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Jews in the D Detroit Summit 12 Thousands came for first year of Forbes Under 30 Summit in Detroit.

Here to Serve 16 Our thanks to Jewish War Veterans of Michigan for their service beyond measure.

Headed to the Hall of Fame 20 Gilda Jacobs’ career has seen landmark wins for Michigan youth, families and more.

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Shabbat starts: Friday, Nov. 8, 4:59 p.m.

Shabbat ends: Saturday, Nov. 9, 6:01 p.m.

Cover photo: Wall of blank luggage tags at the Kindertransport exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial Center/ Anthony Lanzilote Cover design: Michelle Sheridan

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Lives Well Lived 26 FRIENDS of JSL to celebrate Estelle Seltzer and lives of older adults.

Spirit Torah portion 41

Arts&Life Ticket to Safety 42 Kindertransport exhibit highlights parents’ greatest sacrifice.

Heartfelt Drama 46 Producer Eric Falkenstein brings Jitney’s moving message to Detroit.

Celebrity Jews

30 FJA Boys Tennis Team States Its Case … Again

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Weekly Ritual 30 Nothing stops the Rummikub ladies from their Wednesday night game.

Nosh Mediterranean-Inspired 52 Head to La Marsa for exceptional Middle East fare.

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he voice-over guy in the Arby’s TV commercials proudly boasts “Arby’s, We have the meats!” Well, in California, you no longer have to go through their drive-thru to get your fast-food meat fix; you just have to keep driving until you hit something … and then eat it.

Well, at least when a new law goes into effect Alan in 2022.

Muskovitz California Contributing Writer Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 395 a couple of weeks ago, which allows “persons desiring to recover, possess, use or transport, for purposes of salvaging wild game meat for human consumption of any deer, elk, pronghorn antelope or wild pig that has been accidentally killed as a result of a vehicle collision on a roadway within California.”

Just hearing the words pronghorn antelope makes my mouth water.

Don’t let the 2022 start date put the brakes on your desire to eat roadkill now … You already can in Michigan! Plus, over two dozen other states in the U.S.D.A. — excuse me, U.S. But you must have a permit.

The online application by the Michigan Department of

Natural Resources “requires a person to obtain a free salvage permit to possess wildlife killed in vehicular collisions.”

Before you get too excited that you just found a cheap alternative for your Thanksgiving table, be advised that wild turkey is one of several animals on our state’s do-not-eat list.

As a Michigan State grad, I did take note that wolverine is not protected. I will forgo making a snide remark that could end up being motivational material for posting on U-M’s team locker room bulletin board. The rivalry game is on Nov. 16 in Ann Arbor.

Though I’m sure Michigan fans are already saying they’re going to eat us Spartans for lunch. Ha ha.

Sadly, not a day goes by that we drivers don’t pass by roadkill — a lot of it. So much so, that I think it’s safe to say Michigan drivers have not yet developed a taste for this unusual form of “meals on wheels” dining.

You’d like to think it would go without saying, but Michigan law clearly states the “permit does not apply to an individual who uses a motor vehicle to kill or injure game intentionally.” In other words, hunters cannot add their vehicles to their seasonal hunting arsenal.

Are you among those, me

included, who think leftovers taste better the next day? Well, it turns out, that might apply to roadkill. Michigan law states “the driver of the vehicle has first choice to take possession of the game. But if the driver leaves it, another individual may take it for salvage.” I am not making this up.

With this knowledge, I think I might be able to parlay the “Roadkill Cafe” parodies I wrote on the Dick Purtan Show into a legitimate advertising campaign featuring Rigor Mortis Tortoise for dinner and Road Toad A-la-Mode for dessert. “The Roadkill Cafe, where it tastes real good because it’s straight from the hood.”

I think it’s safe to say that roadkill meat is not kosher.

But, if it gets sanctioned

by Jewish law by next Yom Kippur, you’ll be able to enjoy something really different for your break-fast, as long as you don’t brake fast. Oh, wait, you can’t mix meat and dairy.

Sorry.

Well, valued JN readers, I hope this wasn’t too distasteful.

But if it was, just put some ketchup on it.

Alan Muskovitz is a writer, voiceover/acting talent, speaker, and emcee. Visit his website at laughwithbigal.com,“Like” Al on Facebook and reach him at amuskovitz@renmedia.us.

Higher Hopes Begins Thanksgiving Drive The nonprofit Higher Hopes provides a Thanksgiving bounty for 1,000 families.

Each Thanksgiving kit contains a 12- to 14-pound turkey, stuffing, Michigan potatoes, yams, all of the ingredients for green bean casserole, chicken broth, Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix, cranberry sauce, apples, spices, and Coca Cola products, all topped off with Cooper Street Cookies for dessert and much more.

Higher Hopes has expanded to also provide nourishing 45-pound meal kits each month to 1,000 families with children enrolled in the Detroit Early Head Start Childcare Partnership Program.

Head Start families will receive supplemental food packages on a monthly basis.

“We’ve seen an escalating growth because of the giving nature of all of our donors who provide funding and food to allow us to reach these impressive food distribution goals,” says Bill Birndorf, founder of Higher Hopes. “Giving is a huge catalyst to our success, and Detroiters and people from all over Michigan are extremely generous with their time and resources.”

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The Lessons We Learn from Kristallnacht

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he night of Nov. 9, 1938, marked the beginning of one of the most horrific anti-Jewish attacks in history. Over two days, mobs across Germany and parts of Austria and Czechoslovakia destroyed synagogues, JewishRep. Andy owned businesses, Levin homes, schools and cemeteries.

Under instructions from the Gestapo, local authorities did nothing to stop the violence and destruction.

When the pogrom was over, nearly 100 Jews had been murdered and 30,000 Jewish men had been sent to concentration camps. Shards of glass from Jewish-owned

storefronts littered the streets of Berlin, Vienna and other cities across the three countries, giving the attacks the name we now remember them by: Kristallnacht, or “the night of broken glass.”

Kurt Messerschmidt, a Holocaust survivor, recalled encountering a crowd of people in the aftermath of Kristallnacht watching an older man who had been ordered by Nazi soldiers to clean up the broken glass outside his store. Messerschmidt, who helped the man, would later say, “I’m sure that some of the people standing there disapproved of what the Nazis did, but their disapproval was only silence, and silence is what did the harm.”

Eighty-one years after Kristallnacht, we would do well

to remember Messerschmidt’s poignant words. Silence in the face of anti-Semitism — or any form of bigotry — can still do great harm. And there is much hatred in our world about which we must not be silent.

Last year, the AntiDefamation League recorded “near-historic levels” of anti-Semitic incidents. There were 1,879 attacks on American Jews and Jewish institutions, and the number of anti-Semitic assaults doubled. We also saw the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in United States history: the mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue.

This year has brought more heartbreak and terror. In April, a shooter at the Chabad of Poway in California killed

congregant Lori Gilbert-Kaye and injured others celebrating the final day of Passover. Last month, anti-Semitic posters were plastered to the doors of Grand Rapids’ Temple Emanuel.

Incidents like this aren’t just happening close to home. On Yom Kippur, a gunman in Halle, Germany, attempted to storm a synagogue, ultimately killing two. This followed a May warning from Germany’s anti-Semitism commissioner to avoid wearing kippahs in public after an alarming spike in anti-Semitic attacks.

And all of this happens under the specter of an American president who poses a clear and present threat to the Jewish people. It would be horrifying enough had President Donald Trump only referred to neocontinued on page 11

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etroit pride. We often see these two words associated with our local sports teams. While it is a nice idea to be proud of the skill and efforts of the Lions, Tigers, Red Wings and Pistons, I’ve been feeling a whole Rebecca different type Starr of Detroit pride lately. Pride in our Jewish community.

My time in the Detroit Jewish community has been short, relatively speaking. My husband and I moved here nearly 16 years ago. He is from

Troy and grew up here; but these 16 years for me brought with them a steep learning curve both professionally and personally. My parents raised me in the Upper Peninsula, an experience that included many benefits. One benefit it didn’t have was access to an organized Jewish community.

My home synagogue was small and important to my own growth and development, but it had 25 family units living within a radius of 100 miles.

I didn’t really understand what it meant to be part of such a well-organized community until I began, in 1998, my graduate work at

the University of Michigan in the field of Jewish communal service.

Imagine my shock when I learned that working in the Jewish community was an actual profession. The Metropolitan Detroit Jewish community was my training ground.

Community lay leaders and volunteers gave their time and energy to assist in my growth as a professional.

Philanthropists met with me to teach me about the art of fundraising, how to research and establish communal priorities, and they helped to fund my education and the education of so many professionals.

Numerous Jewish communal professional leaders from many agencies, congregations and other organizations served

as and continue to serve as my mentors, close colleagues and friends. Detroit pride abounds.

Especially now, as the Midwest manager for the Shalom Hartman Institute, this experience is one that I have found to be a unique part of being in the community of Detroit. Whenever I travel or speak in other communities about my work and mention that I am from Detroit, I often get to hear about how lucky I am to live and work in such a place: a place where Jewish communal needs are prioritized, a place where a large percentage of the population participates in Jewish communal and congregational life, a place where dollars are given by generous donors on a scale of very few other communities in North America. Detroit continued on page 8

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Through the Centennial Fund, Marta and Benjamin Rosenthal Continue Their Legacy of Leadership Long into the Future The extraordinary passion and commitment of our communal leaders has been an enduring source of strength throughout the history of Jewish Detroit.

Marta and Ben Rosenthal represent two such leaders; both have dedicated themselves to a long career of service to the Jewish Federation as well as to organizations throughout the community.

Among her many roles, Marta has been a leader in Federation’s Israel & Overseas (I&O) efforts, and she was instrumental in the development of Detroit’s Partnership2Gether relationship with the Central Galilee region. Beyond Federation, Marta has been President of the Sinai Guild as well as the National Council for Jewish Women. Ben also has been deeply involved in Federation’s I&O work, and he recently served as President of the United Jewish Foundation, along with numerous other volunteer roles throughout Jewish Detroit. Reflecting on their deep connection to the community, Marta says simply: “Detroit’s a family, and we want to help keep it a family.”

With that in mind, the Rosenthals are establishing a Perpetual Annual Campaign Endowment (PACE) through the Centennial Fund, the central endowment for ensuring the future of our community. “I want to make sure that we can take care of the people that need to be taken care of,” Ben says. “And that we continue to invest in the important things that we’re doing—whatever the future may bring—and to continue to support Israel.” By creating a PACE Fund, Marta and Ben are providing future leaders with the greatest flexibility to address the unforeseen needs that emerge. “Previous leaders had faith in us to make the right decisions,” Marta says, “and our PACE gift reflects our faith in future leaders to make the right decisions.” In this way, the legacy of Marta and Ben’s commitment and leadership will continue to support our Jewish community long into the future.

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pride abounds again.

As a perfect example of what our “small” Detroit Jewish community can do, just after completing the flurry of the holiday season, our community has access to events that include speakers like Dahlia Lithwick, Bret Stephens, Dara Horn, Lauren Berkun, Dennis Prager and Nikki Haley. The Jewish Book Fair will take place with a variety of visiting authors, and the community joined to celebrate Scott Kaufman as he transitions from his position as CEO at the Jewish Federation.

Also, numerous Melton classes and JLearn classes will be taught to hundreds of people by expert educators in our community; clergy members will offer inspiring words and teachings throughout the congregations as we remember the Pittsburgh 11; and social service agencies will feed, clothe and care for the orphan, the widow, the hungry and the stranger.

I know there will be many other moments over these weeks in which the Jewish

community can be proud, but this snapshot of time exemplifies much more to me as a Jewish communal professional here in Detroit. We show up.

We support with our dollars, our feet and our voices. We give time. We engage. We plan. We teach and we learn.

Our Detroit Jewish community should be beaming with pride right along with me.

I am grateful my children are part of this community. I pray their generation will get the messages they are being sent and continue to carry on with the work of those who came before them.

I’m reminded of the line in Pirkei Avot, which says, “You are not obligated to complete the task, but neither are you free to desist from it.”

We must all continue to live by this ideal in Detroit.

It served us well for so long and will continue to do so if we take it to heart. This is the pride of Jewish Detroit.

Rebecca Starr is the Midwest manager of the Shalom Hartman Institute and faculty member of the Melton School in Detroit.

Durfee Intramural Basketball Team pictured in front of Durfee in 1948. Aaron Krieger is circled on the left; Martin Magid is circled on the right.

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• Edw. C. Levy Company has made substantial donations of construction materials to the Durfee Innovation Society.

• The DPSCD leased the property to “Life Remodeled,” not me as an individual. I am the Founder and CEO of Life Remodeled, but I don’t hold the lease in my name.

We would like to thank you for the wonderful article regarding Metro Detroit Youth Clubs Dedication Luncheon featured in the Oct. 24 edition of the Jewish News. Hopefully, it will reach many Durfee alumni who were not aware of the remarkable work being done by MDYC and the progress on-site at their newest location: Durfee.

