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axine Berman was an open book. And she wrote more than one, apparently.

Twenty-five years ago this month, Momentum Books published The Only Boobs in the House Are Men: A Veteran Woman Legislator Lifts the Lid on Politics Macho Style by the sitting State Representative from the 36th District (Southfield).

Last year, two Ben Falik Contributing Writer months after Berman’s death, her niece and nephew published her novel If You Seek A Pleasant Peninsula after finding the 500-page manuscript among their aunt’s belongings.

I didn’t really know Maxine Berman. Even if I did, I couldn’t top the eulogies by her niece — who followed strict instructions to play the Michigan fight song through the loudspeaker — or by Rabbi Steven Rubenstein of Congregation Beth Ahm who facilitated her bat mitzvah when she was age 60, though not her dog Garp’s bark mitzvah. (You can watch the video of her funeral on Ira Kaufman Chapel’s website.)

But I’ve read (most of) both of her books and that time we’ve spent together has helped me understand what it’s like to make your voice heard in a struggle that’s bigger than yourself; to be ferocious and vulnerable; to persist critically without becoming cynical; and to master the minutiae of your present reality in order to make major change possible.

Maxine’s words are nearly as powerful as the deeds she describes. She waded through political muck, facing down wanton misogyny in pursuit of progress over 14 years in office.

Whether from her directly or via Bree Linden — a protagonist alter ego she may never have intended us to meet — Maxine’s voice reflects, refracts and resonates: “I was a naive first-term legislator with what I thought was a simple, straightforward bill, which only required doctors to hand patients a brochure explaining all the options.”

Maxine opposed term limits because she knew the learning curve

of legislating — and because she anticipated that term limits would cut against the hard-fought gains women had made growing their presence and power in Lansing.

(She was not term limited, mind you.)

“Rumor has it that Tom Ridley’s trying to screw me out of chairing reapportionment.

I’m just trying to get in shape for the big fight, if there is one.”

Bree Linden’s fictional fight over redistricting is more dramatic than Berman’s, but not much. Both Bree and Maxine fought tooth and nail to lead a vital process, the product of which was ultimately usurped.

“Few other organizations can strike fear in the hearts of elected officials like Right to Life does. Their methods aren’t pretty; persuasion is not their long suit. They simply threaten political death.”

Many of Berman’s “wins” came in the form of fending off direct assaults on women’s reproductive rights. As appalled (if sometimes amused) as she was at the flagrant contradictions of the religious right, she knew that reason was no substitute for resources.

“He liked Bree Linden. He was also mildly afraid of her. Bo Hasker was never quite sure how to deal with the women of his caucus whose numbers, though small, were growing. Bree Linden was very much in the leadership of that group, but he could joke with Bree, drink with her, relate to her.”

How do you pry your way into an institution built, from the framed pictures on the wall to the length of the bathroom breaks, to keep you out?

Instinctively and incrementally, with enough torque to make sure it doesn’t slam shut in the faces of those who would follow.

“Most important, the vast majority of women bring a different perspective on government … the perspective of the unempowered. Since the public generally views itself as

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unempowered in its relationship to government … we are far better able to identify with their standing, to listen to and understand their needs, to just remember that they’re there.”

Maxine was in the scrum, year after year, as women made progress inches at a time. Still, she managed to tease out the nuances of being a marginalized group that makes up 51 percent of the population, of being lumped together in spite of political diversity, of pursuing power without letting power become the point.

“First, he came after the poor, and you did nothing — because you are not poor.

“Then he came for the arts, and you did nothing — because you are not an arts organization.

“And now he has come after you.

Who, pray tell, do you think there is left to protest?”

In her letter to the County Road Commissioners titled “Governor Engler’s Theft of Local Road Funds,” Maxine spoke to a vicious cycle she fought in office and as a private citizen — making groups fight over crumbs while shrinking the resources necessary to create public goods.

Finally, a quintessential and essential line of Maxine’s invoked by Rep. Jeremy Moss, a successor to “the ol’ Berman seat,” that would only be diluted by posthumous mansplaining: “Throw me to the wolves, and I will return leading the pack.” ■

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he year was 2000, and Michael Steinhardt had just dropped a bombshell that nearly brought an otherwise dignified conference to blows.

“I tend, in my dourest moments, to consider both the Reform and Conservative Jews as historic accidents in the 21st century and suspect, before the end of this century, they will have disappeared,” he said.

Steinhardt, along with Edgar Bronfman and Charles Schusterman, was in Howard Lovy Chicago at a meeting JTA.org of STAR: Synagogue

and I don’t care how we go about getting young people involved in their Jewishness.”

Of course, it turned out that the BronfmanSteinhardt answer was Birthright Israel.

At the time of this dispute, I was the managing editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. While covering the birth of Birthright, I often heard echoes of this deep depression and desperation among Jewish leaders to attract the young.

Today, when Jewish leaders talk about problems facing young Jews, it is often not their lack of affiliation that’s in focus, but what they see as increased anti-Semitism in the form of anti-Zionism on college campuses. There may be fewer young Jews in the pews now, but as Jewish Theological Seminary professor Jack Wertheimer told me, that’s because millennials are waiting longer to have children. Many have yet to practice what Wertheimer calls “Judaism for peak moments” like bar and bat mitzvah or family-friendly holidays such as Purim.

Yet for some reason, young campus Jews on the front lines of this fight against anti-Semitism may never be counted among the affiliated if they never join a synagogue. It seems to be a lost opportunity if we did not find a way

Transformation and Renewal, which was ostensibly designed to find ways to get young people back into synagogue pews.

This and similar statements by Bronfman had understandably irked Rabbi Eric Yoffie, then-president of the Union for Reform Judaism.

Undermining non-Orthodox synagogues was not the way to encourage experimentation.

“I’m not going to get into a pissing match with Rabbi Yoffie over whether the Reform movement is a good movement or not because that’s not the point,” the secular Bronfman told me. “The point is, we have a crisis

to welcome them into the fold. AntiSemitism has given them a heightened sense of Jewish identity, but the institutions aren’t in place or are unwilling to offer them a positive path into the Jewish fold.

Though initiatives like STAR and Birthright begin to address the issue, there are too few places that welcome Jews who feel a renewed sense of Jewishness in response to anti-Semitism but don’t necessarily feel comfortable attending shul.

Going through my 20-year-old notes, I am struck at how often Jewish lay and religious leaders voiced a fear that an end to anti-Semitism would further erode the tenuous connection young people had to Judaism. Ironically, the rise in Jewish activism in response to anti-Semitism could be an opportunity to find a place for them.

In 2019, while our institutions are hashing out the same arguments, American Jews are faced with an altogether different existential crisis: the rise of American anti-Semitism. Now is the perfect time to truly reckon with what it means to be a Jew and who gets counted as a member of the tribe because people who never thought about their Judaism before are now constantly reminded of it by anti-Semites.

It is a sad contrast, the difference between the Jewish mood of 20 years ago and today. There is a renewed sense of solidarity and purpose among Jews of all denominations in light of the threat continued on page 8

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hen I packed my suitcase for this year, I didn’t know where I would end up, whom I would meet or what I would learn.

I knew that I came from a strong, mid-size Jewish community in Detroit. I also knew, or thought I knew, that I had a strong Jewish identity, and that exploring identity and community were two things I was interested in on a global scale. In reality, however, I didn’t Jessica Katz really know what any of that meant.

Since January, I’ve danced with seniors in Odessa, shared pizza with Latvian teens, spent Passover in Kiev and Purim in Budapest. I attended a gathering of more than 100 Russian-speaking Jewish young adults, while being one of three English speakers present. I’ve visited countless synagogues and attended a Shabbaton in Mallorca — yes, Mallorca — the fabled Spanish island in the Mediterranean. I’ve had the chance to be curious, to ask questions and to consider the past, the present and the future of Jewish communities around the world.

These experiences have allowed me to grapple with core questions and issues facing Jewish communities today, and I continue to explore these questions during my time as the 2019 Ralph I. Goldman Fellow in Global Jewish Leadership. The Fellowship is an initiative of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC).

Spending time with people in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, especially the elderly, I found it impossible not to think about my own grandparents, who came from this part of the world. I so clearly saw how profoundly my own journey was impacted by the fact that my grandparents (or their parents) left and the parents of these people did not or could not.

I absorbed the gravity of the impact of WWII and communism on each community and its people. In each place, many seniors would share their stories of growing up, surviving and living their lives. Each time I sat down to listen, someone would say, “We’ll tell you our stories, but this is not what we want you to remember. Remember our smiles

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A shabbat gathering led

by Jewish young adults in Riga, Latvia, one of the many locations where Jewish life is being reimagined by the rising generation.

today, not just our stories of the past.”

In Riga, Latvia, I was privileged to spend time with some local teens who were involved in their community youth group. These teens, who each spoke at least three languages — Latvian, Russian and English — showed up only knowing they would be meeting a woman from America who wanted to chat.

Yet, they stayed for more than three hours, opening up and talking about everything from Jewish life in Riga, my own community in Detroit, summer camp, anti-Semitism, whom they want to marry and where they feel like they belong. The Latvian Jewish community is home to about 14,000 people. It was overwhelming for the teens to hear that in my home community we have 70,000 Jews, and hundreds or even thousands of teens involved in Jewish life.

In speaking with these teens, I learned about their options for Jewish life in Riga, which would feel limited by our standards. Indeed, they gushed about the fact that when some teens in their community have opportunities to attend international conferences or camps, they feel privileged to do so and have their lives changed because of these experiences, but these opportunities are not always plentiful.

Coming from a large, established community, we find it easy to leave it to others to build and carry the community. After all, we can access a variety of Jewish programs and not worry that there will be plenty of people around to carry them forward. We can show up late, or not at all, and Jewish life will continue.

That these Latvian teens are so interested in Jewish life is all the more powerful because unlike in much of the U.S., their parents are not pushing them to show up.

