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Jews in the D Bringing People Together 12 The Coalition for Black and Jewish Unity shares how their communities are facing the COVID-19 crisis.

Yad Ezra Moves to Deliveries-Only 13 Thanks to army of volunteers, all clients will still be served.

‘More than a Statistic:’ Losing a Loved One During COVID-19 14 Funeral homes and family members move through unfamiliar territories after losing a loved one during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Shabbat starts: Friday, May 1, 8:15 p.m.

Shabbat ends: Saturday, May 2, 9:21 p.m.

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Remembering Those Who Came Before 28 Simon Sleutelberg’s 100th birthday celebration.

A DIY Thanksgiving Wedding 30 West Bloomfield man officiates his own mother’s nuptials during the holiday.

Arts&Life Global Films for a Global Town 35 The Film Lab makes a home in the multicultural riches of Hamtramck.

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When Michael Met Renea 24 Three decades, a couple of marriages and an out-of-state job couldn’t stop this pair from finally falling in love.

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gainst my better judgment, I’m going to share with all of you what I looked like in high school. Look at that handsome young 2007 shayne punim and his crooked haircut.

Online right now, lots of folks are reposting pictures from their younger days, Andrew Lapin hanging out with cool clothes and cool haircuts, as a sign of solidarity for all the housebound students this year who can’t have proms or graduation ceremonies because of COVID-19. But I ask you, were they in klezmer bands? I think not.

OK. Why would I subject myself to this? Well, this came from the Jewish News, many years before I would find myself in charge of it. Specifically, this was the JN’s annual “Cap & Gown” issue, in which, for the last 22 years, proud parents across the

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Detroit area have had the opportunity to show off their child’s accomplishments as they graduate high school and prepare for their next adventure.

And Cap & Gown is coming up again this year. Not even the COVID-provoked school closures will stop its May 28 publication date. So long as our local high school seniors are still graduating (and they are), the JN will provide a space for their parents, grandparents, schools, congregations and piano teachers to brag about them. It’s our most popular issue of the year, and with good reason.

Participating in the issue

will, in turn, preserve the graduate’s smiling face forever in the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History, supported by the Detroit Jewish News Foundation. Years from now, you, too, can go digging through old digital copies of JN and remember all those great scholarships, sports teams and school pictures.

The deadline for submitting your free listing, which includes a photo and up to 40 words for all graduating seniors, is May 8 (there’s a form on our website).

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(email salessupport@renmedia. us). I hope you’ll take the time to submit. Without any physical ceremonies or gatherings this spring, Cap & Gown is the nextbest thing we have to a graduation party.

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What if Jewish Journalism Disappears?

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ust hours before the seder, British Jews heard the shocking news that the nation’s leading nationalcirculation Jewish newspapers, the Jewish Chronicle and the Jewish News, were being liquidated.

The Kessler Foundation, Jonathan D. which owns both Sarna papers, had run out of money.

When local advertising dried

up because of the coronavirus, “voluntary liquidation” became the only alternative.

So, for the first time since 1841, Anglo Jewry was confronted with the thought of no weekly Jewish newspaper to tie the community together.

For those in London who have received their Jewish newspaper once a week for as long as they can remember, it was as if the New York Times suddenly ceased operations.

Thankfully, the Jewish News

has since been “saved” by a donor.

The demise of England’s Jewish Chronicle comes on the heels of the announcement that Canada’s most significant Jewish newspaper, the Canadian Jewish News, has likewise shut its doors.

“Already struggling, we are not able to sustain the enterprise in an environment of almost complete economic shutdown,” the newspaper’s president, Elizabeth Wolfe, wrote in a final letter to readers. “We too have

become a victim of COVID-19.”

These closures could hardly have come at a worse time. With Jewish communal life around the world upended, newspapers like the Canadian Jewish News expected to play a role, as Wolfe put it, “to inform, console and distract our readers as we all isolate at home, worried about our families, our friends, our medical caregivers, all those risking their lives to provide essential services, our businesses and livelihood, our community, continued on page 6 APRIL 30 • 2020

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No Time to Be Cautious Jill Gutmann deserves credit for taking on a lot in one article (“Jewish Ethics in Medicine,” April 9, page 6), but I fear that her cautious — even dismissive — tone about chloroquine followed by a general discussion of Jewish ethics and experimental treatments do not adequately consider patients who want access to chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine during the pandemic.

Yes, medical researchers want randomized, prospective, double-blind clinical trials but, in fact, the overwhelming majority of COVID-19 patients will not be in any clinical trial (and half of those in a study typically receive a sugar pill “placebo”).

According to the FDA, most

current U.S. trials consider prevention for those exposed, not people who actually have COVID-19. For the seriously ill, there is no approved treatment whatsoever. Should a bioethicist, a physician or the government say, in effect, “No clinical trial?

Sorry, you’re on your own?”

The FDA recognized this unacceptable state of affairs, decided “it is reasonable to believe” chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine “may be effective” and on March 28 issued an Emergency Use Authorization for both drugs.

We may not know everything about the two drugs, but we know doctors in the trenches think they may work, and they have nothing else. The pandemic means there’s no time to waste.

Don’t worry about clinical trials, we’ll figure out later if they work.

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During this time of the pandemic, we have expanded to also provide weekend meals.

NCJW | MI is partnering with Jewish Family Service, JHelp of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and Area Agency on Aging 1B to reach out to those who have previously not been homebound nor received meals from our

program. This partnership has enabled us to reach out to many in need.

The phrase “it takes a village” is true for this program.

Together with the efforts of the agencies and our many dedicated volunteers and staff, we have met a need. We are very thankful to those who have partnered with us and honored to work together to provide this help. To learn more about our program, visit ncjwmi.org. To obtain meals delivered to your home, call Jhelp at 1-833-44-JHELP (54357). Financial need is not required, but subsidy is available if needed.

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our country, our world.”

That, of course, is what a responsible Jewish newspaper should do amid a crisis such as this. Now, Jews in Canada will be on their own for the remainder of the crisis, without a communal news source to depend upon.

Unless we move quickly, Jews in the United States will suffer this same fate, and Jewish newspapers across the country will disappear. The Jewish Week in New York has already issued a special appeal for financial support to its readers. Other local U.S. Jewish newspapers are in dire straits, too. With businesses closed and Jewish events around the country canceled and therefore not advertised, more and more American Jewish newspapers find themselves without the basic funds necessary to sustain the journalistic enterprise.

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What does it mean when Jewish journalism dies? Since their establishment in the first half of the 19th century, Jewish newspapers in the United States have helped to shape community, tied far-flung Jews together and kept them informed. Newspapers have also preserved the “first draft” of our communal history. Want to know, for example, how America’s Jews handled past epidemics? There is only one source: the American Jewish press.

Without a reliable press, our community’s past — the records of its achievements and mistakes, its milestones and its missteps — will inevitably disappear. So too will our broad sense of what a Jewish community is. Absent a responsible Jewish press, the multiplicity of interests, views and commitments that

characterize vibrant Jewish communities will find no common outlet. Instead, groups of like-thinking Jews will retreat into their own narrow silos, impervious to all who disagree with them.

A good Jewish newspaper, print or digital, prevents any of this from happening. It serves an essential function in defining, maintaining, educating and promoting community. It ties organizations and individuals together and keeps members informed about local news, as well as news of broader impact. An effective newspaper seeks to represent all parts of the community, helping to acquaint different neighborhoods, generations, denominations, movements, etc., about one another. When divisive issues arise, the newspaper publishes various responsible points

of view. When disasters like the coronavirus strike, the newspaper works to unite the community, providing information, guidance, sympathy and reflection.

The demise of the London Jewish Chronicle and the Canadian Jewish News should serve as a wake-up call for Jewish leaders managing the crisis of COVID19. In addition to the terrible loss of life, the psychic toll on individuals and families, and the economic hardship befalling those suddenly without work, we also face a basic challenge to Jewish community itself.

If Jewish journalism disappears, can the Jewish community as we know it be sustained?

Jonathan D. Sarna is university professor and the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University. Reprinted with permission from The Forward.

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After my mom’s passing, my father would visit her grave almost daily at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. It was a routine of his that he had not broken until this past January, when he took a horrific fall on ice, breaking his arm in two places, and then had a heart attack right before the surgery to repair his broken bones.

I had my own routine of visiting my mom at the cemetery until last month when the cemetery closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Last week, I called Machpelah to inquire when they thought they may re-open, so I could continue visiting my mom’s grave and take my dad with me, as he missed his daily visits terribly. I spoke with Kim Saville, who couldn’t have been more understanding, sympathetic and kind.

Ms. Saville explained they did not have a date yet to reopen to the public, and she then listened to me tell her about my dad and his daily visits to his wife’s grave. All of a sudden, Ms. Saville excitedly said, “Oh! I know your dad! He comes daily to see your

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out of their way to do this, and I graciously accepted her kind offer.

A few hours later I received a phone call from my dad. He explained that someone came to his door and handed him a card and an 8 by 10-inch photo of Mom’s grave site! He couldn’t believe it. He was so touched by this gesture, as was I. I told him about my conversation with Ms. Saville earlier that day, and he said, “Yes, she said she spoke with you and just wanted to drop off the card and photo personally.” I had tears in my eyes as my dad was describing this to me. (He was choked up, too.)

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Protests Were Irresponsible Freedom of speech is one of our country’s greatest assets.

As a resident of Michigan, I wasn’t surprised by the “Free the State” protest April 15.

But I was appalled by what I saw occurring during the conservative demonstrators’ “Operation Gridlock.”

Hundreds of opponents of Michigan’s statewide “Stay Home, Stay Safe” executive order protested arm-in-arm.

They were filmed congregating in tight groups and handing out candy to children with bare hands. Few of them wore protective masks and even fewer abided by the 6-foot social distancing rule. Nazi symbols and other racially defamatory signs and messages were openly displayed. Some even brandished weapons like semiautomatic rifles. The long caravan obstructed the main intersection of a level 1 trauma center, blocking ambulances and health care workers from entering.

