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As we welcome the Jewish year 5780, the number of Jews worldwide stands at 14.8 million, compared to 14.7 million in 5779. Of these, 8.1 million live outside Israel (including 5.7 million in the United States). In Israel, the number of Jews is 6.7 million (compared to 6.6 million in 5779). The updated estimates were published by Professor Sergio Della Pergola of Hebrew University in the American Jewish Year Book 2019.

The numbers include those who define themselves as Jews and who do not identify with another religion. When including those who are eligible for Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return, the number rises to 23.6 million people, of whom 16.5 million live outside Israel.

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id our ancestors live like this? Did they approach the High Holidays with a strict sense of piousness — as I’ve always assumed — or did they also bend the rules to suit themselves, Mark Jacobs just like so many Jews do these days?

I asked myself that question during the Yom Kippur service. The service itself — the singing, the sermon, the prayers — was beautiful, as always. But at times, I admit, my mind wandered, and, during some of those moments, I thought of the rules about fasting.

Seems that modern Jews have settled into lots of interesting ways of dealing with fasting, or at least their version of that word. As I sat in the service, I noticed that a few people in the sanctuary were chewing gum. They looked like they were trying to be discreet, but once I noticed them and their subtle chewing technique, I became transfixed.

Are they really chewing gum in the sanctuary — on Yom Kippur? Who does that? I found myself judging them as I was reading words about forgiveness. It was very confusing.

But what exactly is allowed during our fast? Where is the line? Are we free to make up our own rules and remain good Jews, or are some actions so unacceptably egregious that they destroy any legitimate claim to our Jewishness?

What if someone were to, say, spend the day eating pork ribs and bacon? Surely that would violate just about everything, right? Orthodox Jews consume nothing and even forgo brush-

ing their teeth. But does that mean that only they are living a pure Jewish life? Not to me, it doesn’t.

We each define our own line on what’s acceptable behavior about fasting during Yom Kippur. Mine is somewhere between eating pork ribs and not brushing my teeth.

In recent years, I’ve made an official ruling that water is a perfectly fine exception to my fast. It’s non-caloric, healthy and relatively guilt-free. But it also presents a slippery slope.

If water is OK, then does that mean that ice is also OK? Ice is just frozen water, after all. But can a good Jew really spend Yom Kippur chomping on ice? I pondered that question and ruled that it was perfectly acceptable. But that resulted in my kids calling me the “Ice Man” all day, which was fine by me. I’ve been called far worse.

But we all have our rules, right? One buddy of mine goes out to dinner after Kol Nidre services, so as to get a jump on being full for Yom Kippur day. “It’s cheating,” he readily admits, but says that it works for him and his family, and he even included his dad in the plan. Upon picking up his dinner at a Chinese restaurant (of course), he told me the cashier said to him, “Aren’t you supposed to be fasting?” He figured he wouldn’t bump into his rabbi that night but never thought the cashier would bust him.

A surprising number of people tell me they have no problem with drinking coffee on Yom Kippur. They rule out food but draw the line at coffee. “It’s just coffee,” they insist.

Their conviction is so sincere I almost find it convincing (after all, I do drink water, so adding

a few coffee beans is just a short putt away). One person tells me she’ll have coffee on Yom Kippur but “absolutely no cream.” That logic is so twisted it almost makes sense to me.

My 88-year-old mother created an interesting method: She eats on Yom Kippur, but only half of what she’d normally consume. She’s very proud of herself for coming up with this plan. I plan on trying it when I turn 88.

This year, some of my family and friends added a new Yom Kippur tradition: At break-fast, we shared photos of the mass smorgasbord of food we were about to eat, from the kugel to the seven-layer cake. I wasn’t sure why that was so satisfying, but it was. We collectively salivated at the sight of the delicious spread and even shared a bit of pride that each of us — even the rule benders — had made it through the fast.

Yom Kippur is such a deeply reflective time for us. We sit in services and read all about words like “repentance, charity, forgiveness.” It’s a powerful way to think about what kind of person we wish to be in the coming year.

That lesson was put to the test for me a few years ago when I got into a car accident in the Temple Israel parking lot upon arriving for services.

My beautiful, shiny sports car was just two days old and I was still in the love phase with it. But there was an ugly collision that would later cost me about $2,000. I was initially livid and still shaken as I sat in the sanctuary, telling myself over again that it’s just a car and that the message of the holiday reminds us of what’s important in life. Can’t say it fully worked for me that year, but not for lack of trying. But continued on page 8

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ast October, the world watched in horror as an armed gunman, fueled by hatred, opened fire inside Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue. He murdered 11 worshippers and wounded many more. Earlier this month, High Holidays services for many Jewish families began with new announcements Sen. Gary and instructions Peters about how congregants should exit the synagogue in the event of a similar emergency. Local police departments stationed officers outside many of these houses of worship, acknowledging the very real threats these congregations face.

On Oct. 27, as Pittsburgh families are observing the first yahrzeit of friends and families lost in this senseless act of violence, our nation must reflect on the deadliest attack on the Jewish

community in the history of the United States.

Sadly, the threat of violence inspired by antiSemitism is all too familiar to Jewish communities in Michigan and across the country. Earlier this month, as families gathered to mark the first night of Sukkot, a Grand Rapids synagogue was vandalized with antiSemitic posters including white supremacist logos and a photo of Adolf Hitler. From bomb threats called on Jewish community centers and day schools — to the massacre at Tree of Life and the attack six months later at the Chabad of Poway (Calif.) — Jewish institutions have long been the target of domestic terrorism.

The hate behind these attacks is not the only threat of this kind our nation faces.

In recent years, we have also seen white supremacists burn mosques and churches, run down protestors in Charlottesville and shoot churchgoers in Charleston.

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deserves to feel safe in their community. But tragically, as these threats and attacks on religious and racial minorities continue to rise in the United States, they leave communities in Michigan and across the country living with the reality that their houses of worship and community centers are potential targets for domestic terrorists.

As Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, I’m working to help religious institutions and nonprofit organizations access the resources they need to invest in their security and keep their communities safe.

Earlier this year, I joined with my colleague Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, to introduce the Protecting Faith-Based and Nonprofit Organizations from Terrorism Act. Our bipartisan bill, which advanced in the Senate earlier this year, increases authorized funding to $75 million annually for nonprofits and faith-

I did learn that I’m capable of being shamefully superficial, so at least I did get some insight into my soul.

A few days after Yom Kippur, I was telling a Muslim friend about the holiday and how I spent the day fasting (I didn’t tell him I’m the “Ice Man”). I was boasting about my self-discipline and how going without food for one day isn’t easy but that we do it because of our religious convictions. He smiled politely and reminded me that every year, during Ramadan, Muslims fast all day for 30 days, and only eat after sunset.

“No water, no nothing,” he said.

“Oh yeah, that’s right.” I nodded, realizing that I had just been fairly one-upped.

But I bet he doesn’t get to eat kugel and seven-layer cake each night.

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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The Old Tiger Stadium A look back as the World Series draws near.

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The baseball season flew by, and we’re now following the postseason playoffs to see who will face off in the World Series.

But in the television of my mind, the channels seem to focus most often on 20 Irwin Cohen years ago, on the last game of the 1999 season in Detroit. It was the last game ever at Tiger Stadium.

I’ve thought of Tiger Stadium often in the last 20 years. It was my fun place and it became my workplace.

I saw my first game there in 1950, as a youngster with the Yeshiva Beth Yehudah Day Camp. It was called Briggs Stadium then, after the family that owned the Tigers, and was renamed Tiger Stadium in 1961 when a new owner took charge.

Growing up in the fabulous ’50s in Detroit, with a yeshivah day school and a nice-sized Orthodox community, was great. At one time, five Young Israel branches were in the city.

And that had a large impact on our family. My parents came from big families; they and their siblings all stayed Orthodox, and their children followed in their footsteps.

Young Israel deserves much credit for keeping youth in the fold across America in the good old days.

I spent many days at the double-decked ballpark with the old green wooden seats.

I saw Joe DiMaggio in 1951 (his last year as a player),

Irwin Cohen took this photo of Hank Greenberg in June 1983 on the retirement of his uniform number.

and a young rookie that year named Mickey Mantle. I saw the legendary Satchell Paige baffle the Tigers with a weird assortment of windups and pitches. I watched in awe as Ted Williams had seven hits in a double-header, including four home runs.

I silently rooted for 20-year-old Al Kaline in 1955, as he hit two home runs in one inning and the Tigers blew away Kansas City 16-0. Kaline would go on to lead the American League in batting, becoming the youngest player ever to lead the league.

Fast forward to Kaline’s last year as a player, in 1974.

It was my first year as a baseball writer and photographer working for a baseball monthly and Kaline was the first player I interviewed.

Besides getting to know the ballplayers, I got to know the old ballpark better as I was granted field, clubhouse, dugout and

press box privileges. I got to know the people working behind the scenes and in the front office, helping to pave the way for me to join the front office and work for the Tigers after the 1983 season. They knew I was an Orthodox Jew and agreed that I would not work on Saturdays or Jewish holidays.

1984 was the stadium’s best year attendance-wise, and my first full season culminated with a World Series ring with my name engraved on it. In 1985, I became the answer to a trivia question: Who counted each and every seat in Tiger Stadium?

After the season, during our slowest time, I was asked to confirm every seat and bleacher space in the storied stadium. The Tigers were being computerized, and the ticket department needed to verify each section of stadium seating against an existing schematic. With clipboard in hand, I viewed the field from every row in the upper and lower decks. I discovered a box seat in the lower deck and six reserved seats in the upper deck that the schematics didn’t list and that had therefore never, ever been sold in all the years since the old green seats were replaced by blue and orange plastic seats.

Fast forward to the stadium’s final game, on Sept.

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based organizations to help secure their facilities well into the future. These funds can be used for developing emergency response plans, target-hardening activities, or training for personnel to help safeguard these institutions and the people they serve from violent attacks. In both 2018 and 2019, Michigan institutions received more than $1 million in grants, including numerous Jewish institutions across the state.

While these funds will not stamp out the hatred and intolerance that fuels these terrorist attacks, they are a vital step toward ensuring that our places of worship can remain a safe haven for all who enter. It is not enough to protect our places of worship and community centers; we need to confront white supremacy and anti-Semitism at its root. Earlier this year, I worked with Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., to hold our committee’s first hearing focused on white supremacist violence and was proud to invite the Anti-Defamation League to testify.

There is no place for hatred and bigotry toward our fellow Americans in our society, and I am proud to stand united with our state’s diverse communities in the face of this unfathomable evil.

With the help of programs like this and an unwavering commitment to fight this insidious violence, we can fulfill our nation’s promise and ensure that all Michiganders feels safe where they live, work and pray. May this work show that those who were lost are never forgotten, and may their memories forever be a blessing.

Gary Peters is a U.S. senator from Michigan.

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the game so fans could walk around and reflect.

The Detroit Jewish community was well represented (I used my connections), and the old ballpark had its first and last minyan for Mincha and Maariv under the stands of the upper deck left field corner.

When it came time for closing ceremonies, fans stood and cameras clicked as 63 former Tigers players trotted out (some were driven in golf carts) from behind the center field flagpole to their former positions. The biggest cheer of the evening came when Mark “The Bird” Fidrych flew out and headed straight to the pitching mound, dropped to his knees, and used the pitching hand that led the league in 1976 to scoop dirt from the mound into a plastic bag. Fidrych then stood up, took off his cap and waved it in all directions as he circled the mound.