I came into the year thinking I might have an impact on these communities, and instead I find myself wondering what we can learn from them. Can we look to the communities of Eastern Europe where young Jews are thinking creatively and sharing a vigor for Jewish life that is not always as common in North America? How does their history impact their identity? How does our own ancestry impact our identities and Jewish communities?

This year I’ve realized just how big the world truly is, and I’ve discovered the joy in how small it can become as we connect and engage with one another. It will still take time and commitment to continue these connections for the next generations, but these young Jews are bright and excited to “do Jewish.” They proudly carry the torch of Judaism where it was once almost extinguished.

The opportunity before us then is to learn our history, connect with our present and look to build the future together.

Sometimes, the most powerful lessons we can learn about how to be Jewish, about how to build Jewish community, is by kindling our own torch with sparks from places we never dreamed of. ■ Jessica Katz has served in various capacities with numerous Jewish organizations, both locally in Detroit and nationally. She is the JDC Ralph I Goldman Fellow in Global Jewish Leadership for 2019. This essay was first published at ejewishphilanthropy.com

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of anti-Semitism coming from outside.

Yet even though they were wrong about an end to anti-Semitism, the machers of two decades ago were right in turning the discussion to how to embrace more Jews who acknowledge only a tenuous connection to Judaism. That was the original thought behind Birthright Israel.

Today, as I interview people whose connection to Judaism is strengthened through the rise in anti-Semitism, it is still the case that many are unaffiliated with synagogues. Twenty years ago, they would have been counted as lost to Judaism — and these “cultural Jews” are still not counted in many official surveys or in institutional decisions.

I was an odd choice for managing editor of JTA. I knew very little about the organized Jewish world, having grown up primarily in small communities, often one of only a handful of Jews in town. The way I practice Judaism is very personal and not at all communal. The publisher at the time hired me for my news judgment first, connection to Judaism second. I guess you could say that I was JTA’s own private Birthright experiment.

After the breakdown of talks between Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat and the beginning of the second intifada, I left JTA, moved back to Michigan and pivoted my career to cover science and technology.

Sixteen years later, I began writing about Jewish issues again after I noticed more swastikas in my social media timeline following a decade and a half of being relatively swastika-free.

I never wanted anti-Semitism to define the way I write about Judaism. But the rise in anti-Semitism can perhaps help us see clearer than we did 20 years ago. We can see who is with us and who is not.

Jews are standing up to be counted.

I would be more optimistic for the future if we found a way to embrace them. ■ Howard Lovy is a freelance writer based in Traverse City. He is the former managing editor of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and served as a writer and copy editor for the Detroit Jewish News.

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An Italian Tale of Burstyn’s Bagels A tip o’ the hat to Rochel Burstyn for her well-researched and delightfully connecting article on June 27, “Bageling for Beginners” (page 5).

As a retired journalist, I’m not a beginner at much any longer. This is a “bageling” story from 1986.

My husband and I took our teenage daughters to Italy on a celebratory trip for our eldest’s graduation from Andover High. We had studiously incorporated all the tourist-savvy tips that would keep us above the fray. Among those was the advice to firmly deny the first price stated by a cart-in-tow street vendor.

I’d read about the books with clear plastic pages that — flipped individually — gradually reveal the original appearance of a disappearing architectural wonder now in ruins.

Each page added a chronologically reversed era to the original photo of what we were viewing in person. The clever concept took its viewer on a journey back through centuries of history.

I had an idea of the appropriate price in liras — which was way below this small, bearded, elderly man’s asking price — and that’s what I offered him.

He guffawed in theatrical outrage at my low offer. He tripled it. I went up to 1½ times my offer. He went down to two times. I said, “Thank you,” and turned to walk off.

Needless to say, my daughters were mortified by my actions. They spun around in retreat from their embarrassing mother’s haggling.

As I followed their lead, the gentleman appeared behind me and tapped on my shoulder.

“Yiddisheh meidlelah?” he inquired, knowingly. As I processed his Italian-tinged Yiddish, I burst out laughing.

“What is a fair price?” I asked him.

I can’t remember what he said, but we paid it.

And it’s still proudly displayed on a library bookshelf today: the historical wonder of the Colosseum and all its human history.

Sandra R. Tessler Bloomfield Hills

Another Bageling Story I loved the article about bageling.

My husband and I were on a culinary river cruise to the south of France a few years ago and learned that bagel is a verb firsthand.

We were waiting for the last person to arrive for a hike in the vineyards of Hermitage. She was delayed because her luggage never arrived, and she had to borrow clothing and hiking boots from the cruise-ship staff. I started a conversation with her to learn that she was a food critic from Chicago.

One thing led to another and before we knew it, we were on the top of a mountain overlooking the Alps and playing Jewish Geography!

Rochel Burstyn was absolutely right about the Bagel Theory.

Turns out we were the only Yids onboard, and it was nice to have the connection.

Adrea Benkoff Farmington Hills

Stop Global Warming I read with interest your article on Talking Climate Change with Paul Gross (July 4, page 19). However, I am concerned regarding his comments about not being able to “stop global warming.”

Not only can carbon-based emissions be eliminated, but carbon can be taken out of the atmosphere thus reversing the carbon cycle. And the technology is already available.

I would like to refer you and your readers to an excellent documentary on HBO produced by Leonardo DeCaprio titled Ice On Fire, which concisely outlines the problem and its solutions.

Steve Saginaw, M.D. Royal Oak

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s one pillar of the Detroit Jewish community leaves his post as chairman of the Board of Governors (BOG) at Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, another will take his place.

Larry Jackier completed his 12th and final year as chairman of the BOG, and Scott Leemaster has stepped into the position. Both men were honored for their commitment to Israel and the university last month at a ceremony in Haifa.

Jackier of West Bloomfield, an attorney with the Law Offices of Jackier Gould, belongs to three synagogues: Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Temple Israel and The Shul. He is the trustee of various charitable foundations and has been a leader in the Jewish community, both locally and nationally, for more than 40 years. His ties to the Technion run especially deep.

Jackier’s late parents, Edythe and Joe, were active supporters. Joe Jackier was also on the Technion Board of Governors when he returned from a trip to Israel in 1987. Tragically, he died a week later and Larry stepped up to finish the projects his father had started. “I became interested in what the Technion was doing,” he said. That was the start.

Jackier has been on the BOG for 24 years and is a past national president of the American Technion Society (ATS). He co-created the 21st Century Leadership Development Program and helped organize a Solidarity Delegation to Israel during Operation Protective Edge in 2014.

As Technion Guardians — an honor reserved for those who support the university at the highest level — Jackier and his wife, Eleanor, have advanced research across numerous fields. Jackier has been recognized with a Technion honorary fellowship and honorary doctorate as well as the Technion Medal and the Einstein Award — the highest honors of the Technion and the ATS, respectively. The Jackiers were presented with the key to the Technion to cement the deep connection between their family and the university. That family legacy is likely to continue, said Jackier, who will remain on the Technion’s BOG. He and Eleanor together have seven

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children, 21 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Twelve members of his family were able to make it to the event in Haifa. “As a result,” he said, “they are now interested in getting involved with the Technion as well.”

Jackier’s grandson Jonah Folbe of New York has already been in touch with the Technion to see what he can do, and his stepson Adam Folbe, a physician from Michigan, was also impressed and eager to get involved.

“My son Seth, who lives in Glencoe, Ill., is already involved in leadership development at the Chicago chapter of the American Technion Society, so that makes four generations of Jackiers,” he said proudly.

A NEW CHAIRMAN Incoming chairman Scott Leemaster of Franklin, vice president and principal of Madison Electric Company, has been involved with Hebrew Free Loan and the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit in addition to his work with the Technion. He and his wife, Susie, are members of Temple Israel.

After training in the ATS 21st Century Leadership Program, Leemaster served twice as president of the Detroit ATS Chapter. Stepping up in 2012 to become ATS national president, he presided over the launch of the organization’s half-billion-dollar fundraising campaign “Innovation for a Better World.”

As Technion Guardians, he and Susie have supported many projects and ATS Missions. He also chaired a trip to Israel and Paris and joined Jackier as co-leader of the Solidarity Delegation. In 2009, he received a Technion Honorary Fellowship.

Leemaster said he’s lucky to have “followed in Larry’s footsteps” at the ATS when he had been looking to become involved with something that had a direct Israel connection.

“The Technion has had tremendous impact on the country since it was established, from the early days of expertise in civil engineering and agriculture to today where it is on the advanced frontiers of science. The Technion has elevated the economy and security of Israel,” he said.

Leemaster said his work with the Technion has always been motivated by the Jewish value of tikkun olam — repairing the world. “The Technion is an extraordinarily effective tool for repairing the world by innovating and sharing solutions in science and technology. It is without question the engine behind Israel’s startup nation phenomenon and is making the entire world a better place.”

PROUD DETROITERS “More than anything, I’m proud of my own Jewish community for producing back-to-back chairmanships,” Jackier said. “It’s truly amazing.”

Started in 1940, the Detroit ATS Chapter is one of the oldest in the U.S. Its donors have built many key projects on campus and their Technion connections often pass through the generations.

“The Detroit Jewish community has more people involved in national and international Jewish organizations than any other Jewish community in the U.S.,” Jackier said. “We have a history of producing tremendous leadership in the American and international Jewish communities — out of all proportion to the size of our community. This is just a current example.”

When asked why he thinks Detroit enjoys such a proud tradition, Jackier said, “I think it’s because we’re a very closeknit community with a lot of interrelationships that go way, way back. So many of our peers who grew up with us are still here and involved in Jewish life.”

(To read more about Detroit’s long history with the Technion, see “Looking Back” on page 42.)

As Leemaster takes over the reins as chairman, he said, “I plan to stay the course, maintaining the high standards and values the Technion exemplifies. I want to help the new president in any way I can.”

Prof. Uri Sivan will become next president of the Technion in September.

“I stand on the shoulders of giants and I hope to see far, high and deep,” Sivan said at the ceremony. “Technion will continue to serve as a beacon of pluralism, Uri Sivan equality, freedom of Incoming president speech, integrity, ethics, social justice, environmental consciousness and inclusion in the global community based on these values.”

