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Staff Reduction 20 Tamarack Camps makes up deficit by eliminating nine positions.

New Leader at JRCR/AJC 22 Rabbi Asher Lopatin is on tap to be new executive director.

Unusual Loan 24 Detroiter’s funds to pay back improper

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isit Selma Goode in her one-story Redford home and it becomes clear quickly that at 96 years old, she is purpose-driven, patient and proud of Westside Mothers, the organization she founded in 1966.

Visit Selma Goode on the third floor of the Walter P. Reuther Library — in Ben Falik archives of onion skin, facsimile, carbon copies and meeting agendas annotated in cursive — and it becomes clear quickly that she is a powerhouse.

Of course, Detroit Jews For Justice is not honoring Selma Goode because she is diminutive and doting. They are bestowing the inaugural Myra Wolfgang Award on her because she is a world-class

community organizer, an ally and advocate who harnessed the political power of a population at its most vulnerable, marginal and aspirational: poor moms.

Selma grew up in Richmond, Mich., a town of 1,400 people where her father retained his Orthodox observance, dealing scrap metal and making his own wine (“I thought it was good”) during Prohibition. He died before she graduated from high school, after which the

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moved ffamily ami milly m oved d to Detroit.

Selma’s job as a mother of four overlapped with and informed her career as an activist. In person, she marks milestones based on the age of her youngest daughter, Julia. In archives, you date her efforts by the letterhead of those whose attention and respect she commanded — Gov. Jim Blanchard, gubernatorial candidate Sander Levin, City Council Presidents Maryann Mahaffey and Gil Hill, State Rep. Kwame M. Kilpatrick.

In 1963, the year before Julia was born, Selma and her husband, Bill, approached local Jewish institutions about welcoming Martin Luther King Jr. to Detroit. Bill worked for the Jewish Labor Committee and Selma was involved with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

The Anti-Defamation League objected and ultimately refused for fear that the Walk to Freedom down Woodward Avenue would lead to rioting.

Undeterred, Selma and other CORE members worked with Rev. C.L. Franklin to dispel rumors that people were

planning to bring guns to the March, which ultimately was both the picture of peaceful assembly and the first iteration of Dr. King’s I Have A Dream speech.

The civil rights movement motivated Selma, in her capacity as research sirector for CORE, to organize “ADC Moms,” mothers receiving Aid for Dependent Children. She made three critical mistakes whose lessons informed the next 50 years of her work.

1. Know your audience.

Selma could not understand why the turnout was so low at the initial parlor meetings until someone explained to her that they were not comfortable in other people’s houses and, furthermore, wanted a space to meet outside the home.

Once the meetings moved, the CORE office attendance grew rapidly and led to the creation, constitution and membership structure of Westside Mothers, a welfare rights organization.

2. Get out of their way. At an early meeting, Selma presented a problem she was confident would gain consensus and momentum: the absence of a park for children in the area.

The women in attendance acknowledged her politely before coalescing around a salient issue of their own.

The Sept. 12 edition of the Jewish News started a new chapter in our 77 years of service to the Detroit Jewish community. It is now an allglossy weekly magazine, with crisp, colorful, Arthur Horwitz reproduction and more content in a convenient size.

We appreciate your initial positive feedback. Despite planning the format switch for months with our new printer, a human error resulted in the tardy delivery of the magazines to the post office. And a post office automated system for sorting and distributing the Jewish News to satellite postal facilities for timely delivery to you … well, the automated system underperformed.

The result is that most of you didn’t receive your Jewish News last Thursday. Many did on Friday, and most — but not all — by Saturday. We appreciate your patience and understanding as our printer and the post office better synchronize their weekly handoff and distribution.

We trust you’ll enjoy the new format. It represents our ongoing commitment to those — like you — who want their Jewish News in print. Thank you again for your readership and encouragement.

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t sits atop a hill overlooking the bustling city of Kigali, the capital of the country.

As you drive up, the first thing you see is a large, dramatic archway entrance with the words “Kigali Genocide Memorial” and Rwandan soldiers standing on each side. There are Kleenex boxes in the lobby, and the ticket lady tells us to take some Mark Jacobs because we’re going to need it.

We strap on the provided headphones and begin walking.

The somber tour takes us through winding, darkened hallways. On each side, we pass graphic photos, videos and artifacts that detail the massive tribal genocide that happened here in April 1994 when more than 1 million out of 7 million people were murdered over the course of 100 days. Another 200,000 Rwandans were displaced and hundreds of thousands of children were orphaned.

The displays hold nothing back and include such things as the actual machetes used by the murderers, shoes of the victims and, in one haunting room, we see hundreds of human bones and skulls, many bearing large, open fractures from those machetes.

There’s a separate children’s section, similar to Yad Vashem.

The walls are filled with lots of photographs of once-happy children. The section is called “Tomorrow Lost.” As you enter, you see the words: “In memory of our beautiful and beloved children who should’ve been our future.”

In one of the film rooms we see a survivor explaining that the memorial is the place “where Rwandans can visit their relatives.” One film features a bride and groom who were both

LEFT TO RIGHT: The front archway entrance at Kigali Genocide Memorial; The site of the mass graves; The wall of names.

orphaned by the genocide. The groom tearfully says celebrations are especially tough because “there’s no adult family left.”

The memorial is not just a museum, but also a cemetery.

Outside are mass graves, huge slabs of concrete that entomb about 250,000 of the dead.

Flowers are strewn along the graves, left by loved ones. Next to the graves looms a huge wall, resembling the Viet Nam Memorial, filled with countless names of the dead. Everyone walking by is silent, shocked, numb, heartbroken. Some people need that Kleenex.

One display details how the Rwandan authorities from the Hutu tribe set about to dehumanize and ethnically cleanse members of the Tutsi tribe. We see the “Hutu 10 Commandments,” which included such things as “no Tutsi wives, business partners or secretaries permitted,” “no more education for Tutsis,” and “you cannot loan them money.” The final cruel inscription: “Do not take pity on them. They are cockroaches.”

Upon reading that, my mind went straight to the Nuremberg Laws in the 1930s, in which Germany proclaimed that Jews would not be permitted to do most anything, including going to German schools, marrying non-Jews, entering theaters, parks

and skating rinks or even driving nearby.

As a Jew, it’s impossible to tour the memorial in Rwanda and not think of the Holocaust.

One section actually tells the story of the Holocaust in two rooms, along with the stories of the genocides in Cambodia, the Balkans, Namibia and Armenia.

(I couldn’t turn my head away from watching a group of Africans in the museum closely studying the story and the photographs of the Holocaust.)

This place, aside from teaching about the horror of 1994 in Rwanda, is also a powerful reminder that full-scale genocides have happened and continue to happen. They are not isolated events and not necessarily past tense. No particular ethnic group, neither Jews nor others, has a monopoly on its suffering.

Its victims are vast, crossing over centuries of human history and spanning the entire plane.

This is one of those places you visit and then can never forget, just like Yad Vashem. Actually, it was inspired by two people who visited Yad Vashem and decided that Rwanda needed a tangible place where its people could go and collectively grieve. The people here say that facing the ugliest chapter of their past is the best way for them to heal and to teach future generations.

The nation is now run by a popular president who once led the Tutsi rebels. Paul Kagame has preached forgiveness and solidarity. It’s somewhat of a miracle that today Rwanda is bustling and widely accepted as one of the true jewels in Africa, earning it the moniker “the Switzerland of Africa.”

The country’s rebirth is a bright and positive sign of hope, yet it cannot erase the horror that unfolded here in 1994.

The Kigali Genocide Memorial preserves that horror in graphic detail, just as Yad Vashem captures the Holocaust.

The Rwandan genocide is another monumental tragedy for humanity. It’s not bigger, smaller, worse or any less painful than any other genocide in history.

Genocide is genocide. They can’t and shouldn’t be ranked. Each one is equally catastrophic, vile and incomprehensible. And each one, sadly, is an inescapable reminder that from time to time, despite all our progress, humans are capable of completely losing their humanity.

Mark Jacobs is the AIPAC Michigan chair for African American Outreach, a co-director of the Coalition for Black and Jewish Unity, a board member of the Jewish Community Relations Council-AJC and the director of Jewish Family Service’s Legal Referral Committee.

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With Bolton Gone, Will Trump Make a Deal with Iran?

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erhaps it was as much about personalities as policy. The notoriously brusque and hard-driving John Bolton was always an awkward fit as national security adviser for a president like Donald Trump, who prefers subordinates to be sycophants. The relationship between two men with, to put it mildly, very strong personalities was probably always fated to be of relJonathan atively short duraTobin tion. But there’s no avoiding the conclusion that the events that precipitated Trump’s demand for Bolton’s resignation were driven by their profound disagreements about how the United States should deal with rogue nations like Iran, North Korea and Venezuela, as well as the question of whether to sit down for talks with the Taliban.

So while those predicting a sudden shift in American foreign policy are probably wrong, there’s

also no question that without the stubborn Bolton acting as a break on the president’s neo-isolationist “America First” instincts, the chances that Trump will continue to push for dramatic diplomatic breakthroughs on those fronts that are probably illusory will certainly increase.

The last straw for Trump was almost certainly the result of the fallout from the announcement that his proposed Camp David summit the second week in September with leaders of the Taliban was cancelled. Trump, with the reported support of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, was eager for some kind of an agreement about winding down U.S. participation in the war in Afghanistan. Bolton opposed the proposed deal with the Taliban and was rightly against the idea of hosting terrorists with American blood on their hands at Camp David to seal the agreement, especially just days after 9/11. Having the Taliban at the presidential retreat was a terrible idea, though the dramatic

nature of the gesture apparently appealed to Trump.

The effort collapsed when Trump was finally persuaded that the Taliban wouldn’t cease involvement in terrorism and couldn’t be trusted to keep the peace in the wake of a U.S. withdrawal. The president deserved credit for having the guts to walk away from a bad deal, despite badly wanting to conclude a pact that would have allowed him to keep his promise to withdraw American troops from the country’s longest war.

Yet reportedly, Trump couldn’t stand Bolton taking credit for a decision that came with no gains and so finally got rid of him.

So, the question now must be whether Bolton’s departure leads to a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy, particularly toward Iran.

The reason why it has been so hard to predict Trump’s intentions on this issue is that he has always been torn between his disdain for Obama’s dangerous nuclear pact and his instinctive

So, the question now must be whether Bolton’s departure leads to a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy, particularly toward Iran.

— JONATHAN TOBIN

abhorrence for American involvement in overseas conflicts. The basic contradiction between these two impulses only seemed to be resolved in the last 18 months, once he put a foreign-policy team in place — in the form of Bolton and Pompeo, who agreed on getting tough with Iran and continued on page 10

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Detroit Edison, Michigan Consolidated Gas Company (MichCon) and Michigan Bell were putting up structural barriers to families when they most needed reliable utilities.

The hefty deposit for new customers, rigid billing practices and bureaucratic penalties — all by regulated utilities — put low-income families at undue risk of being cut off and left out in the cold.

3. Nothing about us without us. The University of Detroit law clinic agreed to represent Westside Moms in their action against the utilities. After U of D secured power of attorney and reached a serviceable settlement without consulting with their clients, Westside Moms fired them and rejected the settlement. Instead, they worked directly with the Public Service Commission for more favorable terms with Detroit Edison.

Westside Mothers went on to win one lawsuit after anoth-

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er, securing, among other things, an annual clothing allowance, standardized criteria for free school lunches and rules prohibiting schools from using “dry lunch” as a way to punish misbehaving students.

Selma never represented Westside Moms without at least one of them present and empowered to speak to her own experiences.

For all its judicial and regulatory success, Westside Moms was just as persistent in the court of public opinion. They picketed Michcon for weeks before securing a first-of-itskind payment play for ADC families that guaranteed no shutoffs for participants.

In 1981 (“Julia was 17”), Westside Mothers marched 100 miles to Lansing to prevent welfare payments from being cut 5 percent. “Hello, Mrs. Goode,” Gov. Milliken’s plain-clothes bodyguards would say with grudging respect and peace of mind that her stated goal to “hound

Milliken to death” was figurative.

To boot, Selma wrote the editors of the Detroit Free Press, “We do need ‘reform’ in the food stamp program. Get rid of the phonies, who exist more in President Ford’s imagination than in reality … but make food stamps available to those in need. That $50 a month bonus for a low-income family can be just enough to keep a family together.”

At its peak, Westside Mothers boasted 2,500 dues-paying members, whose advocacy has touched millions of lives. All the more remarkable to have captured such solidarity among the sick and tired — parents who just want their kids to have a chance at a better life. Parents who needed to hear the hook from Westside Mothers’ print materials and Selma’s stories so they could move from the singular to the plural: “No problem is more important than yours ...”

room where there is space for 200 people, but they have crammed in about 1,000. They don’t let us out into the yard for a little fresh air. We lie about on the floor in the spittle and filth. We’re wearing the same shirts for three or four weeks because we don’t have our baggage with us.