What prompted Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s strong position was the perilous situation in the state. The governor’s primary responsibility is to keep citizens safe and protect human lives. She is dealing with a difficult-to-control pandemic. By limiting outdoor activities, she attempted to curb the spread of the virus.

The state has been disproportionally devastated by the coronavirus. As of April 20, Michigan had the fourth highest number of confirmed cases, even though it ranks 10th in U.S. population. It had exceeded 31,000 confirmed cases and had accumulated more than 2,300 deaths. Its death rate per capita is one of the highest, and there have not been a great number of tests performed.

Perhaps the most infuriating aspect of the protest was when the president said, “They seem to be very responsible people to me,” and tweeted “Liberate Michigan.” These responses encourage Charlottesville-like behavior. Valid scientific, medical and public health advice should be our focus instead. By encouraging people to come out prematurely, he is potentially putting the entire state in danger.

If the demonstrators were responsible, they would have abided by the governor’s statewide edict that was intended to protect everyone.

If anything, they acted irresponsibly by disregarding the mitigation rules! By congregating in a close-knit mass, theoretically they were contaminating each other — and perpetuating the pandemic.

The way the protest was carried out endangered lives because this is precisely how COVID-19 spreads. Their actions will only extend the time until all of us can safely return to work.

My heart goes out to the many small business owners who have lost everything and may never recover. And what about the millions of jobless workers? I can appreciate that everyone wants to return to work so that our economy can be restarted. But if you become ill or die, you can’t help your family.

I want the president to be successful. But to achieve that outcome safely, we need to unify the nation. There should be adequate testing for the virus, and we must listen to and follow the prudent advice of the experts.

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here is not one person whose life hasn’t been affected by the COVID19 pandemic. Whether directly or indirectly, the virus has touched the old and young, black and white, and male and female. It has been blind to boundaries.

While many have lived with fear, anxiety and sadness during these historic weeks, they also have lived with beauty, kindness and understanding. Young men and women have gone to the grocery store for elderly family members and neighbors, many have donated food and supplies to medical facilities and young children have drawn beautiful pictures with chalk on their driveways for people walking and driving by to enjoy.

Sadly, crises bring people together.

Several weeks ago, upon learning that schools and businesses were closed and many events canceled, staff at the Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC (JCRC/ AJC) knew immediately they needed to create opportunities for people to come together as one, both within and outside of the Jewish community.

Last month, the Coalition for Black and Jewish Unity, which is an initiative of JCRC/ AJC and the Council of Baptist Pastors of Detroit and Vicinity, hosted “An Imam, a Pastor and Rabbi Enter Zoom: How our communities are facing the coronavirus crisis.”

The event featured JCRC/ AJC Executive Director Rabbi Asher Lopatin; Bishop Glenn Plummer, Bishop of Israel for the Church of God in Christ; and Imam Mohamed Almasmari of the Muslim Lopatin Unity Center. It was moderated

by Rabbi Marla Hornsten of Temple Israel.

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The clergy shared how their communities have been dealing with the crisis and what could be learned from it.

For Plummer, who has sadly lost colleagues and parishioners to the virus, the discussion illustrated for him how we are all facing the crisis together.

“It is fascinating to me that while all our communities, the Jewish, Muslim and Christians, have differences and divisions, we’re all in the same place right now,” Plummer said. “We had this call where … we were all Plummer in our homes, not at our distinctive houses of worship, and found ourselves in agreement. For me, that was a new and different place.”

Lopatin added, “It is a blessing that, even in the sadness and devastation of this pandemic, we can still find ways — new, powerful ways — of connecting and deepening relationships between the Jewish and broader communities, which give us all strength and hope.”

Proud of their strong relationship with the local Muslim community, JCRC/AJC recently launched the local council of the Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council (MJAC), convened by AJC and the Islamic Society of North America in several cities throughout the country. Local members met over Zoom to discuss what the group could do to help those most affected by COVID-19.

During the meeting, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Hadidi, a committee member and chair of the Michigan Muslim Community Council (MMCC), shared firsthand what he had seen while workAl-Hadidi

ing in the ICU at Ascension MacombOakland Hospital. Within hours of the virus arriving in Michigan, he began seeing the desperation on the faces of doctors and nurses as they were forced to quickly ration supplies, wear inadequate gear and skip meals due to lack of time and room in the cafeteria. He immediately began an effort to collect donations to buy meals to send to different hospitals throughout the region.

After hearing Al-Hadidi’s stories, which unfortunately have become all too common throughout the country, the members of MJAC immediately committed to help by sending kosher and halal meals to front-line health care providers of all backgrounds.

“While millions of masks will be coming in a few weeks, essential workers need the moral support now. This is our way of showing appreciation to those taking the risk,” Al-Hadidi said.

Added Lopatin, “Together, we are united in our commitment to help doctors and health care providers in any way possible.

This is what our communities coming together is all about.”

It also has been vital that the local Jewish community come together. Last month, JCRC/AJC, rabbis and cantors from seven Metropolitan Detroit Reform, Conservative and Orthodox congregations led a community-wide Havdalah on Zoom.

Approximately 500 people on 220 screens took part.

To learn about upcoming programs and learning opportunities offered by JCRC/AJC and its partners, visit www.facebook.com/JCRCAJC. Lauren Garfield-Herrin is assistant director of the JCRC/AJC.

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JCRC/AJC and its partners delivered meals to frontline workers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

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Yad Ezra Moves to Deliveries Only Thanks to army of volunteers, all clients will still be served.

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‘More Than Just Statistics’: Losing a Loved One During COVID-19 Funeral homes and family members move through unfamiliar territories after losing a loved one during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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uring this unprecedented time, funeral homes and families of those who have lost loved ones to the coronavirus are searching for ways to navigate unfamiliar ways of mourning. While private graveside services and streamed online services are occurring, families still are searching for that fulfilled sense of honoring and memorializing their loved ones.

Jonathan Dorfman, co-owner of the Dorfman Chapel in Farmington Hills, told the Jewish News that around 70% of funerals in the past month have been COVID related.

“The hard part right now is just families not being allowed to be there with their family members and not being able to celebrate their lives like they normally would,” Dorfman said. “Everything is being limited to 10 people or fewer, so it is just a difficult time emotionally for families and for us, too.”

Dorfman and the staff are making sure they are available to honor the wishes of families they are working with.

“Trying to help families has been very difficult for us. We are trying to livestream all services so families can have others out of state watch the service,” Dorfman said.

“One of the options a lot of people have talked about is doing something at a later date, maybe some type of public memorial service, or we have been talking about doing Zoom shivahs right now so they can still help celebrate their life in a way that works right now.”

Jacquelyn Bell lost her mother, JoAnn Bell, 73, on March 30 due to the coronavirus. The family had a private family graveside service officiated by Rabbi Tamara Kolton on April 2. JoAnn was a beloved wife of 51 years to Marshall Bell, mother of

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JoAnn Bell was living in TowneHall Place, an assisted living facility in West Bloomfield, because she was battling multiple sclerosis. On March 27, she was admitted to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Pontiac and diagnosed with double pneumonia.

“The hardest part for us, and I believe for her, too, was knowing she was all alone there,” Jacquelyn Bell said. “Usually my dad, my brother and I would go visit constantly, but instead we had to just receive updates from the doctors and nurses. On March 28, her test came back positive for COVID-19.”

Each day her mother’s progression worsened, before she passed away on March 30.

Due to the gathering restrictions, the family had to have a private family graveside service with only immediate family there. They streamed the funeral online so other family and friends could watch it.

“In the Jewish community, especially, you have this funeral where you can show your respect to the family and can see your friends, and I would have been able to be close to her and this was just devastating

trying to make funeral arrangements,” Bell said. “We could only have 10 people at the graveside service, and we all had to social distance ourselves from each other. We couldn’t even comfort each other and truly be there for one another.”

However, Bell is grateful for the Ira Kaufman Chapel and Rabbi Kolton for providing as much comfort as they could, given the circumstances. Besides the live-stream service, they had family and friends send in emails and messages about the memories they once shared with her mother.

“Whenever anyone thinks of my mom, they just think of her big smile. She just had this huge smile and would be so happy whenever anyone would come visit her,” Bell said. “This just feels like a fresh, open wound because I don’t feel like we were able to have the proper closure and memorialize her the way it should have been.”

David Techner of the Ira Kaufman Chapel in Southfield told the JN that roughly 20-25 funerals they have overseen in the past 5 weeks have been related to COVID19. However, that number could be higher.

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LFT consists of seven interactive sessions once a month on Sundays beginning in Fall 2020. Topics covered will include Israel’s history as well as the current Israeli political and cultural landscape, challenges and opportunities facing global Jewry, and how to engage in thoughtful advocacy on campus and beyond.

In addition to Detroit-based sessions, LFT students will be invited to participate in AJC’s LFT Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C., in the Spring of 2021. They will join LFT students from around the country to meet with government officials, policy experts and thought leaders as well as take part in advocacy opportunities on Capitol Hill. The expense of this trip is fully covered through the LFT program.

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The Jacob family: Beverly, father Marvin, Wendy, Jody and Linda.

before they passed, it would not be listed on the death certificate.

“It is never easy losing a parent. Several people have lost both parents to the COVID virus and it is very painful for people,” Techner said. “What further makes it difficult is that all of our traditional norms are pretty much out the window. I think the hardest thing for me when I am helping a family is when I can’t give them something they had for generations, such as service at the chapel, at graveside and a shivah. All of that is pretty much gone.”

While this is unprecedented for everyone, including the staff at the funeral homes, Techner understands the difficulty of losing any family member and is striving to provide as much comfort as they can to families.

Rick Davis also lost his mother, Gladys Davis, 90, to the coronavirus on March 21. She resided at All Seasons of West Bloomfield.

“At the time, this was so new to us. We didn’t get the privilege of a shivah and just met as an immediate family,” Davis said.

“The tragedy of my mom’s death wasn’t that she died because of COVID, it's because she died during it.”