Jackier said he plans to remain active in the background and has already offered his help to Sivan and Leemaster should they need it.

“I’ve gotten way more out of my time with Technion than I ever put in,” Jackier said. “It’s been a privlege to have served as chairman of the BOG, but my biggest pride is in our Detroit Jewish community and its legacy of service.” ■ continued on page 14

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required; students taking part can receive community service credit. “Our backpacks help alleviate some of the stress associated with going back to school for local children in need and their parents,� said Jennifer LoPatin, president of NCJW|MI, a social advocacy and grassroots volunteer organization which has been operating in Metro Detroit for 128 years.

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supporter, so my passion for Israel, science, technology and the Technion runs deep. My parents, D. Dan and Betty Kahn, took us to visit the Technion 30 years ago, and I knew immediately this was a special place.

My father’s first gift to the Technion was the Kahn Robotics Laboratory, but his passion continued with the donation of the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Mechanical Engineering Building and his establishment of the Kahn Symposium, a science shidduch (match) between the Technion and the University of Michigan. His vision for world-class collaboration and research ultimately led to the MichiganIsrael Partnership for Research and Education.

The fall 2018 mission wasn’t my first trip to China, but it was certainly the most impressive. The GTIIT campus already has more students than available housing. We had wonderful experiences meeting with students and teachers. We were impressed that although students speak many different languages, all classes are taught in English.

If my father were alive today, he’d be kvelling to know the extent of the Technion’s recently formed academic partnerships — the way that university leaders from around the world come to Israel to have Technion partner with them. It’s a tremendous affirmation of the university’s global standing, thanks to its pioneering multidisciplinary research in the fields of energy, nanotechnology, life science and so many others. â–

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TOP LEFT: Michael Liebowitz in Firing Room 1 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 1969. TOP RIGHT: Saturn V on the launch pad secured in place by scaffolding and the hydraulic arms designed by Boeing. ABOVE: Liebowitz gave a recent talk about his NASA experiences at B’nai Moshe.

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ot many recent college graduates get to launch astronauts to the moon for their first job. But that’s just what Michael Liebowitz did in the summer of 1969.

On the 50th anniversary of the famed Apollo 11 mission, Liebowitz, who enjoyed a career afterward in the automotive industry and is a dedicated member of Congregation B’nai Moshe in West Bloomfield, looks back at this time of his life with nostalgia and pride.

When Liebowitz graduated from New York Institute of Technology in 1964 with a degree in mechanical engineering, he landed a contract job with Boeing and spent the next four years working at NASA on its Apollo missions.

Working alongside men with mostly military backgrounds, he said he was the youngest person in the famed Firing Room 1 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where engineers like him oversaw launches of the Apollo missions all the way through the first space shuttle mission in 1981.

Sometimes he worked the midnight to noon shift; his work included testing the switches that moved the five 42,000-pound pneumatic arms that held the 363-foot, 6.2 million-pound Saturn V in place on the launch pad and then released them at just the right second as it lifted off into space to send Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the moon. The arms had to withstand the upward thrust of 9.5 million units of horsepower. Compare that with a typical racecar, which has 500 horsepower.

Apollo 11 was a mission first proposed by President John F. Kennedy in 1961. On July 20, 1969, humans first set foot on the moon. The astronauts explored the Sea of Tranquility site for more than two hours. They collected soil and rock samples, set up experiments, planted an American flag and left behind medallions honoring the

fallen Apollo 1 crew and a plaque saying, “We came in peace for all mankind.”

Though engineers were not in the limelight, he had some encounters with well-known icons of the age, including taking an elevator ride with TV newsman Walter Cronkite. He also spied Alan Shepard — the first man to orbit Earth in 1961 and who, in 1971, went on the Apollo 14 mission where he hit a golf ball on the moon — high atop the launch pad in a red Corvette with a blond woman.

“Shepard had sweet-talked the guard into letting him take the Corvette and that woman up on the launch pad to take some pictures,” Liebowitz recalls. “And we all knew damn well that was not his wife!”

Liebowitz said space engineering contracts dried up during the Nixon administration, so he took nearly a year off sailing and scuba diving around the Bahamas with a friend.

“I would have done it a lot longer, too, if my father hadn’t called me and reminded me to get a job and a haircut,” Liebowitz says.

He spent the rest of his career in the automotive industry, retiring from Ford in 2005. It’s his time at NASA that Liebowitz reminisces about the most, giving talks about his experience with schoolchildren as well as congregants at B’nai Moshe. You can find him there at morning minyan where he davens and has prepared breakfast for the last 14 years. He also volunteers as a docent for the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills.

Liebowitz says while history focuses on the crew of the space missions, it is also important to remember the thousands of engineers on the ground, like him, who contributed to designing and engineering the mission.

“The astronauts got all the media attention,” he says, “but if it weren’t for the work of the thousands of engineers, Saturn V would have never gotten off the ground.” ■

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Quick Action Composed teen lifeguard saves small child by using CPR. ROCHEL BURSTYN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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isitors to the Oak Park Community Pool witnessed an unforgettable scene July 7 when lifeguard Maya Greenstein, 16, of Southfield, dove into the pool, whisked out the oxygen-deprived body of a 4-year-old girl, performed CPR and saved her life.

Greenstein said she was scanning the pool when she noticed a little girl lying face down in the water. Greenstein blew her whistle to activate the emergency action plan and immediately jumped in the pool.

“When I saw the girl was blue all over, I didn’t know how long she’d been under

water, and I was terrified,” Greenstein says. “Her mother ran over, screaming, but I said I had to do CPR. I put her down on the concrete and started doing compressions.”

In the meantime, a second lifeguard called 911 while another ran for the pool manager.

“Eventually she started throwing up, started to get a little color back,” says Maya, who is going into grade 11 at Beth Jacob High School in Oak Park. “The problem was she had water in her lungs, so we kept doing more and more compressions, and she kept throwing up.”

Greenstein became a certified life-

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guard last summer and says she had always been nervous she would freeze when confronted with an emergency.

She needn’t have worried.

“Maya was amazing,” said the little girl’s mother who asked to be identified as D.S. “She held herself together, never lost her composure and kept everyone calm. She was literally an angel from heaven, at the right place at the right time, and we are indebted to her forever.”

Naturally, such a sight was terrifying for everyone who had been in the pool.

One such bystander, Malka Kramsky of Oak Park, expressed the sentiment of the crowd: “Everyone was so afraid … then suddenly the girl opened her eyes. It was a miracle.”

Shortly after the girl started responding, the paramedics and Hatzalah (a community medical service) arrived. An oxygen mask was applied to the little girl and she was taken by ambulance to the hospital where she stayed for observation overnight.

“Thank God, she was able to come home; there was no damage,” said D.S., who stayed in constant contact with

Greenstein throughout their hospital stay. “It was a sobering reminder not to take your eyes off a small child in the water for even a second, even in shallow water.” She also said her entire family is overcome with appreciation to God for the miracle they experienced.

Greenstein experienced a rush of adrenaline for the rest of the day. “It was only my third week on the job,” she says.

Other community members who’d been at the pool were even more amazed and impressed, especially with Greenstein herself. Many sent messages commending her actions to Greenstein and her parents. Aliza Sosne of Oak Park said Greenstein exhibited “true grace under pressure … Maya was thrust into an incredibly hard position and did the best she could ever do.”

Greenstein’s message to the community: “Make sure to follow rules at the pool; it will make it safer for everyone and help prevent tragedies.”

She also recommends that everyone — even people who aren’t up for the grueling lifeguard training — take a course on CPR. ■ JASON HORTON

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While the Palace is coming down this fall, the original development of the building is worth remembering.

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he Palace of Auburn Hills has served Metro Detroit for 31 years. This fall, however, will mark the end of an era — the Palace will be torn down and redeveloped by the Schostak Brothers & Company.

Despite this news, there is no shortage of history surrounding the Palace. After the collapse of the Pontiac Silverdome’s roof in 1984, Detroit Pistons owner Bill Davidson decided it was time to search for a new home for the beloved basketball team.

With the help of Robert Sosnick and David Hermelin, who later became Davidson’s business partners, they found the perfect spot: Auburn Hills.

In 1986, they decided to go ahead with the development of The Palace of Auburn Hills. Davidson had a strict deadline for the completion: Oct. 13, 1988, the opening night for the Detroit Pistons.

Sosnick and Hermelin recruited Jason Horton, Davidson’s representative to the

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Jason Horton

development team, to help design the elaborate building.

“I literally spent every day of my life at the Palace before the Sting grand opening concert on Aug. 13, 1988,” Horton

said.

The team began with 18 pages of preliminary sketches but continued developing ideas as the Palace was being built.

“It was the first arena in the world to have multiple suite levels,” Horton said.

“Before, arenas had nothing other than skyboxes. This arena provided fantastic sightlines for basketball.”

The Palace also housed a television studio that could accommodate multiple broadcasts for local news, opposing teams and cable networks.

“We were the first to introduce gourmet food at a sports and entertainment venue,” Horton said. “Not only that, but we also were the first to have a semi-au-

tomated beverage distribution center.”

The Detroit Pistons weren’t the only inhabitants of this magnificent building — The Palace was also a huge draw for many musicians.

“The Palace was recognized by artists as a place to play if you wanted to sound good because our design was beneficial to maximizing sound acoustics,” Horton said. “We had a massive equipment grid that covered the arena. All of the lighting and speakers could be rigged on the floor then hoisted into the air.”

Even with these impressive features, Tom Gores, the current owner of the Detroit Pistons, has partnered with the Schostak Brothers to tear down and

redevelop the Palace. Horton believes corporate offices will be built where this Michigan icon once stood.

“No one could ever dream that it would be torn down after 30 years,” Horton said. “I can still remember giving Bob Seger’s entourage a tour of the Palace and observing Mr. Hermelin nail a mezuzah to the door post of the owner’s suite on Aug. 12.”

