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Jews in the D Making Her Mark 14 Susan Adelman’s many passions drive her goal of making the world better.
State Budget Woes 22 Jewish community stands to lose funding if Gov. Whitmer and Republicans don’t negotiate.
Michigan State Hillel’s Sukkah Destroyed 24 Two males seen on camera vandalizing the sukkah during the holiday.
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Haunted Michigan 26 New book provides spooky legends and Michigan history, too.
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27 A guide to the archival collections in the Detroit Jewish community.
The Real Jason Alexander Stands Up 40 The Tony-award winning song-and-dance man heads to Detroit’s Orchestra Hall.
What’s in a Name? 42 Book shows how anti-Semitism led to labeling, job denial and more, leading many Jews to change their names.
Celebrity Jews 44
24 Schmoozing with Bruce Schwartz 30 The DJN chats with Bruce Schwartz, AKA Detroit Bruce, who provides epic tours as Rock Ventures’ Detroit Ambassador.
New Chabad Center of Troy 32 Couple used population study to find best location for their outreach.
30 thejewishnews.com Online Exclusives • Young Jews Making Moves featuring Emilie Weingarden • Forbes Under 30 Summit in Detroit
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Health ‘Next Phase of Life’ 47 Melanoma patient benefited from palliative care as he transitioned from treatment to hospice.
Israeli Research 48 Scientists study how breast cancer spreads in search of a cure.
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n a burst of perhaps slightly misplaced optimism back in January, when my yearly mantra of “This will really be my year to get thin and be healthy” was still firm, I signed up to do the Detroit Free Press (Freep) international half marathon. I trained in total for about, oh, three weeks. Maybe four. And then, you know, life happened. Valentine’s Day chocolates went on sale. Purim. Pesach. The summer. Every few weeks, I’d get a burst of inspiration and start training again with renewed vigor until the next curveball would hit — and I’d stop. I joined Team TAV (a group that runs the Freep and raises money for Detroit Chesed Project’s The Spot, a local respite program for kids with special needs). That gave me a fresh burst of energy for a few high-energy weeks … Until I lost momentum yet again. Then, suddenly, it was race day — Oct. 20 — and I was completely unprepared. Still, I turned up, ready to give it my best shot. Figured I’d walk maybe five or six miles, then quit. But that’s not quite what happened. Turns out that when 10,226 international half marathon runners from 72 countries
and all 50 states turn up in the early morning darkness while everyone sensible is sleeping, it creates a certain energy. There’s an incredible camaraderie. Everyone may have different reasons and motivations, but we’re heading to the same place. There’s a giddiness; we must be nuts, but we’re in it together! It takes on a fever of its own; you can feel it, and it propels you forward. The international route crosses the Ambassador Bridge, goes a few miles around Windsor and then loops through the DetroitWindsor tunnel back to the U.S. for another few miles. We super-slowpokes were instructed to board the “weary wagon” and were driven through the tunnel because it had to reopen at a certain time. But, after that mile or so, we were dumped rather unceremoniously back in Detroit and were told to get ourselves to the finish line — and we did! (I have a 13.1 bumper sticker, but I crossed it out and wrote 12, for accuracy’s sake.) I couldn’t have done it without someone to walk with the entire time; our conversation helped drown out the sound of my legs
complaining. My ice-breaking question was, “Have you done this before?” I knew I’d made a friend when Debra’s answer was, “Well, I signed up to do it last year, but wound up in Providence Hospital having surgery instead.” Which, believe it or not, was my exact experience, too. We even share the same middle name and see the same gynecologist (Hellooooo, Dr. Schoenberger!!). You cover a lot of topics in four hours! There were more than 4,000 volunteers handing out water and Gatorade, lining up to give us high fives, and thousands of cheering spectators cracking us up with their signs, like “You run better than the government!”, “That’s a lot of work for a free banana!” and “All toenails go to heaven.” Finallllllly, we made it. Debra sprinted ahead for a high finish, but I limped across that finish line, coming in 10,215th (which thrilled me to bits because at least I wasn’t last!). I got my medal, hugged my new friends, took some pictures, got some snacks (including my free banana) and then faced the second hardest challenge of the day: trying to remember where I’d parked. All in all, it was an awesome experience. I’m still flying on the amazement that I accomplished something I didn’t really think I could, and I am excitedly making plans for next year. Lesson for life: YOU. CAN. DO. ANYTHING! So long as you’re not too afraid to try … and even if you’re not as prepared as you’d like to be.
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he excuses President Donald Trump and his loyal fans continue to put forward for his disastrous decision to give Turkey a green light to invade Syria continue to be as foolish as they are disingenuous. Pretending that it’s not really a betrayal to leave loyal Kurdish allies in the fight against ISIS to the tender mercies of an Jonathan S. authoritarian and murderTobin ous Turkish regime determined to destroy them doesn’t pass the smell test. The same is true of efforts to argue that the Kurds aren’t worth our sympathy because they weren’t with us “at Normandy,” as the president preposterously claimed. Trashing that brave people because they’re not “all angels” or because they are politically divided is unworthy of a superpower who not long ago was arming and training the same people to do the dirty work in a war against an enemy of America that Americans didn’t want to fight anymore. But these terrible arguments were just a smokescreen for something that has little to do with the Kurds, whom most Americans couldn’t care less about, or the admittedly complicated politics of Syria and the Middle East. Americans are tired of foreign conflicts. That’s why, no matter how absurd Trump’s self-justifications for his policy blunder might be or how comically inept his letter to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was as he vainly sought to mitigate the damage he had already done, there’s no sign that his moves there are doing him any political damage. Trump’s instinctive neo-isolationism and talk about opposing endless wars may be wrongheaded, but it’s not unpopular — and there are good reasons for that.
Americans paid a high price in dealing with the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The war in Afghanistan was an unavoidable response to Al-Qaeda’s assault on America, yet after 18 years of inconclusive fighting, the reason why that was necessary has been largely forgotten. The decision to invade Iraq turned out to be a mistake, not least because it had the unintended effect of strengthening neighboring Iran. As Trump’s predecessor learned, escaping that conflict wound up being a lot more complicated than ordering troop pullouts and a president claiming that he had “ended” the war. That’s what President Barack Obama did in Iraq, and the American people cheered. Many of the same people are cheering Trump’s decision to get out of Syria and leave the Kurds to fend for themselves. Trump’s crude rhetoric about the Kurds is indefensible, but it’s easy to see why his comments about avoiding spilling another drop of American blood in the Middle East resonates with the public. Even many supporters of Israel are backing him on this decision, though the consensus in the Jewish state is that the American retreat from Syria and its encouragement of Turkish depredations are a blow to the security of Israel and the region, as well as a humanitarian disaster for the Kurds. Part of this is a matter of blind partisanship. In our current bifurcated political culture, most of the public takes their cue as to how to think about the issues from the president and his opponents, rather than contemplating current events for themselves. If Trump is for it — even if it is something they would have lauded had it come from a Democratic president — most Democrats will still oppose it, as Trump’s stand on Jerusalem illustrated.
Trump’s crude rhetoric about the Kurds is indefensible, but it’s easy to see why his comments about avoiding spilling another drop of American blood in the Middle East resonates with the public. The same was true with respect to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. ProIsrael Democrats would have called it appeasement and a disgrace had GOP president made such a deal. But since it was Obama doing the appeasing, they fell into line and supported it without batting an eye. The same people who applauded Obama’s bug out from Iraq are condemning Trump for similar conduct. Still, there is more to this problem than partisan hypocrisy. As Obama discovered after his withdrawal from Iraq and humiliating “red line” fiasco in Syria, the price of dishonor can be quite high. Having washed his hands of those countries and punted their fate to Iran and Russia, it wasn’t long before a new threat arose. The establishment of ISIS and its so-called caliphate in large portions of Syria and Iraq was the logical consequence of Obama’s policies. As that terror group expanded the territory under its control (and videos of the hideous atrocities it continued on page 12
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hite supremacists continue to pose a serious threat to Jews in the United States — as they do to African Americans, Muslim Americans, Latinx Americans, immigrants, LGBTQ Americans and other communities. In the year since the deadly rampage at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, at least 12 white supremacists have been arrested for their alleged roles in terrorist plots, attacks or threats against the Jewish community specifically. Many of the offenders were inspired by previous white supremacist attacks; on the six-month anniversary of the Tree of Life attack, a gunman opened fire at a synagogue in Poway, Calif., leaving one worshipper dead and others injured.
In addition to the 12 white supremacist incidents, there were two additional incidents targeting Jews, which were attributed to people inspired by an extremist interpretation of Islam, one of whom referred to Tree of Life shooter Robert Bowers as his inspiration. Islamist extremist Daniel Joseph was arrested by the FBI after he unwittingly worked with an undercover agent to plan an attack on a synagogue in Toledo, Ohio. He was active online, posting photos and messages in support of ISIS. In Basking Ridge, N.J., an Islamic extremist was arrested for making violent threats. Many of those arrested cite — and apparently seek to mimic — previous anti-Semitic murderers. Since Oct. 27, 2018, white supremacists have targeted Jewish institutions’ proper-
ty on at least 50 occasions. From the Poway synagogue attack to a religious service interrupted by shouts of “Heil Hitler,” white supremacists have presented very real threats to Jews across the country. This includes 12 instances of vandalism using white supremacist symbols and 35 distributions of white supremacist propaganda, according to ADL Center on Extremism research. Four days after the Tree of Life attack, a synagogue in California was defaced with obscene anti-Semitic slurs. In November 2018, a New York synagogue was vandalized with the phrase “Jews Better Be Ready” and references to Hitler. White supremacists have also demonstrated outside AIPAC offices and Israeli consulates, and even disrupted a Holocaust remembrance event in Arkansas by wav-
ing swastika flags, holding anti-Semitic posters and shouting anti-Semitic slurs and phrases, including, “Six million more.” There have been at least 30 additional incidents in which individuals (of unknown ideology) committed arson, vandalism or distributed propaganda against Jewish institutions that was anti-Semitic or generally hateful, but not explicitly white supremacist in nature. These incidents include the shooting of an elderly man outside a synagogue in Miami, fires set at multiple Jewish institutions in New York and Massachusetts, Molotov cocktails thrown at synagogue windows in Chicago, damaged menorahs in Georgia and New Jersey, as well as a wide range of anti-Semitic graffiti. Meanwhile, analysis from ADL’s Center on Extremism points to continued high numbers of anti-Semitic incidents nationwide; preliminary reporting shows 780 anti-Semitic incidents in the continued on page 10
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here is an old expression to describe the Jewish love for debate that goes something like this: Where you have two Jews, you have three opinions. Yet when my organization, American Jewish Committee (AJC), undertook the largest and most comprehensive survey of American Jews ever on the topic of anti-Semitism in the United States, we discovered amazing agreement across Jews of different ages, political affiliations and religious orientations. Daniel What we found should Elbaum alarm not only Jews, but all people of conscience. Eighty-eight percent of American Jews believe anti-Semitism is a problem in America today and 84 percent say it has gotten worse over the past five years. A plurality — 43 percent — think it has increased a lot. More than one in three American Jews (35 percent) say they have personally been the targets of anti-Semitism over the past five years. A similar number, 31 percent, avoid publicly wearing, carrying or displaying things that might identify them as Jews and 25 percent at least sometimes avoid certain places or events out of concern for their safety as Jews. American Jews do not believe that
anti-Semitism comes from a single source. Eighty-nine percent of American Jews believe the extreme political rightwing represents a threat to Jews in the U.S., 85 percent say the same of extremism in the name of Islam and 64 percent say so about the extreme political leftwing. Finally, American Jews see a connection between undue criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism. Eighty-four percent of respondents said the statement “Israel has no right to exist” is anti-Semitic. The belief that rejecting Israel’s existence is anti-Semitic cuts across differences of party affiliation, age and religious identity. Eighty percent of respondents said the statement “The U.S. government only supports Israel because of Jewish money” is anti-Semitic and 73 percent said so about the statement “American Jews are more loyal to Israel than America.” Of course, the opinions of American Jews are not the only barometer of anti-Semitism, but they are an important one. Government officials, opinion shapers and civil society leaders who wish to be allies in the fight against anti-Semitism should listen closely to these views. Aside from the State of Israel, there is no nation that has proven to be a better home for Jews than America. By any pos-
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first half of 2019, compared to 785 incidents reported for the same period in 2018. In the year since the Tree of Life attack, there have been 15 plots, attacks or terrorist threats against Jews by extremists of all types. The threats in these cases were not idle, and the risks were exacerbated by aggravating circumstances, including criminal histories and/or the possession of weapons or
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bomb-making materials by the prospective attackers. In each case, explicit threats were made against members of the Jewish community and, in most cases, the wouldbe terrorists cited previous white supremacist murders as inspiration. In at least three of these cases, ADL’s Center on Extremism provided critical intelligence to law enforcement, leading directly to investigations and arrests.
sible objective metric, few communities in any country can match the success of the American Jewish community. Nevertheless, the fact that such a significant percentage of American Jews believe that hatred against them is on the rise must not pass without notice. What must be done? There are many answers, including adopting a concrete definition of anti-Semitism, increasing education on the issue, protecting Jewish institutions and publicly condemning anti-Semitism, even when politically inconvenient. Yet, the first step may be as simple as listening. When a swastika is spray painted on a building, don’t dismiss it as mere vandalism. When Jews object to the language of a politician or leader you admire or support, do not dismiss these charges of anti-Semitism out of hand. When Israel is demonized or singled out for criticism, ask yourself if the same thing could be said about any other country. The overwhelming majority of American Jews believe that anti-Semitism is a real problem in the U.S. and that it’s getting worse. The question now should be: What is the rest of America going to do about it? Daniel Elbaum is the American Jewish Committee’s Chief Advocacy Officer. This essay was first published in the Chicago Tribune.
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was committing went viral), Obama had little choice but to reverse course and commit to fighting ISIS. Trump made an issue of the failure of Obama’s half-hearted campaign against ISIS and vowed that he would defeat the group. And that’s exactly what he did after winning the 2016 election. But with ISIS largely but not completely defeated, he has now reverted to his instinctual isolationism, vowing to escape any more involvement in Syria and leaving the Kurds to their own devices after years of promises by America that they would not be abandoned. Some Americans outside the Beltway, including some supporters of Israel, have no problem with what he’s done in Syria because they are blind supporters of the president. Others share his ignorance of a complex conflict and see no reason why Americans should be part of it. As Obama found out after ISIS atrocities aroused the anger of the public, Trump
or his successor will have to respond to Turkish atrocities or those of the next Islamist terror group that will fill the vacuum he is creating by withdrawing U.S. forces. Islamist terror is an international problem, and not just something Israelis and Arabs have to worry about. Israel can defend itself, but actions that make its neighborhood even more dangerous undermine its security. More than that, allowing Turkey and Iran to do as they like in the region ultimately harms everyone, including Americans who have yet to absorb the fact that their safety is no longer ensured by the oceans that separate them from other continents. Unfortunately, Republicans and Democrats who still imagine that Americans can simply go home and avoid further involvement in the wars of the Middle East are engaging in magical thinking rather than supporting a coherent strategy. Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate.