The whole mourning and grieving process was interrupted and completely altered for Davis and his family. They are hoping to have a celebration of his mother’s life down the road, once this has subsided.

“Right now, the world has a view that these deaths are just statistics, but this is much more than just statistics,” Davis said.

“We didn’t get the chance to grieve. We are being denied because of this separation.”

Davis remembers his mother as someone who could make friends anywhere she went. He believes if they would have been able to have a proper funeral for her, there would have been more than 100 people there.

“She truly collected friends, and to the world, she was this wonderfully connected, loving, giving [person] and life of the party,” Davis said. “She engaged with everyone and truly made everyone feel great.”

On April 9, Linda Jacob lost her father, Marvin Talan, 93, to the coronavirus.

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He was a resident at All Seasons of West Bloomfield and was the husband of 69 years to his wife Beverly, a father to three girls, a grandfather and a great-grandfather.

Jacob’s mother, Beverly, 90, also contracted the virus but is recovering.

“Our mourning process has been very difficult. One because of the impact of the virus and not being able to mourn in our traditional ways, and it also took away the opportunity to be with family and friends,” Jacob said. “Not being able to see my mom and hug her and kiss her has been very difficult. This whole process has been just horrific.”

Jacob and the rest of her family were unable to be with their father at the time of his passing. It was not the closure that they were hoping for and being at the cemetery alone and keeping their distance from one

another was not easy for anyone.

“We Zoomed the funeral to our family and friends who couldn’t be there with us,” Jacob said. “The virus had taken away our way of being able to reminisce and have people around us to celebrate his life. We did what we could for now, and we will make it right when it is right in the world to do so.”

Jacob remembers her father as someone who took pride in his family. He made sure that his family was taken care of and was always there for each and every one of them.

“He was always warm, had a positive outlook and everyone loved him,” Jacob said.

“It didn’t matter who we talked to; everyone knew that we were Marv Talan’s daughters.

He was such a people person and was so giving. We love him.”

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n April 26, 2020, Marvin Kozlowski celebrated his 100th birthday.

Given the circumstances, he was surrounded by his family in a less conventional way — via video conference. His wife, Edith; children, Jay (the late Linda) (Renee), Ruthie and Joe (Jill); grandchildren, Rachel, Anna (Bryan), David, Julia, Max and Ben; and great-grandchild, Elliot, look forward to putting on a true party for Marvin very soon. A resident of West Bloomfield, Marvin has packed a ton of life into his 100 years. After surviving the Holocaust, he and Edith reconnected in the States and were married in 1950. Together, they created a beautiful family and instilled their values in its members. The family looks forward to celebrating more simchahs together.

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uring these unusual times, we have a mitzvah to announce.

Michael Sevy, son of Cathy and Robert Beau Sevy of West Bloomfield, and Estie Mizrachi, daughter of Caroline and Simon Mizrachi of Boca Raton, Fla., were married on March 22, 2020.

They were married on the terrace at B’nai Torah Congregation with social distancing being observed. The ecstatic couple reside and work in Miami, Fla.

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he intermediate days of Passover were filled with happiness as we celebrated our freedom and redemption and we commemorated our new lives post slavery. Our beautiful tradition teaches that one’s “cup should overflow.” So it is with immense gratitude, excitement and pure happiness that we share that our cup is indeed overflowing with joy and extraordinary enthusiasm. Esther Babyov and Hy Safran are blessed to announce that they are engaged to be married.

The kallah (bride) is the daughter of Rabbi Sander and Sarah Babayov.

The chattan (groom) is the son of Diane Steinman and Jim Safran.

The couple intend to celebrate their marriage this summer and will then reside together in Greater Detroit as active members of our Jewish community.

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Spirit torah portion

What Is Holiness?

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n this week’s story, we discern special “priestly” offering to see two ideological positions. whose offering would be acceptBoth were antithetical to able to God. The Divine decision everything Moses stood for. was not long in coming: “A fire Keep these two things in came down from God and it mind:. First, the commandconsumed the men who were ment to wear ritual fringes on offering the incense,” including four-cornered garments (tzitzit), Korach himself. serves as an introduction to and God wants us to establish a eventual rebuttal of the nation-state and to take movements that Korach, responsibility to perfect an and Datan and Aviram imperfect world, with all represent. the challenges that entails.

Secondly, Moses’ This is the message of the announcement that the ritual fringes. When we Rabbi Shlomo gaze upon them, we must entire generation, except Riskin for Joshua and Caleb, was remember our true miscondemned to die in the sion: to enter history, to Parshat desert made the Hebrews Acharey Mot/ risk impurity by taking up ripe for rebellion. the challenges of the real Kedoshim: Leviticus Korach uses the arguworld and to assume our 16:1-20:27; responsibility to become a ment of “equality in holiAmos 9:7-15. ness” against Moses and “sacred nation and kingAaron: “Why must you set dom of priest-teachers” to yourselves up to be on a the world. higher plane than the congregaDatan and Aviram had a tion of the Lord?” different agenda. They never Korach rejects the unique wanted to leave Egypt in the first status of Aaron and his sons place; but unlike Korach, the as Kohanim. He would also last thing they want is to remain deny any distinction in holiness behind in the desert. They between different lands, refusing would love to assimilate. They to recognize the special sanctity believe that this desert fiasco jusof the Land of Israel. tifies their earlier opposition.

Korach rejects the priesthood They, too, are punished by and the idea that the entire “des- God, who causes the earth for ert-generation” must be punwhich their materialistic spirits ished for their refusal to conquer yearned so mightily to swallow the Land of Israel. Korach’s view: them up alive. Because of their These are false claims instituted passion for physical pleasures,

by Moses rather than reflections they never learn to look properly of the true will and word of God. upon the ritual fringes. They saw Korach justifies the Israelites’ neither the royal blue of their desire to remain in the desert majestic ancestry nor the sapprecisely because of the desert’s phire blue of the Divine presence holiness. in the world summoning us to Moses is willing to call His service.

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hen Renea Shulman met Michael Pearl during college in the mid1980s, he was dating her then-best friend. They became friends and the group would get together sometimes. But after college, they lost track of each other.

The second time they met, Michael was married. The time after that, Renea had gotten married.

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Michael accepted a position as team security with the Cleveland Cavaliers basketball team, which required him to move to Cleveland and travel with the team throughout the season. “The move actually made us get more serious,” Renea says.

Three years later, the position in Cleveland ended and Michael returned to work in Detroit — and moved in with

CLOCKWISE: “He’s so sweet,” Renea says. “He brings me Starbucks at work. He takes care of me. And I take care of him.”

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Renea and the boys.

After 30 years of friendship, the couple wed on Sept. 1 in a small ceremony at Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield, officiated by Rabbis Michael Moskowitz and Daniel Schwartz and Cantor Penny Steyer.

“Every person who was there were people who are very important to us,” Michael says. “Every single guest was seated on the bimah — we didn’t utilize the pews at all. One friend did the cake; another friend took the photos.”

Adds Renea, “When we started talking about the people who meant the most to us, it was really hard to cut down the guest list, but we wanted it to be intimate.”

Most importantly, the wedding was a marriage of families — and the couple wanted each family member to know that. “Even the ring I selected is silver braided with gold,” Michael says. “We are intertwining two families together and I wanted that symbolized in my ring.

“My daughter, Abigail, and her son, Caiden, walked down the aisle with me,” he says. “Renea’s boys walked her down the aisle. Caiden carried the temple’s Kolin Ring — a ring from the former Czechoslovakia that survived the Holocaust — which he handed to Max, who handed it to Ari, and so on. We had all under the bimah with us, with each of our mother’s seated there as well. It was about being inclusive.” The ceremony was followed by a small reception in the synagogue foyer.

When it came to Renea’s name, the couple discussed it with the boys.

“They wanted me to have Michael’s last name, Pearl, and they were OK with having a different last name than me, their given last name,” Renea says. “Michael even spoke to the boys before he proposed, asking for their permission and blessing.”

Which they gave wholeheartedly.

“It was not just our wedding,” Michael says. “It was a blending of the whole family.” ✽

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CLOCKWISE TOP: “My dad always liked Michael,” Renea says. “When my dad was in rehab, right before he passed — he was in and out of it all day. Michael said to him, ‘I want you to know that you don’t have to worry about Renea and the boys.’ And my dad said, clear as a bell, ‘I know you will.’ It’s so special that it ended up this way.” The couple were wrapped in Renea’s father’s tallis during the ceremony. “When we were wrapped in his tallis, we had him with us,” Michael says. The ceremony took place under Michael’s tallis, which covered the chuppah. “I found my dress on the clearance section at David’s Bridal!” Renea says. “It cost more to alter it. It’s actually a skirt and top — it says ‘I’m the bride’ without screaming it.” The whole fam. From left: Ari, Max, Renea, Michael, Caiden and Abigail.

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Simon Sleutelberg’s 100th birthday celebration.

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y extended family gathered at my and Robert’s home to celebrate my dad Simon Sleutelberg’s 100th birthday. Throughout my life, my dad would remember and mention every relative’s birthday. He would say: “Today would have been Opa’s 93rd birthday,” or “Today would have been Oma’s 109th birthday.”

Though he died 15 years ago, we gathered on his 100th birthday on Nov. 23 to eat his favorite foods, reminisce about his life, tell stories and watch two videos, one recorded by Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation project in which Dad shared his life story, including his escape to America. The other video was filmed during our 1995 three-generation family trip to the Netherlands, where Rabbi Arnie Dad shared what his life was like in Appingedam.

Sleutelberg He stood in front of what had been his kosher meat market and talked about what it was like growing up in a small Dutch town. We went in what was the synagogue (now an event space) in which he celebrated his bar mitzvah in 1932. From the women’s balcony, his grandchildren, Ariel and Hannah (then 8 and 3), sang songs and blessings Ariel learned at Hillel Day School. We went to the Jewish cemetery where he talked about our relatives who were buried there as well as the dozens of aunts, uncles, cousins and his grandpar-

The Sleutelberg family gathered to mark their late father’s 100th birthday.