Whether your favorite memories stem from Detroit Pistons playoff games or dancing and singing along to your favorite musicians, the Palace of Auburn Hills will always hold a special place in the hearts of many Michiganders. ■

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sports LEFT: Jason Boschan at the Great Wall of China Marathon.

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Bloomfield Hills man travels around the world to raise money for Alzheimer’s disease research.

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ason Boschan won’t stop running.

The Bloomfield Hills native is one of about 1,000 people on the planet who has run a marathon on all seven continents and run in all six major marathons — Boston, London, Chicago, New York, Berlin and Tokyo.

Now the 40-year-old Charlotte, N.C., resident is on a mission to run a half-marathon in each of the 50 states.

Boschan doesn’t run to compete.

“I don’t train. I just run. I think I have respectable times in races because I’m so motivated,” he said.

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David Vinsky is off to a solid start in his minor league baseball career.

The 15th-round draft choice last month of the St. Louis Cardinals has already been promoted by the Cardinals from the rookie league Johnson City team to short-season Class A State College.

In 13 total minor league games through July 8, Vinsky was batting .269 with two home runs, eight RBI, three doubles and nine runs scored.

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Detroit Country Day School senior girls soccer star Elle Hartje was named to the Division 2 All-State first team.

An honorable mention All-State choice when she was a sophomore, Hartje was a three-sport star at Country Day. She also played hockey and tennis for the Yellowjackets.

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So why does he run? Because of his grandfather, pediatrician Dr. Louis Heyman of Bloomfield Hills, who died in 2013 at age 88 from dementia.

Boschan’s driving passion is to raise funds and awareness for Alzheimer’s disease research in honor of his grandfather, whom he called Papa.

Boschan’s cause is called Run4Papa.

“Watching my grandfather lose his ability to communicate because of dementia was absolutely heartbreaking,” Boschan said.

All of Boschan’s trips for races are self-funded. One-hundred percent of contributions to his cause fund

research at Northwestern University’s Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease.

Boschan has raised about $243,000 since 2012.

The next race on Boschan’s schedule is the Mount Rushmore HalfMarathon on Sept. 21 in Keystone, S.D. The date and venue couldn’t be more appropriate.

Boschan’s grandfather died Sept.

21, 2013. This will be Boschan’s 21st half-marathon in the 21st state. His goal is to raise $2,121.

“The one place my grandfather wanted to visit before he passed away was Mount Rushmore,” Boschan said.

“Unfortunately, because of his fragile mental state due to dementia, we were unable to get him there.”

Boschan’s wife, Carrie Boschan, and his parents, James and Shelley, Boschan will be in South Dakota with him for what will be an emotional half-marathon.

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his cause mainly through social media.

Boschan’s website (run4papa.com) has about 3,500 monthly visitors.

He writes a blog, creates two- to three-minute YouTube videos of his races, and he communicates through his Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.

His videos have gotten more than 50,000 views and he has more than 5,000 followers on each of his social media platforms. His database of followers includes more than 2,000 personal acquaintances and more than 500,000 through Northwestern.

After never running a race in his life, Boschan has run in 12 marathons since 2000, including two before Run4Papa was founded. They were the London Marathon in 2000 and the New York City Marathon in 2010.

Boschan had to stop at mile 25.8 in the 2013 Boston Marathon because of the bombings at the finish line of the 26.2-mile race. He ran the Big 5 Marathon in South Africa in 2013 on an animal reserve.

He ran the Great Wall of China Marathon in 2012, ascending and descending 5,164 steps, and the Antarctica Marathon in below-freez-

Two umpires who work in Inter-Congregational Men’s Club Summer Softball League games were honored recently by USA Softball.

Barry “Rat” Lepofsky and Thomas Donovan each received an award for 40 years of softball umpiring.

They were saluted during an annual breakfast for softball umpires hosted by USA Softball of Metro Detroit.

Lepofsky was inducted into the Michigan USSSA Hall of Fame in its umpire category in 1993.

Make it three straight state championships and eight state titles since 2003 for Birmingham Marian High School girls soccer coach Barry Brodsky.

The Mustangs achieved the three-peat June 14 by defeating Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern 2-1 in double overtime in the Division 2 state championship game in East Lansing.

Marian is now the seventh girls soccer program in the state to win three consecutive state titles.

Tough Decision FJA boys basketball coach leaves to take job in Canton.

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The late Dr. Louis Heyman (“Papa”) and Jason Boschan, each wearing one of Boschan’s marathon medals.

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Farmington Hills.

Canton Prep is a bigger school than FJA, with varsity and junior varsity boys basketball teams. FJA doesn’t have a JV team.

Those facts are Marek’s overriding reasons for taking the new job.

There also was the heartbreak of last season.

FJA qualified for the Catholic League C-D tournament, but the Jaguars didn’t compete because the tournament schedule conflicted with Shabbat.

“It was so hard looking my kids in the eye and telling them they couldn’t play in the tournament because the Catholic League wouldn’t accommodate us,” Marek said.

“We were good enough to win that tournament.”

FJA Athletic Director Rick Dorn said he received 20 applications for Marek’s old job, and he hopes to have someone in place soon. ■

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Two holes-in-one were shot June 3 at the Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation Hank Greenberg Golf & Tennis Invitational.

Jeff Cohen, CEO of Rock Companies, and Kevin Grigg, vice president of public relations for the Detroit Pistons, each had an ace.

Cohen’s hole-in-one came on the ninth hole. About 15 minutes later, Grigg aced No. 16, arguably the toughest hole on the course.

It appears these were the first holes-in-one shot in the 29-year history of the Greenberg Invitational.

It’s also probable this was the first time more than one hole-in-one was shot on the same day at Franklin Hills Country Club in Farmington Hills.

Frankel Jewish Academy bowling and volleyball coach Joe Bernstein was named the 2018-2019 Michigan Girls Coach of the Year by Positive Athlete.

A national organization founded by former Pittsburgh Steelers star Hines Ward, Positive Athlete honors high school athletes and coaches whose infectious positive attitude makes everyone around them a better person.

class, they have great facilities, it’s an overall great campus and, of course, it’s close to home.”

In the 2018-2019 season, Nodler

played for the United States Hockey League’s Fargo Force where he earned 42 points throughout 54 games. Nodler also played for the U.S. Juniors hockey team in 2017 and received a gold medal.

Nodler credits his love for the game and the dream of making it to the NHL as two of the biggest motivators in his life.

“I always work hard and try to get better every day,” Nodler says. “You have to realize it’s a marathon, not a sprint. If you stick with the process and trust your ability, you can accomplish your goals.” ■

Nathan Cohen hit for the cycle June 23 in an Inter-Congregational Men’s Club Summer Softball League game at Keith Sports Park in West Bloomfield.

He had a perfect day at the plate, going 4-for-4 with four RBIs to lead Temple Israel No. 6 to a 15-2 victory over Congregation Beth Ahm. Here’s how Cohen’s cycle came together: First inning: double to left-center; second inning: triple to right-center; third inning: home run to left field; and fifth inning: single to center field.

Through nine games this season, Cohen was batting .615 with 17 RBI. Temple Israel No. 6 was 11-1 and in first place in the league’s Greenberg Division through games played July 7. The other division leaders were Temple Israel No. 3 in the Koufax Division (8-3) and Temple Israel No. 4 in the Rosen Division (9-2).

There are six teams from Temple Israel in the 18-team league.

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Nodler has been playing ice hockey since he was 5 years old. After 13 years of hard work and dedication, he finally achieved his goal of being drafted by a National Hockey League (NHL) team.

But before he makes his way to the NHL, Nodler will be heading to Michigan State University this fall.

“I’m super excited to start this fall,” Nodler says. “I chose to continue both my hockey and academic career at MSU because their coaching is first

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ing temperatures on frozen tundra alongside penguins, seals, whales and floating glaciers in 2016.

He ran the Tokyo and Berlin marathons last year.

All for Papa.

Emily Rogalski, associate director of Northwestern’s Mesulam Center, praised Boschan’s “extraordinary commitment” to the center.

“Jason’s fundraising efforts have been critical in launching new research initiatives at our center including a telemedicine-based speech therapy study for individuals with primary progressive aphasia, and new imaging biomarker studies important for detecting neurodegenerative disease,” Rogalski said.

Boschan graduated from the former Bloomfield Hills Andover High School in 1997 and the University of Michigan with a degree in sports management and communications in 2002.

When he isn’t running for Papa, he does marketing work for orthopedic surgeons. ■

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he coach who revived the Frankel Jewish Academy boys basketball program almost overnight has left the West Bloomfield school to take another coaching job.

Mike Marek is the new coach at Canton Preparatory High School. He was one of 31 candidates for the position.

Marek went 24-18 in two seasons at FJA including 14-8 this past season, a far cry from the 4-16 record the team posted in the season before he arrived.

“I’m very grateful for the opportunity to coach at Frankel. The people there are great, and you won’t find better players and parents,” Marek said.

So why did Marek, 30, leave FJA? Canton Prep is five minutes from his home, where he’ll live with his wife-tobe after they’re married in October.

Coaching at Canton Prep will mean less travel for work. Marek’s full-time job is in the patient transportation department at Beaumont Hospital in

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talking donkey? Middle school as the first Shabbat is about to arrive. metal shop class? What do they During these waning minutes of crehave in common? Read on. ation, God produced a series of special In this week’s Torah poritems, among them the mouth tion, we read a most strange of Bil’am’s donkey and the first and amusing story. Bil’am, the set of tongs. prophet, has been hired by We recognize that an actual Balak, the Moabite king, to talking donkey is miraculous. curse the Israelite nation. En Remember that Shrek’s pal and route to carry out his mission, Mr. Ed (I know, he was a horse, Bil’am is frustrated that the but a talking one, nonetheless) Rabbi Elliott donkey, on which he is riding, are fictional characters.

Pachter suddenly stops.

But, what’s miraculous or Parshat Bil’am, unaware that his mysterious about tongs?

Balak: donkey is looking at an angel Here is where I am taken back Numbers holding a sword, hits his donto middle school metal shop 22:2-25:9; key three times. class. To make tongs or similar Micah Suddenly the donkey turns projects, the metal had to be 5:6-6:8. to Bil’am and asks: “What have made “red hot” to be bent into I done to you that you have beaten me its desired shape. these three times?”