Since that memorable evening 20 years ago, more than half of the 63 former players (including Fidrych) have died. But as long as there are baseball cards and a new generation of collectors, the names, faces and records of the players from previous generations will live on.

A SPECIAL PLAYER One name that will live on from previous generations to future generations will be Hank Greenberg.

No Detroit Tiger hit as many home runs in a single season (58 in 1938). No Detroit Tiger drove in as many runs in a single season.

Greenberg had 183 RBI in 1937, an amazing number as teams played 154 games in a season then instead of the

162 today.

Greenberg, the only Detroit Tiger to have hit five World Series home runs, also missed about four-anda-half baseball seasons due to military service, more than any Tiger player and more than almost all major league players.

It’s only fitting that the story of this genuine hero lives on in the Hank Greenberg Walk of Heroes located about where Greenberg lockered in the Tigers clubhouse. It’s a great place for fans to browse and learn about other heroes in other sports, but none achieved the accomplishments and adoration as Greenberg reached.

After you digest the Greenberg display, step outside on the same field that Greenberg played on and head to the batter’s box and look out to the pitcher’s mound. You’ll see the same flagpole that Greenberg did in distant center field.

You may even sit in the old green wooden seats behind home plate where fans actually watched Greenberg play generations ago. Take your friends, children and grandchildren and pass on your memories so that they may live on in future generations.

You may even tell them of a Jewish Tigers employee who counted and stood by each and every seat in the double-decked old ballpark and viewed the diamond from every possible angle.

Irwin Cohen has authored many articles on Detroit history and wrote the iconic “Echoes of Detroit’s Jewish Communities.” He will be speaking to a large group of Detroiters who winter in Florida in February. Call Jewish Historical Society for information.

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Wonderful Women We were so pleased to read about Lisa Lis in your Oct. 3, 2019, publication (on page 21). She received the Josephine S. Weiner Award for Community Service. Her involvement in Jewish and women’s activities and support of Detroit is remarkable. As many people know, Lisa is the daughter of Florine Mark, who in her own right, has supported the above causes over the years. Both women are icons in our midst. Kudos to both of them.

— Sam and Judy Weiner Huntington Woods

Women’s March Still Anti-Zionist I wonder if Emily Shire has considered that the Judeophobia within the Women’s March goes deeper than just a few Jew haters at the top (“The Women’s March,” Oct. 10, page 8).

With their willingness to tolerate leaders like Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory and Bob Bland, and their use of weasel words to avoid admitting anti-Semitism when having to remove the new anti-Semites that replaced the old anti-Semites, they have a problem.

Shire and other prominent Jews have shown a self-destructive willingness

to overlook anti-Zionism in the guise of anti-Semitism as a mere difference of opinion in order to strike a “proper” political stance and join causes that have no place for Zionist Jews. There can be no polite debate with the International Women’s Strike when they honor Rasmea Odeh. They are toxic and Jews should strongly protest them.

Any organization that claims to be for human rights or against hate while denying Jews the right to our homeland is dishonest and should not be granted legitimacy. We Jews should not be placing our politics ahead of our Judaism.

Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. Shire, politely asking that Anti-Zionists be removed from leadership positions, is engaging in the wrong tactic.

Instead, she needs to be a “loud, explicitly Zionist voice” and encourage more Zionists in the Women’s March and in all the other causes that hypocritically deride Israel and Zionism. The weak-kneed approach has never worked well for Jews.

— Harry Onickel Ferndale

Correction Val’s Delicatessen (Oct. 17, page 53) will be opening in early November, not late October as stated in the article. Also, Val’s correct family name is Izrailov.

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Settlement Reached Michigan’s Jewish prisoners win right to kosher meals.

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ewish inmates in Michigan prisons will start receiving kosher meals under a proposed settlement reached Oct. 12 in a class-action lawsuit handled by the Civil Rights Clinic at Michigan State University, led by Professor Daniel Manville. “We got the entry for preliminary approval and the notices will begin going up in the 16 Michigan prisons that house Jewish inmates,” Manville said.

Manville, an ex-offender who spent four years in prison in the 1970s, is an advocate for prisoners’ rights who likes to take on cases “that make an impact,” he says.

He’s been working on this case since 2013.

“It stemmed from a lawsuit by Muslim prisonDaniel ers who wanted Manville a halal diet,” he explains. “The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) agreed to provide those prisoners with a vegan diet to settle the claim. They then extended that vegan diet to Jewish prisoners who wanted kosher meals — kind of a one-size-fits-all religious meal solution.”

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Arnold filed suit after that decision because, he said, a vegan diet lacks kosher meat and dairy and, most importantly, doesn’t adhere to kosher principles of preparation, such as proscriptions against contamination with non-kosher utensils and prep areas.

Arnold, who told the Detroit Free Press, “the policy of enforced vegetarianism was targeted” at Jewish prisoners, was dropped from the suit when he was released from prison.

Arnold’s original lawsuit eventually became “Gerald Ackerman and Mark Shaykin v. Heidi Washington,” the suit that was just settled, which resolves prisoners’ claims to kosher meals.

Currently, inmates have the option to purchase kosher meals and products at the prison commissary twice a month, but, Manville says, the cost is prohibitive for most inmates.

“Each meal costs around $5-$6, which is hard to afford when you’re earning $30 a month in your prison job and need to buy shampoo and other incidentals.”

Under the proposed settlement, which is subject to a fairness hearing Dec. 11 in front of U.S. District Judge

Linda Parker in Detroit, Jewish inmates who keep kosher will be entitled to meals prepared in a certified kosher kitchen within the facility or certified kosher meals from a third-party vendor. Facilities that produce kosher meals onsite must submit to inspections to maintain kosher certification.

MDOC has cited the cost of creating kosher kitchens at $100,000 for each of the 16 facilities holding Jewish prisoners, or $1.6 million.

“Which seems a little high,” Manville said.

According to MDOC, there are about 600 Jewish prisoners in Michigan’s 33,000 prison population. Of those 600, Manville said, between 85 and 193 are approved for kosher meals. “The discrepancy in the numbers likely stems from the 2013 settlement that forced those requesting kosher meals to eat the vegan meals,” Manville said. “Many Jewish prisoners dropped their requests for kosher and opted for the general menu.”

Prisoners not already approved for kosher meals can become eligible for kosher meals by living kosher for 60 days, which means that prisoners must use only the religious diet line for meals and may not

“purchase, receive, possess or consume” any non-kosher item from the commissary, visitors or another prisoner. If at any time they are found to have consumed something non-kosher, they have to restart the 60-day process.

“That provision was added to the settlement to ensure Michigan didn’t have 32,000 prisoners decide they were Jewish once they read the notice,” Manville said.

The settlement does not resolve plaintiffs’ meat and dairy consumption claims, Manville adds. The issue of whether Jewish prisoners will receive kosher meat and dairy meals 56 days a year (each Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Shavuot) is still in dispute and was just litigated early this month, “although all parties have agreed to at least one cheesecake per year,” Manville said.

“We expect a ruling on that early next year.”

Manville said MDOC has claimed in court that it is reluctant to provide meat and dairy meals to kosher-observant prisoners 56 times a year because of the cost, which, according to Manville, would add $10,000$20,000 per year in expenses for MDOC.

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he Jewish community suffered the most brutal anti-Semitic attack in the history of the U.S. Oct. 27, 2018, when a gunman opened fire at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, taking the lives of 11 people from three congregations: Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life – Or L’Simcha, all of whom were joined in prayer.

A number of events are planned in Detroit and worldwide to honor the memory of those lost in the attack. Here are some of the ways you can join the local community in commemoration: FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCT. 25 & 26 #SHOWUPFORSHABBAT The Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC is calling on all people to attend services at a local congregation to honor the victims and raise our collective voice for a world free of antisemitism, hate and bigotry. For more information and to find a participating synagogue, visit the AJC website.

SUNDAY, OCT. 27 REPAIR THE WORLD COMMEMORATION 1:30 p.m. at Repair the World, 2701 Bagley St. in Detroit.

Come together in commemoration, healing, solidarity and justice. This event is in partnership with

NEXTGen Detroit, Detroit Jews for Justice, Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, Hillel Metro Detroit, If Not Now, the Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC, Jewish Voices for Peace, Repair the World Detroit and Congregation T’Chiyah. More information at facebook.com/ events/412928716091481.

SUNDAY, OCT. 27 PAUSE FOR PITTSBURGH On Oct. 27 at 5 p.m. one year to the day since this attack, the community in Pittsburgh will join in a public memorial service. People from around the world are invited to pause and share in a collective moment of remembrance. Sign up to receive a text message at 5 p.m. that will contain a video with a prayer of mourning and the names of the 11 people who lost their lives. After sharing this collective moment, you’ll get a link so you can virtually join Pittsburgh’s local service.

Then, you’ll have the opportunity to submit a message of solidarity by text. You can register online at pausewithpittsburgh.com.

Together, the community can gather and pledge to maintain an abiding sense of unity and responsibility for one another.

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Temple Emanuel Vandalized Two anti-Semitic flyers were discovered plastered to the double doors of Temple Emanuel in Grand Rapids.

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unday morning, Oct. 12, Rabbi Michael Schadick arrived at Temple Emanuel in Grand Rapids just before Sunday school began and immediately noticed something hanging on the doors of the synagogue.

Two anti-Semitic flyers were adhered to each side of the synagogue’s double doors. The Jerusalem Post shared photos of the posters, which featured images of Adolf Hitler with the words “Did you forget about me?” A second poster calls for a “crusade against Semite-led subhumans.”

Edie Landman, president of Temple Emanuel, was in disbelief that “such a cowardly act would be done to our temple.”

The synagogue is continuing to hold regular activities, including Sunday school and programming for the Sukkot holiday. Attendance has been as Landman expected for the temple’s seven nights of Sukkot.

The support for Temple Emanuel from the Grand Rapids community has continued to pour in, and Landman is confident this incident will only serve to strengthen the community.

“We have received a number of cards and flowers from total strangers expressing their condolences that we have to deal with such behavior and offer-

ing to stand in solidarity with us against hate,” Landman said.

Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss demonstrated her support by tweeting, “Standing in solidarity with our Jewish friends and neighbors. And standing united in rejecting these acts of hatred and anti-Semitism.”

In a press release, Cary Fleischer, the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus Grand Rapids chair and member of Temple Emanuel, said, “It is high time that all of us, as Americans, come together and speak out against these acts of hate, which afflict so many of our communities. We must work together to bring kindness and respect for our differences back to our country.”

This incident comes less than a month after David Holden, resident of Temple Jacob in Hancock, Mich., found swastikas and Nazi symbols spray-painted on his synagogue.

Back in July, neo-Nazi flyers were also discovered in both Birmingham and Royal Oak, including one at Clover Hill Park Cemetery.

The Grand Rapids Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime.

The Jewish Telegraphic Agency contributed to this story.

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ForwardThinking Leader Outgoing Federation CEO Scott Kaufman leaves a stronger, more connected community.

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hen Scott Kaufman became president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit 10 years ago, he faced a discouraging environment. The recession had been especially harsh to Michigan, resulting in many closed business, foreclosed homes and population loss as some residents, including members of the Jewish community, sought job opportunities in other regions.

A colleague at another city’s federation told Kaufman his assignment was “sun setting” Detroit’s aging and shrinking Jewish community. While Kaufman viewed his initial role partly as keeping up community morale, he kept his eye on the future as well.