“Everyone goes around dejected and cries and wails.

Women with little babies, who have come to their husbands, are being detained … men are separated from their wives and children.

Children get sick. They are taken to a hospital, and it often happens that they never come back.” (p.98-

100) Since that letter appeared 110 years ago in the The Forward, Congress made periodic reviews and updates of our immigration and naturalization law. It is not as if Congress vegetated — between wars and economic crises they’ve enacted legislation providing Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other beneficial programs. Legislation that provides humane treatment for large numbers of refugees, however, remains little more than a campaign promise of 21st-century election cycles.

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Not A New Problem Your readers’ comments about the treatment of immigrants at our border with Mexico prompts me to add to the discussion.

Recently I read A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward (Doubleday, New York, 1971). In it, I read a letter written in 1909, but which eerily describes the current situation at the border. One hundred mostly Russian Jewish males, “unfortunates who are imprisoned on Ellis Island,” wanted the world to know about their living conditions there: “We are packed into a

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in solidifying the alliance with Israel. The U.S. withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal and the re-imposition of devastating sanctions that have brought Iran’s economy to its knees soon followed.

Still, having achieved so much, despite the opposition of the Democrats at home and America’s feckless European allies abroad, Trump is now interested in talking with the Iranians.

That appalled Bolton, as it did Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Both believe that negotiations with Islamist dictators will never achieve a thing, and both fear that talks with Iran will inevitably lead to appeasement.

In theory, such a meeting doesn’t undermine the “maximum pressure” policy that Pompeo and Bolton have been implementing. Indeed, an Iranian realization that they must talk with the United States and make concessions was the goal of that policy, not a war that no one wants.

No harm will come from a meeting as long as the president and his team stand their ground on the nuclear and terrorism issues. Most importantly, they must not pay for a photo opportunity by lifting the sanctions that are backing the Iranians into a corner.

Though he might not have enjoyed working with Bolton, Trump benefited from his hardboiled and realistic view of bad international actors. If the president chooses to listen instead to the voices urging him to undermine America’s long-term security interests by abandoning its overseas responsibilities, then we may look back at this as the moment when Trump started to repeat some of Obama’s mistakes in the Middle East.

Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS — Jewish News Syndicate.

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and politically acceptable plan surely lies within the capabilities of lawmakers, think tanks, students — and of ordinary citizens.

May they be guided by the sentiment expressed in the “Prayer for Our Country” in which we ask that “all who exercise just and rightful authority administer all affairs of state in justice and equity; that peace and security, happiness and prosperity, right and freedom may forever abide among us” (p.

130, Sabbath and Festival Prayer Book, 1968 printing, The Rabbinical Assembly of America and the United Synagogues of America).

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It is no secret that the Jewish community has, like the greater American community, become seriously polarized.

Even within our own families, those who voted for Donald Trump have been criticized and even ostracized.

But none the less, even in the face of recent events, there are Jews who painfully continue to support Trump.

The time has come to embrace the spirit of the words written in the Hebrew poet Isaac Lambdan’s 1926 poem about Masada and subsequently updated over the years to relate to the Holocaust … Never again!

I humbly suggest that those members of the Jewish community who voted for this president take the pledge: Never again!

Ed Kohl West Bloomfield

Take the time to explain to your children, grandchildren and all those whom you love and who love you that you made a mistake … that for whatever your reasons at the time, you were wrong and that you now embrace the pledge.

As we approach the High Holidays with our emphasis on atonement and repentance, what better time for all of us to embrace the concept of teshuvah and gracefully move toward healing the wounds that are causing such pain.

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Families can climb the ropes course at TreeRunner and take part in a variety of fall-themed games, activities and stations. Some of the activities include cider and donuts, pumpkin decorating, music and a bounce house.

Cost is $18 per person (normal pricing is between $40-50 per climber) and includes all activities. Fall Fest only admission is $5 per person up to six people.

For larger families, the flat fee is $30.

Funds raised by the event will help the Special Needs Department, which serves about 150 program participants between ages 5-85, continue and add to its programming. For example, its summer camping program increased 34 percent in the past two summers, serving nearly 90 campers in the 2019 camp season. “With the prevalence of special needs increasing each year, program enrollment is increasing as well.

As these numbers continue to rise, it is important that the needs of the families are being addressed and high-quality programming is available year-round,� says Stephanie Zoltowski, department director.

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Girls Photo Project Local photographer’s portraits empower girls with respect and equality.

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f pictures are worth a thousand words, then banker-turned-photographer Bari Balbes of West Bloomfield makes sure her images of girls reflect who they are, with added declarations of “equality” and “respect.”

Since spring, Balbes, owner of Bari L. Photography, has done portraits of more than 30 local children, most coming from moms who see her post about her Girls Photo Project on the Jewish Moms of Metro Detroit Facebook page.

Her project, a photographic endeavor designed to boost and empower young girls and to teach young boys — often tagalong brothers in the photos — that respecting women is part of becoming a man.

Balbes hopes as these girls grow up, they will look back at these portraits taken in their youth as a reminder and inspiration that they are worthy of respect, from themselves and from others. She charges nothing for the photos and hopes to compile them into a book to raise awareness and funding for girl’s empowerment organizations.

The project is a closure of sorts to the childhood traumas Balbes

endured as a victim of rape and molestation at the hands of men she thought she could trust.

When Balbes was in grammar school in Illinois, she wanted to take art lessons and was dropped off each week at a studio. There, she says, the art teacher’s son molested her.

“I was never a quitter,” said Balbes, now almost 60. “But I told my parents going to the studio made me nervous. It didn’t occur to me back then that I should tell my parents what happened, but I told my parents I never wanted to go back to that studio again, and I never returned.”

Then at age 17 in 1977, she was raped by her riding instructor.

Balbes, who loved spending much of her childhood around stables riding and jumping Thoroughbred horses, said her attacker called her a dirty Jew after the incident.

If ever a girl or a woman is assaulted, they need to know it is never their fault, Balbes says.

The photographer says she hopes these powerful portraits will teach girls wherever they are that if someone has assaulted them at some point in their lives, they should continued on page 16

“I want boys to know and learn they should treat girls with respect and equality before they become young men.”

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continued from page 14 ABOVE: The Ostroff kids: Noa, 15, Maia, 13, and Eli, 11. RIGHT: Balbes photographs a child as moms look on. Sydney Stibor is interested in art.

never feel they have to shut it away but can be empowered by speaking out and getting heard.

“At that moment (when I was raped), my voice was lost,” Balbes recalls. “When something like that happens, you lose the ability to express yourself. The trauma of a rape is devastating and affects every aspect of your life. It took me years of help, support from friends, parents and family, and therapy to make me feel I was worth it.

“This is where this project comes from. I want girls to know they are worthy of self-respect and respect from others. I want boys to know and learn they should treat girls with respect and equality before they become young men. I want the girls to look back at these photos with pride and as a reminder they can achieve anything they want.”

Recently, she received a special tribute for her work to empower girls from the state of Michigan.

SELF-EXPRESSION During the photo sessions, which happen around town or in Balbes’ home studio on a lake in West Bloomfield, children can wear what-

ever makes them feel like themselves.

Some wear superhero costumes or a white lab coat with a toy stethoscope. Other girls begin the photo shoot wearing their soccer cleats or sports jerseys and later will change into their favorite dresses.

Like most kids, Jennifer Ostroff’s three children: Noa, 15, Maia, 13, and Eli, 11, usually don’t jump up off the sofa and offer to get photographed together. But Ostroff of West Bloomfield says her kids were happy to participate once they learned of the project’s purpose.

“They loved spending time with Bari by the lake,” Ostroff says. “It was a great way to wind down summer. During the school year, there is so much stress about grades. It is nice to have a moment captured where we can just appreciate kids for who they are. And to show they are all beautiful, and physically and mentally strong from the inside out.”

Ostroff said Noa chose to pose with an Israeli flag around her shoulders because this winter she will attend school in Israel through the Ramah Tichon Ramah Yerushalayim program. She held a sign that said “Connect,” as she hopes on her

return to strengthen the connection between the United States and Israel.

Balbes says in her own life, she was grateful for a successful, 16-year career at Quicken Loans while raising her two daughters, now 27 and 32, as a single mom. She now has five grandchildren. She thanks her husband, Jonathan, a custom home builder, for his support in allowing her to pursue this second career.

Photography allows her creativity to emerge, but also is an homage to her father, who always had a camera in hand to record memories.

Balbes started out photographing special family events like milestone birthday parties and graduations and did special projects for the Animal Rescue League. Then hit upon the Girls Project.

Before she works with her subjects, she explains her intentions to the kids, some as young as 4 or 5, in a language they can all understand: cake.

“I explain to them that if we only have one piece of cake, we should split it equally between boys and girls,” Balbes says. “That’s how it should be in life, and it is astounding how quickly they get it.” continued on page 18

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Balbes says it has been an honor photographing so many children, to gain their trust enough to take photographs where they are allowed to be their truest selves.

One favorite photo that had a life-changing impact was a session she did with 10-year-old Emily Aidenbaum of West Bloomfield.

At first, Aidenbaum was not so sure about taking a picture if it meant her newly acquired hearing aid would show. It was late July and soon she’d be a fifth grader at Hickory Woods Elementary in Walled Lake, where she’d be the only kid there with a hearing aid. But with a little coaxing from mom and Balbes, she posed with a wide grin and tucked her hair behind her ear to show off the device.

Mom Jaclyn Aidenbaum says her daughter took one look at herself in the developed photo and it changed her entire outlook. Instead of being self-conscious about having to wear something that would make her stand out as different, she now saw her hear-

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ing aid as her personal superpower.

“Once she saw that photo, everything just clicked,” Aidenbaum says.

“Now she shows off her hearing aid and talks about it openly. It’s like her superpower, and this project gave her that confidence boost to show it off to the world just as that.”

Aidenbaum says Balbes finds a way in her photography to reveal inner aspects of her subjects that will be appreciated for years to come. Since wearing her hearing aid, Aidenbaum says much has opened up for her daughter. She can socialize better with friends. She hears the chirping of faraway birds. Now, she looks forward to attending school as well as religious school at Adat Shalom in Farmington Hills, all because of her improved hearing — and because of that photograph where she beams with confidence.

Aidenbaum’s son Bradley, 8, also got in the shots holding signs of support. She says when it comes to raising boys, it can be tricky to balance

how to teach them to be “gentlemen and menstches” while at the same time wanting them to respect girls and eventually women as equals.

Sari Zalesin, a single mother who has had a successful career in the radio industry, including as a founder of XM radio and as one of the National Hockey League’s first female public address announcers in 1993, says her daughter, Laila Rose Goodstein, 9, participated in the photo project because she wanted to teach her girls can be tough yet still lead with a tender, kind heart.

“I wanted to teach Laila that the glass ceiling no longer exists,” said Zalesin of Berkeley. “You can lead with kindness in this world as a woman. You can be that tough girl on the soccer field but still have an inner softness.”

Bari Balbes will be photographing girls the first Saturday of every month to keep growing the Girls Photo Project. If you are interested, contact her at (248) 766-3676 or email her at bari@bariphoto.com.

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hortly after Labor Day, Tamarack Camps enacted a workforce reduction in response to an approximate $250,000 budget deficit, according to a formal statement from the organization.

The reduction resulted in seven full-time and two parttime positions being eliminated. Responsibilities have been reassigned among existing team members, the statement said, with sufficient resources to successfully cover all programs.

Gone from the Tamarack “team” page on the agency’s website are photos and information about those who are part of the workforce reduction, some who had held high-level positions.

CEO Steve Engel has led the team since 2010.

In its statement, Tamarack attributed the financial Steve Engel deficit to shortfalls in anticipated camper tuition and off-season rental income. More than 1,000 youth participated in Tamarack summer programs, consistent with past years.

Tamarack Camps, established nearly 120 years ago as the Fresh Air Society, operates Camp Maas in Ortonville with 1,100 acres of woods, private lakes, nature trails and the Farber Farm. It also runs teen travel trips and outpost programs, family camps and yearround programming, manages the Jewish Community Center day camp, hosts Israeli campers each summer, takes its own teen mission to Israel every other year, runs a special needs camper program and more.

The organization has a national reputation among Jewish camps. And, over its long histo-

ry, the camp has a strong legacy of campers spanning generations of Jewish Detroiters.

