam is uplifting and funny. He truly cares about the greater good of the world and works toward bettering the people around him every day. Everyone Sam meets leaves each interaction better than they came. And if someone is doing something wrong, Sammy is always the first to help fix it. ■

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What about those who say “no one in Michigan has died because of the measles, so it’s hard to feel it’s really so dangerous.”

For every 1,000-2,000 cases of measles, there may be a death. In the pre-vaccine era, when there were a million or so cases of measles annually, there used to be several thousand deaths per year due to measles. At the last count, Michigan’s outbreak numbered 43. It’s a matter of numbers — hopefully, we won’t get to those numbers.

Some people think the MMR vaccine is just as dangerous or more dangerous than the measles. What’s your opinion?

It’s almost unheard of for someone to die from the MMR vaccine. MMR is one of our safest vaccines. In comparison, 1 of every 1,000-2,000 people who develop the measles will die. I would think purposely exposing someone and deliberately trying to contract the measles is like playing with fire.

My own children were certainly immunized. I had no hesitation whatsoever. Of course, I want to protect my family members to the best of my ability.

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Jewish law says to protect ourselves and our neighbors.

Except for people who cannot be immunized or who had a previous severe reaction to an MMR, I cannot think of a single reason not to immunize.

Some people seem to think that not vaccinating is a passive choice. I disagree; not immunizing is an active decision to remain susceptible to serious diseases.

How often do you see complications from the MMR vaccine?

About 5-10 percent of people will develop a low-grade fever or a small rash from the vaccine. Because it’s a live vaccine, there’s a small chance that a flu-like illness will appear after administration.

It is extremely rare, but some people also have serious reactions to the vaccine, in which case, of course, they should not get a second dose.

Adults who receive the MMR can sometimes develop painful joints for a while or experience a decrease in their platelet count although it will return to normal within a week or so.

An extremely rare reaction of the MMR is febrile seizures, which can occur in approximately 1 out of 2,5005,000 doses.

Some people cannot receive live viral vaccines — pregnant woman, patients with immune-compromised conditions and people who’ve experienced a severe reaction to a previous vaccine.

What about reports about a link between the MMR and autism?

This claim can be traced to a 1998 publication by Andrew Wakefield who had a small number of kids enrolled in a study where he supposedly found a link between vaccines and autism. That

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study spread and spread — it was more contagious than measles! Later, the publication was proved fraudulent with manipulated data. Some of the parents of the children in that study even came forward saying things like, “That never occurred with my child!” Almost every co-author on the paper retracted their name. The report was removed from medical publications, but by then it had already been published. Wakefield was found in a court of law to have committed fraud among other things and his license was revoked.

The silver lining to this whole story was that it spurred further studies on the topic. The largest test studied 500,000 patients in Denmark and found no association whatsoever with autism. In fact, an American study in 2015 followed 100,000 children with an increased risk of autism — they had a family member with autism — and still found no correlation. In fact, it was discovered there was a lower risk for autism in kids who were vaccinated, even those who had a sibling with autism, than those who weren’t.

It seems many people here who got the measles were vaccinated. Why didn’t the MMR work for them?

At least 97 percent of people develop immunity after receiving the vaccinations at the right time. There is still approximately 3 percent of the population it just won’t work for, people who would receive the benefits of herd immunity if most of the community is vaccinated.

Additionally, vaccines are complicated things. The MMR contains two parts — the live part and then the solution it’s put in. Until the two parts are mixed,

one part is kept in the freezer and one in the refrigerator during the entire time it’s transported from the company to the doctor’s office or health department.

If those temperatures are mixed up, it could destroy the vaccine.

The MMR is also light-sensitive. Once it’s drawn up, if it’s exposed to light for more than a few hours, it could become inactivated.

Pediatricians have had a lot of experience with giving childhood vaccines, but now adults who only received one shot as recommended when they were kids are going to their internists for their booster, but how much do these doctors know about “childhood” vaccinations?

Do they know how to store them properly? There is so much involved that some physicians are not comfortable with administering vaccinations and refer their patients elsewhere.

Why are close-knit communities like Orthodox Jews most prone to getting measles?

Two main reasons. One, there’s a higher rate of vaccine refusal these days, in general. It’s not just these groups — you find it everywhere, in every community, in many select populations.

Most importantly, this population is one big extended family, attend many common events and go to synagogues or places of worship as a daily part of their lives. There’s a lot more potential for spread in these close-knit communities.

Can the outbreak be contained and eradicated?

Absolutely. The local health departments have done a wonderful job identifying the sites of exposure, finding people who may be at risk and getting them evaluated. Some people then received a vaccine, which is still effective within 72 hours after exposure, and were isolated just in case to keep them from potentially spreading the disease to others.

I can’t predict when it will end, of course, and I do get nervous with Passover coming up and the family events that come with it, more people traveling, etc. But once we get past this period, I do think it will get under control. It’s due to a diligent system of surveillance and intervention — it works.

We eradicated measles once before in 2000, and I have hope we will do it again. ■

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ver the past few years, the concept of “truth” has had less to do with fact and more with non-negotiable personal opinion. But the real nemesis of truth may actually be time. Truth has a life span. And when eyewitness accounts are gone, what remains is up to interpretation.

With oral history interviews, we can preserve firsthand knowledge of events from those who experienced them.

In an ongoing effort to make primary resources available, the Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives of Detroit’s Jewish Federation has launched a new website of its oral history collection (jewishdetroit.org/ oral-history).

These interviews provide evidence and context of past events as well as behind-the-scenes knowledge that otherwise might have been lost.

Take the Federation’s Women’s Division 1963 Annual Meeting. Its existence is forever part of the Archives collection through the original invitation, a bright green card announcing Betty Friedan as the guest speaker. It was just four months after publication of The Feminine Mystique and a crowd of 500 women attended. The only written record of the aftermath was a short note in the meeting minutes of Women’s Division that some women were upset by Friedan’s speech. Thanks to an oral history interview, what happened more than 50 years ago is immortalized. We now know Friedan’s speech was one of derision for volunteer jobs that took away paid positions for women — a belief she would recant decades later.

The Archives holds more than 100 oral history interviews with community leaders and philanthropists that span more than 70 years of Detroit’s Jewish history. The content includes accounts of Federation, agency histories and personal stories about the people who

have shaped this community.

Two recent oral history projects have added an important perspective. The Women in Leadership project captures the oral history of the Women’s Philanthropy Department (formerly Women’s Division) at Federation while simultaneously equalizing the voices of a cohort historically underrepresented.

Diaspora in Detroit: the Jewish Immigrant Experience is an ongoing project to record the stories of Jews who have immigrated, from their lives in their native homelands through their journey to Metro Detroit. The collection touches on tales from countries like Morocco, Egypt and Tunisia, and the events that led people to leave their homelands for a better life.

Currently, more than 45 interviews have been uploaded, with more coming each week. Visitors can watch or listen to the interviews or read the transcripts.

The oral history website was funded in part by the Ravitz Foundation and has been in the works for more than a year. An ongoing hurdle has been the migration of old technology, like VHS, to current standards. While the goal has been to bring these interviews to the public, a benefit has been the longterm preservation of content originally recorded on obsolete media. View interviews at jewishdetroit.org/ oral-history.

Also of note, the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills maintains an oral/written history of Michigan Holocaust survivors at portraitsofhonor.org. ■ Robbie Terman is archivist for the Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives. Her story first appeared in myjewishdetroit.com. She is seeking subjects for the Diaspora in Detroit project. If you are Jewish, born outside the U.S., have memories of your native homeland and live in Metro Detroit, you meet the criteria.

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Miller was the keynote speaker at the symposium â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beyond Fear and Hate,â&#x20AC;? April 14 at Temple Beth El, sponsored by Wayne State Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Students and Center for Peace and Conflict Studies.

In 2018, the SPLC documented 1,020 hate groups, a 7 percent increase over the prior year.

A major factor in the surge is a fear of changing demographics among white men, said Miller, who holds a Ph.D. in history from Carnegie Mellon University.

Compared to all other minorities together, whites will soon be a minority in the United States, she said. Some see that as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;existential threat.â&#x20AC;?

Other factors in the increase are online radicalization, which has allowed expression of hate to become mainstream, and the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trump effectâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the erosion of norms for public discourse â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which has given license to attack those who are different or perceived as threatening. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was a surge of hate activity after the 2016 election, and the name of the president or the election were often cited,â&#x20AC;? she said. There was a 200 percent increase in hate speech in counties that voted for Trump.

WHITE NATIONALISM Miller divided white nationalists into two groups: mainstream and neo-Nazis.

Mainstream hate groups appeal to average Trump voters with a clean-cut persona, she said. They avoid swastikas and similar symbols but claim the supposedly endangered white race should have the right to self-determination by segregating themselves from others.

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Charlottesville, Va., where they proclaimed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jews will not replace us.â&#x20AC;?

The lead organization in this arm recently changed its name from Identity Europa to the American Identity Movement. One of its main tactics is encouraging members to join the Republican Party and run for local office, Miller said.

The neo-Nazis are â&#x20AC;&#x153;accelerationists,â&#x20AC;? she said, whose goal is to tear down existing structures and replace them with fascist models. They focus on and fetishize violence, she added, and use cell-type organizing rather than a national structure; each member knows only a few others, making it difficult for law enforcement personnel to infiltrate.

Professor Howard Lupovitch, director of the Cohn-Haddow Center, also spoke at the program. He noted that there has been remarkably little anti-Semitic or anti-Israel activity at Wayne State, despite its large Muslim population, and said one reason was because Jews and Muslims have lived together in southeastern Michigan for more than a century.

A central component of anti-Semitism is fear of Jews, which is akin to Islamophobia, fear of Muslims, he said. Current efforts to keep Muslims from immigrating to the United States echo the atmosphere in the early part of the 20th century. Then, Jewish immigrants were accused of bringing disease and crime to the country and of being Communists, which was equivalent to accusing Muslims today of being terrorists. Earlier xenophobic sentiments culminated with the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924, which severely curtailed immigration from Eastern Europe. The legislation effectively put an end to large-scale Jewish immigration. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As Jews,â&#x20AC;? Lupovitch said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;we have no choice but to have empathy for immigrants today.â&#x20AC;?

The symposium, underwritten by Dr. Stanley Levy of Bloomfield Hills, also tied the shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh to the growing tide of group-based hatred. â&#x2013;

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he Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit will host its annual Awards Night 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 22, at the Berman Center for Performing Arts at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield.

Dr. Lynda S. Giles and Rabbi Harold S. Loss will each receive the 2019 William Davidson Lifetime Achievement Award for their lifetime of service to the Jewish community of Detroit and the Jewish people.

Giles has a long history of national and local service to the Jewish community, serving in leadership roles for the Jewish Educational Services of North America (JESNA), Midwest regional co-chair for Birthright Israel as well as a past president of the Agency for Jewish Education and the University of Michigan Hillel Foundation.

She is on the board of Federation and is the current chair of the Hermelin Davidson Center for Congregational Excellence. Giles has served on countless committees in the community including starting the Jewish Experiences For Families, the Single Jewish Parents Network Committee and JFamily.

Loss is beloved in the community as a rabbi of Temple Israel. He has volunteered in a variety of roles, including being on the executive committee and the boards of Federation and the board of the United Jewish Foundation. He also has volunteered his time on the Commission on Jewish Eldercare Services, the Hermelin Davidson Center for Congregational Excellence and the Alliance for Jewish Education Committee.

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Awards. Carole BenEzra will receive the Sylvia Simon Greenberg Award, which recognizes a woman’s leadership potential and service to the Jewish community. BenEzra has been an active volunteer in the community for several years, serving on many committees and helping to plan many events.

Dr. Zachary Liss will receive the Frank A. Wetsman Young Leadership Award, which recognizes a man’s leadership potential and service to the Jewish community. Liss is the current chair of the Forman Leadership Group II, which works to engage young doctors in the community. They are learning about the Federation and its agencies and will embark on a mission to Israel in September. He is also a member of the board of Hebrew Free Loan.

With his wife, Ilana, he has served as an Israeli Camper Host for the past two years. He is also a member of the Maimonides Society Advisory Council.

Matthew Ran will receive the MarkLis Family Young Leadership Award that recognizes an established leader in the NEXTGen Division who has shown outstanding commitment as well as demonstrated significant involvement within Federation’s Annual Campaign. Ran served as president of the NEXTGen Board of Directors from 2016-17; in addition, he is the Detroit co-chair of the National Young Leadership Cabinet and the national co-chair of Engagement for the National Young Leadership Cabinet for the Jewish Federations of North America. He is a vice-president for Michigan ORT and a board member of Yad Ezra. Ran also serves on the board of Federation.

Tickets are free to the community.

For more information and to RSVP, visit jewishdetroit.org/awardsnight. ■

And The Winner Is …

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Members of the Motor City chapter of United Synagogue Youth (MCUSY) returned home April 14 from Central Region USY’s regional convention at Camp Wise in Chardon, Ohio, sleepy yet victorious after clinching Central Region United Synagogue Youth’s “Most Improved Chapter of the Year” award as well as seven other accolades.

CRUSY includes local chapters from parts of Indiana, all of Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

MCUSY is comprised of teens from local Conservative synagogues including Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, Beth Shalom in Oak Park, Adat Shalom in Farmington Hills, and B’nai Israel, B’nai Moshe and Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield.

With 13 high schoolers and seven middle schoolers, MCUSY is small but vibrant. “Our ‘most improved’ title bears witness to our teens’ persistence, creativity and positive attitudes,” said adviser Tova Schreiber.

This year, MCUSY events included Purim and Chanukah parties and raising money for forestry in Israel during Tu b’Shevat.

Sam Gawel, Israel affairs vice president, said the chapter won best Israeli Culture Event award for its March “Passport to Israel” program. Powered by imagination, teens spent a Sunday on a one-day jaunt to Israel. They wrote prayer notes for the Western Wall, applied Dead Sea mud, sampled the Israeli peanut snack, Bamba, staged a mock Eurovision contest and crafted mystical jewelry in Tzfat.