“An emergency fund was in place from donors. We were helping people to navigate the system and keep them in their homes,” Kaufman recalls.

“I had two ideas at the beginning — how to stop the out-migration of young adults. I made the attraction and retention of young people a top priority. We had to rebuild the future because in 2009 young people were saying, ‘I know every-

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one. There is nothing for me to do here.’”

NEXTGen, Federation’s new program for young Jewish adults, began in 2012 and Kaufman compares its growth to Detroit’s revitalization.

“It was about engagement. We converted some participants to donors and leaders. They saw the need to donate and their first donation was to a Detroit project, which was unusual,” he says.

Kaufman was also interested in building endowments. “We needed to help older funders think of their legacy, so we created the Centennial Fund. The fund has $240 million in assets, some of it in directed funds, from 120 donors. “The two ideas — NEXTGen and the Centennial Fund — kind of mesh,” he says.

He quickly points out, “I didn’t do them alone. This is a team sport.” He says he sees himself as a community builder who has helped develop more positive energy, providing the opportunity to raise more money.

During his tenure, Federation’s total endowments and other assets increased from $450 million to $700 million — the highest in its history. Per capita giving was within the top three of all Jewish communities and the overall donor base increased.

Community building meant changing Federation’s “command and control” management model to “convener and collaborator.” There are challenges with change, and it was important not to go too fast, he explains.

Scott Kaufman in his office at Federation surrounded by things that inspire him.

COLLABORATION AND VISION He has also focused on getting Jewish social service agencies to work better together and to put “mission before brand.”

“We needed to be customer-centric versus organization centric,” Kaufman says.

JHelp — the newly coordinated access point for all kinds of agency assistance to individuals — is an example. “There’s no magic, but it made it easier.”

Perry Ohren, CEO of Jewish Family Service, says Kaufman “was very helpful and visionary in getting the various organizations to see how they could do better, to look forward in a sustainable way. He is very passionate about human services in the Jewish community.”

Both professional colleagues and lay leaders compliment his ability to develop and lead a great team.

“There are things that wouldn’t have happened without him,” says Federation President Beverly Liss, citing growth in NEXTGen and the Centennial Fund. “He has built a team of professional and lay leaders and looks at them as partners.

That’s how he motivated them.”

Kari Alterman, senior program officer for Jewish Life at the William Davidson Foundation, says Kaufman was “able to get everybody on the same bus and drive it.” She met him while staffing a 1998 singles mission that included Kaufman.

“Scott stood out as someone who has a

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Finding a New CEO Lawrence Wolfe, immediate past president of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, has been named chairperson of the CEO Search Committee tasked with finding a new CEO. The 13-member committee represents a wide variety of backgrounds, ages and experiences, with a deep understanding of Federation as well as its partner agencies and the Jewish community as a whole.

“We expect to have a number of extremely highly

qualified candidates from both within and beyond the Jewish communal world,” says Federation President Beverly Liss.

Scott Kaufman will be concluding his role as CEO at the end of October. While the search is conducted, Steve Ingber, COO, will assume professional responsibility for the overall management of the organization and will continue to work closely with Federation’s volunteer leadership on day-to-day activities.

deep passion for community, a commitment to Israel, and for connections and relationships that build community,” Alterman says. “He chose to look at the community as a place of abundance, not scarcity. He sees things before anyone else. He understood the generational shift.”

Jay Sanderson, CEO of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, became a Federation executive at the same time as Kaufman and has worked extensively with him, especially on the engagement of young people.

“The Detroit Jewish Federation was very traditional and, while we shouldn’t turn our back on the past, it needed to look to the future.

NEXTGen is a platform we’ve brought to the national organization. What he has done is quite powerful. He has a tremendous amount of passion and creativity.”

Kaufman continues to be energetic and enthused about Detroit’s Jewish community.

“I could have kept doing this, but I didn’t want to get burned out. We’re in a really good place and I wanted to do new things,” Kaufman says.

His new projects will include serving as board chair of the national Leading Edge

organization beginning Jan. 1, 2020. Leading Edge is a multifaceted leadership development program for senior Jewish professionals who work in Jewish communal agencies.

He explains it was created in 2014 because there was “no boot camps for CEOs in the field.” Leading Edge offers a year-long program that provides “onboarding” for Jewish CEOs. His other focus will be JLife — a comprehensive digital concept to facilitate engagement in Jewish life. The program will provide links and event listings tailored to individual profiles and enable participants to share information and maintain a personal online calendar of Jewish-related activities. It is being developed as a partnership with the Montreal Jewish Federation and several foundations.

One other passion — skiing — also will get more attention from Kaufman as he leaves his position at the end of this month.

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A True Gift In Our Midst

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n 1988, when my sister Carole Lasser was 38, she was diagnosed with multiple meningiomas — benign brain tumors. “It’s not cancer,” we were told. But as the years moved on so did the tumors and, while they were not cancer, they caused enough trouble: several surgeries, procedures and countless MRIs. They Marianne eventually left her with a Bloomberg recalcitrant left arm, which Special to the Jewish News ended her professional piano playing career.

In fall 2015, Carole began having a hard time. Walking was getting more difficult and she needed to use a wheelchair more.

It was getting tougher to play the piano with her right hand. In the beginning of 2016, she noticed a bump on her forehead.

We had a sick feeling one of the tumors was growing. Carole’s doctors recognized she was not doing well.

We called Rabbi Joseph Krakoff, senior director at Jewish Hospice and Chaplaincy Network (JHCN). He suggested the newly created LifeLinks program — home-based palliative care for people not yet ready for hospice. The program is designed to enable JHCN to bring comprehensive and compassionate palliative care directly to the home.

In February 2016, Carole’s doctors told her what we had feared. The tumors were going to end her life and there was nothing they could do about it. Surgery would only make things worse. She should spend her final months with the people who loved

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As soon as Hazzan started playing a few notes on the keyboard, he sat up and became totally alert. her. The doctors prescribed hospice.

Rabbi Krakoff was among the first people we told. He spent many hours with Carole, talking about her situation, her fears and helping ease her emotional pain.

He was there for us, her family, as well. On June 26, 2016, Carole passed away. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of her.

Shortly after my sister died, my parents created the Carole Jo Lasser (z”l) Music Fund at JHCN to provide music visits to home-bound patients. As of today, they have created multiple other life enrichments, including Tai Chi, salon services, art, pet visits, guided meditation, massage and reflexology, and a life-review and memoir-writing project.

In fall 2018, Pamela Applebaum and Andrew Echt of the Applebaum Family Foundation offered me the opportunity to serve as an Applebaum Fellow for JHCN. While I had a huge appreciation of what JHCN did for my sister, I had no sense of the depth and scope of the agency as a whole. Becoming a fellow gave me the

The JHCN team brings music enrichment to a client.

chance to learn and participate in the agency’s activities firsthand.

I met with Rabbi Krakoff twice a month to discuss every part of the organization and attended many different types of meetings. I helped JHCN put on two educational programs for potential donors and those interested in learning more about the services it provides. I spent a handful of hours each month working as a fellow.

One of my initial visits was to a JHCN client having a music enrichment, and I got to see Carole’s fund in action. Rabbi Krakoff and I walked in with Hazzan Daniel Gross who quickly set up his keyboard. The client was slumped on the couch, looking exhausted and despondent. As soon as Hazzan started playing a few notes on the keyboard, he sat up and became totally alert. Hazzan started singing “Henei MaTov,” and the man joined right in. It. Was. Amazing. The man, his wife, his son, Rabbi Krakoff, Hazzan Gross and I were all singing along. It was truly beautiful.

In 2018, more than 300 individual music visits took place in homes across Metro Detroit. Carole told me that music was her best friend. She would be happy to know that in her name, melodies are played in homes, songs are being sung and her spirt is soaring, as peace and comfort are brought to the homes of those who need it.

Marianne Bloomberg was the JHCN Applebaum Family Foundation Fellow.

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The Zionist Organization of America-Michigan Region will present awards of merit to distinguished community members at this year’s Balfour Celebration, 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, at Adat Shalom Synagogue. A strolling dinner will be served.

The Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award will be presented to Dr. Sanford and Mrs. Carol Vieder, dedicated lifelong supporters of Israel and the Jewish community.

ZOA-Michigan Region will also present its Lifetime Achievement Award to Sheryl Silver, a long time ZOA activist.

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Back Home at Durfee Greatest Generation members draw on their past to help today’s Detroit kids succeed.

E Alan Muskovitz

arlier this month, I had the privilege to witness brothers Carl, 85, and Sander Levin, 88, enjoy a touching reunion with a handful of their Durfee Intermediate School classmates, class of 1949. It was made even more emotional because it took place in a beautiful refurbished hallway of the architectural gem they called their educational home on Collingwood in Detroit, just south of Central High School.

This was no ordinary reunion, nothing like the ones usually reserved for a suburban hotel banquet hall. It

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Durfee Intermediate School alums relive school days through memorabilia: Aaron Krieger, Carl Levin, Winnie Krieger, Herb Saperstein, Martin Magid, Sander Levin and Ruby Fridson.

was a planning meeting and prelude to a much larger reunion and event scheduled for Nov. 7 at the school, now called the Durfee Innovation Society (DIS). DIS, through a partnership with Detroit-based nonprofit Life Remodeled, began breathing life into the shuttered school in 2017, billing it as a “hub of opportunity for children, students and adults.”

The Jewish News, along with CKC Agency and Star Trax Valet, are partners in the upcoming fundraising event.

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The Levins and Jim Comer, Detroit philanthropist and founder of Comer Holdings LLC, headquartered in Southfield, will be honored at an official dedication ceremony celebrating the opening of the newest Metro Detroit Youth Clubs (MDYC) to be housed within the DIS. The club, which will bear the three gentlemen’s names, will be the organization’s fifth area club, joining others in Ferndale, Royal Oak, Southfield and Washington Township.

The humble, distinguished longtime U.S. senator and

“Durfee, once filled with the energy and promise of our Greatest Generation, is filled once more with hope and opportunity for the next greatest generation.”

— BRETT TILLANDER, CEO, METRO DETROIT YOUTH CLUBS

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“Back Home” from page 29

TOP: A glimpse at the fine workmanship inherent at Durfee.

ABOVE: Beautiful windows allow light to filter into the library.

Dream Realized

Bringing education, job training and social services to Detroit neighborhoods.

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congressman agreed to lend their names to the club with assurances it would be dedicated to making a difference in the lives of Detroit children and the community at large, building a bridge from the advantages they enjoyed in the past to a more promising future. It was equally imperative to the Levins that the new club include and be named in recognition of a representative of the Detroit African American community. In Jim Comer, the Levins knew a great choice had been made.

For 60 years, MDYC’s mission has been to empower youth to reach their full potential through quality programs. Serving more than 2,200 members age 6-18, the clubs are open weekdays after school, Saturdays for specialized programming and throughout the summer from early morning to evening.

Advancing academic achievement, career exploration, financial literacy, character building, leaderships skills, civic engagement and sports are just a few of the educational and life skills opportunities made available to the children on a daily basis.

The clubs are led by a team of full- and part-time professionals, supported by a 24-member Board of Trustees comprised of business and community leaders, plus hundreds

Launched in 2017, Durfee Innovation Society was the collaborative creation of Detroit Public School Community District (DPSCD) and Chris Lambert, 39, an Indiana native who traded his career pursuits of business and law for one of community building and altruism after his travels in Africa as a college student. He moved to Detroit in 2010 and, in 2011, founded Chris Lambert the nonprofit Life Remodeled.

