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his past year has been one of anxiety, fear, sadness and frustration for most of us. But for some who were fortunate to stay healthy, the monotony and isolation was not all bad.

As an introvert who can always find ways to keep busy and needs a certain amount of downtime, it was relatively easy for me to spend most of the year at home. Sure, there were many moments when I wanted to see my family without any risk and times when I dreamed of going to a restaurant or hanging out not-virtually with friends, but I adapted. I did OK with my daily walks or runs, finding entertainment with my roommate and the two cats we adopted, and yes, too many Zooms.

So when I think about the frontline workers in our community who risked their safety, adjusting their lives and leaving their comfort zones to be able to take care of others, I’m in complete awe.

When Jstyle returned from its pandemic pause, I knew we had to honor those serving in these roles.

When we made our call for local Jewish frontline workers to model for the magazine, we got an influx of nominations. We aimed to feature a diverse group who served in various roles throughout – such as a father-son doctor duo, a mother-daughter pair of health care workers and those working in fields like public health, senior care and public safety. Hosting the photoshoot in Playhouse Square and downtown Cleveland, our aim was to imbue a sense of excitement and optimism going forward as city life and entertainment return, while also showing appreciation for those who got us here.

One thing that stuck out to me was that despite our models being so calm and kind as we worked to capture their best moments, they also articulated a lingering sense of unease. Although everyone

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From left: Brian Fixler, Shudina Brown, Allyson Wexler and Dr. Moises Auron at Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland. Wardrobe details and profiles starting on Page 16.

at the shoot was fully vaccinated, several models explained that although vaccines are very effective, with Ohio vaccination rates where they are now – about 47% of Ohioans received at least one dose as of June 14 – and children being unvaccinated, it’s important to exercise caution. While we are excited to return to social activities, our frontline workers told us one of the best ways to continue to support them is to keep showing compassion for the most vulnerable among us, and those caring for them.

In addition to the photoshoot and profiles featuring some of Jewish Cleveland’s most resilient, this issue also offers a peek into frontline workers who are part of Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland’s Horvitz YouthAbility program and other professionals working in a variety of fields.

This issue also highlights how local restaurants are adapting to changing norms this summer, and how they are keeping things fresh and creative in the process. And to keep cool and energized during the heat waves, Jstyle connected with coffee connoisseurs Anthony Lazzaro and Charlie Eisenstat of Pour Coffee Co. for a twist on an Israeli coffee treat.

I hope you enjoy Jstyle’s first issue back from the pandemic hiatus and more than anything, continue to thank and support our frontline community members this summer.

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This July 3-4 will mark the return of the summer home of The Cleveland Orchestra, Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls.

Premiering with “An American Celebration” with music and fireworks in celebration of the Fourth of July, the season will continue through Sept. 5. Individual tickets are on sale, with subscriptions available by request. clevelandorchestra.com/blossom

Cleveland International Piano Competition

The renowned international classical music competition is back after a year-long pandemic hiatus. Local and international audiences can experience adapted digital performances, and the semi-final and final rounds will be in Cleveland, featuring The Cleveland Orchestra. The virtual first round begins July 8, with the first and second rounds being free to view over the course of three weeks. After the final rounds, in-person galas will be held at the Shoreby Club in Bratenahl the evenings of Aug. 8-11. pianocleveland.org

Cain Park Arts Festival

Cain Park’s Arts Festival will return this year with fine arts and crafts for sale from July 9-11 at the Cleveland Heights park. The juried art festival features work from artists across the country, about 25 of whom are award winners from the most recent festival. Mediums include jewelry, ceramics, glass, leather, sculpture, wood, painting, drawings and prints, photography, mixed media and fiber. cainpark.com

YLDay of Caring

Join Jewish Clevelanders between the ages of 21-45 for a morning of volunteering with the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s Young Leadership Division on July 11. Enjoy hands-on volunteering, meeting new people and making a difference in the community. jewishcleveland.org

‘The Choir of Man’

Playhouse Square is back after a 15-month long pandemic hiatus, debuting with “The Choir of Man.” The touring concert show, running through July 11, captures the essence of a pub party with foot-stomping choreography and a combination of folk, Broadway, classic rock and pub tunes. Also, be on the lookout for tickets to the theater district’s KeyBank Broadway Series, returning this November, opening with “The Prom.” playhousesquare.org

Woman Up Cleveland

Attend the first annual Woman Up Cleveland event July 11 at the Ariel International Center in Cleveland. Woman Up Cleveland is an event where women across the Cleveland area and women-owned businesses can meet, unite and support each other. The day will involve a two-hour social networking experience, women-owned vendors, crafts and activities. bit.ly/3ggD5it

Cleveland Indians 2021 season

Baseball in Cleveland is back. The season is jam-packed with games you won’t want to miss at Progressive Field. Sit back, grab some food and enjoy watching your favorite Cleveland baseball team take on its rivals.

