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The truth is that many congressional Democrats expressed serious concerns about the agreement. The Obama Administration worked very hard to allay those concerns by providing many detailed briefings and arguments in support of the deal. In the end, four high-profile, pro-Israel Senate Democrats — Chuck Schumer, Bob Menendez, Joe Manchin and Ben Cardin (the latter being the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) — and a number of prominent pro-Israel House Democrats, including Eliot Engel (the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee),
Nita Lowey and Ted Deutsch, opposed the deal despite intensive lobbying by the Obama Administration and its allies on Capitol Hill because (among other things) they felt it did not go far enough to allay concerns over the impact the agreement might have on the safety and security of Israel. Look it up if you don’t believe me. These leading pro-Israel congressional Democrats who opposed the deal in 2015 eventually came around to the position, once the agreement was in place, that it would be better to keep it than to blow it up. Many experts in the American and Israeli military-defense establishments shared that
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he year since the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh has been a time of reflection, grief and increased anxiety within the American Jewish community. It has also been an incredibly demanding Oren Segal time at the AntiJTA Defamation League, and the Center on Extremism in particular, where our team of researchers investigates and responds to extremism, anti-Semitism and all forms of hate in real time — sometimes thwarting violence before it happens. While the shooting in Pittsburgh — the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history — was shocking, it did not surprise those of us who spend most of our waking hours tracking hate because we know hate, online and off, can move extremists to violence. In the years prior to the shooting in Pittsburgh, the team of researchers I lead witnessed and documented a resurgence of white supremacy. This was evident in the record number of propaganda distributions nationwide and in countless online spaces, where violence is glorified and hate is half-masked in “ironic” memes. Even as we saw the
evidence building, we hoped the worst was behind us. Americans are no strangers to white supremacist carnage — the vicious attacks in Oak Creek and Charleston speak to its long history in this country. But the shooting in Pittsburgh spoke to a different type of violence: one that was celebrated in plain sight on online platforms and forums, but was, paradoxically, more difficult to detect and root out. In the year since then, a pattern has emerged, garnering increased attention to certain hateful online repositories: white men, radicalized by racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia, act violently on their beliefs, which they amplify via a final post to their toxic online communities, often including urgent calls to action and blueprints for deadly violence. There is some solace in knowing that we are not helpless in the face of such overt, pervasive hatred and violence. For every Pittsburgh or Poway, several murderous plots have been foiled by law enforcement. Our ultimate goal, of course, is to stop violence before it happens. This isn’t always possible, but sometimes it is: Three times in the last year, our analysis and actionable intelligence has led directly to arrests and criminal charges. In March 2019, ADL’s Center on Extremism iden-
tified a white supremacist espousing anti-Semitism and racial violence on the social media platform Minds.com. His screen name was “King Shekels.” We shared the information with federal and local law enforcement, highlighting his radical ideology, calls for violence, weapon possession, criminal activity and evidence of his location. He has since been charged by federal prosecutors with posting online hate messages and threats, including interstate transmission of threats to injure the person of another, based in part on a digital image that appears to show himself pointing an AR-15 rifle at a congregation of Jewish men. On Aug. 8, the FBI arrested Conor Climo, a Las Vegasbased security guard, on weapons charges for possession of an unregistered firearm. He was allegedly plotting to attack LGBTQ and Jewish community targets, including a synagogue and a regional ADL office. Months earlier, in June 2019, my colleagues provided law enforcement officials with warnings about Climo’s threats against synagogues and online links to white supremacists and threats against synagogues. These were just two of at least 12 white supremacists who have been arrested for their alleged roles in terrorist plots, attacks or threats against American Jews since the continued on page 10
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New Israel Fund’s War on Jewish Life
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ccording to the Forward, the rationale for the New Israel Fund’s (NIF) push to create an alternative philanthropic system can be explained by what a Philadelphia psychologist named Roy Idelson considered to be a reasonable Jonathan S. request. He Tobin wanted his local umbrella Jewish philanthropy — the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia — to allow him to use its foundation to donate money to an entity of his choice, IfNotNow. A number of federations and many others operate foundations that allow their supporters to create so-called “donor-advised” philanthropic funds to funnel money to nonprofit groups of the individual’s choice. The arrangement is profitable for federations because they make
money by fees earned by managing the donor’s money and hopefully increasing it by wise investment decisions. But, to its credit, the Philadelphia federation refused Idelson’s request. The reason was that giving money to IfNotNow was contrary to the interests of the community. IfNotNow is not just critical of Israeli policies but avowedly neutral about Zionism. In practice, its efforts are indistinguishable from overtly anti-Zionist and often anti-Semitic groups. It also seeks to sabotage the work of organizations such as Birthright Israel that provide free trips to the Jewish state for young people. Idelson was outraged and now thinks that Philadelphia’s federation — and others that share its policies — aren’t operating a big enough tent. That’s why he’s supporting the New Israel Fund’s new project. The NIF is seeking to create an alternative to federations by
allowing donors to give money to exactly the kind of groups that mainstream philanthropies want no part of. The NIF’s Progressive Jewish Fund, which was launched late last month, will do just that. That’s good news for groups like IfNotNow, which hope to reap more donations, in addition to the New Israel Fund, which will profit from such gifts. This is nothing less than an attempt by the Jewish left to topple the basis on which Jewish philanthropy in this country exists. By taking money away from the federation’s charitable funds in this manner, it will drastically reduce already-diminishing resources in an era of shrinking Jewish demographics and donations. What’s worse, its purpose is to better direct Jewish money to priorities that are currently being neglected, as it’s an effort to destroy the links between American Jews and Israel.
The New Israel Fund has always been controversial. Founded in 1979, its purpose was to provide a vehicle for donating to nonprofits that advanced a liberal agenda inside Israel. Many of its recipients were connected to causes that promote the rights of women or civil liberties. But others of their beneficiaries were inherently political, such as B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence — both groups that seek not merely to criticize, but to impede the efforts of Israeli security services to defend the nation against terrorism. Still other recipients in the Arab sector, like Adalah, falsely smeared Israel as an “apartheid state” that committed war crimes or supported the BDS movement. While the NIF can be criticized for its choices, up until now it didn’t necessarily seek to punish federations whose agendas were both Zionist and aimed at building the Jewish community. continued on page 12
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Pittsburgh attack. But for every domestic extremist we identify, keeping up with all the threats can be a challenge. That’s why it is critical for federal, state and local governments to provide additional resources to help law enforcement investigate potentially violent extremists. I wish I could say things are getting better. But as relentless as this last year has been, the next 12 months could prove to be even more trying. Bigotry
and outright calls for violence continue to proliferate across a range of online platforms. We all hope things get better. We all wish the violence would stop. But that does not relieve us of our responsibility to do the work, to remain vigilant and to go where the hate is. ADL’s goal is to make the invisible visible — we shine a light on extremism and hate in order to mitigate its impact. We educate the public and alert
law enforcement to potential threats. We supply our expertise and quantify the problem and maintain a H.E.A.T. Map that identifies hate-motivated incidents by geographic location. And we advocate for legislation that aims to reduce hate crimes and hate violence. I’m often asked how I and members of my team do this work day after day. Honestly, there’s a psychological toll, but that’s eased somewhat by the
commitment of my colleagues, who are dedicated to mitigating the threat of extremist violence, and whose work has powerful real-world impact. Everything we do is informed and inspired by the memory of all those who have lost their lives to hatred and bigotry, including the memory of the 11 who died in Pittsburgh.
second intifadas, I was on a business trip to Israel waiting for my oldest daughter to meet me for lunch in the newly built Mamilla Mall. Mamilla Mall was the new and arguably only upscale shopping mall in Israel. While waiting, I noticed the diversity of people around me. There were Jews in black hats and Jews in T-shirts and shorts. There were Arabs in secular clothing and Arab women in burkas. I posted on Facebook that if only the world was an upscale mall, there would be peace. In the middle of almost all-out war, in areas less than 20 miles away, people were shopping together, and dealing peaceably and productively with each other. I had a similar although, arguably, not as dramatic experience at Babylon Ethnic Food a week ago. Besides making excellent kosher pita, Babylon, owned and operated by Chaldeans, now makes delicious kosher baklava. The owner, Marcos Aoraha, has recognized the benefits of providing kosher foods for the Jewish community; more recently, working with local Orthodox rabbis to certify as kosher the pita and baklava. Meanwhile, I was at Babylon, as usual, talking to Marcos and
bakers from Almeena Pasteries and Cakes. I noted that I was an Orthodox man shopping in a Chaldean store for kosher food, surrounded by Arabs, Chaldeans and a few Israelis. It motivated me to mention my Jerusalem experience. Out of the clear blue, the gentleman next to me agreed with the crux of my Facebook posting. It turns out that he is the Armenian priest from St. John’s Armenian Church in Southfield, home of the Alex and Marie Manoogian School. We started talking about how the boys and girls Akiva basketball teams that I coached used to play Manoogian teams several times a season. It was an education for the kids and parents as to who Armenians are as well as an education to the Armenians regarding Jews. Bottom line is Marcos, the priest and I all realized that meeting at a Chaldean market that sells kosher food is not far from me being in Mamilla Mall and noting the presence of peace.
“Thank God for Israel Day” at Adat Shalom Synagogue. The event, sponsored by the Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, is held to educate and bring the Christian and Jewish communities together in support for Israel. Seventy-five enthusiastic pro-Israel supporters attended the event. Representatives of the Zionist Organization of America -MI, Michigan Jewish Action Council, Walk for Israel and Volunteers For Israel shared their organizations’ purpose and goals. We listened with great interest to our speaker, Alex VanNess, research analyst at the Clarion Intelligence Network, discuss groups and individuals with histories of hatred and extremism driving a wedge in the U.S./Israel relationship. VanNess’ command of the subject and Q&A responses were smart, educational and important. We came away from this experience encouraged by our Christian friends who expressed their wholehearted commitment to the survival of the State of Israel and its people.
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view. Unfortunately, their opinion was ignored by the prime minister of Israel and by President Obama’s very unworthy successor, who proceeded to wreck the deal, with predictable destabilizing consequences. Let’s at least try to get the facts right in reviewing the sequence of events and stop engaging in cynical and inaccurate false equivalence (“everyone is partisan, no one acts on principle”) that riddles far too much of our civic conversation these days. — Nancy F. Kaplan West Bloomfield
Torah Portion? As I read the Oct. 31 Spirit column, I was surprised that the author felt that the meaning of this week’s Torah portion was that we all should support his Hazon organization. I am sure it is a fine organization; but I feel that this column should be devoted to Torah and should not be used for self-promotion. — Harvey Hurwitz Huntington Woods
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With its decision to create an alternative, it’s clear that its goal is far more ambitious than it has been in the past. The Progressive Jewish Fund could be the domino that sets off a chain reaction that will do even more damage to the Jewish world than IfNotNow’s antics. The worst thing federations could do in response to the NIF’s efforts would be to seek to compete with them by opening themselves up to donors who want to direct money to anti-Israel groups. The notion of a big Jewish tent is a noble one. Inclusion of as many sectors of Jewish life, such as all the religious denominations and political groups from left to right, is certainly desirable. However, it has also led federations to adopt a consensus model of decision-making that can often make it hard to make difficult choices about priorities. For all its myriad faults, that model is an effort to create a broad platform on which most Jews can stand. But it fails when it is asked to accommodate those who are seeking to attack the foundation of Jewish life itself. That’s what groups like IfNotNow do. Its anti-Zionist campaigns are framed in the high-sounding rhetoric of human rights, though it seeks to undermine and disarm Israel while strengthening those who are not shy about proclaiming their goal of destroying the one Jewish state on the planet. They are also supporters of the BDS movement and its anti-Semitic allies and goals. Its efforts to intimidate
and shame Jewish kids on Birthright trips remove any doubt as to the despicable nature of its activities. And so, inclusion cannot be the primary goal of any Jewish community. A community that funds Jewish and Zionist philanthropies while also giving donors an option to back anti-Zionist and pro-BDS efforts that seek to hurt Israel is one that isn’t so much inclusive as one that stands for nothing. And communities that stand for nothing have no purpose or chance of survival. The best response to this challenge is for federations to stand firm against this disreputable effort not only to damage Israel, but to impact the ability of these philanthropies to fund the infrastructure of Jewish life — namely, schools, camps, adult-education and vocational assistants, services to the elderly and poor, as well as aid to overseas Jewish causes. Rather than helping the NIF, this ought to convince well-meaning liberal donors to think twice about giving to it. Its campaigns aimed at making Israeli society fairer for all people are one thing; its backing for the likes of IfNotNow is quite another. This is a moment when those who care about Israel — no matter where you stand on the ideological spectrum — must draw a line and demand that Jewish philanthropies continue to say “no” to anti-Zionist groups. Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate.