“We had a great year. Our board’s dedication to focusing on our programming forged the way to the chapter’s success,” said Gawel, a senior at Frankel Jewish Academy.

Interested teens can check out upcoming MCUSY events including participation in the May 5 Walk for Israel at Adat Shalom, Kabbalat Shabbat services and dinner on May 17 and a social action/tikkun olam event on May 26. For middle schoolers, there will be a Kadima “mystery” event 2-3:30 p.m. at Shaarey Zedek.

For more information, go to mcusy. weebly.com. ■

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Professor Marcelle Machluf in Detroit On April 9, Detroit community members gathered at an American Technion Society (ATS) event to hear from Professor Marcelle Machluf, dean of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Machluf, who is renowned for her cutting-edge cancer and drug delivery research, spoke about her decade-long work with Nano-Ghosts, modified stem cells that are used to home in on tumors. She explained the procedure, which removes the coding of stem cells and programs them to a specific cancer that the

tumor will recognize as its own cells, will be far less costly than traditional cancer treatments and will unlock the possibility of utilizing previously disqualified drugs. The patented targeted drug delivery method could reach hospitals in the next few years, after commercialization and clinical trials.

Machluf ’s work has been included in the Israel Ministry of Science and Technology’s list of “Israel’s 60 Most Impactful Developments.”

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hen Dr. Melanie Schwartz decided to open her own practice, she wanted to create a holistic approach to mental health treatment that incorporated health and wellness, including yoga.

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Schwartz, 41, grew up in Farmington Hills attending Adat Shalom Synagogue. She went to Michigan State University for undergraduate work and then to the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago where she received her doctorate in psychology and a master’s degree in clinical psychology. She spent the following 18 years working and training in a variety of clinical settings.

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The weekend I swore off doing web design I got two calls — one from a web design company and another from an animation company, where I ended up working. After that I did some animation internships. Then, for five years I worked as a title sequence designer and background painter, doing matte paintings for movies like Don’t Mess with the Zohan and Date Night.

Q: What was your reaction when getting the job offer at BimBam? JS: Six years and nine months ago I got forwarded the job posting for BimBam. As part of the submission, they wanted a script proposal for Tisha b’Av or Ruth. Instead, I sent in a video of me rapping about Tisha b’Av I made in an hour, and it turned out pretty well! Sarah Lefton hired me on as an associate producer in 2012. I felt it was an overlap of all the things I’m I m good at.

Q: What were some of your initial projects?

JS: I was there for three months and Sarah was five or six months pregnant. She was essentially like, “Lead these projects now — I’m going to go have a baby.”

The first few projects I started on were four animated shorts about the Book of Judges, a competition about the Book of Psalms and eScapegoat (eScapegoat involved a digital goat collecting sins for Yom Kippur that ended up getting crazy coverage in the Wall Street Journal, CNN and NPR.) The second year the challenge was more lifecycle pieces — videos about birth, baby namings and topics like, “What is a chupah?”

I also created a Jewish Guide to Helping Your Friend in Mourning. That was a piece I’m proud of. The guide had three sequels, and I formed a close relationship with David Zinner, the executive director of the Gamliel Institute, an organization dedicated to helping people with burial, death and mourning.

We did another 12 lifecycle pieces the next year, and the third year we transitioned to Judaism 101.

Then we started covering the holidays and formed that concept into a cohesive 50-part video set.

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imBam (founded as G-dcast) ended active operations this spring after 11 years of creating groundbreaking Jewish content online.

Its library of more than 400 original videos will remain online as the Union of Reform Judaism (URJ) will integrate nearly all of BimBam’s content into its website.

BimBam was founded by Sarah Lefton in 2008.

She wanted to share her Jewish learning experiences online, through short animated videos featuring teachers, rabbis and artists she admired, including former Detroiter Jeremy Shuback, 34, who worked as the animation director and video producer at BimBam from 2012 to 2019, directing more than 100 videos that have been featured in many Jewish film festivals and seen in classrooms across the country.

Q. Where did you grow up?

JS: I was part of the B’nai Israel community and lived in West Bloomfield. My best friends growing up were Dan Horwitz (a rabbi in Metro Detroit) and Josh Foster, who is now a rabbi in Cleveland.

It’s funny to me how many friends I have who have gone on to become rabbis. I went to Hillel Day School, and my parents were always involved in the community.

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The Well Inside Israel The Well is going to Israel Nov. 24-Dec. 1, and applications are open. The Well plans to take a group of 20 young adults to Israel later this year with JDC Entwine.

Applications will close on May 15 with an info session on April 30. The trip is available, thanks to the generosity of donors, at the subsidized cost of only $999 plus book your own flight. (Actual cost without the subsidy would be north of $4K!) The trip will be a completely immersive and hands-on experience. Attendees will have in-depth interactions with many of Israel’s diverse communities, visit JDC’s social innovation hub, meet with community leaders working on education and employment initiatives, and taste, dance and explore their way through the country. A Thanksgiving dinner with Detroit expats now living in Israel is planned.

This cohort of 20 travelers will continue to meet monthly throughout the following year, establishing lasting relationships with multiple opportunities to reflect on experiences and apply them to their lives. Check out jdcentwine.org/ inside-israel-the-well for all the details, and RSVP for the info session at meetyouatthewell.org/ calendar/2019/4/30/info-sessionthe-well-goes-to-israel.

Sharp Rise in the Share of Americans Saying Jews Face Discrimination The public sees widespread discrimination against several racial, ethnic and religious groups in the U.S., according to a new national survey by Pew Research Center. And while most of these views are little changed over the last several years, the share of Americans saying Jews face discrimination in the U.S. has increased substantially since late 2016.

Today, 64 percent of Americans say Jews face at least some discrimination — a 20-percentage-point increase from 2016; the share saying Jews face “a lot” of discrimination has nearly doubled, from 13 percent

to 24 percent. Democrats remain more likely than Republicans to say there is discrimination against Jews, but the shift in these views is evident in both parties.

The survey also finds majorities continue to say there is a lot or some discrimination against Muslims, blacks, Hispanics, gays and lesbians, and women. Muslims, in particular, are seen as facing more discrimination than other groups in society; 82 percent say Muslims face some discrimination, with 56 percent saying they encounter a lot of discrimination — highest among nine groups included in the survey.

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RSVPify – Managing your guest list and keeping track of responses can create anxiety. Now that it’s considered appropriate to use online invitations and responses for weddings and mitzvah parties, RSVPify has stepped in as the most advanced online RSVP website.

With RSVPify, you can still use traditional invitations, but your guests can RSVP online. This makes it easier to keep track of your guests. RSVPify also has secondary events management to help you keep track of additional events during your party weekend, like a Shabbat dinner, Sunday brunch or rehearsal dinner. Additionally, you can ask your guests custom questions, like whether they require a special meal or size of giveaway clothing or who needs a ride from the airport.

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his year marks the 30th anniversary of my bar mitzvah. As I reflect on that memorable life-cycle event, I think about how much has changed in the planning of b’nai mitzvahs since then thanks to technology. In fact, technology has improved so rapidly that much had even changed from my oldest son’s bar mitzvah in early 2017 to my twins’ b’nai mitzvah in late 2018.

The planning process for b’nai mitzvahs, including the hiring of vendors, has become much easier because of the web and Rabbi Jason mobile apps. This is true when Miller it comes to wedding planning as well. From sending out invitations and getting RSVPs to creating table assignments and figuring out who wants the vegetarian meal, there is no shortage of applications to help make planning a simchah go smoothly in the 21st century.

Let’s look at some of the innovative ways you can save time and energy planning your next simchah.

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ed. Guests are able to give a monetary gift or make online donations directly from the invitation. rsvpify.com MITZVAH ORGANIZER – This website has it all when it comes to planning a bar/bat mitzvah. It is created by Mitzvah Market, an online vendor directory that has ideas and resources for parents planning a mitzvah.

The Mitzvah Organizer costs $69.95 and allows you to manage the guest lists for all aspects of the celebration weekend. The user interface looks like nothing more than a branded Microsoft Excel database, but it allows you to effortlessly manage everything in one app including table assignments, a candlelighting ceremony, party favor sizes, the song list for the DJ, the synagogue honors for the service and many other things that are easy to forget.

For many parents, Mitzvah Organizer’s budget feature will help them figure out which vendors have been paid and which are still owed, in addition to how close they have kept to their budget. Plus, the budget feature allows you to compare the costs of different vendors.

The program has predesigned reports to help you stay organized and to provide necessary information to vendors. Like most online apps, Mitzvah Organizer can be used on a desktop, tablet or phone. mitzvahorganizer.com ZOLA – Wedding websites like Wedding Wire and The Knot are nothing new. Zola seems to have taken what those websites offer up a notch.

Zola is a free service and does not charge for couples to create a custom wedding website.

The company does sell invitations and charges a fee if wedding guests use the website to gift money to the couple.

In addition to an online wedding registry, Zola offers expert advice for weddings, like which venue to use and how to find an officiant, how to create the guest list, what innovations to include in the ceremony, which activities to offer before and during the wedding weekend, reception décor and how to choose the right photographer.

Couples can send updates to guests, have a countdown clock on their website, and post videos. Customized wedding websites also make it easier for out-of-town guests, as well as guests at a destination wedding, because everything they need to plan their vacation is on the wedding website. zola.com The Jewish people will continue to celebrate life-cycle events like mitzvahs and weddings, as we have for generations, but thanks to the Digital Age, we’ll be doing it easier and in a more organized way. ■ Rabbi Jason Miller officiates at weddings and bar/bat mitzvahs. More info at mitzvahrabbi.com and rabbiforweddings.com.

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“A few seasons ago, almost everything was lace,” Pohlod says. “Now, we’re starting to see crepe, mocado, satin. Designers are showing cleaner looks, inspired by Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn, but with modern, contemporary lines and details, like a lower back or laser-cut detail.

They are thinking about the whole 360-degree view of the bride.”

Two huge trends, says Michelle McFarland, owner of the Wedding Shoppe in Berkley, are sheer bodices and detachable skirts, like those seen on Sophia & Camilla, Carrafina and Autumn Silk.

Pohlod agrees. “Dresses with overskirts, or adding an overskirt, provide the option of starting with a fitted dress but adding more volume for the ceremony, then removing it for the reception, offering more movement and comfort.

And it allows brides to have two looks they love without having to buy two dresses.”

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CLOCKWISE: A beaded-crystal ball gown by Justin Alexander is layered with a horsehair skirt (and shown with a horsehair veil). The Hearst Gown by BHLDN (by Anthropologie) in ivory blush has a fitted bodice with deep V-neckline, open back and side cutouts. The Kaitlyn gown by Hayley Paige is a two-piece with floral sheath and low open back and a full tulle overskirt with floral applique and banded horsehair hem. Lazaro’s Rafaela silk Mikado gown has a soutache lace bodice with a cummerbund at the waist and an A-line skirt with pockets.

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Pronovius and Hayley Paige, who Pohlod says is “really innovative. She has a dynamic personality that comes through in her gowns, and it’s something that younger generations are really attracted to.”

Trains and overlays are not the only things that are removable. Piera Sbrocca, granddaughter of the namesake of Piera Bridal Couture in Shelby Township, says that “dresses with long sleeves are on trend,” but can be removable for a sexier party look. “We are also seeing a lot of dresses with sparkle, long trains and lace this season.

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“When it comes to bar and bat mitzvah trends, it’s all about being custom and unique,” says Brandy Lane, owner of WillUParty event planning in Detroit. “There are so many ways to show off your child’s individual personality, all while making sure your guests are having a great time.”

With baseball season upon us, one memorable venue to consider for your special event is Detroit Police Athletic League’s (PAL) new facility — The Corner Ballpark presented by Adient — the site of historic Tiger Stadium at Michigan and Trumbull.

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“Detroit PAL, in cooperation with the Detroit Police Department and 1,700 volunteers annually, builds character in young people through athletic, academic and leadership programs, positively impacting the lives of more than 14,000 children each year,” says COO Robert Jamerson.

“Our new facility is perfect for a lifecycle event, particularly for sports lovers. With a view of the city skyline, the banquet facility overlooks the ballpark,” Jamerson says.

The Michigan Sports Legacy Conservancy (MSLC) collaborated with local designer MRA Mobile Experiential to build two showcases at the stadium which highlight the historical significance of the site with photos, images and interactive displays.

Also in place are 50 seats from Tiger Stadium and the top of the Michigan Avenue gates, which were refurbished and placed on the outfield wall.

The visually stunning donor wall at the stadium entrance was designed by artisans Erik and Israel Nordin, owners of the Detroit Design Center, who also created the giant menorah sculpture used in Cadillac Square during holiday festivities.

Event manager for Detroit PAL VeronCia Daffin says from birthdays to bar mitzvahs, occasions can be as simple or elaborate as wanted. “The 300-seat capacity banquet hall that includes tables and chairs is like an open canvas that can be filled with add-on services such as DJ, audio-visual, linens, valet, entertainment, decorations, kosher catering and more.”

The facility has several rental options, including the full event space, 100- and 200-capacity banquets rooms, the concourse and field. They can be rented out in any combination.

“The Corner Ballpark is the perfect venue for a fun, family-friendly event,” Daffin says. “You can choose on-field activities like running the bases, softball, soccer, football, putt-putt, sack races, tug-of-war and inflatable obstacle courses. You can bring in entertainers, magicians, acrobats — everything needed to create your dream party. We have even organized a spectacular fireworks display to close out the evening for one event.”

Many local kosher caterers like Quality Kosher Catering and Jerusalem Pizza, both based in Southfield, can provide services to the venue. “I work regularly with Jerusalem Pizza when someone wants casual kosher foods like classic and specialty pizza, calzones, sandwiches and salads,” says event planner Lane. “That type of menu would be perfect for a ballpark setting.”

The PAL venue also provides an opportunity to perform a mitzvah — a charitable donation can be given to the organization in honor of the celebrated person or event.