Since 2014, Life Remodeled, with $27 million in donations and counting, has renovated four Detroit public schools, repaired 188 homes, boarded up 2,000-plus blighted homes, beautified hundreds of blocks and mobilized thousands of volunteers.

Lambert, with DIS, continues to set his sights

of volunteers who serve as tutors and academic mentors.

Now, the newest Levin-Comer club location, within the same decades-old walls of Durfee that provided Carl, Sander and the predominately Jewish student body a safe and nurturing environment years ago, will inspire a future generation of greatness for underserved children in Detroit. “To the extent our careers can be an inspiration, that’s a great reward,” Carl said.

“It makes me very happy to think that’s a possibility because these kids deserve the same opportunity we had.” Added Sander: “Durfee was so much a part of our growing up.

I salute this club for helping to take the memories and build them into the lives of others.”

NEED IS APPARENT That there is much work to be done is a vast understatement.

MDYC CEO Brett Tillander stunned us Brett Tillander with the recent MSTEP (Michigan’s standardized assessment test) reading scores that indicated only 1.2 percent of third graders at the Central High School building just north of Durfee (now a K-12 school) met the state’s reading standards. continued on page 32

on creating something that offers long-term sustainable and expandable benefits for Detroit’s neighborhoods. With DIS, he and a host of nonprofit organizations are creating a sustainable one-stop-shop incubator, where neighborhood families, youth and adults could come to hone their education and job skills and get help with social services.

For starters, DIS houses resources such as foster care and support agencies, literary assistance services for children and adults, a podcast and music recording station for budding artists, and even a clothing boutique and a pizzeria designed to offer youth job training in retail and food service industries.

Lambert admits that, at first, the local com-

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DERRICK MARTINEZ

Built in 1927, the Gothic-style Durfee Intermediate School now is home to a host of social service agencies helping Detroiters live better lives.

DERRICK MARTINEZ

Major T Tenant

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STACY GITTLEMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

he friendly receptionist who greets you in the cavernous entry hall of the Durfee Innovation Society (DIS) on Detroit’s west side says it best when describing the building that once housed the Durfee Intermediate School: “She’s a beautiful beast.”

They don’t make school buildings like this anymore. Its Gothic style features soaring windows, a hardwood gymnasium, wide hallways with ornate crown molding and architectural details throughout. There is even a decaying, marble-laden swimming pool that has the potential to be restored for a community swim club

if the right donor comes along.

In October, the school-turned-training/ social services incubator will welcome JVS Human Services and ResCare Workforce Services as its newest and biggest tenant. JVS Human Services announced July 29 it has been awarded a $3.5 million joint contract with national employment services agency ResCare Workforce Services by the Detroit Employment Solutions Corporation (DESC) to move into a 10,000-square-foot space inside Durfee.

The award also includes funding for operating the Detroit at Work “WorkForce

munity of mostly African American homeowners was initially suspicious as to why a white developer wanted to buy such a large piece of property in a predominantly African American neighborhood. He said at town hall meetings they feared it would be just another sign of gentrification, an opening of shops and restaurants that the locals would not patronize, need or afford.

“To succeed and win the trust of the local residents, the center would need to take a holistic approach to improving the very community where people live by providing a host of financial, job and education training as well as social services and some arts programming,” Lambert said.

As of August, Life Remodeled is working to raise the last $1.3 million of the $4.9 million budgeted to complete the renovations.

Funding also comes from charging rent.

To be a tenant at Durfee, Lambert explained, they must fall into three categories: education, workforce development or human services. Lambert keeps rent slightly under what the current market rate will bear at $15 per square foot, which is slightly lower than Downtown rates that average about $19 per square foot.

At press time, Durfee is 89 percent occupied and growing, he said.

LIFE REMODELED

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— Stacy Gittleman, contributing writer

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“Back Home” from page 30

Metro Detroit Youth Clubs Dedication Luncheon honoring Sen. Carl Levin, Congressman Sander Levin and Detroit philanthropist Jim Comer will be held 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, at the Durfee Innovation Society, 2470 Collingwood, Detroit.

Tickets for Durfee alumni, friends, family and the community: $55 one ticket or $100 for two. Event includes lunch, school tours and complimentary valet parking. For tickets or to donate, visit miclubs.org or call 888-MI-CLUBS (888-642-5827).

TOP: Carl and Sander Levin relive memories through old yearbooks.

ABOVE: Durfee memorabilia.

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The Levins’ participation with the Metro Detroit Youth Clubs is not an isolated event. It comes on the heels of years of support to the organization. Tillander fondly recalls “Sander playing basketball with our kids over the decades, while Carl has often welcomed and championed our members over the years.”

The idea for creating the Levin-Comer Club at the Durfee location was first generated by former Garden Fresh Gourmet founder Jack Aronson. He is an MDYC board member, and the club’s Ferndale location is named in honor of him and his wife, Annette. After touring and falling in love with the Durfee Innovation Society, Aronson informed Tillander the site was “a must-see” for future MDYC consideration.

At the same time, Aronson shared his enthusiasm with Carolyn Krieger, owner of CKC Agency, the Farmington Hillsbased public relations firm he’s partnered with for years. Turns out Krieger’s parents, Winnie (Goldberg) and Aaron Krieger of Farmington Hills, both 85 and childhood sweethearts married for 66 years, are lifelong friends of Carl’s and part of his graduating class of 1949.

Throw in the fact that Carolyn is a huge reunion enthusiast, having organized her own sixth-grade class get-togethers for

years and, well, connect the dots and you have yourself an incredible event for the MDYC on Nov. 7 that will profoundly impact the futures of Detroit students for generations to come.

EXCHANGING MEMORIES The Kriegers, plus fellow Durfee ’49 classmates Ruby (Fischer) Fridson of Farmington Hills, Martin Magid of Bloomfield Hills and Herb Saperstein of Novi, were on hand at Durfee to reminisce about their school days ahead of the November event. Until this meeting, all three had not walked through the doors of Durfee in 70 years.

Along with the Levins, they gathered around a table in a small room adjacent to the Durfee library, where memories of chocolate phosphates, city buses as the only form of school transportation, lifelong friendships, WWII and FDR’s death were just a few of the vivid word pictures being painted by these 85-year-old “students.”

“I’ll tell you one other story,” said Sander Levin, talking about one unforgettable day on the playground at Durfee. “It was just behind the school. Carl and I were here, and I liked to kick footballs. Carl would hold the football and I would kick it.” Carl chimed in: “You know, extra points.”

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“So, we were practicing extra points,” Sander continued.

“Then we went home, and our parents told us,” Sander said, pausing before sharing the haunting news that awaited him and his brother. It turns out on that day, while 10-year old Sander was innocently kicking footballs being held by his 7-year old brother Carl, the Japanese were bombing Pearl Harbor.

On a much lighter note, Herb took home the award for funniest memory when he admitted he made a buzzer-beating half-court shot for the Durfee intramural basketball team. “The ball went swish,” Herb said, “right through the net … for the opposing team.”

At the end of the visit, it was to a person, as Aaron Krieger described, “great to be back in the hallowed halls of Durfee.”

Added his wife, Winnie: “It’s also great to know that the Jewish community that benefited so positively from the foundation that Durfee provided us as children can now help pay it forward.”

As the mini-reunion began to break up, Tillander proudly informed the gathering that “those hallways and nearly every classroom in the DIS, including the 35,000 square feet dedicated to the MDYC, are now occupied by counseling, literacy and entrepreneurial programs.”

“Durfee,” Tillander concluded, “once filled with the energy and promise of our Greatest Generation is filled once more with hope and opportunity for the next greatest generation.

We are so proud that Carl and Sander Levin, Jim Comer and the Durfee alumni are on this journey with us.”

“[Our center in Durfee] harkens back to JVS’ core mission of helping all Metro Detroiters maximize their potential.”

— PAUL BLATT

“Major Tenant” from page 31

One” mobile unit to bring job training and placement resources to homebound residents in Detroit.

In addition to operating the new Durfee Detroit at Work Career Center and WorkForce One mobile unit, JVS and ResCare will also be managing the Detroit at Work Call Center. The call center serves as a central location for Detroiters seeking employment and training resources and will be staffed by several Detroit at Work interns gaining valuable work experience while serving this vital need to Detroit residents.

The new Career Center will be staffed by 25 employees. Additional funding has been provided by the McGregor Foundation for integrating human-centered design elements into the office space and the approach to working with customers.

The opening of the JVS center at Durfee is somewhat of a personal triumph for the organization’s chief operating officer, Paul Blatt. His father-inlaw, who attended Central High School (on the same campus), lived on nearby Tuxedo Street.

“I am so excited about JVS securing this space and this DESC contract,” Blatt said. “JVS for 77 years has always delivered our job training resources to the people of Detroit to get them back to school or work. Now we can deliver directly to the neighborhood

where they live with our mobile unit. ABOVE: Chris [Our center in Durfee] harkens back to Lambert, left, founder and CEO our core mission of helping all Metro of Life Remodeled Detroiters maximize their potential.” and the catalyst for Durfee’s transformation, with DURFEE HISTORY Paul Blatt, JVS’ COO, Durfee Intermediate School opened in a space JVS will in 1927 and is located on the curve of use as the building’s Collingwood at LaSalle on Detroit’s largest tenant. west side. It originally served a working-class population, including the children of many Jewish immigrants.

Over the decades, population demographics shifted, and the school body was reduced to one-tenth of what it was at its height.

Due to falling test scores, Detroit Public School Community District (DPSCD) moved the remaining 600 pupils to a corridor in nearby Central Collegiate Academy and closed the school in 2017. It leased the 143,000-square-foot building for the next 50 years at $1 per year to the nonprofit organization Life Remodeled, headed by Chris Lambert, its founder and CEO. (See sidebar.)

With JVS moving in, DIS will be at 89 percent occupancy. Additionally, spaces such as the building’s auditorium, gymnasium and classrooms have been restored and are available to rent for events and functions.

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‘Never Stop’

Durfee and Detroit children benefit from a bar mitzvah boy’s social action.

STACY GITTLEMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

What better place to hit home the Jewish value of giving back than hosting one’s bar mitzvah celebration at Durfee? When Jacob Bennett thought about how to celebrate becoming a Jewish adult, he followed the social action path forged by his parents Meg and Rabbi Joshua Bennett, and his older siblings Zachary and Maddie, and worked for months not only on his Torah reading but also on an event that taught guests about volunteering.

Instead of dancing the night away, on Aug. 23, the Bennetts invited guests to volunteer as coaches, assistants and players for a mini touch football tournament for about 80 Detroit elementary school students who participate in athletics through Metro Detroit Youth Clubs. By the end of the celebration, Rabbi Bennett of Temple Israel of West Bloomfield said guests left with the sense of wanting to do more and what is possible through having a big vision of community building and volunteering.

“Just like his older brother and sister, Jacob chose a place to celebrate that taught his guests how to keep giving back to the community,” his father said. “I believe that giving back is one of the highest Jewish values one can practice.”

To make sure the Detroit kids could most comfortably use the center’s athletic facilities for the coming school year, Jacob raised money and worked with Dick’s Sporting Goods to create a pop-up shoe store stocked with athletic shoes in a variety of sizes, styles and brands. At the party, neighborhood kids were fitted with shoes, which were delivered to the center for pick up the next week.

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TOP: The finished mural produced during Jacob’s bar mitzvah party.