A red-hot metal rod cannot be held This cute story turns out to be a in an unprotected human hand. The metaphoric message from God to only way to do such a project is to hold Bil’am. Just as God can cause the the hot metal with a pair of tongs. donkey to speak, all the more so God So far, so good, but how did the first can cause the prophet to say blessings tongs get made? For a human, another instead of curses. set of tongs had to have pre-existed.

Beyond the context of this story, the Or, we can conclude that the human mouth of Bil’am’s donkey is mentioned creator of the first set of tongs sacriin Pirkei Avot 5:6 as one of the items ficed his/her own hands, which surely God created in the twilight period at would have been destroyed beyond the conclusion of the sixth day, just recognition from the burns. prior to the first Shabbat.

A final possibility is that the first set Consider the significance of this of tongs was created by God, during message. God’s creation of the world the twilight period just prior to the consisted of six complete days of work, onset of the original Shabbat. After followed by 24 hours of rest. that, thanks to God’s generous gift, Our workweek and observance of new tongs can be made by anyone who Shabbat are a bit different. In order to desires. avoid violating the Shabbat, we add Here, then, is a lesson from Parshat a minimum of an hour to our weekBalak. Think hard about what gifts you ly holy day. We begin Shabbat prior possess that come wholly from God, to sundown on Friday, and we don’t starting with your health and your conclude until darkness arrives on miraculous body. Think about the Saturday night. wonder of the natural world and how Even the “workaholic” Sabbath you benefit from it each and every day. observer is unable to work six comWe are eternally grateful that God was plete days and instead ceases work wise and kind enough to provide us prior to the onset of twilight. with tongs and so much more. ■ But God is different. And so God’s Rabbi Elliot Pachter is the rabbinic adviser at the miraculous and mysterious creation contains an even more miraculous and Frankel Jewish Academy and rabbi emeritus at Congregation B’nai Moshe, both in West mysterious time period: the twilight Bloomfield.

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riving through Ferndale, it’s easy to miss Long White Beard’s white, unassuming building. It’s almost easiest to figure out where it is by the symphony of saw noises rather than through your phone’s navigation system.

First opened in 2014, this uniquely named shop is co-owned by Shelby Holtzman and Dan Erickson, who dabble in designing and crafting heirloom-quality furniture and other unique home furnishings.

“We have a full woodshop and a small steel shop, so we do all of our own table bases and brackets and hardware and things like that,” West Bloomfield native and Temple Israel attendee Holtzman said. “It really allows us to do almost everything in-house and get the end result that we really want.”

Before opening Long White Beard, named after the fathers of the aforementioned team who both had beards, Holtzman merely engaged in woodworking as a hobby. It was an avenue through which she could gift handmade pieces to family and friends and, soon enough, it became something a bit more.

“Five years ago, I was managing a coffee shop, and Dan was a customer,” Holtzman said. “He was looking to start a business and, by that point, I was making furniture for not only myself but also for my family and friends. We started talking and decided to put this together and make it an actual company.”

Upon opening, Long White Beard operated out of Holtzman’s garage in Ferndale. The next year, they moved to the Russell Industrial Center in Downtown Detroit. However, in November 2016, their current location became available and they jumped at the chance to return to Ferndale, the city where it all began for them.

HANDMADE TREASURES Though they make a variety of pieces forged out of wood and steel, Long White Beard offers a variety of mostly custom-made, but also standard, handcrafted items.

“In terms of small home goods stuff, we’ve sold our diamond shelves quite a bit, and we sell an adjustable bath caddy,”

ABOVE: Shelby Holtzman LEFT: A custom coffee table from Long White Beard.

Holtzman said. “We made non-adjustable, custom bath caddies for three years, and they were one of our most popular items. Finally, we combined all of the numbers and we figured out how to make an adjustable one so we can just make them and have them available.

“In terms of big stuff, we make a lot of dining room tables,” she continued.

“We make a fair amount of coffee tables, desks, shelves, stuff like that, but we make a lot of tables. I think that people feel if there’s one thing they want to have that’s very special to keep and pass on, and with the idea of having the whole family around it and it being this kind of centerpiece of the house, it’s a table.”

The wood that Long White Beard utilizes to make these tables, bath caddies and other items is all sustainable. In other words, these are all Michigan hardwoods that would otherwise be chipped. These

live-edge slabs come from a local company called Live Edge Detroit. Whenever possible, Long White Beard uses all the natural edges of the wood to give each piece its unique, individual style.

“We like to experiment with colors, experiment with grain — especially the live-edge stuff,” Holtzman said. “Being able to preserve what is unique and beautiful about it serves as an inspiration on its own. We rarely make two pieces exactly the same.”

Woodworking and owning a business weren’t skills that Holtzman learned overnight. With each project, she and Erickson are learning more about best practices and improving the quality of their products.

“As we make things, we add it to the list of things we’re super comfortable making, and we want to make on a larger scale,” Holtzman said. “As we started

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After becoming a hot destination for corporate groups, bachelor and bachelorette parties and more, the two decided to expand Detroit Axe to serve other high-energy areas in Metro Detroit.

“We knew we were going to expand if it worked, so these two spaces were obvious to us,” Kretchmer says.

Corktown’s Detroit Axe will boast a food truck built into the interior with a focus on vegetarian, vegan and meat-friendly delights.

The new locations will have accessible parking and are projected to open around October of this year.

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to work with architect firms and interior design firms, we’ve gotten to do fun commercial projects and other projects that are a bit more unorthodox, a bit challenging.”

with clients. “Ninety percent of adults have smartphones and the ability to telecommute or use video conferencing,” he said. “Not everything has to be face-to-face or in person.”

Michigan Works! is funded entirely through state and federal grants, so JVS’ experience with compliance and reporting is another plus, Llewellyn said.

Paul Blatt Each Michigan Works! office offers services customized to the area.

“People say, ‘Gosh, you guys are all different,’ and that is the beauty of the system,” Llewellyn said “The Troy office sometimes gets an older clientele, so they offer workshops for those who are 55-plus. In Pontiac, some have limited English or need a GED, so we boost adult literacy. We embrace being different.”

And, she said, they help anyone seeking a job, not just those who have been laid off. “We work with everyone from youths to high-end executives.”

Blatt has sat on the board of Oakland County Michigan Works! for five years, but this is the first time JVS has won a bid with the agency.

“We always got great scores but never landed the funding,” Blatt said. “We’re happy to have finally been successful, to be part of a larger system that makes a bigger impact on the larger community.” ■ Learn more about Michigan Works! at oakgov.com/ advantageoakland/workforce and JVS at jvshumanservices.org.

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WELL-DESERVED SUCCESS “Shelby was raised with women role models in her everyday life,” Lee Holtzman, Shelby’s mother, said.

“I’m proud and yet not surprised that she has done well in a male-dominated field. When she shifted her basement hobby to her life’s work and passion, she already had a level of expectation that she would be successful. The rest has been determination, hard work and, of course, creative talent.”

As in any field, success is nothing without passion for the work you do. While Holtzman and Erickson have achieved something rewarding in starting Long White Beard, they’ve also realized a passion for an industry that they didn’t recognize when they were working at a coffee shop and a cable company, respectively.

“Running a small business is hard, but it’s also incredibly rewarding,” Holtzman said. “We’re very invested in our community, and it’s wonderful to work locally. We love what we do; we’re very proud of what we do; we’re proud of how far we’ve come in the last five years.” ■

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Agency, which will open later this summer or early fall.

JVS topped six competing bidders for a workforce development system in Northern Oakland County to replace the office run for nearly 40 years by the Waterford School District. The center, which will be located in a yet-to-be-determined Waterford location, will be one of Michigan Works!’ seven offices in the county.

“JVS has a very human-centered approach, and they understand the barriers that folks face in life,” said Jennifer Llewellyn, Oakland County’s manager of workforce development and director of its Michigan Works! Agency. “Their wraparound Jennifer Llewellyn approach is innovative and that stood out in their proposal.”

Paul Blatt, JVS executive vice president and COO, said the plan is to go beyond the standard approach and engage people differently. “We know that the toughest part about the job search is the rejection and loneliness,” he said. “It’s important to help people stay engaged in their job search, to give them dignity and hope.”

So rather than meet across a desk in a sterile bureaucratic setting, clients at the JVS Michigan Works! may sip coffee in a café-type setting.

Blatt is also exploring the use of technology to connect

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sk Michiganders what they most frequently associate with a Michigan summer and likely the answer will be an Up North vacation. Ask a Jewish Detroiter and the answer could very well be time spent in Charlevoix.

The number of Jewish visitors, especially those who own property in Charlevoix, is so significant that it’s nearly impossible to spend a summer weekend in this picturesque town without seeing a familiar face.

And Charlevoix, unlike any other vacation destination in the state, is a getaway location that transcends the memories of generations of local families.

Those who spent time there when they were young now bring their children and even grandchildren to this charming city known and loved for its pristine beaches, quaint downtown, memorable drawbridge and iconic red lighthouse.

“This is where we always went on vacation to spend quality time together as a family,” recalled Glenn Wachler, originally from West Bloomfield but now a permanent Charlevoix resident.

Wachler, 54, thinks back with fondness to his childhood, recalling time he spent with his family, particularly his dad. Together they would fish, search for Petoskey stones and watch the sun set over Lake Michigan.

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children, he and his wife, Ellen, along with their three kids, spent many summers in Charlevoix and moved there 13 years ago.

Despite what was once a seven-hour drive, Jewish families have been vacationing in Charlevoix for at least 100 years. In 1916, the year the Detroit Jewish Chronicle was founded, the paper’s community gossip page began mentioning it as a travel destination.

Wachler’s father, Jeff, 91, started going to Charlevoix in 1932. Eventually, he purchased a condominium there. His father (Glenn’s grandfather) also owned property in this northern Michigan town. Glenn still finds it amusing that at one time his grandfather rented an apartment in Detroit but owned a home in Charlevoix.