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Communicating With Your Child About Anti-Semitism With the rise of anti-Semitic incidents, parents should embrace having conversations with their children about these issues. CORRIE COLF STAFF WRITER
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ecently, anti-Semitic incidents have not only been plaguing our country, but our Michigan communities as well. From neo-Nazi flyers hanging in the Clover Hill Park Cemetery to Michigan State University’s Hillel sukkah being destroyed, there is a noticeable rise in anti-Semitic incidents. From Sept. 11 to Oct. 6, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) surveyed American Jews’ attitudes toward anti-Semitism. Eighty-eight percent of participants view anti-Semitism as a problem in the United States, and 84 percent believe anti-Semitism has increased over the past five years.
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Lauren Herrin, associate director of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC)/AJC here in Michigan, was not surprised with the results of this survey. “In my position here at JCRC/AJC, I’m quite hyper-focused on the topic of anti-Semitism.” Herrin said. “These numbers confirm everything I’ve been reading — the increase of incidents, the increase of how terrifying these incidents have been and even the fact that a majority of people aren’t reporting incidents.” While the numbers don’t lie, what do the results mean for younger generations who are growing up surrounded by these events? How can parents engage in conversations with their children to make sure they understand the principle of these acts? Herrin has two young children: a 3-year-old son and a 7-year-old daughter. “I believe when talking to your children about anti-Semitism, it is important to keep the discussion age-appropriate
and as basic as possible,” Herrin said. “My daughter has been very matter-of-fact about everything, but I think it’s important to do as much as you can to make it a learning moment.” David Holden, president of Temple Jacob in Hancock that was vandalized at the end of September, has four kids: two in college, a senior in high school and a fifth-grader. Holden makes it a point during dinner to talk about the day’s events and news. More often than not, anti-Semitism naturally comes up in conversation. “Discussion of anti-Semitism is a basis for discussion of other social ills affecting minority populations,” Holden said. “Anti-Semitism is one facet of hate — one that is focused on us — but hardly unique in our culture. Thus, we cannot afford to witness the variety of social injustices and think it does not involve us.” Holden believes that when talking to your children about anti-Semitism, you can’t allow it to become overwhelming and
anxiety-inducing. He has two strategies that have worked for him with his children: “First, a thorough grounding in the specific history of anti-Semitism and Jewish oppression over the past several thousand years and an equal grounding in the struggle that other populations have faced here and abroad,” Holden said. “Second, instill the knowledge that we have fought it and have overcome it repeatedly in our history.” Along with Herrin, Holden stresses the power that education can have in these moments, especially with younger children. In addition, he believes these hateful incidents can provide opportunities to instill the power of Torah. “Speak proudly of being a Jew and the magnificent tradition of Torah in all its forms as a far-reaching and relevant guide to living with meaning and intention,” Holden said. Carolyn Normandin, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in Michigan, encourages schools to bring the ADL into the classroom to have open discussions, either proactively or after an incident happens. “At ADL, we work in classrooms all the time, discussing bias with young people — not just bias against Jews — but bias that includes anti-Semitism, which is often overlooked when Jews and non-Jewish people are talking about the ‘list’ of discrimination traits,” Normandin said. When parents take the first step and encourage these conversations, children can begin to understand ways to empower others and stand up to these hateful incidents. If parents are struggling to find the right way to have these conversations with their children, the ADL website has an “Education” tab. There, you can find material on “Table Talks,” which are family conversations about current events and books for children of all ages.
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Harsh Words Andy Levin criticizes Israel in tweet during West Bank trip. CORRIE COLF STAFF WRITER
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uring his trip to the West Bank last week, Michigan Congressman Andy Levin expressed criticism toward Israel’s treatment of Palestinians residing in the village of Susya. The Times of Israel reported that Levin was unhappy that Palestinians in Susya have been denied water access and that Israel has demolished Palestinians buildings in the village. “Yesterday, I traveled to the southern West Bank, including the Palestinian village of Susya, which the Israeli government has destroyed twice and currently denies access to water,” Levin tweeted. “Yet we watched the government utility, right before our eyes, lay in pipes right across the village’s land to deliver tap water to an illegal Israeli outpost nearby.” He did not name the outpost. Levin expressed anger about the current treatment of the Palestinians in Susya, while also acknowledging the resilience of the Palestinian community. Levin told the Jewish News as he was preparing to leave Israel, “As I prepare to fly home from Israel, I am clearer than ever that a two-state solution is the only way to
provide a secure, democratic future for our Jewish homeland alongside a state for our Palestinian neighbors. “We met with everyone from Orthodox Jewish settlers to U.S. Ambassador Friedman to Palestinian and Israeli negotiators to diplomats from many countries to Israeli and Palestinian business leaders. We laid a wreath at Yad Vashem, which was especially moving. We dug into issues faced by Israeli residents near Gaza, seeing the shells of rockets that had fallen on their town, as well as Palestinian residents of the occupied territories, who lack access to water and basic services. We got detailed briefings from the Israel Defense Forces, the founder of the model Palestinian city of Rawabi and many others. “Through it all, my conviction grew that we can we can help Israelis and Palestinians achieve a twostate solution and open a new era of peace and prosperity. In the end, we met with two women, an Israeli general and Palestinian lawyer, who have both worked on negotiations between the sides at the highest level for decades. Their message was clear: This is not a pipe dream, but the only practical way forward.”
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Local Coalition for Black and Jewish Unity Executive Committee members Hazzan Dan Gross, Mark Jacobs, Rabbi Marla Hornsten, Pastor Samuel Stephens, U.S. Reps. Brenda Lawrence and Andy Levin, Dr. Pauline Plummer and Executive Committee members Rev. Glenn Plummer and Rev. Kenneth Flowers
Blacks & Jews Unite Congressional Caucus for Black and Jewish Relations held its kickoff event.
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he Congressional Caucus for Black and Jewish Relations held its kickoff reception on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., last month, hosted by the American Jewish Committee and attended by a bipartisan team of leading lawmakers and supporters. The group, Mark Jacobs the first Black Contributing and Jewish Writer caucus in the U.S. Congress, is co-chaired by Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, D-Fla., Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., Rep. Lee Zelden, R-N.Y., and Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas. The caucus seeks to raise awareness of each community’s needs as well as to initiate measures to combat hate and stereotypes. “White supremacy is alive and well,” declared Wasserman-Shultz, warning the crowd that hate crimes against blacks and Jews have spiked in recent years and that the need for the caucus is imperative. Lawmakers spoke of the current disunity in Washington, D.C., but noted that support for the caucus is widespread and undisputed. The speakers recalled the
historical roots of the two communities uniting during the civil rights movement. Rep. Elliot Engel said this caucus “comes at a critical time, and it is incumbent on both of our communities to act now.” The full executive committee of the local Detroit group, the Coalition for Black and Jewish Unity, attended the event. The coalition, a partnership between the Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC and the Council of Baptist Pastors of Detroit and Vicinity, shares similar goals as the Congressional Caucus. Coalition Executive Board member Hazzan Dan Gross, along with Dr. Pauline Plummer, an accomplished pastor and singer, capped off the evening by leading the group in an emotional, arm-clinging rendition of the civil rights ballad “We Shall Overcome.” In what was possibly a first on Capitol Hill, Gross sang the first verse of the song in Hebrew. It was an extraordinarily moving and unforgettable display of solidarity for two communities who now have re-committed to each other through this new Congressional Caucus. Mark Jacobs is co-director of the Coalition for Black and Jewish Unity.
Two visitors stand next to the eternal flame at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia.
Historic Vote House of Representatives votes to recognize the Armenian Genocide. LOUIS FINKLEMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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t has only symbolic value. It comes too late to protect the persecuted minority. It comes too late to punish the perpetrators. The Armenian Genocide happened more than a century ago, in 1915. And yet it was a defiant act, when, on Oct. 29, the House of Representatives voted 405 to 11 on a non-binding resolution to “commemorate the Armenian Genocide through recognition and remembrance.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan promptly declared Turkey would not recognize the House resolution, continuing intense Turkish opposition to the terminology. In 1915, during World War I, Ottoman forces destroyed whole communities of Armenians. According to the Jewish-run Combat Genocide Organization, Ottoman soldiers and civilians drove neighborhoods of Christians into the desert, where they were shot or left to die of thirst or hunger. Estimations of the dead are 1-1.5 million. The modern state of Turkey makes it a crime to defame the Turkish people; in the course of a world war and a local rebellion, many civilians of all communities died. In 1948, one of the first official acts of the United Nations was to establish a Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide. Former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power describes
in her book, A Problem from Hell, countries have trouble acknowledging the crime or acting against perpetrators. The government of Israel does not describe the destruction of Armenian communities as genocide. Zvi Gitelman, professor emeritus of political science and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan, explains why: “At first, Turkey, a secular state since 1923, was the only majority-Muslim country that had normal relations with Israel.” Israel avoided upsetting its powerful neighbor. “Under Erdogan, Turkey has become less secular and less friendly to Israel.” Even so, Israel continues to avoid the term “genocide.” Two professors at the University of Michigan, Ronald Suny (history) and Fatma Muge Gocek (sociology), have published studies of the Armenian Genocide. Suny, who comes from an Armenian family, said about the House vote, “The passage of the resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide is particularly important, not only as a challenge to the deniers.” Gocek, a Turkish scholar who cannot return to her native country because of her published research, says, “By denying what happened, you prevent healing from happening, We need that healing to happen not only for the Armenians but for the Turks by taking responsibility.” NOVEMBER 14 • 2019
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Activism Urged NCJW speaker says “things [women] have taken for granted are now on the table.” BARBARA LEWIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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here’s good news and bad news for women in the current political climate, said legal and political pundit Dahlia Lithwick in her keynote address to the National Council of Jewish Women, Michigan at their annual Women of Vision luncheon Oct. 24 at Adat Shalom Synagogue. A graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law School, Lithwick has been covering the U.S. Supreme Court for 20 years; she calls it “the best job in journalism.” A senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate, an online magazine, Lithwick, 52, is also a frequent contributor to NPR, MSNBC and C-Span. Her op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and more. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with her husband, artist Aaron Fein, and two sons, 16 and 14. Women’s reproductive rights are under attack in many states, Lithwick said. The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case, June Medical Services LLC v. Gee, that revisits what should have been established precedent, she said. The case is similar to a Texas case decided in 2016, in which the court ruled that limiting the availability of abortion clinics was an undue burden on women exercising their legal rights. The Louisiana
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Women of Vision Award honoree Jackie Victor, speaker Dahlia Lithwick and Josephine S. Weiner Award honoree Lisa Lis
law in the June Medical Services case, if upheld, would limit abortions to a single doctor in the entire state. Other state laws making their way through the courts put severe limits on abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest. Lithwick says she’s concerned that upcoming cases could limit women’s access not only to abortion but to contraception. “Things we’ve taken for granted are now on the table,” she said, with a court that includes two justices who have been “credibly accused of sexual misconduct.” This is an “existential moment” for women, she said. Other important cases on the court’s docket deal with the rights of homosexual and transsexual people, immigration, limitations on guns and religious liberty. Although women are much more visible in law firms and courts than a generation ago — 50 percent of Lithwick’s law school classmates were women — since the 2016 election, women have been disappearing from the legal power structure. Of the 42 U.S. attorneys appointed since 2017, only one was a woman. The 150 most recent federal judicial appointees have been 80 percent male (and 90 percent white). But all is not gloom and doom, she said. “We in this
room have an enormous amount of power. As long as we deploy it, we can make a difference.” Women need to find the “sweet spot” where activism and the law interact. To counteract anti-woman legislation, women need to engage in “civic visibility,” she said. Women need to see and be seen by calling and visiting their elected representatives, writing op-eds and letters to the editor, and getting out the vote. “It’s tedious work but it needs to be done,” she said. At the start of the meeting, attended by 330, NCJW Michigan presented its Josephine S. Weiner Award for Community Service to Lisa Lis, a full-time volunteer who works with Gleaner’s, Henry Ford Hospital, the Detroit Zoological Society and Forgotten Harvest. She is a past chair of the Jewish Women’s Foundation and past president of the Jewish Federation’s Women’s Philanthropy effort. The group’s Women of Vision Award was presented to Jackie Victor, co-founder of Avalon International Bakery in Detroit. The business, started in 1997, has grown to four retail locations and 120 team members. Victor is also a strong supporter of Detroit’s urban agriculture movement and of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue.