“We achieve our goals to build strong character in more than 14,000 youth participants, ages 4-19, because of generous supporters and volunteers from our community,” says Andrea Ray, development and communications manager for Detroit PAL. “Donations help fund athletic programs and enrichment opportunities like FIRST Robotics, Team Up, broadcast training, financial literacy, empowerment workshops and Youth Voice Council.”

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lezmer music resounded throughout three wedding celebrations — yes, three — as Yeva Lapsker became the bride of Daniel Kahn.

Klezmer is central to their lives.

Daniel has built an international klezmer career with his band The Painted Bird, and Yeva has detoured a bit from her dancing career by assisting the band with translations and projections.

Together, they helped launch a Yiddish klezmer festival, Shtetl Neukolln, in Berlin, where they make their home. Daniel, raised in Farmington Hills, went to Berlin 14 years ago on the suggestion of a teacher. Yeva had moved from Russia with her family in 1993.

While enthusiastically immersed in wedding plans and lining up musicians last summer, the couple’s nuptial mood enlarged as Daniel appeared in a Yiddish production of Fiddler on the Roof. It was directed in New York by famed entertainer Joel Grey and was

a highlight in Daniel’s stage career, which began in his youth with roles for the Jewish Ensemble Theatre (JET), then in West Bloomfield.

“It really was like we had four celebrations,” says Kahn, 40, who attended the Roeper School before studying theater and writing at the University of Michigan. “One was nine months earlier in New York.”

That early celebration had to do with the engagement and was part of the klezmer festival Yiddish New York. Before 120 guests, they pledged, with some humorous improvisation to the traditional tnoyim ceremony, what they would bring to the marriage and took part in music and dance.

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explains Kahn, who summers in New York.

“The wedding was traditional in some ways and not in other ways. It was a commitment ceremony. We did not have a rabbi officiate.

“We had three officiants — a hazzan, a Yiddish singer and a klezmer musician. Yeva and I were not in contact the week before the wedding. The first time we saw each other was under the chuppah, which Yeva constructed out of birch branches and oak leaves with the help of family and friends.”

The first part of the event separated them in different museum spaces. They had written their own ketubah and then signed it in a room where they were not facing each other.

Yeva defines the pre-ceremony rituals as “creating a beautiful energy.”

The ceremony had songs, prayers and speeches. Instead of the bride walking around the groom seven times, each one walked around the other three times and then circled each other once more. They stepped on the wine glass together.

“We had about 120 guests at our party,” recalls Daniel, drawn to learn klezmer and Yiddish because of their folk nature. “The first dance was a hora and the second a waltz. There was a punk rock band as well as a Russian klezmer band.

“The tables were covered with maps of the world, noting Berlin and the other cities in our lives, as well as samovars, poetry books

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and photos of our late fathers.”

Both mothers — Marcia Kahn of Farmington Hills and Marina Lapsker of Germany — participated in the ceremony.

commitment, joined by relatives and friends.

Rosh Hashanah is a time of new beginnings, and we were beginning our married life together.”

THE CIVIL CEREMONY A civil ceremony, attended by 40 guests in a German courthouse, took place on Sept. 10 with klezmer musicians accompanying the newlyweds out of the building and joining in a festive picnic at the park across the way.

The couple, defining themselves as secular and egalitarian, established their legal names with both last names — Daniel Lapsker Kahn and Yeva Lapsker Kahn.

“From the night of the first wedding party and lasting a week, we were living on a houseboat along a canal,” says Daniel, who had his bar mitzvah at Temple Israel. “We traveled around and met up with family.

“It just worked that we began the religious ceremony late on a Sabbath afternoon and had the civil ceremony on Rosh Hashanah.

We knew a Saturday would be more logistically possible — at the museum and because it was a day people could be in Berlin.

“Being Jewish is very pluralistic, open and flexible for us. We think it’s important to take what we need from it. There seemed to be nothing more like Shabbos than being able to celebrate a wedding, with love and

THE DETROIT CELEBRATION The Detroit party, Oct. 3, was organized by Daniel’s mom for about 130 relatives and friends unable to make the trip to Germany.

It was in the Rivera Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts, which always has been a special place for the Kahns.

“We sang, danced and looked through some galleries,” Daniel says. “I sang a few Yiddish songs, and Yeva danced the tango.”

Noted klezmer musicians traveling to Detroit included Michael Winograd on clarinet, Steve Greenman on violin, Dave Licht on drums and Walt Mahovlich on accordion.

“Every moment of these events was very dear to me, but probably the moment when we saw each other under the chuppah was most special,” says Yeva, who found an heirloom wedding dress in New York.

“We planned everything jointly as a couple except when we realized we had to separate some of the tasks to get them done. We spent the whole summer in New York, and because it’s hard to plan at a distance, we had wonderful help from a friend in Berlin. We tried not to get stuck with little details.” ✽

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For Jolie Rosenzweig’s bat mitzvah celebration at Temple Israel, mom Jackie tapped friend and interior designer Lizzy Fields to create a theme inspired by brand Off-White. High-top acrylic communal tables were festooned with blooms and floating votives by Debbie LeClaire.

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When Nicole Braverman wed Zak Troiano at Tam-O-Shanter Country Club, Bruce Bolton of Breath of Spring interspersed wooden boxes filled with cleanlined blooms with high and low floating votives for a sophisticated take on a rustic theme.

At Ian Sherman’s bar mitzvah party at the Beverly Hills Club, Debbie LeClaire created a colorful camp theme.

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Amanda Gorman envisioned “modern fall” at her wedding to Adam Berman at Hotel Baronette — with cranberry, burnt orange and peeps of raspberry mixed with branches in her centerpieces ordered on Etsy.

Trays, hurricanes and miniature vases brimmed with colorful candy at Molly’s Candyland — Molly Wilson’s bat mitzvah party at Tam O-Shanter Country Club in West Bloomfield, designed by Debbie LeClaire. continued on page 22

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A mix of high and low vintage-style candelabras, pedestals and bowls were filled with flowers in white with pale pink — courtesy of Breath of Spring — at Sara Zonder and Brett Koretzky’s wedding at Detroit’s Westin Book Cadillac.

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For Ella Shane’s bat mitzvah celebration at the Garden Theater, she and mom Jennifer wanted accents of floral with a city vibe — but basically gave Debbie LeClaire creative freedom. ✽

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he refined, upscale Joe Muer Seafood restaurants in Bloomfield Hills and Downtown Detroit combine the delicious legacy of the original Joel Muer Oyster Bar on Gratiot in Detroit with contemporary tastes in dining.

Joe Muer owner Joseph Vicari entered the restaurant business in 1989, operating a Ram’s Horn family dining franchise before opening his first Andiamo Italian restaurant on 14 Mile at Van Dyke in Warren. His subsequent Joe Vicari Restaurant Group now includes eight Metro Detroit locations, one location at Metro Airport and another in Las Vegas. Being able to purchase the beloved Joe Muer brand has only enhanced the reputation of the restaurateur.

Other restaurants under the Vicari banner are Brownie’s on the Lake in St. Clair Shores, three Macomb County outposts of The Country Inn offering home-style cooking and 2941 Street Food, which takes its name from the latitude and longitude coordinates of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. There are five Metro Detroit locations, including restaurants in Birmingham and Bloomfield Township.

As Joseph nears retirement, his son Dominic Vicari is the managing partner at Joe Muer Seafood inside the Doubletree Hotel by Hilton on Woodward, south of Long Lake Road, in Bloomfield Hills. He also oversees the newest Andiamo in Fenton.

Dominic earned a degree in business hospitality management at Michigan State University. Dominic’s uncle, John Vicari, oversees operations at the Renaissance Center-based Joe Muer Seafood, open for seven years.

Spectacular Design Superstar Birmingham restaurant design firm Ron & Roman designed the décor of the beautiful 243-seat restaurant in Bloomfield Hills. Open two years, the layout features multiple areas for dining at mostly white cloth-covered tables.

The Woodward South and Woodward North rooms have windows facing the busy thoroughfare. Curtains can close off the spaces for private parties of up to 100 guests. An accessible patio encourages more socializing during warm weather.

The Wine Room, behind the Woodward South Room, has refrigerated rack storage for more than 2,000 bottles. The room with a red back wall leads to the Doubletree lobby. The Lounge is dominated by a wrap-around bar. It’s divided into different sections: blue granite top and white seats for sushi, copper-finish top and rustic wood seats for the raw bar, and wood top and studded seats for regular dining. In the Joe Muer Room, framed black-and-white photos and the menu from the original Joe Muer restaurant are on walls that an artist

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painted to look like wood.

Gold studs are a design element used on the tops of leather chairs and booth backs, and they even decorate the walls of separate restroom stalls. Floors throughout the restaurant are either cherrywood, antique marble in a black-and-white checkerboard pattern or large carpeted squares placed on a diagonal.

Hanging two-sided paintings of various seafood serve as space dividers. The most striking overhead lights look like golden starbursts with a spray of small bulbs. At the front of the house, a blue-lit 1,000-gallon saltwater fish tank contains 20 species of fish.

Only the Freshest Seafood Dominic Vicari said the late Chef Aldo taught his father to cook with only fresh, seasonal ingredients. That remains the byword at all Vicari Group restaurants.

Joe Muer Executive Chef Brad Schmidt in Bloomfield Hills prepares seafood from whichever fish purveyor had the freshest products that day.

“We accept nothing out of the water for more than 48 hours,” Vicari said.

The restaurant’s season for offering Florida stone crab claws depends on the state’s weather. This year, the season ran from October to February, but it’s had to end as early as December.

Seafood can be broiled, grilled or sautéed, as the diner prefers. Popular choices include Whole Roasted Mediterranean Branzino (seabass) and Oven Roasted Barramundi with a lobster and crab stuffing.

In the Raw Bar, best-selling items include King Crab legs from Alaska and Mixed Seafood Ceviche. The Raw Bar Plateau Platter offers some of everything in a shareable format. Broiled Whole Maine Lobster and South African lobster tail are among the shellfish choices.

The chef’s rotating Chalkboard Features include Porcini Dusted Grouper, Great Lakes Walleye, Ahi Tuna and 32-ounce American Imperial Wagyu Tomahawk long bone ribeye steak.

Chairman’s Reserve is the restaurant’s preferred supplier of steaks, with its name attached to the filet mignon. Hearty carnivores may select a 22-ounce Stockyard Angus Bone-in Ribeye.

Classic Accompaniments A Joe Muer tradition is serving complimentary appetizers of white bean relish and smoked Bluefin crab pate along with house-made butter and a bread basket. Classic side dishes, either creamed spinach or stewed tomatoes, may be chosen to accompany entrees. Listed among 12 sides are fried Brussels sprouts with andouille sausage, blue crab and cheddar potatoes, and Parmesan-white truffle Pommes Frites.

Five salads are available, including one with roasted beets. Soup lovers have the option of ordering three small portions of Boston Clam Chowder, Lobster Bisque and a soup of the day.

A 16-page book lists the extensive selection of wine, liquor and beer. Joseph Vicari is selling some vintages from his own personal cellar, wine he purchased in Italy or from the small batches of local wine purveyors.

An onsite pastry chef bakes special desserts, such as Joe Muer’s traditional coconut cake and Dominic Vicari’s favorite carrot cake. The house-made sorbets are lighter choices.

April is when Joel Muer Seafood switches to dinner service only, starting at 4 p.m. daily. The a la carte brunch on Sunday will continue between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Reservations are being accepted now for a Mother’s Day buffet brunch on May 12. The charge will be $59 for age 13 and older;

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Another special feature is Happy Hour, offering a limited appetizer menu in the Lounge during the first two hours the restaurant is open. Drinks of $20 or less can be ordered at a 35 percent discount.

Guests can enjoy live jazz or classical music nightly from 7-11 p.m. with Keith Ferguson and Charles Scales alternating at the red piano. Music paired with an exquisite dinner. Could an evening out get any better?

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Picture Perfect How to choose the best photographer for your event — tips from the pros.

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ou’re throwing one of the biggest events of your life. It could be your wedding or your son’s bar mitzvah. Maybe it’s your parents’ 50th wedding anniversary.

Whatever the celebration, you’ve likely put a good amount of effort into making everything perfect, from the decor to the dresses. But when it’s all over, it’s the photographer you choose who can keep you reliving the magic over and over again.

Choosing a photographer can be a daunting task — and it should be. In addition to preserving glorious memories with family and friends, the photographer can perpetuate the tone of the event. Do you want your wedding day documented with all the behind-the-scenes details? Is it important to capture classic portraits of all the closest people in your life? Are you all about the party and want plenty of creative, candid shots of everyone having as much fun as you?

“It is incredibly important that you love the photographer’s style — every person’s

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style is different,” says Jay Dreifus, owner of Jay Dreifus Wedding Photography in Bloomfield Township. “Spend time looking at their work. Do you love it?”

“Ask prospective photographers if they can describe their photographic style,” suggests Ron Lieberman, owner of Lieberman Photography in West Bloomfield Township. “Some styles are traditional, photojournalistic and illustrative. Some photographers can incorporate all three while others stick to one style.

“Some traditional style is starting to come back as clients are realizing that family groups and guest table shots provide an important memory in years to come over artistic images of flowers and candles,” Lieberman adds. “Those items look great on Instagram and the photographer’s website, but will those images have sentimental value for you in the future?” Know what is important to you.

To be certain you are really getting what you want, ask to see an assortment of full albums. Photographers choose the best of

bright, direct midday sun. Some part of the venue may be light and others dark.

The ceremony may be outdoors under a tent when it’s raining. The indoor lights may be a mix of LED, fluorescent and incandescent, all with a different color temperature. You have to instantly know how different light will affect your pictures and react accordingly.”

Brett Mountain, owner of Brett Mountain Photography, advises asking how long your prospective photographer has been in business. “How many events like yours has he photographed?

What happens if he gets sick or has an emergency?” Mountain asks.

Experience counts, especially when it comes to hiccups that could become potential problems. Do they have liability insurance? Do they have assistants?

“Is photography the photographer’s

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full-time profession or is it a weekend hobby?” Lieberman asks. “A professional has dedicated his career to his trade.