There was a period in the city’s history where openly anti-Semitic sentiments, such as deed restrictions in a few neighborhoods, were hard to ignore. However, Jews were not deterred from vacationing or owning homes in Charlevoix.

Rick Berman, a Charlevoix aficionado, has a postcard from a now-defunct hotel that says: “Having a great time, beautiful hotel. They do not allow Jews or dogs.” It’s one of approximately 1,500 postcards in his collection from the city and surrounding areas. These days, blatant displays of discrimination are gone.

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Up North getaway has attracted Detroiters for generations — here’s why.

TOP TO BOTTOM: Todd and Jennifer Kroll with their daughters, Marlee and Lilley, Charlevoix Apple Fest; Paul Hooberman with his granddaughters, 2010, Kilwin’s tour.

FAMILI FAMILIAR FAMI LIAR AR A AMENITIES MENI ME NITI TIES Today, returning tourists are accustomed to things unique to this particular northern Michigan town. A longtime favorite includes watching the drawbridge on the north end of the downtown open every half hour so that larger boats can travel between Lake Charlevoix on the east side and Lake Michigan on the west side.

Visitors also looked forward to seeing the Dexter Bus, a 43-foot boat consistently parked for the summer at the Charlevoix City Marina. This year marks the first time in 44 years the boat won’t be there. Its owners, Michael and Margo Goldman of West Bloomfield, sold it last year when it became too difficult for Margo to get on and off the vessel.

Other regulars, including Berman of West Bloomfield and Carol Hooberman

In 1986, the Hoobermans purchased a condo a few blocks down the street from her childhood home. Now their Charlevoix summers include visits from the grandchildren with trips to the beach, taffy store and walks up and down Bridge Street.

Hooberman said her parents, like so many other families, chose to buy a house in Charlevoix because her older brothers suffered from hay fever and the cleaner northern air made it easier for them to breathe during the summer when homes were not air conditioned.

Alan Hayman, first cousin to Hooberman, said his parents went north for the summer to avoid exposing them to polio when there wasn’t a vaccine for the debilitating disease and because of his brother’s hay fever.

“My parents literally picked me up on the last day of school in June and went right Up North. We came home in September, the day before school started.

The thinking was, ‘You got your kids out of Detroit in the summer months when the incidence of polio seemed to be higher.’ If they could, parents took their

kids away from the more densely populated areas to avoid polio,” said Hayman, a West Bloomfield resident who would later continue the tradition of vacationing there with his own family.

NOSTALGIA AND NATURAL BEAUTY It’s not completely clear why Charlevoix became such a favorite place to visit or own property except to say that its natural beauty, relaxed pace and the desire to create or continue family traditions appeal to many.

“Everything here feels like it did when I was a child,” reminisced Glenn Wachler. “There has always been a little downtown area with a bridge. There is still the same number of traffic lights in town (two), and the bell on the bridge makes the same sound as it did when I was 5. I don’t feel any older living here because so much about Charlevoix hasn’t changed except now I’m the dad and not the kid.”

Brian Freund, also a Charlevoix transplant from West Bloomfield, added: “There aren’t many places that are more beautiful than what you see continued on page 28

BETH EL SHABBAT IN CHARLEVOIX + CHABAD PROGRAMMING Temple Beth El’s Shabbat in Charlevoix will begin at 6:15 Friday, Aug. 16, with a “nosh and schmooze.” Services start at 7 p.m. A Havdalah service takes place the following evening at 7 p.m. Both free events will be at the park in downtown Charlevoix. New this year is a kid’s fun zone. To register, email Lindsay at lfoxwagner@tbeonline.org or call (248) 851-1100. Chabad of Charlevoix will be planning progams as well; contact Chabad at (248) 489-6376 or email mendel@chabadcharlevoix.com.

Round Lake seen from Edgewater Inn.

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Brian and Emily Freund, owners of That French Place restaurant

of Franklin, have never missed a summer there.

“I’ve been up to Charlevoix 65 years in a row. I think it’s paradise on Earth. It’s is just an amazing place,” said Berman, who has more postcards in his collection than the town’s historical society. The oldest dates back to 1896.

Berman’s father, Jimmy, started visiting the area in the early 1940s with his father. He fell in love with the city and eventually built a house there. That home is still owned by members of the Berman family (there are five brothers).

Berman himself bought a home there 21 years ago, and one of his brothers owns one as well.

In 1943, the same year Hooberman was born, her parents, along with an aunt and uncle, had a house on Dixon Street. She recalls spending many of her childhood summer days at one of the local beaches while evening activities consisted of shuffleboard, biking or catching a movie at the one local theater in town.

Although Hooberman’s family sold the house in 1964, she continued the tradition of heading Up North in the summer. For many years, she and her husband, Paul, along with with their children, spent a week or more at either the Lodge or the Weathervane, two longstanding hotels on Bridge Street. The Lodge was sold and renovated, and it is expected to open in coming months as the Hotel Earl.

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in Charlevoix. I walk my dog every morning around Round Lake and often watch the sunrise. It’s always so gorgeous. It never gets old.”

In 2015, Freund and his wife, Emily, opened That French Place, a café on Bridge Street specializing in crepes, pastries and coffee. Two years later, they opened Brian’s Ice Cream Experience. Seventy-five percent of their income is generated between Memorial Day weekend and the end of October.

Freund isn’t the only native Detroiter with a business in the downtown area.

Brothers Bill and Jack Schulman started Schulman Paddleworks with their wives, Lori and Marcia, in 2011. The store opened the same year they sold Camp Sea-Gull, a northern Michigan overnight camp that attracted kids from Metro Detroit.

“We call Charlevoix the ‘West Bloomfield of the North’ because during the summer it feels like I see everybody I know from high school and Temple [Beth El]. My parents’ friends are regulars up here, too,” said Freund, a 1988 graduate of Andover High School.

The popularity of Charlevoix wasn’t lost on Todd and Jennifer Kroll. When they bought their summer home in 2010, they counted the number of other people they knew with vacation properties.

“I think we came up with something

like 23 or 24 families with homes in the area,” said Todd, who has consistently visited the area for the last 18 summers. He knows this because his oldest daughter is 18. “Right away, we got a generational feeling from being up there, and it was something we wanted to start with our kids.”

Because of the large number of Jewish families who chose to vacation in Charlevoix, Temple Beth El began hosting a yearly outdoor Shabbat service at East Park, located downtown and overlooking Round Lake.

This summer’s service, scheduled for Aug. 16, is the temple’s third. The first two attracted more than 300 people, including members of Temple B’nai Israel of Petoskey, the only permanent synagogue in the area.

Now there is a Chabad presence in Charlevoix as well. Mendel Shemtov of West Bloomfield and Mendel Goldman of Oklahoma City, both 23, moved in July 12. They plan to host a variety of programs ranging from Shabbat dinners and lunch-and- learn sessions to putting up mezuzahs on vacation homes of those who are interested. There also are plans to host some kids’ programs. Shemtov and Goldman decided to spend part of the summer in Charlevoix with the encouragement and support of residents Mark and Shoshana Schulman.

“This is a way where people can have a dose of Jewish fun in the place where they vacation,” Shemtov said.

“We’re open to hearing suggestions from the community about what else they are looking for. We want to offer things in a fun, relaxed, summertime atmosphere.” ■

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Festival of Plays Two Jewish playwrights take the stage with their short theater pieces.

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tephen Sussman has been seen in many community theater roles over recent years, and one had him in the cast of Swashbucklers, a play written by Myron Stein and staged by Playwrights@Work, a group within The Village Players.

As Sussman learned his part, he also learned about the group, formed by scriptwriters holding monthly meetings to provide feedback for each other’s projects.

Twice a year, a selection committee chooses works to be performed publicly as staged readings or full productions.

Stephen Sussman, who earns Sussman his living as an architect, decided to try his hand at writing and joined the group. This summer, both Stein and Sussman will be represented as five one-act theater pieces are staged.

Stein’s play, Mystic Pavilion, has to do

with a conflict between a park ranger and a politician holding conflicting ideas about the future of a popular dance pavilion. First written as a short story published in Green’s Magazine, the piece was transformed into stage material as Stein focused his attention on scripts.

Sussman’s play, Stavros’ Chili, is a comedy about a retired restaurateur interviewed by a local cable reporter who experiences unexpected results from trying the chili.

The 2019 Festival of Plays runs FridaySunday, July 26-28, in the Birmingham theater of The Village Players.

“I love creating characters and situations,” says Stein, 77 of Southfield. “As I’m working on each play, I think about it all the time.”

A former teacher, Stein’s entry into writing started 16 years ago with children’s books and then moved into playwriting. His short theater pieces have been staged at many festivals around

The cast of playwright Myron Stein’s Mystic Pavilion.

the country, including A Fish Market on D Street at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre in New York City, The Haberdasher’s Apprentice at the Valley Repertory Company in Connecticut and The Pink Nude at the Magnolia Arts Center in North Carolina.

Myron Stein Active with Congregation Beth Shalom and the Jewish Community Center, Stein has had Jewish subjects in some of his work. Louie’s One and Only, for example, is about two men in a senior residence, and it was presented at Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park.

For this summer’s production, Stein

has chosen Pam Dundas as the director.

Sussman, who joined Playwrights@ Work in 2010, has been acting since 2003. He is also directing this summer’s production of his play.

“I took theater classes when I was a student at Michigan State,” says Sussman, 69, and a resident of Bloomfield Township. “It was much later when my wife and kids were in a production of Fiddler on the Roof, and they needed some men for the cast. My wife drafted me, and I got started acting once again.”

Sussman has found special value in writing.

“It’s exciting and exhilarating to hear my written words spoken on stage,” says Sussman, formerly active with the B’nai

Coming Home Singer/songwriter Jesse Palter launches new album in Detroit..

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ust as Jesse Palter launched her singing-composing career in Metro Detroit, she is launching public performances of songs from her new recording back in the same area.