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hen Susan Hershberg Adelman was growing up in Rochester, N.Y., she felt she already had a larger purpose in life. “When I was a small child, it was my hope and belief that I would make great contributions to the world,” she said. Now, as a 77-year-old woman living in Southfield, she has truly made her mark on the world. Adelman, who retired from pediatric surgery in 2002, was among the first female surgeons in Metro Detroit. She was
Susan Adelman’s many passions drive her goal of making the world better. ELIZABETH KATZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER TOP: Martin and Susan Adelman at home in Southfield.
the first female president of the Michigan State Medical Society and has done so much more than just help children who have needed her medical care. Since she was 5, Adelman has been creating art. She continues to paint and create jewelry when she’s not traveling the world with her husband of
57 years, intellectual property attorney Martin Adelman. He is also a professor with George Washington University Law School and gives lectures on his specialty from Seattle to Tokyo. Oh, and let’s not forget that about a year ago, Sue Adelman published her second book, After Saturday Comes Sunday, a
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Making Her Mark far-reaching exploration of the history of Christian and Jewish communities in Iraq, Syria and adjacent countries, and the language that unites them: Aramaic — today often referred to as the Chaldean language. “I’m very aware that life is short,” she said. “If you don’t take the opportunity to make the world better, you will lose that opportunity.” A DOCTOR IS BORN Adelman came to the Detroit area in the late 1950s to attend the University of Michigan. She continued on page 16
“I’m not really happy unless I’m being creative. I’m very aware that life is short. If you don’t take the opportunity to make the world better, you will lose that opportunity.” — SUSAN ADELMAN
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received a bachelor’s of science degree at U-M in 1962. She then enrolled in the master’s program in geology at Wayne State University. “My husband pushed me to think about medical school,” she said. Following his advice, she received her medical degree from Wayne in 1967. “I went into surgery because I work with my hands,” she said. “Surgery was an unusual choice for a woman at that time, and it seemed to me that people might better accept a woman in pediatric surgery.” Adelman was one of the very first female surgeons to set up offices in Metro Detroit, one at Children’s Hospital and another in Dearborn. It was in 1974 that she met the Hakim family, whose cousin needed an operation to treat internal cysts. “His treatment was lengthy,” Adelman said. During that
time, she met Norma Hakim, her young patient’s aunt, who helped interpret the family’s Chaldean language for Adelman so she could understand their questions and concerns. She was also the beneficiary of Norma’s wonderful cooking. Since the time of this surgery, Adelman and her husband have remained close friends with the Hakims, taking part in their family celebrations or just sharing a meal. TELLING NORMA’S STORY And it is Norma’s story that figures into Adelman’s writing After Saturday Comes Sunday, a reference to the Sabbaths of the two religions, Saturday for Jews and Sunday for Christians. It also references the fact that first the Jews were exiled from Iraq due to persecution. More recently, Christians have been forced to leave Iraq or be exter-
minated, following the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2014. In more sinister terms, it refers to first the Jews being wiped out due to their religion. Now, it’s the Christians’ turn to face termination, as Adelman explains. Norma Hakim, who turned 94 this month, came to America in 1937 from the town of Telkaif in Northern Iraq. She was almost 12 and was married to a man who was then 25, Karim Hakim. She was raised by Karim’s mother, who taught her how to clean house, follow the Hakim family recipes and to cook for almost 50 people a day. Norma first became pregnant at age 14 and went on to have eight children. Adelman has considered Norma a mother figure for herself for the 40-some years she’s known the Hakim family. And it is because of this famil-
iarity with Chaldean culture and family life that Adelman took notice of the terrorism being perpetrated by ISIS on Chaldean Christians in Northern Iraq. In her book, Adelman writes about the diaspora of the Christian community and links it to the reasons why Christianity is disappearing from Iraq and Syria, both Islamic countries. She says the diaspora has increased in the last 15 years due to the American invasion in Iraq in 2003 and the rise of ISIS in 2014. Hundreds of thousands of Chaldean Christians living in Iraq and Syria have been killed by ISIS, Adelman says. This, she says, has direct implications for Aramaic as a language and for its very survival as a spoken language.
WHAT IS ARAMAIC? The Aramaic language, today often known as Chaldean, has been spoken in the Middle East for about as long as Hebrew has â&#x20AC;&#x201D; around 3,000 years. Aramaic is most likely the language spoken by Jesus and is the language of many critical Jewish historic and religious texts, including the Talmud, not to mention poetry, songs, folklore and myths. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From a religious aspect, [the preservation of the Aramaic language] is important,â&#x20AC;? Adelman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From a scholarly aspect, it is absolutely critical.â&#x20AC;? Currently, in Metro Detroit, there are between 120,000 to 150,000 Chaldean residents, according to the Chaldean Chamber of Commerce. Adelman felt it was important to spread the word about the struggle of the Chaldean Christians living in Northern Iraq and the threat that terrorism poses to the culture and language. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel very passionate about the importance of getting their story out, letting readers know about these people and getting the United States to be proactive in getting involved in the Chaldean community,â&#x20AC;? Adelman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The best possibility of getting Christianity re-established in their own villages is in Northern Iraq. And, in terms of Aramaic being spoken, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gone unless these people are able to live in their villages.â&#x20AC;? Some of the Hakim family speak Aramaic/Chaldean, including Norma and some of her eight children. Karen Jalaba, 66, one of Normaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughters, says her older siblings speak Chaldean
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;pretty wellâ&#x20AC;? while her mother is fluent in it. Karen, however, cannot speak it though she understands the language. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re pretty Americanized,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have friends who can speak it fluently. I wish I knew it more. The language could easily go away.â&#x20AC;? Jalaba of Farmington Hills said her mother is very proud to have her story told in Adelmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book. The larger story, though, specifically the attacks on Christian communities in Iraq and Syria, is very troubling to the Hakim family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been very upset by whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happened,â&#x20AC;? Jalaba said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was looking over her book, and I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe how much I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t knowâ&#x20AC;? about the situation in Iraq and Syria. WHERE TO NOW? Adelman said the U.S. Congress has passed a bill, H.R. 390, called the Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018. The bill, signed into law in December 2018, was drafted to provide relief for victims of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, who are members of religious and ethnic minority groups in Iraq and Syria, for the accountability for perpetrators of these crimes and for other purposes. The billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s text notes that the number of Christians living in Iraq has dropped from an estimated range of 800,000 to 1.4 million in 2002 to 250,000 in 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual reports on international religious freedom. Christian communities in Syria, which accounted for between 8 and 10 percent of Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s total pop-
ulation in 2010, are now â&#x20AC;&#x153;considerablyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? smaller as a result of civil war. The law also focuses on assisting other affected ethnic minority groups including Yezidis and Shia. Adelman, in a recent essay for the scholarly publishing company De Gruyter, wrote that if the United States can assist in developing a federal structure in Iraq, it would provide an example of how minority populations can gain political representation in other countries in the region. This, in turn, would stabilize a key portion of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;volatileâ&#x20AC;? Middle East against both internal disruptions and outside interference. She also wrote that if Christians can settle in a designated safe haven, they will be able to protect their land from ISIS or its successors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chaldean religious leaders in the Middle East have been begging those of us in the West to help their people to return to their own churches and villages, not to lure them away in a diaspora that dilutes their culture to a thin gruel,â&#x20AC;? she wrote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This book has suddenly become especially relevant because the latest Turkish invasion of Syrian Kurdistan is an attack on the exact area where a majority of the Syrian Christians have been living and, along with the Kurds, the Christians are becoming refugees all over again,â&#x20AC;? she said recently. NEXT PHASE OF LIFE Adelman feels in writing this book, as well as a previous book about world-renowned Indian attorney and politician Ram Jethmalani, that continued on page 20
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Susan Adelman, author of After Saturday Comes Sunday,” with Norma Hakim, 93, whose story is told in the book that explores the history of Christian and Jewish communities in the Middle East and the Aramaic language. continued from page 18
she has met a life goal. “I feel certain that I’ve fulfilled one of my dreams and I feel these books were very worthy of my efforts,” she said. “It was a real coup to have written (Jethmalani’s) biography.” Currently, Adelman continues to serve as a delegate from Wayne County for the Michigan State Medical Society and is president of the Detroit Medical Academy. She also is editor emeritus of the Detroit Medical Journal, a publication she edited for 17 years. She and her husband are members of Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills, are involved with the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and have been involved in sponsoring Israeli students. They also help raise money as part of Friends of Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “We’re particularly interested in education,” Adelman said. Along with her professional, religious and philanthropic pursuits, Adelman wants to continue focusing on her creative life, specifically selling her custom-made jewelry and paintings. She even has
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an idea for a third book, one that would explore why so many Jews, including those living in Israel, feel comfortable in India, a country she and her husband have traveled to 20 times among the 60 or so countries the couple has visited. “There is a more mystical and philosophical reason for that connection,” she said, beyond the fact that India has become quite pro-Israel and the more mundane facts that it is inexpensive to travel to India and that the two countries share English as a spoken language. “I think there’s an atavistic connection between the two religions” of Judaism and Hinduism, she said. Adelman notes that she lives by a simple philosophy in remaining active, even when she has the choice of slowing down after accomplishing so much in her lifetime. “If you don’t stay active, you die,” she said. “If you’re not part of this world and making contributions, you’re in God’s waiting room. You need a raison d’etre,” which means having a reason for living.
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WHAT HAPPENED? Historically, both political parties have supported state funding for these kinds of human service agencies, the Holocaust Memorial Center and other entities, like the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn. However, this year’s budget process was somewhat unusual. One week before the budget deadline, the Republican-led legislature sent its $59.9 billion budget to Whitmer, without her input, after budget negotiations between the two had broken down during the summer. To meet the budget deadline and avoid a government shutdown, Whitmer lineitem vetoed nearly $1 billion of the nearly $60 billion budget and shifted $625 million within state departments through the State Administrative Board to better reflect her priorities. Whitmer then said she wanted to negotiate a supplemental spending bill with Republicans to allocate the $947 million left over after her vetoes. MULTICULTURAL SERVICE AGENCIES MONIES According to State Sen. Jeremy Moss, D-11th District, the Republican budget did not provide enough funds for the state to meet new Medicaid work Moss requirements, which is why Whitmer transferred funds within the DHHS budget, resulting in the loss of BY ANMANWELL
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HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER FUNDING According to the governor’s office, the Republican budget tried to gut funding for discrimination investigations by diverting $1.5 million of the Department of Civil Rights budget to three private museums: the Arab American Museum in Dearborn, the Wright Museum in Detroit and the Holocaust Memorial Center. Whitmer restored funding for discrimination investigations through the State Administrative Board. By doing so, she stripped the funding from each of the museums, resulting in a $500,000 deficit for each, which may end their ability to collaborate on traveling exhibits designed to improve race relations as they did last year. “It’ll be very difficult to continue the programs for the coming year without the funding,” HMC CEO Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld told Bridge Magazine. “The funding really was the catalyst that made these opportunities happen.” Mayerfeld According to Berman, “This is fake news. My understanding is [Republicans] actually increased the department’s budget by 1.2 percent. We didn’t try to gut discrimination investigations at all.” Democrats counter that Republicans defunded portions of the Department of Civil Rights budget in response to the creation of a new Hate Crimes Unit put in place earlier this year by Attorney General Dana Nessel, which Republicans
said could open the door to harassment of those with conservative beliefs. Senate Appropriations Chairman Jim Stamas, R-Midland, told Bridge Magazine the $1.5 million budget shift wasn’t an attempt to punish the department but rather to provide “sustainable” support for the institutions. Moss says the state needs both: a “robustly funded budget to investigate hate crimes” and a well-funded Holocaust Memorial Center “that educates what can happen when hate is left unchecked.” According to FBI statistics, hate crimes were up 14 percent in Michigan in 2017, with 456 incidents. The Michigan Department of Civil Rights fields about 2,000 civil rights complaints a year. “As the only Jewish state senator, I feel a great amount of stress,” said Moss, who recently passed a state resolution naming Oct. 27, the anniversary of the Tree of Life shooting, a day rededicated to combating anti-Semitism. “I’ve been assured by the governor that when Republicans come back to the negotiation table, this will be addressed.” Whitmer left a $100 placeholder for each of the museums in the budget, giving lawmakers an opportunity to restore funding during negotiations. According to Berman, who is also Jewish, Republicans are open to doing so. Moss urges constituents to reach out to their legislators and urge them to pass supplemental spending bills. “The louder our voices are the more pressure there is to act,” he said.
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Michigan State Hillel’s Sukkah Destroyed Two males seen on camera vandalizing the sukkah during the holiday. CORRIE COLF STAFF WRITER
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espite the office being closed for the holiday of Shemini Atzeret, Michigan State University Hillel’s Executive Director Cindy Hughey decided to drop by the Hillel building Monday morning, Oct. 21. She instantly noticed the sukkah appeared to be falling down, so she stepped outside to take a closer look. “I noticed that it was more than just falling down — it looked like it had been totally decimated,” Hughey said. “We began to look at the security footage and saw two males enter the patio area and proceed to destroy the sukkah.”