Lecture on Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitism Jewish Historical Society of Michigan will hold a free 45-minute lecture and exhibition, “Reams of Hate: The Legacy of Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitic Newspaper,” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19, at Congregation Beth Ahm, given by JHSM Executive Director Catherine Cangany, Ph.D. The evening represents a collaboration between JHSM, Beth Ahm, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Archives at Temple Beth El and the Dearborn Historical Museum (DHM). Spearheaded by the ADL, it developed in response to the city of Dearborn’s recent reluctance to acknowledge the Independent and its ongoing power. Before and after the lecture, the public is invited to browse two pop-up exhibitions on the newspaper and the Jewish community’s fight against it, curated and presented by the Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Archives at Temple Beth El and the DHM. This year marks the centennial of Henry Ford’s anti-Semitic newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. In its heyday in the 1920s, its readership was second only to the New York Daily News. Its articles are still published in a four-volume set, The International Jew, which serves as inspiration to modern-day extremist groups and routinely receives five-star reviews on Amazon.com. Cangany will discuss Ford, his newspaper, the Jewish community’s successful efforts to shut it down and strategies to fight against its ongoing vitriol. A light dessert reception will follow the lecture. For more information or to register, visit michjewishhistory. org/calendar.
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he men, women, children and families who walk through the doors of South Oakland Shelter (SOS) in Lathrup Village are often facing dark times. The emergency shelter program, which merged with Pontiacbased Lighthouse earlier this year, provides housing and support services to those who are homeless — in part, through a network of local congregations that host the shelter each week. Just inside the entrance to SOS, there is a bright image — a donor wall in the shape of the sun, in memory of Dr. Harry Maisel’s late wife, Rachel, and late son, Hillel. Maisel of West Bloomfield is the former chair of the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at Wayne State University and was a faculty member there for more than 50 years. “Dr. Maisel reached out looking to make an impactful gift to support our work and memorialize his wife and son. Rachel Maisel was a longstanding volunteer at Adat Shalom supporting our SOS rotating emergency shelter program. Hillel was also involved in community work,” said Ryan Hertz, CEO of Lighthouse. “We decided to place the donor wall inside SOS so
their memories would inspire others.” Now, Maisel is increasing his support and encouraging others to do the same. He will match up to $25,000 in donations at Lighthouse’s Dancing With the Detroit Stars event Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham. “Through my Jewish upbringing, rabbis have taught that feeding the hungry and sheltering people in need is an essential part of Jewish life,” Maisel said. “My wife would have wanted me to continue to help and I have the means to do it, so why not?” Rachel was born in England and was a child in the 1940s during the Nazi Blitz in London. She was evacuated to safe havens to escape the German bombing campaign. The kindness that strangers showed her as a child stayed with her and led to her desire to help others. She passed away in 2014. “Every human being is born with a light,” said Adat Shalom rabbi and event participant Rachel Shere. “Each time people donate to Lighthouse or purchase a ray for the memorial wall, Rachel’s light endures.” To contribute to Dr. Harry Maisel’s match, visit lighthousemi.org.
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little less than three years after starting a college radio show that used Jewish teachings to spread positivity, Dovid Nissan Roetter founded the King David Network, an online radio station with the same goal. The network, based on Roetter’s original show, “Bike of Life,” is housed in a studio in Southfield. It debuted Nov. 1, 2018, while Roetter was working toward a master’s degree in broadcasting and cinematic arts at Central Michigan University (CMU). One of Roetter’s advisers suggested he enter the Make a Pitch competition for startup and potential businesses at CMU. Between November and April, Roetter attended workshops in preparation for the main competition. While his academic program covered best broadcasting methods and how to run radio stations, the competition forced Roetter to think about the viability of his station as a business. Competitors identified problems, created solutions through their companies, found potential customers and differentiated themselves from the competition. Roetter’s business plan grew to 32 pages.
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Steve Mavashev, news director for the network, and Dovid Roetter
Preparation for the competition included a gallery where startups could create a display. “Just knowing I was at an official event made the company feel real,” Roetter said. The grand prize was $25,000 for the best overall company. Other categories included best social media, best technology, highest growth potential, best lifestyle and the best company for Michigan. Four businesses were also given pitch awards by judges while a fifth pitch was chosen by the audience. Roetter did well in the social media and best company for Michigan categories, said Ross Noel, mentor-in-residence at
CMU’s College of Business Administration. He won $1,000 for the best two-minute pitch. Noel said the judges gave Roetter the award unanimously. Roetter made it clear that the King David Network would be a reality regardless of whether he won, Noel said. “He’s already validated that people want to hear this,” Noel said of the network. In the midst of the competition, an investor gave the network $5,000. “That really showed that we’re serious, that we’re not just an idea,” Roetter said. After the competition and the academic year ended, Roetter decided to move back to Metro Detroit to be closer to the Jewish community and grow the network. He left CMU, found a studio space and bought equipment. Now, Roetter’s team consists of 12 people, and the station has more than 5,000 Jewish songs of all genres. The network broadcasts programming for children, music hours featuring female vocalists, and morning and evening Torah classes and psalms. From 7 a.m. until sundown on Fridays, a segment called Sounds of Shabbat gets listeners
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ready for the holy day. The station is always on except during Shabbat and Jewish holidays. A lot of content is created in-house, but Roetter also got permission to run talk shows, lectures and podcasts from internationally renowned religious leaders and program hosts. While “Bike of Life” was only an hour long and more topic-focused, the King David Network shares its goal: to spread positivity through Jewish teachings designed for everyone. Roetter said King David taught that everything had to be done to spread Godliness because talents are from God. This is also why Roetter created the network — he said he felt the need to use his broadcast talents for good. Roetter’s sister, Pesha Leah Azoula Roetter, who passed away in 2010, wrote a poem that was the inspiration for “Bike of Life” and lived King David’s teachings, traveling to Sweden and Florida to help those in need. Roetter created the King David Network in her memory, he said. “That’s exactly the legacy my sister deserves,” Roetter said. Roetter has broadcast live from community events and lets community members record sweepers and promotions. Advertisements, sponsorships and announcements of weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, graduations and yahrtzeits are also available. The King David Network will broadcast live from the Fourth Annual Chanu-Con on Sunday, Nov. 24, at Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park. The network can be found at kingdavidnetwork.com as well as on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @KDNRadio.
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hanu-Con, Congregation Beth Shalom’s annual pre-Chanukah event, has been so successful that two synagogue members have made a children’s book about it. Welcome to Chanu-Con (Clear Stone Press) was a labor of love for writer Beth Rodgers of Oak Park and illustrator Howard Fridson of Huntington Woods.
ABOVE: Howard Fridson and Beth Rodgers show off their new children’s book.
They wanted to create a children’s book about Chanukah, but it seemed like everything about the holiday had already been done. “I must have at least 20 Chanukah books for kids,” said Rodgers, a freelance editor and mother of three sons, 6, 3 and
7 months. She didn’t want to write about the Maccabees or the miracle of the oil or latkes. “I thought Chanu-Con would be something different.” Rodgers, a Beth Shalom vice president and chair of its program committee, proposed the event four years ago. The name came from her son Evan’s mispronunciation of the name of the holiday. It sounded like Comic-Con, a well-known national expo, and so ChanuCon was born. The free event, which attracts more than 500 participants, includes vendor tables, a raffle, live musical entertainment, activities for children, including a bounce house, and several kosher food purveyors. This year’s Chanu-Con will be Sunday, Nov. 24, from 1-5 p.m. at Beth Shalom, 14601 Lincoln, Oak Park. Welcome to Chanu-Con, written in rhyme, follows siblings Max and Lila as they attend the festival with their parents. “Today is the day,” (Max)
exclaimed, loud and clear. “What time do we leave? I’ve been waiting all year.” At Chanu-Con, the children make tissue paper menorahs and candle hats — and directions are included at the back of the book so young readers can do the same. Rodgers has published two young adult novels, Freshman Fourteen and Sweet Fifteen. Fridson has illustrated a number of children’s books, including The Journey of a Dollar by Doris Rubenstein and The Animals’ Great Football Game by Jeffrey London, as well as one he wrote, Our Family Treasure. The two started collaborating on Welcome to Chanu-Con in early 2018. The creative process survived three house moves (two by Fridson and one by graphic designer Adrienne Berlin, of Milwaukee, Wis.) and the birth of Rodgers’ youngest son, Noah. The book is available on Amazon.
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After 40 years of making an impact at JVS, CEO Leah Rosenbaum plans to retire in 2020.
After 40 years at JVS, CEO Leah Rosenbaum is retiring. STACY GITTLEMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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their own lives,” Rosenbaum said. “That is why I have stayed.” Rosenbaum’s decades of service helped the agency grow from a budget of $8 million to $26 million and a staff of more than 400. In the last four decades, JVS launched an adult day program for those with dementia, developed services and community integration for people with disabilities, and expanded career services for job seekers at every level and stage in their career, including laid-off executives, people experiencing homelessness and women returning to work after a break. As government funding shrank, Rosenbaum spearheaded efforts to create new revenue streams by creating eCycle Opportunities, an electronics recycling program that provides jobs for people with barriers to employment, raises revenue for agency services and keeps tons of electronic parts out of landfills. Under Rosenbaum’s leadership, JVS 20 years ago established the Dorothy and
Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Program, designed to ease the way for families who wanted to keep their loved ones living with dementia in their own homes at a time when nursing homes were the only option. That program, operating in partnership with Jewish Senior Life, has blossomed into two locations in Southfield and West Bloomfield. “For the last 20 years, this program has allowed people to maintain their dignity as best they can in dealing with a disease that is anything but dignifying,” Rosenbaum said. GREAT RECESSION YEARS Over the years, Rosenbaum said she could forecast the economy by who and how many came into the JVS offices seeking employment advice. It was during the Great Recession of 2008-2009, when Rosenbaum and her staff saw the numbers of those seeking employment assistance, that she realized that to help them, JVS continued on page 28
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would have to remodel and diversify to provide training in addition to one-on-one counseling. “Hundreds of people were coming in every week,” Rosenbaum said. “They represented a segment of the workforce who had never before experienced unemployment. They were coming in feeling like they had been delivered the message that something was wrong with them. We had to create resources for them that not only offered them new jobhunting skills, but also gave them a social support group and showed them they were not alone.” In a continually and rapidly changing job market, Rosenbaum said it’s natural for many people to feel like
“I leave feeling confident that our talented and caring staff and lay leaders will continue to passionately serve our mission.” — LEAH ROSENBAUM
they want to climb into bed and pull the covers over their heads. During the last 10 years, Rosenberg said that JVS staff do their best to keep up with the latest job searching skills and to teach their clients that job searching is very different in today’s job market, when it may be computer algorithms and not people sifting through
applicant resumes. Rosenbaum said with the opening of the JVS operations at Durfee Innovation Society in Detroit in the former Durfee Intermediate School, where her mother and grandmother attended school, her personal connection to improving the lives of Detroiters in the
neighborhoods where they reside has come full circle. Rosenbaum will continue to consult for the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities in helping JVS enhance the quality of its rehabilitation and employment services for people with disabilities and specialized services for older adults. Personally, she looks forward to reconnecting with family and friends, picking up her long-neglected guitar and escaping the cold Michigan winter for warmer climes. “JVS will always hold a special place in my heart,” Rosenbaum said. “I leave feeling confident that our talented and caring staff and lay leaders will continue to passionately serve our mission.”