Palter’s album, Paper Trail, the first with only her original music and lyrics, often relates to Michigan experiences. She considers this project special because Mack Avenue Records also launched in Detroit.

The record release party takes place Tuesday, July 23, at the Magic Bag in Ferndale, shortly after Paper Trail was chosen Album of the Week by LA Weekly.

“It’s important for this show to be a homecoming moment when I can feel the energy of my family and friends,” says Palter, now based in Los Angeles,

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but who got her start here at age 5 with musical theater, and then jazz band and songwriting in high school. “I just can’t wait to see all of my hometown people who have been following my career.

“I’ll be using a Detroit backing band, but I’ll also be bringing a longtime collaborator, Sam Barsh (a Grammy Award-winning songwriter, producer and keyboardist).

“Sam and I had a band, which we pushed for many years, and it was a big part of my story. Although I’m focusing on my solo projects, we still play music together and write music together, so it was important for me to bring him in from California.”

Palter describes her album as autobiographical.

“I put what I have been living into this

record from start to finish,” she says. “It’s the story of a Detroitborn, LA-based gal living in a big city trying to achieve her dreams and the frustrations that come with that. I put the highs and lows into this music.”

Palter explains that the title of the album is a metaphor to explain her life, and she hopes it leaves a relatable trail for listeners. The song with the same title holds a very different meaning.

The song is a nostalgic reflection of a love that didn’t work out, but it communicates insight into a relationship and appreciates it for what it was — a

moment in time with somebody.

“I’m a very nostalgic person, and when I’m home in Detroit, I go through my family videos and photo books,” she says about the background for the song.

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Adding to his excitement and exhilaration involved with the stage is knowing that his two daughters developed community theater interests deep enough to move them into professional stage careers.

Rachel, who holds a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from New York University, was a 2019 Tony Award nominee for her work in producing What the Constitution Means to Me. Hillary, who earned a bachelor’s degree

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in fine arts from Western Michigan University, is launching a comedy writing career in Chicago.

Other theater pieces in this summer’s Playwrights@Work festival include One Step at a Time, written and directed by Penelope Calcaterra to capture personal indignities and harsh effects of dealing with dementia; Decoration Day, written by Jackie Sue Salter and directed by Roberta Campion to introduce adult sisters learning about their dad before he was a dad; and Family Portrait, written by Barbara Schmitt and directed by Jane Burkey to express the feelings of a dad left out of a family portrait. ■

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MONDAY, JULY 22 JCC MEN’S CLUB 10-11:30 am, July 22. The club meets every Monday at the JCC to discuss relevant matters of Jewish interest. Info: Sandy Ashman, 248-910-7505; or Ely Flaum, 248-592-0690.

LUNCH & LEARN RSVP for July 25. Hadassah Lunch & Learn with Tessa Goldberg and Mike Smith, the Alene & Graham Landau Archivist Chair of the Detroit Jewish News Foundation. The speakers will discuss the process of researching articles in the JN database documenting Detroit Jewish history. Thursday, July 25, noon at Hadassah House, 5030 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323. Cost: members $15; nonmembers $18. RSVP: 248-683-5030.

CAREGIVER SUPPORT 5:30-7 pm, July 22. The Dorothy & Peter Brown Adult Day Program holds free monthly family caregiver support group meetings. At JVS, 29699 Southfield Road, Southfield. For family caregivers of all older adults. For infor-

TUESDAY, JULY 23 SIMPLY DANCE 11 am, July 23. At Adat Shalom in Farmington Hills. Led by Christine Stewart. No partner needed. Cost: $7.

RSVP: 248-432-5467.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24 LUNCH & LEARN Noon, July 24. At Temple Kol Ami with Rabbi Gutmann. “Judaism at the Onset of Enlightenment and the Beginnings of Reform Judaism.” Cost: $15. Includes a catered lunch. RSVP: 248-661-0040 or cspektor@tkolami.org.

SEPHARDIC CULTURE 1 pm, July 24. “The Challenges of Promoting Sephardic Jewish Culture on the American Jewish Scene” as Beth Ahm videostreams part 1 of 2-part interview with Rabbi Elie Abadie of the Manhattan East Synagogue, director of the Sephardic Academy of America and co-president of “Justice for Jews from Arab Countries.” Video is followed by brief informal discussion facilitated by Nancy Kaplan. 5075 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield. Free and open to the community; no reservations required.

Info: 248-737-1931 or nancyellen879@att.net.

HOW TO DO JEWISH 5:30-7:30 pm, July 24. With Rabbi Zerwekh at Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park. No charge. RSVP: 248-967-4020 or TempleFamily@emanuel-mich.org.

JULY 20 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT HOME Tour the first Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house to be built in the Detroit metropolitan area, the Gregor S. & Elizabeth B. Affleck House, 925 Bloomfield Woods, Bloomfield Hills. Frank Lloyd Wright teamed up with Jewish builder Harold Turner, who built the iconic home in 1941, along with two other Frank Lloyd Wright homes in Michigan. Turner eventually settled in Oakland County where he would go on to design and build his own unique houses. The tours on Saturday, July 21, are at 11 a.m., noon and 1 p.m. and are hosted by the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University. Tickets are $15$25 at Eventbrite.com and must be purchased in advance.

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J-CYCLE 2019 RSVP for Aug. 18. Registration for J-Cycle 2019 is now open. Join Jewish Historical Society of Michigan’s annual bicycle tour of historic sites through Downtown Detroit. This relaxed, 90-minute ride covers 18 miles and six stops related to the history of Jewish Detroit. All riders will receive $10 worth of vouchers redeemable with vendors at the Jewish Food Festival. Riders will be divided into nine groups of 25 riders, leaving at 15-minute intervals, beginning at 8 am. Final departure time is 10 am. Registration is required to participate. There will be no day-of registration. All riders are required to wear helmets. You will be asked to show your helmet at check-in. Tickets: $42 for JHSM members; $55 for nonmembers.

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MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S SHABBAT 7-9 pm, July 19. At B. Nektar Meadery, 1511 Jarvis, Ferndale. Join Hillel of Metro Detroit and The Well to celebrate Shabbat with a kosher dinner, handcrafted mead, cider and beer. Cost: $5.

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HOWIE MANDEL America’s Got Talent judge and stand-up comedian Howie Mandel is coming to the Augustus Ballroom at Caesars Palace Windsor Sunday, July 21, at 8 p.m.

Mandel was born and lived in the Willowdale area of Toronto, Ontario. He is an Ashkenazi Jew whose ancestors emigrated from Romania and Poland.

Mandel is also a distant cousin to violinist Itzhak Perlman. Tickets are $23$53 and available through Ticketmaster.

THURSDAY, JULY 25 POTTERY CLASS 11 am-1 pm, July 25. At the West Bloomfield JCC. This class for adults is taught by Allison Berlin. Cost: $15. All supplies are included. RSVP: 248-4325467 or rchessler@jccdet.org.

LUNCH & LEARN Noon, July 25. Hadassah Lunch & Learn with Tessa Goldberg and Mike Smith, the Alene & Graham Landau Archivist Chair of the Detroit Jewish News Foundation The speakers will discuss the process of researching articles in the JN database documenting Detroit Jewish History. At Hadassah House, 5030 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323. Cost: members $15; nonmembers $18.

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HOMETOWN FUNNY MAN Comedian and Tamarack Camps alumni Nate Fridson will be at Mark Ridley’s Comedy Castle, 310 S. Troy St., Royal Oak, Friday, July 19. Shows start around 7 p.m. The Huntington Woods native was a Tamarack camper from the late 1990s into the 2000s and then a counselor at Camp Maas after that. Tickets are $18.

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KARAOKE NIGHT 7:30-9:30 pm, July 25. At the Downtown Synagogue. Program Coordinator Nicole Feinberg will bring her karaoke-hosting talents to the synagogue for a very special evening. Come on down for drinks, songs and tons of fun. Must be 21+ to drink. RSVP to hello@downtownsynagogue.org.

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MARGARETE E. (ZIMMER) BULMASH, 82, died July 8, 2019, in Marietta, Ga. She was born Nov. 19, 1936, to Jacob Zimmer and Elizabeth (Stambach) Zimmer in Strasbourg, France.

She was a Holocaust survivor along with her brother, Fritz Zimmer (Inge Wexler).

Margarete immigrated to the U.S. in 1958, where she met Jerome M. Bulmash whom she married on July 23,1959.

She was educated in dietetics in Germany and later at the University of Cincinnati. In her early career, she worked as a dietitian.

For her next chapter, she worked in retail for an art gallery and as a manager for woman’s clothing stores. From the 1990s, she worked as a Realtor in Flint and later in Marietta. For the last 20 years of her life, Margarete parlayed her love of animals into launching a successful pet-sitting business.

She was always generous and supportive of her family and friends and devoted her time as a wonderful parent and grandparent.

She loved art, films and music.

Mrs. Bulmash is survived by her three children, Mark (Lisbeth Jacobs), Nelson (Susan Perrotti) and Rebecca; grandchildren, Reese Bulmash, Ariel Bulmash, Sophia Bulmash, Hannah Bulmash, Benjamin Bulmash, Brooke Bulmash and Grant Bulmash.

A memorial service will be held at a yet to be determined date. Contributions may be made to Susan G. Komen for the Cure or the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

DON’T STOP NOW. By now, you know each other so well you feel you’re part of each other (and you are). You know exactly what each other is thinking before it’s said.

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FRED GARFINKEL, 85, of West Bloomfield, died July 9, 2019.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Barbara Garfinkel; daughter, Alisa Bailog; son and daughter-inlaw, David and Tracy Garfinkel; grandchildren, Jennifer Economy, Noah, Landon and Hayden Garfinkel; many loving nieces, nephews, other family members and friends. Mr. Garfinkel was the father of the late Ronna Lynn Economy; brother of the late Lewis Garfinkel and the late Dora Rowe.

Interment took place at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Contributions may be made to St. Jude Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Research Hospital. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

NEAL HERMAN, 73, of White Lake Township, died July 8, 2019.