The family watched a video of Simon’s interview with the Shoah Foundation.

ents who were murdered by the Nazis. We stood on the bridge from which, as a teenager, he painted a canal scene which hung in our home in Hudson and now graces our Lake Orion home.

Having escaped the Netherlands on the last ship out of Rotterdam Harbor, Dad arrived in New York with his parents and younger brother.

They made their way to Michigan where they had a distant relative. He and his parents started Meyer’s Department Store in Hudson, a town with no other Jews, where they hid their religious identity in case Hitler’s decrees ever made their way to these shores. After the war they learned of the murder of nearly all their relatives.

Dad was set up as a pen pal with a hidden child survivor, Edith Hes, who still lived in the Netherlands. They married in 1954 and started a family in Hudson. Over the years, my parents felt more comfortable disclosing our Jewish heritage and became proud to represent the Jewish world in this small rural town. They joined the synagogue in Jackson, Michigan, where our whole family became pillars of the congregation, each in our own way.

My sister Ester became the first dentist to have graduated from Hudson High School, and I became the first rabbi to have done so.

On the occasion of Dad’s 100th birthday, the Hudson Post-Gazette newspaper published a front-page op-ed that stated: “Simon and Edith Sleutelberg were kind, thoughtful and giving people. Simon — and the rest of the Sleutelberg family — taught us a lot. In a gentle, unassuming way, Simon and his family exemplified respect for the community they became a part of, and the community returned that respect. The Sleutelbergs reminded us, by their mere presence here, that differences make us strong. The integrity with which they lived their lives is a shining example for all of us.”

Dad’s 100th birthday was a real celebration of his life and the lasting impact he has had on each of us. We look forward to my mom’s 100th in 2027. ✽ Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg served as spiritual leader at Congregation Shir Tikvah in Troy for 28 years.

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“We had the honeymoon before the wedding,” said Rosen, the executive director of development for Jewish Senior Life.

“We were initially thinking of getting married in the spring, and then when the kids were over, we thought, ‘Why not?

Let’s do it on Thanksgiving and surprise our friends and family.’”

With less than two weeks to go before the nuptials, everyone went into stealth planning mode. Rosen’s two children and their spouses and Nickelhoff ’s three children had their assignments. Zak would write the ceremony and Rosen and Nickelhoff would write their vows. It was decided that Rosen’s three grandchildren, ages 9, 6 and 2 at the time, would be told at the last minute so as not to accidentally leak the news.

“The biggest challenge was getting my daughter a flight in from Portland at the last minute for the busy holiday weekend,” said Nickelhoff, an employment and labor attorney. “This was the first time that all of our kids were in the same place.”

Rosen added, “It was a very special bonding for our two families.”

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ive years ago, Zak Rosen went online to the Universal Life Church website and became an ordained minister for $29.99.

With his instant credentials in hand, Rosen officiated his best friend’s wedding.

Since then, Rosen has performed six Jewish and nondenominational weddings, including the surprise wedding of his mom, Jo Strausz Rosen, to Andy Nickelhoff.

It was 10 days before Thanksgiving 2019, and Zak,

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his wife, Shira Heisler, and their daughter, Noa, were visiting Rosen and Nickelhoff. Always the consummate, organized hostess, Rosen had emailed the 40 guests their Thanksgiving invitation and assigned menu items six weeks prior. With the Thanksgiving plans well under way, the conversation then turned to possible wedding dates for Rosen and Nickelhoff, who had gotten engaged in Florence, Italy, in October after three years of dating and finding each other

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No one had any idea.

They were caught completely off-guard.

— ZAK ROSEN “Welcome, everyone, to Thanksgiving,” Zak, the director of podcasts for Graham Media Group, announced. “If you can take a seat, we’ll be having a wedding in five minutes.”

“No one had any idea,” Zak recalled. “They were caught completely off-guard.”

The guests were shocked and excited.

“One person asked, ‘Does Jo know?’ It was pretty funny,” Nickelhoff said.

Rosen, Nickelhoff and the kids and grandkids then left the room to change into their wedding attire. The guests pushed couches and chairs together in the family room. The armoire served as their makeshift chuppah, adorned with white roses.

The two granddaughters wore matching red lace dresses that Rosen and Nickelhoff bought in Italy the month before in anticipation of the future wedding. Nickelhoff wore a suit with a boutonniere, and Rosen wore a long Japanese kimono with a skinny skirt and silver boots.

After a day of cooking and some last-minute meditation, Rosen’s goal was to be comfortable and “just be us.”

“She looked ravishing,” Nickelhoff said adoringly.

The ceremony was comfortable and personalized as well. Zak had emailed a series of questions in advance to the bride and groom.

Along with the Jewish traditional Sheva Brachot and breaking of the glass, Zak added special touches, including a wedding parody and group sing-a-long that he and his sister, Lindsey Maddin, wrote to the Beatles’ tune of “In My Life.”

“I was so honored that my mom asked me to conduct their ceremony; it’s something that I never would have expected,” Zak said. “It was very surreal, officiating my mother’s wedding in the house that I grew up in, surrounded by the people who helped raise me. It was very emotional, combined with the nerves of being the officiant and facilitating the event.”

According to Rosen and Nickelhoff, the wedding had it all — minus the hora. it was a little too crowded in the family room for that.

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H Global Films for a Global Town The Film Lab makes a home in the multicultural riches of Hamtramck.

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amtramck, the 2-square-mile city bordering the General Motors plant near the center of Detroit, is known to many as a historic Polish enclave, an epicenter of “Paczki Day” and — during festivals — a parking headache. But those who don’t dig deeper are missing out: not just on simpler parking, but on countless other jewels, too.

Among the newest is the Film Lab, which opened October 2019 in a former Polish Legion of American Veterans hall on Holbrook Avenue. It’s a joint project of Josh Gardner, a Jewish Washington, D.C., transplant with a hand in film programming since age 19, and Lara Sfire, a filmmaker and native Detroiter who returned to the area after years on New York sets.

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microcinema features a full bar and food pop-ups complementing what’s onscreen. Lacking proper street signage, it’s easy to miss despite its ornate, red brick façade (the building dates back to 1925). But with a special focus on world cinema, the programming centers on work unlikely to play elsewhere around Detroit.

Gardner sees signs that the pair are successfully growing an audience.

“The number of people who come where it’s their first time seems to be a lot. It’s still new, so that gives me hope that we haven’t tapped out with the audience yet,” he said. “I think we’ve reached the core, art-cinema kids [who] know this place exists. But I think there are still a lot of people who would be interested, who haven’t heard about it yet for whatever reason.”

The Film Lab’s selections, including Georgian comingof-age LGBT drama And Then We Danced and Chinese neonoir thriller The Wild Goose Lake, reflect Gardner and Sfire’s broad aspirations to build a community around offbeat, sometimes bawdy global filmmaking.

A FILM COMMUNITY WITH JEWISH ROOTS Gardner, who’s 33, grew up in a Conservative Jewish home and cut his teeth working at the Washington Jewish Film Festival (WJFF). That was also where he first experienced the thrill of programming movies with a particular culture and audience in mind.

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“That really resonated with them.”

They enjoyed Israeli cinema, too. Yet the festival he came to coordinate was often the only nearby spot they could find Israeli works.

“We weren’t renting it — VOD didn’t exist then. And it wasn’t at Blockbuster, so there was like one week a year you would see these things,” he said. “And that became a really big event.”

After coordinating the WJFF, Gardner served as an associate programmer and, eventually, PR and marketing manager at the American Film Institute’s AFI Silver Theatre, a restored Art Deco space in Silver Spring, Maryland, that he compares to Ann Arbor’s Michigan Theatre. Over six years there, he programmed Latin American, Caribbean and New African-focused

festivals — working, as at the Film Lab, to expose viewers to works and cultural experiences they might not discover on their own.

“Doing these deep dives into cinemas from other places around the world really got me interested in engaging local communities,” he said. “It was a fulfilling experience for us (as programmers) and for them (as viewers) to be able to see themselves represented on screen.”

When Gardner’s wife, Maya Barak, was offered an academic position at the University of Michigan-Dearborn in 2016, they relocated to Metro Detroit. Not long after, he founded the nonprofit Cinema Lamont, which organized festivals and world cinema popup events around the area. The entity’s stated mission: “To

foster cross-cultural understanding through the power of world cinema.”

Spaces like Hamtramck’s Oloman Cafe, Eastern Market’s Trinosophes café and the restored Schvitz bathhouse in Detroit’s North End all played host to thoughtfully curated screenings, as did more traditional theaters like the Senate Theater and Cinema Detroit.

The Schvitz, for instance, played the 2007 mob film Eastern Promises, notorious for a lengthy bathhouse fight scene; Southwest Detroit’s Pizzaplex showed low-budget spaghetti Westerns.

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During the COVID-19 outbreak, all movie theaters have closed their doors. So the Film Lab has pivoted to a “virtual cinema.”

A slate of current arthouse releases are available for rental as video-on-demand (VOD) programming options via the theater’s website, thefilmlab.org.

The option is available thanks to the theater’s partnerships with indie distribution companies like Kino Lorber and Film Movement, who are offering the films as VOD rentals in order to support independent cinemas across the country during mass theater shutdowns.

Several other local theaters, including the Detroit Film Theatre, Cinema Detroit, the Emagine multiplex chain and the Michigan and State Theatres in Ann Arbor, are also offering virtual cinema options.

“It’s been really fun to be able to offer a wider variety of programming than we normally do because we’re no longer hindered by physical constraints,” Gardner said, noting that a virtual cinema could have potential even after the Film Lab reopens.

“Obviously, the in-person theatrical experience is the primary way to do things, but perhaps with some of these smaller films and smaller distributors, they’d be open to an online virtual cinema to continue (their) run for additional weeks, or even potentially films that we didn’t have the time to run.”

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awards ceremony, Gardner was introduced to Sfire, who’’d won an award the previous year as part of the feminist filmmaking collective Final Girls; she was looking to start rt a theater as well.