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Jews in the D West Bloomfield Native Featured in Yale’s ‘Voices from the Holocaust’ Podcast concentration camps while Horwitz, was a survivor of the Skarzysko-Kamienna labor camp. Her story offers listeners insight into the cruelty she endured and witnessed during the Holocaust at a young age, and details how she and her three sisters were able to stay together and survive the war. Horwitz started her new life in New Haven, Conn., and later moved with her husband Morton to West Bloomfield in 2005, where she lived until her passing in 2014. She was a longtime member of Congregation B’nai Moshe. Sally Horwitz Co-producer of the podcast Nahanni Rous said in a press release, “I hope listening to their stories also helps attune us to the resurgence of bigotry and incitement in public discourse, with its violent consequences — and can spur us to fight against the politics of hate in our time.” JN FILE PHOTO
Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies has launched the podcast, “Those Who Were There: Voices from the Holocaust.” The podcast allows listeners to hear firsthand accounts of the tragedies that took place during the Holocaust. The Holocaust Survivors Film Project donated their collection of interviews of Holocaust survivors to the Yale University Library in 1981. From there, the Fortunoff Video Archive made it its goal to collect individual’s stories from the Holocaust. The podcast’s narrator, Eleanor Reissa, is a Tonynominated director, actress, singer and writer. She is also the daughter of two Holocaust survivors. The two most recent episodes feature testimonies from two Jewish women, Sally Finkelstein Horwitz and Heda Kovaly. Kovaly was a survivor of the Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen
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On Thursday, Nov. 21, from 7-8:30 p.m., JCRC/AJC, along with the Hindu American Foundation, will host a Chanukah-Diwali Fireside Chat at Congregation Shir Tikvah in Troy. Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, took place on Sunday, Oct. 27. Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, begins at sundown on Sunday,
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Artists Capture Michigan Living play at an open house show from 5-8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, in the offices of New York Life Insurance, 27777 Franklin Road, Suite 2200, Southfield. The space was designed to host such shows, Widener says. For details, contact Widener at (248) 890-3519. COURTESY CHERYL WIDENER
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Area artists are releasing a unique series of 15-25 small paintings on canvas, paper or board in a range of 5 to 14 inches, each inspired by life here in Michigan. This collection of paintings not only reflects different life experiences but also the styles and personalities of each of the artists. The show has been curated by artist Cheryl Widener of West Bloomfield to celebrate and bring together the exuberance of the arts in the area. She is an areabased artist known for her creative spirit and a lifetime love of painting. The Small Works Series will be on dis-
The Area Agency on Aging 1-B is calling on snowbirds, older adults who winter in warmer states, to use their Michigan address when responding to Census 2020. Billions of federal dollars are at stake for critical programs that serve seniors. By April 2020, every home in the U.S. will receive an invitation to participate in Census 2020 using a unique Census ID code. Older adults who spend most of the year in Michigan need to use the code they receive at their Michigan address to be counted as Michigan residents. They may respond to the short census questionnaire online or by phone. For every resident not counted, Michigan loses $1,800 annually — or $18,000 over the 10 years until the next census. The money supports Medicaid, home-delivered meals, Section 8 housing subsidy vouchers, planning for hospitals, nursing homes, health care clinics and senior living facilities, among other programs. In 2015, Michigan received $14 billion based on accurate population figures. The Area Agency on Aging 1-B will be offering help to older adults at various senior centers in the coming months with Census 2020. The census is designed to provide data that will help the government plan for transportation, education, community-based and facility needs. For details on Census 2020, visit aaa1b.org/ census-2020.
New Exhibit at Soul Studio A new exhibit, Cultivating Overlap, which explores common threads in artwork made at the Dresner Foundation Soul Studio in West Bloomfield, runs through Dec. 29. Whether a fascination with rainbows, a drive for assertive mark-making or a love for pastels, the overlap cultivated by sharing creative space provides a fertile ground for conversation. In this show, groupings of artwork by two to three artists are installed in close proximity to highlight artistic and material similarities and emphasize the collective studio environment. This is the first exhibition curated by Soul Studio facilitating artists Olivia Dixon (fibers) and Vicki Shaheen (ceramics/woodshop), who have worked closely with all the artists with artwork in the exhibition. The two curators were inspired by the immediate similarities in the subject matter and aesthetic strategies shared between the artists. Even though many of the artists work in the studio on different days and have never met each other, a clear cross pollination happens within this group environment.
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In recommending Sara, Rochel Schwartz (no relation), Girls High School principal of Bais Yaakov, wrote about her commitment to bringing others toward acts of loving kindness. “She is intelligent, conscientious and determined. In her unassuming fashion,” Schwartz said, “she accomplishes much and encourages others to join her in reaching their goals.” Each Jewish day school affiliated with the Jewish Federation nominated one student for the award. A presentation of the award took place Oct. 7 at Bais Yaakov on the Nancy Grosfeld Campus of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah in Oak Park.
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leaders. This year, former Detroiters Michael Budman and Don Green, founders of Roots, told their story to inspire the next generation. The event was organized by Adam Finkel and Perry Teicher.
On Oct. 28, Kadima hosted its 2019 Community Awards Night at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham. The event was a celebration of Kadima’s 35th anniversary. The agency recognized Flagstar Bank as this year’s Community Partner of the Year for its Money
Smart program. Honorees for Employee of the Year and Volunteers of the Year were also recognized. The event was sponsored by UBS, Jonathan and Erin Modiano, Gail Katz, the Hava Rachel Leichtman Creative Expressions Fund and PharmaSource LTC.
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Detroit expat Arthur Peschansky spoke about his family coming to the U.S. when he was 2 as refugees and how they were supported by the Jewish community.
New York expat Amy Butte and David Techner converse with Roots founder Michael Budman.
Harriet Dasi Brent of Bloomfield Hills, Dr. Harris Mainster of Bloomfield Hills, Kadima Employee of the Year Elaine Kahn, Arlene Mainster Holtzman of Cambridge, Mass., Lois Shulman of West Bloomfield and Yifat Clein of Detroit
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JUNE 24, 2019 Kelly (Brickner) and Zachary Lyon of Portland, Ore., are excited to announce the birth of their son, Ford Emerson Lyon. Big sister Lake Marlowe Lyon is thrilled to have a new baby brother. Proud grandparents are Cheryl and Barry Brickner of Farmington Hills, and Kathy and Charles Lyon of Manawa, Wis. Ford is named in loving memory of his maternal great-great-great-aunt Fannie Richmond and his paternal great-grandmother Erna Geiger.
JAN. 17, 2019 It is with great joy that Hannah (Cohen) and Dereck Veenstra of Redford announce the birth of Lily Grace Veenstra. Delighted grandparents are Keri and Don Cohen of West Bloomfield, and Kim Crawford. She is also the grandchild of the late Guy Veenstra. Lily is the great-grandchild of Miriam Guten (the late Donald Guten) of Dallas, Dorothy Veenstra (the late John Veenstra), Chuck and Karen Crawford, and the late Jackie and the late Jerry Rogers. Lily is welcomed into the Jewish community as Shira Tikvah, named after her late great-grandma Jackie, who loved to sing, and her cousin Delaney Hope Moskowitz, the late daughter of her great-aunt and great-uncle Myra and Artie Moskowitz of Dallas.
Jonathan Eli Kalt will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, at Congregation Kehillat Israel in East Lansing. He is the son of Brian and Sara Kalt and the brother of Benjamin and Daniel. His grandparents are Melvyn and the late Paula Kalt, and Aylene Kovensky-Gard and the late William Kovensky. Jonny is a student at MacDonald Middle School in East Lansing. For his mitzvah project, he raised money for the Daniel M. Glickman Memorial Fund to help kids attend Jewish summer camp.
Samson Elijah Weinberg, son of Jennifer and Kevin Weinberg, will chant from the Torah on the occasion of his bar mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. He will be joined in celebration by his proud grandparents Sheila and Norman Weinberg, Sharon and Richard Greenlee, and Pam and Carl Blehm. Sam attends Clifford H. Smart Middle School in Commerce Township. While he was at work, he met a homeless man. As part of his mitzvah project, Sam decided to gather clothes and purchase toiletries and other items to help this person in need.
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Megan Rachel Zelmanov will become a bat mitzvah on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. She will be joined in celebration by her proud parents, Svetlana Vrubel and Mikhail Zelmanov, brother Aaron and loving grandparents Galina and Mark Vrubel. Megan is the granddaughter of
the late Arkadiy Zelmanov and the late Regina Shargorodskya. She is a student at West Hills Middle School in Bloomfield Hills. Megan performed several mitzvah projects and felt leading a team for the Walk to End Alzheimer’s and raising funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research were among the most meaningful.
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Spirit torah portion
A Model Of Get-Up-And-Go he opening of this por- to the land of Moriah.” It is this linking of Avraham with tion is the well-known morning time that led our narrative of Avraham rabbis to say that our daily welcoming the three angels morning service was fixed in into his home and displaying connection with Avraham. the important Jewish value of Why is Avraham always hakhnasat orhim, welcoming up so early? He is anxious to do God’s will, to fulfill guests. his purpose in life and Another Jewish to do the mitzvot. This value that comes across sense of zerizut is not strongly in Avraham’s tangential to living a behavior, both here religious life; it is essenand throughout the descriptions of his life, Rabbi Steven tial. Avraham shows us a path toward moving is zerizut — enthusiRubenstein through our lives with asm. Here, Avraham’s Parshat purpose. enthusiasm to do the Vayera: When you see an mitzvah of welcoming Genesis opportunity to help guests comes out in the 18:1-22:24; someone, don’t procrasspeed with which he II Kings tinate; don’t put it off. reacts to their presence. 4:1-37. Who knows how long He runs to greet them; the opportunity will he runs to ask Sarah to prepare food for the guests; he be available to you? When we procrastinate in the presruns to his herd to choose an ence of a mitzvah, we show animal for the meal. That is a lot of running for an old man. it to be less than important. It might seem that someone The truth is, all of else will come along to take Avraham’s running is only care of things. Maybe that is one aspect of the zerizut he shows in the story. A midrash true. When that happens, the person who needed the help tells us that Avraham was will be OK. The person who always on the lookout for people wandering through the fulfilled the mitzvah will have desert. He was always looking achieved something. But what about us? We’ll be the same for the opportunity to peras we were before, but in an form the mitzvah of welcomunfortunate way. We will not ing guests. have achieved something. We If you look through the will not have helped someone narratives of Avraham’s life in need. We will not have in the Torah, you can find a fulfilled that part of ourselves variety of moments where which was made to fulfill Avraham shows this. It is mitzvot. displayed in the fact that Wouldn’t it be better to Avraham is always getting up follow Avraham’s model of and on with his day early in zerizut? Better for you, better the morning: in the morning for others and better for our the day after God tells him, “Lech Lecha — Go forth from world? your native land … to a land that I will show you;” the day Rabbi Steven Rubenstein is rabbi of after God says, “Take your Congregation Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield. son, your only son … and go
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Eretz Famed Chef To Help Build Israeli Culinary School
Symbol of Hope An olive tree was planted at a Jewish winery in memory of a beloved deceased Palestinian worker.
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and comfort. However, presently, the olive tree is often portrayed in the news as a point of contention between Jews and Palestinians. In Israel, planting trees (usually olive trees as they grow well in hill country) establishes squatter ownership rights on property. This creates a “land grab” between Jews and Palestinians. Assad’s olive tree is meant to symbolize hope for peace between the clashing cultures. Alongside the tree is a large stone with both Hebrew and Arabic inscriptions. UNITED WITH ISRAEL
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srael’s Gush Etzion Winery memorialized a Palestinian worker who died suddenly from a brain hemorrhage two weeks ago. A group of Jews and Palestinians joined forces to plant an olive tree, a symbol of peace, in front of the winery. Shadi Assad, 25, from the village Khallet Sakariya in the Gush Etzion region outside of Jerusalem, had worked at the Gush Etzion Winery’s restaurant for five years as a cleaner. Last month, Assad complained of head pain. He was taken to a medical clinic in Bethlehem, where he was told that nothing serious was wrong. One week later, Assad died of a brain hemorrhage. Following a condolence visit by the winery’s owner, Shraga Rozenberg, to the Assad family, his colleagues decided to plant an olive tree in his memory. Biblically, the olive tree represents peace
Shadi Assad
The inauguration was attended by local rabbis, staff, family and friends from both the Jewish and Muslim communities. Following the event, one winery employee wrote, “I don’t know what peace would be like and how to bring it, but I know that a few hours ago I experienced a moment of peace. I feel the crazy complexity, the anger — but also neighborly and humane feelings.” In a video, Rozenberg and Muhmad Assad, the father of Shadi, sit together and explain their feelings about Shadi and the tree planting. Muhmad said that he witnessed the love that the winery staff had for his son, noting that they cried along with him. Rozenberg shared that he wanted to comfort the family with the memorial. The video ends with both men expressing similar sentiments, hoping for peace in their native languages.
Michael Solomonov, the award-winning Philadelphia restauranteur, has joined the advisory council of an Israeli culinary school set to open in 2021. Solomonov announced he was becoming the inaugural member of the school’s advisory council at a press conference in New York alongside Lior Lev Sercarz, an Israeli chef involved in the project. Both chefs are working with the Jewish National Fund to create the Galilee Culinary Institute at Kibbutz Gonen near Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel. Solomonov is also working with JNF to build a food and technology innovation center in the city. The institute and center will cost $29 million to build. The institute will offer a fouryear accredited program, and the first class is expected to start in the fall of 2021. “I always felt bad that young men and women in Israel or the region don’t necessarily have where to go to learn about cooking and the culinary studies. There are a few private schools now, which is great, but not at the scale that I would want it to be,” Sercarz said. Both chefs are born in Israel but based in the U.S. Solomonov has opened several restaurants, and his Philadelphia eatery Zahav was named the best in the country in May by the James Beard Foundation. Sercarz owns La Boite, an upscale spice shop in Manhattan. “We are seeing a renaissance in Israeli food as American diners embrace the cultural melting pot of cuisines from my home country,” Solomonov said in a statement. “GCI by JNF will be a new type of culinary school, where budding chefs will work with the unique mix of cultures and cuisines that can only be found in the north of Israel.”