Hughey then contacted the East Lansing Police Department and filed a complaint. The police asked them to share the information and photos on the MSU Hillel Facebook page so students could help identify the vandals. Through Facebook, Hughey received three different names, which she forwarded to police. Hughey is currently waiting for confirmation from police to see if they have the vandals in custody. Although it is unclear whether this act was premeditated or not, both men
the Jewish Student Union at MSU, hopes this incident will educate other students on campus about Jewish holidays and culture. “In addition to Jewish culture, we hope to foster understanding for all student populations,” Starr said. “We hope students will take this opportunity to work together and unite to combat vandalism on this campus.”
appeared to be inebriated during the incident. “It was just extremely disappointing to see it being destroyed — and for what purpose?” Hughey said. “However, the MSU community and administration has been very supportive. We’ve had people send their positive and kind words to us and even offer to come help us build a new sukkah.” Wendy Starr, president of
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planned annual family photoshoot among the fall foliage of the West Bloomfield Linear Park Trail turned out to reveal the startling discovery of two swastikas spray-painted in the pedestrian tunnel that traverses underneath Long Lake Road. According to West Bloomfield Police reports, Jennifer Arkin Camens of West Bloomfield on Wednesday, Oct. 23, walked with her children and entered the tunnel to photograph her two daughters and their dog. It was not until she shared the photos by text that a friend pointed out the hateful symbol above her daughters’ heads in the background. Camens later returned to the scene, documented the swas-
tikas and provided both the WB Police and the JN with the photos. According to a WB Police report, the swastikas were spray-painted in light pink paint. There was a second swastika to the left also in pink spray paint. According to the report, Camens stated there were more derogatory words painted in green inside the tunnel. There are no witnesses or suspects. “Our annual walk on the West Bloomfield trail … was nearly ruined when I came back and looked at the pictures,” Camens said. “While the trees were pretty and the dog and kids cooperated, it was the background of the tunnel that
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mortified me. My 11-year-old daughter was smiling under two swastika signs!” After she was alerted to the swastika sightings in her photographs, Camens said her “heart was pounding, and she was furious.” Another friend contacted the Anti-Defamation League of Michigan, and Camens returned to the tunnel
to photograph the swastikas and called the West Bloomfield Police to file a report. Camens said within one hour of filing the police report, West Bloomfield parks authorities spray-painted over the swastikas with black paint. Camens said she walks this area of the trail regularly and never noticed the swastikas until that day. She said the swift action taken by the WB Police Department shows how seriously it takes hate incidents. Still, she is “deeply saddened at the hatred and ignorance going on in this world and disturbed that something like this has happened in my own backyard. “It’s time for the Jewish people, along with other minorities, to stand up for one another,” Camens said. “Never again will acts of hatred be accepted. Never again.”
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ave you ever been to Machpelah Cemetery and heard bells ringing or sensed a mysterious black mist in the air? Dined at the Whitney in Detroit and spied the visage of old Flora Whitney and could have sworn you saw the late wife of the lumber baron staring back at you in the reflection of a mirror? Then you may want to pick up a copy of Michigan Haunts: Public Jon Milan Places, Eerie Spaces (2019, Arcadia Publishing), co-authored by Jon Milan and Gail Offen, who Gail Offen wrote this book as an offshoot from researching their other two books on Michigan’s history. The book is filled with stories and legends about allegedly haunted public places throughout Michigan —everything from restaurants, bars and inns to lighthouses and
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libraries. For a haunted jaunt through the state, Offen advises readers to traverse Grand River Avenue. Potholes aside, it can take you from Downtown Detroit to the shores of Lake Michigan, passing small towns loaded with haunted theaters, bars and battlefields. “Essentially, Grand River Avenue is Michigan’s Route 66,” said Offen, who had a long career in advertising before authoring books. “I entered into writing this book as a sideline. Everywhere I stopped, I encountered people who wanted to tell me stories and legends of places in their town that had a reputation for being haunted. This book is the culmination of those stories.” For those with no immediate travel plans, Detroit has no shortage of spooky tales. Offen points to the tale of Flora, the uppity wife of lumber baron David Whitney. He built the showy mansion on Woodward Avenue for his wife, who died before she had the chance to
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move in. Legend has it she began haunting the place to scare off Whitney’s new wife and has been there ever since. It is said she’s still rattling silverware and glasses in the upscale restaurant’s bar. Offen said while some places, like Greenfield Village, want to keep a low profile on their haunts, the Whitney makes no secret of it, even naming a drink after Flora and having ghost dinners this time of year. The book also discusses Detroit’s Harry Houdini connection and how he died here on Halloween of 1926. Listed in the book is The Schvitz in the city’s North End. The establishment had notorious ties with the Purple Gang, as evidenced by still-visible
bullet holes in the lobby. When the heat was on in Detroit, Offen said they’d flee to the Doherty Hotel in Claire, where gang member Isaac Lebov was shot to death by his cousin. Beneath the hotel is a recently excavated tunnel that provided Purple Gang members a secret getaway from police. The book also provides a sneaky way to teach kids about history. “Who doesn’t like to learn about spooky old places?” Offen said. “Kids will also learn about the history of their state. Whether you believe much of what’s in these stories or are more of a skeptic, every place has a story.” Offen and Milan are on a local book tour and details and dates can be found on the Michigan Haunts’ Facebook page.
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LEFT: Temple Beth El’s Purim play, 1905. MIDDLE: Mrs. Adolph Lowe, Mrs. Jerome Ross and Mrs. Samuel Barnett of Hadassah at a membership drive, c. 1950s. RIGHT: View of a collection inside the Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Archives at Temple Beth El.
A guide to the archival collections in the Detroit Jewish community. ROBBIE TERMAN AND LAURA WILLIAMS SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
WHAT IS AN ARCHIVE? In the course of everyday life, individuals, organizations and governments create and keep information about their activities. These records may be personal and unplanned — a photograph, a letter to a friend, notes toward a manuscript — or they may be official and widely
shared — financial and legal documents, recordings of public speeches, medical files and electronic records. These records, and the places in which they are kept, are called archives, and archivists are the professionals who assess, collect, organize, preserve and provide access to these records. WHY KEEP ARCHIVAL MATERIALS? Archival materials provide evidence of actions that occurred in the past. They tell stories and document people and places that might otherwise be lost to time. With society’s increasing demand for accountability and transparency in government and organizations, archival records are irreplaceable primary source assets. Materials maintained in an archive provide firsthand facts and data that strengthen collective memory with reliable information. Archives play an important role
in preserving the legacy of our community. CONGREGATIONAL COLLECTIONS The Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Archives (FA) of Temple Beth El are home to one of the most comprehensive congregational archives in the nation. As the first Jewish congregation in the state, FA incorporates materials from early Jewish Detroit, its members and the organizations they helped to build. Materials include photographs, correspondence, congregational records, oral histories and video/audio records. FA is also home to the Jewish War Veterans of Michigan’s archival collection. To learn more, contact Laura Williams at franklinarchives@tbeonline.org or call (248) 851-1100. The Lillian & Professor Samuel Levin Archives at Congregation Shaarey Zedek celebrate the legacy of the syn-
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ctober is American Archives Month and, as archivists, this celebration gives us the opportunity to talk about what we do. We’ve realized that archives have a “speakeasy” feel — you only know they exist if you actually know they exist. So now we’ll let you in on the secret: Our Metro Detroit Jewish community has amazing collections of remarkable historic materials. Even more amazing … you have access to them. Here is a quick guide to help you navigate the “what,” “why” and “where” behind these community gems.
TOP: Rose Gottlieb’s membership application for the Jewish War Veterans Ladies Auxiliary, 1943. BOTTOM: Flyer for a mass meeting on Hastings Street.
agogue, its rabbis and its members, as well as their impact on local, national and international Jewish history. It contains more than a century of photographs, documents, memoirs and artifacts. For more information, contact Cillia Kleiman at archive@shaareyzedek.org. Temple Israel Archives maintains its 75-year history through the records of its clergy, leadership, nursery and religious schools, adult education, departments and internal comcontinued on page 28 OCTOBER 31 • 2019
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mittees. Materials include print, photographs, audio/video tapes and digital holdings. For more information, contact Lauren Marcus Johnson at ljohnson@temple-israel.org or (248) 661-5700.
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COMMUNITY COLLECTIONS Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives (LNSJCA) of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit document the rich and varied history of Detroit’s Jewish community. Its holdings include more than 60 collections of organizational records and personal and family papers. With more than 2 million documents, 25,000 photographs and a growing oral history collection, LNSJCA is an expansive community resource for primary source records. Explore the holdings
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at jewishdetroit.org/archives or contact Robbie Terman at archives@jfmd.org. Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus Library Archive is a research and reference collection documenting the history, background, aftermath and impact of the Holocaust. Its holdings include oral histories, records of local survivors, maps, photographs, and many other documents and artifacts pertaining to the Holocaust, European Jewish history, Judeo-Christian relations and general Judaica. To learn more, or for research assistance, call (248) 553-2834. UNIVERSITY COLLECTIONS The Bentley Historical Library collects materials on the state of Michigan and the University of Michigan records. It is both the repository and host of the
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William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History, a digital archive comprised of the contents of the Detroit Jewish News and Detroit Jewish Chronicle. To explore the Detroit Jewish News Archive, visit djnfoundation.org. Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs’ archival collections span labor history, urban and Metropolitan Detroit and
Robbie Terman is director of the Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives and Laura Williams is director of cultural resources at Temple Beth El.
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Seventy politically conservative Jews gathered to meet Rabbi Yitz Tendler at Michigan Jewish Action Council’s annual membership event. Tendler is a young conservative and has succeeded in identifying and nurturing future leaders from among young Jewish conservatives. Trips he has led to Israel have shaped the outlook and skills of current aides to congressmen and ambassadors. The annual CPAC convention, though not a Jewish event, draws conservative Jews from throughout the country. Rabbi Tendler has turned it into a Jewish networking opportunity by organizing a Shabbaton that runs concurrent with the convention. Following up on these meetings, he co-founded Young Jewish Conservatives.
Jewish Family Service is planning its 23rd annual Fall Fix Up on Sunday, Nov. 10. The annual event serves homebound older adults by preparing their homes for winter. This year, there are three ways to help. Families and people of all ages are invited to meet at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield for 9:30 a.m. registration, breakfast and supply pickup. Young adults are invited to meet at B’nai David Cemetery, 9535 Van Dyke in Detroit, at 10 a.m. to help clean up the grounds in partnership with NEXTGen, Repair the World, The Well and Hillel of Metro Detroit. Students in sixth-12th grades are invited to meet at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills at 1 p.m. for an afternoon Fall Fix Up in partnership with J-Serve. Participants will travel to preassigned sites. Register for any of the three sessions by Nov. 1 at jfsdetroit.org.
The children’s story experts at PJ Library expand their engaging offerings for children with the launch of the podcast “Have I Got a Story for You!” The podcast lifts classic Jewish folk tales from the page, gives them a modern twist and brings them to life for families seeking an entertaining, enriching diversion from digital life. “Have I Got a Story for You!” will initially launch with three stories: “Two Sisters,” about a pair of siblings who are best friends, alike in every way — except that one has
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the records of Wayne State University. In addition to housing the Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives, the Reuther Library collections also include other Jewish-related materials. View the holdings at http://reuther. wayne.edu.
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really bad allergies; “The Truth About Cats and Dogs,” which follows the friendship between the first of their species in the time of Adam and Eve, based on an old story from the Middle Ages; and, the hilarious “Moon Station One,” which takes place 70 years in the future on a crowded moon base, a story that ultimately teaches children about gratitude. Eight more streaming episodes will post on Tuesdays throughout the fall at pjlibrary.org/podcast.
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Temple Israel to host Portraits of Faith On Nov. 7, Temple Israel in West Bloomfield will present Portraits in Faith, an inspirational, interactive presentation that includes photographs and oral testimonies from individual spiritual experiences around the world. Daniel Epstein has photographed and interviewed more than 500 people from more than 50 religions and 27 countries, creating a digital collection titled Portraits in Faith. About the project, Emmy Award-winning documentary producer/director Ken Burns said: “I was … completely blown away. By its power and dignity, its implicit compassion and yet unblinking eye.” Epstein is a marketing and innovation consultant, who was previously a Harley Procter marketing director at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati. He worked there for 21 years. It was during his tenure at P&G that he conducted most of the Portraits In Faith interviews. This event will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, and is open to all at no charge with registration. RSVP to Temple-israel. org/PortraitsInFaith. For details, contact lkaplan@templeisrael.org or call (248) 661-5725. The event is supported by the Audrey & William Farber Education Fund.
Gary Torgow to be Honored in Detroit Gary Torgow, executive chairman of TCF Financial Corporation, is this year’s City Change Maker. The City Change Maker, presented by the Detroit Public Safety Foundation (DPSF), embodies the ideals of Detroit and is committed to making the city a better place for all residents. Torgow has supported the Detroit Police Department in various ways, particularly related to the physical and mental wellness of the officers by supporting the Detroit
Police Department’s Peer Support Team. He will be given the award at the 2019 Above & Beyond Awards Ceremony from 5:308:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6, at MGM Grand Detroit. The awards ceremony recognizes Detroit police officers, firefighters and EMS personnel for going “Above & Beyond” the call of duty. Community partners will also be recognized. Limited tickets are available at detroitpublicsafety.org.
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It all started more than 25 years ago when I joined the team at Rock Financial. I was a mortgage banker for 11 years before I co-founded In-House Realty, now known as Rocket Homes. In 2010, when I was working as the CEO of In-House Realty, Dan Gilbert moved Quicken Loans and the Rock Family of Companies to Downtown Detroit. As we were moving Downtown, we realized there was a need for a Detroit ambassador to help show our team members, and a growing list of businesses interested in moving to Detroit, how great the city is. I was asked if I would be interested in the role, and, of course, I said yes! Q: What is a typical day like for you, if there is such a thing? There are no typical days. My day usually starts with a large cup of coffee and some morning time with my beautiful wife and family. I have two teen-
agers, Ruby and Rocco, as well as Coco, my toddler, and my wife is due with our fourth child any day now! Then I head to the office. Once I make it in, it’s time to get into tour mode. Before I know it, I am hitting the streets of Downtown Detroit with people from all walks of life. I’ve had the pleasure of touring Warren Buffett, Madonna, community leaders from the Jewish Federation, members of the Chaldean Chamber of Commerce, many Detroit community and political leaders, and business leaders from around the world! I usually will give two to four tours a day. Q: How would you describe Detroit to someone who is new to the city? Detroit is one of the most iconic, historic and culturally diverse cities in the world. There are so many places and great things to do, and the people are what make it the best. Q. You have a great sense of style, often wearing Detroit-based clothing and accessories. Which Detroit brands are you digging right now? When it comes to fashion, my go-to spots in the city are John Varvatos,
Detroit Is The New Black and StockX. I also love repping local entrepreneurs that have some of the coolest brands in town. I’m also a big fan of Shinola, and I never leave the house without rocking my Shinola watch! Q: You frequently chat with Detroit business owners and personalities. Is there a particular experience or tour that stands out? Every tour is my favorite tour. I leave the office every day with a smile on my face, feeling like I made an impact in at least one person’s life. However, with that being said, there are a few experiences that have really stuck out to me. Most recently was a day I spent with Joique Bell, a former NFL player, and the Ypsilanti Grizzlies JV and varsity football teams. My team and I arranged to bring the players to Ford Field to hear a motivational speech from Joique. The kids left with smiles on their faces and some of them were even saying that it was the best day of their lives. Another tour I hold dear to my heart is my tour with Aretha Franklin. The tour sparked a lifelong friendship with Aretha that I will forever be grateful for. To this day, I am still in contact with her family. Q: Why is it important for you and your family to stay connected with the Jewish community? It’s important especially because of the cultural aspects. Between Temple Beth El and being a current member at Temple Israel, I
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value the customs that we have and especially love the sense of community we share with one another. The way the community comes together really helps to remind me of how beautiful Judaism is. I want my children to grow up knowing what it means to be Jewish, and I want them to know the significance of our culture. Also, did I mention that we have amazing food? Q: What can people expect from a Detroit tour with you, and how can we sign up? People who tour Detroit with me and my team should expect to have their minds blown and know they will not be able explain in words what they saw. I invite everyone to come see what I’m talking about. You can sign up for a tour at detroitbruce.com.