Today, Gardner and Sfire describe their partnership in similar terms. Over coffee, on n a bright, chilly afternoon at Oloman Cafe pre-pandemic, Sfire said they make a good yin and yang. She values his holistic approach to programming and ability to curate a balanced slate of works spanning languages, cultures and authorial perspectives, representing without tokenizing.

“He’ll do an entire grouping of Korean cinema to show the balance of what that means, so there isn’t just one movie representing an entire country,” she said. The same principle goes, she said, for LGBT-centered works and films by women.

“Josh is not a bro,” she said, laughing, when asked about the role of gender in their partnership. “He may be more of a feminist than me.”

Sfire’s grandfather, who emigrated to the U.S. from Lebanon, started working at Eastern Market at age 11 before learning English. He then started a string of grocery stores, eventually coming to own seven across Detroit and Birmingham. Lara still works in Detroit real estate development with her family and brings what she and Gardner both describe as a more business-minded approach.

Though the Film Lab is the first business Sfire’s started herself, having a hand in development and growing up around entrepreneurs helped

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The Film Lab’s audience is “never what you think it’s going to be,” — LARA SFIRE, THE FILM LAB CO-FOUNDER

her grasp that bumps are expected in any business.

“I never know what the hell is going to happen,” she said of what lands with audiences. Specifically, she recalls a screening of Bong Joon Ho’s cult-favorite class satire Snowpiercer, which she and Gardner programmed when they couldn’t book the director’s newest, Parasite, near the height of its Oscar campaign. Expecting a small, early-30s male turnout, she was shocked to find their space packed with middle-aged women.

“It’s never what you think it’s going to be, and so it always ends up being really fun,” she mused. “I love being wrong.”

A BRIDGE IN HAMTRAMCK Despite the Film Lab’s mission of cultural exchange, reaching across audiences — even in its own small, dense neighborhood — can sometimes be a challenge. Though Hamtramck’s often thought by outsiders to be a Polish

community first, Polishdescended Americans now represent only a fraction of its population, having migrated over several decades to suburbs like Madison Heights.

Meanwhile, Hamtramck’s become majority-Muslim, rich in Yemeni and Bangladeshi shops and restaurants. Its residents speak more than 40 languages, according to a 2019 Hamtramck Review article.

Countless communities co-exist alongside an extensive network of bars and arts spaces; it’s the rare Michigan neighborhood in which residents can walk to work or school.

According to Gardner, the neighborhood stood out for its sense of community and how well its makeup suits it to the Film Lab’s mission.

“We’re focusing on world cinema, and there’s such rich cultures here from all over the world,” he said.

Bridging Hamtramck’s arts scene and immigrant communities has always been a pri-

ority for the founders. With their focus on world cinema, Sfire expresses a shared desire to “show films that appeal to everybody,” though not in the Marvel manner. Drawing people in, she said, is “how we’ll get to know the community, and then they’ll probably tell us what they’re interested in.”

In time and once re-opened, the founders plan to expand their space into a two-screen theater with a full food and beverage program.

Sfire hopes in time that Film Lab’s expanded space will serve filmmakers and become a hub for productions and classes.

“It’s nice to feel wanted,” she said of opening a business in Metro Detroit, “and also that you might actually be able to do something that makes a difference.”

But diversifying their audience has remained a challenge. The Film Lab offers drinks, but many of its Muslim neighbors abstain from alcohol.

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r. Henry Shevitz, 78, of West Bloomfield, spends his days as a doctor, specializing in nuclear medicine. But on weekends for the past 27 years, he has served as a volunteer page turner for the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. This little-recognized job is essential for successful piano concerts. Shevitz is the person who follows the performance in real time, sitting next to the featured pianist, and turns the music pages at just the right moment.

“It’s really a high-pressure job. If you do your job, nobody notices. All you can do is screw up,” he says.

A talented pianist himself, Shevitz plays the piano daily. “I learned to play the piano before I could read,” he says. He plays with different duos as part of a local group, Friends of Four Hands, which began in the early 1980s. Years ago, Shevitz played regularly with his late wife, Susan Shevitz.

His musical background

helps with his concert role.

Shevitz is familiar with about a quarter of the music performed, although sometimes he requests a copy of the concert music ahead of time.

He doesn’t rehearse with the pianist so it’s no wonder that he describes his work as a “perilous job.”

“I talk to the pianist right before the concert. Some are nasty, some are nice, some are aloof,” he says.

His concert volunteer work began when he turned pages for several pianists at his West Bloomfield synagogue, Temple Kol Ami, years ago.

“In the almost 16 years I’ve been with the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, I cannot remember one single time when Henry was scheduled to turn pages for a concert and didn’t come,” says Willa Walker of Bloomfield Township, the Chamber Music Society’s vice president. “And I cannot remember one single time when he didn’t do his job perfectly. He’s highly skilled, professional and committed to the Chamber Music Society.”

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role as the faculty advisor to the student newspaper. A student newspaper reporter was the first person to begin uncovering the scandal.

The celebrity version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire began on April 8. Celebs play for charity and there are a couple of major rules changes: Celebs can pick a “guest” person to help them with all the questions and they can even ask host Jimmy Kimmel for help. Home viewers can now play along (via an app) and win money, too. Ike Barinholtz, 43 (The Mindy Project) is one of the three

celebs playing on April 30 (ABC, 8 p.m.).

Hollywood is a big budget, seven-episode series that premieres on Netflix May 1. It was created

by Ryan Murphy (Glee, American Horror Story, Politician). It follows a group of aspiring actors and filmmakers who try to make it in Hollywood just after World War II. This series follows a recent movie trend by positing an “alternate history” — What would have happened if most Hollywood racial and gender barriers had been removed much earlier than they really were? David Corenswet, 26, (Politician on Netflix) has a starring role (Jack Castello).

Maude Apatow, 23, (Judd Apatow’s daughter) has a supporting role and Rob Reiner, 73, guests in three episodes.

Prop Culture is an original Disney Plus series that premieres on May 1. All eight episodes will be released on May 1 (the first time Disney has released a whole series on one day). Prop follows film collector Dan Lanigan as

he revisits the costumes, props and sets of classic Disney films, including Mary Poppins, Pirates of the Caribbean and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Richard Sherman, 91, is one of the guest stars in the first episode (Mary Poppins). Richard and his brother, Robert Sherman (1925-2012) wrote the Poppins score. They won two Oscars for Poppins (best score and best song). Charles Fleischer, 69, who was the voice of Roger Rabbit, is a guest on the episode about that great animated film.

Over at Amazon Prime, there is Upload, an original sci-fi, comedy series. It’s set in a future where humans are able to “upload” themselves into their preferred choice of afterlife. The series was created by Greg Daniels, 56. He has written for many very good TV series and he adapted the British version of The Office into a hit American show. The first 10episode season of Upload will be released May 1.

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FOR ART LOVERS Art Challenge –The Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center launched its first at-home, all-ages Art Challenge, encouraging individuals and families to make art within their own surroundings and with everyday items they have at home.

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he risks her life, night after night, while her four children sleep.

Barbara Goel, a nurse anesthetist who works extended shifts (7 p.m. to 7 a.m. or 11 p.m. to 7 a.m.) at Beaumont Hospital in Farmington Hills, is covered from head to toe in protective gear and surrounded by COVID-19 all night long.

When she leaves for work, Mayah, 15, Noam, 12, Ethan, 10, and Levi, 3, often remind her to wear her N95 mask. She assures them she will. Her husband, Shai, also a nurse anesthetist, works an opposite shift at Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital. They alternate schedules, taking turns caring for sick patients or staying home with the children.

As of April 26, there have been 37,778 reported cases of the coronavirus in Michigan and 3,315 deaths.

“Initially I was losing sleep worrying about getting sick,” she

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Dr. David Willens

says. “I’ve adapted to look at it differently now. I wear a mask at all times, and I do everything possible to protect myself.

“I don’t feel I have an option not to go to work,” she adds. “I am a trained health professional doing my job when it’s needed most.”

Goel is part of a two-person intubation team. She also assists in the COVID ICU where some of the most critically ill patients are fighting for their lives. Many make calls to loved ones — before being sedated and placed on a ventilator — just before she enters the room. With no visitors allowed at the hospital, each patient is there alone.

“We are pretty scary-looking with all of our masks, gowns and shields, so it’s even more important to stay positive with them,” she says. “We reassure them we will do everything we can to help them and keep them comfortable.”

After each grueling, emotional shift, Goel goes through the painstaking process of safely removing her gear so she doesn’t get infected. Her mask stays at work and is cleaned at the hospital. At home, she goes back to being a mom, helping her children, three of whom attend Hillel Day School, with online school and daily classes.

“My kids have been great through this,” she says. “They know just enough about the virus that they don’t complain about being home. They send us reminders to keep protected, but don’t seem stressed.”

‘AN HONOR TO SERVE’ Dr. David Willens, head of academic internal medicine at Henry Ford Hospital, leaves his wife, Lauren, newborn daughter, Stella, and stepson, Carter Rennert, 7, at home, when he heads to work each day. He believes they all had COVID-19

and recovered, although only one family member tested positive for the virus.

They self-quarantined for three weeks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had sore throats, fatigue and fevers, but no cough,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all had the same symptoms. Some people have a mild case.â&#x20AC;?

At the hospital, Willens sees the more severe coronavirus cases. While he believes he may now be immune to the virus, he still suits up, wearing a clear face shield, mask, gown and gloves to be safe. He works with a team of residents seeing patients on a general medicine ward; some have pneumonia, some have suffered heart failure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stressful. Most diseases we deal with donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the high risk of mortality this has,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fear will be one of the most lasting effects COVID-19 will have on our world. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s affected every single aspect of our lives.â&#x20AC;?

Still, he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is why I became a doctor, to serve.

And itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an honor to serve at a time of crisis like this.â&#x20AC;?

Dr. Robert Cohen is an ER physician with Independent Emergency Physicians, a physician-owned practice that staffs four local hospitals and runs two urgent care centers. He works at Providence in Southfield and Novi and St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital in Pontiac.