A professional purchases liability insurance to protect not only himself but also his clients from unforeseeable events.”

Jennifer Shane, owner of Jennifer Shane Photography, was recently in the market for a photographer herself, so she’s been on both sides of the fence.

For her daughter Ella’s bat mitzvah, she tapped Brett Mountain. “I wanted to choose a photographer I thought was at the top of the game in photographing bat mitzvahs specifically,” she says. “I’d seen Brett’s work on Facebook

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their best to put on their websites and social media — you want to be sure there are few to no surprises and that you know what you are getting. “You want them to be good at capturing every aspect of your event,” Lieberman says.

While you can do plenty of research yourself, you’ll still have to rely on your photographer to know his or her stuff.

Is he familiar with Jewish traditions and customs? Can he handle any lighting in case of shifts?

“Wedding photographers, especially, are always thrown into situations with unpredictable lighting,” Dreifus says.

“It may be a dark venue or a venue with

and thought his style was what I was looking for.”

Shane also advises families to be aware of their budgets. But if your dream photographer isn’t within your parameters, she says, talk to him or her.

“A lot of photographers will have different packages at different price points.

Don’t be afraid to ask a photographer if he or she would be willing to customize a package in your price point.”

At the end of the day, professionals agree, you must feel comfortable with whom you choose. Do your personalities feel comfortable together? Do you trust him? Do you want him spending the day — or weekend — with you?

“With Brett,” Shane says, “I liked his style — but he also has a great personality so I knew he would be easy to work with during the process.” ✽

Experience counts, especially when it comes to hiccups that could become potential problems.

TOP: Pre-service portrait of bat mitzvah girl Jolie Rosenzweig.

CENTER LEFT: Molly Wilson at her bat mitzvah celebration.

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Level Two sits atop The Greek. Opened in summer 2018, the restaurant has genuine Greek bona fides. Originally the Plaka, a presence on Monroe Street for 30 years, the daughter and son of the founders took over the space and gave it a complete makeover. The restaurant has a loungelike atmosphere and seating at high tables along the wall under wagon-wheel light fixtures set with Edison bulbs.

On the menu, you’ll see contemporary Greek food like chicken lemon rice soup, pasticcio, moussaka, marinated octopus, Greek salad and the classic gyro sandwich, but you’ll also see grilled chicken wings, grilled salmon, New York strip, fish and chips, lamb chops and an array of sandwiches and burgers. But make no mistake, the heart of this restaurant is still Greek.

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club-like. Level Two boasts three indoor and outdoor bars, including a spacious, rooftop patio bar overlooking Monroe Street that’s open in the warmer months for an expansive view of one of Detroit’s most bustling neighborhoods. Level Two has an extensive stock of liquor, tequila, Scotch as well as Michigan craft beer. Plenty of large screen-TVs make this a great spot to gather before a Tigers game and a DJ Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights make it a fun place for dancing.

Patrons say Level Two is a “hidden oasis” in a crowded and bustling downtown, “a place with space available at the bar, some couches for lounging and a great view over the street.”

Whether you’re looking for a venue to host a business meeting, birthday party or other celebration, the team at Level Two/The Greek will make sure you have an exceptional experience and a taste of the real Greek culture for parties of 50 up to 200. Private space is available for rent, inside and out. On-premises catering packages can be custom ordered to suit the occasion. Kosher caterers are welcome for observant events.

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or some expectant parents who like to have all their ducks in a row, having a baby shower is a great way to celebrate pregnancy and receive the essentials needed to set up a nursery before baby arrives.

But many still follow the Jewish custom — or it is superstition? — of not having a baby shower or having minimal or no pre-baby arrangements or celebrations until after the baby is safely born.

When Hillary Glaser of Walled Lake lived in Israel, her friends threw her a baby shower before her son, now 7, was born.

She and her husband wanted to have a shower to celebrate because prior to this healthy pregnancy, she had suffered three miscarriages.

For her second child, born in the U.S., her co-workers took her and another pregnant co-worker for a joint celebratory lunch. Glaser feels that for the mom-to-be, it may be the last opportunity to celebrate “you.” After baby arrives, all the attention will be diverted to the baby.

“I was raised with the idea that baby showers are just something that Jewish women don’t do,” Glaser said. “But once you find out you are pregnant, your maternal instinct

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kicks in. While some people don’t mind the unknown and waiting until after the baby is born to celebrate and to set up the nursery and acquire all the baby furnishings, for me, I feel I needed to be more in control and wanted to have things in our apartment so it would be all ready for our first baby.”

Jewish women are taught for generations not to celebrate a baby before it is born or in some circles not even to announce a pregnancy lest you provoke the Evil Eye, or ayin harah, but why?

Rabbi Jen Lader of Temple Israel points to the Midrash of Lilith from the first chapter in Genesis for explanation. Unlike Eve, who was created in the second Genesis story to be a subservient helper to Adam, Lilith was created as Adam’s equal and refused to be seen as anything less and was banished by God from the Garden of Eden.

From that moment forward, Lilith wished to take revenge by coming in the night and doing harm to babies or expectant mothers who celebrated publicly before a baby was born.

“That superstition, many do not know, was a holdover from the story of Lilith,” Lader said. She also explained that today some Jews have a custom of putting protective

amulets with blessings on the crib of a very young baby to protect him from the ayin harah.

“Today, whether to have a shower or not is a personal choice. But now, the modern approach is not to be presumptuous that everything will be OK to celebrate publicly because if something goes wrong, this could cause a great amount of pain for the expectant parents.”

Lesley Welwarth of Southfield said she had no celebrations until after her two children were born. In addition to a bris, her family also had a pidyon haben ceremony for their firstborn son.

In addition to the brit milah and the simchat bat (naming ceremony for girls), Welwarth said there are plenty of customs within Orthodox Judaism that shower the baby and the mom with blessings, support, gifts and joy. One particular custom for a baby boy is called a vach nacht (night watch), when young children in the neighborhood are invited over the night before a boy’s bris, where they all encircle the crib and recite the Shema together to bless and protect the baby in advance of the next day’s ceremony. There are also celebratory meals at the end of the first Shabbat where men and now women participate to celebrate the birth of a Jewish baby.

“I know new mothers especially love and appreciate the meal tree, where for a month friends, family and neighbors provide meals after a baby is born,” Welwarth said. “We really do not feel we are missing out on anything by waiting until the baby is born to celebrate.” ✽

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n the late 1800s, most American parents chose popular names for their children. Perhaps they did not want to condemn a child to endure teasing for having an unusual name.

Psychologist Jean Twenge found that the 50 most popular boys’ names still accounted for half the boys born in America until a century ago; the 50 most popular girls’ names accounted for nearly half the girls. Today, the most popular names account for a third of the boys and a quarter of the girls.

If you do want to choose a popular name, you can find the most popular ones on the Social Security website.

That organization — which ought to know — reports that the four most popular boys’ names nationwide last year, in order, were Oliver, Harry, Jack and George. The four most popular girls’ names, it says, were Olivia, Amelia, Isla and Emily.

What names did Jewish parents pick in 2018? Social Security does not keep those records.

The website Mom365 did look through the Social Security records to pick the most popular Hebrew or Hebrew-derived names used in America. According to that list, the top five Hebrew names for girls last year were Ava (variant of Eve, first woman in the Bible), Isabella (Elisheva, wife of Aaron), Amelia (perhaps “she works for God”), Abigail (King David had a

sister with that name and also a wife), and Elizabeth (Elisheva, again). The top five Hebrew boys’ names were Joseph, David, Gabriel, Isaiah and Joshua.

A century ago, Ashkenazic parents in America tended to give boys the Hebrew name of a deceased relative and an English name that started with the same phoneme of a great English poet or noble — the poet’s last name for the child’s first name — such as John Milton, George Herbert, Philip Sidney, Matthew Arnold — or families such as Seymour, Melvin, Murray and Stanley.

Since then, Jews have kept giving their children Hebrew names for use in synagogue and popular names with the same first phoneme; but the popular names now come from other sources, including stars of the entertainment industry, fictional characters and respected political leaders.

Liam Neeson probably inspired the recent popularity of that name; Harry Potter probably helped put that name back on the charts, as did Harry Windsor, Duke of Sussex. Some children even wound up with a Hebrew name and a secular name based on a different Hebrew name.

Parents might also look to Israel for an inspiration. The 10 most popular first names for girls in Israel, as of a couple of years ago, according to the Jerusalem Post, are Noa, Avigail, Maya, Yael, Adele, Shira, Sarah, Ayala and Talia.

The most popular first name for boys in Israel at the same time might not appeal to Jewish parents in America: Mohammed. Mohammed? That makes sense. Fully one-seventh of the children born to Muslims in Israel get that name, and Muslims make up about 20 percent of the Israeli population. Jews make up a far larger percentage of the population, but no single Hebrew name dominates Jewish parents’ choices the way Mohammed dominates Muslim parents’ choices.

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was fortunate enough to grow up with two sets of wonderful grandparents. We affectionately referred to Sam, Helen, Molly and Isadore as, brace yourselves …Grandma and Grandpa. Pretty wild, huh?

Today many new grandparents are dispensing with those traditional titles because it implies, hold onto your support hose, they’re someone who sounds old enough to be a grandparent! It’s old-school, Alan Muskovitz and not the same schools, by the way, that you can pay $500,000 to get your kid into.

Today, the grandparent moniker is something that is derived at with the same forethought and angst that goes into naming a child.

I get it. My contemporaries, we’re now in our mid-60s, look in the mirror and don’t see, no disrespect intended, the grandparents that attended our bar and bat mitzvahs in the 1960s. I open my leather-bound Leo Knight-photographed bar mitzvah book and my grandparents look like, well, like grandparents! Go figure.

If age “60” is the new “50” then perhaps “G-Pa” is one new way to be called “grandpa.” And that’s what my childhood buddy since fourth grade, Dr. Marc Weisman, goes by. Says Marc, “I don’t feel like a grandpa, so I searched for an alternative. I ran into a friend who had the same dilemma a couple of years before and he suggested it. It stuck and my granddaughter Liv loves it.”

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“Bubbie” Marc’s wife was also looking to put a new spin on something old. So, she’s not Grandma Joanne, nope she’s — Jamma!

Another of my fourth-grade pals, Gary Shapiro, and his wife, Dobi, are now the proud grandparents of three. Gary explained: “I was asked what I wanted to be, and I never delivered my mandate. Around 10 years ago, my three grown children began calling me Andolini, then just Ando. There is no backstory or collective memory of why and, until further notice, I’m known and called (I think with endearment) as Ando to the grandchildren as well.”

Dobi, who, like many of her contemporaries isn’t feeling the Bubbie or Nana vibe, is MiMi. I had breakfast recently with Steven Tapper, who proudly boasted about being a first-time grandfather. As he told me: “I

asked my now 4-month-old granddaughter (tongue-in-cheek) to call me Steven. Since she didn’t respond to that I told her Papa would be just fine.”

As for Steven’s wife, Patti? “She wanted something that invoked a happy spirit and bubbly personality,” he said.

So, Patti is, and I love this … Bubbles!

You can’t say it without a smile coming to your face. Good for you, Bubbles!

My friends Dr. Jeffrey and Miriam Forman, who welcomed their fifth grandchild on March 19, without hesitation, proudly went with a couple of hand-me-down titles — Poppy and Grandma. Poppy, because of Jeff’s love and affection for his maternal grandfather Poppy Murray. “He was a super important person in my life who had a big influence on my growing up.”

Grandma for Miriam because as she lovingly recalls: “If Grandma was good enough for my mother, grandmother and mother-in-law, it was logical to become a Grandma, too!”

My wonderful neighbors Mark and Jennifer LoPatin recently welcomed their second grandchild. It was a no-brainer for Jennifer.

Her mother was “Nana” and so, to borrow a line from the movie The 10 Commandments, “Let it be written; let it be done.” Jennifer was Nana.

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Really, he did, and they used it for a time. “Although,” Mark added, “my daughter Sarah said it made me sound like I was her stepfather.

“Then while on a trip we were facetiming with Lily. She saw me on the screen, smiled, pointed and said, ‘Baba.’

Baba came from a game Lily and I played in which I would have her hit my stomach and say, “Baba loo” (a Lucy/Desi reference). I had a name!”

Fellow JN contributor Esther Ingber informed me that her niece’s mother-in-law, Anita, goes by the cute combination of Grandma and Anita … Grandmanita. Has a nice ring to it. I also thought it sounded like a wonderful vacation destination, so I Googled it and sure enough, the Grand Manita is a beach resort in Thailand! I don’t expect a copyright issue.

And congratulations are in order for JN Story Development Editor Keri Guten Cohen and her husband, Don. Keri said, “When we told friends our daughter, Hannah, was pregnant, the first thing they asked was, ‘What do you want to be called?’ I found it easy to eliminate Bubbie right away. I didn’t have a Bubbie growing up and that name conjured an image of an ancient woman. No way.

Don was toying with English names but settled on the Hebrew ‘saba.’ He’d like me to match him and become ‘savta.’ I came up with Grandma Kiki, thinking the baby wouldn’t be able to say Keri.

“Well, Lily Grace Veenstra, our first grandchild, was born Jan. 17, two months early. She’s growing and feisty. I think I’ll just let her call me whatever she wants.

That will be fine with me.”

As for me, well, I’m not a grandparent … yet. But when I am, perhaps I’ll bring back a version of the name my godson, Dr. Andrew Muskovitz, called me when he was a little boy. Andy affectionately referred to me as … “Uncle Weirdo.”

Hey, if the shoe fits. ✽ Alan Muskovitz is a writer, voice-over/ acting talent, speaker, and emcee. Visit his website at laughwithbigal.com,“Like” Al on Facebook and reach him at amuskovitz@renmedia.us.

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“The Ford Community and Performing Arts Center is one of America’s most versatile gathering places, with an extensive range of rooms for special occasions,” says Erica Lyght, Assistant Director of Dearborn Recreation & Parks.