It was an emotional and memorable meeting as a few of us met at our former middle school recently. Memories flooded back as we walked the halls, including fond and funny remembrances of the Durfee Intramural Basketball Team that were mentioned

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in the article. (See photo on the previous page.) We were distinctly aware of how fortunate we had been to receive the wonderful education this trio of schools had provided (Roosevelt Elementary, Durfee Intermediate and Central High). How heartwarming it is to know that so much effort is now being put forth to advancing education and providing much needed support for the surrounding community!

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Leave Son Out of It In the Oct. 17 edition, an article was written about two Ukrainian Jewish emigrants who were arrested for campaign violations (“Giuliani Associate and Former Detroiter Arrested, page 20). One of those arrested had lived in Greater Detroit.

That part of the article is acceptable to print, but I have a problem in printing the name and information about his son.

Although I do not have any relations with nor have I known either individual arrested, I find it totally unacceptable to have included his son in that article.

— Robert Moretsky Bloomfield

Great Memories of Working at the JN Thank you for the very good column on advocacy journalism (“Publisher’s Notebook,” Oct. 24). With some time away from journalism, I can see things more clearly. While working for the Jewish News, I did more meaningful journalism than at the Sun-Sentinel in Ft. Lauderdale, where I competed every day to get a piece of news on the front page but rarely thought about making a difference through the work. I thought about leading the news cycle, scooping the competition, holding politicians accountable.

But at the Jewish News, I got to write about mitzvah heroes, Jewish women who advocated for children and reproductive choice. I got to live in and participate in the community I wrote about.

It was such a gift.

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Memories of Greenberg I always enjoy reading Mike Smith’s “Looking Back” on the back page of the Jewish News.

A recent article was about “the corner” and, of course, Hank Greenberg (Oct. 3, page 62).

It said that he only played till 1940 for Detroit.

Mr. Greenberg was in the service, and I saw him play in the first game after he returned to the Tigers in 1945.

It was the second game of a Sunday doubleheader. I don’t remember that he played a whole game, but I know he got a standing ovation.

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Nazis as “very fine people� as he did in the wake of the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that killed Heather Heyer and injured dozens more. But he has constantly invoked centuries-old anti-Semitic tropes before Charlottesville and since.

He told a Jewish audience, “You’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money ‌ You want to control your politicians, that’s fine.â€?

He referred to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as “your prime minister� while speaking to a group of Jewish Americans. He claimed American Jews who support Democrats demonstrate “either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.� This list doesn’t even touch on the numerous Jewish Americans he has repeatedly vilified and blamed for our country’s ills.

Why must we sound the alarm over remarks like these? Why are they dangerous? Again, it is instructive to recall Kristallnacht. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum puts it best: “Kristallnacht was a turning point in the history of the Third Reich, marking the shift from anti-Semitic rhetoric and legislation to the violent, aggressive anti-Jewish measures that would culminate

with the Holocaust.�

We cannot afford to wait.

The anti-Semitism of this administration should be of unique concern to the Jewish community because it aims to pit us against other communities and each other — to divide us when it’s most critical that we stand together against white supremacy.

We must loudly and consistently call out anti-Semitism in all its forms — whether it comes from our adversaries or our friends, and whether it is promulgated intentionally or unknowingly. We have a responsibility to honor the memories of the victims of Kristallnacht and other atrocities by speaking out, even when it’s not easy. And we must strive to do so in a way that truly fosters understanding.

As a member of Congress, I have worked to encourage these conversations which, while sometimes uncomfortable, ultimately bond us to one another in friendship. On this solemn anniversary, let us recommit ourselves to these responsibilities so that, together, we might build a safer, more compassionate world.

Andy Levin is the U.S. representative for Michigan’s 9th Congressional District.

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ust more than 100 years time team members, 500 based ago, the first issue of Forbes, here in Detroit,” said Schwartz, a new magazine focused StockX COO. “As a leader in on American business was the e-commerce industry, we published. In recent years, the want people to understand company has expanded its how much Detroit has to offer content and events to focus and appreciate the light Forbes on young entrepreneurs, who is shining on the fact that you were highlighted in an annual don’t need a Silicon Valley zip issue and an Under 30 Summit. code to launch a fast-growing, Detroit expat Mike Posner has impact-driven tech company.” been a headline performer.

Alex Fenkell, co-founder of The 2019 event, which took SmileDirectClub, place in late October, brought which became a the Under 30 Summit to publicly traded Detroit for a three-year run. company this About 200 speakers addressed summer, was thousands of attendees. scheduled to Fenkell Immersive experiences, serve on a retail including a private music panel alongside Harry’s festival, industry-focused co-founder Jeff Raider and programming track and a food FIGS founder Heather Hasson. festival also took place.

He planned to discuss his story “Detroit is a city on the as an entrepreneur building a Thousands came for first year of move and a shining example successful direct-to-consumer Forbes Under 30 Summit in Detroit. of what can happen when company. His business, ADAM FINKEL CONTRIBUTING WRITER entrepreneurs, investors venture founded with fellow Detroit capitalists, elected officials, expat Jordan Katzman, is now students and entertainers come together to JN. “The Under 30 Summit is a perfect valued above $4 billion. address challenges, create partnerships and encapsulation of the drive that powers the jointly reimagine a city’s role on the world Motor City, and Dan worked tirelessly to FORBES UNDER 30 WINNERS stage,” said Randall Lane, chief content bring the event here to our hometown.

Another featured speaker was Daniel officer of Forbes and founder of the Under We look forward to seeing what we can Sillman, CEO of Relevent Sports Group.

30 Summit. accomplish with Forbes over the next three Sillman grew up in the Detroit area.

“For six years, our Under 30 Summits years, as well as the thousands of young His projects include leading the largest have celebrated the people who are innovators who will see firsthand exactly privately owned soccer company in North changing our world for the better, and what Dan means.”

America, which operates the International we are proud to help focus the world’s Champions Cup (ICC), the summer’s attention on Detroit and its leaders who FEATURED SPEAKERS premiere international club tournament. are demonstrating how entrepreneurial The agenda and attendee list included The tournament has sold 5 million tickets capitalism is a force for good.” several individuals connected to the Jewish and attracts more than 100 million viewers Rocket Mortgage by Quicken Loans Detroit community who spoke to the annually. was the presenting sponsor of the event.

Jewish News in advance of their attendance.

“It is an honor to be speaking at such a Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert spoke Two of the noted speakers were Josh Luber prestigious event in my hometown, and about the impact of this event coming to and Greg Schwartz, co-founders of StockX to have the opportunity to share some Detroit at a February 2019 news conference alongside Dan Gilbert. of what I have learned during my career, that featured Randall Lane of Forbes, “Nearly four years ago, Sillman said. “I will be participating in Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and StockX launched with just the Founders Forum, speaking with Detroit Mayor Mike Dugan. six employees — today, our other Forbes Under 30 winners. We will “As Dan Gilbert likes to say, Detroit is company is valued at more talk about our experiences in business, the intersection of muscle and brains,” than $1 billion and we have including best practices and other pieces of Schwartz Quicken Loans CEO Jay Farner told the more than 900 full and partadvice we have collected in leadership roles.

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Detroit is the intersection of muscle and brains … the Under 30 Summit is a perfect encapsulation of the drive that powers the Motor City.

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“Attracting a major event like the Under 30 Summit is the result of the hard work of so many Sillman who together have brought Detroit back, including Dan Gilbert, the Illitch family and many others.

In addition to the economic impact, this event is invaluable publicity for a city that not only is on the way back but is primed to regain its rightful place as one of the premiere cities in this country”.

The record-breaking crowds Sillman’s firm has attracted to Michigan Stadium for International Champions Cup matches show him just how passionate fans in Michigan are about soccer. His company views Detroit as a key growth market. “We are always looking for opportunities to host world-class matches in the region.”

Sara Smoler, a native of the Detroit suburbs, was featured in the Under 30 Forbes issue for her work in business

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development at Ogilvy. Now working on an M.B.A. at Columbia Business School in New York City, Smoler was excited to return home for the conference. She said she was looking forward to the salons that Forbes will be introducing this year as a way to network with others featured in the Under 30 community.

“Specifically, I think being able to connect with and learn from likeminded peers in industries that I both have experience and am interested in, Smoler such as marketing and advertising, will be a highlight.”

By hosting a few friends in Detroit, Smoler is hoping to personally redefine their thoughts of Detroit while exposing them to the interesting and growing entrepreneurial scene that’s helping to contribute to Detroit’s revitalization.

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Here to Serve JOHN HARDWICK

Our thanks to Jewish Warr Veterans of Michigan for their service beyond measure.

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ow many generations think of Memorial Day as the first day of summer and Veterans Day as a theme for a sale? Veterans know better.

Did you know Jewish War Veterans (JWV) is America’s oldest veteran service organization? Chartered in 1896, Jewish War Veterans of the USA specifically was organized to dispel the belief that Jews did not serve in the military to protect our nation.

Fact: Jews have fought among the ranks of the military since the American War of Independence and they continue to serve around the world.

Fact: Today, there are an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 known Jewish servicemen and servicewomen in active duty out of approximately 1.3 million (just under 1 percent) in the U.S. Armed Forces. That number has remained stable and close to the percentage of Jews in the general U.S. population — about 2 percent.

“Our continuity in the military is our version of l’dor v’dor, from one generation to the next,” says Dr. Edward H. Hirsch, col. U.S. Army Special Forces (Retired) and commander, JWV of the USA, Department of Michigan. “For that long history of service, regardless of when, where or for whatever length of time, we have our veterans to thank.”

JWV Michigan Chief of Staff Donald Schenk and Dr. Edward Hirsch, commander, JWV of the USA, Dept. of Michigan

A JEWISH VOICE FOR VETERANS, A VETERAN’S VOICE FOR JEWS In Michigan, JWV maintains a small, but steadfast membership — approximately 150 veterans strong, concentrated in Oakland County and currently split into three Posts — 135 (2d LT Raymond Zussman), 474 (PFC Joseph L. Bale) and 510 (Charles Shapiro-MG Maurice Rose).

“Our goal is to let people know we’re still an active service organization and here for good,” says Donald Schenk, Brig. Gen. U.S. Army (retired) and JWV Michigan chief of staff (the department’s chief operating officer).

“We may be most visible in Veterans Day and Memorial Day ceremonies and parades, but what we really want the community to know is that we’re here to serve in many capacities. JWV exists to advocate for the needs of veterans, to strengthen the ties that connect Jewish veterans to the community, and to continue our service and good work through educational and volunteer activities in the greater Detroit area, throughout the state of Michigan and nationally.”

JWV of Michigan is actively recruiting members. With membership of JWV of Michigan mostly comprised of

WWII, Korean War and Vietnam War era veterans, a primary aim of the organization is to identify and reach out to the broader community of veterans who can benefit from its resources.

“We have a core group of 50 we see for programs on a monthly basis,” Schenk says. “Typically, veterans don’t come to us until the end of their life. But now we’re looking for those veterans who have honorably served, sitting in the back of the synagogue, so to speak, to come forward to take advantage of JWV membership and the veteran and military benefits that are their due. Our aim is also to support family members of veterans whose loved ones may have passed on.”

Though much of the work entails helping veterans and their families negotiate the labyrinth of the Department of Veteran Affairs to help ensure that their records are in order for end-of- life benefits, JWV of Michigan also is involved in advocacy for better clinics, hospitals, veterans homes and Michigan veteranfriendly legislation. Volunteers, including the Women’s Auxiliary, also support veterans’ facilities and local veteran activities, and maintain veteran plots in local Jewish cemeteries. continued on page 18

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Next up: Veteran Volunteers Dates to Mark on the Calendar • Veterans’ Shabbat at Congregation Shaarey Zedek and B’nai Israel, Nov. 9, 2019 • Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 2019 • Veterans’ Shabbat at Temple Shir Shalom, Nov. 16, 2019 • Annual Trip to Battle Creek VA Medical Center, Dec. 25, 2019 • Yom HaShoah, April 20, 2020 – Holocaust Memorial Day at the Holocaust Memorial Center • V-E Day, May 8, 2020 (May 9 in Israel) – The 75th Anniversary of the Allied Victory in World War II will be commemorated around the world.

• Veteran Volunteers at Yad Ezra – pack and distribute kosher food boxes to older adults • Veteran Volunteers at NCJW – calling drivers for Meals on Wheels continued from page 16

THE NEXT GEN CONNECTION: BUILDING A VOLUNTEER CORPS As Hirsch explains, the cost of JWV membership is relatively low, less than $70 a year. Any Jewish member of the military, whether on active duty or retired, is eligible for JWV. And, Hirsch emphasizes, membership is not limited to those who have served in direct combat. The door is open to military academy cadets and ROTC cadets and midshipmen enrolled in a pre-commissioning program at one of the state’s several ROTC programs.