The JCC received a $15,000 grant for the third year to support its Opening the Doors’ (OTD) Doors to the Future (DTF) project. The grant, from the Jewish Women’s Foundation (JWF), will support OTD’s work providing early intervention for at-risk preschool children — both girls and boys ages 2.5 to 6 years — through temporary 1-to-1 assistance by trained para-educators at no additional cost to families. Para-educators help strengthen children’s learning, communication and social skills, foster growth and change in behavior, increase independence, build self-confidence, and enable children to be included and interact successfully with their peers. DTF service also provides a gateway for fami-
lies to become more involved with Jewish schools, community resources and other families. JCC’s OTD program, nationally recognized for its innovation by Slingshot Foundation as “a one-of-akind” program, has grown 400 percent in providing service since 1995. OTD annually enables 1,200 children and adolescents with a wide range of learning, social and behavioral differences and abilities to be included and engaged with their peers in meaningful Jewish education classrooms. OTD works in partnership with 24 Jewish early childhood, day school and congregational religious schools, as well as mental health organizations to provide conferences and movie events.
Crohn’s/Colitis Foundation Fundraiser On Friday, Nov. 1, the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation will hold its 42nd annual “Evening of Hope.” The vintage Vegas-themed event will be at the MGM Grand in Downtown Detroit. The event will begin at 6 p.m. and includes a seated dinner and more. At 8:30 p.m., the program will begin, including the awards presentation to former Rep. Sander Levin (Chairman’s Award) and Dr. Souheil Gebara (Rosenthal Lifetime Achievement Award). In addition, an IBD patient will share compelling testimonial, offering perspective and inspiration.
The evening will feature a cocktail reception with strolling magic tricks from Jasen Magic, silent auction packages, live music from the sounds of Mark Randisi and the Motor City Horns, evening dinner program, live auction and awards followed by an after-party with dancing. In Michigan, more than 100,000 people live with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. For details about sponsorship and tickets, visit HopeForIBD.givesmart. com or call Laura Marschner, development director, at (248) 737-0900, ext 4.
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he Jewish new year began sweetly for Rabbi Menachem and Chana Caytak and their baby daughter, Chaya Mushka. They launched the opening of Michigan’s new Chabad center in Troy with a festive Rosh Hashanah dinner with 35 local guests who had long believed they were the only Jews in the neighborhood. The Caytaks’ dedication to building a Jewish community in unexpected places was instilled in them since childhood. Chana, 21, is the daughter of Bassie and Rabbi Levi Shemtov, founders of the Friendship Circle of West Bloomfield. Menachem, 23, is the son of a Chabad rabbi in Ottawa. His parents supervise Jewish adult and children’s libraries and a preschool. They have been raised to instill a love of Judaism in all Jews no matter where they live or their level of observance. Many of Chabad’s rabbi and rebbetzin teams, numbering in the thousands, may live in remote corners of the country and may reside far from their families or a prominently Jewish neighborhood. Chana said she is very fortunate to live just 45 minutes away from her family in West Bloomfield. “My wife and I watched
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and learned from the examples of our parents, who have spent their lives giving to and serving others,” Menachem said. “Like other young couples, we always knew we wanted to open a Chabad center somewhere in the world.” In planning to open the Chabad Jewish Center in Troy, which started last spring, Menachem said they did some of their research, by using the Detroit Federation’s 2018 Jewish population study. It identified approximately 531 people who identify as Jewish in 221 households in the Troy-Rochester Hills area. Many in this population have little to no affiliation with a Jewish institution, according to Menachem. “We are finding there are numbers of Jews who are not affiliated but are interested in being part of a community, to participate in Jewish holiday celebrations for their kids,” he said. “Many feel they live too far [from synagogues in other parts of Metro Detroit]. Chabad centers create a local place for those to celebrate their Jewish heritage. Our goal is to bring Jews together, to reach out until we have a connection to every
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Jew. The Rebbe [Menachem Schneerson] taught us, there is no such thing as an insignificant Jew.” Chana said, “Our goal is not to make every Jew religious, but to help them learn about Judaism, do one more mitzvah and connect them with their Jewish community.” As they scouted the area while living with Chana’s family in West Bloomfield, Chana baked challot as she cared for Chaya. Menachem trekked to Troy daily to hand-deliver the challot and chat with their soon-to-be neighbors. “Menachem recently delivered a challah to a woman who had just gotten
off the phone with a friend from Florida who told her a Chabad (center) had just opened near her,” Chana said. “Now she’s overjoyed to learn she will be able to go to a Chabad center in Troy. “People were so excited, not just because we will be nearby, but the fact they thought they were the only Jewish people around.” Within the first few weeks of moving into their Troy home, the Caytaks hosted Shabbat dinners and greeted more local Jews. They planned to build a sukkah and have some events with Congregation Shir Tikvah of Troy. For details about the Chabad Jewish Center and upcoming events, email rabbi@jewishtroy.com.
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SEPT. 15, 2019 Zander Grayson Glazier (Zachor Galon) is the son of Zachary Glazier and Michelle Coleman of Oak Park. Proud grandparents are Sandra and Manny Glazier of West Bloomfield, April Coleman of Bloomfield Hills, and Henry Coleman of Florida. Zander is also the great-grandchild of Adele Silver of Southfield and Veva Nelson of Crystal River, Mich. Zander is named after his great-grandparents Cyril Silver, Bernardo and Fannie Luchtan, Beresh and Chana Selber, Richard Nelson, as well as great-uncle George Witt and Allie Jane Applebaum, daughter of Dr. Jennifer Kaplan and Ronald Applebaum, will chant from the Torah as she becomes a bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Friday, Nov. 1, 2019. She will be joined in celebration by her sister Lily and proud grandparents Susan and Dr. Danny Kaplan, and Lorraine and Howard Applebaum. Allie is a student at Norup International School in Oak Park. For her mitzvah project, she volunteered with the Michigan Parkinson Foundation at its annual fundraiser. She served as the captain of Team Lorraine, which participated in the event and raised $3,800 for this organization.
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JULY 25, 2019 Steven and Carly Betel are excited to announce the arrival of their daughter, Aurora Grace Betel. Her loving family includes grandparents Sharon Ziegelman, Irving and Patricia Yellin, Aaron and Tammy Betel, and great-grandparents Seymour and Loretta Ziegelman. She is welcomed into the Jewish community as Batsheva Golda, named for her late great-grandmas Brenda Betel and Gloria Kahn.
Adyson Grace Gedrich (Esti Gavriella) will read from the Torah as she celebrates her bat mitzvah with family and friends on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, at Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield. She is the loving daughter of Melissa and Paul Gedrich and sister of Blake, Dylan and Reese. Adyson is the granddaughter of Rena and Ron Meyers, Dolly and Mike Murley, and the late Hugh Gedrich. Adyson is a student at Warner Middle School in Farmington Hills. Her most meaningful mitzvah project was volunteering with Easterseals, helping kids with physical and cognitive challenges have fun. The programs she volunteered at were â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beautiful Me,â&#x20AC;? a fashion show for these kids, where she stood by them and helped them down the runway, and at Miracle League games where she helped the kids play baseball.
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colorful pillows with a motivational message, for pediatric patients at Beaumont Children’s Hospital. Jack Brady Saltsman (Yosef Parker Levin Mina Levin Betzer), son of Karen Mina Zoe Levin and Parker Zeke and Glenn Saltsman Levin will share the bimah at of Huntington Woods, Temple Israel in West Bloomfield became a bar mitzon Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, as they vah at Temple Shir Shalom in West lead the congregation in prayer on Bloomfield on Saturday, Oct. 19, the occasion of their b’nai mitzvah. 2019. Sharing in his celebration They will be joined in celebration were his siblings Carly and Tatum. by their proud parents, Emily and Jack is the grandson of Barbara Peter Levin, and brother Wyatt and Allan Saltsman, and Annie and Ziggy Levin. Mina and Parker are Ron Lowy. the loving grandchildren of Ingrid Jack is a student at Norup and Sidney Grossberg, and Marilyn Middle School in Oak Park. One of and Marty Levin. his mitzvah projects was volunteering at the Southwest Detroit They attend Birmingham Covington School. They performed Environmental Vision, which he found very rewarding many mitzvah projects, but each felt one was most rewarding; . for Mina, an animal lover, it was Ezra Gus Sobol will volunteering and raising funds for be called to the Save the Turtles; for Parker, it was Torah to become a volunteering at Miracle League of bar mitzvah on Michigan baseball games. Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, at Adat Samantha Rose Shalom Synagogue in Pollack, daughter of Farmington Hills. He will share this Nicole and Jimmy joyous milestone with his twin Pollack, will lead the brother Ruben Sobol. He will be congregation in joined in celebration by his proud prayer as she parents, Jennifer and Louis Sobol. becomes a bat mitzvah at Temple Also sharing this simchah will be Israel in West Bloomfield on proud grandparents Bobbie and Friday, Nov. 1, 2019. She will be Don Blitz of West Bloomfield, and joined in celebration by her brothEvelyn and Bernard Sobol of ers Jack, Dylan and Levi and Pittsburgh, Pa. proud grandparents Rodela and Dr. Ezra is a seventh-grader at David Kaplan, Brenda Kaplan, and West Hills Middle School in Joanna and Robert Pollack. She is Bloomfield Hills. For his mitzvah the great-grandchild of the late project, he volunteered this sumGertrude and Seymour Kaplan, the mer at C.A.R.E.S. (Community late Lorraine and Alvin Pollack, the Action Resources Empowerment late Irene and Oscar Bean, and the Services) in Farmington Hills, late Jeanette and Sam Moskowitz. where he helped clean out, renovate and build a community Samantha is a student at West center. Hills Middle School in Bloomfield Hills. As part of her most meaningful mitzvah project, she sewed and created “inspirational pillows,”
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Ruben Isaac Sobol will be called to the Torah to become a bar mitzvah on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills. He will share this joyous milestone with his twin brother Ezra Sobol. He will be joined in celebration by his proud parents, Jennifer and Louis Sobol. Also sharing this simchah will be proud grandparents Bobbie and Don Blitz of West Bloomfield, and Evelyn and Bernard Sobol of Pittsburgh, Pa. Ruben is a seventh-grader at West Hills Middle School in Bloomfield Hills. For his mitzvah project, he volunteered this summer at C.A.R.E.S. (Community Action Resources Empowerment Services) in Farmington Hills, where he helped clean out, renovate and build a community center.
A.J. Sparago will chant from the Torah as he becomes a bar mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019. Joining in his celebration will be his proud parents, Amy and Evan Sparago, and brother Ryan. He is the loving grandchild of Sharon and Richard Maddin, Carol and Michael Corman, and the late Mildred and Martin Sparago. A.J. is a student at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington Hills. As part of his mitzvah experience, he volunteered at Temple Israel for the Free Fresh Food Pantry. He found helping to combat hunger in the community to be the most meaningful of his many mitzvah projects.
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heyna and Tom WexelbergClouser of Oak Park, with Marion Wachtenheim and Dr. David Abrams of Providence, R.I., and New York City, joyfully announce the engagement of their children Rena Wexelberg-Clouser to Dr. Aaron Wachtenheim Abrams. Ms. Wexelberg-Clouser earned a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.A. and Ed. M in school psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is employed as the school mental health director of planning and partnerships at the NYC Department of Health. Dr. Abrams earned his B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania and his M.D. at Tel Aviv University Medical School. He is completing his pediatric neurology residency at SUNY Downstate. In July 2020, he will complete a fellowship in pediatric neuro immunology at UCSF. A November wedding is planned followed by a honeymoon in Cancun.
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ebbie Kopinsky and Dr. Joel Kopinsky of Farmington Hills are thrilled to announce the upcoming marriage of their son Michael Jared to Risa Arielle, daughter of Karyn Hurwich of Munster, Ind., and the late Dr. Dan Hurwich. Risa is the granddaughter of Shelly Kogen (the late Debbie Kogen), and the late Saul and Janet Hurwich. Michael is the grandson of Aida Greenspan (the late Noah Greenspan), and the late Maisie and Samuel Kopinsky. Risa received a bachelor’s degree and D.D.S. from Indiana University. She also completed an M.P.H. and pediatric dentistry residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a practicing pediatric dentist. Michael received a B.B.A. in finance and B.A. in economics at the University of Michigan. He is a leveraged finance associate at Capital One. The couple reside in Chicago. A March wedding is planned.
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onnie Taylor and Josh Konecky of Norwalk, Conn., along with Jane and Mitch Kline of Clarkston, are overjoyed to announce the engagement of their children Olivia Nicole Taylor and Brett Alexander Kline. Olivia graduated from the University of Michigan in 2015 with a B.A. in psychology. She is employed as a software engineer at WeWork in New York City, N.Y. Brett graduated from Michigan State University in 2014 with a B.F.A in theater. He is employed as a comedy writer for United Stations in New York City. He is also a professional comedian, performing in New York and around the country. The wedding is planned for June 2020 in Stamford, Conn.
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weren’t able to plant their fields n Noach, God promised until much later in the season. to never destroy the Earth Some seeds rotted as they again (Genesis 8.21). waited to be planted, But that says nothing of and the ones that made our precarious power as it couldn’t get in the soil humans to jeopardize our until drier conditions own future. prevailed. Now we have What could Noah have Rabbi Nate historic shortages across been thinking, we wonDegroot the state of economic der, as he built his ark, staple crops like corn and watching the people go Parshat soybeans to show for it. by, knowing God’s intent Noach: When we consider our to wipe out land and flesh Genesis alike and yet never reach- 6:9-11:32; legacy and our reputaIsaiah tion, when we consider ing out to his neighbors 54:1-55:5. how we will be viewed or peers? There was no when people look back at warning of what God has our lives, how will we be told him. No encouraging judged? them to build their own arks or As Hazon’s president and work together. No impetus to CEO Nigel Savage recently petition God. wrote, “This is a moment in Here in Michigan this past spring, we experienced a sort of which we all need to raise our game. This is the year the pieces a deluge of our own. With rain have to start to come together on 23 of May’s 30 days, farmers
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he Council for Higher Education in Israel (CHE) last week officially launched the national initiative “Study in Israel” to double the number of international students enrolled in Israeli colleges and universities, initially targeting students in North America, China and India. There Prof. Yaffa are currently Zilbershats about 12,000 international students studying in Israel. Study in Israel, which features a dedicated website, touts high Israeli academic stan-
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dards and distinctive, engaged approach to education with the theme “Engage in Excellence,” highlights the country’s innovative academic and research landscape as part of the “The Startup Nation” and points to Israel’s competitive tuition costs. Recently, four Israeli universities were ranked among the top 50 undergraduate programs globally that produce the most venture capital-backed entrepreneurs, according to the latest ranking by PitchBook. The initiative also underscores that Israeli universities and colleges offer dozens of short-term study programs, as well as full degrees and research
more deeply. This is the year in which we have to challenge the Jewish community to engage in serious ‘environmental teshuvah.’” Thankfully, in the words of author Jonathan Safran Foer, in his new book We Are the Weather: “We are the flood, and we are the ark.” We got ourselves into this mess. We abdicated our responsibilities to serve and steward this home we have. Thus, it is entirely possible, and even a sacred obligation, for us as Jewish practitioners and people of faith, to return to the kind of reverence and gratitude for Earth that it and we deserve. This is the year we make a deep and true and vulnerable teshuvah (return) as we commit to doing our part to shift actions, consciousness and history itself.