The stadium is now open to full capacity. mlb.com/indians

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Young adults in Northeast Ohio have long contributed to the Jewish community’s emphasis on giving back and building a sense of unity – among Jews and the larger society alike. To celebrate those between the ages of 18 and 36 enacting positive change and becoming the next generation of leaders, join the Cleveland Jewish News – Jstyle’s sister publication – and Classic Lexus, with supporting sponsor KMK Promotional Sales, LLC, in honoring 12 of those individuals. With an awards event planned for Aug. 24, the CJN will recognize those who are helping shape the future of Cleveland. cjn.org/12under36

WonderStruck

Live music is back in Northeast Ohio this summer, and from July 24-25, WonderStruck will rock it out at Lakeland Community College in Kirtland. The music festival formerly known as LaureLive will feature acts such as Grammy Award-winners Portugal. The Man, Ohio’s Walk The Moon, AJR and the multi-platinum selling San Francisco-based Third Eye Blind. The Lakeland campus offers 400 acres of open-air, outdoor space to allow festival goers to comfortably spread out, according to a news release. wonderstruckfest.com

Summer Soirée

Join the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s Young Leadership Division and JCLE the evening of Aug. 5 for their annual summer celebration. Wear your favorite cocktail party outfit and enjoy an open bar, hors d’oeuvres and music.

A raffle will also be held with prizes from local businesses.

Bring a new friend and you will receive a free raffle ticket. jewishcleveland.org

Flats Festival of the Arts

Stop by Cleveland’s waterfront at The Flats and explore the 5th annual Flats Festival of the Arts. Local and national artists will show and sell artwork – including ceramics, woodwork, photography and paintings – from Aug. 21-22.

Visitors can also enjoy the Flats East Bank’s scenic view, music and dance performances, and local dining and entertainment. artfestival.com/festivals

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‘Notorious RBG’

Join the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Beachwood for the traveling exhibition, “Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg,” exploring the life of the late Supreme Court justice. RBG, known simply and commonly by her three initials, passed away at age 87 last year after almost 30 years on the bench. The exhibition, created by the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, is based on a book focused on Ginsburg’s personal and professional life by journalist Irin Carmon and attorney Shana Knizhnik. The exhibition, on view at the Maltz Museum through Aug. 29, offers insight into seven parts of RBG’s life, each named after lyrics from the late hip-hop artist the Notorious B.I.G. maltzmuseum.org

One World Day

Celebrate the 75th annual One World Day Aug. 29 at the Cleveland Cultural Gardens. Hosted by the Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation, all the gardens and cultures they represent will come together to support the theme of peace through mutual understanding. The event offers a parade of flags, ceremony, cultural performances and entertainment, garden exhibitors, authentic ethnic food and children’s activities to celebrate our one world. clevelandoneworldday.org/2021

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The Menorah Park Foundation will host the fifth annual solosinging competition Shining Star CLE on Aug. 29. Think “American Idol,” but for local high schoolers competing for college scholarships. The show benefits dementia/memory care services and COVID-19 expenses on Menorah Park’s campuses and in homes throughout Northeast Ohio. Contestants will be judged by independent music professionals from a variety of musical genres.

During the program to be livestreamed at 7 p.m., the top 10 finalists will perform and the winners will be announced. shiningstarcle.org Ethan Peterson, a senior at Chardon High School, performs “For Forever” from “Dear Evan Hansen” in Shining Star CLE 2020. Peterson won first place last year.