Additionally, both Hirsch and Schenk know there are veterans enrolled in colleges and universities who may not have explored the benefits of membership in JWV. Ready for the long-term challenge of attracting and engaging younger members, JWV of Michigan is currently recruiting veterans to replenish its corps of

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volunteers. “We’re at a tipping point,” says Schenk, “We’re an organization with a proud legacy. Through outreach programs in partnership with local synagogues, JCC, Jewish Family Service, National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Yad Ezra, the Holocaust Memorial Center and others, our aim is to enlist veterans as volunteers to fulfill our mission of service to our community, sharing our stories, combating anti-Semitism and celebrating those who have given their last full measure of devotion to our country.”

JWV is also in the process of rejuvenating its Women’s Auxiliary and building its support network of friends, spouses and patrons — those who may not have served in the military, but who share a spot in their hearts for veterans.

Visit jwv-mi.org for more information and events to come.

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A SURPRISE OPPORTUNITY Her job as a special education teacher was tough. It was a time when special education services were changing for both students and teachers. Jacobs was involved in activism through a teachers’ union and found an interest in issues and identifying solutions.

“After four years, I was feeling kind of burned out,” Jacobs recalls.

While on maternity leave, she began to volunteer for a citizens group launched by education advocate Doug Ross. When Ross ran for state Senate in the late 1970s and asked Jacobs to help run his campaign, she immediately said yes and left behind a teaching job with benefits to earn $100 a week managing its day-to-day operations.

Ross won his seat, and Jacobs stayed on to co-manage his district office.

“It was through that job I started seeing how government could help people,” Jacobs says. “It was a great opportunity

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chair of the Democratic Senate Caucus.

She made history as the first woman floor leader in either chamber of the legislature. “I would say to other women, ‘You know, we’re a great force,’” Jacobs recalls.

“We can do great things.”

Following her terms, Jacobs joined the Michigan League for Public Policy in 2011 as president and CEO. She calls it her dream job. “It is an amazing organization with an amazing reputation,” she says.

The league promotes racial equity, economic security, health and well-being for Michigan residents and has operated since 1912. “I was able to build on that [history] and create an even more expansive organization,” she says.

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t was an accident that she entered the field of politics.

Gilda Jacobs, who has now had an honorable, 30-year career in public service, had her eyes set on helping children who have special needs.

A graduate of the University of Michigan with a master’s degree in behavioral sciences in education, she worked as a special education teacher in the Madison School District until 1976, teaching one of the first classes for children who have emotional disabilities.

Fast-forward four decades and Jacobs’ career has included time served on the Michigan House of Representatives, Senate and on leadership for policy change organizations.

Born in Northwest Detroit, Jacobs, 70, will be inducted into the HERStory Women’s Hall of Fame (formerly the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame) on Nov. 7 for the work she has done to benefit children, economically vulnerable families and more, all because of an unexpected chance to become involved in campaigns.

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for me to see what was going on in other communities. I looked at folks who were elected officials and [realized] they were like me; they were people who wanted to improve the lives of their kids and the community.

“I said, ‘Boy, I could probably run for office, too.’”

FROM SPECIAL EDUCATION TO POLITICS A resident of Huntington Woods for more than 45 years, Jacobs was the first woman elected to Huntington Woods City Commission in 1981. But it wasn’t easy.

At a time where very few women were running for office, some public offices didn’t even have bathrooms for women.

The year prior, in 1980, she ran as a Democrat in a Republican district. It was a Reagan landslide year, and Jacobs lost by a couple hundred votes. She was elected a year later.

Jacobs’ career continued to grow. She was elected to Oakland County Commission in 1995, then served two terms in the House of Representatives from 1999-2002, followed by two terms in the Michigan Senate from 2003-2010, where she was elected as

BIG WINS FOR MICHIGAN Jacobs had two recent major policy wins: a policy that raises the age when juveniles are tried as adults in the criminal justice system, and a policy that changes the asset test on food and cash assistance in the state, allowing more residents to be eligible for help.

“These are huge wins for us,” Jacobs says.

In addition to politics and public policy, Jacobs never forgot her passion for helping individuals with special needs. She also served as development director for JARC, an organization providing residential care for people with developmental disabilities.

She belongs to Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park and was a board member of the Women’s Division of Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. Her husband, John Jacobs, was formerly president of Jewish Family Service. She enjoys attending synagogue with her grandchildren and her involvement in the Jewish community.

Jacobs has won numerous awards for her work, including the Michigan Food Bank Council’s Hunger-Free Award in 2015 and being named one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Michigan by Crain’s Detroit Business in 2016.

“It was news to me,” she says of her hall of fame nomination. “I am very humbled by this honor.”

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his fall, Rabbi Levi Dubov of Chabad Jewish Center of Bloomfield Hills will offer Worrier to Warrior, a new six-session course by the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) that offers Jewish realistic spiritual insight into the battle against negative emotions and the path toward healthy emotions and happiness.

The course combines positive psychology with Jewish wisdom

to take on some of life’s challenges, such as anxiety, guilt, shame, suffering, relationships and fear of inauthenticity — in light of the notion that a purposeful life provides the key to well-being.

The course is being offered in partnership with Jewish Family Service, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit’s “We Need to Talk” initiative and Friendship Circle’s UMatter division.

“In this course, we will learn

the nature of life’s challenges by understanding our lives in a deeper context, giving us the tools to help ourselves and our families to live happier and healthier lives,” Dubov said.

The course is being offered with three options and runs for six consecutive weeks: Six Wednesday mornings beginning Nov. 13, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Jewish Family Service in West Bloomfield; six Wednesday evenings beginning Nov. 13, 7:30-9 p.m. at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit; and six Friday mornings, Dec. 6, 13, Jan. 10, 17, 24 and 31, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Federation.

Worrier to Warrior is accredited in Michigan for up to 15 CEUs for social workers, psychologists, nurses and medical professionals. The course is designed to appeal to people at all levels of knowledge, including those without any prior experience or background in Jewish learning.

For more information and to register, visit bloomfield hillschabad.org/warrior or contact Dubov at (248) 949-6210 or rabbi@ bloomfieldhillschabad.org.

A similar class, “From Oy! to Joy! From Stressed to Blessed, From Worrier to Warrior,” will be taught by Rabbi Shneur Silberberg and include guest speakers such as Zieva Konvisser, author of Living Beyond Terrorism: Israeli Stories of Hope and Healing, Adam Wiener, former Navy Seal commander, and Ryan Beal, founder of PrepareU. Classes are offered twice weekly on Sundays, beginning Nov. 10, 11 a.m. at Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield and Tuesdays, beginning Nov. 12, 7 p.m. at Hillel Day School.

Visit Baischabad.com/ WARRIOR for information.

The fee is $80 and includes the textbook. You may join the first class free. Scholarships may be available for both courses.

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Her remarkable generosity continues to help people locally, across the nation and throughout the world and remains an example for all to emulate. Audrey and Bill provided initial funding for JHCN’s LifeLinks palliative care program; we were honored to serve Audrey and her loving family during the last years of her life.

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hile nearly 80 years have passed since the infamous Nazi “lagers” were closed, dozens of musical instruments used there by the inmate musicians still survive. People have the chance to see 50 of these instruments — mostly violins — that survived the death camps, as well as Torahs and other artifacts of Jewish life on an upcoming Step On Bus Tours to Fort Wayne, Ind., Nov. 20, co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Fort Wayne.

The tour begins at St. Francis University, where docents will tell the stories of the violins and the people who played them — a presentation called “Violins of Hope,” inspired by the book of the same name by James Grymes.

That was also the inspiration that moved Amnon Weinstein, a talented craftsman joined later by his son, in their years-long scouring of the camps and ruins, looking for instruments.

One of the violins they found was built in Bohemia, Moravia, in the 1700s although it may have hailed from a different place than where they found it.

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woodworking talents to the instruments under their care.

Today, the instruments glisten in their honored spaces in the “Violins of Hope” gallery.

Next on the tour, travelers will visit the sanctuary at Congregation Achduth Vesholom.

There, Rabbi Paula Jayne will discuss their collection of Torah scrolls, once the proud possession of synagogues, but later stolen by the Nazis, intended for Hitler’s never-completed “Museum of the Extinct Race.”

Some are described as “orphan scrolls.” Scroll No. 1172 is some 250 years old and is on permanent loan from London’s Westminster Synagogue.

Travelers will enjoy a small boxed meal en route to Ft. Wayne and then a meal after the presentation at the temple.

The tour is $88 per person, leaves at 7 a.m. and returns at 7 p.m. Travelers can be picked up at either Eddie Edgar Ice Arena at I-96 and Farmington Road or Tel-12 Mall, 12 Mile and Telegraph Road in Southfield.

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David’s out-of state long-term friends. Every one of them jumped RQ¬ÁLJKWV¬WR¬VD\¬JRRGE\H 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 &DQDGD Dr. David Madgy is held tightly in many people’s hearts and we know that he will never be forgotten.

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Lives Well Lived FRIENDS of JSL to celebrate Estelle Seltzer and lives of older adults.

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ule of comedy: Never follow Estelle Seltzer on stage after she’s done shtick. I tried at a Purim Shpiel at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor a few years ago and learned what it must have been like to follow Jackie Mason.

Estelle always delivered her Alan jokes with Muskovitz impeccable timContributing Writer ing in an exaggerated Jewish accent. It was the same way she entertained fellow residents and staff as the in-house comedienne, poet and life of the party at her Fleischman residence in West Bloomfield where she lived until her passing on April 20 at age 88.

Estelle will be affectionately remembered along with some “other famous” comediennes when the FRIENDS of Jewish Senior Life (JSL) host its

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Estelle Seltzer

annual event, Lives Well Lived. celebrating the lives of older adults.

The inspiring evening will feature the Emmy-nominated documentary If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast.

Proceeds will support cultural, educational, social and spiritual programming to JSL’s 800plus residents.

In the HBO-produced film, Carl Reiner tracks down several celebrated nonagenarians, and a few others over 100, to show how the twilight years can truly be the happiest and

most rewarding.

If Reiner had known Estelle Seltzer, there’s no doubt he would’ve included her in his film, along with participants Mel Brooks, Norman Lear, Betty White and Dick Van Dyke, to name a few.

As our Jewish community well knows, Jewish Senior Life is far more than a place to live; it’s a place to thrive. Its mission echoes the inspiring message that is captured in the documentary.

Within six residences in two safe and supportive communities in West Bloomfield and Oak Park, residents actively engage with one another through creative programming and services. As a result, they remain active in mind, body and spirit. It’s the energy that Estelle cherished and gave back in return during her nearly four years at Fleischman.

“Estelle was a comedienne, a poet and a friend to everyone,” said FRIENDS of JSL director

COURTESY OF FRIENDS OF JSL

Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks appear in If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast

Leslie Katz. “She personified joy in the characters she would create and in her everyday life, so fully well lived.”

Estelle displayed the same humor and vigor at her “day job” as a customer liaison for 15 years, working for her son, retired advertising executive Michael Seltzer of Franklin.

Despite the huge void left by the passing of his mother, Michael still volunteers at Marvin’s Bistro at the residence in West Bloomfield.

In eulogizing his mother, Michael shared that his mother “loved, loved living at Fleischman. You could always find her holding court at a round table in the front lobby.”

In her final hours, he recalled how Estelle rallied from hospice care for one more memorable interaction with family who had gathered by her bedside. Up into her final moments, Estelle volunteered to write a poem for an upcoming wedding and to teach her grandchildren how to play Rummikub.

Fitting that in her poem “Blessings,” Estelle wrote: Now is the only time there is, it’s important to make the most of every minute, Living our lives in the now, while continuing our journey Blessing everything in it.

Estelle would most certainly include JSL among her greatest blessings.

Tickets for Lives Well Lived at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at the Maple Theater, 4135 W. Maple Road, Bloomfield Hills, are $50 per person.

Sponsorships are available, which include an afterglow.

For more information and to purchase tickets, contact Katz at (248) 592-5062 or lkatz@ jslmi.org.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF MICHIGAN INSTITUTE OF UROLOGY

Michigan Institute of Urology recently completed an expansion of its offices in West Bloomfield. The new space features almost 12,000-square-feet of clinical, research, diagnostic and laboratory offices.

Michigan Institute of Urology Expands Offices in West Bloomfield to Enhance Patient Services

BY ELIZABETH KATZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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ichigan Institute of Urology (MIU) prides itself on being at the national forefront of urologic diagnostic and therapeutic services. But more importantly, Mitchell Hollander, M.D., chief executive officer, says, “it is the quality of our urologic physicians and staff that sets us apart, raising the level of care provided to our patients.

“Our mission is to deliver the highest quality care with the highest level of patient satisfaction at the most reasonable cost,” he said.

Hollander is Mitchell Hollander, M.D. also pleased to announce that MIU’s West Bloomfield location, at 6900 Orchard Lake Road, has moved into an approximately 11,500-square-foot space on the third floor of the Orchard Lake Road Beaumont Health facility. MIU’s stateof-the-art office features a streamlined checkin area, separated from the check-out areas, for increased patient privacy.

Additionally, there is a separate waiting room for all diagnostic services, as well as pediatric care, with the goal of streamlining and enhancing patient experience.