He is survived by his wife of 35 years and friend for more than 60 years, Maxine Herman; son, Zack Herman of White Lake Township; sister, Polly Carpenter of Southfield; sister-in-law, Arlene Niskar; his faithful dog, Reba Herman.

Mr. Herman was the dear brother of the late Shayle Herman.

Contributions may be made to Trinity Hospice, 17410 College Pkwy., Suite 150, Livonia, MI 48152; or Michigan Animal Rescue, marleague. org. Interment was held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

JOAN LESSON, 82, of West Bloomfield, died July 8, 2019.

She is survived by her beloved husband , Dr. Jerry Lesson; sons and daughters-in-law, Jeffrey Lesson (companion, Jennifer), Kenneth and Susan Lesson, Randall and Lauren Lesson; daughter and son-in-law, Dana and Jay Zemmol; grandchildren, Ryan, Jamie, Jordan, Corey, Joshua and Jillian Lesson, Zackary and Zoey Zemmol; sistersin-law, Josephine Simon and Brenda Karr; many loving nieces, nephews,

other family members and friends.

Mrs. Lesson was the sister of the late Edward Simon, the late Marjorie Kaufman and the late Stanley Simon.

Interment took place at Beth El Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society or the Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association.

Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. LOLA PINES, 97, of Southfield, died July 7, 2019.

She is survived by her son and daughterin-law, Dr. Jack and Leslie Pines; son-in-law, Izzy Tal; grandchildren, Dr. Donna Tal, Jonathan Pines and Jarrod Pines.

Mrs. Pines was the beloved wife of the late Max Pines; the cherished mother of the late Esther Tal; the loving sister of the late Dora Mintz.

Interment was at Adat Shalom Memorial Park. Contributions may be to Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334, holocaustcenter. org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

DR. PHILIP SILVERMAN, 77, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., formerly of Sylvania, Ohio, and Detroit, died June 28, 2019. Phil was a radiologist in Toledo for 30 years.

He is survived by his wife, Barbara; daughter, Michelle (Ronald) Saltz of Larchmont, N.Y.; son, Jared (Lange) Silverman of Atlanta, Ga.; granddaughters, Ally and Hannah Saltz; brother, Dr. Raymond (Alice) Silverman of Highland Park, Ill.; sister, Lois (Robert) Kaplow of Farmington Hills; nieces, nephews and countless friends.

Dr. Silverman was predeceased by his parents, Joseph and Ruth Silverman.

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He is survived by his son and daughter-inlaw, Joel Zuckerman c. 1983 and Deborah Baillie Zuckerman; daughters and sons-inlaw, Julie and Sam Intramanee, Diane and Aaron Zack; son-in-law, David Osentoski; loving grandchildren, Evan Osentoski, Danielle (Michael) Rolando, Justin Intramanee and Sara (Darron) Gavin; adoring great-grandchild, Elvira Maida; many other loving family members and friends.

Mr. Zuckerman was the devoted husband of the late Maida Zuckerman; father of the late Barbara Osentoski; brother of the late Max Zuckerman and the late Irving Zuckerman.

Interment took place at Beth Moses Cemetery in Roseville. Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society or to the Jewish War Veterans.

Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

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Lucette Lagnado, then 6, and her family pose for a family portrait on the eve of their exodus from Egypt in the 1960s.

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Journalist/Author Lucette Lagnado ANDREW SILOW-CARROLL JTA

After leaving Egypt in the turmoil ucette Matalon Lagnado, a that followed the rise of the dictator Wall Street Journal reporter Gamal Abdel Nasser, the family evenwhose 2007 memoir of her tually moved to Bensonhurst, Egyptian-Jewish family won Brooklyn. the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Lagnado graduated from Literature, has died. She was 63.

Vassar College and started her The Jewish Book Council, reporting career at a commuwhich awarded the prize for nity paper in Brooklyn. She The Man in the White Sharkskin served an internship with the Suit, did not specify a cause in investigative reporter Jack announcing her death.

Anderson, as a columnist for Lucette Lagnado Described as “stunning” by the Village Voice and as execMichiko Kakutani in a New York utive editor at the EnglishTimes review, Lagnado’s memoir recalls language Forward newspaper. the lost, cosmopolitan world of Cairo’s A story she worked on about Dr. Jewish community before and after Josef Mengele helped rekindle global World War II and her high-living father, interest in his macabre experiments a prosperous clothier. She would later at the Auschwitz concentration camp devote another memoir, The Arrogant and the search for justice for his Years, to her mother’s story. victims. That was also the subject of

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Children of the Flames, her 1991 nonfiction book with Sheila Cohn Dekel.

At the Wall Street Journal, which she joined in 1996, Lagnado was a cultural and investigative reporter, most recently covering health care, health delivery for the poor and uninsured, and new treatments for cancer.

Among her awards are the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism’s 2002 Mike Berger Award for a story about the aging residents of an Upper West Side apartment building and three Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Awards for her reporting on hospital billing and collection.

The 2008 Rohr Prize came with a check for $100,000.

In a blog post from 2011, Lagnado revisited the subject of exile and return — this time about her old neighborhood of Bensonhurst, where she would eventually buy one of the apartments where she grew up.

“My trips to Bensonhurst always have a ritual quality to them, like a religious pilgrimage. I must go to this block, I tell myself, I must pay my respects to that building,” she wrote.

“There are no people left there that I knew, not a single familiar face — my community long moved out — yet I keep returning.”

She is survived by her husband, Douglas Feiden, with whom she lived in Bensonhurst and Sag Harbor, N.Y. ■

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he highly awaited two-year construction of a Jim Brady’s restaurant in Ann Arbor finally comes to fruition.

After numerous years of the property standing vacant, the reconstruction was completed this past December by partners Tom Brady and Darin Dingman … It has been a piece of history in Downtown Ann Arbor that dates back to 1861 … on South Main in Ann Arbor’s historic district between West Washington and West Liberty avenues.

Jim Brady’s continues to have signature items like its legendary hamburger and 7 Mile Caesar-like salad … Jim Brady’s Rock N’ Rye barbecue sauce made with Faygo’s R&R pop is a delicious addition to several of the menu items … A side sauce is also offered, and the sauce is served with blackened barbecue chicken and pineapple …

Also featured, fish tacos, chicken and waffles, Amazing Grace carrot cake and maple salmon.

Certainly unique is its roasted cauliflower appetizer, a vegetarian standout … The luscious homemade sauce Romesco is based on almonds, garlic and roasted red pepper …

A Vernor’s ice cream made in-house is very rare and is luscious on the Boston Waffle Puff served with Sander’s hot fudge and caramel sauce.

The Jim Brady Burgers are certainly among its best-selling items … Maybe, in fact, the biggest one with about 1,000 pounds sold per week.

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Brady’s Ann Arbor, along with its excellent food, is a bevy of television sets, including a large 222-inch motorized TV screen that almost takes onlookers to a University of Michigan football game … and gives them the best seat in the house … It covers an entire wall and is the only one of its kind in the state of Michigan … among the latest in audio-visual smart technology.

The Brady name is a much-noted one in the dining game … and having a restaurant with such a time-honored reputation is priceless.

Jim Brady’s in Ann Arbor is open daily from 11 a.m.-midnight for lunch and dinner … Seating is for around 200 … with bars on two floors … 12 and 10 stools.

Doing business with its community has become a major priority with Jim Brady’s …

Ann Arbor must be mighty proud to have one now within its confines.

OPENING OF NEW small plates restaurant Three Cats, 14 Mile, Clawson, by Matt Prentice may be in late August of this year … Before it opens, there will be four training dinners that will culminate with a dinner for charity, which has always been his custom over the last four decades … The Three Cats charity dinner will benefit Cass Community Social Services, $100 per person, with tickets including American wines and liquors and Michigan Craft Beers …

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assistance, etc. … Due to construction of Three Cats, the date for the dinner is still up in the air.

ALONG WITH THEIR excellent restaurant gem, Bella Piatti, which recently celebrated its sixth anniversary on Townsend Avenue in Birmingham, and their terrific Venetian Chef Francesco Apollonia, who creates delicious dining favorites from where he formerly worked, Bella Piatti owners Nino and Liz Cutraro, are going great guns with their seventh Wahlburger store in partnership with movie star Mark Wahlberg … Three more Wahlburgers with him are scheduled for Downtown Atlanta and a couple of military bases in Germany.

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Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History

Technion’s Longtime Ties to Detroit

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As chair, he led those who oversee the university’s programs and finances as well Mike Smith Alene and Graham as its president and officers.

Landau Archivist As someone who spent 30 Chair years working at Wayne State University and the University of Michigan, I know this is a big, big job, one that takes a tremendous amount of time, work and dedication (along with accumulating massive frequent flier miles!) So, to say the least, Jackier can claim a major contribution to Technion’s great success over the past decade-plus.

The Technion began as an idea that Jews needed their own technical institute and it should be in Palestine. In March 29, 1908, the notion of Technion — or a Technikum in German, the original language of Technion — was formed.

The cornerstone to the physical university was laid on April 11, 1912, in Haifa, where the university still stands. Albert Einstein was an early supporter and planted the first palm tree on campus, which is still there. From humble but determined beginnings, Technion has grown to rank among the leading research universities in the world. It is a leader in many fields, including biotechnology, its students build satellites, and two of its professors were the first to bring Nobel Prizes for science to Israel. A third soon followed.

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17th Annual HotWorks.org

Orchard Lake Fine Art Show July 27 & 28, 2019

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West Bloomfield, Michigan

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Lee Burstein, Mixed Media

Juried Fine Art & Fine Craft Show – All Art is Original & Personally Handmade Voted Top 100 Art Shows in America

Event Hours Saturday, 10am-6pm & Sunday 10am-5pm – $5 Admission; 13 & under free Plus Bath Planet’s Youth Art Competition for K-8 or Ages 5-13 – $250 cash awards!

Powers & Daly Rds, S. of Maple, W. of Orchard Lake Rd ~ Free parking in the back half of the lot at Beaumont Medical Center, 6900 Orchard Lake Rd MENTORED BY

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