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High Holy Days

Ring in Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, beginning the evening of Sept. 6. With Yom Kippur beginning at sunset Sept. 15, here’s hoping for an easy fast and a delicious break-the-fast feast. Then, enjoy some outdoor time in a sukkah in observance of Sukkot, which begins at sunset Sept. 20. Look for many local synagogues to welcome congregants back to their sanctuaries following virtual prayer and services throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tri-C JazzFest

Enjoy live entertainment in the beautiful outdoors at Cuyahoga Community College’s 42nd annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland from Sept. 11-12. For over four decades, JazzFest has featured top jazz acts. This year, 10 acts consisting of both jazz roots and forwardthinkers in the genre will perform in Cain Park’s covered Evans Amphitheater in Cleveland Heights.

Passes, sold by day, are available through Ticketmaster. tri-c.edu/jazzfest

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Immersive Van Gogh Cleveland

Opening Sept. 9, this immersive Vincent van Gogh exhibit will make its mark in Cleveland. Prepare to be mesmerized by the transformed space – at a venue still to be announced – with the exhibit that utilizes architecture, history and community to create an entirely unique art experience. vangoghcleveland.com

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Wear your brown and orange to cheer on the Cleveland Browns against the Houston Texans in the home opener of the 2021 season Sept. 19.

It will be the first of nine regular season games the Browns are hosting at FirstEnergy Stadium for the first time in franchise history after the National Football League announced a full 17-game regular season schedule for 2021. clevelandbrowns.com

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For many of us, this past year has been one of hunkering down at home – working, relaxing and video chatting from the comfort of our couches, albeit with a lingering sense of anxiety and fear. For Cleveland’s frontline workers though, the pandemic painted a different picture. Risking their health and safety, they followed the call to keep others safe. For this special edition of Jstyle, 10 Northeast Ohio frontline workers joined us in downtown Cleveland.

They shared their stories while visiting spots like Playhouse Square, The Lumen and East 4th Street – all in style for summer – to give us a peek of the excitement beginning to surround the city once again.

Photography: Casey Rearick Photo Fashion: Gina Lloyd Hair & makeup: Ramona Dauksa Studio

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Age: 46 Hometown: Beachwood Synagogue: B’nai Jeshurun Congregation Work: Internal medicine and pediatric hospitalist at the Cleveland Clinic How have you served the community during the COVID-19 pandemic?

I remained working clinically seeing both COVID and nonCOVID patients that were hospitalized in the Cleveland Clinic main campus. I was deployed from the pediatrics inpatient service to the medicine side in the expectation of a patient surge. We published two articles, one about the inpatient management of patients with COVID in non-ICU units, as well as blood management optimization during the COVID surge.

What has been the most challenging part?

Witnessing the suffering of patients with very elevated mortality rates in the nation was very challenging. But also to acknowledge that our colleagues in health care nationally (physicians, nurses, paramedics, firefighters) were struggling to keep up with the pace of patient surge.

Both my wife and I are physicians. She is a pulmonary and critical care doctor. Rounding every day on critically ill COVID patients became psychologically demanding. We started sleeping in different rooms, showering upon arrival to our home, and wearing KN95 masks at home all the time. We did not see our family for many months as well.

What are you most looking forward to doing this summer in Northeast Ohio now that you are vaccinated and everything is opening up?

(I) will continue using a mask outside and won’t change my behavior. I will still avoid public places as there are a lot of unvaccinated people. We have not conquered the pandemic yet; we need to vaccinate all our children, too. Until that happens, I can’t trust that things are already under control.

I plan to continue enjoying the Cleveland Metroparks, zoo, the botanical garden, Lake Metroparks Farmpark, the arboretum, the Lake Erie beaches and coastal line. Ohio is beautiful and we’ll continue to enjoy its outdoors.

What local restaurants are you most excited to visit?

I will still order to takeout. I love Taza (Eton Chagrin Boulevard) and Anatolia Cafe close to Cedar Lee Theatre.

Kantina in University Circle has the best burger in Cleveland.

And I discovered a place that has delicious Israeli-like pitas and sandwiches called Arova.

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Age: 84 Hometown: Shaker Heights Synagogue: Suburban Temple-Kol Ami Work: Realtor with Howard Hanna in the Pepper Pike office; Shaker Heights Community Emergency Response Team How have you served the community during the COVID-19 pandemic?

As a member of the Shaker Heights Community Emergency Response Team, in early 2020 I helped repair N95 masks that were in the CERT inventory from the SARS epidemic. The elastic, which held the masks onto the head, had rotted, had to be removed and replaced. Over 12,000 masks were corrected and then distributed to fire and police department first responders in many communities.