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Art-Filled Home
ABOVE: Larry and Jane Sherman. RIGHT: A towering sculpture by Michigan artist David Barr makes a statement at the entrance to the Sherman home in Bloomfield Hills.
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ane and Larry Sherman’s 3-year-old Bloomfield Hills home, designed by architects Denise and George Hartman and constructed by custom builder Joel Lerman, faces a water refuge that is continually teeming with interesting wildlife. And the home’s stunning interior, designed by Patti Kelter of Kelter Schwartz Design, is brimming over with exciting collections of both contemporary art and Judaic antiquities.
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Jane and Larry Sherman’s house reflects their interests in art, Israel and antiquities.
Holding a place of honor in the living room is an oil painting of the Judean Hills outside of Jerusalem by famous Israeli artist Yossi Stern that the couple purchased in 1962. “It the first piece of art we bought together, and it cost $60,” Jane says. Jane, a champion golfer, wife, mother of three, grandmother of 10 and great-grandmother of three, is the daughter of the late Max M. Fisher, iconic
Detroit-area philanthropist and businessman whose financial contributions as well as sage counseling on the local, national and international scene are legendary — and she has continued to build upon that legacy. “My very first Jewish memory goes back to 1947 when I was just 9 years old,” she says. “We were living at the Lee Plaza Hotel in Detroit and listening, on an old-fashioned radio, to a vote that was
“My heart is in Israel … especially helping children at risk … and I continue to do that to this day.” — JANE SHERMAN
going on at the United Nations to decide whether Israel should be recognized.” Larry Sherman, now retired, was the owner of 25 Sherman Shoes stores, a company started by his father in 1925. He is also the founder of the Birmingham PSD (Principal Shopping District), an official agency responsible for the advertising, marketing and promotion of downtown Birmingham. And the native Detroiter shares Jane’s
passion for philanthropy, especially when it comes to Israel. NOTABLE ART PIECES Looking at the art found inside and outside their home, Larry says he is particularly fond of renowned glass sculptor Dale Chihuly’s oil painting of a vase being fired that the couple purchased in Aspen in 1990. Jane’s favorite artwork is Kehinde
Wiley’s dynamic and colorful 4-foot oil painting of a haughty woman that hangs in the foyer. (Wiley is the artist who painted the official portrait of President Barack Obama that currently hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.) And the couple’s latest acquisition is the vibrant multicolored 10-foot powder-coated metal sculpture of a floral bouquet created by world-renowned continued on page 48 NOVEMBER 14 • 2019
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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: David Hockney’s Amaryllis shares a wall with a signed Jasper Johns lithograph. A bedroom with a view. This bathroom features fun, powerful wallpaper. Antiquities from Israel line the shelves and are a passionate treasure for the Shermans. ABOVE: A mammoth, yet graceful bouquet of powder-coated sculptural flowers by Michael Kalish.
sculptor Michael Kalish that has been placed in the lower garden. Frequent trips to Israel over the past 40 years have inspired the Shermans’ keen interest in both Judaica and antiquities. For example, on the wall in the library, 17 wooden and glass shelves hold, among other things, a grouping of Canaanite bronze weapons presented to Jane’s father by Moishe Dayan as well as a collection of ancient mezuzahs, shofars and menorahs. And a spectacular Haggadah that includes serigraphs designed by Yaacov Agam, the Israeli sculptor and experimental artist best known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art, rests on a table nearby. Created in 1985, it is No. 3 of a limited edition of 180. Another fascinating object is the bronze “hidden clock” that sits on a
glass ledge in the dining area. It is a replica of a type of clock made long ago to hold, yet hide within, everything a family might need to celebrate Jewish holidays at a time when their observance was forbidden. It includes a Kiddush cup, candlesticks and Chanukah candles. “These types of clocks date back to the time that Jews were living in Spain,” Jane says. ACTIVISM AND ISRAEL Twenty years after listening to that U.N. vote for Israeli statehood with her father, after moving back to the Detroit area following a stint in Florida and at the end of the Six-Day War in Israel, Jane says she chose to become very involved locally, eventually serving as president of the Detroit Women’s Department of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan continued on page 50
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about Jewish philanthropy; and Partnership 2000 (now called Partnership2Gether), a program that created partnerships between diaspora communities and regions in Israel. Detroitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s partnership, now celebrating 25 years, is with the Central Galilee region. Along the way, Jane has also been involved with causes outside of the Jewish community, including being a board member of both the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. She is currently active in helping to allocate money through the local Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation, including to children who live in Brightmoor, a struggling area in Detroit that is rebounding through an alliance of more than 50 organizations. Keeping both the Shermansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; lifestyles and interests in mind, their residence was designed to beautifully and graciously accommodate small Friday night family Sabbath dinners as well as larger social and/or charitable events. It is indeed a house that is a home.
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Arts&Life theater
‘Still Goin’ Strong’ Actress playing the ingenue role in Hello, Dolly! says iconic musical is still full of life.
The touring cast of Hello, Dolly! Laura Sky Herman is the young woman in the train car.
SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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aura Sky Herman has some priority interests in common with Jerry Herman, but shared family ties do not enter into that. Both share a love of the musical Hello, Dolly! — which has his music and lyrics, and has her taking the role of Ermangarde in a touring Laura Sky production Herman being staged Nov. 19-Dec. 1 at the Fisher Theatre in Detroit. Both have a commitment to visual arts, which he studied as an architecture student and kept as a hobby while advancing his musical theater projects. She studies as an art history major on leave from Harvard University. Both can link to Woodward Avenue traffic, which inspired his Hello, Dolly! song “Before the Parade Passes By,” written as the original production was having its Detroit tryouts. And she will experience the traffic when visiting the Detroit Institute of Arts for research on her senior thesis about American museums. And both are Jewish, which motivated him to write the score for the Israel-based play Milk and Honey, and which
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she celebrated during her bat Numbers she watched in mitzvah at Miami’s Temple a touring production of The Beth Ahm and is at the heart Sound of Music activated her of her thinking the last name enduring career interest when of the play’s main character, she was 10. Dolly Gallagher Levi, suggests “Right after the perforJewish ties. mance, I looked over at my “I love so much to be part of mom and said I wanted to do this amazing production, and that,” Herman recalls. “I would it’s an honor to be a namesake circle local auditions in the in this show,” says the actress, newspaper, and I got to play 23, single and on her first Gretl in a local production of national tour. The Sound of Music. I studied “Hello, Dolly!, produced classical ballet, took voice by Eric Falkenstein, is one of lessons and did shows at my the most iconic musicals of school.” all time — a quintessential Special studies outside of manifestation of high school what a musical brought her to comedy is. It’s so the University details full of life and love of Michigan, Hello, Dolly! runs Nov. and so opulent and where she 19-Dec. 1 at the Fisher luxurious that it’s a participated Theatre in Detroit. dream to get to be in the MPulse Tickets start at $39. in this show.” Summer (313) 872-1000, ext.0. Herman, who Performing Arts broadwayindetroit.com. Institutes. She demonstrates singing and dancing recalls going to talents through Detroit to watch her ingénue role in stage producthe play about a matchmaker, tions and eating at Zingerman’s. performs “Put on Your Sunday Other scholarly programs Clothes” and “It Only Takes a took her to Texas State Moment.” University for more musical “When I’m backstage watch- theater training and the Royal ing the waiters doing their big Academy of Dramatic Art in walk because Dolly’s back at the United Kingdom for coachthe Harmonia Gardens, I can’t ing in classical acting. help but cheer,” Herman says During summers while of the number spotlighting the enrolled at Harvard, she show’s title song. appeared in professional
summer stock productions. Her favorite parts included Polly Baker in Crazy for You at the New London Barn Playhouse in New Hampshire and Vivian in Oklahoma at the North Shore Music Theatre in Massachusetts. At Harvard, Herman was among those changing a longtime theater tradition. “Hasty Pudding Theatricals is America’s oldest theater group,” Herman explains. “For nearly 200 years, the cast has been all male. Half of the cast would dress in drag as women. “It was debated for many years if women should join the cast or whether Hasty Pudding would maintain its signature feature of cross-dressing. “This past year, we’ve finally been able to be cast as women. Six other girls and I got to be in a show. Some played male parts, and some played women. I played a male pirate, and it was such a joy. Hasty Pudding has helped me grow and prepare for slapstick and over-thetop musical comedy.” The Tony Award-winning revival of Hello, Dolly! has Herman working with famed director Jerry Zaks. “Jerry was with us for rehearsals in New York, and we were still adding little jokes,” Herman says. “The show is very much alive.”
Arts&Life music
With One Breath Temple Israel’s new CD explores the congregation’s cohesiveness in prayer through music. SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER PHOTOS BY MAYA GRINBOIM
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ful to congregations all over the country n other circumstances, the event might and will add to the musical life of Reform be called a record release party. Judaism,” Smolash said. This event comes in the form of a This Temple Israel recording, which folfestive Shabbat service as Temple Israel lows the recordings Kavanat Haruach and introduces a new recording made by the We Are One, also will be available at religious staff in collaboration with musical temple-israel.org/album. The digital source talents based in the United States, Canada also has transliterations, translations and and Israel. credit listings of participants, who did not With One Breath, featuring traditional have to be together in a single studio to join Hebrew prayers that are part of Temple in the music. Israel services and set to the music of Through technology, the base recording today’s composers, will be performed was enhanced with the sounds of distant Friday evening, Nov. 22, add-ons, such as a Celtic whistle just days after the recording and oud in Toronto and a is made available Nov. 18 dumbek in Tel Aviv. through free web distribuAri Posner, who scores tion. award-winning Canadian teleTwelve soundtracks are vision series and films, was being accompanied by a the recording producer and video of the first track, arranger as well as composer of “Hinei Ma Tov.” Free CDs two pieces, “Barchu” and “Mi will be given out to those Chamocha.” attending the formal intro“I think this recording is an duction, where vocalists eclectic musical journey, and I details and band members will hope it will be uplifting to people With One Breath will present live renditions of in a spiritual way but also in an what they have recorded. be introduced during enjoying music kind of way,” “We have created a celservices at 7:30 p.m. says Posner, who has worked on ebration of Jewish music Friday, Nov.22, at Anne, X Company and Flashpoint that brings together the Temple Israel in West as they gained series popularity. sounds of Ashkenazic and Bloomfield. (248) 661“The text and lyrics come from Sephardic Judaism,” says 5700. temple-israel.org. prayers and liturgy, but I feel the Cantor Michael Smolash, songs stand on their own as just at the helm of the fivegood songs enjoyable to listen to.” year project as funded by Joining the local musicians is violist the Gottlieb family in memory of Stephen and violinist Sonia Lee, who has worked Gottlieb, who delighted in playing music as with Josh Groban and Billy Joel. Besides well as listening to others. Smolash, vocals are performed by Cantor “One goal was to present the music of Temple Israel and Reform Judaism in a way Neil Michaels, Rabbi Jennifer Lader, stage and recording artist Jacob “Spike” Kraus that would reach out to people’s lives. The and Emma Trivax, who sings at services. second was to introduce new congregants “Choneini,” the third track, has to do to our music so they can enjoy listening to with the theme of healing. With music it and be very comfortable having learned composed by Smolash, it has a voiceover the melodies on their own. The third is to reading by Rabbi Paul Yedwab. put up new music people haven’t heard. The cantor explains the title of the “I think the few new pieces will be use-
Cantor Neil Michaels, composer/producer Ari Posner, sound engineer Jacob Shives, bass player James Simonson, percussionist Danny Cox and Cantor Michael Smolash
Cantors Michaels and Smolash with Rabbi Jennifer Lader and congregational soloist Emma Trivax
recording has to do with the feeling of cohesiveness pervasive in the congregation as expressed, in part, through music. “At Temple Israel services, when we’re singing and praying together, there’s something about breath and singing and spirit that really unites us all,” he says. “That was what the recording was getting at — getting everyone to meet together in active prayer, with one breath, as it were.”