You might urge your community to join Hazon’s Seal of Sustainability program or deepen your engagement with the pre-existing Green Team at your Seal-certified site. You might sign up for the Hazon Detroit newsletter and/or like us on Facebook so you can show up at one of our programs and get more involved. You might choose to support our work financially. Whatever action steps you take, trust that they are needed. When future generations look back on 5780, they will care most that this was the year we stopped being the flood and started being and building the ark together.
opportunities, taught in English. Study in Israel will eventually be aimed at students worldwide. “We have committed to making Israel a brain gain country for excellent students and researchers from around the world — North and South America, Europe and Asia,” said Professor Yaffa Zilbershats, chair of the CHE’s Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC). “With this new campaign, Israel is now more attractive than ever for students in North America and beyond — and we’re looking forward to bringing many more students from around the globe in years to come.” Meanwhile, the CHE also recently authorized 26 new international degree programs in a range of fields in which Israel is globally recognized, including STEM (Science,
Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Agriculture, Urban Studies, Environmental Studies and Design. In addition, the Council has provided earmarked funding to its public higher education institutions to bolster marketing and recruitment efforts, create new courses in English and develop international student services. The Council also finances and manages a number of fellowship programs for international students and post-doctorate researchers. Study in Israel is the latest effort by the CHE to promote internationalization in the Israeli higher education system and attract international students.
Rabbi Nate Degroot is associate director and spiritual and program director at Hazon Detroit.
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starring Michael Urie and Ashley Park, follows a couple married 50 years. But just as they settle in their new house in Grand Horizons, the wife wants a divorce. That leaves their two adult sons struggling with the news and questioning their parents and what they thought to be true. Written by Bess Wohl, it’s directed by Leigh Silverman. The show runs Dec. 20-March 1. Helen Hayes Theatre. (646) 6503970. Hadestown, which opened in late spring and deservingly won the Tony for Best Musical, is a modern retelling of the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The story follows the two interweaving love stories — that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone. Rachel Chavkin won a Tony for best director. Walter Kerr Theatre. (877) 250-2929. Moulin Rouge! The Musical
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features a spectacular set design, current, familiar musical numbers, dazzling costuming and a lot of on-stage activity. Based on Baz Luhrmann’s beloved 2001 film, it’s set in the Montmartre Quarter in Paris at the turn of the century. An English poet falls in love with the cabaret singer at the Moulin Rouge, where bohemians, artists and aristocrats all gather. Cast includes Danny Burstein. Music supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Justin Levine. Al Hirschfeld Theatre. (877) 250-2929. Slave Play examines race and sex and looks at the impact of white supremacy. Written by Jeremy O. Harris, it ran off-Broadway last year and earned the Rosa Parks Playwriting Award and the Paula Vogel Award. Starring Ato Blankson-Wood and Paul Alexander Nolan, Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories production company is one of the producers. Closes Jan.
5. Golden Theatre. (212) 2396200. The Inheritance centers on gay men living in New York City. This two-part epic interconnects generations of gay men in America, including those who were impacted by the worst AIDS crisis. Playwright Matthew Lopez was inspired by E.M. Forster’s Howards End. Directed by Stephen Daldry (Netflix’s The Crown), the cast includes Jordan Barbour, Jonathan Burke and Samuel H. Levine. The play is in previews and opens Nov. 17. Ethel Barrymore Theatre. (212) 2396200. The Jagged Little Pill, a new musical based on Alanis Morissette’s 1995 breakout album, tells the story of a dysfunctional suburban family dealing with timely issues including date rape and opioid addiction. Written by Diablo Cody (Juno), it’s directed by Diane Paulus and stars Elizabeth Stanley, Lauren
Patten, Derek Klena and Celia Rose Gooding. Previews begin Nov. 3 and the show opens Dec. 5. Broadhurst Theatre. (212) 239-6200. The Rose Tattoo, starring Marisa Tomei, is the Tennessee Williams classic about a widow, Serafina, living in the American South. Years after her husband’s death, she learns of his infidelities and finds herself attracted to another man. Cassie Beck, Paige Gilbert, Ellyn Marie Marsh, Ella Rubin and Constance Shulman are in the cast. Closes Dec. 8. American Airlines Theatre. (212) 7191300. The Sound Inside tells the story of two lonely people — a tenured Yale writing professor dealing with a grim cancer diagnosis and a talented firstyear student. This deeply moving yet uplifting 90-minute mystery, stars Mary Louise Parker and Will Hochman. It’s written by Adam Rapp and directed by David Cromer.
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Closes Jan. 12. Studio 54. (212) 239-6200. Tina: The Tina Turner Musical follows the career of the legendary artist. From her humble beginnings in Tennessee to becoming queen of rock ’n’ roll, she rose to the top of the charts in spite of adversity. Starring Adrienne Warren as Tina and Daniel J. Watts as Ike Turner. Steven Booth plays record producer Phil Spector. Sound by Nevin Steinberg. It’s in previews and the show opens Nov. 7. Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. (800) 982-2787. West Side Story, one of the most beloved musicals of all time, features 23 actors making their Broadway debut. Originally written by Arthur Laurents and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, this production, is a departure from the original. Choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, this stage revival has a new, contemporary spin. Previews begin Dec. 10;
show opens Feb. 6. Broadway Theatre. (212) 239-6200. BROADWAY: OPENING EARLY 2020 Caroline, or Change, written by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori, follows the life of an African-American maid whose world of ’60s Louisiana changes in ways big and small. The show runs March 13-June 28. Studio 54. (800) 982-2787. Company, the classic Stephen Sondheim American musical comedy, stars Patti LuPone. This Broadway revival about looking for love and cocktails in New York City has been resurrected. The iconic bachelor has become a bachelorette and the show is set in modern-day Manhattan. Aside from the original beloved songs, some new music and lyrics were added. Directed by Marianne Elliott and book by George Furth. Previews begin March 2; show opens
March 22. Bernard Jacobs Theater. (212) 239-6200. Diana charts the story of the late beloved Princess of Wales. In the throes of unrelenting new media and paparazzi, Diana finds herself coping with a troubled marriage and the monarchy itself. Joe DiPietro wrote the book and lyrics and Ian Eisendrath (Come From Away) is the musical supervisor, arranger and conductor. Previews begin March 2; show opens March 31. Longacre Theatre. (212) 239-6200. Girl from the North Country, featuring music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, is set in 1934 in the heartland of America during the Depression. A group of lost and lonely travelers stay at a guesthouse and share stories that stir up emotions. Previews begin Feb. 7; show opens March 5. Belasco Theatre. (212) 239-6200. My Name is Lucy Barton follows Lucy as she wakes up from an operation and finds her mother at her bedside. They hadn’t seen each other in years and, during their visit, Lucy, who is a writer, begins to come to terms with her family history. Starring Laura Linney, it’s adapted by Rona Munro from the bestselling novel by Elizabeth Strout. The show runs Jan. 6-Feb. 29. Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. (212)239-6200. Six tells the stories of the six wives of Henry VIII — with a lot of girl power. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived, the women all tell their story through a high-energy pop musical score. Music and lyrics by Toby Marlow and Lucy
Moss, who also directs. This highly anticipated hit British musical begins previews Feb. 13; show opens March 12. Brooks Atkinson Theatre. (877) 250-2929. The Lehman Trilogy depicts the history of the rise and fall of the powerful Lehman Brothers’ global financial company. Starting with a young man dreaming of a new life in America and spanning three generations — father, sons and grandsons — it ends with one of the world’s largest financial crises. Directed by Sam Mendes, the cast includes Adam Godley, Ben Miles and Simon Russell Beale. Previews begin March 7; show opens March 26 and runs for 16 weeks. At the Nederlander Theatre. (800) 982-2787. OFF-BROADWAY Bella Bella focuses on the career of lawyer, politician and social activist Bella Abzug, who gave up her seat in Congress to try to become New York state’s first female senator. She wound up losing, but only by 1 percent. Harvey Fierstein, who wrote the show, plays the remarkable Bella. The show runs Oct. 22 to Dec. 1. New York City Center, Stage 1. (212) 5811212. Einstein’s Dreams, based on the bestselling novel by Alan Lightman, examines the mind and dreams of the brilliant scientist Albert Einstein. Book and lyrics by Joanne Sydney Lessner, music and lyrics by Joshua Rosenblum and direction by Cara Reichel. The show runs from Nov. 5-Dec. 14. 59 E. 59th St. (646) 8927999. OCTOBER 31 • 2019
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o know George Costanza was to love him. And to pity him. And to sometimes kinda loathe and hate him. But (almost) always come back to loving him. Jason Alexander is best known for his role as George on nine seasons of Seinfeld (for which he earned seven Emmy nominations and four Screen Actors Guild awards). The actor brought range, comedic chops and willingness to be the butt of most jokes to a character so outrageous and memorable that viewers around the world are on a first-name basis with him. But long before George was a whole other Jason, a celebrated
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Broadway star and Tony winner. And that Jason is headed to Detroit’s Orchestra Hall to perform with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for two shows only, Nov. 2 and 3. The song-and-dance man was born Jay Scott Greenspan in Newark, N.J., to parents Ruth Minnie and Alexander B. Greenspan — whose name Alexander borrowed for his own stage name. In a 2014 master class taught to Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, Alexander told the audience that while a student at BU, where he aspired to become a classical actor, a professor called him into his office. “He said, ‘I know your heart and soul are Hamlet. But you will never play Hamlet,’” referring to Alexander’s physicality. Instead, Alexander says, the professor told him, “‘Learn to do comedy and love it.’ He was right.” Alexander left BU the summer before his senior year. Months later, he was on
Broadway starring in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along — a musical actor’s dream. (In 1995, BU’s College of Fine Arts awarded him an honorary degree.) After his turn in Merrily, Alexander continued on Broadway with Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound before winning a Tony Award for his performance in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway in 1989. He’s appeared in dozens of films and TV shows over his 30-year career, including Pretty Woman, Shallow Hal, Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and more. Married to Daena Title (cousin of director Stacy Title) since 1981, Alexander told that BU master class that he has two then-college-age sons (Gabriel and Noah), who “combined have probably seen a total of seven episodes of Seinfeld.” When asked about the influence of his Jewish roots, Alexander told Oy! Chicago, “I don’t know that I can point
to Judaism specifically as inspirational or directional to my work. I think much of my comedic instincts are informed by the urban and Jewish rhythms that I was surrounded with as a child.” Alexander added, “Jews come from pretty remarkable backgrounds and tend to be pretty colorful people … living and growing up in a largely Jewish community helped me create and appreciate the canvas of characters that I draw upon in my work. But Judaism specifically has not colored either my choices or performances terribly much.” And, in 2015, the Jewish Week wrote about the veteran stage actor that “Alexander was everything that George Costanza is not. Where George is hostile, Alexander is personable. Where George deflects, Alexander intuits.” Although Alexander is being secretive about what exactly audiences will experience during his visit to Detroit, we do know the performances will be a hilarious recap of his journey onstage and on TV — and is full of songs, comedy and audience interaction. He will be joined by pianist and music director Todd Schroeder and guest soloist Carrie Schroeder, and the events will be conducted by Robert Bernhardt as part of the DSO’s PNC Pops Series, which showcases both the DSO and a wide variety of popular music. We can’t wait to get to know the real Jason Alexander.
details Jason Alexander joins the DSO’s PNC Pops Series SaturdaySunday, Nov. 2-3, at Orchestra Hall, inside the Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, Detroit. $24 and up. DSO.org.