I assisted the Cuyahoga County Board of Health vaccinators at the main Shaker Heights Fire Station when the vaccines first became available to be given in December 2020, by directing vehicle traffic and walk-ins, later doing the same at the Beachwood Fire Department, The Word Church and Mayfield High School.

I also assisted during the weekly COVID-19 testing drive-thru site at the Shaker Heights Fire Department.

What has been the most challenging part?

Difficulty in hearing or being heard because of a mask, and not recognizing people or being recognized because of wearing a mask. I learned to speak louder, and wrote my name on my masks with magic marker.

What has been the most rewarding part?

It may sound corny, but it is rewarding to know that I was doing a small part in helping to make a difference to eliminate the COVID-19 epidemic to make me, my family, my community, my country and the world safer. I know that the vaccines make a difference.

How can Clevelanders continue to support frontline workers?

Encourage everyone you know to get vaccinated.

What Cleveland activities are you looking forward to this summer?

I play in two ladies golf leagues, at Highland and Manakiki, and am the scheduler for both. We started in May and will go through September. It is a pleasure to see and speak to people without a mask. I will still avoid crowds.

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Staci Block when their anxiety was off the charts Age: 56 was another challenge, and the Hometown: South Euclid staff became experts at it. Keeping Synagogue: The Temple-Tifereth residents’ spirits up when they Israel couldn’t be with their families was Work: Activities director at Solon probably the most difficult part of Pointe the job.

How have you served the What has been the most community during the COVID-19 rewarding part? pandemic?

Our department is currently I oversee the activities department facilitating family visitation. It is at Solon Pointe, a 99-bed skilled moving to watch residents and nursing and longterm care facility.

The goal of our department is to help families reconnect in person for the first time in over a year. It’s difficult residents remain engaged socially, to not shed a tear during these physically, emotionally, spiritually reunions. and intellectually in both a group What are you most looking and/or an independent setting. forward to doing this summer What has been the most in Northeast Ohio now that you challenging part? are vaccinated and everything is The most challenging part of this opening up? position during the pandemic has Live theater and dance been revamping the entire way we performances at Playhouse Square, engage residents. During quarantine the Beck Center for the Arts and periods, residents had to remain Chagrin Valley Little Theatre; in their rooms. Instead of group Cleveland Orchestra concerts at activities, we had to bring the fun to Severance Hall and Blossom Music each resident individually.

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Age: 32 Hometown: University Heights Synagogue: Attends Solon Chabad with family Work: Pharmacist in the emergency department at Cleveland Clinic’s Hillcrest Hospital How have you served the community during the COVID-19 pandemic?

I take care of patients at the bedside along with the rest of the health care team. As a pharmacist in the emergency department, I make medication recommendations as well as prepare/facilitate getting medications in emergency situations.

What has been the most challenging part?

The most challenging part has been worrying about putting my family at risk of COVID due to my work environment.

What has been the most rewarding part?

Working closely with the health care team in the emergency department to take care of COVID patients and all other patients during this unprecedented time.

How can Clevelanders continue to support frontline workers?

Get vaccinated.

What are you most looking forward to doing this summer in Northeast Ohio now that you are vaccinated and everything is opening up?

Being able to have friends and family come over to my house and be inside comfortably.

What local restaurant are you most excited to visit?

Saffron Patch What Cleveland activities are you looking forward to this summer?

Exploring the Metroparks with my dog, Bertie, kayaking and eating at different patios in the city.

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Brian Fixler Age: 30 Hometown: Highland Heights Synagogue: Temple Am Shalom Work: Cleveland Division of Police, Motorcycle Unit How have you served the community during the COVID-19 pandemic?

When the pandemic started, my unit was at Cleveland Clinic assisting with traffic control for the first COVID-19 testing in Greater Cleveland. We transitioned to helping the Greater Cleveland Food Bank with traffic control for food distribution. The day following, we would deliver food to community members that were either homebound or without transportation. In late spring/early summer when there were protests, we would escort citizens and block streets to allow for the safe demonstration of the First Amendment. Once the vaccine began to roll out, we escorted the Cleveland Department of Health to vaccine sites, ensuring its safe arrival. Once Cleveland State University became a mass inoculation site, we transitioned to traffic control, working an average of 16 hours a day, 6-7 days a week.

What has been the most rewarding part?