Hollander states that the physicians at

MIU subspecialize in robotic surgery, urologic oncology, female pelvic floor dysfunction, urinary incontinence, over-active bladder, minimally-invasive treatments for enlarged prostate, low testosterone, erectile dysfunction, kidney stone disease, vasectomies, enuresis, pediatric urology, and other general urologic services. MIU’s team has fellowship-trained subspecialists who can provide expert care in all aspects of urology.

MIU is a leader in cutting edge technology, as new treatment options become available. Procedures such as MonaLisa Touch, for restoration of vaginal health, shock wave lithotripsy for erectile dysfunction, and MRI fusion guided prostate biopsy are just a few examples.

The expanded office’s mission is to be patient-centered.

“We want to remove any embarrassment or stigma about urologic health and let our patients know they can make decisions to take control of their well-being. We want them to feel comfortable,” Hollander said.

MIU was established in a single office in Grosse Pointe in 1992, with seven urologists, including Dr. Hollander. It now has 22 locations throughout metro Detroit, with approximately 55 physicians and midlevel providers. MIU continues to grow, with at least five additional hand-picked urologists that will join the group in 2020.

MIU has been a part of the Beaumont Orchard Lake Medical Building for almost 25 years. The new office has been designed to offer a warm, welcoming environment

for patients. The new expansion has taken approximately a year and a half to complete.

Donna Steinberger, administrative director at MIU, has been on staff for about as long as Hollander – 25 years. She said that both employees and patients appreciate the new space.

“We’ve tried to improve patient flow,” she said. “It was inspiring to walk through this space during development. The patients just love it.”

MIU has shared space at the Beaumont Health facility at 6900 Orchard Lake Road for approximately 25 years.

Contact the Michigan Institute of Urology by calling (248) 539-9036 or visit www.michiganurology.com.

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FJA Boys Tennis Team States Its Case … Again Jaguars’ Eli Grey plays a rare Saturday night semifinal match

HANNAH CHARLIP

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

LEFT: Frankel Jewish Academy tennis player Eli Grey gets ready to serve during a match this season. RIGHT: Frankel Jewish Academy boys tennis players and coaches watch FJA’s Rafi Weinstein play in a No. 4 singles match at the Division 4 state tournament.

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hirteen isn’t necessarily an unlucky number.

The Frankel Jewish Academy boys tennis team qualified for the Division 4 state tournament for the fourth time in five years this fall and finished in a tie for 13th place at Hope College’s Etheridge Tennis Complex in Holland.

Eli Grey, who played No. 3 singles for the Jaguars, won all three of his matches Oct. 18 at the Vande Poel-Heeringa Stadium Courts and advanced to the flight semifinals Saturday, Oct. 19.

Both flight semifinal matches and the championship match were moved to the night of Oct. 19 inside the DeWitt Tennis Center so Grey could compete after Shabbat.

While Grey was facing No. 1 seed Cody Richards from Traverse City St. Francis in one semifinal match, the team state championship was on the line on the next court in the other semifinal match between players from Ann

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Arbor Gabriel Richard and Kalamazoo Hackett.

Richards beat Grey 6-2, 6-0 and went on to win the flight championship with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over No. 3 seed Rafid Farjo from Gabriel Richard.

“I didn’t play too well in my match (against Richards), but it was a great experience that night,” Grey said.

It was a great experience because even though most of the FJA contingent had returned home, a large crowd of players, coaches and fans from the other teams involved stuck around to watch the matches.

Grey was not seeded in his flight.

The senior beat a seeded player and a competitor who had defeated a seeded player to get to the semifinals.

Grey finished the season with a 14-6 record, the best of any FJA singles player or doubles duo.

A team effort involving FJA Athletic Director Rick Dorn, the Michigan High School Athletic Association and the

tournament director at Hope College created the accommodations for the Saturday night matches.

“I started talking with the MHSAA the week of the regionals to see options we had if any of our players made it to the state semifinals,” Dorn said.

The MHSAA contact was Dan Hutcheson, assistant director in charge of tennis.

After Grey got to the semifinals, “because of travel times, it didn’t make sense to send everyone home and bring everyone back to finish the No. 3 singles competition,” Dorn said.

So, Dorn said, the decision was made to play the flight semifinals at 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 19, then the championship match.

Grey found out about the plan around 10 minutes after his third match Oct. 18.

“Coach (Larry) Stark told me we’re going to be staying another night,” Grey said.

This was Grey’s third trip to the state tournament. He played No. 3 doubles as

a freshman and sophomore with Alex Bean, making it to the quarterfinals and second round.

It was the second time arrangements were made for FJA at the state tournament.

A few years ago, Stark said, an FJA doubles team returned to Kalamazoo on the Sunday after the tournament was supposed to end to finish its competition.

Stark has done a remarkable job in his five years as coach of the FJA boys tennis team. The Jaguars made it to the state tournament in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2019 and finished eighth, 10th, 11th and 13th.

“We’ve set the bar high,” Stark said. “Our goal each season is to get the state tournament. That’s why we play a lot of Division 1 and Division 2 teams during the regular season. We want those tough matches to get ready for regionals and state.”

FJA went 5-7-1 in dual matches during the regular season this fall.

Among its wins was a 6-2 victory over Walled Lake Western. The Jaguars lost to West Bloomfield, Walled Lake Northern and Walled Lake Central.

Besides Grey, it also was

LARRY STARK

Why are Frankel Jewish Academy boys tennis players holding up four fingers after competing in a Division 4 regional tournament?

Because the Jaguars had just qualified for the state tournament for the fourth time in five years.

the third state tournament for FJA No. 1 singles player Eric Adelson and No. 2 singles player Bean, both seniors.

Adelson was named the team’s most valuable player.

“I’m proud of how Eric (Adelson) and Alex (Bean) battled every opponent’s top singles players,” Stark said.

Adelson and Bean each was 9-8 for the season.

Freshman Rafi Weinstein (No. 4) rounded out FJA’s singles lineup.

The FJA doubles teams were seniors Mitchell Blackman and Russell Presser (No. 1), senior Ben Goldstein and freshman Ethan Grey (No. 2), senior Andrew Schulman and freshman Max Charlip (No. 3) and senior Elan Krakoff and freshman Adin Charlip (No. 4).

Adelson, Eli Grey, Schulman/Max Charlip and Krakoff/Adin Charlip were runners-up in their flights in the regional tournament.

Gary Gates is FJA’s assistant coach.

FJA and Flint Powers tied for 13th place at the state tournament, each with seven points.

Allegan and Hackett deadlocked for the team title with 21 points.

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Weekly Ritual Nothing stops the Rummikub ladies from their Wednesday night game.

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hey’re getting older now, but not much will stop the Rummikub ladies, who have been getting together every week for more than 42 years to schmooze and play the tile-based game.

They started in 1977, soon after Laura Trosch, then 42, lost her husband. She felt she needed to make new friends. An older neighbor introduced her to Phyllis Kramer. They liked each other and decided they’d each bring in another friend so they could start a Rummikub quartet. Trosch invited Shelia Levine — their daughters were friends — and Kramer invited Shirley Marshak.

At their first meeting, the group burst out laughing as they realized that Trosch, Levine and Marshak had been classmates, graduating from Central High School in 1953. Kramer, who at 81 calls herself “the baby of the group,” graduated from Central two years later.

After nine years together, the women thought it would be wise to have a fifth person in their group, in case one of them was ill, on vacation or otherwise unable to play.

Trosch’s son had just gotten engaged. She thought a good way to make a friend out of her future machetenista (daughter’s mother-in-law) would be to invite her into the Rummikub group, and Esther Icikson has been with them since then. Icikson, who came to Detroit from Israel in 1958, is the only non-Central grad in the group.

There were other ties. Levine’s daughter, Rhonda (Linovitz), and Kramer’s daughter, Elaine (Peters), were — and still are — best friends.

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COUNTER CLOCKWISE: Phyllis Kramer of Farmington Hills, Shirley Marshak of West Bloomfield, Laura Trosch of Southfield, Esther Icikson of West Bloomfield and Shelia Levin of West Bloomfield. Phyllis Kramer of Farmington Hills reacts to her come-from-behind victory. Shirley Marshak of West Bloomfield is given a thumbs-up after her win from Esther Icikson of West Bloomfield.

When all five are present, the women take turns sitting out a hand while the other four play.

Rummikub was the “in” game when the women formed their group. Since then, Trosch has learned to play mahjong, Icikson learned bridge and Marshak took up canasta. But Rummikub maintains a special place in their hearts.

The game was invented after World War II by Ephraim Hertzano in Romania, when card-playing was outlawed by the Communist regime. Hertzano immigrated to British-controlled Palestine and continued to develop the game at his home in Bat Yam. By the late 1970s, it was the best-selling game in the United States.

Rummikub uses eight sets of colored, numbered tiles plus two jokers. Players place tiles to create sets of same-numbered tiles of different colors or runs of consecutive-numbered tiles of the same color, similar to the sets and runs in the gin rummy card game.

Children love the game because it’s so easy to learn, Marshak said. All the women have played with their children and grandchildren (and Trosch and Icikson are looking forward to playing

with great-grandchildren).

For most of their time together the women took turns hosting the Wednesday evening games. Recently they’ve been meeting at Kramer’s Farmington Hills home every week because she’s unable to leave her husband alone in the evening.

They play for money — the three losers of each hand pony up a whopping pennya-point, up to a maximum loss of $2 per week, which goes to the winner of that hand. And every week each woman pays $3 “dues” to Levine. When there’s enough in the kitty, every three or four months, they treat themselves to a nice lunch or dinner.

Over the years the women have shared some sorrows and many joys. In the spring of 1986, they celebrated three weddings within a month, first Kramer’s daughter, then Levine’s daughter, then the union of Trosch’s son and Icikson’s daughter.

What keeps them going is their genuine affection for one another. “We enjoy playing and we enjoy each other’s company,” said Marshak of West Bloomfield.

“In 42 years, we’ve never had a disagreement other than picking a restaurant,” Levine said.

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Veronica’s M Closet Detroit native helps people organize and get the most out of their wardrobes.

SUSAN PECK K SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

COURTESY OF VERONICA GORDON

Veronica Gordon

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oving back from New York to Birmingham this year, wardrobe stylist and professional organizer Veronica Gordon wanted to bring all of her experience from Manhattan to her clients in Detroit.

“I learne learned so much from the upscale boutiques bo in Manhattan in the six yyears I lived there and see it as th the best of both worlds that I can share my expertise with everyone every in Metro Detroit,” Gordon, 26, 2 says.

Originally Origina having worked in suburban Detroit boutiques as a manager, manager stylist and buyer, she started Veronica’s Closets seven years year ago to help clients organize ttheir closets with the goal of maximizing their wardma robes. “I lo loved what I did here, but I moved mov to New York City in 2013 to experience what it had to ex offer,” Gor Gordon says.

“Working “Workin in New York’s garment cent center for a wholesaler led to a positio position with an upscale boutique on the th Upper West Side. I worked in every facet of the business for th the next four years and contin continued to build Veronica’s Closets, ” she adds.

C As her business grew, Gordon answered requests from her clientele to add services like personal shopping, closet evaluations, camp/vacation packing, home office organiz zation, the growing need to help seniors to downsi or move to assisted size liv and more. living Today, Gordon, a T Groves High School Gr graduate, splits her time g between Detroit and b New Ne York, solely dedicated to Veronica’s Closets. “I help p people through all walks of of life from the biggest homes

to the smallest spaces,” she says.

“My business has quickly grown based on referrals, that makes me very proud.

“I have a system and what I call my ‘tools’ for all my wardrobe styling, home organization and packing services. They all begin with a mandatory consultation so I can get a feel for what each individual needs —it’s not a one size fits all situation.”

One reason for her success, Gordon says, is that she is still very connected to the retail community both in the Big Apple and Detroit. Exposed to fashion early on by her mother, Shelley Gordon, who managed Roland Optics in Bloomfield Hills, and getting retail experience starting at age 14 at boutiques like Sundance Shoes in West Bloomfield, she got the drive to start a business of her own.

Today she works with many of the prominent boutiques in the Metro area. “Co-owner of Rear Ends in Bloomfield Hills, Ariana Carps, recently used my stylist services for one of their events,” Gordon says.

A fashion influencer, Gordon says she fills a growing need in her clientele’s fast-paced lives. “We are obsessed today with organizing and decluttering because it makes us feel calmer and lighter and allows us to appreciate what we have. My role is to help evaluate and manage the clutter — and I call clutter anything that doesn’t add value to your home, wardrobe or your lifestyle.”

Gordon suggests seasonal transitions are a good time to curate your wardrobe. “Transition into your fall wardrobe by bringing items like heavier sweaters and boots to the forefront of your closet,” she says. “But I also think it’s important to keep all seasons in your closet together because of today’s fashion trend of layering.

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Gordon helps clients organize and maximize their wardrobes.