Tamarack Camps has a $9.1 million operating budget. As an agency of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, it receives an annual allocation from the Campaign/Challenge Fund. Amounts fluctuate from year to year, as with other agencies, because of donor designations as well as agency and community needs.

In fiscal year 2017-2018, Tamarack Camps received $493,242. In 2018-2019, the amount was $632,662 (up significantly because of real estate needs); and $617,211 for 20192020, with money allocated for its Israel mission.

“As our community understands, workforce reductions are sometimes necessary to ensure that an organization remains sustainable, efficient and high-performing,” the statement said.

“We are certain that these actions will allow the agency to continue to provide the high-quality programming, services and rich informal Jewish education that our community has come to expect. We have undertaken this effort as a steward of community dollars, taking into consideration our best projections of community demographics, philanthropy and needs.”

A statement from Federation supported Tamarack’s decision to reduce its workforce.

“Understanding that staff reductions are difficult decisions to make,” the Federation statement said, “we support Tamarack’s commitment to maintaining fiscal responsibility and to ensuring the ongoing strength and vitality of the organization.”

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abbi Asher Lopatin is in line to take over as the new executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC, pursuant to passing final employment checks.

Last summer, Lopatin was welcomed by Detroit’s Modern Orthodox community as rabbi at Kehillat Etz Chayim, a congregation started by a group of families in Huntington Woods.

He also launched the Detroit Center for Civil Discourse, a not-for-profit program co-directed by Professor Saeed Khan, a senior lecturer at Wayne State University, that recently welcomed its first cohort of fellows, who will work on projects that promote respectful debate.

According to a JCRC/AJC source, once Lopatin is officially welcomed as JCRC/AJC executive director, he will continue on the board of the Detroit Center for Civil Discourse but not take a salary. The source said Lopatin plans to continue as rabbi for the 35 families of Kehillat Etz Chayim.

Lopatin earned a bachelor’s degree at Boston University and a master’s degree in medieval Arab thought as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University, where he also began work on his doctorate in international relations. He returned to the U.S. to attend Yeshiva University’s rabbinical program, where he received ordination.

For 18 years, Lopatin served as rabbi of Anshe Shalom B’nai Israel, a Modern Orthodox congregation in Chicago. Prior to

coming to Detroit, Lopatin led Yeshiva Chovevei Torah, a liberal Orthodox rabbinical seminary in the Bronx, N.Y. Lopatin’s made a name for himself as a maverick, a spiritual leader who Rabbi Asher to stake unpopular is unafraid Lopatin halachic (legal) positions on women’s roles in the synagogue, gay marriage, conversion and other topics that have occasionally put him in the crosshairs of the Orthodox rabbinate.

Last year, Lopatin told the JN he decided to come to Detroit because his wife, Rachel, a Hillel Day School alumna, wanted to be closer to her father, Dr. Warren Tessler (she was raised in West Bloomfield), and he was also “excited about being in a city in the midst of a rebirth.” The family lives in Huntington Woods, and their children attend Farber Hebrew Day School in Southfield.

“I’m interested in broader questions of race in America, Israelis and Palestinians, issues of gentrification and affordable housing, social justice issues,” Lopatin told the JN last summer, adding that the move to Detroit would fulfill his desire to be “involved in the Jewish community and to take on broader issues we care about in America and the world.”

The Detroit Center for Civil Discourse website features a quote from Lopatin: “Our differences need not pull us apart.

Disagreements and divides can be an opportunity to find common ground if we engage with respect and civility.”

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The Well, an organization building inclusive Jewish community in Metro Detroit for the under-40 crowd, and the Jewish News are once again partnering on “36 Under 36” to recognize doers, activists, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, community organizers and other young Jewish professionals reshaping and broadening Metro Detroit’s Jewish community.

“In short,” Rabbi Dan Horwitz of The Well said, “we are looking for the people who give of themselves to the community in robust — and often thankless — ways. In essence, the kinds of people we admire and aspire to be, whose accomplishments we want to celebrate and who we want the world to know make their home in Metro Detroit.”

Nominations are due by Oct. 30. A special group of nine volunteer judges (none of whom are affiliated with The Well or the JN) will be reviewing submissions and choosing the 36 winners.

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Unusual Loan Detroiter’s funds to help pay back improper gift toward Netanyahu’s legal defense.

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The Times of Israel (TOI) reported that the attorney general’s announcement of Partrich’s loan not constituting a conflict of interest followed a recommendation by State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman to approve Netanyahu’s request for funding. TOI added that the prime minister had been seeking funds from friends to help defray the costs of three criminal cases pending against him.

Partrich is perhaps best known for his ownership of the photo collection of Hungarian-born Paul Goldman. Goldman captured thousands of images of Israel, spanning from 1943 to 1961, that showed the country in its infancy.

Included in Partrich’s collection is the iconic photo of Prime Minister David BenGurion doing a head stand on the beach in 1957 — a characterized model of it currently stands on the Tel Aviv beachfront.

Partrich has been long associated with Jewish causes in the Detroit metropolitan area, including Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network and Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. His name is currently on the auditorium of the Wayne State University Law School.

The Times of Israel reported that a portion of the proceeds from Partrich would go toward paying back $300,000 Netanyahu received from American businessman Nathan Milikowsky, which the Permits Committee of the State Comptroller’s Office said he must return.

The attorney general had previously announced that he intended to indict Netanyahu in the above-referenced cases.

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Jacobs approached fellow Detroiter Joshua Goldberg about playing the role of host. Goldberg is heavily involved in the Metro Detroit Jewish community and genuinely enjoys learning from his elders — plus, he isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty in the kitchen.

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The company, Watergen, had an impressive booth that drew attendees in, but it had an even Rabbi Jason more impressive A. Miller claim. The company, which is only a decade old, creates fresh drinking water from thin air using ground-breaking Israeli technology.

As I listened to the spokesperson tell me about how Watergen can create clean drinking water for entire cities, I naturally thought about the water crisis in Flint, which is an ongoing problem for the residents there even if the news coverage has declined. Rather than trucking in countless plastic bottles of drinking water to Flint, why not allow Watergen to set up their innovative technology and end the crisis?

Apparently, I wasn’t the only one to think of this solution.

Yehuda Kaploun, president of Watergen USA and responsible for coordinating strategic

development and partnerships throughout the United States, also was puzzled as to why his company Yehuda wasn’t putting Kaploun its solutions into place in the one American city that needed it most. Apparently, Watergen tried to convince city officials in Flint to use its technology, but they were resistant. They were content with continuing to distribute plastic water bottles to Flint residents, which is obviously not the best financial solution or the most environmentally conscious option.

A CHANCE ENCOUNTER CHANGED EVERYTHING The Flint water crisis seems to be ending thanks to a chance encounter between two men. Armstrong Williams, the political commentator and entrepreneur, was in Washington, Armstrong D.C., this past Williams May at an event to celebrate Israel’s 71st birthday. Upon leaving the event, Williams noticed the Watergen machine outcontinued on page 32

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side the Mellen Auditorium, where the event was held.

Yehuda Kaploun was standing next to the machine, and Williams introduced himself and asked him about the technology. Kaploun excitedly told Williams, who operates a local television station in Flint, about Watergen’s innovative process that turns air into clean drinking water. “Would this work in Flint?�

Williams asked. When Kaploun explained that Watergen is the solution to the water crisis in Flint, Williams agreed to make the connections that would expedite its use there.

Williams got in touch with the general manager of Flint’s NBC25, who introduced the men to Bishop R.L. Jones, a pastor in Flint committed to community outreach. The pastor’s Bishop RL community cenJones ter was providing more than 10,000 bottles of drinking water per week to Flint residents. He was thrilled to replace the plastic bottles with a donated Watergen system. His Flint community now replenishes its water supply (approximately 234 gallons per day) without waiting for weekly bottled water deliveries.

THE TECHNOLOGY Watergen’s solution is based on an Israeli technology invented by soldiers who were stuck in a tank without enough water. Air is drawn into the Watergen atmospheric water generator, where it is thoroughly cleaned, removing dust and dirt. The clean air is then directed through a heating and cooling process, bringing it to its dew point to create water. The water then gets channeled through a multi-stage filtering system

to remove impurities, add minerals, and maintain its health properties and fresh taste. After the water reaches premium quality, it is either stored in a built-in or external reservoir where it is kept fresh or connected to the water grid of buildings, neighborhoods and cities, delivering clean water directly to residents’ taps.

The company, which was acquired recently by RussianIsraeli entrepreneur and industrial philanthropist Michael Mirilashvili, has a local connection. Elliot Grossbard, vice president of sales for Watergen USA, is originally from Metro Detroit. Grossbard told me that Watergen’s commitment to solving the Flint water crisis has personal meaning for him because of his local Michigan roots.

Flint lawmakers have been hesitant to implement Watergen’s Israeli technology, but that chance encounter between Kaploun and Williams, which led to Bishop Jones, might go down in history as the encounter that solved the Flint water crisis. Watergen isn’t going to stop with Flint.

The company is committed to solving the world’s drinking water problem, which affects an estimated 1.2 billion people.

The $75,000 Watergen machine is being used all over the world to provide drinking water solutions in disaster-affected regions and is beginning a major rollout in the United States. The irony is that the technology innovation that could solve the world’s drinking water scarcity comes from Israel — the tiny country in the desert.

Rabbi Jason Miller is an entrepreneur and educator. He is president of Access Technology in West Bloomfield. Follow him on Twitter at @RabbiJason.

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Mimi Markofsky, founder of the Shtisel, Let’s talk about It! Facebook site, will assist in interviewing the actors.

Two Farber Hebrew Day School students — Jaden Jubas and Cobi Smith — will be honored for their lifesaving work with United Hatzalah of Israel this summer while on the NCSY summer program.

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MAY 28, 2019 Maya Weitzer and Matt Elia of Brighton joyfully announce the birth of their child, Chloe Isabella Elia. Adoring grandparents are Margo Pernick and Paul Goldshlack, Ilan and Carolyn Weitzer, and Judy and Paul Elia. Thrilled great-grandmothers are Anne Pernick and Olga Gadzella. Chloe Isabella is named in memory of her maternal great-grandmother Bella Weitzer.

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Alec Robert Pierce will lead the congregation in prayer as he becomes a bar mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. He will be joined in celebration by his proud parents, Lynda Pierce and Jeff Pierce, and sisters Sydney and Paige.

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Abigale Elise Schmitz, surrounded by family and friends, will lead the congregation in prayer as she becomes a bat mitzvah on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019, at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. She will be joined in celebration by her proud parents, Karin and Ross Schmitz, and sister Emily.

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his week’s Torah portrary, the children of Israel tion underscores the demonstrate their unworthiness complexity in the and lack of faith repeatedly. relationship between God and This necessitated a second Israel, specifically the notion of dimension be added to the chosen-ness. promissory covenant with The heart of it is the juxtapo- Abraham, an “obligatory covesition of Divine blessings nant,” based on a series and curses, which could of commandments given be termed promises and

by God at Mount Sinai. threats. The blessings/ It is this conditional relapromises, which boil tionship Moses explains down essentially to a multiple times in the life of contentment in Book of Deuteronomy.

Howard the Land of Israel, are The most well-known Lupovitch followed by the tochecha, iteration is the second a protracted admonparagraph of the Shema, Parshat ishment by Moses of which lays out this conKiTavo: the people of Israel that Deuteronomy ditional relationship sucthreatens to withhold cinctly: rain, crops and 26:1-29:8; these blessings if the a life of happiness and Isaiah people transgress. contentment if you fulfill 60:1-22.

As such, this prothe commandments; tracted recitation of blessings drought, hunger and a life of and curses weaves together the desolation if you do not. two layers of God’s covenant In short, entitlement to the with the chosen people: a benefits of chosenness becomes covenant based on a Divine tied to the fulfillment of mitzpromise, described in the Book vot; failure to do so results in of Genesis and one based on an God withdrawing the rewards, array of obligations or mitzvot, regardless of the promise to described beginning in the Abraham.

Book of Exodus.