Cohen worries about inadvertently bringing the virus home and sleeps in a guest room as a precaution to protect his wife, Elyse, and children Ava, 13, and

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Ryan, 10. The family got a puppy as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;happy distraction.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I leave the hospital, I change clothes, so I come home in fresh clothes, but I take them off immediately and shower immediately,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My clothes get washed right away. I keep my shoes in the garage.â&#x20AC;?

He says the most challenging thing about COVID-19 is that there is no treatment. But, Cohen says, he and the rest of the medical staff are doing everything theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trained to do. While heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the front lines where personal protective equipment (PPE) is in short supply, his wife collects thousands of donated masks, gowns, medical gloves, hand sanitizer and more. They are grateful for the outpouring of support. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like there are a lot of things I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t control, and collecting gear is one thing I can do to help,â&#x20AC;? Elyse Cohen says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This was one of my biggest fears for his profession â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a pandemic or bioterrorism. I tell my kids every day their dad is a hero.â&#x20AC;?

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of blessed memory BRUCE BARKIN, 68, of West Bloomfield, died April 19, 2020.

He is survived by his brothers and sisters-in-law, Richard and Marilynn Barkin, and Steven and Teri Barkin; sister and brother-in-law, Janice and David Gordon; many loving nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Mr. Barkin was the beloved husband of the late Helen Barkin; the devoted son of the late Madeline and the late Marvin Barkin.

Interment was at Nusach Harie Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Direct Relief/ Coronavirus, 6100 Wallace Becknell Road, Santa Barbara,

CA 93117, directrelief.org; or to a charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

MAURICE “MOE” BETMAN, 87, of West Bloomfield, died April 19, 2020.

He was a veteran of the Korean Conflict. Mr. Betman was a corporal and served in Greenland.

He was active with Make-A-Wish Foundation, Congregation B’nai David and his local condominium board.

He also served as a Cub Scout master for 10 years.

Mr. Betman is survived by his wife of 62 years, Bernice Betman; sons and daughters-inlaw, Jeff Betman of Commerce

Township, Ron and Shelly Betman of Northbrook, Ill., Michael and Lisa Betman of West Bloomfield, Marc Betman of West Bloomfield; grandchildren, Samantha Betman, Carli Betman, Julia Betman, Noah Betman, Seth Betman, Erin Betman, Michelle Betman; sister-in-law, Anna Nedelman; brother-in-law, Joseph Grossman; nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, great-great nieces, great-great nephews, other relatives and many loving friends.

Mr. Betman was the cherished brother and brotherin-law of the late Eleanor and the late Joseph Manela; dear brother-in-law of the late Larry Nedelman, the late Gertie Grossman; dear father-in-law of the late Diane Betman.

Contributions may be made to Hospice of Michigan, 43097 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302, David

Hermelin Brain Cancer Center, henryford.com/services/ brain-tumors; Congregation B’nai Moshe, 6800 Drake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, or to a charity of one’s choice.

Graveside Service was held at Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

DR. BERT BEZ, 84, of West Bloomfield, died April 18, 2020.

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he left to attend the College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in Des Moines, Iowa. He completed his D.O. degree in 1961.

Dr. Bez practiced anesthesiology in Detroit, Battle Creek and Lansing, where he finished his career. He was a full professor at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine and clinical professor at the College of Osteopathic Medicine. As a residency program director, Dr. Bez was passionate about training the next generation of anesthesiologists. He was active in the profession of anesthesiology and served as president of the Michigan Society of Anesthesiologists as well as the president and secretary treasurer to the American Osteopathic College of Anesthesiologists.

Dr. Bez is survived by his beloved wife of 56 years, Carol Bez; sons, Dr. Douglas and Dr. Joel (Leslie) Bez; grandchildren, Hannah (fiancé, Justin Roberts), Alex, David, Bradley and Brooke.

He was preceded in death by his parents, David and Yetta; and brother, Herbert (Linda) Bez. Interment was held at the Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham. Contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

FRED COHEN, 69, of Farmington Hills, died April 19, 2020.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Eileen Cohen; son, Zachary Cohen; daughter, Kayla Cohen; sister and brother-in-law, Marlene and David Gross; nieces, Beth (Michael) Fink and Heather (Javier) Barrera; many other loving family members and friends.

Interment was held at Temple Israel Gardens of Beth

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El Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to Feeding America.

Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

BARBARA SUE EDELMAN, 73, of Clawson, died April 21, 2020.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Marisa Edelman Forman and Dr. Seth Forman; grandchildren, Lia Forman and Zach Forman; sister and brotherin-law, Wendy and Dr. Richard Flusty; many loving nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.

Mrs. Edelman was the beloved wife of the late Dr. Lawrence Edelman; the loving sister of the late Lisa Fealk; the devoted daughter of the late Herbert and the late Esther Fealk.

Interment was at Hebrew Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Alzheimer’s Association-Greater Michigan Chapter, 25200 Telegraph Road, Suite 100, Southfield, MI 48033, alz.org/gmc; or Multiple Sclerosis Society of Michigan, 29777 Telegraph Road, Suite 1751, Southfield, MI 480347650, nationalmssociety.org/mig.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

DR. SEYMOUR EKELMAN, 95, of Wolverine Lake, died April 3, 2020.

His is survived by his sons, Jason Ekelman, John Ekelman; daughter, Lisa Ekelman.

Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Graveside service was held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

SONDRA FEINSTEIN, 86, of Commerce Township, died April 23, 2020.

She is survived by her husband of 64

years, Herbert Feinstein; daughter and son-in-law, Julie and Rob Grodin; son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Catherine Feinstein; grandchildren, Amy Grodin and Justin Koch, Sam, Rachel and Harry Feinstein; nephews and nieces, Rabbi James Goodman and Rabbi Susan Talve-Goodman, Gary and Andrea Goodman, Steve and Diane Goldin, and Howard Goldin.

Mrs. Feinstein was the loving sister of the late Claire and the late Kenneth Goldin, and the late Pearl and the late Harry Goodman.

Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Congregation Beth Shalom, 14601 Lincoln, Oak Park, MI 48237, cogbethshalom. org, or an animal welfare charity.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

JOEL FELDMESSER, 73, of West Bloomfield, died April 19, 2020.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Laura Snider-Feldmesser; cousins, Fred and Gwen Feldmesser; many other loving cousins and friends.

Mr. Feldmesser was the cherished cousin of Yosef and the late Martha Jo Fleischmann; and their children, Michael, Jonathan, Manuel and Naomi Fleischmann.

Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to American Heart Association, 27777 Franklin Road, Suite 1150, Southfield, MI 48034, heart.org/HEARTORG; Children’s Burn Foundation, 5000 Van Nuys Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91403, childburn.org; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

ARLENE FREEDMAN, 86, of West Bloomfield, died April 17, 2020.

She is survived by her husband of 66½ years, Sam Freedman, whom she was together with for 70 years; daughters and sons-in-law, Wendy

and Mark Resnick, and Shelley and Marc Littman; son, Jeffrey Freedman; grandchildren, Aaron Resnick, Justin Resnick, Ben Littman, Sean and Ilana Littman of Ramat Bet Shemesh, Israel, and Elliot Littman; great-grandchildren, Tamar, Emunah and Tzofia Littman of Ramat Bet Shemesh, Israel; sister and brother-in-law, Lois Spector-Freeman and Alan Freeman; brother-in-law and sisters-in-law, Dr. Arthur and Debra Freedman, and Ruby Eichler. She is also survived by her great-granddog daughter, Daisy Gamble; and many loving nieces, nephews, cousins and a world of friends. Special thanks to the entire staff and care team at Sunrise of Farmington Hills for their years of love and devotion.

Mrs. Freedman was the dear sister-in-law of the late Alvin B. Spector and the late Donald Freedman.

To learn more about Arlene’s incredible life, visit irakauman. com, click on Arlene’s name and watch a recording of her funeral service.

Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Alzheimer’s Association-Greater Michigan Chapter, 25200 Telegraph Road, Suite 100, Southfield, MI 48033, alz.org/gmc. Arrangements

by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

FLORENCE GOLDMAN, 89, of West Bloomfield, died April 19, 2020.

Born in 1930 to Sam and Ann c.1953 Sapperstein, Florence Goldman graduated in 1948 from Central High School in Detroit; she went on to Wayne State University, obtaining both her bachelor’s and master’s in education.

It was during this time that she met her eventual life partner, Alvin Goldman. Married in 1953, the Goldmans spent 59 wonderful years together, forging a life of ser-

SADIE HAMER, 91, of Southfield, died April 19, 2020.

She is survived by her daughters and sonsin-law, Marilyn Hamer and Al Levett, Lori Hamer Delmar and Alan Delmar; grandchildren, Sarah Levett, Aaron Levett and Rachel Delmar; many loving nieces, nephews, other family members and friends.

Mrs. Hamer was the beloved wife of the late Joseph Hamer; sister of the late Betty Smithberg, the late Mary Weiner, the late Lil Weitzbuch, the late Abe Katz, the late Julius Katz and the late Ben Katz.

Interment was held at Beth El

Longtime Brody’s Owners and Couple of 70 Years, Separated By COVID-19, Die Just Hours Apart JENNIFER LOVY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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hey were high school sweethearts, and they were inseparable — even after 72 years of marriage. They worked together for decades at their well-known store, Brody’s Custom Printing and Camp Supplies, and they shared a passion for the movies and live theater. Their relationship resembled a classic love story that ended on April 16, 2020, when Lester and Lillian Shindler died within hours of each other.

Lester, 92, was recovering from hip surgery in a nursing home where he died due to complications from COVID19. Lillian, 91, had dementia, and her health had been declining, especially since her husband’s hospitalization. It was one of the few times this Farmington Hills couple had been separated. Family members said she died of a broken heart.

The blessing in all of this is the fact that neither spouse had to be informed of the other’s passing, said granddaughter Jeannie Gnesin.