ABOVE: Jacob checks on the popup shoe store, which provided athletic shoes for kids in the Durfee neighborhood. The Bennetts: Zachary, Josh, Jacob, Meg and Maddie.

“I chose to have my bar mitzvah celebration at Durfee so my friends could see what the Detroit community looks like and needs,” Jacob said.

Guests also donated 1,000 books to the center’s library. The celebration wrapped up by adorning the center with a mural encompassing Jacob’s theme for becoming a bar mitzvah — Never Stop — designed by artist Daniel Cascardo of Huntington Woods.

“Everything about his bar mitzvah, from his invitations to what message he gave in his dvar Torah was about never stopping,” his father said. “One should never stop dreaming, trying, creating or learning. That is what Durfee is all about. What is going on here is just remarkable.”

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impressed with the missions of DIS and Life Remodeled. Since then, the two have envisioned a JVS center at the site to collaborate on ways to bring job training and other opportunities to Detroit’s west side.

Philanthropic contributions have helped the DIS. From the Jewish community, they include a $250,000 grant from the Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation, donated construction materials from Edw. C. Levy Company (Levy attended Durfee), and Taubman Company, which sent more than 500 volunteers to the DIS and gave $30,000.

And the Detroit-based Goodman Acker law firm donated $18,000 and mobilized staff members last summer to clean up property’s exterior as well as paint some hallways.

Partner Jordan Acker’s grandfather and great-uncle grew up in the neighborhood and have come to Durfee to tell current students from the neighborhood what their school days were like there and at Central High School.

“Giving back to a neighborhood that gave so much to my family has been a personal accomplishment and connection,” Acker said.

With the addition of JVS on hand, Lambert said it will now be more accessible than ever to help those in Detroit’s once-underserved neighborhoods get back to school and work. “[Durfee] has been the most exciting, difficult and rewarding endeavor I’ve ever been a part of, and it did take time to gain trust from the surrounding community,” Lambert said. “I am convinced we are creating a scalable and sustainable model that will benefit not only Detroit’s west side neighborhoods but also across Detroit and maybe across the country.

“We are like a community quarterback bringing together different service organizations under one roof that makes each one’s individual mission easier to achieve together than if they were located in standalone locations.”

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Talia Jordan Begres will be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. She is the daughter of Karen Cash, and Tommy and Wendy Begres. Talia will be joined in the celebration by her proud grandparents Mort and Ruth Cash and siblings Derek and Ethan Wolfe, and Tova Begres.

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

For her mitzvah project, she made candles and sold them with all proceeds donated to Yad Ezra in Berkley.

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Meredith is a student at Clifford Smart Middle School in Commerce Township.

Among her many mitzvah projects, she felt it was most meaningful to raise funds to save the Heavenly Acres Pet Cemetery.

Avery Harold Gach, son of Amy and David Gach, will chant from the Torah as he becomes a bar mitzvah at Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield on Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. He will be joined by his younger sibling Eli and proud grandparents Gail and Sidney Mintz, and Shelley Gach-Droz and Alan Droz. He is also the grandson of the late Harold Gach.

Avery is a seventh-grader at Berkshire Middle School in Beverly Hills. As part of his mitzvah project, he volunteered at the West Bloomfield-based Friendship Circle day camp as well as at Miracle League.

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Mason Reed Marcus, son of Dana and Scott Marcus and brother of Ethan, will chant from the Torah as he becomes a bar mitzvah on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. He is the loving grandchild of Linda and the late Dr. Henry Marcus, and Cheryl and Barry LaKritz.

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As part of his most meaningful mitzvah project, he volunteered for the Miracle Baseball League, helping a child with disabilities enjoy this special team sport.

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Talmud, Bava Kama 82a).

This Shabbat, we start readMany contemporary Jews, if ing the Torah again, having they attend prayer services at completed the last portion as all, gravitate to Friday nights, part of the Simchat Torah hol- when the Torah traditionally is iday. Around the world, not read.

Jews will roll their Given that reality, Torah scrolls back to should we continue with the beginning in order the traditional public to start re-reading the reading of the Torah?

Five Books of Moses.

Should it be read on I’ve always been Mondays, Thursdays, Rabbi intrigued by this pracDan Horwitz Saturdays and holidays tice. For thousands of exclusively, or is it time Parshat years, since instituted by for a new schedule?

Bereshit: the prophet Ezra, we’ve As we begin this Genesis been publicly reading new cycle of reading a 1:1-6:8; the same text aloud, designated section of Isaiah year after year, multiple the Torah each week, 42:5-43:10. if you don’t regularly times each week.

While the Torah is attend services, consider filled with incredible narrareading along on your own; or tives that certainly maintain even better, find a study-budintrigue, I can’t help but wondy to read/study along with. der how our ancestors, over The Five Books of Moses — time, didn’t opt to sub-out the Torah — is the core part of Torah readings for some other our heritage and narrative, has textual selections from our had outsized impact on the traditional canon. Granted, world and remains relevant the reality that many of them today in ways large and small. (and still many folks today) Every person in our commubelieved that the Torah was/ nity having familiarity with is God’s own words and they our traditional text should be were commanded to read/ a goal. study them with regularity Some of the stories in the likely played a part. Yet, I still Torah make sense. Some are find it surprising this custom erotic. Some are just downof publicly reading the Torah right unfathomable given our has lasted as long as it has. contemporary views of right When was the last time and wrong. But it’s ours, and you heard someone read we read it from beginning to from the Torah (or read from end and back to the beginthe Torah yourself)? What ning, year after year. was that experience like?

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ultimedia presentations — including the actual taping of a podcast episode, a Broadway-style concert featuring a Tony Award nominee and a slideshow of places associated with a murder — enhance this year’s Detroit Jewish Book Fair filled with a variety of notable authors.

The 68th annual event, scheduled Nov. 2-10 at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield, features some 50 presenters who will introduce new books and/or add to those introductions.

Three presenters — Mark Oppenheimer, Josh Young and Margalit

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Fox — previewed their participation in this year’s programming.

MARK OPPENHEIMER The live taping of the podcast “Unorthodox” launches the fair Saturday evening, Nov. 2, with Tablet magazine podcaster Mark Oppenheimer joined by production partners Stephanie Butnick and Liel Leibovitz, who recently released their reference book The Newish Jewish Encyclopedia: From Abraham to Zabar’s and Everything in Between.

“Unorthodox” started four years ago, when podcasts in general were growing in popularity.

“I had this idea that one of the missing podcasts was a good one about Jewish life and culture,” explains Oppenheimer, a part-time Tablet editor working on the magazine with his two collaborators.

“If we could take the fun, wit and humor of our editorial meetings and put all that into a podcast with great

For specific information on the Detroit Jewish Book Fair and scheduled events, go to bookfair.jccdet.org. New this year, download the Whova event app and use the invitation code: bookfair. candor about Jewish life and culture, we were confident we could get an audience.”

The three, wanting Jewish and gentile guests to keep conversations open, taped a few sample episodes, got a distributor and debuted in July 2015.

The book was the idea of Stephanie’s husband, Ben Cohen, a writer for the Wall Street Journal.

“Our listeners always have questions,” says Oppenheimer, who can recall a range of guests including actress Kathryn Hahn, culinary historian Michael Twitty and former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman.

“We have religious listeners who don’t know a lot about secular Jewish culture and we have secular listeners who don’t know a lot about Jewish prayer or scripture, so we thought it would be fun to do a book with a

little of everything,” he said. “The three of us, with some guest contributors, wrote the book.”

Among some 1,000 entries, Michigan is represented by the founding of Humanistic Judaism as worked on by the late Rabbi Sherwin Wine and, in contrast, the popularity of Zingerman’s Deli in Ann Arbor.

The three came up with topics asking the help of Tablet co-workers, divided the subjects three ways and wrote entries. After finishing individual assignments, they read and edited what was done by the others.

“There were a lot of late-night conference calls,” Oppenheimer says. “It was very collaborative because we want the encyclopedia to be readable in 10 or 20 years. I love the juxtaposition of different entries; one that’s very religious can be next to one that’s very secular.”

Oppenheimer can point out entries he finds especially interesting — from “tikkun

Mark Oppenheimer

ABOVE: Tablet magazine’s Alana Newhouse, Leil Liebovitz and Stephanie Butnick will speak at the Detroit Writing Room in Downtown Detroit. FACING PAGE: The annual Detroit Jewish Book Fair at the JCC draws huge crowds to hear notable Jewish authors to speak about the creation of their books.

olam” because the actual expression does not mean what people think it means to Alan Alda because he’s not Jewish although people think he is.

Oppenheimer and his two co-writers have another Book Fair appearance at 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, when they discuss “Storytelling Across Platforms” with Alana Newhouse, editor-in-chief of Tablet and author of The 100 Most Jewish Foods.

In a different location, the Detroit Writing Room in Downtown Detroit, they will share views about writing for different platforms and audiences while expressing an individual voice.

“We were very excited when the Detroit Jewish Book Fair reached out to the Detroit Writing Room to host its first event in Downtown Detroit,” said Stephanie Steinberg, venue owner with her husband, Jake Serwer. “Historically, the book fair has always held events at the JCC in West Bloomfield. This year, organizers decided to branch out and offer a program for Jews living Downtown or suburbanites who enjoy attending events in the city.

“Jake and I are honored to be the venue for their first event Downtown. As an author, I spoke at a JCC book fair event in 2015, so it’s nice to come full circle and now offer a welcoming space for fellow Jewish authors to share their stories Downtown.”

JOSH YOUNG A concert, on Saturday evening, Nov. 9, features tenor Josh Young and goes along with a presentation by James Kaplan, who discusses Irving Berlin: New York Genius, a biography of the iconic songwriter.

“I’ve never performed at a book fair, and I don’t think I’ve ever been to a book fair, so I’m very much looking forward to singing some Berlin songs and meeting the author,” says Young, whose featured role in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar brought the nomination.

“The concert is going to be mostly the songs of the composer we’re celebrating but also other Jewish composers who have influenced him. I’m performing with Alta Boover (a mezzo soprano who also has appeared around the world), and it’s great that the author is going to be part of the program.”

Josh Young

Young, who has toured to Michigan with a production of Les Miserables and was featured in productions of Evita and Kiss Me Kate at the Stratford Festival in Canada, recently joined Oakland University as an assistant professor of musical theater, where Boover is an assistant professor of music and teaches applied voice.

“We have a lot of crossover between students,” says Young, who also has appeared in plays about the Holocaust; he remembers hearing about the firsthand experiences of his grandmother. “Alta and I are familiar with each other’s work, and she asked if I would do the concert with her.”

Young and wife, actress Emily Padgett, wanted a more settled life and are glad to be based in Michigan to raise their 8-monthold daughter.

“Oakland is a research university, and my research includes performing so I have the best of both worlds,” says Young, who has taught master classes at various universities and now focuses on instructing students about acting out a song and performing in cabarets. “I love getting to teach, and I have some really great students with a lot of potential.”

MARGALIT FOX A slideshow will be presented Sunday afternoon, Nov. 10, by Margalit Fox, author of Conan Doyle for the Defense, a true tale of how the creator of Sherlock Holmes novels helped free an innocent Jewish man from jail.

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Oct. 24: A celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Henry & Delia Meyers Library & Media Center spotlights Martin Fletcher, author of Promised Land: A Novel of Israel.

Oct. 27: Mary Gabriel, author of Ninth Street Women, will give a talk at the Detroit Institute of Arts followed by a docent-led tour.