Thus, the complexity of In the covenant with the God’s relationship with Israel: patriarchs, God promises The people are chosen unconAbraham, Isaac and Jacob a ditionally but required conmultiple of descendants “as tinuously to prove themselves numerous as the stars in the worthy of chosen-ness. heavens” and possession of the Beyond the daunting nature Land of Israel (“the promised of rebuke lies the encouraging land”) in perpetuity. This dual fact that whether any of this promise was given unconcomes to fruition depends ditionally in recognition of entirely on the actions, the Abraham’s infinite loyalty as an deliberate, chosen actions of the entitlement to his descendants, people of Israel.The latter is the chosen people. never consigned to be passive By the time we get to the recipients of a Divine promise Book of Exodus, entitlement but tasked to be active parbased on an unconditional ticipants in determining their promise has already proven to destiny. be a less than adequate guaranDr. Howard N. Lupovitch is director of tee that Abraham’s descendants WSU’s Cohn-Haddow Center for will be worthy of reaping the Judaic Studies. eternal reward. On the con-

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Supporting actor, comedy series: Henry Winkler, 73, Barry, and Alan Arkin, 85, The Kominsky Method. Arkin and Winkler compete with Tony Shalhoub, who isn’t Jewish, but is nominated for playing a Jewish character in The Amazing Mrs. Maisel; Supporting actress, comedy series: Alex Borstein, 48, Mrs. Maisel and Sarah Goldberg, 34, Barry. Borstein and Goldberg compete with Marin Hinkle, who isn’t Jewish, but plays a Jewish character in Mrs. Maisel; Supporting actress, drama series: Julia Garner, 25, Ozark; Supporting actress, limited series: Patricia Arquette (whose late mother was Jewish), The Act. ACTING NOTES The Arquette-King competition for the lead actress Emmy (above) is a bit weird. Arquette

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Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin won 2019 Golden Globe awards for their Kominsky Method roles. The series began in November 2018 and this is its first year for Emmy consideration. Both have good chances to win the Emmy. However, I think Tony Shalhoub, who lost to Henry Winkler last year, will probably best Winkler (and others) this year in the supporting actor category. Winkler was a sentimental favorite in 2018. He had been nominated six times before he finally won an Emmy last year.

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DIRECTING/WRITING NOTES Amy Sherman-Palladino competes with her husband, Daniel Palladino, for best director, comedy. They co-created Mrs. Maisel and they each directed a Maisel episode that was nominated.

Natasha Lyonne’s acting and writing nominations are wonderful “ratifications” of her amazing comeback. She had a pretty hot career in good films like The Slums of Beverly Hills

(1998), but she gradually fell into alcohol and heroin use and seemed on a terminal slide in 2004-5 (arrests, etc.). But she totally cleaned-up her act and gradually re-built her career.

She was helped by a big part on Orange is the New Black from 2013-2019.

Michael Tolkin’s father, Mel Tolkin (1913-2007), was a great, Emmy-winning comedy writer who wrote for everybody big in his era (Sid Caesar, Danny Kaye, Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope).

BEST SERIES/ MOVIE CATEGORIES The “best” awards are normally given to the producers of the nominated program. My practice is to list the nominated shows and TV movie(s) that have a Jewish creator or co-creator. Usually the creator(s) are a producer of their show, too.

Comedy series: Curb Your Enthusiasm, created by Larry David, 72; and Glow, co-created by Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, 36ish; and Silicon Valley, co-created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler, 56, and Dave Krinsky, 56; Drama series: Game of Thrones, created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (above); and The Americans,

created by Joe Weisberg, 50ish; and The Crown, created by Peter Morgan, 56; and The Handmaid’s Tale, created by Bruce Miller (above); and This is Us, created by Dan Fogelman, 43; Variety sketch series: Drunk History, co-created by Derek Waters and Jeremy Dan Fogelman Konner, 39ish; and I Love You America, created by Sarah Silverman, 48; Limited series: Chernobyl, created by Craig Mazin (above); and Fosse/Verdon, created by Steven Levenson (above) and Thomas Kail; and Escape at Dannemora, co-created by Michael Tolkin (above) and Brett Johnson; TV movie: Deadwood: The Movie, written by David Milch, 74, creator of the Deadwood series.

“BEST” NOTES Craig Mazin, nominated for writing and creating Chernobyl, was Sen. Ted Cruz’s roommate when they both were freshmen at Princeton.

Glow, co-created by Carly Mensch, has some Jewish content and I figured that somebody named Mensch connected with this show had to be Jewish.

But so far as I can tell, nobody has asked Mensch, a respected playwright, about her background. Well, I checked family history sources and found out that both her parents are Jewish and her paternal grandfather, an orphan who became a big guy in the suburban lumber business, was born Israel Mensch(!) Is there a more Jewish name than that? (He went by the name Edward I. Mensch as an adult).

INTERNATIONAL NOTE Miguel Sapochnik, Stephen Frears, Sacha Baron Cohen and Dan Mazer are Brits. Eugene Levy, Sarah Goldberg and Nathan Fiedler are Canadians.

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In Your Kitchen Recipes reflect wishes for a good, sweet new year.

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he High Holidays are upon us. And, as with all Jewish holidays, we should serve “special” foods — those different from what we normally eat on “regular” days.

Judging by the frantic queries I’ve received, I guess this is not as simple as I think it is.

Let’s talk about Annabel Cohen this.

Good and sweet are High Holiday words exchanged from one to another, from greetings to prayers to the foods we eat.

So, High Holiday foods are, therefore, sweeter than any time of the year.

The following recipes are traditionally served for Rosh Hashanah. They’re tried and true — and a little traditional and a little not.

SIX-INGREDIENT BRISKET This simple recipe is very little work. It’s a combination of my mother’s recipe and some of my own tweaks. It’s everyone’s favorite. Bake it; chill overnight; slice and finish baking the next day.

Ingredients: 2 packets onion soup mix (any kind)

5 cups chopped onions 5- to 6-pound first-cut or single-cut beef brisket, trimmed of large layer of fat (if not already trimmed). ½ cup ketchup 2 cups red wine (any kind) 1 can (15 ounces) diced tomatoes with juice Directions: Preheat to 325ºF. Arrange onions in a large roasting pan or disposable aluminum pan large enough to hold the brisket comfortably. Place the brisket fat side up over the onions. Sprinkle the dry soup mix around the sides of the brisket. Pour the tomatoes and ketchup sauce over the onion soup mix. Add the wine and enough water so that the liquid reaches at least halfway up the sides of the brisket.

Cover the pan tightly with foil and cook for 3½ hours. Remove from oven and cool to warm before chilling overnight.

The next day, remove the foil and discard concealed fat from the meat, if any (the fat will be orange from the tomatoes).

Preheat oven to 250ºF. Place the beef on a cutting board. Slice the beef AGAINST the grain (you will see the grain as long lines — cut across them, not in the same direction of

the grain. This is very important so that the beef will not be “stringy.”)

Transfer the juices in the pan to the bowl of a food processor or pitcher of a blender and process or blend until smooth.

Transfer the cut meat slices back to a pan (place them next to each other as you cut them to form the roast again) or into an attractive ovenproof baking/ serving dish. Pour the blended or processed sauce over and around the beef and cook, uncovered, for 1 to 2 more hours (test the beef for tenderness and seasonings; it may need more salt). Cover with foil and keep warm until ready to serve. Makes 10-12 servings.

SAVORY ROAST CHICKEN BREASTS So simple and delicious. The brown sugar adds a little touch of sweetness to savory chicken.

Ingredients: For the chicken: 2 pounds boneless and skinless chicken breasts Olive oil For the rub: 2 Tbsp. brown sugar 1 Tbsp. paprika 1 Tbsp. dried parsley flakes 1 tsp. dried thyme leaves

1 tsp. granulated garlic ¾ tsp. kosher salt ½ tsp. fresh ground pepper Directions: Preheat oven to 425ºF. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil or parchment.

Pound chicken breasts lightly (between two pieces of plastic) to as much of an even thickness as possible. If the breasts are large (8 ounces or more), cut them in half horizontally into “cutlets,” then pound it lightly. Repeat with all the chicken.

Combine rub ingredients in a small bowl and stir well.

Rub the chicken all over with olive oil. Sprinkle the chicken with the rub and “rub” it on all sides (use all the rub).

Arrange on the baking sheet in a single layer. Cook for 15 minutes, or until golden. Do not overcook. Wait 5 minutes before serving or cutting into pieces.

Makes 4-6 servings. Alternately, you grill the chicken on medium-high for about 6 minutes per side.

BROWN SUGAR APPLESAUCE KUGEL WITH HONEY DRIZZLE This is pareve so you can eat it with meat or fish or whatever. It’s simple and a perfect side dish. continued on page 46

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Chocolate Chip Mandelbread

For the topping: ½ cup warmed honey Directions: Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 9- by 13-inch baking dish well with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.

Bring a large pot of water to boil over high heat and cook noodles for 5 minutes. Drain the noodles (do not rinse) and transfer to a large bowl. Add the oil and toss well. Set aside.

Whisk together remaining ingredients and stir into the noodles. Dust with more cinnamon.

Transfer to the prepared baking dish and cover with foil.

Bake for 30 minutes. Uncover and bake for 30 minutes more. Drizzle with warm honey.

Cool before cutting into squares and serving. Makes 12 to 20 servings, depending on the size of the squares.

ROASTED LEMON AND GARLIC BROCCOLI Ingredients: 3 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil 3 pounds broccoli florets

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½ cup water 3 Tbsp. thin-sliced garlic ¼ tsp. crushed red pepper flakes Salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 Tbsp. fresh lemon juice Directions: Preheat to 425°F. Combine all ingredients — except lemon juice — in a roasting pan.

Cover and bake for 10 minutes.

Uncover and bake for 10 minutes more. Adjust salt and black pepper to taste, drizzle with the lemon juice and serve hot, warm or at room temperature. Makes 8-10 servings.

CHOCOLATE CHIP MANDELBREAD This is among my most requested recipes. I slice it thin (about ⅓-inch) and toast it until golden.

Ingredients: ¾ cup vegetable oil 1 cup sugar 3 large eggs 2 tsp. baking powder 3 cups flour 1 cup mini chocolate chips

LEMON COINS Coins portend a year of prosperity during this season. These lemon coins are pretty and lightly sweet and tart.

Ingredients: 2½ cups flour ½ tsp. kosher salt 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature ¾ cup sugar 2 Tbsp. finely grated lemon zest 1 tsp. vanilla extract 4 large egg yolks

Directions: Whisk flour and salt in a medium bowl.

Using an electric mixer on medium-high speed, beat butter, sugar, lemon zest and vanilla in a large bowl, occasionally scraping sides until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.

Add egg yolks; beat just to blend. Reduce speed to low; add flour mixture and beat, occasionally scraping sides, just to blend.

Divide dough in half; roll each half into a 10-inch long log about 1¾ inches in diameter.

Wrap in plastic and chill until firm, about 1 hour. Do ahead: Can be made 2 days ahead.

Keep chilled.

Preheat to 350°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Unwrap 1 dough log.

Wet the log (use your hands) with water.

Sprinkle sugar (sanding sugar is better) on a rimmed baking sheet. Roll the “log” in the sugar.

Using a sharp, lightly floured knife, cut log into ¼-inch thick rounds. Transfer to prepared sheets, spacing 1 inch apart.

Bake until cookies are firm and golden brown around edges, about 16 minutes.

Let cool completely before removing from the pan. Repeat with remaining dough log, using cooled baking sheets. Makes about 5-6 dozen, depending on the size.

All recipes ©Annabel Cohen 2019 annabelonthemenu@gmail.com.

For the topping: Combine in a small bowl: ¼ cup sugar 1 tsp. ground cinnamon Directions: Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment and set aside.

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Ingredients: 1 pound wide egg noodles 2 Tbsp. olive oil (not extravirgin) 5 large eggs, whisked 3 cups unsweetened applesauce 2 tsp. cinnamon ½ cup brown sugar ½ tsp. kosher salt

electric mixer.

Add the eggs and mix until incorporated.

Mix in the baking powder.

Add the flour, 1 cup at a time, mixing until just incorporated (do not over mix).

Stir in the chips until uniform.

Form the mixture into two identical logs on the prepared baking sheet (the batter will be thick). Bake for about 30-35 minutes, until the logs are dry and set. Remove from the oven to cool for about 30 minutes.

Cut the logs into ⅓-inch slices and arrange the slices, cut-side down on the baking sheet (the slices may not all fit, so you may have to bake again in batches).

Sprinkle the slices with the cinnamon/sugar (just on one side). Bake the slices for 10-15 minutes, until they are golden.

Remove from the oven to cool completely. Store in an airtight container for up to one month.

Makes 3-4 dozen mandelbread.

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Seize the Spirit

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Rosh Hashanah apple cake bake-off fit for reality television and another installment in the Scarlet and Sam series from the award-winning author Eric A. Kimmel are among the highlights in the crop of new High Holiday books for children.

Six engaging and fun reads for kids of all ages seize the spirit of the Jewish holidays and the excitement and anticipation of beginning anew, reflecting on the past, and celebrating the warmth and joy of Jewish traditions with family and friends.

Kimmel’s Whale of a Tale provides a modern-day riff on the biblical Book of Jonah read aloud in synagogues on Yom Kippur, preaching forgiveness over revenge. The master storyteller adds his laugh-out-loud wit to this ancient and intriguing story.