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MOVIE NOTES The Irishman, an acclaimed new film by Martin Scorsese about an Irish American contract killer for the mafia, will start streaming on Netflix on Nov. 27. Many theaters decided at the last minute not to run the film because of the short “exclusive” window. Well, the film, co-starring Harvey Keitel, 80, as a mafia boss, will run at the Landmark Theater in Royal Oak on Nov. 15. So, you do have a chance to see it in all its bigscreen glory. Ford v. Ferrari opens at the Maple Theater in Bloomfield on Nov. 15. In 1963, the Italian car company Ferrari was approached by Ford with a buy-out offer. Talks ended when Enzo Ferrari realized that a buy-out would include the purchase of his company’s highly successful racing program. Ford’s head, Henry Ford II (Tracey Letts), directed his racing division to develop a car that could beat Ferrari. Jon Berenthal, 43, has a big supporting role as Lee Iacocca, then the vice-president of Ford. Rachel Weisz, 49, is signed to play Elizabeth Taylor (19322011) in a biopic titled A Special Relationship. It focuses on her acting career and her work as a major activist during the AIDS/ HIV crisis. The script is by Simon Beaufoy, who wrote Slumdog Millionaire. TV/STREAMING OFFERINGS The NBC show New Leaf, spon-
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sored by Ancestry.com, began airing Oct. 5. The episode that first aired on Nov. 2 is entitled “Coming of Age.” It opens with single Los Angeles mom Allison Bluestein deciding to put together a book of family history in honor of her son’s bar mitzvah. However, Bluestein has a lot of gaps in her family history — ancestors she barely knows anything about. To the rescue comes show host Daisy Fuentes, who, with an army of family history experts, helps her fill-in the gaps. I found Fuentes annoying in that I don’t think she knows anything about researching a family tree. She is just reading from a script of “revelations” created by the people who did the research. However, in the second half of the program, Bluestein and Fuentes visit a local Jewish history museum where a staff member — using museum exhibits — gives historical context to the Bluestein family’s European ancestors. That part is truly informative and of value to just about any Jew with European roots. You can watch the episode (for free) on the NBC app, on NBC.com or through NBC on-demand (cable/satellite/Hulu). Do catch on Netflix the 2017 documentary Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives. Davis, now 87, began as an entertainment lawyer. But, in 1967, he discovered he had an uncanny ear for hits. Decade after decade, he discovered and signed every sort of top act, from rock to rap, and, even now, he is still very much in the game. Trust me: This one is worth your time.
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8 am–4 pm, Nov. 15. Shop Hillel’s Fall Shuk, featuring a variety of local clothing, jewelry, toy vendors and goods made at the day school’s MakerSpace. Proceeds benefit Hillel’s tuition assistance program.
10 am, Nov. 16. Adat Shalom will hold a mini-minyan with Hazzan Dan Gross for a music-filled Shabbat morning of song and prayer. Open to the community at no charge. Info: 248-626-2153 or sshapiro@adatshalom.org.
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9:30-10:45 am, Nov. 17. Navigate parenting through a Jewish lens with Jackie Issner, Ph.D., L.P., and Rabbi
Rachel Shere at Adat Shalom. The series, intended for anyone with a role caring for children ages 7-12, is co-sponsored by the Adat Shalom-Beth Achim Learning Community, Adult Learning Department and Sisterhood. Additional dates for the program are 12/8, 1/12, 2/9, 3/15 and 4/26. Each class is self-contained. No charge for Adat Shalom members, nonmembers $5 per session. RSVP by the Thursday before each session: 248-626-2153, sshapiro@adatshalom.org.
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NOV. 17 - HOLIDAY GIFT SHOP From noon-3 p.m., Soul Studio will hold a holiday gift shop and open house showcasing original artwork, apparel, furniture and other creations made at Dresner Foundation Soul Studio, 5586 Drake Road, West Bloomfield. Meet artists and staff and create your own holiday cards. On this day only, show your receipt from the Soul Gallery Store and receive 10 percent off your meal at Soul Cafe. Or if you care to dine first, show your receipt from Soul Cafe and receive 10 percent off in the Soul Gallery Store.
NOV. 18 HAZZAN GROSS & FRIENDS IN CONCERT Metro Detroit’s most gifted singers come together at Adat Shalom Synagogue for a memorable night of thrilling vocal music. The concert will feature Broadway showstoppers, American standards, operatic arias and more. Featured performers are Hazzan Daniel Gross (baritone), Julia Hoffert (mezzo-soprano), Nicole Joseph (soprano), Glenn Miller (bass), Jason Wickson (tenor) and Kevin Bylsma (piano). The concert is Monday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. and the community is welcome. Tickets: $36 at the door. Visit adatshalom.org/ hgfriends or call Adat Shalom Synagogue at (248) 851-5100.
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CHALLAH BAKING CLASS 10 am-1 pm, Nov. 17. At Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue. Emily Shira Levine will teach JTot families how to bake challah. This event is open to children of any age, even newborns.
CHILDHOOD CENTER REUNION 2-3:30 pm, Nov. 17. For all Hillel Early Childhood Center Alumni from the class of 2010-2019. See your teachers and friends, enjoy ECC-themed crafts and snacks, tour the renovated facility and bring a project or memory for the ECC time capsule. RSVP: hillelday. org/eccreunion.
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9 am, Nov. 18. Class meets Mon., Wed. and Fri. for 10 classes. At Cong. Beth Shalom in Oak Park, sponsored by JCC Without Borders. $65 nonmembers; $45 for JCC/Beth Shalom members.
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10-11:30 am, Nov. 18. Group meets every Monday to discuss matters of Jewish interest. Sponsored by the Active Life at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Info: Sandy Ashman, 248-910-7505 or Ely Flaum, 248-592-0690.
CAREGIVER SUPPORT 5:30-7 pm, Nov. 18. For family caregivers of all older adults. At JVS, 29699 Southfield Road, Southfield. For information or to RSVP: Dorothy Moon, 248-2334392, dmoon@jvsdet.org.
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;THE YIDDISH COLUMBUSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 4-5:30 pm, Nov. 18. U-M Frankel Center will host Rachel Rubinstein at the Thayer Building, Room 2022, Ann Arbor. Rubinstein of Hampshire will introduce Jacobo Glantzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1939 Mexican Yiddish epic poem Kristobal Kolon, arguing that Glantzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poem is a point of origin for his daughter, historian and writer Margo Glantzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s later feminist re-examinations of the colonial histories of Mexico. Written in a
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DELI DELIGHTS 7-9 pm, Nov. 18. The Well will host a visit behind the scenes at Zalmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Deli, 39475 Woodward, Bloomfield Hills. Subsidized tickets are available at $30, which includes demos, deli nosh and a cocktail. Register online at meetyouatthewell.org.
TUESDAY, NOV. 19 SIMPLY DANCE
11 am, Nov. 19. Group meets every Tuesday, sponsored by the Active Life at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Led by Christine Stewart. No partner needed. Cost: $7.
YIDDISH IN POLAND 4-5:30 pm, Nov. 19. A U-M Frankel Center Event: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yiddish in Poland: Past, Present, and Future.â&#x20AC;? At the Thayer Building, Room 2022, Ann Arbor. A panel will explore various facets of a resurgence of things Jewish, offering insights and raising questions about the implications of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yiddish turnâ&#x20AC;? in Poland today. Free event.
â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;REAMS OF HATEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 7 pm, Nov. 19. At Congregation Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield. Jewish Historical Society of Michigan will present a free lecture and exhibition. JHSM Director Catherine Cangany will present a 45-minute talk on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reams of Hate: The Legacy of Henry Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Anti-Semitic Newspaper.â&#x20AC;? Q & A session and a light dessert reception will follow. Register: online at michiganjewishhistory.org/ calendar.
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12:30 pm, Nov. 20. Every Wednesday at Cong. Beth Shalom in Oak Park, sponsored by the sisterhood. Drop-ins welcome. Info: 248-547-7970.
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1-2:30 pm, Nov. 20. In this free Mind University brain health workshop, explore the connection between the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s physical, emotional and cognitive levels of awareness. Learn simple strategies that stimulate the brainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plasticity by taking advantage of this whole-body connection. At Jewish Family Service, 6555 W. Maple Road. Reserve your spot:Â MindU@ jfsdetroit.org or 248-788-MIND.
6-8 pm, Nov. 20. Lactofermentation with Carly Sugar & Repair the World. At Yad Ezra, 2850 W. 11 Mile, Berkley. Parking in lot off Robina Street. Sliding scale fee $5-20, free to Yad Ezra clients and EBT users.
DROP IN & LEARN 1 pm, Nov. 20. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thanksgiving â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Religion, Otherness, and At-Homeness in America.â&#x20AC;? Beth Ahm invites lifelong learners to watch and discuss a webinar produced by the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America in November 2017, featuring a panel moderated by Dr. Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. No charge; no reservations needed. For info: call Nancy Kaplan, (248) 737-1931, or email nancyellen879@att.net.
MOVIE MATINEE 1 pm, Nov. 20. Sponsored by the Active Life at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. The Other Son (1 hr. 45 min.) Free.
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11 am-3 pm, Nov. 21. The Greater West Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce will host at Orchard Mall, 6465 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield. Great information, promotional items and holiday ideas. No charge. Info: wbloomfieldchamber@gmail.com.
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‘It’s Been a Good Run’ Retiring clothier Ron Elkus looks ahead to volunteer work and travel. SHARI S. COHEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER
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on Elkus, owner of the popular Shirt Box men’s clothing store, will miss some aspects of his retail life when he retires early in 2020. But mostly he is grateful for the relationships he has built with customers and for their loyalty to him during the past 38 years. When his plans Ron Elkus to close The Shirt Box were announced, Elkus, who is 60 and a Huntington Woods resident, was shocked and surprised at the reaction of his customers. “I was overwhelmed by the response. They sent flowers, cakes and gift certificates. The store is being eulogized,” Elkus says. Customers clearly appreciate his approach to retail, which he describes as “service, price sensitivity and
relationships.” Some of those customer relationships extend over multiple generations. When one of his customers heard about Elkus’ retirement, he expressed regret because “I really wanted to bring my grandson here.” Elkus’ retail career began in 1981, soon after college graduation, when he opened a store selling shirts and ties in a small house in Southfield. Over the years, he expanded his merchandise to include virtually all components of a man’s wardrobe from shoes and jeans to dress shirts and outerwear. The Shirt Box moved to a much larger location on Northwestern Highway in Farmington Hills in 1987. As customer needs and habits changed, so did The Shirt Box. “Casual Friday became casual every day,” he says. Today 60 to 65 percent
Ron Elkus shows dress shirts to customer Tony Bordoley.
of his customers buy business or dressy clothes compared to 90 to 95 percent in the past. Customers range in age from 30 to 70 and come from all over the Detroit area. While Elkus added an online presence, 95 percent of sales occur in the store. “Customers say they love the brick and mortar. People want those relationships,” he says. Elkus is pleased that the store has continued to do well but several reasons inspired him to retire. He cites the death of his longtime business partner, Rod Brown, last year, and the upcoming end of the store’s lease. “I’ve had a good run and
here’s to Gov. Gretchen Whitmenr installed appointees on the Michigan Strategic Fund Board of Directors. The board approves tax incentives for business development projects managed by the quasi-governmental Michigan Economic development Corp. Among those installed was Charles Rothstein of Farmington Hills. He is the founder and senior managing director for the private equity firm Beringea LLC.
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U.S. Air Force Air National Guard Airman Dylan M. Froling graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio, Texas. He completed an intensive eight-week program. Froling is the son of Tom and Kylee Froling of Beverly Hills. The Michigan Chapter of the American College of Physicians has presented Jack D. Sobel, M.D., dean of the Wayne State University School of Medicine, with its Lifetime Achievement Award, which is presented to a member who has demonstrated a lifetime commitment to the organization of internists. Sobel has also served WSU as chair of Internal Medicine and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases. He is a distinguished professor of Internal Medicine.
I’m healthy,” Elkus says. Owning the store made it harder to travel and that will be one of his priorities after early 2020, the planned closing date. He is training for another charity cycling event for Make a Wish. Elkus has participated in its three-day, 300mile course for nine years and promoted the event at The Shirt Box. Elkus has worked with multiple organizations to help a wide range of people in the Jewish and general communities. The Shirt Box has donated clothes to Jackets for Jobs — a program to “suitup” low-income job applications for job interviews.
Ben Falik has been named chief program officer at Jewish Family Service. Falik is currently the principal of Do-ocracy, a consultancy that provides project management, public speaking and freelance writing for social impact initiatives and institutions. Before that, he was the corporate social responsibility lead for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, directing its national volunteer program. He was Repair the World’s first Detroit director and, as a college student, he was a founder of Summer in the City, a nonprofit organization that, since 2002, has changed the impact that volunteers have on Detroit and that Detroit has on volunteers. Falik also writes the “Jewfro” column for the Jewish News.