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What’s in a Name? Book shows how anti-Semitism led to labeling, job denial and more, leading many Jews to change their names. SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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n a New York courthouse, seated in an area that had decades-old files, Kirsten Fermaglich did research. She spent hour after hour, spanned over days, then months and ultimately 12 years, looking for reasons Jewish individuals and families changed their last names. Farmaglich While the stories were gripping, her work as an associate professor of history and Jewish studies at Michigan State University impelled her to probe timeline trends, and she found them along with unexpected singular stories. The stories and trends have been shared through her book A Rosenberg by Any Other Name (New York University
Press). She will speak at the Detroit Jewish Book Fair on Sunday, Nov. 3. “I love the names, both the old ones and the new ones,” says Fermaglich, 49, whose Polishdescended father decided to keep his surname, which she kept after marrying rather than taking her husband’s last name of Gold. “Because I have this funny long name, I’m interested in names, and I’m interested in Jews who have been at the margins. I came to like the petitioners as I read their stories and their efforts to get what they felt they needed by changing their names.” Fermaglich describes the rise in name changing after World War I as motivated by the anti-Semitism people felt was carried out as Jewish-sounding
names impeded acceptance by schools and places of employment. Toward the end of World War II, anti-Semitism also involved considerations of class mobility. Changing to more Americansounding names declined in the 1960s, when anti-Semitism declined. In rare instances, young people reclaimed original family names (see sidebar). “I found a lot of famous petitions, including those of Gene Wilder and Paul Muni, but I didn’t want to focus on famous people because petitioning was so ordinary,” Fermaglich explains. “We know about famous people who changed their names, but we don’t know about ordinary people who changed their names. “The petition I found most
Detroiters Share Why They Changed Their Names A range of reasons prompted Metro Detroiters and/or their forebears to change their last names. For Joe Lewis of Oak Park, it was a recommended change decided by his father and two uncles, who had confronted Nazi threats in Belgium and moved to England. “My father and my uncles joined the British army, and army counselors advised them to add an ‘s’ to Lewi,” Lewis Joe Lewis says. The reasoning behind the advice had to do with preventing immediate death. The
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brothers were told the new name could give the impression they were Welsh, thus evading the outright killing of Jews discovered by Nazi forces. In contrast, Flo Robbins Paterni of West Bloomfield says her father changed his name the week before she was born essentially to prevent his children from experiencing the discrimination he had known. He went from Ssmuel Rabinowitz to Samuel Flo Paterni Robbins. “My father worked in a car factory, where there was a lot of anti-Sem-
interesting and really stuck with me had to do with a man named Elias Biegelman. He was a soldier, like so many of the people I write about, and he was bullied, humiliated and isolated. He associated all that with his name, which he changed to Ellis Beal.” Fermaglich, who chose to do research in New York because of access to courthouse records and the Center for Jewish History, did some research in Michigan to confirm the local implications of what was found. She wanted to stress, especially with the current upturn in anti-Semitism, the significance of changing names, what she defines as legal behavior to allow a better livelihood and pursuit of happiness. The book covers Allan Gale, retired from a long Michigan career with the Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC. He came to regret that the family name was changed from Goldfein. Fermaglich, interested in the stories of history since she was a young girl growing up in New Jersey, teaches American history after 1876, American Jewish culture, American Jewish histo-
itism,” she says. “Once he changed his name, he seemed to be all right. He said he wanted to fix it so his children would have better lives as well.” Terri Stearn of Beverly Hills learned why her husband’s grandfather, Jess Stern, from Hungary, changed his name from Stern, and it had nothing to do with religion. There was another person in the factory where he worked with his exact name, and that caused Jess Stearn a lot of confusion. With the new spelling, having an “a” standing for America, circumstances cleared up. Don Cohen of West Bloomfield reversed the usual name change sequence, reclaim-
ry and research approaches. This project follows two other books. She is the author of American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares and co-editor of the Norton critical edition of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique. “I’m working on another project,” says the member of Kehillat Israel, a Reconstructionist congregation in Lansing. “It has to do with Jews who migrated to my area and how they created new ways of thinking of themselves as Jews. If I extend research to other areas, I may turn this into a book.” Experiences of various ethnic groups entered into A Rosenberg by Any Other Name. “At some point, people kept asking me about Muslim Americans after 9/11 and whether I was finding a lot of name changing among them,” recalls the author, who earned her bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, master’s from Washington University in St. Louis and doctorate from New York University. “That was covered in the last chapter, which I had not anticipated writing. I did find
name changing was happening in the Muslim community for a brief period, and the research helped shed light on the relationship between Jews and Muslims.” Fermaglich, who has addressed many groups about her book, says the best part of her project has been hearing all the stories, both as the history was researched and after the book was published in 2018. She was very touched to learn, for example, how a survivor changed his name to commemorate a person who helped him after World War II. “I would like readers to recognize anti-Semitism as a system that labeled Jews a different race and denied them jobs and education because of their names,” she says. “That shaped Jewish history in a way that people haven’t talked about enough.”
ing his original family name in 1985 while working for the Jewish Federation of San Antonio. Don Cohen Cohen’s grandfather had changed his name from Shalom Cohen to John Rogers to get a job in New York during the early 1900s, which didn’t dissuade Cohen and his father, Jerry Rogers, from embracing their Jewish identities. “Besides being a statement of who I am,” Cohen explains,
“it was an expression of belief in American society that Jews no longer had to hide their identity.” Already a Jewish activist and Zionist, Cohen made the decision when Hezbollah terrorists hijacked TWA flight 847 in June 1985 and separated Jews from the other passengers. “Who knows what I would have done in those circumstances,” he says, “but I wasn’t in that situation, so it was my personal protest and statement. I’m glad I did it.”
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MOVIE NEWS JoJo Rabbit starts playing at the Landmark Theater in Royal Oak on Nov. 1 and opens at the Maple Theater in Bloomfield Township Nov. 8. This is a controversial film and you should read long reviews before seeing it. JoJo, a lonely boy in Nazi Germany, has Hitler as his imaginary friend. JoJo has grown-up on Nazi propaganda and his imaginary friend is a wonderful guy. Then his world turns upside down when he discovers his mother (Scarlett Johansson, 34) is hiding a Jewish girl. JoJo has to reconcile his “friend” Hitler with the reality in his own home. Director and writer Taika Waititi, 44, is a New Zealander who has made good movies in many genres. Waititi (who plays Hitler in the film) is the son of a Polynesian (Maori) father and a mother he has often described as Jewish. I recently learned his mother is the daughter of a Jewish father and a non-Jewish mother. But my sense is that his mother identifies as Jewish and Waititi, while secular, thinks of himself as “half-Jewish.” BRIEFLY NOTED The second, eight-episode season of The Kominsky Method, the hit Netflix comedy series, began streaming on Oct. 25. It stars Michael Douglas, 75, as Sandy Kominsky, a Hollywood acting
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coach. Alan Arkin, 85, co-stars as Norman, his best friend and agent. Lisa Edelstein, 53, has a supporting role as Norman’s drug-addled daughter. At the end of the first season, Sandy started getting romantic with the character Lisa, an acting student (played by Nancy Travis, 58. Travis isn’t Jewish, but her two sons were raised in their father’s Jewish faith). Second season “new Jewish faces” include Paul Reiser, 63, as Martin, a teacher who is dating Sandy’s daughter, who is much younger than Martin, and Jane Seymour, 68, as Madelyn, an old flame of Norman’s who runs into him at a funeral and lights a fire in this widower (Seymour was born Joyce Frankenberg, the daughter of a British Jewish father and a non-Jewish Dutch mother). As I write this, I can’t find an item in the Jewish media about Harvard professor Michael Kremer, 54, one of the three winners of the 2019 Economics Nobel. He is the only Jew to win a Nobel this year. Like his co-winners, he works in an interesting area: the examination of charitable giving to alleviate poverty, especially in third-world countries. His mother, S. Lillian Kremer (1939-2018), specialized in Jewish and Holocaust literature. A Fulbright scholar, she lectured around the world and taught at Kansas State University, where she was a “Distinguished Professor.”
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SHABBAT-APPELLA 6 pm, Nov. 1. At Adat Shalom. The melodies of Kabbalat Shabbat are presented in intricate a cappella harmony, allowing you to participate in the spirituality of this special service to welcome Shabbat. The service is open to the community. For info: 248-851-5100.
SUNDAY, NOV. 3 MEDITATION & MINDFULNESS 9:30 am, Nov. 3. Adults of all ages are invited to join Rabbi Aaron Bergman at Adat Shalom. The class is designed to help individuals find their internal spirituality and realize that Judaism can make them happier. The community is welcome. Free. Info: call 248-851-5100.
ISRAEL’S MILESTONES 10:30 am, Nov. 3. iEngage explores the pivotal events of 1917, 1947 and 1967 as key moments when Zionism unleashed new thinking about the meaning of Jewishness for generations to come. Through video lectures, text study and group discussion by the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute. At Adat Shalom. The fall series will be led by Rabbi Aaron Bergman. Each session is self-contained. There is a fee. Register: Kellie Yost, kyost@ adatshalom.org or 248-851-5100.
MONDAY, NOV. 4 MOVIES & MUNCHIES 10:30 am, Nov. 4. Beth Shalom Sisterhood invites you to the next movie in its 2019 series, A Serious
Noon-1 pm, Nov. 4. At the Spencer Partrich Auditorium at Wayne State University, 471 W. Palmer, Detroit. Dr. Steven Zipperstein of Stanford University will discuss his book Pogrom: Kishniev and the Tilt of History. Sponsored by the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies. Free event. Book will be available for purchase. RSVP: andrea.ritter@ wayne.edu.
MUSSAR MONDAY 7 pm, Nov. 4. Adults of all ages are invited to join Rabbi Aaron Bergman at Adat Shalom for a unique approach to living a good and meaningful life. It transmits timeless advice for everything from having happy relationships to creating harmonious communities. The community is welcome. Free. RSVP requested. Contact Kellie Yost: 248-851-5100 ext. 246 or email kyost@adatshalom.org.
CORN MAZE Friday, Nov. 1-Sunday, Nov. 3 find your way through the 10-acre Maybury Farm Corn Maze (50165 Eight Mile Road, Northville). Enjoy a wagon ride to and from the maze, Parmenter’s cider and donuts. Bonfires are available nightly. For more information, visit maybury.org.
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LUNCHTIME LEARNING 11:45 am, Nov. 5. Rabbi Rachel Shere will present “The Greatest Hits of the Talmud” at Adat Shalom in a two-part program (also Nov. 12). She will offer an introduction to the wisdom of the Talmud and share some of its relevant texts. The program is free and open to the community. You may bring your own dairy/parve lunch. Drinks and dessert will be served. Reservations requested. Contact: Kellie Yost, 248-851-5100, ext. 246, or kyost@adatshalom.org.
ALZHEIMER’S SUPPORT 1:30-3 pm, Nov. 5. The Alzheimer’s Association-Greater Michigan Chapter, in collaboration with Jewish Senor Life, holds a monthly support group on the first Tuesday. Family caregivers, including relatives and friends of those with Alzheimer’s disease or any other form of dementia, are welcome to attend. The group’s facilitator is Diane Schwartz, M.A., LPC. At
NOV. 2 VIVACE CONCERT The Birmingham Temple hosts a concert called “I, Too, Sing America: Music and Poetry Inspired by America’s Black and Jewish Cultures” at 8 p.m. A mosaic of ethnic and cultural perspectives, this program explores connections between the urban and Harlem Renaissance culture of the early to mid-20th century. Jazz-infused rhythms and poignant chords permeate the “classical” music of George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, William Grant Still, Margaret Bonds, Kurt Weill and Irving Berlin. Powerful and clever texts are from Langston Hughes, Emma Lazarus, DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Performers will be from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance and include legendary tenor George Shirley, pianist-curator Kathryn Goodson and graduate scholars, soprano Jennifer Cresswell and clarinetist Scott Johnson Jr. General admission is $28, available at (248) 477-1410 or cash at the door.
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4-5:30 pm, Nov. 5. U-M Frankel Center will host Dan Schwartz at the Thayer Building, Room 2022, Ann Arbor. Schwartz, of George Washington University, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ghetto: The History of a Word.â&#x20AC;? He will reveal how the history of ghettos is tied up with the struggle and argument over the meaning of a word. Free event.
SISTERHOOD EVENING RSVP FOR NOV. 12. At 6 pm, Nov. 12, join the Adat Shalom Sisterhood for an evening with Hollie Gyarmati, author of The Mother of All Makeovers: A Memoir of More, Less and Making Busy Beautiful. The event will also recognize over 80-year-old members. Dinner $18; to pre-order a signed book $12. RSVP to Geula Rapp, 248-877-5466; or the sisterhood at 248-851-5100. Info: adatshalom.org/flyers.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6 MUSICAL INTERLUDE 1 pm, Nov. 6. Shaarey Zedek Seniors will host an afternoon of music from Broadway musicals, featuring Diana Turner and John Demerell. At the synagogue. Refreshments will be served. Info: Janet Pont at 248-3575544 or jpont@shaareyzedek.org. Free.
DROP IN & LEARN 1 pm, Nov. 6. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jewish Nationalism from Independence to Israeli NationState Law.â&#x20AC;? Beth Ahm invites lifelong learners to watch and discuss a video lecture by Rabbi Donniel Hartman, presented as part of the Shalom Hartman Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2019 Community Leadership Summer Retreat, the theme of which was â&#x20AC;&#x153;Between Loyalty and Imagination: Nationalism and Tribalism in a Global Era.â&#x20AC;? No charge; no reservations needed. For info: Nancy Kaplan, 248-737-1931, or email nancyellen879@att.net.
THURSDAY, NOV. 7 SYMPOSIUM ON AGING 8:30 am-4:30 pm, Nov. 7. At the Rackham Graduate Bldg. in Ann Arbor. Sponsored by Ann Arbor Jewish Family Services. A day of learning that leverages expertise in thinking about serving older adults. Cost: $100 includes breakfast, lunch and a reception. A sliding scale is available. Info: Jacob Singer, 734769-0209, ext. 363.
JOB SEEKERS PANEL 1-3:30 pm, Nov. 7. JVS will host a panel at the Southfield Public Library Auditorium, 26300 Evergreen Road, Southfield. Come dressed for success and bring copies of your resume, which may be accepted/critiqued by employers. No charge to attend. Register onsite beginning at 12:30 pm. (No pre-registration required.) Call 248-233-4245 for info. Compiled by Sy Manello/Editorial Assistant Send items at least 14 days in advance to calendar@thejewishnews. com.
‘Next Phase of Life’ Melanoma patient benefited from palliative care as he transitioned from treatment to hospice. ELIZABETH KATZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER
guidance. Newman practices out of Karmanos’ Weisberg Cancer Treatment Center in Farmington Hills and in Detroit. She said many people are confused by the term “palliative care.” “We like to tell people palliative care is about working with patients and family members who have advanced disease for symptom control to improve quality of life,” she said. “Sometimes people need another person to help them make decisions.” Palliative care also means Newman can Elisheva Newman, M.D. collaborate with patients and their oncologists to improve communication about treatment plans and goals. She works with patients on their medication doses and can assist with health insurance to clear the approval process for medications that will alleviate pain. Plus, she can help patients determine if a specific treatment is not helping and advise them, with input from their oncologist, if a treatment should be stopped. Palliative care is often appropriate for cancer patients who are in advanced stages of the disease. However, Newman said palliative care can help many cancer patients. “Any time is appropriate for palliative care,” she said. “We know patients do better with palliative care. They have a better experience with their cancer and experience less depression. They spend less time in the hospital.” Palliative care also eases the transition between a patient TIMOTHY J. HAUNERT
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he late Steven Averbuch, 69, of West Bloomfield, was diagnosed with melanoma in 2012. Surgeons removed the melanoma on his chest and he was cleared of the cancer, which at the time had not spread. But then, two weeks after an all-clear fiveyear checkup, the melanoma returned. Again, surgeons removed it. Averbuch received immunotherapy for his cancer; but, after almost a year, he learned the cancer had spread. Averbuch went to a different health system for a second opinion and to receive more extensive treatment. After that treatment was exhausted, he was referred to the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute to go on a clinical trial. “It’s an emotional thing to be told treatment is not working,” he had said. Averbuch benefited from palliative care rather than continue treatments that were no longer effective. He passed away peacefully at home this summer. “I tell (people) the word ‘palliative’ is not a bad word,” he had said. “It doesn’t mean death tomorrow. It’s a peaceful decision.” Averbuch, accompanied by his wife of 41 years, Maralyn, a member of Temple Shir Shalom, received palliative care from Elisheva Newman, M.D., a member of Karmanos’ Supportive Oncology Multidisciplinary Team (MDT). The Supportive Oncology MDT at Karmanos not only provides palliative care services, its team members also offer psychology/psychiatry consultations, anesthesia and pain care as well as spiritual
receiving treatment and entering hospice where he discontinues treat- Maralyn and ment and receives Steven Averbuch comfort measures, time to spend with his family, according to which includes his oldest son, Newman. Aaron, 40; daughter, Elana, 38; “I can’t take away their canand son, Jared, 33, as well as his cer, but I have some say in how six grandkids. they experience cancer,” she “Family has always been No. said. “By far, the most import1,” he had said. “I have loved ant thing is the relationships seeing my kids grow up.” between me and the patients.” For Averbuch, who spent For information about Karmanos months in palliative care and Cancer Institute’s Supportive ultimately chose to go into hosOncology Multidisciplinary Team, call pice, palliative care gave him 800-527-6266 or visit karmanos.org. PALLIATIVE CARE SERVICES Karmanos Supportive Oncology Multidisciplinary Team (800) 527-6266 karmanos.org Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network (248) 592-2687 jewishhospice.org Ascension Health Care (various locations) healthcare.ascension.org Beaumont Health (800) 328-8542 (appointment center) beaumont.org Children’s Hospital of Michigan (313) 745-0883 chmpalliativecare@dmc.org Henry Ford Health System (800) 436-7936 (general inquiries) henryford.com McLaren Health Care Palliative Care Service-Flint (810) 342-2546 mclaren.org
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The five-year survival rate for breast cancer is 99 percent if caught in an early stage, but just 14 percent for patients diagnosed with Stage 4 of the disease.