In Once Upon an Apple Cake, the children’s book debut for author Elana Rubinstein, you get a zany, charming story of the meaning of family and the strength of Jewish tradition.

Not to mention a terrific recipe, too.

Other offerings bring the Sesame Street characters led

by Grover and a brilliantly colorful biblical story of Creation by another awardwinning author, Ann Koffsky.

Not to mention for Sukkot, an elephant making his way into a sukkah.

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The Jewish New Year begins on the night of Sept. 29.

When zaydie bumps his head, he temporarily forgets the secret to the cake. Will Saralee rise to the occasion, bake the perfect cakes and win a contest judged by a famous food critic? More than anything, Saralee wishes that her grandfather returns home from the hospital for Rosh Hashanah.

The cartoon illustrations by Jennifer Naalchigar add zest to Rubinstein’s efforts. The recipe is included at the end of the book.

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Suddenly, they find themselves transported to Jaffa in ancient Israel amid carpet sellers in the shouk (market). They stow away on a ship, where they reunite with Jonah, who they learn is the biblical prophet. The stormy caper shines with references to the biblical tale, as the kids and Jonah go overboard and are swallowed up in the slimy belly of a big fish (is it really a prehistoric shark, they fear?). With fierce determination, the clever kids prod the reluctant Jonah to travel to Nineveh, to be faithful to God and justice, and to speak out to the ruthless Assyrian king.

Ivica Stevanovic’s animated illustrations embellish the drama.

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Once Upon an Apple Cake: A Rosh Hashanah Story Elana Rubinstein; illustrated

by Jennifer Naalchigar Apples & Honey Press; ages 7-10 In this humor-filled, heartwarming chapter book, readers meet Saralee, an endearing 10-year-old Jewish girl whose cutelooking nose possesses the unusual superpower to sniff out scents and flavors. As Rosh Hashanah approaches, Saralee, whose family owns a restaurant, is excited to bake her zaydie’s popular apple cake with a mystery ingredient that even Saralee can’t figure out. Trouble lay ahead when a new family opens a restaurant and threatens to take over the apple cake business.

Whale of a Tale Eric A. Kimmel; illustrations

by Ivica Stevanovic Kar-Ben; ages 6-10 Travel back in time in the third installment of the Scarlett and Sam Jewishthemed chapter book series for older readers by Kimmel (Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins). The lighthearted adventure begins when the brother and sister twins offer to take their Grandma Mina’s centuries-old carpet to be cleaned at the local rug shop.

Engrossed in conversation with their mysterious ridehailing service driver, Jonah, they forget to take the prized carpet with its aura of magic that their proudly Iran-born grandmother brought with her as she fled tyranny in her

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Joni Kibort Sussman; illustrated by Tom Leigh Kar-Ben; ages 1-4 Join Grover, Big Bird and other beloved Sesame Street characters as they welcome Rosh Hashanah with honey and apples, a shofar, and a festive meal with songs and blessings. Joni Sussman’s simple verse is perfect for reading aloud to little ones and for preschoolers eager to read on their own, paired with veteran Sesame Street artist Tom Leigh’s delightful, colorful illustrations. continued on page 50

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will relate as the friends recall misdeeds, like when Jae shared Jackie’s secret.

Chris Barash’s lovely rhyming verse comes to life in Christine Battuz’s cartoon-like drawings in warm autumn tones of browns, orange and green. On the closing page, the friends are seen from behind, walking home, again hand in hand — a palpable reminder of the power of asking for and extending forgiveness.

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The Elephant in the Sukkah Sherri Mandell; illustrated by Ivana Kuman Kar-Ben; ages 3-8 Nothing will get between a young boy named Ori and Henry, a lively elephant who once was a circus star but now is sent to a farm for old elephants where no one sings or has fun.

When Henry wanders out one evening, he is enchanted by the joyful music and singing he hears from the Brenner’s family sukkah. After a few nights, he even learns the Hebrew words.

Young Ori hears Henry singing along outside the sukkah and is determined to find a way to bring the animal inside to fulfill the mitzvah of welcoming guests.

Kids will chuckle at illustrator Ivana Kuman’s double-page spread as Henry, in his red-checkered shirt and small black cap, tries every which way to squeeze into the sukkah. On an author’s page, readers discover that the out-of-the-ordinary idea of elephants in a sukkah crossed the legalistic minds of the Talmud’s rabbis.

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That is a dark comedy about The situation fills the script cousins fighting over a gold chai of Admissions, a Joshua Harmon saved by their grandfather. play making its Michigan debut Admissions was chosen to Sept. 20-Oct. 13 at Theatre open Theatre NOVA’s fifth NOVA in Ann Arbor, where season because it tackles current new plays are the focus. issues and was considered powDiane Hill, producing artiserful and relevant. tic director, plays mom Sherri “It seems we are living in a Rosen-Mason, dean of admisperiod of accelerated hatred and sions at a New Hampshire prep more overt discrimination,” she school, where her husband, Bill says. “In many ways, we abhor (Joe Bailey), is headmaster. They it so much that we’re almost have worked years to needing to disassocidiversify their admisate ourselves from it.”

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by David Wolber, Sept. 20-Oct. 13 at also features Jeremy brought up in this Theatre NOVA, 410 W. Kucharek as Charlie play are just a small part of a much larger Huron, Ann Arbor. $22 Luther Mason, Sarah and pay-what-you- Burcon as Ginnie conversation,” says can. (734) 635-8450. Peters and Cynthia Hill, a multi-theater and film actor Szczesny as Roberta. theatrenov.org. who founded and In an interview appeared in the discontinued on the Lincoln Center Theater Two Muses Theatre, a nonprofit blog, Harmon expressed his in West Bloomfield, and was a ideas for Admissions: theater professor at University of “This play is trying to hold Detroit Mercy. up a mirror to white liberalism “I find it so interesting while remaining very conscious because you have a character of the fact this is just one narwho is liberal, progressive and row slice of a much larger conproud of her work, but, despite versation … In real life, most her best intentions, her private people are not all good or all aspirations have somewhat evil. Most of us live somewhere blinded her to what was really in between, whether or not we happening with the minority like to admit we do.”

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NEW SHOWS: STREAMING AND BROADCAST Unbelievable, an eight-episode mini-series, was released in its entirety on Netflix on Sept. 13. It follows Marie, a teen who was charged with lying about being raped, and the two female detectives who follow a long path before they arrive at the truth. The alwaysgood Toni Collette plays one of the detectives. The series was co-created by and co-written by Susannah

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The director is Adrian Grunberg, 45ish. His Jewish parents left Argentina for Spain when Grunberg was young. He grew up in Spain.

He moved to Mexico about 20 years ago and long worked in the Mexican film industry. In 2004, Mel Gibson hired him to be an assistant director on Gibson’s film Apocalypto, which was set in Mexico. In 2012, he worked with Gibson again in Get the Gringo, a well-received action film set in Mexico. It was the first head directing job for Grunberg and he co-wrote the film. By the way, Grunberg says he likes Gibson, and he learned a lot from him. I’ll just say that a lot of other Jewish colleagues of Gibson have said the same things. But, Mel has been known to have another side, and it isn’t pretty.

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15 (new episodes on Sundays at 9 p.m.). It’s also aired on Shaffer’s SiriusXM radio show. Ontario native Paul Shaffer, 69, was the original (1974) leader of the SNL house band before leaving in 1982 to lead the house bands on David Letterman’s TV talk shows. In Plus One, Shaffer talks to a lot of famous folks (mostly musicians).

Season One guests include Detroit native and Motown legend Smokey Robinson, Steely Dan co-founder Donald Fagen, 71, and Harry Shearer, 75 (in his fictional persona as Spinal Tap bassist Derek Smalls).

Prodigal Son is a crime thriller (with some dark humor) that premieres on Fox on Sept. 23 at 9 p.m. It centers on Malcolm Bright, a law enforcement profiler who is incredibly good at his job. He knows how killers think. His gift seems to be based on the fact that his father, Martin Whitly, who is still alive, was a notorious serial killer.

Halston Sage, 26, has a big supporting role as Ainsley, Malcolm’s sister. She’s a successful TV journalist with a good sense of humor and that humor helps her maintain a good relationship with her very weird brother.

Stumptown starts on ABC on Sept. 25 at 10:30 p.m. Cobie Smulders stars as a tough private investigator with a military intelligence background. Camryn Manheim (The Practice), 58, has a biggish supporting role as police lieutenant Cosgrove.

Zingerman’s To Host Joan Nathan For A Rosh Hashanah Meal Zingerman’s Roadhouse in Ann Arbor is hosting a pre-Rosh Hashanah dinner with Joan Nathan, the James Beard Award-winning cookbook author (and a University of Michigan grad), at 7 p.m.

Monday, Sept. 23, at the restaurant.

Nathan, who has written 11 books and has been called “the queen of Jewish cooking,” will share Rosh Hashanah traditions and stories from her lifetime of traveling the globe.

The special dinner features some of Nathan’s recipes recreated by the Roadhouse staff — hummus with preserved lemon and cumin; gefilte fish mold, carrot Mahammar with dried clementines, ricotta and fennel; Moroccan lamb shanks with carmelized onions and a dried fruit sauce; Bene Israel fish curry with fresh ginger, tamarind and cilantro; and dates in brown butter with vanilla ice cream, date syrup and halvah crumble — all from Nathan’s King Solomon’s Table.

“Rosh Hashanah is a new beginning, a wonderful harvest festival,” she told the JN. “I feel every holiday is good because of the foods — old and new. And, at the holidays, there are foods you only have one time a year. It’s so important; it’s a way Jews have held on to tradition for so many years.”

Nathan shared that she’s working on a new book, “a memoir in food.”

Dinner courses will be paired with wine selections from Michigan’s Laurentide Winery.

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9:30 am, Sept. 22. The Adat Shalom Synagogue Sisterhood invites you to make scarves, hats and afghans for charity. No experience necessary. Info: 248-8515100.

SHABBAT DINNER 5:30 pm, Sept. 20. At Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue. Shabbat dinner with Hillel of Metro Detroit.

Welcome new and returning students. RSVP: programcoordinator@ downtownsynagogue.org. Free.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 21 BENEFIT GALA 6 pm, Sept. 21. The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research will host its annual Detroit gala at The Henry Hotel in Dearborn. Cocktails, seated dinner, dancing and entertainment. Ticket info: teamfoxinthed.com.

SELICHOT SERVICE 6:30 pm, Sept. 21. Observe Selichot at Temple Kol Ami with gourmet chocolates and chamber music, a ceremonial changing of the Torah covers to white, a candlelit debut of the TKA High Holiday choir and a shofar blast. Open to the community.

HOLIDAY LEARNING 7 pm, Sept. 21. Selichot at Temple Emanu-El. With Rabbi Abi TaylorAbt. Learning followed by refreshments and a service. Open to the community.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 22 MEDITATION & MINDFULNESS 9:30 am, Sept 22. Rabbi Aaron Bergman and Hazzan Daniel Gross will co-lead a special session at Adat Shalom designed to help participants find their “internal spirituality” and realize that Judaism and the upcoming High Holidays can lead to a happier, more fulfilling lives. Free and open to the community. Info: adatshalom.org or contact the synagogue office, 248851-5100.

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PARENTING HELP 9:30-10:45 am, Sept. 22. Navigate parenting through a Jewish lens with Jackie Issner, Ph.D., LP, and Rabbi Rachel Shere at Adat Shalom. The series, for those who care for children ages 7-12, is co-sponsored by the Adat ShalomBeth Achim Learning Community, Adult Learning Department & Sisterhood. Additional dates for the program are 9/22, 10/20 and 11/17. Each class is self-contained.

No charge for Adat Shalom members; non-members $5 per session.

RSVP Thursday before each session: 248-626-2153, sshapiro@ adatshalom.org.

MONDAY, SEPT. 23 CAREGIVER MEETING 5:30-7 pm, Sept. 23. The Dorothy & Peter Brown Adult Day Program holds free monthly family caregiver support group meetings for family caregivers of all older adults.

At JVS, 29699 Southfield Road, Southfield. For information or to RSVP: Dorothy Moon, 248-2334392, dmoon@jvsdet.org.

STUDY UNDER THE STARS Jewish Ferndale will hold its Judaism under the Stars at 1725 Pinecrest Drive in Ferndale beginning at 7:30 p.m. The presentation will be led by Rabbi Dovid Shapero, who will explain biblical and talmudic aspects of astronomy. Telescopes will be set up for viewing. The highlight will be the planet Neptune. The program is free and appropriate for ages 10 and up. Light refreshments will be served. Info: Rabbi Herschel Finman, (248)798-5082.