Studio A in the Performing Arts Center is known for its intimate setting for small parties. For the perfect bar or bat mitzvah or a special kid birthday, clients can rent the Center’s fitness and activity center for swimming, rock climbing and gym. Banquet rooms for 15 to 800 guests are available in the same building for a pizza or taco party.

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elebrations are multiplying for many weddings today — especially for members of the wedding party.

Traditionally, bridesmaids were expected to co-host or attend a few bridal showers and the wedding, which was most likely in the Detroit area. Groomsmen had fewer obligations — sometimes a “stag”— an all-male party for the groom — usually an evening devoted to dinner, card games, drinking and maybe a visit to a club.

But times have changed and many Jewish couples — the majority in some circles — now include bachelor and bachelorette parties in their wedding festivities. David Devries and Nina Patchak got married at Adat Shalom Synagogue in 2017 and now live in Los Angeles. Nina Shay Devries says they have attended 21 weddings, mostly of Jewish couples, during the last two years and almost all have included these parties.

“I think everyone I know does a destination bachelor party these days,” David Devries says. “I have never heard of someone doing a bachelor party that only lasts one night or a party where they stay in the city they live in. If nothing else, they’re renting a cabin somewhere nearby and heading there for the weekend. I have a cousin in Israel who lives in Jerusalem, and while I was visiting, he had a friend’s bachelor party to go to. They were renting an apartment in Tel Aviv for the weekend, about an hour’s drive from Jerusalem. I’ve also heard of people from Michigan going to Iceland for a bachelor party weekend. It has definitely become the norm. I don’t think it’s just an American

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Bachelor and bachelorette parties draw young people to destination cities.

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tradition.”

Wedding planner Leslie Jacobs says that today’s bride and groom-to-be “go out of town for the majority and some are very high end. Some have them here. They rent a bus and the girls or guys go to the bars,” she says.

The Knot, a popular wedding website, has a link for these parties: theknot.com/ bachelor-bachelorette.

Bachelor and bachelorette parties are usually organized by the maid of honor and

best man along with other close friends of the bridal couple. Locations range from Northern Michigan to Las Vegas, Chicago, Texas, Portland, Mexico and Cartagena, Colombia.

“After college, people move all over the country, so it’s more about finding a convenient location that’s not too far from everyone. People get excited about the place but it’s about location and cost,” Nina says.

She adds that guests at bachelorette parties usually stay in an Airbnb to save money. The bride’s on-site costs for the party — housing, food and entertainment, spa services — are covered by the bridesmaids and other guests.

While restaurants and bars are a focus, bachelor parties, in particular, often have planned activities like hiking, boating, a poker tournament or attending a horse race.

One common denominator is they are expensive. Nina estimates the typical cost of a weekend bachelorette party at about $1,000.

She says these parties “are more of an obligation to come to rather than the showers, which are more for the older adults.”

A local Jewish businessman in his mid30s, who has planned and attended a wide range of bachelor parties, says they can cost $2,000 to $3,000. “Only rich people can afford to do a weekend. When you’re in that age group (20s), bachelor parties take up all of your travel budget and vacation time.” He says that some grooms opt for a night of bar hopping in Detroit instead.

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arty planners who have been in the business for years helping coordinate Jewish weddings or mitzvah celebrations note that guest giveaways are a relatively new phenomenon.

“Jews never gave out gifts at weddings,” said event planner Andrea Solomon. “Over the past five or six years, people have been getting on the bandwagon” with guest gifts.

These days, planning for a wedding or a mitzvah can more resemble a marketing campaign, with special event logos, social media hashtags, specifically selected event colors and even taglines that convey the event theme.

“I think that Pinterest influences (people) a lot with ideas, along with what other parties they’ve gone to,” said Rachel Taubman-Glickfeld, event producer of Taubman Events in Royal Oak. “They want their event to be trending on Instagram and Pinterest.”

Many Jews are adding guest giveaways to their to-do list. Gifts can range from clever, such as luggage tags doubling as a name place holder, to simple, such as giving attendees a bottle of honey with a joke attached to the jar. Guest gifts also can go higher end, such as mini iPads and lava lamps.

“Because of Pinterest and Etsy, people are much more attuned to tiny details,” said Susan Siegal, co-owner of Event Bliss in Franklin, which includes Susan Siegal Events Planning, Invites Ink! and Logo Logic.

For weddings, experts suggest giving guests something with their name on it.

That could include a marble coaster with the guest’s name on it, which they can reuse, or a bottle of wine with a personalized label.

“People like to have things with their names on them and they don’t throw the items away,” said Emma Zerkel of Winning Imprints, a gift vendor in Keego Harbor. “It’s a nice touch.”

Solomon says guests love to leave with food. Some of her clients have created food gifts themselves, such as homemade pastries, chocolates or cookies. She’s seen couples give away cider and donuts at fall weddings.

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Those items include sunglasses, water bottles, towels and blankets. Young people tend to like anything â&#x20AC;&#x153;brand-spanking new,â&#x20AC;? Solomon says. That includes small Bluetooth speakers kids can connect to their laptops or smartphones, ear buds and PopSockets, which allow them to attach their smartphones to vertical surfaces.

Hosts can also can opt for apparel, though with that comes the requirement to determine the size of each guest â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a challenging task.

Zip-up sweatshirts are popular, says Taubman-Glickfeld. Gift vendor Zerkel has seen people who throw winter events give out soft-form hats emblazoned with the event logo. She said pajama bottoms are a fun option, too. Siegal says kids also love decorated socks, totes or gym bags.

Planners, however, suggest having the event logo or the childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name appear small on the apparel item. â&#x20AC;&#x153;T-shirts are on their way out,â&#x20AC;? Solomon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Schools donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allow kids to wear them the next day,â&#x20AC;? especially if some of their classmates werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t invited to the event.â&#x20AC;?

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n the beginning, there was the creation of the universe in seven days. Since preschool, children are taught about the flood, the dysfunctional family conflicts of our patriarchs and matriarchs, followed by the Hebrews’ enslavement in Egypt and, ultimately, our redemption at the Sea of Reeds and Mount Sinai.

The first few books of the Torah are chock full of biblical drama for b’nai mitzvah students to sink their teeth into when it comes time to sit down and write a dvar Torah.

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around, the parashot read in the Books of Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy center on the minutia of the mundane: laws, codes and sacrifices. To the untrained eye, much of it may seem irrelevant and obsolete.

After all, Jews have not practiced animal sacrifices since the times of the Temple.

But to rabbis and tutors, these passages provide an opportunity for the b’nai mitzvah to delve deeper to find meaning. Students are surprised how relatable these passages can be when looked at either from a literal or metaphorical standpoint.

Ethan Kalt of Birmingham will become a bar mitzvah on May 18 at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township. The musical theater enthusiast who also enjoys writing speeches for his school’s competitive speaking team said there was much to write about Emor, which focuses on sacrifices and how to observe holidays such as Passover and Shabbat.

“You can always find something to make or prove a point,” Ethan said. “If I had to give advice to other kids who are about to write their dvar, I would say to read the whole portion in English and then find a

few sentences that are interesting and relatable to your life.”

Ethan said he will talk about the sacrifices and compromises of time and money one has to make in his life to achieve personal goals or to make the world a better place.

Rabbi Rachel Shere of Adat Shalom in Farmington Hills said that the dvar is a student’s opportunity to put a personal claim on his or her Torah portion.

Shere said before the student settles down to write, she likes to get to know their individual passions and how they will contribute a unique piece to the “Divine puzzle” of Jewish life.

Shere said that focusing on one or two sentences or even one word can open up paths to an entire dvar Torah.

For example, the Hebrew word for sacrifice, Korban, is from the Hebrew root that also means to draw close.

For students with parashot that focus on the sacrifices, she may ask them how they draw themselves closer to the Divine light inside themselves as well as become closer to the Jewish community as they mature.

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receives a parshah that reflects the growth of the soul and provides a unique lesson,” Shere said. “While Jews worldwide may be reading that same Torah portion, this is a student’s chance to make that portion his or her own.”

Rabbi Jason Miller, a private b’nai mitzvah tutor and officiant, recalls guiding two students two decades apart on the same portion: Metzorah. One of the more challenging double portions, Metzorah deals with skin diseases, childbirth, leprosy and bodily emissions.

He helped his first student, his cousin, write from a literal standpoint when Miller was still in rabbinical school. It discussed the relationship the boy had with his grandfather who was a caring dermatologist.

“Our (late) grandfather was a dermatologist who was dedicated both to his patients and to Judaism,” Miller said. “We turned the dvar into a discussion of the legacy our grandfather left in caring for his patients and the relationship we had with him.”

Twenty years later, Miller tutored a student who took a less literal approach and interpreted the same portion by showing how social media can spread rumors like an affliction. After all, Metzorah comes from the Hebrew term motzi shemra, which means gossip.

“Whether you take a literal or metaphorical approach to the same Torah portion, this is the student’s opportunity to teach family and guests — and even the teacher — something not thought about before, something very 21st-century from such an ancient text,” Miller said. “My student’s interpretation of this portion had such an impact on me I used her insights later that year in a High Holiday sermon.” ✽

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or a long time, my perception of Jewish Detroit has been of a suburban-concentrated community that is completely disconnected from the city in which its roots were sown. Now that I am a second-year student at Wayne State University in Midtown Detroit, my perception has unquestionably changed.

After arriving on campus, I had no anticipation of being able to participate in Jewish activities on campus. I was unaware of any Jewish groups on campus and, being a commuter student, I did not think I had enough time on campus to commit myself to these events. Eventually, I learned of Hillel of Metro Detroit (HMD) at WSU, along with Chabad in the D. In these organizations, I found something I certainly did not expect: a revival of Jewish life, specifically Jewish student life, in Detroit. This was centralized by the everlasting symbol of a Jewish gathering, the Shabbat dinner.

On any given Friday, you can find Jewish individuals, students and young professionals alike, gathered for a Shabbat nosh in Detroit. Shabbat dinners at HMD

and ChabaD are characterized by individuals schmoozing with one another, delving into deep conversations and, of course, eating.

Shabbat is a time for self-reflection and self-discovery, something that both HMD and Chabad encourage visitors to explore.

Attending these dinners, I find myself reflecting on Detroit’s rich history of Jewish life and how unfortunate it was that this dissipated over time. I immediately felt a sense of responsibility to uphold this incredible legacy. To be sure, Jewish Detroit is seeing its revival. From Shabbat dinners at HMD and ChabaD to the re-establishment of the WSU chapter of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, of which I am a proud member, organizations that recognize the need for Jewish activity in Detroit are finding their footing.

My hope is that my future children will not grow up with the same notions of a foreign Detroit that I grew up with, and maybe even call the city home one day. @ Nisim Nesimov of West Bloomfield is a sophomore at Wayne State University. For information about Shabbat dinners at Hillel of Metro Detroit, visit hillel-detroit.com or email hillelpd@wayne.edu.

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What Is Freedom?

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ave you ever thought about inclinations and does not have the the common use of the capacity to truly be free. word freedom? America is The Torah and its lessons are the a free country; Capitalism is guidepost for every Jewish all about the free market; we person to learn what he were freed from Egypt. can attain and accomplish What is the true throughout life. However, it is definition of freedom? only possible to live up to this Is it the ability to follow ideal by way of delving and the whim of your natural dedicating ourselves to the instincts and impulses or study and direction given to us Rabbi is there something deeper?

Mendel Polter in the Torah.

Perhaps we can glean a Herein lies the correlation Parshat sense of what it means to be of the varying names for Pesach 8: truly free from the varying Passover: Deuteronomy names of our holiday of • The holiday of matzahs — 14:22-16:17; Matzah represents humility freedom, Passover.

Numbers This holiday is known and modesty. The fact that 28:19-25; by three differing Hebrew the dough is not allowed to Isaiah 10:32- rise resembles the concept names. The name used in 12:6. the written Torah is Chag of submission. The first step HaMatzos — the holiday in the process of freedom is of matzahs. The Anshei the acceptance of a greater Knesses Hagdolah (The Men of the sense of morality other than one’s Great Assembly) who introduced own emotions and feelings. By and incorporated the nussach consuming matzah, we are internally (version) of the siddur (prayer submitting ourselves to the will of book) introduced the name Zman God. Chairuteinu — the time of our • The time of our freedom — freedom. The name commonly used This gives us the opportunity to throughout Jewish history is Pesach truly experience a sense of freedom — Passover. whereby we are not enslaved by Do these names correlate with restrictions or constraints imposed each other? If so, how do they upon us from within or without. encapsulate the quintessence of this • Passover — With such an special holiday? approach in mind, we are freed True freedom is the experience from any sort of stumbling blocks we feel when we can live up to our or challenges that can throw us off full capacity and potential. The course. Because we are connected to discipline it takes for one to live God and His will, His strength that by the morals and standards with is flowing through us enables us to which God has tasked him or her is overpower and pass over anything the greatest liberating experience. that shows up along the path. ■ One who lives by the whim of his Rabbi Mendel Polter is a rabbi at the or her desires and impulses is not Woodward Avenue Shul. liberated but enslaved to his natural

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than Davison readily reveals what he considers the most important lesson learned from his late father, William Davidson, a philanthropist and businessman who headed up Guardian Industries and owned the Detroit Pistons.

If someone offers an opportunity and says the decision must be made then and there, always say no, William Davidson advised. The reasoning was that people need time to think through choices, and any rush is taking away the freedom to think.

Although that lesson is not part of the film Call Me Bill: The William Davidson Story, which is kicking off this year’s Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival, it is likely to be part of small digital vignettes being contemplated to follow up on the documentary.

The 90-minute film, being shown free at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 2, at the Jewish Community Center, precedes the showcase of international films scheduled May 5-15.

“The thing I like most about the film is that it preserves my father’s story and his philosophy in business and life,” says Ethan Davidson, 49, executive producer with his wife, Gretchen, through their El Studio 444. “I think it could be a benefit to audiences because people like to hear these kinds of stories.”

The film project, begun seven years ago, wasn’t intended for the public. It was meant to be a family legacy with archival film footage.

“My father would not have been interested in a film for public consumption,” Ethan explains. “Just a couple of weeks before my dad died, he said he was going to make a short film explaining something about himself so that his grandkids would have it. He must have been feeling his mortality at that moment.