Assisting those who were lost and scared. When you are not familiar with a place or a procedure, you tend to panic a bit. When someone sees a police officer, they typically believe the officer is familiar with the city and procedures, especially if working around an event. The look of fear showed on people initially at Cleveland Clinic because they did not know where to go or if they were going to get tested, as well as the look of worry on people hoping to get food from the food bank.

If a citizen would ask for directions, I would do my best to make sure they understood while also calming them down.

What local restaurant are you most excited to visit now?

I look forward to trying different barbecue places to enjoy some slow smoked beef brisket. Smokin Q’s in Mayfield Village is excellent.

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Age: 26 Hometown: Orange Synagogue: Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple Work: Resident physician in general surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation How have you served the community during the COVID-19 pandemic?

Throughout my fourth year of medical school in Chicago, I was acutely involved in the surgical and nonsurgical management of both COVID and non-COVID patients in our institution’s operating rooms, intensive care units and general medicine floors.

Additionally, I was afforded the opportunity to collaborate with the departments of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at Cleveland Clinic, in which we sought to elucidate the pathophysiologic basis of novel blood clotting disorders impacting COVID-positive patients undergoing major cardiac surgery. Our work resulted in two publications in high-impact surgical and cardiovascular medicine journals.

What has been the most challenging part?

Losing patients, as well as patients who fail to improve after intensive treatment, will eternally be the most difficult aspect of this profession. Breaking poor prognoses to families and friends of patients is just as hard though. Having personally lost family members after prolonged hospital stays, I am uniquely aware of the challenges of being on the other side – specifically in having to relinquish control and put my trust in those who are providing care for my loved ones.

Yet, these experiences afford me the chance to connect with patients and families in ways that many other providers simply cannot.

What local restaurant are you most excited to visit now?

Marotta’s in Cleveland Heights – it’s been our family’s favorite New York-style pizza spot for more than 10 years.

What Cleveland activities are you looking forward to this summer?

Long runs through the Metroparks, drinks in The Flats, backyard barbecues and as many Tribe games as I can attend.

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en Insler Age: 59 Hometown: Orange Synagogue: Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple Work: Critical care physician/anesthesiologist at Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation How have you served the community during the COVID-19 pandemic?

I work with a team of critical care providers initiating life-saving therapies to those members of our community affected with COVID-19 infections.

What has been the most challenging part?

Not knowing what to expect with the virus we had little experience dealing with. Early on, our concern was doing all we could for our patients while worrying about protecting ourselves and spreading the virus to our loved ones. Ultimately, trying to provide the best medical care possible given the limited and often contradictory information available about the virus, and how often we were surprised to have much we didn’t know. We continue to learn best practices to manage this virus, but it is still deadly and too many continue to get very sick. Getting all who are eligible vaccinated is therefore the most challenging part now.

What has been the most rewarding part?

Working with teams of medical professionals who demonstrated compassion, care and resilience while wading through the unknowns of a highly contagious and deadly virus. Our professionals traveled globally to aid those in need. Our teams worked via remote/virtual means to collaborate, teach and learn from colleagues globally.

What local restaurants are you most excited to visit now?

Lindey’s Lake House, Lucky’s Cafe, Tandul, and of course, Corky & Lenny’s.

What Cleveland activities are you looking forward to this summer?

We are looking forward to cheering on our Indians and going to baseball games once again, exploring a reinvigorated downtown Cleveland and some of the great restaurants that have sprung up. Finally, taking part in a great Cleveland tradition of hugging family and friends.

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Age: 54 Hometown: Beachwood Work: Perfusionist at Cleveland Clinic main campus How have you served the community during the COVID-19 pandemic?

I run the heart and lung machine during heart surgery. For our sickest patients, I am responsible for ECMO support, which is a life support machine used in the ICU. We have placed numerous COVID patients on ECMO during this past year.

What has been the most challenging part?

This was most definitely a year of challenges.

After being a perfusionist part time, I went back to work full time. The beginning of the pandemic was the scariest time. On my drive into work, I was happy to go in but scared of what may happen once I got there. I didn’t know if I would contract the virus or spread it to a family member.

How can Clevelanders continue to support frontline workers?

The main thing to do is to believe and trust science. If it’s time to wear the mask, be like Nike and just do it. Also, we love the discounts just because of our profession. My husband was in the Air Force. Usually he gets thanked for his service and gets the veteran’s discount.