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11:15 am, Sept. 20. At Adat Shalom. A program for parents and grandparents to spend time with their babies/toddlers, age 3 and younger. Older sibs are welcome.

The group will sing songs and braid challah. The program is free for Adat Shalom members and $3/family for nonmembers. Reservations are required: Debi Banooni, dbanooni@adatshalom.org, or 248626-2153.

SEPT. 22 RASKIN HONORED The Whitney, Midtown Detroit’s 19th-century mansion turned restaurant, hosts its second annual Cityfest Legacy Dinner on Sept. 22, that features a special salute to 100-year-old, longtime Detroit Jewish News columnist Danny Raskin. The dinner includes a champagne reception, strolling dinner, open bar and live entertainment throughout the Whitney mansion.

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MUSSAR MONDAY 7 pm, Sept. 23. Adults of all ages are invited to join Rabbi Aaron Bergman at Adat Shalom for a unique approach to living a good and meaningful life. Free. RSVP: Sheila Lederman, 248-851-5100, ext. 246, or email slederman@ adatshalom.org.

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SEPT. 22 THE RFD BOYS AT 50 These Michigan bluegrass legends are celebrating 50 years of making music. Longstanding original members Dick Dieterle, (fiddle, vocals) Willard Spencer, (banjo, dobro, vocals) Charlie Roehrig (lead vocals, guitar) and Paul Shapiro (bass, vocals), along with newer members David Mosher and Charlie’s son, Dan Roehrig, bring their musicianship and humor to the Ark in Ann Arbor at 8 p.m. (The “RFD” stands for “Rural Free Delivery,” which is how farmers used to get their mail.) Over the years, the RFD Boys have written, composed and produced three albums and played various national bluegrass festivals (as well as were featured on the cover of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine). During this time, Shapiro and Dieterle also attended and graduated from medical school, Roehrig received a Ph.D. in economics and Spencer did hightech production work at his Solid Sound recording studio. The RFD Boys debuted back in 1969 and still perform two or three times a month at the Ark. Tickets are $25 at theark.org.

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10 am-noon. At Congregation B’nai Moshe in West Bloomfield.

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1 pm, Sept. 25. At the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. The King and I. Free.

7:30 pm, Sept. 25. At the Windsor Jewish Community Centre, 1641 Ouelette Ave. The Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Robert Franz, music director, will play the music of Gershwin and Mendelssohn.

Cost: $20. Tickets: jewishwindsor. org or at the door.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 26 POTTERY CLASS 11 am-1 pm, Sept. 26. Sponsored by the Active Life at the JCC West Bloomfield. Pottery classes for adults taught by Allison Berlin. All supplies included; class punch card available. Cost: $165 for 12 punches (one free class). RSVP: 248-4325467 or rchessler@jccdet.org.

BORDERS & BALLADS 8-10 pm, Sept. 26. U-M Frankel Center will present Daniel Kahn, Yeva Lapsker and Jake ShulmanMent Britton at the Recital Hall, Earl V. Moore Building, 1100 Baits Drive., Ann Arbor. An intimate polyglot program in Yiddish, English, Russian, German and French, featuring images and surtitles. Free event.

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Suitember is designed to highlight both the benefits of dressing well and helping local charities in each store’s community.

While “anything goes” dress codes have spread across the country, customers say wearing a suit makes a man more effective. In short, suits project a powerful image.

Baron’s will be fundraising with the Friendship Circle of Michigan. Baron’s Wholesale Clothiers is closed to the public; however, Thursday evenings in September are reserved for supporters of Friendship Circle.

Ten percent of their sales will go back to Friendship Circle, a nonprofit that supports 3,000 individuals with special needs and their families.

Todd’s Menswear is hosting a Trade in Trade Up event for Suitember. Customers will receive rebates up to $50 for a new suit with each suit they trade in. These suits will be donated to Unified – HIV Health and Beyond, formerly the AIDS Partnership Michigan. Suits donated will be used for their closet service, providing outfits for their clients.

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ith the idea of continuing the rejuvenation of Detroit’s economic landscape, as well as providing opportunities across the country, dynamic young adults are creating cutting-edge businesses and extolling the city.

Their success is thanks to the Venture for America (VFA) Fellows Training Camp and the efforts of VFA National Board chairperson and Michigan businesswoman Randy Rubin.

colleges and universities, including Harvard, University of Michigan, Duke and UCLA, came to Detroit to participate in an intensive five-week summertime program, where they were taught and mentored by investors, venture capitalists and innovation firms in business skills such as web design, entrepreneurship and public speaking. Fellows were then placed in companies in economically challenged areas nationwide for a two-year internship, with the goal of advancing in and creating jobs for their companies or starting their own companies and becoming employers themselves.

WHAT IS VFA? Founded in 2011 by Andrew Yang, VFA is a New York-based nonprofit whose mission is “to revitalize American cities through entrepreneurship by training recent graduates and young professionals to work for start-ups in emerging cities throughout the U.S.” After their acceptance into VFA, some 200 entrepreneurial-minded graduates from

MEET RANDY RUBIN Who better to serve as a VFA board member than philanthropist, active Jewish community member and Franklin resident Rubin, a successful businesswoman in her own right?

hot topics Matt Cullen, previously CEO of Jack Entertainment, was named the new CEO of Dan Gilbert’s Bedrock LLC real estate company; and Jim Ketai, a childhood friend of Gilbert’s, announced he was leaving as chairman of Bedrock to “pursue other opportunities.” Dan Mullen, the former executive vice president of business development at Bedrock, left in June.

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h husband, h b d Craig, C i Along with she co-founded the Crypton Companies (Crypton LLC and Nanotex LLC, providers of performance fabrics in the contract, home furnishings and apparel markets) and is co-chairman of Rubin Investment Holdings LLC. Her latest business venture is a calculated load-stabilizing device, created to lock down large hauls on flatbed trucks.

As one of the founding members of Temple Shir Shalom, she has made giving back an integral value in her life. Nowhere is this more evident than in her commitment to VFA. “I’m a woman on my seventh career,” said Rubin, a Wayne State University graduate, to participants at the recent VFA training program in July. “Teacher,

VFA fellows take part in a July 2019 training program at Wayne State University

paralegal,l trainer, conference i f director/spokesperson, marketing consultant, textile owner. And I typically put the VFA before most of my other ventures.

“I got involved with VFA after countless meetings with nonprofit organizations. I couldn’t find that special spark I was looking for until VFA and ended up on the national board two years ago.

“It’s a small board of amazingly talented people with a staff and director who are eager and ready to learn and implement.

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the company will add 90,000 square feet of office space in Michigan, the Detroit Free Press reports. The expansions are expected to be complete by the end of 2020 in Detroit, and the end of 2021 in Ann Arbor.

THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS “I learned about VFA through a chance meeting with Andrew Yang and became a VFA fellow when I graduated in 2016,” said Avi Atkin, product manager at Ford Autonomous Vehicles. “My favorite part of the experience has been getting to know the other Avi Atkin fellows and alumni. One of the core values Randy and VFA have taught me is our impact at work should extend not just

Deloitte’s Davidoff to Retire At Year’s End Next up: President and CEO of The Fisher Group.

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ark A. Davidoff, Michigan managing partner at Deloitte LLP, will retire on Dec. 31 then join the Fisher Group as president/CEO, effective Jan. 2, 2020.

The Fisher Group, based in Southfield, is a single-family office for the three-generation family members of Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher.

“It’s been a high honor to serve as Deloitte’s Michigan managing partner, which has prepared me to lead the Fisher Group in keeping with the vision of the founders,” Davidoff said.

Davidoff’s stewardship of family relationships will focus on NextGen engagement and involvement. He will be partnering closely with Doug Bitonti Stewart, executive

director of the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation, to enable greater community impact.

He succeeds Ira J. Jaffe, the current president/CEO of the Fisher Group and founder of Jaffe, Raitt Heuer and Weiss, who will continue to be engaged by the Fisher Group in various capacities.

“We are excited to have Mark leading the family office as the family members’ needs mature and evolve,” said Marjorie F. Furman, board member at the Fisher Group.

Prior to Deloitte, Davidoff was the COO and execuMark A. Davidoff tive director of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. His career includes two decades in leadership roles with impact organizations.

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more than just successful performance in the business world, Rubin said. “More important than anything are my children — Daniel Stern and Melissa Meltzer, both who live in Michigan — and my grandchildren. I take full advantage of having them here. I know how incredible it is to be able to go to all the Little League games, the school events, ‘Grandma Tuesdays’ and so on. I do kvell over the VFA Fellows, too — almost as if they are my own kids!”

Those “kids” include three VFA participants who, under the tutelage of Rubin and other business mentors, have been inspired to become the new generation of workplace leaders. Now living in the heart of Detroit, Abbie Spector hails from Devon, Pa., and Avi Atkin and Lauren Hoffman are former New Yorkers.

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within the businesses we run, but also in the communities we touch. In my current job, I work to not only build a business for self-driving cars, but to make sure we solve transportation problems for the elderly, for single parents and for the broader community.”

Abbie Spector, project manager at Rocket Fiber, a technology start-up providing internet services to Detroit residents and businesses, is a 2017 fellow who learned about VFA from a classmate Abbie Spector at Middlebury College in Vermont.

“VFA’s social and professional network afforded me the opportunity to move to a city I otherwise would have overlooked, and provided the perfect avenue to combine my passion for urban geography and community development with my desire to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial setting,” Spector said. “VFA is at once a training program, a social network and a career jump starter. Through VFA, I’ve been fortunate to learn from experienced entrepreneurs, grow into my project management role, connect with talented leaders in and around Detroit, and build lasting friendships.”

Lauren Hoffman, who works at Rock Ventures in Detroit, the holding company for Dan

Gilbert’s portfolio of companies, investments and real estate holdings, agreed. “VFA has a transformative impact on its fellows. It’s almost a surrogate for business school, in the level of training and excellence of the network one builds through Lauren the experience.

Hoffman It makes starting companies feel accessible. Some of the most valuable business competencies I’ve learned are to expect it will be hard, and to grind through uncertainty and deeply unsexy grunt work to do anything interesting and execute your best ideas, and to ask questions of the brilliant people who have built similar products, services or companies because they can and will generously want to share valuable advice.”

VFA has become her passion, Rubin said. “I get such joy from helping these fellows and their ventures.

“I want nothing more than to see these young people succeed. When I take friends or business associates to training camp challenges, they are blown away by the talent. You can’t revitalize New York, but you can help reinvent Detroit. This is a huge pull for these young entrepreneurs. They want to create products and services that create change, and that’s what Detroit is all about!”

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both the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Michigan Israel Business Accelerator, as well as on the boards of the United Way for Southeastern Michigan, Business Leaders for Michigan and the Detroit Economic Club.

“His unique experience brings a strong pedigree and personal values to his new position that will preserve and

accelerate the legacy established by our founders,” said Jane F. Sherman, board member of the Fisher Group.

Fellow board member Phillip Wm. Fisher added, “It has been my privilege serving with Mark on a variety of boards over the past three decades, and I look forward to partnering with him to evolve solutions addressing the family’s needs.”

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PAULA (JANOWITZ) ALLAN, 76, former Detroiter, died at her residence in Palm Springs, Calif., on Aug. 19, 2019.

She is survived by her devoted husband, Gerald Errico; daughter, Beth (Rabbi Andrew) Allan-Bentley; son, Eric (Kathleen Widomski) Allan; sister, Rochelle (the late Stuart) Davis; grandchildren, Alexander Bentley, Jake Bentley, Kayla Bentley and Nate Bentley.

Mrs. Allan was the daughter of the late Leah and the late Bernard Janowitz; sister of the late Maurice Janowitz, and the late Robert Janowitz.

GLADYS BERNSTEIN, 96, passed away Sept.

4, 2019, at Beaumont Hospital in Farmington Hills, after a brief illness.

She was born in New York City, the daughter of Joseph and Lena (Oseasohn) Zwick, and was the elder of two children. In 1941, at a dance hosted by her temple, her rabbi introduced her to Allen Bernstein, a soldier

home on leave. They began corresponding and were married in 1943. During this period, she also attended Hunter College.

In 1946, Gladys and Allen moved to Detroit and then to Southfield in 1966.

They became members of Temple Beth El, where she served as both a teacher and administrator in the Sunday school. She completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education, as well as additional study at Wayne State University.

In 1962, she began teaching speech and English at Southfield High School, where she worked for 22 years. While there, she produced numerous student plays and musicals and coached members of the school’s award-winning forensics teams. After retirement, Gladys served as chair of the Brandeis Book Sale for several years. In 2002, she moved to the Park at Trowbridge, where she was chair of the residents’ council and managed the building’s library. She loved theater, travel and, most of all, her family.