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Partnering with another organization, The Shirt Box collected donated bicycles for Back Alley Bikes, a repair shop that fixed them for distribution to needy children by the Neighborhood Service Organization. He has hosted three auctions of artistdesigned shirts and vests at The Shirt Box with proceeds going to charity. In addition, Elkus has been involved with JARC for 30 years, formerly serving as board president. He has also been active with MSU Hillel. In 1992, Elkus was recognized by the Jewish News for his acts of kindness as a “Mitzvah Hero.” Elkus plans to continue volunteer service, including work with the elderly and at Freedom House, after retiring. In addition, he wants to travel more and help some friends with their small businesses. There are a few possible buyers for The Shirt Box. However, its employees have secured other jobs and a clearance sale is planned for January. “I’ll miss the relationships, the socialization. People become part of your family. These 38 years have been a blessing,” Elkus says.
ashion industry trends change at the speed of light, but there is one local constant force — Harold Rothenberg, owner of Hersh’s Inc., the family-run, luxury women’s boutique located at The Boardwalk in West Bloomfield. Rothenberg founded the clothing store in 1984 and has been a permanent fashion influencer in his store every day since. “Our boutique brings in unique clothing for our clientele, not available in department stores and other retailers,” Rothenberg, 59, of Farmington Hills, says. “We make sure women shopping with us are getting exactly what they are looking for — even if we have to go online to do a special order. And, more impor-
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tantly, we treat every woman who walks through our door like a best friend.” Rothenberg says that some of his loyal customers come in often to visit with him and his staff, which includes his wife, Caryn, 59, and daughter Jessica Friedman, 30. “It’s a place to kibcontinued on page 60
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business bitz and check out the latest fashions. We talk about everything, like the latest good movies to see or a new restaurant opening,” Rothenberg says. “One of our customers says her husband calls Hersh’s her ‘renta-friend’ because she likes to come in almost weekly to spend time with us.” Rothenberg was brought up in fashion retailing — his mother owned Just Marilyn’s boutique in Harold and Caryn Southfield but has been retired for Rothenberg and their more than 30 years. “I learned about daughter Jessica Friedman the business from my mother and got my first job selling women’s shopping, but Rothenberg says his customshoes at Jonathon’s in Southfield when I ers still like to see, feel and try on clothing was just 15 years old,” he says. in person before buying.“We personally “When I opened Hersh’s, my business style our customers from top to bottom philosophy never revolved around being a with an expert but honest eye, never sellfinancial success,” he adds. “I only wanted ing something just to make a sale,” he says. to wake up every day doing what I love Longtime customer Jennifer Fantich, and to be able to give back to the world.” 36, of Bloomfield Hills is committed to Giving to his community is a priority, shopping local and says Hersh’s has all the and Rothenberg never passes up a chance essential pieces, suited to her budget, to to donate to a charity. “Whether it’s for build her wardrobe each season. “I also breast cancer survivors, local schools, an love their new home goods department, event affiliated with Temple Israel or any where I’ve found stylish pieces at very reaother good cause, I donate equally to all of sonable prices to decorate my home,” she them,” he says. says. Keeping abreast of current clothing The home goods and shoe department retail business trends has been more of an were added when the boutique expanded issue recently for the boutique. They are in January 2019. “It makes it more of a competing with the popularity of online one-stop shop for our customers where
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o help raise awareness and remove the stigma about mental health, GLR Advanced Recycling (GLR) partnered with the National Alliance on Mental Illness’ Metro Detroit chapter — NAMI Metro — to host Crush the Stigma at Livonia Churchill High School on Oct. 2. GLR, a Livonia-based automotive recycler, crushes and recycles old
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cars, sending nothing to the landfill. Using a play on words, the Crush the Stigma event allowed students to write mental health-related words and phrases on two vehicles that were parked for three days at Churchill High School. The event culminated with a “crushing” of the cars by GLR and a “crushing” of the stigmas that are related to mental health.
you can finish your outfit with the perfect shoes and pick up a hostess gift if you’re going to a holiday party,” Rothenberg says. Friedman has brought a breath of fresh air and some new ideas since she started working at the boutique five years ago, her father says. “We’re integrating technology and using things like FaceTime to communicate with our customers who travel frequently, to help them shop remotely before they come in,” Freidman says. “And I’m taking charge of our social media presence, posting more content all the time.” Trunk shows with evening wear collections from designers like Wayne Clark, Frascara, Emmelle, Mi Jong Lee and others with contemporary everyday wear are also part of its ongoing modern business plan. Even though he’ll be 60 on his next birthday, Rothenberg says there are no plans for his retirement. “My retirement will be the day I die,” he says. “And then I picture my daughter and any grandchildren I may have taking on the business and carrying on this wonderful family legacy.”
Hersh’s Inc. is at 6895 Orchard Lake Road in West Bloomfield, between 14 and 15 Mile roads.
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THELMA STALBURG BROWN, 85, of West Bloomfield, died Nov. 5, 2019. She was co-owner of the New Generation girls’ clothing store in Southfield. Thelma loved reading anything she could get her hands on, loved bridge and golf; but, most of all, she loved her family. She will be missed beyond words and has left a legacy of love behind. Mrs. Stalburg Brown is survived by her husband, Neil Brown; son, Alan Stalburg; daughters and sonsin-law, Lauren and Samuel Bienenstock, and Wendy and Jeffrey Moss; grandchildren, Joshua and Brittany Moss, Justin and Rachel Moss, Andrew Moss and his fiancee, Molly Levine; brother and sister-in-law, Arthur and Irene Landau; sister-in-law, Sandra Landau. She is also survived by Neil’s children, Kenneth and Denise Brown, Susan and Alex Simonenko; Neil’s grandchildren, Scott Brown and his fiance, Jaylen Lopez, Aaron and Sarah Landsman, and Craig Brown; Neil’s daughter-in-law, Susie Brown. She was the loving sister of the late Milton Landau; the dear sister-in-law of the late Harry
Marshall Brown. Interment was at Machpelah Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Friends of the IDF, Michigan Chapter, P.O. Box 999, Walled Lake, MI 48390, fidf.org/donate; Frankel Jewish Academy, 6600 W, Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, frankelja.org; or Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323, temple-israel.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. SUSAN COLBERT, 74, of Southfield, died Nov. 2, 2019. She is survived by her life partner, Gerald R. Black; son and daughter-in-law, Allyn and Maureen Colbert of Royal Oak; sister-in-law, Carol Brodsky; nieces and nephews; the dear and loving Brodsky, Dronzek and Shalom families. Mrs. Colbert was the dear sister of the late Harvey Brodsky. Contributions may be made to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 2265 Livernois, Suite 410, Troy, MI 48083; St. Jude Children’s Hospital, 1461 E. 12 Mile Road, Madison Heights, MI 48071; American Cancer Society, 20450 Civic Center Drive, Southfield, MI 48076. Services and interment were held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
CHARLES DAVIS, 70, of Boynton Beach, Fla., died Oct. 7, 2019. He was born on Jan. 9, 1949, in New York City. He graduated from Mt. Vernon High School in June 1967. He then entered the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and received his bachelor of science in aerospace engineering in June 1971. Upon receiving an N.S.F. traineeship for advanced study, he pursued his studies for a master of science in applied mechanics at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. Mr. Davis’ first employment was as a test engineer in the Structural Section, Ground Test Engineering for Sikorsky Aircraft. After an economic downturn in the industry, Chuck relocated to Michigan and took a position with Ford Motor Company in 1977, working as an automotive mechanical engineer specializing in noise and vibration in transmissions. It was in Michigan that he met his future wife, Laura Weinberg. They met playing volleyball at Jewish singles-sponsored events at the Oak Park JCC. As the world suffered gas shortages and spiraling interest rates, Chuck moved from Ford Motor Company to a short run with the U.S. Army
Tank Automotive Command and then moved to Muskegon to Cadillac Gage, where he worked on the Cadillac Gage Commando-Armored Personnel Carriers. In 1984, Chuck and his wife and son relocated to Baltimore, Md., where Chuck was employed by Martin Marietta as an aerospace engineer. He was proud of his contributions in developing the Aegis Cruise Missile Launching System and was present at the launching of the USS Antietam, a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser. In 1990, Chuck and his family, Laura, son Benjamin and daughter Sarah, relocated to Huntsville, Ala. There Chuck took a position as an aerospace engineer for Sverdrup Corporation at Marshall Space Flight Center, working on projects for NASA, including a space furnace that was used in Space Station Freedom. In 1993, Chuck and his family relocated to Michigan and Chuck took a position with General Motors as a powertrain engineer. During his 23 years with GM, he helped develop the eight- and 10-speed transmissions and was a co-author on multiple patents for components on the clutch systems of the transmissions. He retired from GM in October of 2016. In March of 2017, Chuck and his wife relocated to Boynton continued on page 64
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Beach, Fla. Mr. Davis is survived by his wife of 40 years, Laura Davis; son and daughter-inlaw, Benjamin Eric Davis and Christine Rivera-Davis; daughter, Sarah Corinne Davis; granddaughter, Selah Elisabeth Davis; mother-in-law, Muriel Weinberg; sister and brotherin-law, Gail and Barry Perlow; brother and sister-in-law, Neil and Ilene Davis; brother-inlaw and sisters-in-law, Richard and Wendy Weinberg, Karen Weinberg and Sandra Wright. He was the devoted son of Donald and the late May Davis; the loving son-in-law of the late Harvey Weinberg; the dear brother-in-law of the late John Wright. Interment was at Adat Shalom Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to American Heart Association, 27777 Franklin Road, Suite 1150, Southfield, MI 48034, heart.org/ HEARTORG/; or National Alliance of Mental Illness, 2107 Wilson Blvd., Suite 300, Arlington, Va. 22201-3042, nami.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. AUDREY FARBER, 84, of Bloomfield Hills, died Nov. 2, 2019. She was the co-founder of the William and Audrey Farber Family Foundation. Mrs. Farber is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Larry and Barbara Farber, David and Nanci Farber, Jeffrey and Jennifer Farber; grandchildren, Channa and Emile Farber, Noah Farber, Adina Farber, Amanda Farber, Justin Farber, Hailey Farber, Mackenzie Morton, Alexis Morton, Jacob Farber and Jessica Farber; sister, Caren Edelstein; brother, Arnold
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Lawrence. She was the beloved wife for 62 years of the late William Farber. Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Friendship Circle, Farber Soul Center, Meer Family Friendship Center, 6892 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, friendshipcircle.org/donate; Tamarack Camps, Farber Farm, 6735 Telegraph Road, #380, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301, tamarackcamps.com/tributes; or Farber Hebrew Day School, 21100 Twelve Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48076, farberhds.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. RUTH J. FULKERSON, 91, of Bloomfield, Hills, died Nov. 1, 2019. Born in Cambridge, Mass., Ruth grew up in nearby Brookline. Politically active in high school, she was a leader in the Encampment for Citizenship movement and editor-in-chief of the Brookline High School newspaper. Admitted to the University of Chicago at 17, she had her attendance delayed due to priority admittance for returning GIs. She attended Mills College in California as a freshman before transferring to the University of Chicago for the remainder of her college career. There, she met her future husband at a Sadie Hawkins dance. She was an avid jitterbugger. Known for being independent and bold, Ruth asked George to dance and they were together from then on. Married in Boston in 1951, they settled in Detroit so George could finish law school at the University of Detroit. Working alongside George, she managed George’s law practice and was his unwavering supporter when he ran for political office in subsequent
years. Daughter Tavi was born in 1953 and son Derek in 1955. As a formidable matriarch, she wore many hats. She was most devoted to her immediate and extended Fulkerson, East Coast and neighborhood families, hosting many gatherings and sharing her love for cooking and gardening with everyone. She was a mother to many. George and Ruth were inseparable, and their love for each other is legendary. They were married 68 years. Mrs. Fulkerson was the beloved wife of George J. Fulkerson; daughter of the late Simon and the late Ann Black; dear mother of Ann Tavi (Hampton) Fulkerson and Derek Joseph Fulkerson; loving grandmother of Georgia Ruth Hampton and Jeffrey Allen Fulkerson; devoted sister of the late Sidney Black. She is also survived by many other loving family members and friends. Contributions may be made to the Jewish Hospice and Chaplaincy Network. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. HARRIET “TERRY” GREENBERGWAUTELET, 91, of Farmington Hills, died Nov. 4, 2019. She is survived by her husband, Jean Wautelet; sons and daughters-in-law, Bryan and Ginger Greenberg, and Bruce and Audrey Greenberg; daughters and sons-in-law, Janice and Michael Schwartz, and Ronna and Martin Bordoley; grandchildren, Shelly and Adam McDougal, David and Annie Greenberg, Jackie Greenberg, Justin Greenberg, Mallory Schwartz, Adam Bordoley and Lira Bordoley; great-grandchildren, Dejha, Braydon, Ethan, Jace, Ava, Arin and Avery. She was the loving sister of the late Joe Silver. Interment was at Adat
Shalom Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, 200 Friberg Parkway, #3020, Westborough, MA 01581, komen.org; Humane Society of Michigan, 30300 Telegraph Road, Suite 220, Bingham Farms, MI 48025, michigan humane.org; or to any children’s charity. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. DR. VICTOR HORVITZ, 91, of Bloomfield Township, died Nov. 2, 2019. He served in the Army as an orderly in post-war Japan. He was discharged honorably as a corporal. Victor graduated from University of Illinois at Champaign with a B.S. in liberal arts in June 1949, a B.A. with honors in June 1950 and an M.A. in psychology in October 1952. Dr. Horvitz graduated from University of Illinois Medical School at Chicago with an M.D. in June 1956 and served his internship/residency at Sinai Hospital in Detroit. Dr. Horvitz is survived by his wife of 61 years, Sally Lyons; children, Leslee and Dr. Marvin Herschfus, Janice and Irving Plonskier, Eric and Allisa Horvitz; grandchildren, Reena Herschfus, Jake Plonskier, Matthew Plonskier, Lillian Horvitz, Madeline Horvitz, Sydney Horvitz. He was the loving son of the late Masha and the late Alexander Horvitz. Contributions may be made to Congregation Shaarey Zedek, 27375 Bell Road, Southfield, MI 48034; Jewish Family Service, 6555 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322; or to a charity of one’s choice. Interment was held at Clover Hill Park in Birmingham. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
STUART G. ITZKOWITZ, Ph.D., 71, of St. Claire Shores, died Nov. 5, 2019. He was a proc. 1981 fessor at Wayne State University. Mr. Itzkowitz is survived by his brother and sister-in-law, Howard and Wendy Itzkowitz; extended family members and many friends. He was the beloved husband of the late Larry Zimmerman; the son of the late Abe and the late Marilyn (Saperstein) Itzkowitz. Interment took place at Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham. Contributions may be made to the Karmanos Cancer Institute. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. DR. MURRAY G. KLING, 89, of Novi, died Nov. 3, 2019. He is survived by his beloved wife, Minna Kling; daughters and sons-in-law, Miriam and David Cohen, Nancy and Michael Cohen, Susan (Matthew) Finston, Joyce and Daniel Soren; brother and sister-in-law, Sidney and Claudia Kling; grandchildren, Megan (Jeremy) Lawless, Kevin (Westi) Adelman, Lauren Cohen, Jessica Cohen, Rachel Finston, Aaron Finston, Vibha Soren, Gitali Soren, Olivia Lawless, Ava Lawless; great-grandchildren, Walter, Cain and Leah Adelman; many other loving family members and friends. Dr. Kling was the brother of the late Selman Racklin and the late Marcia Kahn. Interment took place at Adat Shalom Memorial Park in Livonia. Contributions may be made to Yad Ezra. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.