“To my knowledge, he never got around to making that 10-minute film. The next few years went by and other people in our family passed away. We thought we should, at the very least, interview people so we could preserve stories of the people who knew him best.”

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Pistons owner Bill Davidson celebrates after the team’s championship victory in 1989.

FACETS OF BILL’S LIFE The film goes back to the early years, describing extended family summers at a cottage in Port Huron, moving on to military service during World War II and the tragic loss of his father at a young age in an auto accident. The documentary also outlines the initiatives that developed his business successes — including the turnaround of Auburn Hillsbased Guardian Industries into the world’s largest glass maker — which now support the William Davidson Foundation to enhance Southeast Michigan, Israel and the Jewish community.

Extensive numbers of interviews — from family members to basketball celebrities — give a personal touch to the information and a sense of William Davidson’s personality. Especially informative are the comments of Karen Davidson, Bill’s widow, who was very moved by the film and family reaction to it.

“The film tells this great love story that Ethan has for his father,” she says. “We’re all lucky that he included us in it, too. It’s so sweet that it’s dedicated to Bill’s grandchildren.

“I loved everything about it, especially the clip where the Boston Celtics announcer is announcing the game between the Pistons and the Celtics and shows what the NBA was years ago, and I loved seeing Bill’s grandchildren during the premiere

at the Detroit Institute of Arts. They watched the film so intently and celebrated their grandfather.

“I think the biggest takeaway is that this man spent his whole life taking over a failing business and building it. I think it’s a great model for patience in building. It just doesn’t happen overnight. He just worked.”

Ethan stayed close to film segments.

“I was there for 80 or 90 percent of the interviews,” says Ethan, who built a career in composing and performing before working on the Davidson foundation. “For the editing, there was a team at Push Media.

After the interviews, we had to have everything transcribed. We would read transcriptions and would identify various themes.”

Bill Davidson’s sister, Dorothy Gerson, voiced her recollections for the film and says she appreciates that her nephew Ethan began the narration in the early years to present the essence of the close family ties held tight as time went along.

“My brother was very much his own person,” Gerson explains as part of the core film message, particularly for viewers who did not know him personally. “He was giving and loving, and he was a visionary in a lot of the things he did. In business, sports and charity, my brother left those worlds better places.”

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SUNDAY, MAY 5, 7 P.M. Golda’s Balcony (American drama): The Broadway hit, now on the big screen as Tovah Feldshuh brings Golda Meir to life. From Russian schoolgirl to prime minister of Israel, Meir’s story of hard work and determination is an inspiration to all. Talkback with the producer and dessert reception after the show.

MONDAY, MAY 6, 7 P.M. The Mamboniks (American documentary): Fun and music from an unlikely source. Jewish teenagers in New York embrace the Mambo craze and find community in the process. Come at 6.15 p.m. for a free introductory class with Mambo Marci.

TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1 P.M. Azimuth (Israeli drama): Two opposing soldiers in the desert at the end of the Six-Day War with only one way out. Suspense that will keep you on the edge of Golda your seat.

Tuesday, May 7, 8 p.m. The Unorthodox (Israeli drama): Out of frustration and rage comes the first Orthodox Sephardic political party in Israel. A group of misfits with no money or connections achieve an impossible task.

Based on true events. Talkback with Professor Howard Lupovitch after the show.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 8 P.M. YidLive!: A multimedia comedy show featuring the creators of the award-winning YidLife Crisis at Ridley’s Comedy Castle in Royal Oak. Yiddish humor in (mostly) English for ages 21-121.

THURSDAY, MAY 9, 7 P.M. Chewdaism (Canadian documentary) (Patron Night): The history of Jewish Montreal, as told through its delis and restaurants. Patron dinner featuring Montreal kosher cuisine before the show, talkback with the directors Chewdaism after the show. To become a patron, visit DetroitJewishFilmFestival.com/contribute.

SUNDAY, MAY 12, 1 P.M. Itzhak (American documentary): A compelling look at an artist who overcame incredible challenges to become the world’s premier violin virtuoso. Come early for live music in the main JCC lobby. Talkback with Rabbi Aaron Bergman after the show.

MONDAY, MAY 13, 7 P.M. Fractures (Israeli drama): A timely drama that raises important questions about power in relationships and the complications of workplace liaisons. Talkback with an expert panel after the show.

TUESDAY, MAY 14, 7 P.M. Foxtrot (Israeli drama): An award-winning Israeli drama about the parents left behind when their son goes off to war.

Mamboniks WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 7 P.M. The Last Suit (Argentinian drama): A sentimental journey of promises kept. Ignoring age and illness, a man journeys to his pre-war home and finds himself along the way.

For a full schedule, go to detroitjewishfilmfestival.com.

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before stories became tied together throughout the Jewish community. were sports celebrities, such as Isiah During the week, I may go to an Thomas and Joe Dumars, who were ultra-Orthodox place or Shaarey part of the championship-winning Zedek. On Sundays, I take the kids to Pistons Bad Boys, who celebrate their Temple Beth El.” 30th anniversary this year. Many When Ethan became part of the of the players attended a March 31 foundation, he resigned from other premiere of the film at the Detroit boards so he would be removed from Institute of Arts. any perception of conflict. He is glad “My father really loved puzzles,” the family remains close and particrecalls Ethan, who ipates in foundation worked on the final governance. edits with director “When my dad Deb Agolli of Push called me back here to Media and her team. help out with the foun“I had never done dation, a big part was puzzles, but I felt like organizing a business,” my father putting a Ethan says. “I was able puzzle together.” to do that with my relThat puzzle unfolds atives, Ralph Gerson, in part by showing particularly, and Eli the way Bill Davidson Bill Davidson with sister Saulson as well as my used parenting skills Dorothy Gerson stepmother. to become a father “I learned a lot figure for players on about how to organize the sports teams he owned. a business and the kinds of things “The most important aspect of you have to do to make these organihis personality was that he was very zations run as efficiently as you can steady,” Ethan says. “I always looked so they can have the largest possible up to my dad and loved my dad. impact for the greatest number of My parents divorced when I was people. It ended up sort of being like very young, and I lived with my dad a mini MBA degree. through my teenage years. He was “I had some of the experience of sort of my only parent at that time, so my father, but I’m still a different perI was attached to him. son than he was, and I should be.”

“My father sent me to Hillel Day That difference can be particularly School, which was a great experience noted in the credits, where Ethan for me. He was also the president is listed as composer for the film’s of Shaarey Zedek. I like to travel music. ■

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The song, “Our Blues,” was written Ra’anana and wanted a drum set,” Pugach says. “I didn’t want to take leswith melody by Pugach, a drummer sons and be professional, but my dad and composer from Israel, and lyrics pushed me to take lessons.” by his wife, Nicole Zuraitis, a singer He then went to the Rimon School and lyricist raised in Connecticut. of Jazz and Contemporary It will be performed Music. He also played as when they entertain details a drummer for the Israeli Sunday evening, May 12, The Dan Pugach Air Force Band. A scholarat Cliff Bell’s in Detroit.

Nonet will perform at ship to Berklee College of “‘Our Blues’ is kind 7 p.m. Sunday, May Music in Boston prompted of a silly story,” Zuraitis 12, at Cliff Bell’s, his move here in 2006. says. “Dan and I had 2030 Park Ave., After Berklee, he earned gotten into a little bit Detroit. $10. a master’s degree in jazz of a couple’s tiff that (313) 961-2543. performance at City College morning, and I said, ‘I’ll cliffbells.com. of New York, where he got write you a blues song!’ into basic arranging and The punch line is ‘you’re composing. much more clever when “I didn’t study composing with the you shut your mouth.’ “We find couples really relate to that song when we idea of getting into it professionally, but I found in 2010 I had become attracted perform it live.” to big bands and larger sounds and The pair, working together for nine started experimenting with all that,” years, have been married for two he says, adding he would bring a nineyears and live in Brooklyn. piece band into their tiny apartment “The band plays mostly original to try out compositions and arrangearrangements of pop, folk and jazz ments. tunes as well as original composi“If I have a clear idea of what I want tions aimed at jazz,” says Pugach, 36, to write, I go to the drums. In my who occasionally duets with pianist head, I sing along and then go to the Mendy Hershkowitz to present procomputer and type it into notation grams of Jewish music. software. If I don’t know what I want, I “We’ve all been working together sit at the piano and play chords until I for a long time, and we bring in difhear something I like.” ferent styles you usually don’t find Away from music, Pugach confessin jazz. For Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene,’ es an obsession with espresso coffee for example, which is not at all jazz, — an obsession that has turned his we make it jazz and won a Grammy apartment into a hang out, he says nomination for best arrangement.” happily. ■ Selections from the Nonet record-

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Joc Pederson, 26, outfielder, L.A. Dodgers. Pederson, a streak power hitter who was frequently injured, stayed healthy in 2018 and hit more consistently. He played for Israel in the 2013 WBC. Kevin Pillar, 30, outfielder, San Francisco.

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Robert Stock, 29, relief pitcher, San Diego. After nine years in the minors, Stock made his big-league debut last June. His 100mph fastball may keep him up. And Rowdy Tellez, 24, first base, Toronto. He was called-up last September and was on a hitting tear for the rest of the season.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 26 PJS & STORIES 10 am, April 26. Rabbi Aaron Bergman will be the guest reader with Pesach stories for young children. The event will include a holiday craft and a snack.

Children may come in their PJs. The community is welcome. Those who plan to attend should contact Adat Shalom Jewish Family Educator Debi Banooni, dbanooni@ adatshalom.org or 248-626-2153.

SATURDAY, APRIL 27 POST-PESACH PARTY 6:30 pm, April 27. Temple EmanuEl’s Brotherhood will host a Post Pasta Passover Party & Havdalah. Cost: $5 individual; $13 family; late registration $9 per person. RSVP: TempleFamily@ emanuel-mich.org or 248-967-4020.

SUNDAY, APRIL 28 MEDITATION & MINDFULNESS 9:30 am, April 28. Adults are invited to join Rabbi Aaron Bergman at Adat Shalom Synagogue. The class is designed to help individuals find their internal spirituality and realize that Judaism can make them happier. Free and open to the community.

Info: call 248-851-5100.

READ WITH THE RABBI 10 am, April 28. Rabbi Aaron Starr will discuss Deborah E. Lipstadt’s book AntiSemitism Here and Now. Free and open to the community. At Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. RSVP: Elise at egechter@ shaareyzedek.org or 248.357.5544.

BAGELS & BASICS 10:30 am, April 28. At Temple Kol Ami. “Asylum Seekers, the Law and a Jewish Response” is a panel discussion with Rachel Goldberg, Wendy Lawrence, Ruby Robinson and Rabbi Gutmann followed by a Q&A. Bagels and coffee will be served.

RSVP: cspektor@tkolami.org or 248-6610400.

TEEN TALK 11 am, April 28. At Shaarey Zedek, 27375 Bell Road, Southfield. “Drugs, Alcohol and Tattoos: What’s the Jewish Perspective?” with Rabbi Aaron Starr. For students in grades 8-12. Refreshments served. No charge. RSVP to rabbistarr@ shaareyzedek.org or 248-357-5544.

SOOTHING SUNDAY 1-2:30 pm, April 28. At JFS, 6555 W. Maple in West Bloomfield. Learn about mental health and the services that JFS

provides; create cards and notes with encouraging words and homemade stress-relieving kits to present to teen clients. Info: Erin Thackray, 248-8803787 or elederman@jfsdetroit.org.

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JARC’S 50TH BIRTHDAY BASH 2- 4 pm, April 28. At Franklin Athletic Club. A carnival of fun with activities provided by Star Trax. Music, dancing, balloon animals, treats, games and more will be provided. Admission is $10 per person or $25 per family. Info: 248538-6611 or jennykabert@jarc.org.

CONCERT SPECIAL 3 pm, April 28. At Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, 3711 Woodward, Detroit. Shostakovitch’s 13th Symphony paired with selections from Charles Davidson’s I Never Saw a Butterfly, based on poems by children who perished in the Holocaust. Tickets are $18 available at dso.org. The preview lecture is at 2, followed by the concert at 3. Limited transportation is available leaving from the JCC and the Prentis Apartments in Oak Park. Tickets for survivors are $5, which includes transportation. For transportation, RSVP to Marilyn Wolfe at 248-432-5471 or mwolfe@jccdet.org.

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SAJE PROGRAM 7 pm, April 29. At JCC in West Bloomfield. Documentary: How Hitler Was Made. Free. Light refreshments will be served.

YOM HASHOAH FILM 7:30 pm, April 29. At the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor. The new documentary Who Will Write Our History will have a community screening. A panel discussion will follow. No charge.

TUESDAY, APRIL 30 JEWISH ARCHITECTURE 7-8:30 pm, April 30. Also on May 7,14, 21. Join Michael Hodges, fine arts writer for the Detroit News and author of Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit. Tuition: $75. Co-sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan and the JCC’s SAJE (Seminars

BEETHOVEN’S 9TH Join the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra and the University of Michigan’s University Musical Society Choral Union at 8 p.m. in Ann Arbor’s Hill Auditorium for a season finale performance of Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9. The A²SO will be joined by four critically acclaimed vocal soloists for the Beethoven: soprano Jacqueline Echols, mezzo-soprano Freda Herseth, tenor Scott Piper and bass-baritone Stephen West.

The orchestra will also perform Shostakovich’s playful and succinct Symphony No. 9.

Guest conductor Timothy Muffitt joins the A²SO for this performance. A pre-concert talk open to all ticket holders begins at 7 p.m. More information is available at a2so.com/ beethoven9 or by calling (734) 994-4801. Tickets are $20-$72.