“I get to work in my own business that includes my two passions — people and fashion.” heavier jackets and blazers but also lighter pieces like longsleeved tees, vests and camisoles — everything should work together because this is what builds a wardrobe.”

For upcoming holiday traveling, Gordon has some tips for organizing your suitcase: “Start from the bottom up — shoes at the bottom, then pants, shirts and outwear, if needed, on top. Also, plan outfits ahead of time and pack them together and ready to wear — so you don’t have to think about your wardrobe while on vacation.”

For camp packing, she says, “Put everything into clear, sealable bags and label them.

This makes it easy for the kids to find everything and to stay

organized. I use the same method for the home — clear bins and boxes with labels — so everything has a designated place and is off the floor.”

Life’s dreams have already come true for Gordon. “I get to work in my own business that includes my two passions — people and fashion,” she says.

“When I had my bat mitzvah as a member of Congregation B’nai Moshe, my party theme was ‘Veronica’s Closet.’ Now with a company by that name I get to motivate others to build and organize their wardrobes, declutter their lives or move into a new space, making room for bigger and better things.”

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History Preserved U-M Bentley library celebrates the donation of Sander Levin’s papers.

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special event for retired Congressman Sander Levin was held Oct. 14 at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. The event included a reception and “Fireside Chat” with Levin to celebrate his personal papers being donated to the Bentley Historical Library at U-M. The Sander Levin Collection comprises nearly 700 linear feet of documents, that is, 685 standard banker boxes full of paper. As a sign of modern times, the Levin Collection also includes 23 gigabytes of digital information. The paper and digital records document Levin’s career beginning with his time as a Michigan state senator, through his 36 years as a U.S. Congressman from Michigan’s 17th Congressional District.

The quality of these records is outstanding. They include a wide range of correspondence, reports and other types of records related to Levin’s important work on foreign trade and health care, his time as a ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, which he chaired from 2010-11, and his work on many other issues.

“I am deeply grateful that, along with Carl’s archive, my congressional records, my state political records — in essence, my life’s work — is now in the capable hands of the Bentley Historical Library at U-M. It is fitting

that our archives now reside in Michigan, where we built our careers,” Levin said.

The event was organized by the Bentley in partnership with the Ford School of Public Policy. Although Levin is allegedly “retired,” he is currently teaching a class at the Ford School where he is a professor of practice.

The library is a nationally recognized, world-class research institution. It holds the Michigan Historical Collections, which are the finest archive in existence about the history of the state of Michigan, and the Archives of the University of Michigan. All told, the Bentley holds about 75,000 boxes of records, more than a million photographs, and tens of thousands of books and drawings.

It also holds a huge digital archive, including the Detroit Jewish News Foundation’s William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History.

The Bentley is also home to many other archival collections related to Detroit’s Jewish community such as the papers of Albert Kahn, Bill Berman and A. Alfred Taubman. The papers of Levin’s brother, Carl, are also at the Bentley and open for research.

Regarding Sander Levin’s papers, Terry McDonald, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and director of the Bentley Library, said, “Because of the length of his public service and the breadth of important issues on which he worked,

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“It is fitting that mine and Carl’s archives now reside in Michigan, where we built our careers.”

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Numerous members of the Levin family attended the event including Sander’s wife, Pamela, Sen. Carl Levin and Sandy Levin’s son and current U.S. Congressman Andy Levin. Carl Levin also took the podium to tell a few stories and praise the character of his older brother.

There is still a lot of work to do to process Levin’s collection and open it for research several years from now. But his legacy is now preserved, and researchers in the future will reap the benefits of the Sander Levin Collection.

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the Sander Levin archive will be a crucial resource for anyone attempting to understand American politics and policy in the last 40 years.”

Indeed, McDonald’s opinion was reinforced by each of the speakers at the event. U-M President Mark Schlissel pointed out the importance of archiving the records of people who shape our society, and how archives fit into the research mission at U-M. Michael Barr, dean of the Ford School, told the audience how pleased he and Ford School students were to have someone with Levin’s experience and knowledge on the faculty.

Professor Susan Collins spoke about co-teaching a class with Levin, and how his experience with trade issues was invaluable for the students.

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Congressman Andy Levin and Terry McDonald, director of the Bentley Historical Library

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MSU Hillel Online Auction Nov. 8-18 Shopping for Chaukah is just a click away! From Nov. 8-18, the MSU Hillel-HCAM Online Auction is offering a catalog of more than 200 exciting items and unique experiences. Thrill your sports fans with memorabilia and event tickets; clothe your fashionistas with beautiful apparel and boutique gift cards; and tempt your foodies with private dinners and catering events.

Support of the online auction impacts thousands of Jewish students at MSU and on the 10 HCAM campuses (Central Michigan, Eastern

Michigan, Grand Valley, Northern Michigan, Saginaw Valley State and Western Michigan Universities, and Albion, Alma College and Kalamazoo College). Proceeds benefit dynamic Jewish programming, including engagement events, award-winning Israel education and advocacy training, award-winning multicultural and social action initiatives, and Shabbat dinners.

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Nov. 11, at Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield.

During his presentation, “How Anti-Semitism Fuels Extremism in the U.S.,” he will discuss the surge in anti-Semitism and the work he and his colleagues are doing in researching and preventing extremism in the U.S. Segal evaluates the activity and tactics of extremist groups and movements from across the ideological spectrum, training law enforcement officers and publishing reports and articles on a wide range of extremist topics.

He shares his expertise with members of Congress, in the media and at worldwide conferences.

The event, which concludes with a dessert reception, is free. Register at support.adl. org/OrenSegal.

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AJC recently published a landmark survey on anti-Semitism in the United States, reporting that 88 percent of respondents said that anti-Semitism is a problem in this country, nearly a third of those polled have avoided publicly identifying themselves as Jews and 35 percent say they have personally been the targets Oren of anti-Semitism over Segal the past five years.

Furthermore, the FBI’s most recent hate crimes statistics declared that such acts targeting Jews and Jewish institutions in the United States spiked nearly 37 percent between 2016 and 2017.

ADL Michigan and the Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC, in partnership with Temple Shir Shalom, will welcome Oren Segal, ADL’s director of the Center on Extremism, at 7 p.m. Monday,

Davidson Grant to FJA will Enhance Hands-on Learning, Staff Development The Jean and Samuel Frankel Jewish Academy (FJA) has been awarded a $950,000 grant to support FJA’s work in revolutionizing education and the student experience.

The funding will be used to support experiential education opportunities for FJA students to explore learning beyond the classroom. FJA students will all participate in unique experiences outside the classroom, including newly developed local, national and international trips that will impact student growth and development.

Funding will also be used for professional development to help FJA’s faculty further support and guide students as individual learners.

The William Davidson Foundation builds upon the work of educational revisioning and changes to the school day, curriculum and mission that FJA implemented last year, including an 8:30 a.m. start time as well as revised curriculum and graduation requirements to

give students more voice and choice in their education.

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Amy Folbe, president of FJA’s Board of Trustees, said, “As the only Jewish community high school in Metro Detroit, FJA plays a critical role in the continuity, vibrancy and leadership of Jewish life in the area for generations. We are thankful to the William Davidson Foundation for investing in this project, which enables our school to be creative and find the best ways to engage young Jews in Jewish education.”

Proposed Federal Change to Protect Jewish Students The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) annually collects data from public schools and school districts on incidents of harassment and bullying. Beginning in 2015, this data mandated schools to include incidents of discrimination based on a student’s perceived religion.

The data returned showing voluminous numbers. As a result, OCR is now proposing to modify the data collection categories to better respond to these incidents, especially where ethnic and/or ancestral

harassment is combined with direct religious discrimination. Anti-Semitism falls under this category.

The new proposal will require schools throughout the nation to report incidents of anti-Semitism. This can only help to better protect Jewish students.

There is a limited window to show support, according to StandWithUs. Email the Office for Civil Rights at https://tinyurl.com/yxhdcdo6, commenting on why you support this change, by Nov. 18.

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Rabbi Asher Lopatin, JCRC/AJC’s executive director, speaks to attendees at “Celebrate Sukkot: Stories of Migration and Welcoming the Immigrant” at ChabaD of Greater Downtown Detroit

Welcoming the Immigrant The Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC (JCRC/AJC) recently hosted “Celebrate Sukkot: Stories of Migration and Welcoming the Immigrant” with the Mexican Consulate in Detroit. Guests enjoyed a kosher taco bar, kugel and churros in ChabaD Greater Downtown Detroit’s sukkah, which was in a recycled shipping container from Israel.

Remarks were made by Fernando González Saiffe, Consul, who discussed the similarities of Sukkot and Day of the Dead as both

holidays emphasize those who came before us. Guests also heard from JCRC/AJC Executive Director Rabbi Asher Lopatin and Chabad’s Rabbi Yisrael Pinson.

A highlight of the evening was when attendees split into groups to share their family’s immigration and migration stories. The discussions, which included quotes from the Torah and a discussion of Jewish values, truly drove home why both communities feel so strongly about immigration and protecting immigrants’ rights.

NOT T I N G H I L L of WEST BLOOMFIELD

Founder and long-serving community leader Chuck Newman launched a packed program of speakers before a capacity crowd of 182 during dinner at the 35th Anniversary Archive and Founders Gala, held at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor in September.

The evening included the archive exhibition opening and the launch of the first published history of the Ann Arbor JCC, “History of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor,” both by Fran Martin, also in attendance. Seventeen of the 40 original founders, 34 of whom are still living, attended along with two former executive directors, a

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Moments JULY 12, 2019 Jaimie and Jeremy Lerner of Southfield joyfully announce the birth of their daughter, Ella Shayna.

Proud big brother is Ori Zvi. Thrilled grandparents are Gayle and Barton Lowen of Farmington Hills, and Lisa and Nelson Lerner of Scottsdale, Ariz. Ella is named in loving memory of her cherished great-grandmother Eleanor “Jeannie� Lerner and aunt Sandra Ellenstein.

Sophie Madeline Frank will lead the congregation in prayer on the occasion of her bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. She will be joined in celebration by her proud parents, Jennifer and Ethan Frank, and brother Jonah. She is the loving grandchild of Jules and Jill Goldman, Rochelle and Stewart Frank, and the late Sarah Frank.

Sophie is a student at West Hills Middle School in Bloomfield Hills.

For her most meaningful mitzvah

project, she participated in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s at the Detroit Zoo to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research.

Addison Toni Jacob will be called to the Torah as she becomes a bat mitzvah at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. She will be joined in celebration by her proud parents, Dana and David Jacob, and sister Sydney. Addison is the

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She is a student at Berkshire Middle School in Beverly Hills.

Addison chose collecting and donating toys to local children hospitals as one of her many mitzvah projects.

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Joshua is an eighth-grade student at Berkshire Middle School in Birmingham. For his mitzvah project, he is proud to be part of Tickets for Toys, where he will be trading in tickets from different arcades around the area and donating the toys to shelters and hospitals.

Joshua Gabriel Kroll, son of Michelle and Jonathan Kroll, will celebrate his bar mitzvah as he is called to the Torah on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019, at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills.

He will be joined in celebration by his brother Jacob, sister Ellie, and proud grandparents David and Leslie Ben-Ezra. Joshua is also the grandson of the late Chaim (Harvey) and the late Henya

Ryan Jonah Michaels will lead the congregation in prayer as he becomes a bar mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. He will be joined in celebration by his proud parents, Jenny and Eric Michaels, and sister Kate. Ryan is the loving grandchild of Sheri and the late Dr. William Michaels, and Jessica and Stanton Walker. He is a student at Cranbrook

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Jake Tyler Rosenwasser (Reuven) will become a bar mitzvah at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. Joining in his celebration will be his parents, Jenifer and Mitch Rosenwasser, as well as his brother Ian and sister Lexy. Proud grandparents are Elana and Sandor Adler, and Seymour Rosenwasser.

He is also the grandson of the late Shirley Rosenwasser.

Jake is a student at Berkshire Middle School in Birmingham. He supported the Kids Kicking Cancer program at Camp Michigania, and

he volunteered at Memorial Day Work Weekend at the camp, helping prepare it for summer.

Emily Madison Weinbaum, surrounded by family and friends, will chant from the Torah as she celebrates her bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. She will be joined in celebration by her proud parents, Elyse and Chad Weinbaum, and sister Ilana. She is the loving grandchild of Sheila Weinbaum and James Prenzlauer, and Elizabeth and the late William LaKritz. Emily attends Derby Middle School in Birmingham. As part of her mitzvah project, she volunteered at the Temple Israel Free Fresh Food Pantry. She found helping to combat hunger in our community very rewarding.

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Lauren graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. degree. Andrew graduated from the University of Michigan also with a B.A. degree, Dominican University with an M.A. degree and the University of Michigan Law School with a Juris Doctor degree.

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The new underground blood bank construction site

Banking on the Future Magen David Adom continues work on underground blood bank.

JACKIE HEADAPOHL ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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agen David Adom (MDA) is a non-governmental organization established by the Knesset in 1950 and responsible for providing emergency medical services and educating and training the public for life-saving activities in Israel. It acts as the civilian arm of the IDF in times of war. It also is responsible for the country’s blood-banking.