Robert Frank, Influential Photographer, Dies at 94 MARCY OSTER JTA

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obert Frank, a documentary photographer best known for his book The Americans, died Monday, Sept. 9, 2019, in Inverness, Nova Scotia, where he had a summer home. He was 94.

He grew up in Switzerland during World War II, the son of a Swiss mother and a father who was a Jewish refugee from Germany, and remained safe there.

The threat of Nazism, Frank however, affected his understanding of oppression, according to the New York Times.

Frank immigrated to New York at the age of 23 in 1947.

He landed a job as a fashion photographer for Harper’s Bazaar and later worked for Fortune, Life, Look, McCall’s, Vogue and Ladies Home Journal. His work has been exhibited around the world.

His groundbreaking photos for The Americans, some purposely out of focus and grainy and in poor lighting, were taken during road trips

across the United States in the mid-1950s, funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship. The book was published in 1959.

Some 83 of the black-andwhite photos were used in the book, selected from the 28,000 that he had taken.

Frank later became a filmmaker, with his 1972 documentary of the Rolling Stones, Cocksucker Blues, the most well-known.

The Stones sued to prevent the film’s release, with a court ultimately restricting the film to being shown no more than five times per year and only in the presence of Frank.

He was a lifelong friend of Beat poet Allen Ginsburg and writer Jack Kerouac.

His daughter Andrea was killed in a plane crash in 1974 and his son, Pablo, diagnosed with schizophrenia, died in a hospital in 1994. In 1995, he founded the Andrea Frank Foundation, which provides grants to artists.

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Mrs. Bernstein is survived by her daughter, Gail; sons, Ralph and Mark (Sharon); grandson, Allen (Amanda); granddaughter, Rebecca (Cassandra); greatgranddaughters, Kayleigh and Krystiana.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Allen; brother, Howard; daughter-in-law, Linda (Ralph); daughter-in-law, Penny (Gail); and grandson, John.

Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park.

Contributions may be made to Educational Theatre Foundation, 4805 Montgomery Road, Suite 400, Cincinnati, OH 45212, educationalthe atrefoundation.org/give-agift. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

MARY BOYER, 100, of West Bloomfield, died Sept. 10, 2019.

She is survived her sons and daughters-inlaw, Kenneth and Ronny Boyer, Melvin and Jackie Boyer; daughter and sonin-law, Lenore and E.J. Piotrowski; grandchildren, Marc (Ruth) Wilner, Kevin Wilner, Randy (Tory) Boyer, Cory (Heather) Boyer, Shelli (Max) Anderson, Amy (Matt) Lytle, Cary (Karen) Piotrowski, and Craig (Mary) Piotrowski; great-grandchildren, Julia, Helena, Lizzy, Cole, Anna, Lucas, Charlie, Hannah, Michael, Sam, Ally, Sammy, Daniel, Lizzie, Andrew, Matthew, Dylan, Liam and

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Ruby.

Interment took place at B’nai Israel Cemetery in Novi. Contributions may be made to the Friendship Circle or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements

by Dorfman Chapel.

ZEV BRICKER, 48, of Oak Park, died Sept. 6, 2019.

He is survived by his parents, Sara and Joseph Bricker of Oak Park; sister and brother-in-law, Rozy and Menachem Harris of Brooklyn, N.Y.; loving nieces, nephew, uncles and aunts.

Contributions may be made to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, P.O. Box 2044, Southfield, MI 48037; Yeshiva Gedolah, 24600 Greenfield, Oak Park, MI 48237; Young Israel of Oak Park, 15140 W. 10 Mile Road, Oak Park, MI 48237; or Project Eruv, (248) 968Eruv.

Interment was held at Hebrew Memorial Park.

Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

GERALD COLE, 83, of Southfield, died Sept. 11, 2019.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Vivian Cole; sons and daughter-in-law, Matthew and Dana Cole, Benjamin Cole; grandchild, Ava Cole; sister, Florence Shapiro; many loving nieces, nephews, other family members and friends.

Mr. Cole was the brother of the late Lou Cole; the brother-in-law of the late

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iet Eman, 99, died Sept. 3, 2019, at Samaritas Living Center in Grand Rapids.

She was born in The Hague, Netherlands.

World War II came to Holland when she was 20. When the injustices against the Jews began in Holland, Diet and her fiance, Hein Sietsma, knew they had to help the Jewish people, so they united to form a Resistance group Eman called Help Elkander in Nood or “helping each other in need.” Hein was one of the group leaders. Diet risked her life obtaining identification documents and delivering messages across Holland.

In 2016, Eman spoke at Farber Hebrew Day School and later at Young Israel of Southfield, recounting memories as recorded in her book Things We Couldn’t Say. She recalled the difficulties in getting food for the hidden Jews. Forged papers had to be obtained so people in hiding could lay claim to some of the insufficient rations available.

Isolated farmhouses made good hiding places as did a rural monastery and a hotel devoid of guests. One woman, she recalls, had a small apartment in The Hague and she kept 29 Jews.

One evening, a Gestapo officer came for Diet. Her father said that his daughter was a wild girl who went out and did not come back until the next morning. The officer commiserated, “I have a daughter like that, too.” Learning of this visit, Diet knew she could not stay at home. She hardly saw her parents over the next two years.

Once when she was caught, she was imprisoned in a cell for one person that held five.

Diet remembers, “It had no toilet, no water to get clean.”

When taken for questioning, she refused to admit that she knew German. The inquisitors had to get a translator, which gave her time to figure out what to tell them.

Eventually, she was captured and sent to Vught concentration camp, from where she was released. Hein, likewise, was captured and imprisoned at Dachau, but he did not leave it alive.

After the war, Diet moved to Venezuela. Her fiancé had worked for Shell Oil and the company offered to hire her.

She worked as a nurse for Shell. Eventually, she moved to the United States, spending most of her life in Grand Rapids. Diet worked as a translator and volunteered for the Red Cross and the Luke Society. She became an American citizen in 2007.

President Eisenhower personally thanked her for her contributions during wartime efforts; Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, named her “Righteous Among the Nations” for saving Jews during the Holocaust; and King Willem-Alexander deemed her a “National Hero” during his visit to Grand Rapids in June 2015.

Diet Eman is survived by her two children, Mark Erlich and Joy Coe; and her granddaughter, Mary Gray.

Contributions may be made to Degage Ministry, 144 Division Ave. South, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, degageministry.org, click the “donate now” link.

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Gerald Shapiro.

Contributions may be made to the Detroit Area PreCollege Engineering Program.

Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

MARSHA DICKMAN, 74, of Farmington Hills, died Sept. 11, 2019.

She is survived by her beloved companion, Harold Cohen; son and daughter-inlaw, Daniel and Careen Starr; daughters and son-in-law, Felicia Starr and Lawrence Faljean, Stacey and Joe Lash, and Lisa Cooper and fiancé, Noah Teicher; grandchildren, Jake and Levi Starr, Luke

Faljean, Cara, Jordyn and Drew Lash, and Ian Cooper; sister and brother-in-law, Lynne and Bill Rogers; nephew, Jonathan (Cathy) Nusgart; niece, Danielle Joy Goodman (fiancé, Aaron Corliss); many other loving family members and friends.

Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society or to a charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

HAROLD GARMEL, 94, of West Bloomfield, died Sept.

11, 2019.

He was a WWII veteran serving overseas, was a national hardball squash champion, played French

horn in the Detroit All City Orchestra and had a great sense of humor.

Mr. Garmel is survived by his beloved wife, Donna Garmel; sons and daughters-in-law, Jeffery Garmel and Laura Knott, Gus Garmel and Laura Kerr; daughters and sons-in-law, Julie Garmel and Jeff Greer, Sara Garmel and Michael Wujciak; grandchildren, Charles (Candice WattsGarmel) Garmel, Greta Garmel, Joseph Wujciak and Kate Wujciak; many other loving family members and friends.

He was the brother of the late David Garmel and the late Murray Garmel.

Interment took place at

Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Contributions may be made to Hospice of Michigan, the Alzheimer’s Association or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements

by Dorfman Chapel.

HARVEY GORDON of Delray Beach, Fla., passed away on Aug. 24, 2019.

He was born Sept. 15, 1934, and raised in Detroit.

Mr. Gordon leaves his wife of 30 years, Linda Gordon; his children, Bradley Gordon, Gail (John) Ferguson, Amy (Matt) Lytle and Shelli (Max) Anderson; grandchildren, Mike, Jake, Drew, Hannah, Michael, Sam, Charlie, Winter and Luke; sister, Irene Kronen; nephews, Michael continued on page 65

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Les Goldstein’s Love of Family, Community, Israel ALAN MUSKOVITZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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eslie Michael Goldstein of West Bloomfield, Detroit/Midwest director of development for Israel’s Bar-Ilan University (BIU) for 36 years until his retirement in 2014, passed away at his home Sept. 6, 2019, at age 71. Goldstein had valiantly and quietly battled cancer over the last six years.

Goldstein was born in Detroit to Alfred and Elizabeth Goldstein. He was a graduate of Berkley High School and graduated from University of Michigan in 1970.

Goldstein spent his junior year at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where he fell in love with the State of Israel. He made aliyah in the summer of 1970 and began studies at BIU. His love for Israel also led him to the love of his life, Dora (Harrar), his bride for 46 years. The two met in 1972 while they worked at a social welfare agency near Haifa. They married 13 months later.

After completing his studies, Goldstein served a year in the Israel Defense Forces. Les and Dora returned to Detroit in 1976, where they would raise their family and where Bar-Ilan would impact Goldstein’s life even further.

“As fate would have it, Bar-Ilan was soon looking for a new Detroit director — Goldstein got the job and hasn’t looked back,” according to a JN article honoring Goldstein when he retired. (“Mr. Bar-Ilan,”

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Sept. 25, 2014) He would go on to raise millions of dollars over the course of his career and took great pride that Detroit was the first to achieve a $1 million campaign for BIU. “When you start with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, it’s not hard to produce that,” he quipped in the JN story, referring to the “heavy hitters who have supported the institution,” including the Stollman, Nusbaum, Grosberg, Kanat and Zekelman families, to name a few.

Goldstein’s family marveled that, even after his retirement, he continued to maintain personal relationships with all the Bar-Ilan staff and contributors. It was commonplace for him to attend their communal events, shivahs and simchahs because, while he loved his work, he loved the relationships even more.

“Les was a dedicated Jewish communal professional whose love of Israel and Jewish education blended seamlessly as the daily face for Bar-Ilan University in Detroit and much of the Midwest,” said Jewish News Publisher and Executive Editor Arthur Horwitz.

“Les Goldstein’s decades of service assure his name will share an enduring connection with Bar-Ilan, now one of Israel’s leading universities.”

Goldstein maintained a low profile about his health battles. “He never

complained or wanted to be pitied,” said wife, Dora.

Mark, one of Goldstein’s two younger brothers, added: “He always deflected the conversation about how he was doing to how you were doing.” That carried over to his two adoring granddaughters, Sophia Goldstein and Sylvie Lang, for whom, even during his biggest health challenges, Saba Les always had time for extra bedtime stories.

In his remarks at the funeral, brother Paul underscored Goldstein’s love of family. “He could never seem to get enough of us. In the end, we were all he ever wanted and all he ever asked for from life.”

Added son Dan Goldstein, “He was home for dinner every night after work, no matter how busy he was.

And he was always at the breakfast table before school the next day, trying to make conversation, even if we just grunted in return. I don’t know of another father who simply loved being Dad as much as ours.”

Daughter Michelle Lang described how her father’s tireless generosity for community impacted her.

“At a young age, I would tag along to volunteer at Jewish Federation phonathons, at the Yad Ezra food bank, and in preparing meals for the homeless on Christmas Day. I did something similar last Christmas at home in Washington, D.C., and I felt close to my dad, remembering how we used to do it together.”

Goldstein

There will be a huge void at Congregation B’nai Moshe during the High Holidays, where Goldstein, an accomplished Torah reader, was given the honor of reading the parshah every Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. “One of the last things he said to me,” said Dora, “was he wouldn’t be able to read Torah anymore.”

Goldstein was the beloved husband of Dora Goldstein; dear father of Dan (Lisa) Goldstein and Michelle Lang; beloved brother of Paul (Helene) Goldstein and Mark Goldstein (Kiko Yago); and loving grandfather of Sophia Goldstein and Sylvie Lang.

Contributions in Goldstein’s memory may be sent to the American Cancer Society, Congregation B’nai Moshe or Bar-Ilan University.

Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. Interment was at Adat Shalom Memorial Park in Livonia.

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9, 2019.

As a graduate in education from Wayne State University, Julie enjoyed teaching in the Southfield Public Schools and teaching English as a second language with the Ferndale Schools.