APRIL 27-28 THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE All aboard! Thomas the Tank Engine invites little engineers to go full steam ahead for a day of engaging activities and fun adventures at Day Out With Thomas: The Steam Team Tour 2019. Children are invited to spend a day with their friend Thomas when the No. 1 Engine pulls into Greenfield Village on April 27-28, from 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

This fun-filled event offers children and their families the opportunity to take a ride with Thomas the Tank Engine. In addition, they will meet Sir Topham Hatt, Controller of the Railway, and enjoy a day of Thomas-themed activities including toy play, photo ops and more. Tickets are available by calling 866-468-7630 or by visiting dayoutwiththomas. com. Tickets are $11.75 plus tax for members of The Henry Ford and $32.75- $39.75 for non-members.

APRIL 28 ART EXHIBIT Sholem Aleichem Institute presents the work of artist/ calligrapher Eleanor Winters, 2 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield in an exhibit titled “To the Memory of the Deported Children.” Winters’ series of calligraphic paintings was inspired by the hundreds of memorial plaques installed in Paris in memory of nearly 7,000 Jewish children who were deported and murdered during the Holocaust.

Using the words from the plaques, she has created moving and evocative works of art that have been shown on both sides of the Atlantic. Winters will discuss the evolution of the project and present a power-point slide show of many of her paintings. No charge to attend.

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You may bring your own dairy/parve lunch. Drinks and dessert will be served.

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FILM PREMIERE 7 pm, May 2. Call Me Bill: The William Davidson Story will premiere at the Berman Center in West Bloomfield. Info: jccdet. org. A special free kickoff event for Jewish Historical Society.

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health

Seize the Day Woman thrives with chronic blood-related cancer thanks to clinical trial, treatment advances.

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arbara Robins, 75, of Franklin has lived a full life, working as a financial adviser while also keeping herself in optimum health and enjoying her friends, travel and art. Because she’s kept herself so healthy and active, a diagnosis of multiple myeloma in 2015 stopped her in her tracks.

“It was completely a surprise,” she said.

“My internal medicine doctor saw that there was something off in my blood counts. I had a bone marrow biopsy and I expected to be fine.”

Though she had no physical symptoms, her doctor discovered multiple myeloma — a cancer of the blood plasma.

“It was total grief,” she said, adding that she had never been diagnosed with a cancer and had, in fact, years ago volunteered to be on a bone marrow registry to help others who might need a bone marrow transplant.

“I never expected to be diagnosed with this,” she said.

Robins, who is Jewish and a member of Congregation T’chiyah in Oak Park, had her bone marrow transplant at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit. She describes the procedure as something that went well but was not without its attendant worries.

“I had the transplant and all I did was worry about dying,” she said, “but if you spend your days worrying, you’re not living. Coping with cancer has taught me to live in the day and not think about what might happen.”

Today, Robins sees Jeffrey Zonder, M.D., the leader of the Multiple Myeloma Team at Karmanos. She is currently on a clinical trial for her disease.

“I learned about the clinical trials available,” she said. “I felt it was my chance to be on the best and newest drugs. I persevered. It’s working very well for me. Being on a clinical trial, I can help other people and I can help myself.”

Zonder said that substantial progress has occurred in the treatment of multiple myeloma. Patients with the disease

are living long and full lives while being monitored by an oncologist.

“The average survival for myeloma patients has tripled since I started practicing oncology around 20 years ago,” he said. “One of the reasons is the availability of new drugs. Another reason is the use of maintenance therapy — lower-dose therapy given on a continuous basis to maintain disease control that is obtained initially with full-intensity treatment regimens.

“I have many multiple myeloma patients in my practice who are more than 10 years from the time of diagnosis and a few who are more than 20 years.”

Zonder added that part of his job is to meet with patients participating in a clinical trial as part of their treatment.

“Clinical trials are almost always among the options available to myeloma patients treated at the Karmanos Cancer Institute,” he said. “Sometimes, a trial with a promising (therapeutic) agent may represent the best option for a patient. Patients generally participate in

Free Public Info Session Jeffrey Zonder, M.D., leader of the Multiple Myeloma Team at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, will hold a free public education session at 5:30 p.m. Monday, May 13, at Karmanos’ Weisberg Cancer Treatment Center in Farmington Hills. He will discuss recent advances in the management of multiple myeloma, including the use of antibody-based therapy, new disease maintenance options and new therapies, including the use of CAR-T cells, which mobilize a patient’s own immune system to fight the disease. To RSVP for the session, call Kathleen Hardy, oncology social worker at Karmanos, at (248) 538-4712. clinical trials to gain access to promising therapies, but, at the same time, they are making a major contribution to medicine, since well-designed clinical trials are what advance the field as a whole.”

In addition to participating in the clinical trial, Robins attends the Women’s

Dr. Jeffrey Zonder and Barbara Robins

Support Group at Karmanos’ Weisberg Cancer Treatment Center in Farmington Hills. It is a support group open to all cancer patients, not just those being treated at Karmanos.

Zonder said getting involved in a support group is beneficial for patients living with a chronic disease like myeloma.

“It is particularly helpful to be able to talk about a new treatment with someone else who has already had it,” he said.

Robins said that taking part in the support group has been “profound.”

“It’s a beautiful thing to see people gain hope from the group as they live with cancer,” she said. “Being part of the support group has been an important part of my experience.”

Today, Robins continues to work as a financial adviser and makes time for the activities she enjoys, including traveling to see friends and collecting art.

“I’ve accomplished a lot in my life,” she said. “I would like to continue living my life and being the best person I can be.” ■

health

Awaken the Beauty Within...

Neuropathy Study U-M research shows promise in unsaturated dietary fats.

MATT TREVOR SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

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eople who are diabetic, prediabetic or obese are at high risk of developing diabetic neuropathy, which is chronic nerve damage that often affects the feet and hands.

Researchers at Michigan Medicine may have identified a new way to reverse this common, painful and debilitating condition through simple changes in diet. Their study was published recently in The Journal of Neuroscience.

The findings suggest that changing the types of fat a person eats could reverse the neuropathic damage.

“We were not anticipating such a dramatic effect of diet on nerve function, but our new studies certainly support the old adage that you are what you eat,” says Eva L. Feldman M.D., Ph.D., a professor of neurology Dr. Eva and the director of Feldman Michigan Medicine’s Program for Neurology Research and Discovery.

In 2016, Feldman and her team reported the presence of neuropathy is high in three groups: people with obesity alone, people with prediabetes and people with diabetes.

Diabetes affects 30 million Americans, and type 2 diabetes, in particular, is an epidemic in this country. An additional 84 million Americans have prediabetes. Even more alarming, about 100 million Americans are obese, which is more than 30 percent of the population. One common factor among

these groups is a diet rich in fats, Feldman says.

“Our research suggests that selecting foods high in unsaturated fats is a healthier option than food high in saturated fats,” she says. “While we have known this is true for heart health, we now believe this is also true for a healthy nervous system.”

In the U-M study, obese, prediabetic mice were fed a diet high in saturated fatty acids. Later, some animals were switched to a diet high in unsaturated fatty acids. While the calorie counts and weights of the animals remained the same, the animals with a diet of unsaturated fatty acids had a reversal of neuropathy and improved overall health.

The American Diabetes Association website features information about food choices. It further explains the negative effects of food containing unhealthy fats, such as red meats and dairy products with high cream content. Replacing those items with foods that contain unsaturated fats, such as fish, peanut butter, avocados, olives, almonds, plant-based oils and seeds, can be beneficial.

Nearly 1 in 4 adults living with diabetes, or 7.2 million Americans, is unaware he has the disease.

“Over the last 10 years in my clinic, I’ve witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of patients with prediabetes and diabetes and very painful neuropathy,” Feldman says. “Our new research shows that addressing dietary fats is likely essential for an improved lifestyle, and improved lifestyle is our first line of treatment for neuropathy.” ■

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soul of blessed memory

A Quintessential Newsman RONELLE GRIER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Their three children, Sophie, n the surface, Jonathan Emma and Jacob, were the lights “Jon” Paley Wolman exemof Jon’s life, and their happiness plified the classic newsman was paramount. Speaking at the of a bygone era, an exacting editor funeral service, his daughter Emma who sought the truth and wasn’t described her father as a purposeafraid of its consequences. Beneath ful person who took everyone and that exterior was a kindhearted and everything seriously. compassionate husband “He was remarkably and father, a loyal friend uninterested in status,” she and a generous mentor. said. “He was difficult to Jon, editor and publishimpress and unflinchingly er of the Detroit News, honest.” died April 15, 2019, at age His son, Jacob, remem68 of complications from bers his father always makpancreatic cancer. ing time for the family and He grew up in Madison, providing invaluable guidWis., with his parance in a variety of areas ents, Anne and Martin ranging from finances to Wolman, and his four Jonathan Wolman career choices to tennis. siblings. He was born “Everything that made into the newspaper busihim a great reporter, editor, manness; his father was publisher of the ager and publisher carried over to Wisconsin State Journal, where Jon his relationships with family and started as a young newsboy. friends,” Jacob said.

Jon attended the University of Jon left the AP to become editoColorado and transferred to the rial page editor at the Denver Post University of Wisconsin. After gradin 2004. Three years later, he moved uation, he was hired as a reporter to Michigan to become editor and at the Associated Press (AP) bureau publisher of the Detroit News. He in Madison. When he called home steered the paper through challengto announce his new position, his ing economic times and provided father literally beamed with pride. guidance for such important stories That job was the start of a 31-year as the city’s bankruptcy and the career with the AP that included Flint water crisis. a two-year stint in Detroit before Throughout his career, his pasjoining the AP Washington bureau. sion was politics. He loved covering Over the next 23 years, he rose to presidential campaigns and helped the position of bureau chief before spearhead the AP’s coverage of the he was promoted to the AP’s New terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

York bureau, where he eventually Jon was ahead of his time as an became executive editor. advocate for diversity and opportuAlong the way, Jon met his future nities for women in the newsroom. wife, Deborah Lamm, in Tucson.

He was known as an encouraging She was working at an event Jon had but firm mentor who challenged been assigned to cover, the annual his employees to become their best meeting of the U.S. Conference of selves.

Mayors in Tucson. Happily, both “I became better at what I did were living in D.C. at the time, and because Jon made me fight for what their relationship quickly blosI wanted to say,” said Nolan Finley, somed. They were married in 1978 Detroit News editorial page editor. and spent the next 40 years in a Jon was an avid reader, a man marriage that reflected their deep who was quiet but social. While love and mutual respect. he enjoyed a good celebration, he

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avoided the limelight, preferring to mentor others and watch them succeed.

“He would collect family and friends and never let them go,” Emma said.

Like other print journalists of his time, he preferred casual shirts and Dockers to suits and ties. He carried a well-worn book bag and typed with two fingers. When he sat down to edit a story, he would pull down his suspenders, roll up his shirtsleeves and stick a pen in the corner of his mouth.

“Jon was a giant of journalism and one of the most religious people I ever knew, not so much in ritual observance but in values, principles, ethics, decency and love,” said Rabbi Daniel Syme of Temple Beth El, where the Wolmans were members.

Jon is survived by his beloved wife of 40 years, Deborah Eve Lamm; cherished children, Jacob Wolman, Emma (Ian Irvine) Wolman and Sophie Wolman; loving siblings, Natalie (David Fulker) Wolman, Ruth (Bruce) Henderson, Lewis (Eletise) Wolman; dear brother-inlaw, Richard (Cindy Levine) Lamm.

He was the devoted son of the late J. Martin and the late Anne Wolman; brother of the late Jane Wolman. Jon is also survived by many loving nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Interment took place in Wisconsin. Contributions in memory of Jonathan Paley Wolman may be directed to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 330 7th Ave., 11th Floor, New York, NY 10001, (212) 465-1004, cpj.org; the University of Wisconsin School of Journalism, 821 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706, (608) 263-4898, journalism.wisc.edu; Jewish Family Service, 6555 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, (248) 592-2300; jfsdetroit. org or a charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. ■

DR. MATTHEW L. BURMAN, of Southfield, passed away April 15, 2019.

He was an ophthalmologist who practiced in Detroit and the metropolitan area for more than 40 years. He served his country in the U.S. Air Force.

Dr. Burman is survived by his wife, Estela Burman; daughters, Gabriella (Adam Kaplan) Burman, and Naomi (Jonathan) Shanke; his grandchildren, Ayelet, Maayan and Ilanit Kaplan, and Daniel, Sam, Orly and Lilly Shanker.

He was predeceased by his granddaughter, Michaela Kaplan.

Interment took place in Bet Shemesh, Israel. Contributions in his memory can be made to Friendship Circle, Yad Ezra, the Kollel Institute of Detroit or a charity of your choice. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

SIMI CUTLER, 93, of Ann Arbor, died April 15, 2019.

She is survived by her husband of 72 years, Aaron Zelig Cutler; daughter and son-in-law, Elana and Ronald Sussman; son and daughter-inlaw, Dan Cutler and Chris Merrill; grandchildren, Mira Sussman and Doron Yitzchaki, Ari and Jaimie Sussman, Eitan and Joanna Sussman, Naomi and Grant Barton, and Sadie Cutler; great-grandchildren, Matan, Ishai and Judah Sussman-Yitzchaki, Samuel and Anna Sussman, Nava and Ilan Sussman, and Nora and Phoebe Barton; other loving relatives and friends here and in Israel.

Mrs. Cutler was the loving sister of the late Sidney and the late Sylvia Bernstein; the dear sister-in-law of the late Basha and the late Morton Shalev.

Interment was in Beth Israel Memorial Garden at Arborcrest Cemetery. Contributions may be made to University of Michigan Hospital Palliative Care, 300 N. Ingalls, Room 901, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2007, medicine.umich.edu/ dept/dgpm/palliative-medicineuniversity-michigan; Arbor Hospice Foundation, 2366 Oak Valley Drive,

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MARTHA GURWIN, 97, of West Bloomfield, died April 17, 2019.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Barbara and Henry Rosenfeld; son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Mindy Nudelman; grandchildren, Jill Rosenfeld, Sherri Rosenfeld and Jeremy Yagoda, Andrew Rosenfeld, Alison and Michael Gornick, Katelyn and Dan Schwartzman, and Kevin Gurwin; great-grandchildren, Jonathan Yagoda, and Joey and Sally Gornik.