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bout 2.1 million women worldwide developed breast cancer in 2018, according to the World Health Organization. Last year also saw some 627,000 fatalities due to breast cancer — nearly all because their cancer had spread to distant organs. Israeli researcher Neta Erez is trying to find out how the cancer spreads in a bid to stop it. “Most studies are still done on the primary tumor, but that’s not what kills the patient,” Erez said. “If we can intervene at an early stage, we may be able to prevent metastasis.” If successful, this could lead
to significant improvements in cancer treatment and survivability. Erez, chairwoman of the Department of Pathology at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of Medicine, is one of many Israeli cancer specialists studying breast cancer, which strikes Ashkenazi Jewish women at three times the rate of the general population. That’s because Ashkenazi women are much more likely to carry mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that lead to extremely high rates of developing cancer. Even so, 99 percent of breast cancer patients whose tumors are diagnosed and removed at an early stage are still alive
after five years. That five-year survival rate drops to 92 percent if the tumor reaches Stage 1 classification and drops to just 14 percent for patients who have the Stage 4 disease. The key to improved outcomes, Erez says, is to stop the disease from spreading. “We no longer look at tumors as a bunch of cancer cells, but as multicellular organs. They actually recruit and hijack lots of so-called normal cells that then become part of the tumor,” she said. “We’re trying to understand the interactions and relationships between those tumor cells and the normal cells that get hijacked.” October was Breast Cancer
Awareness Month. In the United States, where breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, there were countless fundraising events, marches for cures and other efforts to raise money for research to fight the disease. The Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), which raises money in the United States for cancer research at Israeli universities, hospitals and other institutions, has long been a funder of breast cancer research. Erez is one of the organization’s grant recipients. So is Dr. Gad Rennert, director of the Clalit National Israeli Cancer Control Center in Haifa, who is studying why breast cancer is so prevalent among pre-menopausal women under age 45. “Most cancers develop over a pretty long period, maybe 10 to 15 years,” said Rennert, whose lab is the recipient of a $420,000, three-year ICRF grant split evenly between the City of Hope Cancer Center in Los Angeles and his agency. “So, when a woman develops cancer at 35, you’ve got to wonder what happened to her at age 25.” Rennert’s project is analyzing the DNA of newly diagnosed young women with breast cancer — Stage 1 patients up to 35 years old and Stage 2 patients up to 45 — and testing their DNA for changes in about 130 genes known to be involved in the development of breast cancer. “I don’t have Phase 2 results yet, but in Phase 1 we identified another 10 percent of women with mutations in other genes or rare mutations in BRCA,” he said. “We’re trycontinued on page 50
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EXPLORING OTHER FACTORS The effort to arrest the spread of breast cancer involves more than cancer experts. Gilad Bachrach teaches at Hebrew UniversityHadassahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Institute of Dental Science in Jerusalem. A microbiologist who specializes in clinical diseases like tuberculosis and Malta fever, Bachrach has taken a particular interest in Fusobacterium nucleatum â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a specific bacterium that was found recently within malignant colon tumors. Now in the second year of a $50,000-per-year ICRF grant, Bachrach runs one of only five labs worldwide that can genetically manipulate F. nucleatum. Since that particular bacterium in colon cancer originates from the mouth, he speculated that it might reach tumors via blood. Specifically, a fusobacterial surface protein, Fap2, binds and activates a receptor on immune cells known as TIGIT, thereby suppress-
ing the ability of immune cells to destroy the tumor. Fusobacterium can travel to the colon not only through the gut but also through the blood, meaning it can reach other cancers as well, protecting them from the immune system. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you have gum disease, you bleed, and bacteria could enter,â&#x20AC;? said Bachrach, a former Israeli army tank commander who has done postdoctoral work at the National Institute of Medical Research in London and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We found that they specifically colonized the tumor because they find sugar exposed on cancer cells. Then we looked for other cancers where this sugar is exposed, and one of them is breast cancer.â&#x20AC;? To stop the spread of cancer, Bachrach says, clinicians should consider anti-spreading agents, not just typical cancer treatments. It is possible that fighting this bacteria will have implications for breast cancer patients. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Antibiotics are drugs that can kill bacteria,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At some point, physicians should think about using antibiotics when theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re treating people with cancers.â&#x20AC;? Ultimately, Bachrach wants to re-engineer the fusobacterium to turn it into a cancer killer rather than a cancer protector. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our long-term goal,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is to engineer the fusobacteria in order to colonize the cancer and kill it.â&#x20AC;? Larry Luxner is part of JTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s content team. The story was sponsored by the Israel Cancer Research Fund.
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of factors, some based on genetics and others more influenced by environmental factors. However, because not everyone who carries these genetic mutations will get Parkinson’s, it is thought other factors such as the environment (pesticides) and age (usually around age 60 or older) play an important role. Also, more men develop PD than women. “Over the past decade, researchers have identified a handful of genes in which genetic mutations greatly increase the risk,” LeWitt says. “The most common is the mutated version of kinase 2 (LRRK2), which is responsible for 1-2 percent of PD cases but is much higher in people with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry.” Pharmaceutical companies are interested in this gene because it produces an enzyme called a kinase — dozens of drugs that inhibit the activity of kinases have been approved in the last 30 years, primarily for cancer. Drug developers started working on inhibiting overactive kinases in neurodegenerative and infectious diseases. One concern with this approach is the possible side effects from inhibiting LRRK2. “Today, there is no diagnostic test for PD and no way
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SOME PD SYMPTOMS: • Tremor or shaking • Slowed movement • Rigid muscles • Stooped posture and balance problems • Loss of automatic movements such as blinking or swinging arms when walking • Speech changes such as speaking softly, slurring words to stop or slow its progression,” says Dr. Aaron Ellenbogen, movement disorder specialist at QUEST Research Institute in Farmington Hills. “Quest has been researching Parkinson’s disease Ellenbogen for more than 15 years, frequently conducting clinical trials for pharmaceutical companies regarding their development of new drugs.
“Based on the knowledge that people don’t respond to medical treatments the same way, a new approach, called tailored medicine, emphasizes treating people with certain conditions using personalized plans,” Ellenbogen says. It is thought that up to 15 percent of Ashkenazi Jewish patients with PD may carry one or more of the gene mutations that increase the risk of acquiring the disease. Current research is investigating new therapies for PD patients with these gene mutations. This personalized medicine could have benefits for everyone with PD. QUEST Research Institute is currently enrolling for one of these trials, testing people with PD for free if they have Ashkenazi heritage or family history. To learn more, call (248) 957-8940.
Panel to Discuss Different Religions’ Perspectives on Organ Donation Throughout the U.S., thousands of severely ill individuals await donated organs to alleviate their chronic illnesses or injuries. The wait can be long and not everyone survives until an appropriate organ is available for transplantation. Donating an organ is not an easy decision, and the views of various religions toward organ donation vary. The InterFaith Leadership Council of Metropolitan Detroit will present a panel discussion, “Organ Donation Across the Faith Traditions,” from 2:30-5:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 3, at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 26998 Woodward Ave., Royal Oak. Ramonia Chapmen from Gift of Life Michigan will moderate the panel featuring representatives of
many faiths: Imam Ibrahim Kazerooni, Islamic Center of America, Dearborn; Shama Mehta, board-certified Hindu chaplain; Jill Abromowitz Gutmann, Jewish expert on bioethics; Rev. Ronald Copeland, organ recipient, New Prospect Missionary Baptist Church, Detroit; and Father Richard Leliaert, St. Robert Bellarmine Parish. Program co-sponsors include Gift of Life Michigan, WISDOM (Women’s Interfaith Solution for Dialogue and Outreach in Metro Detroit) and the InterFaith Health and Hope Coalition. The event is free of charge. RSVP in advance at detroitinterfaithcouncil.com. For details, contact gailkatz@comcast.net or at (248) 978-6664.
Ask Dr. Vieder I am trying to quit smoking and have been using an E-cigarette product as a substitute. Now I’m hearing that this is not such a safe alternative. What are the latest findings on vaping? Unauthorized vaping products regularly enter the market, and underage sales too frequently occur in stores and online. Some experts believe vaping is a safer alternative to smoking cigarettes. But much is unknown about the long-term health consequences of vaping. Unlike traditional cigarettes, E-cigarettes don’t contain tobacco, don’t involve combustion and contain fewer ingredients. A 2018 analysis of more than 800 peer-reviewed scientific studies suggests that “E-cigarettes are likely to be far less harmful than combustible tobacco cigarettes.” While vaping exposes users to some toxicants, the vapor has “fewer numbers and lower levels of most toxicants” than cigarette smoke. However, E-cigarettes have not received FDA approval as a medical smoking cessation device. What are the potential health risks of vaping? E-cigarettes are undeniably harmful, exposing users to numerous toxic and carcinogenic substances that may lead to adverse health effects. But they virtually eliminate exposure to carbon monoxide, tar and many of the 7,000 chemicals that contribute to cigarettes’ lethality. In short, E-cigarettes are less harmful than smoking, but they are by no means safe! As of last week, the CDC has reported a total of 29 vaping related deaths across the US, in contrast to nearly half a million cigarette related deaths annually. Vaping products from reputable, regulated manufacturers may indeed be measurably safer than traditional cigarettes, but there is simply not enough experience or research to know the ultimate health impact vaping will have on users. The simple and safe answer is, don’t smoke cigarettes and don’t vape. I know that smoking is detrimental to my health. If I have to stop vaping, what other safer alternatives do you recommend? It is true that most smokers who try E-cigarettes continue to smoke, but that does not mean that E-cigarettes are an ineffective cessation aid. Most smokers who try FDA-approved nicotine replacement therapies also continue to smoke, but such products are still officially deemed “effective.” The best source of advice and guidance to quit smoking cigarettes or discontinue the use of vaping products will be your primary care physician. There is certainly not a “one fits all” approach but keep trying to quit if you are a smoker or vaper! care physician. There is certainly not a “one fits all” approach but keep trying to quit if you are a smoker or vaper!