She treasured her work within the community, serving on the Bloomfield Hills Schools Commission on Excellence; as director of special projects with the Jewish Community Center, with the National Council of Jewish Women and with Jewish Family Service.

She will be lovingly remembered by family, colleagues, and friends.

Mrs. Gurwin is survived by her husband of 59 years, Hanley Gurwin; children, Marjorie Gurwin and Joel Kaji, Robert Gurwin and John Rourke; grandson, Jeffrey Gurwin Kaji; sister-in-law, Nancy Elkin; nephews and niece, David and Alice Elkin, Ronald Elkin and Steven Elkin.

She was the devoted daughter of the late Maurice and the late Ida Elkin; the loving sister of the late Arthur Elkin.

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CAROL MEGDALL, 76, of Bloomfield Hills, died Sept.

6, 2019.

She was active with Northwest Child Rescue, Hadassah and the Jewish Community Center.

Mrs. Megdall is survived by her husband of 56 years, Larry Megdall; daughters and son-in-law, Julie and Louis Rubin of Glencoe, Ill., Lori Megdall of Calistoga, Calif.; siblings and their spouses, Adelle and Stuart Megdall of Birmingham, Larry and Linda Halprin of Commerce Township, Charles and Linda Halprin of Brighton, Jeff Halprin of Bloomfield Hills, Jim and Cheryl Halprin of Farmington Hills, Joan and Terry Paquette of Marco Island, Fla.; grandchildren, Emily Rubin, Adam Rubin; many loving nieces, nephews, great-nieces, greatnephews, other relatives and a world of friends.

Contributions may be made to a cancer charity of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice. Services were held at the Davidson/ Hermelin Chapel at Clover Hill Park Cemetery.

Interment followed at Clover Hill Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

RAE PELTZ, 99, of West Bloomfield, died Sept. 8, 2019.

She is survived by her children, Marjorie and Robert Franklin, Marilynn and Richard Emmer, Steven Peltz, Robert Peltz and Lauren Barnard, and Daniel and Elizabeth Peltz; grandchildren, Kenneth and Eva Franklin, Jennifer and Gregg Paradise, Amy and Mark Frawley, Kelley and Alan Reiter, Scott and Debbie Emmer, Monique and Shade Kelly, Cassandra Peltz and Dylan Peltz; greatgrandchildren, Sam and Maggee Franklin, Rosemary, Miriam and Jakob Franklin, Noah, Benjamin, Madelyn and Sydney Paradise, Emily and Hannah Zonder, Eliana and Danielle Reiter, Alexa and Zachary Emmer, and Greyson and Skye Kelly.

Mrs. Peltz was the beloved wife of the late Jack Peltz; the loving sister of the late Samuel Greenberg, the late Benjamin Greenberg, the late Pinkus Greenberg, the late Louis Greene, the late Anne Waldman and the late Gus Greene.

Interment was at Machpelah Cemetery.

Contributions may be made to Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323, temple-israel.org; Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit, 6710 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, jslmi.org; or to a charity of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

DR. ALLEN STONE, 84, of West Bloomfield, died Sept. 11, 2019.

He completed his residency at the University of Michigan and was a radiologist at Oakwood Hospital. He ran 14 marathons, including Boston, New York and Detroit. He was an avid windsurfer and frustrated golfer.

Dr. Stone served the United States in the Vietnam War as a lieutenant commander in the Navy. He was head of a children’s hospital in DaNang and was awarded the Vietnamese Medal of Honor.

He always entertained his

family and friends with a superb sense of humor. He was a genuine, kind man who battled Alzheimer’s disease with the determination he always showed throughout his life. He was cared for by his incredibly devoted wife, Annette, David Callahan, Don Oryniak, Vincent Bailey and Markian Septa with the support of so many family and friends.

Dr. Stone was the beloved husband of Annette for 55 years; adored by his children, Robert, Amy (Paul) and Michael (Nancy); and his grandchildren, Alex and Danielle, Griffin, Jake and Luke, and Sam and Drew.

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Dear brother-in-law of Judy Kaufman, the late Jack Kaufman and the late Marian (the late Harold) Weinstein.

Interment was held at Clover Hill Cemetery.

Contributions may be made to JARC, the Dorothy and Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Care Program or a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

GLORYA TRAUTE, 89, of Oak Park, died Sept. 8, 2019.

She is survived by her daughter, Nicki Traute Azoff; grandchildren, Gavi and Max

Azoff, and Kevin Traute; brothers and sisters-in-law, Jerry and Rena Cohen, Hershel and Marsha Cohen; many loving nieces, nephews and other relatives.

Mrs. Traute was the beloved wife of the late Donald Traute; the cherished mother of the late Kevin Lee Traute and the late Sharon Traute; the dear motherin-law of the late Peter Azoff.

Interment was at Hebrew Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Pan CanPancreatic Action Network Inc, 1500 Rosecrans Ave., Suite 200, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266, pancan.org; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. continued on page 68

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Hungarian Author and Dissident Dies

(JTA) — Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies launched a podcast series featuring the remembrances of survivors.

The series launched last week with the testimony of Martin Schiller, a Jewish man from Poland who described his experiences in the concentration and slave labor camps of Plaszow, Skarzysko-

Hungarian author and Konrad was born in 1933 anti-communist dissident into a Jewish family in a Gyorgy (George) Konrad town close to the Romanian died Sept. 13, 2019, aged border. In June 1944, he 86, after a narrowly survived long illness his the Holocaust family told the by jumping on a Hungarian state train to Budapest news agency a day before the MTI. town’s Jewish Considered population was one of Hungary’s deported to finest writers, Auschwitz.

Konrad’s novels Konrad was and essays were also a key figure widely translated Konrad, circa 1933 in the dissident around the movement that world. He wrote led to the end of Departure and Return, The communism in Hungary in City Builder and The Case 1989.

Worker, among other works.

Kamienna, Buchenwald and Theresienstadt. Plaszow serves as the setting for the film Schindler’s List.

Titled “Those Who Were There,” the podcast has narration by Eleanor Reissa, an actress and Yiddish theater director, and historical oversight

by Professor Samuel Kassow. It features testimonies collected from 1979 onward.

OBITUARY CHARGES The processing fee for obituaries is: $100 for up to 150 words; $200 for 151-300 words, etc. A photo counts as 30 words. There is no charge for a Holocaust survivor icon.

The JN reserves the right to edit wording to conform to its style considerations. For information, have your funeral director call the JN or you may call Sy Manello, editorial assistant, at (248) 3515147 or email him at smanello@renmedia.us.

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Raskin the best of everything

Inaugural Anniversary

Bistro Le Bliss pleases palates in its first year.

C Danny Raskin Senior Columnist

elebrating only its first anniversary is a new restaurant already making many waves of successful ingesting acceptance in West Bloomfield and surrounding regions.

The French-inspired Eastern European eatery Bistro Le Bliss on Orchard Lake Road, south of Maple, on the west side, owned by the executive chef himself, Yakov Fleysher, is being touted for its excellent homemade dishes, which have been receiving much acclaim … A West Bloomfield onion soup, scallops velouté du Barry, a white fish a la meuniere, etc. … from a brick oven that seems to bring out the satisfying dining that one gets from a cozy and casual culinary experience.

Bistro Le Bliss has been open since August of 2018, but it is already noted for its weekly specials like the panseared barramundi, Walleye Provencal dusted fillet, a Yakov Fleysher Savory Napoleon with house-cured wild Alaskan sockeye, dill sauce and triple caviar mousse, duck breast panseared with sweet potato hash, an excellent black olive-dusted cod loin, charbroiled sturgeon fillet, etc.

A major goal of Bistro Le Bliss

seems to be the creation of unique culinary experiences that include dishes seldom seen elsewhere … like short ribs bourguignon, beef Stroganoff with morel mushrooms, bouillabaisse, Michigan tart cherry strudel, baked on premises … Chef/owner Fleysher has been a resident of the West Bloomfield area since 1998 and, aside from cooking food, is seemingly quite astute in recognizing eating habits by the creation of his menu.

Bistro Le Bliss is open Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m-10 p.m. … with seating for 60 … and presents the kind of neighborhood family-owned dining experience so often wished for with many simple but classic dishes for a tongue and tummy experience to remember.

MAIL DEPT. … From Dennis Silber, Boca Raton, Fla. … “Debbie’s 1957 Oak Park High graduating class had an experience none of the 77 graduates will ever forget. It was the 60th class reunion held in the Detroit area, put together by a committee of nine grads. The weekend of a Buddy’s pizza party, Andiamo dinner party and Sunday brunch at Georges was like a large family gathering. So very wonderful!”

OLDIE BUT GOODIE … The prosecuting attorney called an elderly woman to the stand and asked, “Do you know me?”

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“Yes, I’ve known you since you were a little boy,” she said, “and frankly, you’ve been a big disappointment to me. You lie. You manipulate people and talk behind their backs. You think you’re a big shot when you haven’t the brains to realize you will never be more than a two-bit paper pusher. Yes, I know you!”

The prosecuting attorney was stunned. He pointed across the room and asked, “Do you know the defense attorney?”

She replied, “Yes, I’ve known him since he was a youngster, too. I used to babysit him. And he, too, has been a real disappointment to me. He’s lazy, narrow-minded and has a big drinking problem. He can’t build a normal relationship with anyone, and his law practice is one of the shoddiest in the state. Yes, I know him!”

The judge rapped his gavel and called both lawyers to the bench. In a quiet menacing voice, he said, “If either of you asks her if she knows me, you’ll be jailed for contempt!”

CONGRATS … To Hannah Berglund on her birthday …To Morton Plotnick on his birthday …

To Neal Rubin on his birthday … To Bruce Milen on his birthday … To Jim Newman on his birthday.

Danny’s email address is dannyraskin2132@gmail.com.

The Whitney proudly honors the commitment and vision of our community’s best and brightest. ȏ Champagne reception ȏ Strolling dinner and open bar ȏ Live Entertainment throughout the Mansion ȏ Black Tie Optional

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

The History of the Butzel Award, Federation’s Highest Honor

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26455 Willowgreen Dr 4 BR, 3.1 BA, 6,120 SF, 5 Acres 5+ Car Garage, Pool, Koi Pond Birmingham Schools $1,750,000

3057 Heron Pointe Dr 4 BR, 4.3 BA, 5,620 SF, 4 Car Gar 24HR Manned Gated Heron Bay Bloomfield Hills Schools $1,650,000

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1136 Norminister End 5 BR, 6.2 BA, 7,500 SF, 3 Car Gar 1st Flr Master, Waterfront Setting 24HR Manned Gated Hills of Lone Pine $2,100,000

4463 Forestview Dr 6 BR, 6.2 BA, 9,872 SF Finished Walkout, Pool Half Acre Lot, 4 Car Gar $1,095,000

6932 Willow Rd 4 BR, 4.1 BA, 3,692 SF, Built 2007 All Brick Ranch, Walkout LL 3 Car Gar, Union Lake Privileges $799,900

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680 W Long Lake Rd 4 BR, 5.1 BA, 6,281 SF, 1.25 Acre Walkout LL, 3 Car Gar Bloomfield Hills Schools $1,250,000

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1450 Clarendon Rd 4 BR, 5.2 BA, 5,479 SF, 4 Car Gar 1.5 Acres. Chalmers Lk Privileges Bloomfield Hills Schools $1,499,900

5220 W Bloomfield Lake Rd 5 BR, 4.1 BA, 5,690 SF Finished Walkout Lower Level West Bloomfield Lk Lakefront $499,900

5630 Swan St 4 BR, 2.1 BA, 2,886 SF, Built 2002 1st Flr Mstr, 3 Car Tandem Gar Walled Lake Schools $424,900

5505 Forman Dr Great Building Opportunity 1.35 Acres, Wing Lk Privileges Bloomfield Hills Schools $399,900

2604 Lamplighter Ln 5 BR, 2.1 BA, 3,707 SF Granite Kitchen, Hdwd Flrs Bloomfield Hills Schools $499,900

4034 Willoway Pl 3 BR, 2.1 BA, 2,434 SF 1st Flr Master Detached Condo Bloomfield Hills Schools $439,900

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7027 Daventry Woods Dr 3 BR, 3.1 BA, 3,300 SF Condo Granite Kitchen & Bathrooms Views of Pond & Woodlands $575,000

4124 Springer Ave 4 BR, 2 BA, 1,500 SF Ranch New Kitchen 2015 Hardwood Flrs, Finished LL $349,900

3138 Gilbert Ridge Dr 4 BR, 2.1 BA, 2,466 SF Newer Quartz Kitchen Hardwood Floors, .62 Acre Lot $339,900

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