Mrs. Gurwin was the beloved wife of the late Leonard Gurwin; the cherished mother of the late Steven Gurwin; the loving sister of the late Leon Rives, the late Marvin Rives and the late Marion Sklar.

Interment was at Machpelah Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Villa at Green Lake Estates, 6470 Alden Drive, Orchard Lake, MI 48324, villaatgreenlakeestates.com; or to a charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

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DR. ERIKA HERCZEG, 82, of West Bloomfield, died April 15, 2019.

She taught technical writing and composition at Wayne State.

She loved linguistics and spoke three languages.

Above all, she loved being a grandmother.

Dr. Herczeg is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Chuck and Sandy Herczeg of Farmington

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Hills; grandchildren, Sophia Herczeg, Max Herczeg; sister-in-law, Pamela Goldberger.

She was the beloved wife of the late Otto Herczeg; dear sister of the late Robert Goldberger.

Contributions may be made to Michael J. Fox Foundation, Grand Central Station, P.O. Box 4777, New York, NY 10163-4777; Kadima, 15999 W. 12 Mile Rd., Suite 2, Southfield, MI 48076; or Jewish Hospice and Chaplaincy Network, 6555 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322.

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The Detroit advertising community lost one of its most influential trailblazers, a man who was an integral industry leader during the last 60 years, when Adcraft Hall of Famer Fred Yaffe passed away peacefully after a long battle with illness.

There has been an agency with Fred Yaffe’s name on it in the Detroit ad community since 1959. He has helped some of the biggest brands locally and nationally reach their business goals and achieve success. Fred was there in the early years of Little Caesar’s Pizza, coining the iconic phrase “Pizza, Pizza.” He worked with many of Detroit top brands, including Perry Drug Stores, Art Van, Faygo, ABC Warehouse and countless others. For his clients, Fred believed that helping them succeed went beyond just their marketing. He became immersed in their business and looked for ways to make their business better, whether it was a marketing solution, a business solution or something completely out of the box.

Mr. Yaffe was an industry leader who helped the Detroit ad industry become what it is today, but he was an entrepreneur beyond running his own agencies, investing in everything from quick service restaurants to elevator jack hole drilling.

He leaves behind a legacy of hundreds of lives and careers in the advertising community who were influenced by his guiding hand. For him, it

was always about the people. Over the years, he became close friends not with just his clients but with many dignitaries, athletes, entertainers, and business and industry leaders.

Mr. Yaffe always sought perfection: for his clients, for his friends, for himself. He knew perfection was rarely attainable but believed that was no reason not to try. He would push you to be your best and to make sure you believed in what you were doing. More importantly, he cared. It is that part of him that will be missed above all. It is as much his legacy as the indelible footprints he left in his wake.

Robert Frost once said, “I may return if dissatisfied with what I learn from having died.” It would not surprise those who knew Fred Yaffe if he was to do just that.

Fred Yaffe is survived by his wife, Kathy Yaffe; son and daughter-in-law, James Yaffe and Jane Ross; grandchildren, India and Jonathan Yaffe; brothers-in-law and sister-in-law, Thomas Fitzpatrick, John Fitzpatrick, Loraine Fitzpatrick; nieces and nephews, Thomas Fitzpatrick Jr., Kimberly and Michael Crimado, Kelly Fitzpatrick, and John and Ron Fitzpatrick.

Mr. Yaffe was the loving brother of the late Theodore Yaffe.

Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Capuchin Soup Kitchen, 1820 Mount Elliot St., Detroit, MI 48207, cskdetroit.org; National Kidney Foundation of Michigan, 1169 Oak Valley Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, nkfm.org; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. ■

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am Taub, longtime coach at Mumford High School and inductee into the Michigan Jewish Sorts Hall of Fame, died April 13, 2019.

Sam Taub was a unique individual in a number of ways. Great athlete, teacher, coach, athletic director, but, most of all, a great human being.

For those of us who were fortunate enough to play for him at Mumford High, his death was a great loss.

Most of us would agree that one of the most important things in a person’s life is making a difference in the lives of others. Sam’s individual accomplishments, such as making All-City in high school, playing two sports at the University of Detroit, pitching on three national championship softball teams, being named PSL Coach of the Year twice and

being inducted into the Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, are wonderful; but it was his relationship with his former players and students that truly made him special.

Sam came to Mumford in the fall of 1965. At that time, the basketball program at Mumford was mediocre at best. The team won three championships (the East Side league, the state district and the state regional) before losing in the state quarter-finals. Three years later, the team won the city championship and made it to the state semi-finals before losing.

From the day Sam got to Mumford until the day he retired, he made Mumford into an elite basketball program that held its own against the Pershings and Northwesterns of the public school league. The effect of that success was felt by everyone

in the Mumford community, from the players to the students, parents, teachers and neighborhood residents. condition; others came from Coach Taub pointing Sam practiced “tough at Billy Berris, Steve long distances, but everyone love” with his players Fishman and Larry was there to make sure he and the other students Moore at dinner a received a proper send-off at Mumford. He treatcouple of years ago from people whom he helped ed everyone the same, grow from teenagers into whether it was an All-State adults. All benefited from center like Larry Moore or a kid in his “tough love” in high school and gym class who couldn’t hit the ocean wanted his family to know how from the bridge of the ship. And much he was appreciated. that is one of the reasons why all the Sam was the last of an era and we Mumford alumni remembered him will not see his like again. The Lord over the years. giveth and the Lord taketh away, but Nothing speaks louder about while the Lord may have taken away Sam Taub and his bond with his his body, his soul and spirit will live former players than the fact that within all his former players for the more than 20 attended his funeral. rest of our lives. ■ Some were not in the best physical

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MRS. SHTERNA S. KALMANSON, 69, an emissary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe to Southern Ohio, passed away April 16, 2019. She suffered from an illness.

Mrs. Kalmanson was born in Paris and grew up in Montreal. Her father, Rabbi Heshel Ceitlin, was the spiritual leader of the Chabad community there, as well as a traveling mohel and shochet.

After her marriage to Rabbi Shalom B. Kalmanson, the couple was sent by the Rebbe on various assignments until they settled in Cincinnati, where they founded Chabad of Southern Ohio.

Mrs. Kalmanson is survived by her husband, Rabbi Shalom Ber Kalmanson; their children, Mrs. Chana Mangel of Blue Ash, Ohio, Rabbi Yosef Kalmanson of Mason, Ohio, Rabbi Mendy Kalmanson of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mrs. Menucha

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Majeski of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mrs. Devorah Pinson of Detroit, Rabbi Shneur Kalmanson of Chicago, Ill., Mrs. Shaina Levin of Postville, Iowa, Mrs. Chavi Schechter of New Orleans, La., Mrs. Mushky Kalmanson of Cincinnati; grandchildren and great-grandchildren; her mother, Mrs. Riva Ceitlin of Montreal; siblings, Mrs. Brocha Teitelbaum of Brooklyn, N.Y., Mrs. Zelda Yarmush of Montreal, Mrs. Esty Benshimon of Montreal, Rabbi Yossef Yitzchok Ceitlin of Toronto, Mrs. Devorah Leah Mishulovin of Los Angeles, Calif.

Mrs. Kalmanson was predeceased by her father, Rabbi Heshel Ceitlin and her brother, Rabbi Aaron Lazer Ceitlin of Tzfas, Israel.

Interment was in Brooklyn.

Contributions may be made to Chabad of Greater Downtown Detroit, 278 Mack Ave., Detroit, MI 48201, chabadinthed.com. Local arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

DR. LAWRENCE E. LEE, 82, of Birmingham, died April 17, 2019.

He is survived by his wife, Sylvia Lee; son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Howard and Vi Lee of Cross River, N.Y.; daughters and sons-in-law, Sandy and Sherwyn Labovitz of Birmingham, Margo and Ethan Lowenstein of Ann Arbor, Dr. Karen and Tony Raden of Evanston, Ill.; brother, Dr. Robert Lee of Bay City, Mich.; grandchildren, Alex Lee, Elijah Lee, Max Lee, Ruby Lowenstein, Jasmine Lowenstein, Joey Labovitz, Lily Labovitz, Theo Raden and Levi Raden.

Dr. Lee was the dear brother and brother-in-law of the late Dr. Martin, the late Sue Lee and the late Helen Lee. Contributions may be made to Michael J. Fox Foundation, Grand Central Station, P.O. Box 4777, New York, NY 10163-4777; Hospice of Michigan, 43097 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302; or to a charity of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice. Interment was held at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

JACK HERSCHEL SAFFER, 58, of West Bloomfield, died April 13, 2019.

He is survived by his sister and brotherin-law, Ellen and Eric Prevost; his canine buddy, Max; his entire JARC family.

Mr. Saffer was the beloved son of the late Frances and the late Marvin Saffer.

Interment was at Hebrew Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to JARC, 6735 Telegraph, Suite 100, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301, jarc.org; or Almost Home Animal Rescue, 25503 Clara Lane, Southfield, MI 48034, almosthomeanimals.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

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amily members working at the restaurant most times give true meaning to the domestic reality that means so much in the operation of a dining spot …

Various cultures have their own specialties, which have through the years meant so much to appreciative audiences who enjoy the true styles of their particular ethnic menu selections.

Such is why dining spots like Grape Leaves Restaurant in the Franklin Plaza, Northwestern Hwy., just north of 12 Mile, Southfield, are so popular … And so different from many other cultures … For instance, the grape leaf itself, offered by both Greek and Lebanese cuisine, among others, is prepared and served much differently in each culture’s presentation … with the use of different spices in varied recipes.

Those at Grape Leaves are rolled with meat and rice, or vegetarian, and use spices of their own creations … The fine Lebanese dishes are available amid a bevy of healthful dining selections.

Owner Mike Chalhoub is among those blessed with the on-premises assistance of his brother Ibrahem, sons Youssef and Mahdi, and wife, Lina.

Being his own executive chef, Mike, of course, spends a lot of time in the kitchen that sends out his dishes … These include the sea-farin’ delights that Grape Leaves has become highly noted for as well as the Lebanese fare, with entrees including rice or fries, soup or salad and house-made bread.

Seafood dishes like swordfish sautéed with mushrooms, five shrimp dishes, including a

shrimp scampi with onions, green and regular, olive oil, natural herbs and a hint of garlic, along with big favorites like the original creation by Mike called Chicken Shata, charbroiled breast topped with sautéed tomato, jalapeno, garlic and olive oil.

Being his own chef is a huge plus in itself and many times goes a long way in the goodness of ethnic preparations … Mike is highly noted for his ingenuity.

Time spent dining at Grape Leaves is worth the visits for authentic favorites and Mike’s own preparations … Grape Leaves hours are Monday to Fridays, 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturdays, noon-10 p.m., Sundays, 4-9 p.m.

MAIL DEPT. … “My wife and I were weekly dinner eaters at Roma’s for many years and miss it terribly. We are moving back to the Detroit area and were wondering if you knew any place that was like it?” …

Earl and Jean Caster.

(Roma Café on Riopelle is still there and in business … Just another name and owner … It is now named Amore de Roma … and owned by its former executive chef, Guy Pelino, who might have made those great dishes you remember.)

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all Me Bill: The William Davidson Story is a new documentary that will kick off the 2019 Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival on May 2 (See story on page 44). Son Ethan Davidson and his wife, Gretchen, were executive producers of this film that tells the story of William “Bill” Davidson, one of the Mike Smith most important Jewish Detroit Jewish News Foundation — as well as non-Jewish Archivist — entrepreneurs and philanthropists in Detroit history.

It has been 10 years since Davidson passed, so it is most appropriate we remember him in this issue of the JN. I wanted to do my part, but I will tell you, this was a tough piece to write.

On one hand, it was very easy in terms of research. Davidson was mentioned on nearly 1,300 pages in the William Davidson Digital Archive.

But, one the other hand, where do I begin? Simply stated, Bill Davidson was

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a legendary figure. He was one of those rare individuals who had a hand in shaping the modern state of Michigan and its primary industry as well as the modern city of Detroit and its Jewish community, and the state of Israel.

A Detroit native and graduate of the University of Michigan, Davidson also served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Upon his return, he earned his law degree from Wayne State University and began a long and immensely successful career in business.

As an entrepreneur, Davidson took over Guardian Industries, a glass manufacturer. He transformed the company into a hugely innovative global automotive supplier and, therefore, a major player in Detroit’s signature industry.

Davidson indirectly touched millions of lives in Metro Detroit when he became the owner of the Detroit Pistons. During his ownership, the team won NBA Championships in 1989, 1990 and 2004. And his Women’s National Basketball League team, the Detroit Shock, won four championships. (I could also mention his own-

ership of the Tampa Bay Lightning, a NHL team, but, as a die-hard, lifelong Detroit Red Wings fan, this would be hard for me to do). Because of his work in sports, Davidson was enshrined in the Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1986 and the NBA Hall of Fame in 2008.

More important, perhaps, was Davidson’s tremendous support for his fellow Jews and Jewish communities in Michigan, Israel and America. The list of his contributions is huge. To name just the tip of the iceberg, Davidson funded numerous education programs including the William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education at the Jewish Theological Center, the Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower at the Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, Israel, and the Davidson Center, Jerusalem Archaeological Park, near the Western Wall.

His legacy also lives on in the good works of the William Davidson Foundation. Indeed, I directly benefit from Davidson’s legacy every day.

To write this column, and all of my

“Looking Back” columns, my research is conducted within the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History. Because of generous support from the William Davidson Foundation to the Detroit Jewish News Foundation, the archive is one of the leading online, digital newspaper archives in America. It is now preserved forever at the University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library.

Maybe Bill Davidson wouldn’t really care that the archive was named after him. It seems likely he would be too busy planning his next philanthropic endeavor. But, at the JN and the Jewish News Foundation, we think about him often and are grateful he was a Detroiter.

If you would like to know more about William “Bill” Davidson, see his 272page book from the pages of the JN, along with biographies of other great Jewish Detroiters at djnfoundation.org/ biographies. ■ Want to learn more? Go to the DJN Foundation archives, available free at djnfoundation.org.

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