Israel falls short of World Health Organization (WHO) standards for its blood supplies. It has on hand a supply sufficient for only 3 percent of its population, or a stock of some 260,000 units instead of the 350,000 or 400,000 it should have, by WHO standards.

Currently, that blood is being processed and stored at a facility in Ramat Gan’s Sheba Medical Center that is unprotected from missiles, biological and chemical attacks and earthquakes. Built in the 1980s, the complex was designed to serve a population of 5 million. Today, Israel’s population is 9 million and growing.

A new MDA blood banking facility is under construction in the city of Ramle. It will be the world’s first underground protected blood bank, equipped with the latest technology and able to hold more blood.

The $130 million project is being funded mostly by American Friends

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of Magen David Adom, which has already raised $100 million.

Moshe Noyovich, a senior Israel representative of the American Friends of Magen David Adom who also oversees the project, was recently in Michigan to help raise the remaining $30 million. “It will be a state-ofthe-art complex,” he said. “No blood center in the world will be as shielded as ours.” He expects the project to be completed in early 2021.

The nearly 6-acre facility in Ramle, 20 miles southeast of Tel Aviv, will consist of six floors, an adjacent MDA logistics center, and parking spaces for bloodmobiles, ambulances and donors. The top three floors will hold rooms for blood donations, a training center and the facility’s administrative center. The lower three floors will be underground, where blood will be stored and processed.

Those floors will be protected by special shielding to specifications from the Home Front Command and the National Security Agency and safe from missile attacks, biological and chemical attacks and earthquakes.

Noyovich said the facility will be able to produce 500,000 units of blood annually, which will meet WHO standards. It will be able to produce and process 2,200 blood units daily (up to 3,500 units in an emergency situation), compared to

MDA workers at the blood bank in Ramat Gan

the current 1,100 units produced daily. The staff size will more than double from 184 to 374 employees.

There will be a special shielded storage space for a strategic supply of blood, the minimum necessary for emergencies, such as natural disasters, wars or other catastrophic events, Noyovich added.

The project is being done without any funding from the government, although MDA was able to get the land at no cost. “It took more than two years, but it happened,” Noyovich said. “The blood bank will be in the center of the country with proximity to three main highways, trains, a helipad and two electricity supplies.”

American Friends of Magen David Adom took it upon themselves to raise money for the project’s construction.

Noyavich says the Detroit Jewish community has always been staunch supporters of MDA. “I know many people who are very devoted, very dedicated to the needs of Israel. It’s one of the most dedicated communities there is.

“This is an amazing megaproject and it’s not that far away from being completed. Two years will be here before you know it,” Noyovich said.

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Ticket to Safety

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exhibit

Kindertransport exhibit highlights parents’ greatest sacrifice.

JONATHAN MARK NEW YORK JEWISH WEEK | AND STACY GITTLEMAN JN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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s Churchill would later say, it was not the beginning of the end, but it was the end of the beginning.

The first five years of Hitler were horrific enough, yet, in 1938, the screw turned all the tighter. Germany’s 1938 annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland almost doubled the Jews under the Nazi flag, to more than 400,000.

Before long, Jews in Vienna were on

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their knees, scrubbing sidewalks with toothbrushes. There was international hand wringing over Hitler’s mistreatment of Jews, but when Germany, in July, offered German Jews to any country that would have them, 32 nations, meeting at the French spa of Evian, politely declined.

In November came Kristallnacht, with winter closing in.

Well, if the German Jews were being

abandoned, was there mercy, somewhere, for the children?

Committees and organizations, mostly Jewish but not only Jewish, in various international capitals offered plans that culminated in what became known as the Kindertransport. England (primarily), Holland, Belgium, France and Switzerland agreed to lift visa requirements for children younger than 17, if the

LEFT: Ellen Herz Kahn, saved from the Holocaust by parents who bravely sent her on the Kindertransport, stands strong and resilient with her granddaughter Kira Thompson. RIGHT: Family photos and religious items from Ellen Herz Kahn. FACING PAGE: Inside the exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial Center, blank luggage tags represent Kindertransport participants, such as Ellen Herz Kahn of Franklin, Hans Weinmann of West Bloomfield, and Roselind and Dr. Henry Baum of Southfield.

advocates for the children would assume all costs and responsibility, and the children would each have enough money for a return ticket to Germany; after all, this would be a temporary solution, if that.

The children were expected to go back where they came from. (In the United States, a Senate bill to accept 20,000 Jewish children failed in 1939 and 1940, with wartime European countries no longer a viable destination.)

Relics of this haunted but rarely examined chapter of the Holocaust are now on display in “Kindertransport — Rescuing Children on the Brink of War,” a collaboration of the Yeshiva University Museum and the Leo Baeck Institute. The exhibit opened in New York in November 2018 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the start of Kindertransport, the operation that rescued 10,000 refugee children from Nazi-occupied Europe in the years leading up to the Holocaust.

The exhibit is now on display through Dec. 31 at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills.

Emotional and thought-provoking, the exhibition explores the story of this rescue effort through moving personal stories, artifacts and engaging media. It asks viewers to consider the painful choices parents had to make, entrusting their children to strangers in order to save them. The exhibit also offers a glimpse into the challenges the children faced — moving to a new country, learning a new

language and navigating a foreign culture without their parents to guide them.

“We are fortunate to have Kinder in the Detroit area who have shared their artifacts and stories with us for this exhibition,” said Holocaust Memorial Center CEO Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld. “The incredible humanitarian work of Sir Nicholas Winton (a British humanitarian who set up his own organization to save 669 Czechoslovakian Jewish children) and many others to save the lives of these children is a testament to the power of the human spirit and the choices that were made to save these young lives.”

WHAT TO EXPECT? Each child could bring one suitcase, some suitcases bigger than they were. What would a child bring? What would a parent pack? No one knew how long the crisis would last. How does a parent write a goodbye or a guide to the unknown?

One mother packed items for a marriage trousseau, a pin cushion, a monogrammed tablecloth and towels. Eva Goldmann, 15, practical, packed a German-English dictionary, while her mother sewed “Eva Goldmann” name tags onto all her belongings. Ruth Wachen, mother of Helen, 6, and Harry, 8, packed shoes and clothes that were a size too big; after all, the children were growing, who would take Helen and Harry shopping when they outgrew what they were wearing?

Hannah Kronheim of Cologne carried an olivewood spice tower for Havdalah,

her reminder that God “separates light from darkness … and Israel from all the other nations.”

Miriam Lewin, 60, a member of the Kindertransport Association, was at the opening of the exhibit in New York. The association is comprised of the Kinder of 1938-39; their children, known as the KT2s; and the grandchildren, the KT3s.

With many of the original Kinder now in their 90s, it is up to the KT2s and KT3s to be the guardians of the legend.

Lewin says, “I made a series of videos for teachers about how to use a book about the Kindertransport, The Children of Willesden Lane.”

DETROIT KINDER Southfield couple Dr. Henry and Roselind Baum, now both in their 90s, were saved by the Kindertransport and met at a youth orphanage during the war. They said they were not lucky because their family members did not survive, but they are very lucky to have had three children and 22 grandchildren. They’ve lost count of the number of great-grandchildren.

The exhibit includes a glass case with artifacts from their childhood. Roselind was born in Wurzburg, Germany. At the HMC, she pointed to a small Book of Psalms opened to a page of Psalm 56 that contains the passage: “God is with me, I will not fear, what can man do to me?”

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LEFT: Roselind and Dr. Henry Baum supplied many artifacts from their Kindertransport experience. RIGHT: Artifacts from the Baums’ early lives in Europe continued from page 43

May God watch over you on this journey as well. Your Father: Asher Berlinger.”

Roselind was 11. “That was the last memory I had with my parents; my mother pressing this book into my hands as I boarded the train,” she said.

Her parents’ attempts to leave Germany were not successful and they were among the last Jews from Schweinfurt to be deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on Sept. 21, 1942. Ultimately, they were sent to Auschwitz and both perished.

Roselind arrived in England with 200 children. As a sponsored child, her foster parents were predetermined. She went to live with an Orthodox Jewish family with three children of their own. There, she endured the war, including several occa-

sions where she and her foster family evacuated during the German bombings.

After a while, she voluntarily went to live in a youth hostel that housed other Kindertransport youth. There, she met Henry. After the war, Henry moved to the United States and, with a cousin’s help, Roselind got sponsorship and immigrated in 1948. The couple were married in 1949.

On the walls of the exhibit are enlarged texts from the Baums that explain the terror they felt at getting separated from their families and their understanding of the weighty decision Jewish parents needed to make: Stay together and take their chances of surviving or sending their precious children, some as young as 7 months, away alone so they can live. “It’s mind-boggling

… the idea that parents are willing to send their children away into a strange place, to strangers and give them up, and say, ‘No, it’s better for you to go and live than to be with us and die,’” Henry said. “Imagine yourselves, if you are parents and you have children, and you must make that decision right now. Today, tomorrow. Could you do that?”

Henry had strong words for today’s generation of Jews in the midst of global and national anti-Semitism on the rise.“My parents said it could never happen,” Baum said.

“Saying it can never happen here are some of the most dangerous words we can say. We must take a good look at what is happening in this country, especially who is getting elected into our House of Representatives.”

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Shortly after Kristallnacht, me feel much better if Karola would 10-year-old Karola Ruth Siegel, a go to Switzerland,” where there was wisp of a girl, saw several Nazis a place designated for Orthodox in boots enter her Frankfurt home. children. Karola remembers, “I didn’t They took her father to a truck understand why. I didn’t want to idling in the street. Her slender leave. I was an only child,” she told father, slightly bent, just before Mark. climbing into the truck, turned to At the railroad station, “My mother his daughter. He tried to smile, tried and grandmother told me we will see to wave. each other again,” though they never “It was the last time I ever saw Dr. Ruth Westheimer did. “My grandmother said, ‘You’re him,” Karola told New York Jewish going to have lots of chocolate in Week writer Jonathan Mark, while viewing Switzerland.’ They told me, ‘God is going to “Kindertransport — Rescuing Children on the help … be good, and always study.’”

Brink of War” in New York last December.

Karola, remembering her father’s half-smile Her father sent a card from Buchenwald and wave, tried to smile and wave, “so they about the Kindertransport: “It would make wouldn’t cry.”

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Karola Ruth Siegel grew up to become celebrity sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, who will be the keynote speaker at the Holocaust Memorial Center’s 35th Anniversary Dinner, Nov. 17, at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi.

Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will be served at 5 p.m. A seated dinner and program will begin at 5:45 p.m. Westheimer, 91, will deliver a speech on her rescue from the Holocaust and how her survival affected her choices in life. A dessert afterglow will follow.

The HMC will also honor Nina and Bernie Kent for their work in Holocaust education.

Bernie Kent is the son of two Holocaust survivors. In 1979, he was a founding member of Children of Holocaust

Survivors Association In Michigan (C.H.A.I.M.) and the International Network of Children of Holocaust Survivors.

He chairs the Oakland University Judaic Studies Committee; the Kents have endowed an Israel Travel Fund for OU students to study in Israel.

Nina Kent’s grandparents emigrated to the United States in the early 1900s. Both served in the U.S. military during World War II. Dinner tickets range from

not many children did. We lived for nine months with a wonderful loving family. My mother said we would be together again. I was 11, and I believed her. Nine months later, we were together as my parents left Berlin one week before the war started. We waited in England until our visa to America was secured.”

HANS WEINMANN’S STORY Retired engineer and Kindertransport child Hans Weinmann of West Bloomfield has long been a docent at the HMC. His story is documented there and by the Shoah Foundation and the Kinderstransport Association.

Weinmann was born in 1926 to a middle-class family that had been in Vienna since the 1880s.

In 1938, Germany annexed Austria. He was kicked out of his school because he was Jewish.

On Kristallnacht, Weinmann witnessed his father’s arrest by two Gestapo agents. His father was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp but was released two months later with the specific requirement that he leave the country within 90 days.

Weinman believes his father was released because of his army service; he was decorated and wounded during World War I.

Honorees Bernie and Nina Kent

$136 for those age 35 and younger to $360. Registration is required by calling (248) 536-9601 or visiting holocaustcenter.org.

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ELLEN KAHN’S STORY Ellen Herz Kahn of Franklin and her sister Margaret were born in Krefeld, Germany; later their family moved to Berlin. Their father, Walter, imported fine fabrics. The girls went to synagogue with their mother, Erna, on Saturdays. Both blonde, they were once stopped by a newspaper photographer who wanted to snap their picture as an example of “beautiful Aryan children.”

After Kristallnacht, Kahn’s parents decided to send their daughters on the Kindertransport.

Days before she boarded the train, Kahn said her parents threw her a goodbye party, where friends and family signed a book similar to the autograph books grammar school children would sign in America.