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BERNICE “BUNNY” BEHRMANN, 88, of Huntington Woods, died Oct. 21, 2019. She is survived by her husband of 67 years, Sherwin “Mickey” Behrmann; sons and daughters-in-law, Ivan Behrmann and Pamela Jackson, Steven and Sara Behrmann, Scott and Lisa Behrmann, and Michael and Naomi Behrmann; grandchildren, Brendan and Mariam Behrmann, Bridget Behrmann and Sylvain Petit, Sydney Behrmann, Jacob Behrmann, Erik Behrmann, Jenna and Brett Garber, Katie Behrmann, Mindy Behrmann and Tilly Behrmann; greatgranddaughter, Millie Garber. Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be to Leader Dogs for the Blind, P.O. Box 5000, Rochester, MI 48308-5000, leaderdog. org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. VIVIAN H. SMARGON COLE, 77, of Southfield, died Oct. 18, 2019. She is survived
by her sons and daughterin-law, Benjamin Cole, and Matthew and Dana Cole; granddaughter, Ava Cole; brothers and sisters-in-law, Dr. Mitchell and Janice Smargon, and Sam and Vicky Bean Smargon; many loving nieces, nephews, other family members and friends. Mrs. Cole was the beloved wife of the late Dr. Gerald Cole. Services will be held Sunday, Nov. 3, 2019, 1 p.m. at the Maas Chapel of Temple Beth El, 7400 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48301. Interment was held at Mt. Nebo Cemetery in Miami, Fla. Contributions may be made to Jewish Family Service. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. CHARLES DAVIS, 70, of Boynton Beach, Fla., died Oct. 7, 2019. He was born on Jan. 9, 1949, in New York City. He graduated from Mt. Vernon High School in June 1967. He then entered the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and received his bachelor of science in aerospace engineering in
June 1971. Upon receiving an N.S.F traineeship for advanced study, he pursued his studies for the master of science in applied mechanics at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Mr. Davis’ first employment was as a test engineer in the Structural Section, Ground Test Engineering, and Sikorsky Aircraft. After an economic downturn in the industry, Chuck relocated to Michigan and took a position with Ford Motor Company in 1977, working as an automotive mechanical engineer specializing in noise and vibration in transmissions. It was in Michigan that he met his future wife, Laura Weinberg. They met playing volleyball at Jewish singlessponsored events at the Oak Park JCC. As the world suffered gas shortages and spiraling interest rates, Chuck moved from Ford Motor Company to a short run with the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command and then moved to Muskegon to Cadillac Gage, where he worked on the Cadillac
Gage Commando-Armored Personnel Carriers. In 1984, Chuck and his wife and son relocated to Baltimore, Md., where Chuck was employed by Martin Marietta as an aerospace engineer. He was proud of his contributions in developing the Aegis Cruise Missile Launching System and was present at the launching of the USS Antietam, a Ticonderogaclass guided missile cruiser. In 1990, Chuck and his family, Laura, son Benjamin and daughter Sarah, relocated to Huntsville, Ala. There Chuck took a position as an aerospace engineer for Sverdrup Corporation at Marshall Space Flight Center, working on projects for NASA, including a space furnace that was used in Space Station Freedom. In 1993, Chuck and his family relocated to Michigan and Chuck took a position with General Motors as a powertrain engineer. During his 23 years with GM, he helped develop the eightand 10-speed transmissions and was a co-author on multiple patents for components on the clutch systems of the transmissions, He retired from GM in continued on page 56
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October of 2016. In March of 2017, Chuck and his wife relocated to Boynton Beach, Fla. Mr. Davis is survived by his wife of 40 years, Laura Davis; son and daughterin-law, Benjamin Eric Davis and Christine Rivera-Davis; daughter, Sarah Corinne Davis; granddaughter, Selah Elizabeth Davis; mother-inlaw, Muriel Weinberg; sister and brother-in-law, Gail and Barry Perlowe; brother and sister-in-law, Neil and Ilene Davis; brother-in-law and sisters-in-law, Richard and Wendy Weinberg, Karen Weinberg and Sandra Wright. He was the devoted son of the late Donald and the late May Davis; the loving son-in-law of the late Harvey Weinberg; the dear brotherin-law of the late John Wright. Interment was at Adat Shalom Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to American Heart Association, 27777 Franklin Road, Suite 1150, Southfield, MI 48034, heart.org/ HEARTORG/; or National Alliance of Mental Illness, 2107 Wilson Blvd., Suite 300, Arlington, Va. 22201-3042, nami.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. MARTHA “MARTI” FISCHER, 97, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 17, 2019. She is survived by her daughters and son-inlaw, Sherry Zeiger, and Susan and Christopher Tarnas; grandchildren, Josh and Tori Zeiger, Evan Fischer, Emily Fischer, Skyler Tarnas, and Dylan Tarnas; greatgrandchildren, Savannah and
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Ava; many nieces, nephews and friends. Mrs. Fischer was the beloved wife for 72 years of the late Albert “Al” Fischer; the cherished mother of the late Robert and the late Nancy Fischer. Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit, 6710 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, jslmi. org; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. PHYLLIS GLANZ, 70, of New York, died Oct. 19, 2019. A former Detroiter and c. 1980 proud U-M grad, she passed away peacefully surrounded with love in her New York apartment. She is survived by her devoted and loving spouse for 25 years, Sara Mayes of New York; mother, Lillian Glanz of Southfield; sisters and brother-inlaw, Dr. Laurie Glanz of Orchard Lake, Deborah and Dr. Timothy Gabe of Swampscott, Mass.; nieces, Jenna Gabe, Mara Gabe, Remi Glanz; other loving family members and friends. Mrs. Glanz was the loving daughter of the late Samuel Glanz; dear sister of the late Renee Glanz. Contributions may be made to Phyllis Glanz Research Fund, c/o Dept. of Medicine at the University of Michigan. Checks should be made out to University of Michigan and mailed to Michigan Medicine Office of Development, 1000 Oakbrook Drive,
Suite 1, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Services were held at the Oppenheim Chapel at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Interment was at Machpelah. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. DEBBIE GLASSMAN, 88, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 20, 2019. She is survived by her husband of 69 years, Jerry Glassman; children, Lenore and Alan Deutch Singer, George and Sherri Glassman, and Judith G. Etkin; grandchildren, Stephanie and Dr. Jordan Goldstein, Brad and Leanne Deutch, Justin and Elyse Singer, Rachael Glassman, Michael and Dr. Mindy Glassman, Jamie and Jordan Sherman, Maude Etkin and Stephanie Etkin Hart; greatgrandchildren, Harrison Goldstein, Bryce Goldstein, Harvee Deutch, Bowen Deutch, Calvin Singer and Ezra Hart; brother and sisterin-law, Allen and Margie Charnes; caregivers, Latrisse, Benjamin and Debbie; loving nieces. Mrs. Glassman was the dear mother-in-law of the late Harvey Deutch; the devoted daughter of the late Saul and the late Martha Charnes. Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Hebrew Free Loan, 6735 Telegraph Road, Suite 300, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301, hfldetroit. org; or Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network, 6555 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, jewishhospice. org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
ALBERT GOLDSTEIN, 93, of Bloomfield Township, died Oct. 21, 2019. He is survived by his daughter, Lynn Radtke, and her fiance, Scott Douthitt; son and daughter-in-law, Dr. David Goldstein and Kathy Brown; grandchildren, Sarah and Eric Welsh, Alyssa and Anthony Weytjens, and Nicole and Jessica Goldstein; great-grandchildren, Oscar, Freya and Cormac Welsh, Ashton and Axel Weytjens. Mr. Goldstein was the beloved husband of the late Margaret Goldstein; the loving father-in-law of the late Dr. Rob Radtke; and the dear brother-in-law of the late William and the late Sandy Goodman, the late Geri and the late Nat Goldstone. Interment was at Oakview Cemetery. Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. KENNETH KNOPPOW, 70, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 22, 2019. He was active in several organizations, including Breira, New Jewish Agenda, Brit Tzedek V’Shalom, Ameinu and J Street. He was also an active leader in the folk music community, including producing the Folktown Music Series and Music @ Main. Ken volunteered as a tutor in youth chess and adult literacy. He was active with Meals on Wheels and in numerous political campaigns. Ken was a
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member of Temple Kol Ami in West Bloomfield. He is survived by his wife, Mary Sue Schottenfels; daughters and son-in-law, Brianna Knoppow, Alana Knoppow and Darin Garrison; stepchildren, Maggie Lanzilote and Dan Seaton, Anthony Lanzilote and Jennifer Lindemer; brother-in-law, Bob Warshawsky; sister-inlaw, Bettie Young; nieces and nephews, Naomi and Sam Harwin, Brian Warshawsky, Maree and Rob Nicol, Alex Maclennan and Matt Costello; many loving cousins and a world of friends. Mr. Knoppow was the loving brother of the late Joyce Warshawsky. Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Hospice of Michigan, 43097 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302, hom.org/donations; Karmanos Cancer Institute, 4100 John R, Mailcode: NCO6DS, Detroit, MI 48201, karmanos.org; or Seeds of Peace, 370 Lexington Ave., Suite 1201, New York, NY 10017, seedsofpeace. org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. DR. KENNETH H. KURJAN, 71, of Traverse City, died Oct. 17, 2019. He is survived by his sons and daughter-inlaw, Dr. Jonathan Kurjan, and Dr. Aaron and Kristy Kurjan; daughter, Emily Kurjan; grandchildren, Alexander, Brooks and
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Clementine Kurjan; brothers and sisters-in-law, Donn and Judie Kurjan, Richard Kurjan, and Eric and Lisa Kurjan; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Michael and Stacey Grossfeld; mother-inlaw, Beatrice Grossfeld. Dr. Kurjan was the beloved husband of the late Dr. Marni Kurjan; the dear brother-in-law of the late Patricia Kurjan; loving son-in-law of the late Myer Grossfeld. Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Michigan Parkinson Foundation, Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Network North, 30400 Telegraph Road, Suite 150, Bingham Farms, MI 48025, parkinsonsmi.org; or Temple Shir Shalom, Dr. Marni Grossfeld Kurjan Youth Scholarship Fund, 3999 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323, shirshalom. org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. FRUMETH BRENDA HIRSH POLASKY, 76, passed away peacefully at her Saginaw residence on Oct. 3, 2019. She was born Feb. 3, 1943, in Gary, Ind. Later, she earned her B.A. in music with highest honors at DePaul University and a J.D. from Wayne State University Law School. Frumeth practiced law in Michigan for more than 40 years. She was a co-founder of Lancaster, Lloyd, Coulter and Hirsh, the first allfemale law firm in Genesee County. Later, she became a partner of Pelavin and Powers P.C. Frumeth married
her beloved Frank M. Polasky, a prominent Saginaw attorney, in 1986, moved to his hometown and became part of the Saginaw community. She was deeply involved in philanthropic work with a variety of causes from medical and legal services to Jewish outreach locally, statewide, nationally and internationally. She developed friendships with people worldwide, with whom she stayed in contact. In addition to being an outstanding attorney, Frumeth was a trained ballerina and danced professionally with the Chicago Ballet Company. She had a trained operatic voice and was also an actress. While as a young woman, Frumeth was the all-around accomplished and liberated woman; in the later decades of her life, she returned to her roots as an observant and Orthodox Jew. She received a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in Judaic studies from Spertus Institute. She was truly a â&#x20AC;&#x153;woman of valor.â&#x20AC;? Mrs. Polasky is survived by her son, Jonathan (Sejin) Siegel; granddaughters, Hannah and Liba; brother, Theodore (Beatrice) Hirsh; stepchildren, Dr. Diane H. Polasky and William Polasky (Lora); their extended families; her sister-in-law, Marianne Smith; many other extended family members, friends, business associates and study/learning partners locally, nationally and worldwide. She is also survived by two loyal and beloved helpers, Willie Johnson and Linda Harris.
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ELAINE BLAU RABIN, 82, passed away Oct. 13, 2019, in Metairie, La. Elaine and her identical twin sister were semi-celebrities in their hometown of Detroit as they were the first-born New Year’s babies of 1937. The Detroit News featured annual updates of the twins until their 18th birthday. Elaine was active in many civic organizations, including B’nai B’rith and National Council of Jewish Women. She also served as president of the New Orleans Chapter of Hadassah. She will be deeply missed
by everyone who had the honor and pleasure to know her. Mrs. Rabin is survived by her sons, Neil (Brigitte), Richard, and Arnold Rabin; siblings, Larry (Diane) Blau and Roger (Joanne) Blau; six grandchildren and 12 greatgrandchildren. She was predeceased by her parents, Ben and Rose Blau; her husband of 40 years, David Rabin; her daughter, Ruth Rabin; her twin sister, Eleanor Yanitz; and her granddaughter, Hannah Rabin. Memorial contributions may be made to the New Orleans Chapter of Hadassah.
SHIRLEY SCHWEIGER, 96, of Bradenton, Fla., died Oct. 24, 2019. She was born in Detroit in 1923 to Harry and Esther Friedman. Mrs. Schweiger is survived by her loving husband of 77 years, Robert Schweiger; daughters and sons-in-law, Rochelle and Saul Lenhoff, Louise and Dr. Steven Spector; grandchildren, Adrienne Lenhoff, Adam Lenhoff, Ben Spector, Sam (Glenn Greilsamer) Spector; greatgrandchildren, Hannah Wise and August Spector. She was the dear mother of
the late Charles Schweiger; sister of the late Alvin (Carmen) Friedman, Ruth (Bernie Elson and Lyle Hirshfield) Elson Hirshfield. Interment was held at Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to Tidewell Hospice in Sarasota, Fla., or to 100 Mensches at Jewish Family Service. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. MARTIN SOSNICK, 67, of Pompano Beach, Fla., passed away on Oct. 10, 2019. Martin was born with cerebral palsy but was determined to live life to its fullest. As well as having a continued on page 60
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family, he owned a successful advertising business and employed many people with disabilities. Articles about his efforts and success were published in several Florida newspapers. He will be sadly missed by everyone who knew him and every life that he touched. He is survived by his son, Adam Sosnick; daughter and son-in-law, Jennifer and Dr. Sylvan Fain; grandson, Rory; mother, Mimi Teper; sisters, Abby Teper, Elaine Kahn and Noreen Sabatin; friend and caregiver, Susan Johnson; close cousin, Iris Rosen. Mr. Sosnick was preceded in death by his stepfather, Gerald Teper; and his father, Joseph Sosnick. Contributions may be made to a charity of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice.
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JACK TUCKER, 67, of Huntington Woods, died Oct. 18, 2019. He is survived by his son, c. 1980 Scott Tucker of Austin, Texas; daughter, Allie Tucker of Ferndale; brother and sister-in-law, Steve and Cherie Tucker; sister, Doreen Schwartz; brother-in-law and sisters-in-law, Ted and Barbara Gittleman, Shelley Rossmoore; mother-in-law, Ilene Gittleman; many loving nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, other relatives and friends. Mr. Tucker was the beloved husband for 33 years of the late Ellen Tucker; loving son and son-in-law of the late
Katie and the late Stanley Tucker, the late Stanford Gittleman; dear brother and brother-in-law of the late Sally Tucker, the late Allen Tucker, the late Roz and the late Herb Gubow. Contributions may be made to American Cancer Society, 20450 Civic Center Drive., Southfield, MI 48076; Sarah Gittleman Research Fund at the Mastocytosis Society, P.O . Box 416, Sterling, MA 01564; Living Cancer Alliance Fund, 1700 Kay St. NW, Suite 660, Washington, DC 20006. Interment was at Hebrew Memorial Park Cemetery, Pinsker Section. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
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any fine restaurants are taken so much for granted that numerous people might tend to slightly forget about them … This is something that eateries like Diamond Jim Brady’s may encounter. Celebrating its ninth anniversary at the Danny Raskin Senior Columnist present location, Diamond Jim Brady’s Bistro had to relocate to its new home in the Novi Town Center on Novi Road off I-96 when the previous restaurant was demolished after 28 years to make
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lamb meatballs and vegetarian sweet potato burritos … Its best menu sellers continue to be pan-roasted Scottish salmon over sautéed fingerling potatoes topped with fresh arugula and pistachios, and a wonderful six-ounce filet mignon steak Diane with a mushroom and shallot brandy demi-glace. Guests continue to return also for the warm hospitality offered at Diamond Jim Brady’s Bistro and its extensive dining selections … And, of course, the custom-ground half-pound DJB Big Burger, the Caesarstyle salad topped with a filled chicken breast and a daily chalkboard selection. Hours are Monday to Thursday lunch 11a.m.-4 p.m., dinner 4-10 p.m., Friday and Saturday lunch 11 a.m.-4 p.m., dinner 4-11 p.m., Sunday brunch 11 a.m.-4 p.m., dinner 4-9 p.m. Seating is 130, including covered patios and a 12-stool bar. You might say that Diamond Jim Brady’s Bistro is celebrating its ninth anniversary … but has actually been in business since 1954 … is a restaurant
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Dr. David Nathan Madgy
n November 1st, Dr. David Nathan Madgy should have turned 62. Instead, his life was taken far too soon. There is no way we could enter this season without acknowledging our family’s tremendous loss. David was a strong, determined man. Hearing you have Stage 4 cancer w ith no cure is devastating. He fought the toughest battle of his life, and he did it with dignity, determination, and the best attitude. His quick wit lasted until the very end. David was an integral part of so many lives. He was loved not only by his family, but by many friends. He was respected by patients, ex-residents, ex-fellows, and colleagues world-wide. Since David always “flew under the radar,” only a small segment of his world knew he was ill. During the last two weeks of his life, unbeknownst to him, one of his local life-long friends contacted
David’s out-of state long-term friends. Every one of them jumped on flights to say goodbye. On March 9, 2019, over 500 people attended his funeral. In addition, more than 12,000 people stopped their days to watch his funeral online. Viewers were not only from Michigan, but from 46 other states and many places around the world, including Lebanon, Malawi, United Kingdom, Mexico, Ireland, Israel, Australia, South Korea, Chile, Indonesia, St Lucia, Sweden, Russia, Turkey, Germany, Columbia, Saudi Arabia, Cayman Islands, India and Canada. Dr. David Madgy is held tightly in many people’s hearts and we know that he will never be forgotten. While our lives will never be the same and there will be an emptiness in us forever, we have pride and solace knowing because David lived, our world is a better place.
(November 1, 1957 - March 9, 2019)