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Nov. 3: Detroit Writes: Recent publications by Michigan authors are introduced.

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Nov. 3: The Drawing Your Story Cartooning Workshop is conducted by Jordan Gorfinkel, author of the Passover Haggadah Graphic Novel, who will speak earlier that day at noon.

Nov. 4 : A pop-up exhibit accompanies a talk by Mark Slobin, author of Motor City Music: A Detroiter Looks Back.

of Mensch-Marks, and Victor Begg, author of Our Muslim Neighbors, will be moderated

by Rabbi Asher Lopatin.

Nov. 4: Book Club Night introduces Jennifer Cody Epstein, author of Wunderland, during a dinner program.

Nov. 7: “Whiskey, Wine and Whining” features Rebecca Schrag Hershberg, author of The Tantrum Survival Guide, and gives parents a chance to connect at The Broock, 413 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale.

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Many special events, beyond author presentations, add to this year’s Detroit Jewish Book Fair, scheduled Nov. 2-10, at and outside the Jewish Community Center. There also are programs preceding and spanning the fair timeline. The Porch, a new café in the JCC, offers pizza, sandwiches, salads and more during Book Fair hours.

Visiting authors will discuss novels and nonfiction works that cover a vast range of subjects — mysteries, holidays, histories, religion, the Holocaust, biographies, psychology viewpoints, cooking techniques, children’s interests and much more.

Go to bookfair.jccdet.org for full information on all the books and programs. Some are listed here:

Nov. 7: Film screening of His Girl Friday, based on a play by Ben Hecht, adds to a presentation by author Adina Hoffman, who wrote Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures.

Nov. 5: Einat Admony, author of Shuk: From Market to Table, the Heart of Israeli Home Cooking, demonstrates the how of some of her recipes.

Nov. 6: Patron Night includes an optional dinner and a presentation by comedic personalities Dave Barry, Adam Mansbach and Alan Zweibel, authors of A Field Guide to the Jewish People.

Nov. 7: Lunch is planned with authors Myla Goldberg (Feast Your Eyes) and Sara Rose (D-Day Girls).

Nov. 7: Neighborly Discourse, a discussion with Rabbi Joshua Hammerman, author

Nov. 10: Rabbi Joseph Krakoff and Michelle Sider lead a life reflection workshop in conjunction with their book and associated coloring book Never Long Enough: Finding Comfort and Hope Amidst Grief and Loss. The presentation is among a number calling attention to Kristallnacht Remembrance Day. On the Run in Nazi Berlin: A Memoir, by Bev Saltzman Lewyn, is another.

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publisher when she read a biography of Arthur Conan Doyle and learned he was a crusader for social justice.

Fox was impressed that Doyle, who grew up very poor in a fatherless family, never forgot his beginnings and agitated for all kinds of causes — exposing Belgian atrocities in the Congo, liberalizing divorce laws for women who were in abusive marriages and investigating wrongful convictions, including the one imposed on Oscar Slater in Scotland.

Although Fox read about Doyle and Slater in other books, the mentions were very limited, and after many years as a newspaper reporter and book writer, Fox decided that the Slater story, spanning almost 20 years, merited a book of its own.

Doyle tells about the murder of a woman in 1908 Glasgow and how the conviction was contrived because Slater was a Jewish immigrant belonging to a marginal social class.

“I started work on the book in 2013, and it came out in 2018,” says Fox, who studied at the Columbia School of Journalism and had a long career with the New York Times, where she has handled obituary assignments including one of an actual murderer, Charles Manson.

“The book is a daily newspaper story gritted up

about 100 times. It reveals how Doyle re-investigates the case using the rational methods of his most famous literary creation.

“Little did I suspect that this story of race hatred, antiSemitism, xenophobia and intense public efforts to curb immigration would become so dark and painful in our own time. I’m proud, in a sad way, to have brought this story, seemingly from the past, to show how, regrettably, some things never change.”

Fox, who has spoken in Ann Arbor and has cousins in East Lansing, describes her upcoming presentation as an illustrated lecture.

“I have a PowerPoint presentation with Edwardian images that are in the book, including photos from the actual 1908 crime scene,” says Fox, married to George Robinson, film critic for the Jewish Week and author of Essential Judaism and Essential Torah.

“It’s a talk that ranges over the story and recommends at the end that the audience go visit the prison, which has been a museum since 2013.

Ironically, it’s in some of the most beautiful country in the British Isles.”

Look next week for a story about MSU Jewish Studies Professor Kirstin Fermaglich’s book, Rosenberg by Any Other Name. She speaks at 5 p.m.

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Arts&Life exhibit

After the

Holocaust New exhibit from DJN Foundation explores how Detroit Jews aided survivors.

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details “Aftermath: Detroit Jews in the Wake of the Holocaust” will be on view Oct. 24-Jan. 5 at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills. No additional cost beyond general admission. (248) 553-2400. holocaustcenter.org.

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f you visit the Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC) in Farmington Hills Oct. 24-Jan. 5, you are likely to view familiar family names as they appear in a new exhibit, “Aftermath: Detroit Jews in the Wake of the Holocaust.”

Either the impact of the people recalled still affects the community or the descendants of those people have continued the commitments established years ago.

The exhibit is the second installment in a two-part series that recalls Holocaust issues as reported by the Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Detroit Jewish News. Besides pointing out what local residents did to help members of their extended families, the latest exhibit also describes what they did for survivors personally unknown to them.

“We would like viewers to understand that although the Holocaust itself ended with the Allied victory in World War II, Jewish and non-Jewish communities in Detroit, in America and around the world had to deal with the effects of the Holocaust,” says curator Mike Smith, Alene and Graham Landau Archivist Chair of the Detroit Jewish News Foundation. He worked closely with Mark Mulder, HMC exhibits manager, and Joanne Loney, HMC exhibits assistant.

“There were millions of displaced persons around the world; hundreds of thousands,

maybe a million, were Jewish.

They desperately needed food, shelter and the basic necessities of life, and one of the main exhibit themes is that Jewish Detroiters did their part.”

Through the articles posted, viewers will learn how Jewish Detroiters provided generous funding and volunteered in various capacities to support displaced persons who arrived here and for the hundreds of thousands who settled in British Mandate Palestine, a portion of which would become Israel in 1948.

The names Emma Schaver, Louis Berry and Joseph Holtzman are seen throughout the articles. Schaver, a wellknown singer, became the first American to perform for those interned in the displaced persons camps.

Stories about not-so-wellknown Jewish Detroiters, such as Mabel Giszezak, also are spotlighted. Giszezak taught classes to Jewish displaced persons who arrived in Detroit not knowing English or local governance and customs.

A MIGHTY RESPONSE From fundraising campaigns to political cartoons, the exhibit recalls the people who countered the devastating effects of the Holocaust.

“Unlike secular media at the time, the pages of the Jewish News and Jewish Chronicle provided ongoing and often stark content and headlines that started with Hitler’s rise to power to the defeat of Nazi Germany,” says Arthur Horwitz, publisher and executive editor of the Jewish News and president of the DJN Foundation. “Central to that ongoing reporting was the horrible plight of European Jewry and what we now refer to as the Holocaust.

“Detroit Jewry responded mightily to supporting the American war effort and to activating whatever moral and continued on page 48

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political influence it had to try and rescue as many Jews as possible from the Nazis and their collaborators. Through the new exhibit, we are able to share the story of how our community continued to respond to the needs of refugees — many who ultimately settled in the Detroit area.”

This exhibit follows last year’s presentation of “The Holocaust Unfolds,” which covered the events that became known as the Holocaust or Shoah. It will be on display Jan. 27-May at the University of MichiganDearborn, co-sponsored by the school’s Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive under the direction of Jamie Wraight.

“We are proud to partner with the Jewish News on both exhibits,” says Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld, CEO of the Holocaust Memorial Center.

“The second exhibit provides a deeper understanding of how the local Jewish community supported the Jewish diaspora post-war.

“The HMC believes it is important to share localized

stories. Articles in the exhibit show how the local Jewish community supported refugees and displaced persons because they understood the importance of helping those in need, an important Jewish value.”

Content in both exhibits is taken from the DJN’s William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History, which contains more than 330,000 pages of content beginning in 1916 and spanning more than 100 consecutive years.

“It is important to show that in addition to capturing countless stories about Jewish Detroiters and their families, content in the digital archive tells broader and deeper stories that have educational and scholarly merit,” Horwitz says.

“From our own experiences, the Jewish community is sensitive to the plight of refugees.

With millions of people across the globe displaced by violence and genocidal actions, this exhibit reminds us not to turn a blind eye to hatred and to soberly recognize our collective responsibility to assist those who have endured it.”

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AT THE MOVIES Opening Friday, The Current War: Director’s Cut is about the corporate battle that pitted Thomas Edison (1847-1931) against George Westinghouse (18461914) and Westinghouse associate Nikolai Tesla (Nicholas Hoult).

After inventing (1879) the first commercially viable light bulb, Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) went straight into the electric utility business. His power plants sent DC current to customers. But DC current (unlike AC current) can’t travel more than a mile, making the Edison-type plant only viable in heavily populated areas.

Westinghouse, who invented (1873) the first very good railroad brake, plunged into AC transmission in the 1880s. Utilizing Tesla’s AC motor innovations, he built many AC power plants. For more than a decade, he was in a war with Edison as to whether DC or AC would be the dominant form of transmission (spoiler: AC won).

The film was written by Pittsburgh native Michael Mitnick, 36. I learned from the Pittsburgh Jewish paper that his fiancée is Jessica Brickman, 36ish. She’s also a writer, mostly for TV. Jessica’s father, Marshall Brickman, 80, has worn many hats: In the early ’60s, he had success in folk music; in 1965 he switched to writing TV comedies; and in the ’70s, he teamed with Woody Allen to co-write Sleeper, Annie Hall and Manhattan. The Kill Team, opening this Friday, stars Nat Wolf, 24, as a young soldier who is serving in the invasion of

Afghanistan that occurred shortly after 9/11. He witnesses other soldiers killing innocent civilians and considers reporting them, but he’s afraid he’ll be their next target. The film is based on a 2014 documentary of the same name

by Dan Krauss, 46. Krauss, who has received two Oscar nominations for other documentaries, is making his feature film debut with this film, which he wrote and directed. Rob Morrow, 57, has a supporting role as Wolf’s father.

“MY BLACK MITZVAH” Comedian and actress Tiffany Haddish, 39, was long a standup comedian before becoming famous via a great performance in the 2017 film comedy Girl’s Trip. In 2018, she got a co-starring role on The Last O.G., a TBS series that was just renewed for a third season. The same year, she became the first African American woman to host SNL. Her SNL gig earned her an Emmy for best guest performance in a comedy series. On Oct. 6, she began hosting Kids Say the Darndest Things on ABC. Her late father was an Eritrean Jew, who was deported when she was 3. She was a teenager when she learned he was Jewish. She got to know him as an adult. She told USA Today she recently went to Eritrea to bury her father and now feels “more connected to her Jewish heritage.” She added she is studying Hebrew and plans to have a bat mitzvah. Plans are to have the ceremony coincide with the premiere of Black Mitzvah, an upcoming Netflix special about her spiritual journey (no streaming date set yet).

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1-3 pm, Oct. 25. At Adat Shalom.

Society of Active Retirees will explore the issue of free speech vs. hate speech. Participants will be professionals from the legal community. Free event.