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BERNARD MAROFSKY, 83, formerly of West Bloomfield, of Boca Raton, Fla., died Oct. 13, 2019. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Marcia; his son, Stephen Marofsky; daughter-in-law, Tal; daughter, Stacie Bennett; grandchildren, Jared Bennett, Nirel Gramage, Nessia, Sahar and Lavj Marofsky; sisters, Lenore Marofsky and Adrienne Marofsky; nieces and nephews, Freddie and Alan Harvith, Bruce and Marcelle Nager; cousins, Linda and Jeffrey Levitin. Internment was at The Gardens in Boca Raton. BRIAN MENCZER, 51, of Oakland, Calif., died Nov. 4, 2019. He is survived by his mother, Faye Menczer-Ascher of West Bloomfield; brothers and sister-in-law, Michael Menczer of Granada Hills, Calif., David and Sandy Menczer of Birmingham; sister and brother-in-law, Miriam and Mike Leary of West Bloomfield; niece, Emily Leary; nephew, Finnegan Leary; many other loving relatives and friends. Mr. Menczer was the loving son of the late Edward Menczer. Contributions may be made to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 29777 Telegraph Road., Suite 1651, Southfield, MI 48034; American Diabetes Association, 300 Galleria Officentre, Suite 111, Southfield, MI 48034; or to a charity of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice. Interment was held at Adat Shalom Memorial Park in Livonia. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
DOUGLAS A. MOSS, 78, of Delray Beach, Fla., died Nov. 6, 2019. Family was always Douglasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; number one priority. He took great pride in raising his children to be kind, compassionate and charitable, and marveled when he saw these traits in his grandchildren. Smile is a word synonymous with Douglas. People gravitated to him because his smile would light up a room. He was an outstanding listener and always knew the right words to make people feel good. Douglas was president of Northwest Cone Company in Detroit, which was a division of the Maryland Cup Corporation. His company baked sugar cones and cake cones, which had the famous EAT IT ALL trademark. His state-of-the art facility supplied ice cream cones to the entire Midwest, with his factory running 24 hours a day during the summer months. The EAT IT ALL cone still exists today under the Keebler umbrella. He treated all his employees as family members and served the corporation until it was sold in 1983. Douglas embraced his community of friends, and he cherished each of these relationships. He was the beloved husband of Sue Moss for 52 years; the cherished father of Faylyn and Danny Kaufman, and Mara and Andrew Moss; the adored grandfather of Isabelle and Hannah Kaufman, and Samantha and Nathan Moss. Mr. Moss was the son of the late Dr. Harry Moss and the late Faye (Moss) Fishman; the brother of the late Rosalind Kahn; brother-in-law of the
late Richard Kahn. Interment was held at Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham. Contributions may be made to the Pancreatic Cancer Foundation (pancan. org); Jewish Family Services (jfs. detroit.org); or Papcorps (papcorps.org). Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. LILLIAN MABEL PECK, 94, of Birmingham, passed away on Nov. 3, 2019. She was born in Detroit on April 3, 1925, to Arthur and Lily Farrington. Nana, as she was universally known, grew up in Ferndale and graduated from Lincoln High School. Having lived through the Great Depression and WWII, both of which left lasting impressions, she was the epitome of the “greatest generation.”
She worked at the Chrysler Institute during WWII and would frequently remember with pride and respect all her friends who supported the war effort, including many who did not return. She married Theodore Peck, D.D.S., of Yonkers, N.Y., and raised four children in Birmingham with her trademark enthusiasm, encouraging them to excel to their highest potential with excellence. She was an accomplished seamstress and loved tending to her many gardens and flowers. An active skier, horse enthusiast and golfer, she loved the outdoors and her beloved pet dogs, Queenie and Bonnie. Her pride and joy were her grandchildren and her great-grandchild, for whom nothing was too much effort. Mrs. Peck was the loving mother of Susan Leffler (Michael), Janice Farrington, George Peck (Andrea) and
Charlie Peck (Richard); cherished grandmother of Jessica Stukalin (Ari), Heidi Montblanc (Jay), Gretchen Shanley (Tom) and Elliot Peck; great-grandmother of Shira Stukalin. She is also survived by countless other loving family and friends. A private ceremony and interment were held. Contributions may be made to the American Veterans Center, 1100 N. Glebe Road, Suite 910, Arlington, VA 22201, americanveteranscenter.org, (703) 302-1012. LEE M. SHULMAN, wellknown psychologist, World War II veteran and community leader, died Oct. 29, 2019, at the age of 95, in Valencia, Calif. He was born on Dec. 12, 1923, in Detroit. He attended Central High School, gradu-
ating June 1941. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in September 1942 at the age of 18. Upon returning from WWII, he completed his bachelor’s degree in psychology at Wayne State University, a master’s degree from University of Michigan and a Ph. D. in clinical psychology. His private practice career as a psychologist focused on executive coaching and relationship counseling. He was the founder of Lee Shulman & Associates in Royal Oak. Lee and his wife, Joyce, moved to California in the 1980s and lived in Valencia from 1997. He was active in the local Eagle Scout Alumni Association, SCV Domestic Violence Center and advisory board for the Child & Family Center, as well as many other community organizations. Lee battled leukemia in his final few months Mr. Shulman is survived continued on page 68
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by his wife of 52 years, Joyce Shulman; six children; five grandchildren; four great-grandchildren. A celebration of life will be announced in the coming weeks. Contributions may be made to Temple Beth Ami, 23023 Hilse Lane, Newhall, CA 91321, templebethami. org/support-tba.html. Local arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. HILLARY TURK, 69, of Farmington Hills, died Nov. 5, 2019. She was a national board member of National Council of Jewish Women, a local board member of NCJW, a social worker who founded Meals on Wheels through Jewish Family Service, and she helped organize SPACE, a business and professional division of NCJW.
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Mrs. Turk is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Ian and Rebecca Turk of Brooklyn, N.Y.; sister, Lauren Gitstein; brother and sister-in-law, Jason and Shira Gitstein; nieces, Rachael, Rifka. She was the loving daughter of the late Mordechai and the late Norma Gitstein; dear sister of the late Adam David Gitstein. Interment was in New Jersey. Local arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. DR. JACK WAYNE, 92, of Bloomfield Hills, died Nov. 5, 2019. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Johanna Wayne; daughters and son-in-law, Dr. Marsha Billes, and Felicia and Dr. Fredric Neumann; former son-in-law, Dr. Mitchell Billes; grandchildren, Chandler Billes and fiancé, Brett Alpiner, Cameron Billes, Dr. Miles Neumann and fiancee, Taylor Trott, Cole Neumann
and Jade Neumann; sister-inlaw, Marilyn Wayne; many loving nieces and nephews. Dr. Wayne was the dear brother of the late Lawrence Wayne, the late Ruth and the late Kurt Kent, and the late Itzik Weintraub. Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334, holocaust center.org; or Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network, 6555 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, jewishhospice.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. CAROLE ANN ZACKS WEINER, 81, of Huntington Woods, died Nov. 2, 2019. She is survived by her husband, Ronald Weiner; daughters and sons-in-law, Ellen (Michael Peck) Weiner of
Holliston, Mass., Anita (Frank Skraly) Weiner of Watertown, Mass.; sister, Marcia Zacks of Oak Park; grandchildren, Molly Peck, Jacob Peck, Bianca Skraly, Benjamin Skraly; loving nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Interment was held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. ARON WEINSTEIN, 94, of Bloomfield Hills, died Oct. 26, 2019. He is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Bryan (Dr. Roya Soleymani) Weinstein of Farmington Hills; grandchildren, Jedidiah Weinstein, Raphael Weinstein, Charlotte Weinstein. Mr. Weinstein was the beloved husband of the late Hanna Weinstein. Interment was held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
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n Oct. 27, 2019, another famous Michigan politician, John Conyers Jr., passed away. Conyers was the longest serving African American Congressman in history. His career began in 1964, when he was one of only six black house members, and it lasted 53 years. This is a remarkable run by anyone’s standards, only surpassed in Michigan by his colleague and friend John Dingell, who was a congressman for 59 years — longer than anyone in American Mike Smith Alene and history. Graham Landau The funeral for Conyers was Archivist Chair held at Greater Grace Temple in Detroit Nov. 5, and it was attended by some of the most prominent members of society from Michigan and America. Those making remarks included Michigan Gov. Gretchen Witmer, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, former Detroit Piston Hall of Famer Isaiah Thomas, Rep. Debbie Dingell and Motown legend Stevie Wonder, to name just a few of the speakers and dignitaries in attendance. On the whole, Conyers left a very positive legacy. It can be said that he was a stalwart for civil rights and health care. Conyers was also the key congressman behind the legislation that led, after 15 years, to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in 1983. It is also a truism that Conyers was devoted to Detroit and Michigan. Of course, it must be noted that he did leave office two years ago with a bit of a cloud over his head. On the whole, it can be argued that Conyers did a lot of good for a lot of people. Certainly, to the African American population of Detroit, he was a bona fide, first-class hero. Of course, I was interested in Conyers’ interactions with Metro Detroit’s and Michigan’s Jewish community. So, I explored the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History. Conyers first appeared in the Oct. 3, 1964, issue of the JN when he was running for Congress. He said he supported “all-out aid for Israel.” Indeed, regarding Israel, in the 1960s and 1970s, many JN articles cite his
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