The book is on exhibit in a glass case. The pages have been enlarged, laminated and are accompanied by English translations of farewells from friends and family. Later, the family would be reunited in America, thanks to Detroit Jewish leader Fred Butzel, a family member.

“I was one of the fortunate ones,” Kahn said. “I went and then my sister came a week later.

My father knew a family outside of London that would take us in.

We had a place to go and I knew

Hans Weinmann stops in front of two documents from his childhood in Austria. One expels Jewish students from non-Jewish schools; the other is a bus pass to allow him to get to a Jewish school across town.

In the exhibit is a document issued by the Austrian government expelling Jewish students from non-Jewish schools.

Next to it is a bus pass issued to Weinmann by the Austrian government so he could take a cross-town bus to attend a Jewish school.

Weinmann remained in England for one year. By 1939, his parents had been able to immigrate to New York. At 14, he made the trip from London to New York alone. The voyage on a British ship through the U-boat-infested Atlantic took over a week due to the zig-zag course of the ship.

Since 1986, he has volunteered as an HMC docent.

Unfortunately, he said many students are still ignorant

of WWII history and the Holocaust. Some have never met a Jew. “I was recently asked by a student where my horns were,” said Weinmann, who has also lectured about the organizations and individuals that made the Kindertransport possible.

“I explained to this student that, though I had blue eyes, I was not considered a person who should live at that time.

I tried not to get angry. As one can see, there is still much work to do in educating younger generations about the Holocaust.”

New York Jewish Week Associate Editor Jonathan Mark wrote the first part of this story in early December 2018, shortly after the Kindertransport exhibit debuted in New York.

details “Kindertransport — Rescuing Children on the Brink of War” is open Sunday through Friday and is free with museum admission ($5-$8) or membership. A docent-led tour is available at 7 p. m. Monday, Dec. 16. Space is limited. RSVP by calling (248) 553-2400, ext. 145. For hours and more, go to holocaustcenter.org.

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Jitney runs Nov. 12-16, with 8 p.m. shows Tuesday-Saturday, and matinees at 1 p.m. Thursday and 2 p.m. Saturday at the Detroit Music Hall. For tickets, visit broadwayindetroit.com, ticketmaster. com or call (800) 982-2787.

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Set in the late 1970s in Pittsburgh (where Wilson grew up), it’s the story of African American men trying to make a living by driving a jitney, an unlicensed cab. They provide this gypsy cab service for a community that probably wouldn’t be able to hail a cab otherwise.

The play is centered on a group of men whose business is in jeopardy because of gentrification, leaving no place for their home base. Meanwhile, explosive relationships and deep secrets are revealed. The show retains its director, Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Original Broadway cast members

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Anthony Chisholm, Harvy Blanks and Keith Randolph Smith are in Detroit as well.

Eric Falkenstein, lead producer of Jitney, saw the show performed years ago and was passionate about bringing it to New York and on tour.

“It’s a heartfelt, powerful show that strikes a chord with audiences,” he Falkenstein says. “This touring production is almost identical to the Broadway run.”

Jitney is one of many theater sensations Falkenstein has produced. Among them, mega-hits Moulin Rouge, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Sound Inside, which just opened to rave reviews.

And, he’s the producer of Hello, Dolly, which will play the Fisher Theatre Nov. 19-Dec. 1.

(Look for a story next week.)

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Producer Eric Falkenstein brings Jitney’s moving message to Detroit.

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ticut, Falkenstein has always been interested in human rights and theater. He graduated Yale Law School and then worked on human rights issues. He joined a law firm and transitioned into entertainment law. He started to produce plays and films, and opened his own company, Spark Productions, in 2003.

His first Broadway show, as associate producer, was Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Later, Falkenstein was lead producer for Miller’s All My Sons. “The time I got to spend with Arthur was precious,” he says. “I only wish I was around earlier to spend more time with him.”

Over the years, Falkenstein has produced dozens of Broadway shows including Network, The Lifespan of a Fact, The Iceman Cometh, Fiddler on the Roof, Ragtime, The Wavery Gallery, Present Laughter and The Color Purple. He also produced several films, including

Butler, directed by Lee Daniels and starring Oprah.

Always looking for the next big show to bring to New York, he travels broadly. “I look for a play I think will appeal to today’s audience, has something to say and speaks to a social issue,” says Falkenstein, who has won seven Tony Awards.

His show The Visitor is coming to Broadway in the spring, and the play Luna Gale, about a social worker deciding whether to take a child away, is in casting. He is also working hard on a sweeping two-part epic about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement.

“It’s a passion project of my career,” he says, adding the working title of the show is MLK. “I have been working on this project with civil rights icons Andrew Young, who has become a dear friend, and John Lewis, who took me to Alabama. They are both extraordinary human beings.”

On a personal front, Falkenstein, the father of three children ages 11, 10 and 5, enjoys exposing his kids to theater. About his Judaism, Falkenstein says he considers himself somewhere between Reform and Conservative.

“I grew up in an appreciative if not particularly observant Jewish home, went to Hebrew school two afternoons a week, religious school on the weekends and attended three-hour Shabbat services.”

Falkenstein is looking forward to Jitney playing in Detroit. “The audience reaction to this show has been spectacular,” he says. “I love theater that stirs you, when people walk out moved and changed. I think this is the case with a masterpiece like Jitney.”

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SHOWBIZ NOTES The original Amazon Prime series Modern Love is now streaming. The eight-episode series is “inspired by” true love stories originally published in the New York Times column by the same name. Julia Garner, 25, stars in episode 5. Directed by actress Emmy Rossum, 33, the episode is about a “sort of” May-December romance.

Garner won a 2019 Emmy for best supporting actress in a TV drama (Ozark).

A Marriage Story, a Netflix film, opens in limited release Nov. 6 and begins streaming on Dec. 6. Capsule plot: A stage director (Adam Driver) and an actress (Scarlett Johansson, 34) struggle through a grueling, coastto-coast divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes. Wallace Shawn, 75, has a supporting role. The film was directed and written by Noah Baumbach, 50.

The original Hulu program, “I Love You, America” starring Sarah Silverman, was canceled last January. It was an Emmy nominee, but never found a big audience.

Now, HBO, which hosted a hit Silverman stand-up special in 2013, is offering a new home.

She’ll do a new HBO standup special (date uncertain)

and do a pilot for a late night talk show.

She described her proposed talk show: [I’ll be] weighing in on the mishigas of the week and taking live video calls ...

Nothing’s off the table and nothing’s too high or low brow for me. I mean — look at my face — I’m literally all brow.”

The number of Jews playing superheroes based on comic book characters continues to rise. It was recently announced Zoe Kravitz, 30, will play Catwoman in The Batman, a big feature to open in 2021 (Robert Pattinson plays Batman). Others playing superheroes include Gal Gadot, 34, as Wonder Woman; Natalie Portman, 38, as Jane Foster (who often can wield Thor’s powers); Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow; and Ezra Miller, 27, as the Flash.

Next February, you can catch Kravitz in High Fidelity, a 10-episode series on Hulu. It’s based on the hit 2000 movie of the same name about people working in a hip little record store. Also, last week it was announced Gadot will produce and star in Irena Sendler.

This bio-pic is about the Polish Jewish heroine who saved thousands of Jewish children during the Holocaust.

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10 am, Nov. 10. Young adults are invited to join Jewish Family Service, NEXTGen Detroit, The Well, Repair the World and Hillel of Metro Detroit for JFS’s 23rd Annual Fall Fix Up at B’nai David Cemetery, 9535 Van Dyke Ave., Detroit. Questions? Lindsay Leder at lleder@jfsdetroit.org, meetyouatthewell.org/calendar/2019/9/19/23rdannual-fall-fix-up.

10-11 am, Nov. 8. At Temple Shir Shalom. For babies through 4 years old with a special adult.

Moms, dads, aunts, uncles, grandparents and nannies can celebrate Shabbat: braid challah with the rabbis, sing songs with the cantor and make new friends.

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SATURDAY, NOV. 9

Robert Schefman’s On the Edge of the Moon - 2019, Oil on canvas

ROBERT SCHEFMAN Opening night reception from 6-8 p.m. for Robert Schefman’s solo show, Secrets, at the David Klein Gallery’s Detroit location (1520 Washington Boulevard). Schefman presents his recent series of paintings and drawings exploring the hidden world of secrets. Using social media as a device to reach a large audience, Schefman posted a request on social media asking followers to send him one personal secret that he could use as a subject or an element in his paintings. He received more than 100 anonymous secrets.

Schefman explored the specific responses and began to develop the ideas for this series over the course of several years. There is also an Artist Talk on Saturday, Nov. 23, at 3 p.m. The show runs through Dec. 21.

SOULFUL YOGA

TRIVIA NIGHT 7-10 pm, Nov. 9. At Congregation Beth Shalom. Cost: $12/person, or tables of 8 people are $80.

Contact the Beth Shalom office: 248-547-7970 for information.

SUNDAY, NOV. 10 KNITTING CIRCLE 9:30 am, Nov. 10. The Adat Shalom Sisterhood invites you to join them as they continue to make scarves, hats and afghans for charity. At the synagogue. No experience necessary. Info: 248851-5100.

WAR VETS MEMORIAL 11 am, Nov. 10. A dedication to the Windsor community’s Jewish war veterans. At the Windsor Jewish Community Centre, 1641 Ouellette Ave. Refreshments following.

MONDAY, NOV. 11 ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 10 am-4 pm, Nov. 11. Certified Medicare counselors from the Area Agency on Aging 1-B’s Medicare Medicaid Assistance Program will be on hand at the Jewish Community Center. They will offer a free, unbiased review of medical plans and help you enroll in one that fits your needs.

To make an appointment, call 1-800-803-7174. Representatives are on hand to answer Medicare questions any time.

VISITING SCHOLAR RSVP for 6 pm, Nov. 15. At B’nai Israel Synagogue in West Bloomfield. Joseph B. Rose Scholar in Residence weekend.

Friday: Mincha, Maariv, Kabbalat Shabbat; Dr. Miller will offer “Shabbat as a Temple in Time;” 7 pm Shabbat dinner. Advance reservations required. After dinner: “Violence in/and the Jewish Tradition.” Saturday 8:30 am: Dr. Miller will speak on “The Akedah: Unbinding the Biblical Text;” lunch following services. The community is invited free of charge. 1 pm learning session “Do Jews, Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?” Visit bnaiisraelwb. org to register for dinner. continued on page 50

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10 am, Nov. 9. Join Rabbi Rachel Shere and yoga instructor Nicole Ferguson for Soulful Yoga at Adat Shalom. Apply the wisdom of Torah to the gentle practice of yoga. No yoga experience is necessary. Free and open to the community. Dress comfortably and bring a mat if you have one.

Info: 248-851-5100.

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LITTLE BLACK DRESS

Little Black Dress, the fearlessly funny ladies’ night out musical makes for one wild and unforgettable evening with its musical numbers, Magic Mike-influenced dancing and improvised audience mayhem. The musical will play at the City Theatre in the District Detroit for five performances. Danielle Trzcinski (SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody!), Amanda Barker (Sirius XM’s Canada Laughs), Natalie Tenenbaum (Tony-nominated Mean Girls Broadway) and Christopher Bond (Disenchanted, Evil Dead The Musical!) bring you the story of Dee and her best friend Mandy. Witness the girls’ major life events in their little black dresses — first job interview, first date, first awkward sexual experience — which happens more than once — first funeral and more.

Tickets ($43.50 general admission) can be purchased at 313Presents.com, Little Caesars Arena XFINITY box office and Ticketmaster.com.

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FOLLIES IN CONCERT Theatre NOVA in Ann Arbor (410 W. Huron) presents a limited engagement of Follies in Concert by Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman. Sondheim’s Broadway smash-hit musical concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theater of the past performers of the “Weismann’s Follies” that played in that theater between the World Wars.

Follies is a glamorous and fascinating peek into a bygone era, and a cleareyed look at the transformation of relationships over time, with countless songs that have become standards, including “Broadway Baby,” “I’m Still Here,” “Too Many Mornings,” “Could I Leave You?” and “Losing My Mind.”

Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday matinees are at 2 p.m. Tickets are $30 for this limited engagement fundraiser for Theatre NOVA. For tickets, visit TheatreNOVA.org or call (734) 635-8450.

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LUNCHTIME LEARNING 11:45 am, Nov. 12. Rabbi Rachel Shere will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Greatest Hits of the Talmudâ&#x20AC;? at Adat Shalom. She will offer an introduction to the wisdom of the Talmud and share some of its relevant texts. Free and open to the community. You may bring your own dairy/parve lunch.

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family caregiver support group meetings. Respite care may be available during the daytime meetings; if interested, inquire when you RSVP. At JVS, 29699 Southfield Road, Southfield. For information or to RSVP: Dorothy Moon, 248-233-4392, dmoon@ jvsdet.org.

GENETIC SEARCHES 4-5:30 pm, Nov. 12. U-M Frankel Center will host Steve Weitzman at the Thayer Building, Room 2022, Ann Arbor. Weitzman of the University of Pennsylvania will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jews, Genetics and the Search for Lost Ancestors.â&#x20AC;? This presentation will survey recent efforts to use genetics to illumine the ancestry of the Jews. Free event.