SUNDAY, OCT. 27 MEMBERSHIP BRUNCH 10 am, Oct. 27. The Men’s Club of Congregation B’nai Moshe is holding its annual paid-up membership brunch, followed by a program featuring Dr. Gerald Katzman. Topic: “Do Gooders and Evil Doers: How Do They Get There?” Brunch free for members; $10 for nonmembers.

The program is free. To RSVP for brunch and/or the speaker, 248788-0600.

CLIMATE CHANGE ADDRESSED 10 am, Oct. 27. At Temple Emanu-El. Adult ed speaker series will present Henry Pollack, geophysics professor at U-M. Topic: “Confronting Climate Change: What Are the Options?”

Free event.

TECH CONNECT 12:30 pm, Oct. 27. Adat Shalom teen volunteers will donate their time to help adult learners better understand the use of iPhones and iPads. The workshop is at Adat Shalom. Registration is required. Lunch is available at noon for $5 per person. RSVP: Jodi Gross at 248-851-5100 or jgross@adatshalom.org.

SIMCHAH FOR SCOTT 7-9 pm, Oct. 27. At Congregation Shaarey Zedek, 27375 Bell Road, Southfield. Music, dessert reception to celebrate Scott Kaufman’s commitment and contributions to the community.

RSVP: jewishdetroit.org/event/ scott. Info: Shayna Petit at petit@jfmd.org.

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meetings for family caregivers of all older adults. Info or to RSVP: Dorothy Moon, 248-233-4392, dmoon@jvsdet.org. JVS, 29699 Southfield Road, Southfield.

YEMENI CULTURE 7-8:30 pm, Oct. 28. U-M Frankel Center will host Ayelet Tsabari at the Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor. Tsabari, author of The Art of Leaving: Language, Longing, and Belonging, will speak of growing up Mizrahi in Israel, about re-finding and reclaiming that identity through writing and through extensive research into Yemeni culture and traditions.

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WOMEN OF VALOR 7 pm, Oct. 28. The Windsor Jewish Community Centre and the University of Windsor present talks by Outstanding Women of Accomplishment over the course of the remainder of 2019 and 2020. The WJCC and the U of W’s Humanities Research Group, Women’s and Gender Studies Department and Law School are presenting the series, taking place at the WJCC and on the U of W campus. Dianne Saxe will speak tonight at Alumni Auditorium on campus of U of W. Free event.

TUESDAY, OCT. 29 ROSH CHODESH EVENT 10-11:30 am, Oct. 29. The Adat Shalom Sisterhood and Rabbi Rachel Shere invite women from the community to welcome the new month of Cheshvan with a Rosh Chodesh kickoff service, including Torah study, prayer and light refreshments. At the synagogue in Farmington Hills.

Free. For information and RSVP: Rochelle: r.lieberman@gmail.com or 248-553-2498.

SIMPLY DANCE 11 am, Oct. 29. The Active Life at the Jewish Community Center will host a dance class with Christine Stewart. No partner needed. Cost: $7.

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OCT. 30 FUN WITH LILY AND JANE E Journalist and author Mitch Albom will serve as moderator during an evening filled with wit, humor and lots of fun when “A Fun Conversation with Jane Fonda & Lily Tomlin” makes a stop at the Fox Theatre in the District Detroit at 7:30 p.m. Albom will guide the conversation as the stars of Grace and Frankie share their insights on life, politics, feminism, the planet and the secrets of their long-lasting friendship. Tickets (starting at $84) can be purchased at 313Presents.com, the Little Caesars Arena XFINITY box office and Ticketmaster.com.

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OCT. 26 JOSHUA RADIN Hailed for his emotive, heartfelt songs delivered via his signature soothing vocals, Joshua Radin comes to Saint Andrew’s Hall in Detroit, along with indie duo the Weepies. Radin was born and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to a Jewish family of Polish, German, Austrian and Russian background.

He became a favorite of Ellen DeGeneres and has appeared on several of her shows. DeGeneres invited Radin to sing his composition “Today,” a favorite song of hers, at her wedding with Portia de Rossi. Radin also wrote the song “In Her Eyes” in celebration of his own sister’s wedding. Tickets are $25 and available at ticketmaster. com.

OCT. 27 RECORD SHOW The Gimmie! Gimmie! Gimmie!

Record Show runs from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at The Sanctuary in Hamtramck. The Sanctuary (2932 Caniff St.) is an allages music venue that has risen from the ashes of the legendary Paycheck’s Lounge. Thirty vendors will be selling music and memorabilia with thousands of LPs, CDs and cassettes spanning all genres with a focus on rock, indie, punk and metal. The bar is open for 21+ and $2 pizza slices offered all day! All ages welcome and admission is free.

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YIDDISH LIVES! 1-5 pm, Oct. 29. U-M Frankel Center will present “Yiddish In and Out of Context.” At the Rackham Bldg. West Conference Room, Ann Arbor. By considering Yiddish in and out context, panelists hope to reach new understandings of how the role of Yiddish has changed and what these changes tell us about contemporary culture. Free event.

INTERFAITH DINNER 6-9 pm, Oct. 29. At Bint Jebail Cultural Center, 6220 Miller Road, Dearborn. Interfaith Leadership Council of Metropolitan Detroit will host. Cost: $75. Info: Wendy.

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1 pm, OCT. 30. “The Rise of Anti-Semitism in America” and “Distinguishing Pre-Modern and Modern Anti-Semitism.” Beth Ahm’s videostreaming study group invites lifelong learners in the community to watch and discuss video interviews from Valley Beit Midrash, featuring Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz in conversation with guest scholars Prof. Jonathan Sarna and Prof.

Joshua Shanes. No charge; no reservations needed. 5075 W. Maple Road. Info: Nancy Kaplan (248) 737-1931 or email nancyellen879@att.net.

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2 pm, Oct. 30. At Temple Kol Ami. Join David Higer, a retired social studies teacher, as he reviews the

highlights of the month’s current events. Free and open to the community. RSVP to cspektor@ tkolami.org or 248-661-0040.

GIVING GARDENS CLUB 6-8 pm, Oct. 30. At Yad Ezra.

2850 W. 11 Mile, Berkley.

“Canning at Home” with Carly Sugar and Repair the World. Free to current/former clients; sliding scale $5-$15. RSVP: stathis@ yadezra.org.

PARKINSON’S UPDATE 7 pm, Oct. 30. Hadassah Greater Detroit Nurses Council will host Dr. Peter A. LeWitt at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital.

Program open to public. Cost: $10 members; $15 nonmembers.

At Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital’s demonstration kitchen.

RSVP: Bonnie Topper-Bricker, 248-320-6288 or bonnie.topper@ gmail.com.

THURSDAY, OCT. 31 ART TALK 11 am-noon, Oct. 31. Sponsored by the Active Life at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Fully illustrated talks by art historian Wendy Evans.

Cost: $5. This week: “A Spiritual Heritage: Jewish Temples and Ritual Objects.”

POETRY & ART 11 am, Oct. 31. Rabbi Aaron Bergman will teach “Anna Tilcho and the Beauty and Poetry of Israel’s Landscape” and artist Steve Wood will help you create your own original work of art.

No artistic talent required. The program is hosted by Adat Shalom in partnership with JCC, Active Life Program. Cost is $20 (including light refreshments and paint supplies). Register online: adatshalom.org/painting19 or by contacting Jodi Gross: jgross@ adatshalom.org or (248)8515100.

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After the war, he returned to Dolores in Detroit to start a family. There he continued his accounting studies and became a CPA. Lynne was the first child, then came Stuart, Mark and Terri. Leonard worked hard and because of his skill was asked to become president of a home building company. In 1960, the economy was headed into a serious recession but because of his organizational and accounting skills, Leonard kept the company alive. In subsequent years, he shepherded the company through two more recessions, thus earning the respect of his employees (many of whom stayed for 30 years), contractors, competitors and even government officials.

Leonard started snow skiing at 50. Everyone thought he was nuts. It took him five years to learn to get off a chair lift without falling. Skiing became such a joy to him that he and Dolores bought a second home in Snowmass, Colo. He loved to have his children and grandchildren come west in the winters to ski. He and Dolores also had a condominium in Boca Raton.

When asked when he would go to Florida in the winter instead of Colorado, he said “When I get old.” They sold the condominium without ever seeing it. They never felt old enough.

Leonard drove until he was 98.

His driver’s license was reissued, through the mail, until he would have been 103.

Leonard lived for his family and his community. He did everything he could to improve the lives of his family. He never stopped dispensing advice on how to improve their lives. “Let me explain,” or “There is something I want to cover with you” were two of his favorite expressions.

Leonard was always working for his community. He was a lifelong member of B’nai B’rith.

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A spokeswoman, Trudy Perkins, said in a statement that he died of “complications concerning longstanding health challenges.”

As the head of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Cummings was a leading figure in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. He used his role to investigate the president, and Trump at one point sued Cummings over attempts to obtain information on Trump’s business dealings.

The African American lawmaker had represented his district — the home for more than 30,000 Jews — in Congress since 1996. Many of his Jewish constituents had favorable views of him, and he was known for working to bridge ties between the African American and Jewish communities.

Jewish leaders praised him earlier this year after Trump took to Twitter to deride Cummings’ district as “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.” Many critics of the president said the comment had racist undertones.

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LEONARD FARBER, 101, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 12, 2019.

He was born Aug. 18, 1918, to Sadie Belle and Samuel Farber before WWI ended. His family lived in Windsor. His father died at 38 when Leonard was 7 years old and he was raised by his mother and sister Florence, whom he adored.

The family got by until the Great Depression caused his mother’s small hat store to fail.

When he was 15 and destitute, they moved to Detroit to live with relatives. Leonard worked at a CF Smith Grocery, where he could eat as much fruit as he wanted while he was at work.

He learned the value of hard work and frugality. He wanted to quit school to work more but his mother insisted he stay in school, which served him well in life. He was always good with numbers, learned bookkeeping and studied accounting.

When WWII began, he was working as a bookkeeper. He soon realized that he was going to end up in the Army, so he prepared to enlist. He was needed to train his war-time replacement. It was then when the most beautiful girl walked into his office and his life, Dolores.

On their first date, they walked a mile to save a penny on the streetcar. He was ordered to report to the Army in California.

He told her that they were going to get married and move to California. He went to Officers School, was commissioned a second lieutenant and was shipped to the Philippines.

Just before landing, the Army decided it needed three attorneys for different organizational tasks.

Of the 200 second lieutenants, there were only two attorneys so they turned to the man with accounting, Leonard. He was tasked with organizing the new Department of Recovered Personnel. He did this so well that he received a Special

Rep. Cummings time and again for assistance and leadership,” Howard Libit, executive director of the Baltimore Jewish Council, told Haaretz following Trump’s comments.

Cummings founded the Elijah Cummings Youth Leadership Program in Israel, which is now in its 20th year.

As part of the program’s prestigious fellowship, African American teens from his district spend two years taking leadership seminars and learning about the local Jewish community, including by studying black-Jewish relations and the Holocaust.

The program also includes a nearly monthlong trip to Israel, where the teens stay at Yemin Orde, a youth village near Haifa. They work with Israeli teens from diverse backgrounds, volunteer and tour the country.

“I want to send a message that we cannot as African Americans progress without coalitions, and our greatest coalition partner has been the Jewish people in America,” he recently told WBAL-TV in an interview about the 20th anniversary of his program.

More than 200 people have participated in the fellowship and many said the program was life-changing.

Among the alumni are CNN anchor Victor Blackwell, who said the experience “recast me” in a tweet after Cummings’ death was announced.