Marc Shindler, who now owns Brody’s in West Bloomfield and worked alongside his parents for decades, added: “My father always used to say, ‘Let’s go, Lilah (a nickname he gave his bride). Let’s go. Let’s go to the movies. Let’s go to dinner.’ I imagine that when he died, he came to my mother and said, ‘Let’s go, Lilah,’ and they went

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vice to teaching, administration and higher education.

Mrs. Goldman began her education career teaching in Detroit and then moved on to Southfield. It was there that she served for 21 years as a teacher and educator at John F. Kennedy Elementary School.

Upon her retirement in 1986, Mrs. Goldman dedicated herself to working closely with WWII War Veterans and their families as well as serving with distinction with the Jewish War Veterans.

Florence was also active with their beloved Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, serving in hundreds of volunteer capacities, including senior programs and working with the youth at the temple toward their education.

Mrs. Goldman is survived by her son, Richard (Suzanne) of Coral Springs, Fla.; and numerous nieces and nephews scattered across the nation.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Sam and Ann; her loving husband, Alvin; and her eldest son, Dr. Stephen Goldman.

Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Temple Israel, Caring Committee, 5725 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323, temple-israel.org.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

together.”

Lester Shindler purchased the store in 1973 and turned it into what family members call a unique retail experience.

The tumult and chaos of the store, they said, continues to separate Brody’s from other businesses.

Lester never liked phone orders. He wanted customers to come into the store, and he also insisted that his sales staff follow around every customer to encourage a sale.

He was happiest when people left with more than what they intended to buy. He especially loved when the store was packed with people getting ready to send their kids to summer camp.

“Nothing gave him more joy than selling,” Gnesin said. “Lil, she was the quiet, behind-the-scenes person that nobody knew.” Family members remember her for her gentle kindness, patience, meticulous handwriting and the lunches she packed daily for her husband, son and

grandchildren on the days they worked in the store.

Son Marc recalled an instance when a customer came in for a package of underwear and walked out with underwear and a tuxedo.

“My dad didn’t push; he suggested, and he did this thousands of times.”

Together the Shindlers’ lives revolved around the store.

When they weren’t working, they enjoyed spending time with family. They especially liked going to the movies and the theater. For decades, the couple had been season ticket holders at the Fisher Theatre, where they enjoyed sitting in their front-row center seats. Lester attended a play as recently as last month and had already purchased tickets for next season.

“A lot of people knew my father,” Marc said. “He would walk down the aisle at the Fisher and multiple people would shout out, ‘Hi, Mr. Brody!’”

The Shindlers are survived by their son, Marc (Shelley) Shindler and daughter, Shara (William) Stewart; grandchildren, Jennie (Adam) Gnesin, Julie (Marc) Cohen, Adam (Jessica) Shindler, Zach (Cassy) Stewart and Alana (Darren) Suiter; and great-grandchildren, Ellery and Parker Gnesin, Dean, Grace and Anna Cohen, Noah, Liam and Peyton Steward, and Jacob and Ava Suiter.

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Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association or to Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

COLEMAN KLEIN, 82, of West Bloomfield, died c. 2000 April 15, 2020.

A respected attorney and avid music lover, Coleman is survived by his sons, Michael Klein and Jeffrey Klein; grandchildren, Jacob and Julie Klein; many other loving family members and friends.

Mr. Klein was the beloved husband of the late Nanci Klein; the brother of the late Janice Pilnick.

Interment was held at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale.

Contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association or to Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

FLORENCE LEVENSON, 85, of New York, died April 3, 2020.

She is survived by her husband, Leonard; her daughters, Rachel and Amy (Benedict) Schroeder; grandchildren, Jacob and Allie Schroeder; her sister, Gloria (Milton) Siegel.

Mrs. Levenson was predeceased by her brother and sister-in-law, Nate and Eunice Manela. She was the devoted daughter of Mollie and Meyer Manela.

GERALD LEVENSON, 85, of Warren, died April 12, 2020.

An Army veteran, he served in Germany from 1958 to 1960.

Mr. Levenson is survived by his daughter, Andrea Shedlock of Frasier; sister, Beverly Levenson of Oak Park; brother, Morris Levenson of Southfield; grand-

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children, Erin and Sean Shedlock, Jennifer and Martin McLean; great-grandchild, Makenna McLean; nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

He was the beloved husband for 49 years of the late Katherine Levenson; dear brother and brother-in-law of the late Sheldon Levenson, the late Anne and the late Larry Binke, the late Sharleen Levenson, the late Beatrice and the late Joseph Breshgold, the late Marian Levenson.

Contributions may be made to Jewish War Veterans, P.O. Box 725066, Berkley, MI 48072-9998. Graveside service was held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

FLORENCE “FLOSSIE” MALOFF, 93, of West Bloomfield, died April 17, 2020.

She is survived by her sons, Howard (the late Sherry) Maloff and Larry (Michele) Maloff; sisters, Rita Unrot, Linda (Stan) Garber; granddaughters, Ashley Maloff and Stephanie (Rob) Roth; many other loving family members and friends.

Mrs. Maloff was the beloved wife of the late Leon Malof; sister of the late Beverly (Lou) Sandler.

Interment was held at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale.

Contributions may be made to the American Diabetes Association or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

PHYLLIS ANN PAZNER, 87, of Novi, died April 17, 2020.

She is survived by her daughters and son-in-law, Sher and Sandy Kaplan, and Lori Pazner Rodgers; son and daughter-in-law, Bruce and Anita Pazner; grandchildren, Samantha and Brent Heraud,

Ashley and Hanna Rodgers, Molly and Joseph Tramer, and Jake, Madison, Remyn and Spencer Pazner; great-grandchildren, Jackson and Lila Heraud; sister, Shirley Singerman; loving partner, Bill Picotte; many loving nieces, nephews and caregivers.

Mrs. Pazner was the beloved wife of the late Harold Pazner; the cherished mother of the late Scott Pazner; the loving sister of the late Elaine Iskow and the late Kenny Applebaum.

Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Temple Israel, Scott David Pazner Memorial Scholarship Fund for Single Parents, 5725 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323, temple-israel.org; or to a charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

SHARON GAIL ROSE, 81, of West Bloomfield, died April 12, 2020.

She is survived by her sister, Marilyn Gus of West Bloomfield; nephews, Jeffrey Gus, Marvin Gus, Howard Gus; many cousins, including Stephanie Zaft, Milton and Iris Zaft, Elisheva and Adam Samuels, Geiogo (late Muriel Costa-Greenspon) Costa, Ari Samuels, Stefano and Kelly Costa, Aria Costa, Leo Costa.

Contributions may be made to Rabbi Avie Shapiro Fund, c/o Jewish Hospice and Chaplaincy Network,6555 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322.

Graveside service was held at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

RHODA SCHNEIDER, 97, of Oak Park, died April 17, 2020.

She is survived by her children, Linda and John Penkalski of Ellsworth, Maine, Marilyn and

Michael Bodner of Fairlawn, N.J., and Esther and Dr. Bruce “Dov” Sherizen of Oak Park; grandchildren Jetsun Penkalski, Lori and Zack Korzyk, Alissa Bodner, Rabbi Yoni and Dalia Sherizen, Ari and Jodie Sherizen, Dani Sherizen and fiancee, Sara Levy; great-grandchildren, Brandon Korzyk, Elyakim Sherizen, Sarit Sherizen, Rachel Sherizen, Adielle Sherizen, Maayan Sherizen, Ruth Sherizen and Abe Sherizen; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Hy and Marilyn Schneider; many loving nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Mrs. Schneider was the beloved wife of the late George Schneider; she was the last of nine siblings.

Graveside service was held in New Jersey.

The family is incredibly grateful to Jewish Senior Life for the love and care she received and contributions may be made to Jewish Senior Life, 15000 W. 10 Mile Road, Oak Park, MI 48237, 248-661-1836, jslmi. org. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

SHIRLEY SCHREIDELL, 96, died April 17, 2020.

The youngest daughter of Hymen and Rachel Kaczka, c. 1950 she spent most of her life in the Metro Detroit area. A highly regarded English teacher in the Detroit Public Schools for more than 30 years, Shirley loved teaching as much as her students loved learning from her.

Shirley’s greatest loves, besides her son and family, were opera, ballet and literature. She traveled throughout Europe in order to attend opera performances, seeing Luciano Pavarotti in person at least a dozen times, both in Europe and in New York. She was an avid consumer of books, amassing a very large collection of classic and modern literature, and biographies. In her younger years,

she was a great letter writer, writing and receiving responses from movie and opera stars as varied as Laurence Olivier, Pavarotti and many, many others.

Shirley was also a diehard sports fan. She loved football, basketball, baseball as well as hockey. She could quote statistics and could hold a conversation about sports teams and individual players with anyone for hours.

Shirley was blessed with a wonderful memory. She was a great storyteller, especially regarding her immediate family. She was a vivacious redhead who highly valued her friends and they her. She will be greatly missed by those who knew and loved her.

Mrs. Schreidell is survived by her beloved son, Robert Rubinstein. She was the cherished great-aunt of Michael (Maria) Fox, Karen (Rick) Halberg, Debbie Horwitz, Nancy Shayne, Patti Shayne, Denise (Phillip Rivers) Solis, Ryan and Randy Riley; nieces and nephew, Jane Shayne, Rochelle Riley, Sherwin Maslowe and Rochelle Kessler; numerous great-great-greatnieces and great-great-greatnephews.

A graveside service was held at Clover Hill Park Cemetery.

Contributions may be made to Metropolitan Opera, metopera.org; Jewish Senior Life, 15000 W. 10 Mile Road, Oak Park, MI 48237, 248-6611836, jslmi.org; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements

by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

ELI SEROUR, 65, of Oak Park, died April 14, 2020.

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JACOB SHANKER, 82, of Oak Park, died April 3, 2020.

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SIEGEL, 95, of West Bloomfield, died April 17, 2020.