LABOR TRAFFICKING 7-9 pm, Nov. 12. At the Birmingham Temple, 28611 W. 12 Mile, Farmington Hills. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How Labor Trafficking Affects Usâ&#x20AC;? will be presented by Kelly Carter and Danielle Kalil, sponsored by the National Council of Jewish Women/Michigan. Cost: member $10, nonmember $15, student $5.

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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 13 DROP IN & LEARN 1 pm, Nov. 13. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Jewish People in the Family of Nations.â&#x20AC;?

Beth Ahm invites lifelong learners to watch and discuss a video lecture by Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer, 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.

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Cocktail Camp Learn how to make fabulous drinks at home from Detroit’s best bartenders.

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Detroit Cocktail Camp is back for the fall with a curated series of themed mixology classes brought to you in partnership with some of Metro Detroit’s best bars and brands. Detroiters can learn how to create craft cocktails at home and have fun doing so.

The enterprise is run by Detroiter Staci Lichterman, who just moved back to Metro Detroit after having lived in Phoenix for 20 years. She’s the daughter of Howard Lichterman, founder of Cradle Pictures, which took everyone’s baby pictures from the 1960s-1989, when he sold the company.

When it comes to alcohol, it can be expensive to learn

what you like, Lichterman says.

“Detroit Cocktail Camp was created to provide Metro Detroiters with a way to learn what they like without spending a fortune by crafting intimate, educational tasting experiences,” she said.

Fall session classes focus on some unique brands, including Detroit’s own female-run Tequila Cabresto and Hotel Tango Distillery, America’s first distillery owned and operated by disabled veterans.

Tickets priced at $59 per person can be purchased through Eventbrite at detroitcocktailcamp.com. The ticket price also includes one bar tool for the guest’s home bar setup.

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Nov. 16, 1-3 p.m.

Pre-Prohibition Cocktails at Evening Bar in Shinola Hotel (1400 Woodward Ave., Detroit) Nov. 17, 1-3 p.m.

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Trader Vic & Ole Saint Nick; A Caribbean Christmas at Savant Midtown (51 W. Forest Ave., Detroit) Dec. 14, 1-3 p.m.

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YOU’VE ALWAYS ANTICIPATED EACH OTHER’S NEEDS.

MYRNA BRADLEY, 79, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 24, 2019.

She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Scott and Diana Bradley, and Dr. David and Debra Bradley; daughter, Sheri Bradley; grandchildren, Rachael, Hannah, Isabel, Dylan and Brendan Bradley.

Mrs. Bradley was the beloved wife for 54 years of the late Joseph Bradley; the loving sister of the late Elaine Weintraub.

Interment was at Adat Shalom Memorial Park.

Contributions may be made to JARC, 6735 Telegraph, Suite 100, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301, jarc.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

By now, you know each other so well you feel you’re part of each other (and you are). You know exactly what each other is thinking before it’s said.

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HOWARD MARK FALICK, 67, of Summit, Miss., passed away Oct. 25, 2019, at his residence, surrounded by his loving family.

He was born Sept. 22, 1952, in Detroit, the son of Milton and Sylvia Taylor Falick.

Mr. Falick was a retired owner-operator of Cottman Transmission. He was a loving husband, father and was an avid hunter. He will be sadly missed by those who knew and loved him.

He was preceded in death by his parents and his two favorite pets, Rocky and Lilbit.

Mr. Falick is survived by his loving wife, Margaret Lazarus Falick; son, Lucius Falick; daughter, Gabrielle Falick; brother and sister-

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in-law, Yale and Elisa Falick; numerous nieces and nephews.

Services were at Hartman-Jones Funeral Home of McComb. Dr. David Millican officiated; interment was at Hollywood Cemetery in McComb, Miss. Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.

MILDRED â&#x20AC;&#x153;MILLIâ&#x20AC;? FOX, 92, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 29, 2019.

She is survived by her daughter, Cheryl Fox; many other loving relatives and friends.

Mrs. Fox was the beloved wife of the late George Crockatt.

Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park.

Contributions may be made to Planned Parenthood, 3100 Professional Drive, P.O. Box 3673, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, plannedparenthood.org; or Veterans of Foreign Wars, 924 N. Washington, Lansing, MI 48096, vfwmi. org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

MYRA GREENE, 86, of Bloomfield Hills, died Oct. 28, 2019.

She is survived by her husband, Raymond Greene; sons and daughters-in-law, Steven and Meryl Greene, Eric Greene, Dr. Daniel and JoAnn Greene, and Kenneth and Daryl Greene; grandchildren, Gavriella and Daniel Abraham, Ben Greene, Naomi Greene, Dovid Greene, Kara and Dr. Neil Rodnick, Alexander Greene, Hannah Greene and her boyfriend, Alec Moore; great-grandchildren,

Avrami, Sara Rochel, Ephraim Leib and Gedalia Chaim. She is also survived by her special caregiver, Rifcah Krolikowski.

Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery.

Contributions may be made to Yad Ezra, 2850 W. 11 Mile Road, Berkley, MI 48072, yadezra.org; Detroit Zoological Society, 8450 W. 10 Mile Road, Royal Oak, MI 48067, detroitzoo.org; Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s AssociationGreater Michigan Chapter, 25200 Telegraph Road, Suite 100, Southfield, MI 48033, alz.org/gmc; or to a charity of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

GERALD KANTER, 82, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 26, 2019.

He is survived by his wife, Adrienne Kane Kanter; daughter and son-in-law, Barbara A. and Mark Minar; son and daughter-in-law, Michael D. Kanter and Elaine Taylor; grandchildren, Jeremy Minar, Crissy Minar, Prudence Magaret Kanter and Miles Kanter. He is also survived by Adrienneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children, Jeri and Mark Risin, Stephanie and Joseph Maisano, and Stuart and Andrea Kane; Adrienneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grandchildren, Ben Risin, Sophia Maisano, Francesca Maisano, Joey Maisano, Roni Kane, Ella Kane and Auden Kane.

Contributions may be made to Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, 24359 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 225, Southfield, MI 48075, jdrf.org; or to an Israeli charity. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

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JOEL KRAUS, 65, of Beachwood, Ohio, formerly of Michigan, died Oct. 27, 2019.

He is survived by his sisters and brothers-in-law, Myra and Richard Stone of Solon, Ohio, Sandra and Hyman Spekman of Plymouth, Mass., Harriet Gersten of West Bloomfield; many loving nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.

Mr. Kraus was the loving son of the late Seymour and the late Rosalyn Kraus, who were founding members of Kadima.

Contributions may be made to Kadima, 15999 W. 12 Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48076. Services and interment were held at Beth El Memorial Park in Livonia.

Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

ROSE SWEETWINE, 103, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 30, 2019.

She is survived by her son, Murray Sweetwine; grandchildren, Ira â&#x20AC;&#x153;Randyâ&#x20AC;? and Becky Sweetwine, Kalman â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kevinâ&#x20AC;? and Emily Sweetwine, and Ravi Saini; greatgrandchildren, Isaac, Livia, Ilanah and Matan Sweetwine; daughter-in-law, Carole Sweetwine; son-in-law, Ajit Saini; niece, Jayne Bloom.

She is also survived by her devoted caregivers.

Mrs. Sweetwine was the beloved wife of the late Sam Sweetwine; the cherished mother of the late Gayle Sweetwine Saini; the devoted daughter of the late Pincus and the late Rachel Zussman.

Interment was at Machpelah Cemetery.

Contributions may be made to Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network, 6555 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, jewishhospice. org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

MAGDALENE â&#x20AC;&#x153;MAGGIEâ&#x20AC;?

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She is survived by her children, Laura and Israel Lazar, Paul and Marci Zeman, and Beth Schubiner and Steve Miller; grandchildren, Adam Lazar, Jeffrey Zeman and Ariana Orvell, Carli and Ben Jones, Joshua and Elizabeth Zeman, Elyse Schubiner, Brian Schubiner

and Rebecca Gerome, and Robbie Schubiner; greatgrandchildren, Logan and Sofie Jones, and Hannah Zeman.

Mrs. Zeman was the beloved wife of the late Robert Zeman; the proud grandmother of the late Leor Lazar; the dear sister of the late Amual Kuhatschek, the late Estelle Novak and the late William Kuhatschek.

Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Wayne State University, Robert Zeman Endowment Memorial Scholarship Fund, 5475 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI 48202, cardinal.wayne.edu/ wsugiving/give.cfm; Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit, 6710 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, jslmi.org; or continued on page 60

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Woodward and Old Woodward, Birmingham, where Luciano DelSignore and Takashi Yagihashi, who many remember from the former Tribute, have opened what has become a much talked about dining spot.

No, Luciano’s Bacco flagship restaurant is not for sale by a long shot, and Takashi’s fine Tabo Sushi in Chicago remains as-is … Both will continue to retain their operations and became partners only of Pernoi … splitting their time with Pernoi and the restaurants they own.

As would be expected, the Pernoi menu is most unique … Its excellent choices include French, Italian, Japanese, American, etc., delights that may enchant the most select palates … Items that may never have been seen before, such as a Moroccanglazed squab or ginger sesame king salmon and others that include Iowan wagu beef, etc. along with Osetra caviar, Jerusalem Takashi Yagihashi and artichoke soup and so Luciano DelSignore much more.

When it opened Sept. 10 of this year, people were awed at the selection of dishes that are served from Tuesday through Saturday, 5 p.m. to close, in the 65 seats and on eight bar stools.

Pernoi makes all its own baked goods and desserts that are selective favorites in their own rights … and served with an elegant selection of dinner choices within three rooms of dining from formal to casual in the presentation of a luxurious culinary experience.

Luciano DelSignore is the noted chef/owner of Bacco Ristorante and Bigalora Wood Fired Cucina restaurants …

Takashi is the chef/owner of Tabo Sushi in Chicago … And I again emphasize that both will use their time in the daily presentations at Birmingham’s Pernoi as partners … and continue to own their other restaurants by themselves … sharing time together here but in no way affiliated mutually with their other eateries.

To say that the new Pernoi enjoys an elegance of its own is a mild statement …The luxury

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yacht feel amid original art and excellent food must certainly be classed among the better dining experiences in our region.

CLOSING OF CANTORO of Troy as solely a restaurant has left many people with a sour taste … But may serve to tell of its highly successful Cantoro Market and fine attached eatery in Plymouth.

SHORTIE OLDIE BUT GOODIES … Arriving home from a party, the wife confronted her husband, “I’ll never go to another another party with you.” He asked why. “Because you asked Mrs. Thomas how her husband was standing the heat. He’s been dead for two months!” … A politician ran into the house yelling, “Honey, I’ve been elected!” … His wife looked up from her knitting and said, “Honestly?” … He stopped in his tracks and said, “Why bring that up?”

CONGRATS … To Jay Parr on his birthday … To Marianna Yonova on her birthday.

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

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for rising taxes and his ties to President Richard Nixon. Yet, Levin said, after the campaign, he and Milliken became lifelong friends.

The William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History holds a wealth of information on Milliken’s work. The reports and articles demonstrate he had a close relationship with Michigan’s Jewish community as well.

Milliken was actively involved in Jewish community affairs. For example, a report in the Oct. 31, 1969, JN cites his attendance at a groundbreaking for a 15-story senior citizen housing development in Oak Park sponsored by the Jewish Welfare Federation (now the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit). At the other end of the state, Milliken attended the 80th birthday party in Marquette for banker Samuel M. Cohodas in 1975. He was also honored by Hebrew University and was named an honorary chair of its Michigan chapter in 1977. An article in the Dec. 5, 1975, issue of the JN had a photo of the governor wearing his “Zionism is a Badge of Honor” pin.

Milliken’s legislative accomplishments were many, but two stand out from the pages of the JN. One was his deep concern for the environment. In 1977, Milliken declared November to be Michigan Energy Month and asked all citizens to do their best to conserve Michigan’s energy resources. As he stated: “This is the only Michigan we get.”

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Because there are now term limits for Michigan governors, it is unlikely that his record will ever be surpassed.

Beyond longevity in office, which is a pretty fine feat of popularity, Milliken represented a rare breed of politician. He was one of the last moderate executives who would eagerly Mike Smith Alene and work with members of the Graham Landau opposition to build coaArchivist Chair litions for legislation that benefited all Michiganders.

I can tell you that having worked with Milliken on his archives at the Bentley Historical Library, he was a gracious and kind individual.

Proof of Milliken’s power in building relationships is everywhere. He worked well with Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, who was considered a divisive figure in his day. Both Milliken and Young fiercely defended the city and its importance to the state of Michigan.

On Oct. 14, there was a celebration at the University of Michigan in honor of Congressman Sander Levin placing his papers at the Bentley Library. During the event, Levin told the audience about his tough, but losing, campaign for governor against Milliken in 1974. Indeed, in an article in the April 12, 1974, issue of the JN, Levin blamed the governor

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