Gurion Award from the State of Israel Bonds and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Federation. He was a lifelong member of Congregation Beth Abraham, where he was also an officer. He served as treasurer of the Tamarack Hills Authority.

Leonard Farber was the beloved husband for 74 years of the late Dolores Farber; son-in-law of the late Lottie and the late Samson Salzman; loving brother of the late Florence and Al Tucker; loving uncle of the late Martin Rosenfeld.

He was the devoted father of Lynne Farber (Maurice Long), Stuart Farber (Donna), Mark Farber (Lori), Terri Farber (Yosef Fleischmann); loving saba to Ronnen, Andrea, Yaneev, Sarah Leah and Arly Golombek, Shirah and Matt Eurich, Alaina Farber, Owen Farber, Halli and Adam Cohen, Carri and Adam Riemer, Cody Farber and fiancé, Devin Klein, Elana and Stephen Parker, Jennifer and Samson Maxbauer, Dena Roth and Rivka Friedman, Rachel and Reuben Maxbauer, Kendall Maxbauer and Elad Zuntz; proud great-saba to Max, Ami, Avrah, Lev, Conner, Brody, Olivia, Sutton, Nathan, Ezra, Adi, Amit, Ted, Betsy, Kerem and Dor; loving uncle of Marilyn, Stefan, Bonnie and Marcy Tucker, Contributions may be made to Hillel Day School, 32200 Middlebelt Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334; or Congregation Beth Ahm, 5075 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322.

Interment was held at Beth Abraham Cemetery in Ferndale. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

MARILYN FREEDLAND, 86, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 13, 2019.

She is survived by her sons and daughters-inlaw, Terry and Leslee Statfield, Steven and Renee Statfield,

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and Cary and Pam Statfield; grandchildren, Courtney and Tim Scott, Brandon and Heather Statfield, Stefanee and Ellery Hirsch, Melanee and Justin Johnson, Ashley Statfield, and Tyler, Austin, Kevin and Kyle Statfield; great-grandchildren, Elaina and Griffin Scott, Brielle and Hayden Statfield, Harper Hirsch, and Liam and Stella Johnson; brother and sister-in-law, Gerald and Nahid Bresler; sister and brother-inlaw, Andrea and Allan Stahl; many loving nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Mrs. Freedland was the devoted daughter of the late Gussie and the late Sol Bresler.

Interment was at Machpelah Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Hospice of Michigan, 43097 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302, hom.org/donations; or American Cancer Society, 20450 Civic Center Drive, Southfield, MI 48076, cancer. org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

RITA KAPLAN, 84, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 17, 2019.

She is survived by her daughter, Jill Kaplan; son and daughterin-law, Kenneth and Deborah Kaplan; grandchildren, Josh and Julie Kaplan, Jessica Kaplan, Meghan and Kevin Kusina, and Kevin Codd; sister and brother-in-law, Geraldine and Saul Lazare; sisters-in-law and brother-in-law, Barbara and Dr. Seymour Adelson, and Lorraine Shiffman; many loving nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Kaplan was the beloved wife for 59 years of the late Sanford Kaplan; the loving sister of the late Ralph Shiffman, the late Annette Furstenberg, the late Jack Shiffman and the late Sam Shiffman.

Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association-

National Chapter, P.O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 200906011, alz.org; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

BETTY SELIS KUHNE, 92, of Birmingham, died Oct. 12, 2019.

She is survived by her children, Allen and Carla Selis, Dr. James and Dana Selis, and Leslie Ann Selis; grandchildren, Aaron, Lindsay, Steven and Isaac Selis, David and Sarah Selis, Brooke Selis, Kaitlyn Vandentoorn and Andrew Vandentoorn; great-granddaughter, Eliana Shay Selis.

Mrs. Kuhne was the beloved wife of the late Dr. Sidney Selis and the late Franz Louis Kuhne; the loving sister of the late Arnold Pollock.

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

DR. JERRY ROSENBERG, 71, of Southfield, died Oct. 10, 2019.

He is survived by his wife, Helene Rosenberg; son and daughter-in-law, David and Yonina Rosenberg of Suffern, N.Y.; daughters and son-in-law, Dena Rosenberg of Southfield, Tova and Gabriel Schwartz, also of Southfield; brothers and sisters-in-law, Yitzchok and Miriam Rosenberg of Chicago, Lenny and Linda Rosenberg of Oak Park; grandchildren, Sorah and Jonathan Schwartz, Yara Hyman, Yair Hyman, Yishai Hyman, Yakira Hyman, Ben and Leora Rosenberg, Daniel Rosenberg, Ari Rosenberg, Abie Rosenberg, Avi Schwartz, Micha Schwartz, Adira Schwartz, Noam Schwartz; great-grandchildren, Ezra Schwartz and Raffi Schwartz.

Contributions may be made to Farber Hebrew Day School, 21100 W. 12 Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48076;

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or Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, P.O. Box 2044, Southfield, MI 48037.

Interment was held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

ALFRED SCHWARZ, 94, of Huntington Woods, died Oct. 15, 2019.

He is survived by his companion, Claire Levine; son and daughter-in-law, Philip and Susan Schwarz; daughter and son-in-law, Miriam Schwarz and Edward Katz; grandchildren, Rachel and Jeremy Schwarz, Jacob, Joshua, Hannah and Eli Katz.

Mr. Schwarz was the beloved husband of the late Gertrude Schwarz; brother of the late Robert Schwarz.

Interment was held at Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to Congregation T’chiyah or to Hospice of Michigan.

Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

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orton Mandel, a Cleveland businessman who donated tens of millions of dollars to Jewish causes, died Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, at his home in Florida, according to the Cleveland Jewish News.

He was 98.

His family left Poland for the United States in 1913. Mandel was born in Cleveland in 1921.

In 1940, he and his two brothers, Jack and Joseph, founded Premier Industrial Corp., an auto parts distributor that built off their uncle’s small store. It became a worldwide company listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1964

Morton Mandel, shown in 2018, founded more than a dozen nonprofit organizations and served as president of United Way Services in Cleveland. PHOTO COURTESY ALYSSA SCHMITT/CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS

and merged with United Kingdom-based Farnell Electronics in 1996 to form Premier Farnell.

In 1953, the brothers founded the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, which has contributed to a number of Jewish and non-Jewish causes. The foundation has supported institutions including the Mandel Center for Studies

in Jewish Education at Brandeis University and the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In 1990, the foundation launched a branch in Israel to support a range of programs there.

Mandel founded more than a dozen nonprofit organizations and served as president of United Way Services in Cleveland. He received a number of awards for his work, including the Presidential Award for Private Sector Initiatives presented by President Ronald Reagan.

He was predeceased by his brothers: Jack died in 2011 at 99 and Joseph in 2016 at 102.

Mandel is survived by his wife, Barbara, their three children and seven grandchildren.

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ESTHER SIMON, 93, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 16, 2019.

She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Donald Simon; son and daughter-in-law, Robert and Debbie Simon; sons-inlaw, Lewis Wagner and Bruce (Sue) Luria; grandchildren, Brent and Dana Luria, Elyssa and Eyal Dimant, Catie Luria Gray and Jeff Gray, Stuart and Maggie Wagner, Hilary Wagner and her boyfriend, Michael Goldeen, Justin Wagner, Andrew Simon and Allison Simon; great-grandchildren, Joey and Owen Luria, and Boaz and Shai Dimant; nieces and nephews, Michael Strub, Peggy and Archie Nash, Henry and Rebecca Strub, David and Lisa Simon, Anne and Steven Riegel, and John Simon.

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ished mother of the late Barbara Luria and the late Cynthia Wagner; the loving sister of the late Helen and the late Irvin Strub; the dear sister-in-law of the late Lewis Simon and the late Richard Simon; the devoted daughter of the late Sophie and the late William Freed; the loving cousin of the late Gertrude and the late Emanuel Gorland.

Interment was at Machpelah Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance-New York, 14 Pennsylvania Plaza, Suite 2110, New York, NY 10122, ocrfa.org. Arrangements

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JOYCE TUBBEN, 87, of Novi, died Oct. 14, 2019.

She is survived by her sons and daughter-in-law, Neil and Elyse Tubben, Dr. Robert and Rhon-

da Tubben; grandchildren, Jordan Tubben, Evan Tubben, Derek Tubben, Devon Tubben, Matthew (Rachel) Tugender and Eric Tugender; brother and sister-in-law, Harvey and Anita Zalesin; brother-in-law, Danny Braude; many loving nieces, nephews, other family members and friends.

Mrs. Tubben was the beloved wife of the late Louis Tubben; sister of the late Nori Braude.

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saw an advertisement in the JN from Adat Shalom Synagogue that noted the congregation was celebrating its 75th anniversary. I decided I should explore the history of Adat Shalom in the William Davidson Archive of Jewish Detroit History.

While I do not have any direct connections to Adat Shalom, I have had very good experiences related to it. My very good friend, Charlotte Dubin, is a memMike Smith ber there, and together, we Alene and Graham Landau developed an oral history Archivist Chair project for fifth graders.

It was a bit wild — those kids have some energy! — but it was lots of fun.

My other experience was with Rabbi Aaron Bergman. He may not remember it, but I met him at a Holocaust Memorial Center event sponsored by the Polish Mission at Orchard Lake Schools a few years ago. We chatted a bit backstage, as the rabbi was warming up his lips to blow the shofar, and he kindly gave me a minilesson on the significance of the horn. A very nice guy, indeed.

Not being familiar with the history of the congregation, but curious, I first went to its website (adatshalom.org) where I found a very brief but good history.

I learned that the congregation began services in 1944 in Detroit, during World War II, after 52 families had formed the nucleus of the “Northwest Hebrew Congregation and Center” the previous year. It grew quickly and boasted 400 families by 1946. The name of the congregation was subsequently changed two times. First, to “Adas Shalom, the “Congregation of Peace” in 1951, and then to its current “Adat Shalom.”

Well, I found a lot to ponder about Adat Shalom in the Davidson Archive.

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Adat Shalom; 4,759 that contained Adas Shalom; and, 104 regarding the “Northwest Hebrew Congregation and Center.”

Of course, many of the pages were citing hours of services and programs held, but there were many stories with substance. For example, I found a report in June 16, 1944, issue of the JN, “Organize New Congregation: Synagogue in Northwest Section [of Detroit] Holds Sabbath Services.” A brief piece, with a bit of an awkward title, that notes the forming of the congregation and asks those interested in joining to call Alexander Moss; it even lists his phone number. I wonder if that was his home number in the paper? You would not see that today. There was also an article in the March 3, 1951, Jewish Chronicle noting the vote to change the name from Northwest Hebrew to Adas Shalom.

And, by the way, the congregation’s advertisement in the July 19, 2017, issue of the JN, congratulating our newspaper on its 75th anniversary was greatly appreciated.

I also like the image on the front page of the Sept. 27, 2002, issue of the JN, which related to the cover story by Shelli Liebman Dorfman, “Lessons from Within.” It is a beauty, a photo of 5-year old cutie Hannah Bradley kissing her child-size Torah at Adat Shalom.

Suffice it to say, there is a wealth of information in the Davidson Digital Archive on Adat Shalom, as well as other synagogues and congregations, some old, some rather new. But, most of all, we congratulate Adat Shalom on its 75 years as a part of the fabric of Detroit and its Jewish community. Mazel tov!

Want to learn more? Go to the DJN Foundation archives, available for free at www.djnfoundation.org.

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