He is survived by his wife of 71 years, Helen Siegel; children, Eric (Christine) Siegel of Ann Arbor, Barbara Siegel of Brookline, Mass., Deborah (Jonathan Motley) SiegelMotley, Philip (David Iborra) of San Francisco, Calif.; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.

Contributions may be made to Yad Ezra, 2850 W. 11 Mile Road, Berkley, MI 48072. Graveside service was held at Clover Hill Park in Birmingham. Arrangements

by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

IRIS SMITH, 95, of Southfield, died April 1, 2020.

In a life spent in the Detroit area, she loved her family.

She is survived by her children, Todd (and Roberta), Andrew (and Donna); grandchildren, Eric, Micah (and Espie), Alexander; the newest love of her life, great-granddaughter, Maitea. Her engaging spirit will be missed.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

KEN SNIDER, 67, of Farmington Hills, died April 11, 2020.

He is survived by his brothers and sistersin-law, Michael Snider of Southfield, Steven and Dora Snider of Benbrook, Texas; sister and brother-in-law, Lori and Steve Zieman of Rochester Hills; stepsister, Nadine Marshall; nieces and nephews, Thomas, James, Joseph, Nissa, Audra; great-nieces and great-nephews, Addison, Olivia, Brynn, Hunter, Harlee, Stella; other loving family members and a world of full of friends.

Contributions may be made to Sky Foundation, 33 Bloomfield Hills Pkwy., Suite 275, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304; Michigan Cancer Society, 18831 W. 12 Mile Road, Lathrup Village, MI 48076; or to a charity of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice. Graveside service was held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

BESSIE STEIN, 102, of West Bloomfield, died April 17, 2020.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Marcia and Donald Aaron; grandchildren, Bradley Lewis Aaron and Jennifer Aaron; great-grandson, Blake David Aaron.

Mrs. Stein was the beloved wife of the late Irving Stein; the proud grandmother of the late Keith Steven Aaron.

Interment was at Adat Shalom Memorial Park.

Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

MARC TRAURIG, 60, of West Bloomfield, died April 19, 2020.

He is survived by his brother, Joel Traurig; sister and brother-in-law, Carol Klein and Ron Klein; nieces, Jenna and Lauren Traurig; his JARC family, Rochelle Grubbs, LaDawn Mills, Alicia Williams, Jeff Leventhal, Paul Perirjian, Brian Hughes; cousins, Henry Traurig (Diane), Joanne Levine (Steve), Deborah Hill (Dave Flach), Lorey Baldwin, Patty Raphelson (Bruce), Sandy Crane (Karen), Michael Crane, Lisa Crane, Lori Crane Ryan (Tim).

Mr. Traurig was son of the late Simon and late Ethel Traurig; brother of the late Harriett Jenkins.

Interment was held at Machpelah Cemetery in

Ferndale. Contributions may be made to JARC. Arrangements

by Dorfman Chapel.

JUANITA VICTOR, 106, of West Bloomfield, died April 23, 2020.

She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Linda Brodsky, Leslie and Richard Kates, and Susan and Dr. Alan Bolton; grandchildren, Dennis and Sheri, Eric and Melissa, Ronda, Dr. Burton and Susan, Amy and Frank, Alex and April, Stacy and Matt, David and Karen, Cary and Brittany, Robin and Pete, and Dr. Brett and Dragana; great-grandchildren, Felix, Hugo, Samantha, Jonathan, Josh, Emily, Ross,

Chase, Carson, Brayden, Olivia, George, Elliot, Dean, Dylan, Aiden, Carly, Niko, Niki and Luca.

Mrs. Victor was the beloved wife of the late George Victor; the cherished mother of the late Alan Victor; the dear motherin-law of the late Dr. Easton Brodsky.

Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Temple Israel, Juanita and George Victor Mi Shebeirach Blanket Fund, 5725 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323, temple-israel. org; or Children’s Tumor Foundation, 370 Lexington Ave., Suite 2100, New York, NY 10017, ctf.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. continued on page 52

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DANIEL WATERSTONE, 64, of New York, formerly of Michigan, died April 13, 2020.

He is survived by brother and sister-in-law, Jack and Hannah Waterstone; sister and brother-in-law, Dena and Boruch Rabinowitz of Passic, N.J. Contributions may be made to Tzedakah Enhancement Project (TEP), 25991 Marlowe Place, Oak Park, MI 48237.

Graveside service was held at Hebrew Memorial Park.

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JACK WOLF, 89, of West Bloomfield, died April 4, 2020.

He is survived by his sons

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and daughters-in-law, Cary and Sherry Wolf, Brian and Risa Wolf of Oak Park; daughter and son-in-law, Ellen and Jeffrey Gitt of Scottsdale, Ariz.; sister and brother-in-law, Gloria and Myron Goff; sister-in-law, Roberta Wolf; grandchildren, Scott Wolf, Stacey and Ryan Band, Melissa and Jesse Goldstein, Jennifer and David Osgood, Jonathan Gitt, Hilary and Jason Berlow, Alana Wolf; great-grandchildren, Emery Band, Ari Band, Nora Berlow; brothers-inlaw, Maurice Belkin, Edward Belkin; other loving relatives and friends.

Mr. Wolf was the beloved husband of the late Edith and the late Kay Wolf; dear

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estaurants may take what can be called a hiatus or whatever, but there will always be those that hold a warm niche in the memories of many … They will be remembered for so many reasons … and are why remembrances of them Danny Raskin will always hold Senior Columnist so much warmth.

The memory of a restaurant such as Darbys is a heart-warmer … It originally was to be just a delicatessen, but the gods must have ordained that it be much more … and was … After all, you don’t find too many eateries that will open with seating for 375 people …

Let alone a delicatessen … and one that would need to wait three years until getting a liquor license … and start out employing 120 people and, after getting the license, serving 475 people … These are great reasons why

restaurants such as Darbys and others will come back strong again.

It was a tragic scene watching so many people crying as Darbys was completely destroyed on owner Sam Boesky’s birthday in 1968 ... but a blessing he could hire many in his following business, Stanley Steamer Health Club, although not at Darbys … with many enjoying his blessings as he helped them obtain jobs elsewhere … Had the insurance company not taken as long to settle as it did, a year and nine months after the fire, Sam would have opened again in another location.

Darbys fed almost 5,000 people daily and was open Tuesday through Sunday for breakfast, lunch, dinner and after dinner.

Although now becoming only partly delicatessen, it still went through more than 60 gallons of mushroom barley soup to

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When Darbys burned to the ground, it had been doing almost $3,000 daily just in food … in those days … topped only

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Darbys opened as much more than a delicatessen … It became a dining showplace of the Midwest … with a full menu of goodies, coffee shop, its own delicatessen department, beautiful dining room and a Skylight Lounge with Charlie Dubin at the piano.

Among many stories told about Sam Boesky was one by his manager, Bernie Kerner …

Two burglars hit Darbys and soon after, another two guys showed up for the same purpose … “Sorry, fellows,” Sam said.

“You’re too late!”

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as the place to be seen after the theater, event or even another restaurant … and subject of the familiar words from numerous customers to others … “See you at Darbys!”

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The man coming in indignantly claimed, “I’m blind! This is my seeing eye dog!”

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Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org

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t the risk of repeating myself, as I have written several times before, when doing research in the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History for one topic, I always find another interesting story on another subject. In this case, while during research for my recent “Looking Back” on the history of Jews and supermarkets, I Mike Smith Alene and also learned that Graham Landau Jewish Detroiters Archivist Chair founded the largest chain of grocery stores in Israel.

Super-Sol, or Shufra-Sal in Hebrew, is the preeminent supermarket chain in Israel today. It is one of the largest companies in Israel with about 250 stores that employ more than 12,000 people.

In 1957, two Detroiters living in Israel — Herbert Yahiel Hordes and Alan Feinberg — decided that it was a good time to open that nation’s first supermarket. They recognized a serious need to lower the cost of food there.

It is also interesting to note that, per his obituary in the Oct. 25, 2007, issue of the JN, Hordes fought in Israel’s War for Independence in 1948.

One can assume that he personally understood the critical role that food played in the young nation’s history.

Feinberg and Hordes had a great idea, but they needed

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expertise and, most important, investors. The Jewish community in Detroit provided both.

A front-page story of the JN on April 5, 1957, “Detroiters Join Israelis’ Project for Supermarkets,” tells the story.

Along with Feinberg and Hordes, the founders of Super-Sol were a who’s-who of Jewish supermarket leaders in Detroit. John E. Lurie, president of the Wrigley chain, was an original investor, and his brother, Nathan Lurie, was a co-founder as well as first chairman of the board of Super-Sol. Tom and Al Borman from the Farmer Jack supermarket chain also provided support. Other investors from Jewish Detroit included Paul Zuckerman (founder of grocery product Velvet Peanut Butter), Irwin Cohn and Sam Frankel.

There were also supporters from outside of Detroit. A story in the Jan. 24, 1957, issue of the JN cites a key investor was Bertram Loeb, owner of Super-Sol Ltd. of Canada, a supermarket chain with 100 stores.

The first Super-Sol opened in Israel in 1958, and it was a huge success. A year later, a report in the Nov. 6, 1959, issue of the JN stated that four additional stores would soon open in Israel. A photo shows Loeb, Feinberg and Hordes with Mrs. Ed Sullivan cutting the ribbon at the opening of the original Super-Sol. In 1962, Super-Sol won the Kaplan Prize for “pioneering

efforts in Israel’s industrial trial undertakings.” This prestiestigious award was named d for Eliezer Kaplan, Israel’s first finance minister.

I also liked the JN story on Dec. 16, 1988, about Super-Sol’s annu-al American “Food Fair.” During this special promotion, Israelis could buy such delicacies as Skippy peanut butter, utter, Hellman’s mayonnaise and Duncan Hines cake mixes.

To say the least, Super-Sol was an immense success in Israel. And, Jewish ish Detroiters’ prowess ess in the grocery busiusiness provided the he crucial foundation on for Super-Sol. By the way, in the 1960s, Detroit had its own Super Sol market. Owned

by Morris Berg, it was located on n West Seven Milee Road.

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