Now, it’s my turn and it feels good for the appreciation.

What are you most looking forward to doing this summer in Northeast Ohio now that you are vaccinated and everything is opening up?

Summer is my favorite time of year here in Cleveland. I’m looking forward to being outdoors at events such as art shows and markets. I’m more nervous about what the fall brings and indoor happenings.

Age: 21 Hometown: Beachwood Work: I currently work at University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center as a nursing assistant. I will work at Cleveland Clinic’s Hillcrest Hospital as a registered nurse once I pass my nursing boards.

How have you served the community during the COVID-19 pandemic?

As a nursing assistant, I help patients complete their activities of daily living (i.e. bathing, assisting with feedings, toileting), obtaining vital signs, taking blood sugars and other duties that are delegated to me by the nurse, but most importantly, I serve as a patient advocate. As a health care professional, it is crucial to be a voice for patients if they are unable to be heard. During the pandemic, I made sure all of my patients had everything they needed that promoted a comfortable and non-stimulating environment.

What has been the most challenging part?

As a nursing assistant, I usually care for nine patients, depending on staffing. During the winter months, the PPE supply was scarce and we would have to reuse our gowns and other gear if we were going into another COVID patient’s room. Our N95 masks were also being reused for multiple shifts due to the shortage.

How can Clevelanders continue to support frontline workers?

Clevelanders can support frontline workers by continuing safe health practices of social distancing measures, effective hand washing, wearing masks in crowds and staying educated on all aspects of this virus.

What Cleveland activities are you looking forward to this summer?

I am looking forward to going to the West Side Market and downtown Cleveland.

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Randi wears a white sleeveless blazer and matching white belted pants by LUUKAA from Blackbird Fly Boutique in Orange.

Metallic rose tank from LOFT is her own. Her daughter, Margo, wears a sequin crop top by Corey Lynn Calter with light distressed denim jeans by Principle Denim Innovators from Blackbird Fly Boutique.

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Shudina Brown Age: 48 Hometown: Euclid Synagogue: B’nai Jeshurun Congregation Work: Environmental monitoring specialist II, Cleveland Division of Air Quality in Cleveland Department of Public Health How have you served the community during the COVID-19 pandemic?

The Cleveland Division of Air Quality is the local air agency for Ohio EPA. CDAQ is responsible for maintaining the ambient air monitoring network for Cuyahoga County. The data that is generated from our samplers is used to determine if the county is meeting the National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

Specifically, I am responsible for running the weighing laboratory for all particulate filters.

What has been the most challenging part?

There have been several challenges during the pandemic. Even during the shutdown, the monitoring network needed to be kept operational. We had to find ways to maintain the network while staying safe. There were also challenges with ever-changing safety requirements. I also had to navigate changes in operational hours of mailing facilities in order to make sure packages arrived to their destinations in a timely manner.

What has been the most rewarding part?

I was able to continue regular employment. Also, I was able to work on special projects with other air quality employees in Ohio.

How can Clevelanders continue to support frontline workers?

Clevelanders can support air quality workers by recognizing that we are frontline workers. We report to work like other frontline workers and put our personal safety on the line every day.

What are you most looking forward to doing this summer in Northeast Ohio now that you are vaccinated and everything is opening up?

Continue exploring new areas of the Cleveland Metroparks.

What local restaurant are you most excited to visit?

Slyman’s Restaurant in downtown Cleveland.

What Cleveland activities are you looking forward to this summer?

Holiday barbecues and enjoying the nightlife.

Shudina wears a colorful two-piece skirt set from DRESSCODE Boutique in Beachwood.

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S Playhouse Square is the epicenter of Cleveland’s acclaimed theater scene, just blocks from the heart of downtown and attractions such as East 4th Street, The Arcade and a wealth of restaurants and bars. While live in-person performances were paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic, life is coming back into the theater district this summer, starting with “The Choir of Man.” And this November through 2022, KeyBank Broadway Series will return with shows like “The Prom,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and “Disney’s Frozen.” Located within Playhouse Square, the new Lumen apartment complex stands as the tallest residential building in Ohio. The Lumen, which hosted Jstyle for the frontline worker photoshoot, boasts a contemporary, lavish design that fits the dramatic and lively theater scene. With locally owned restaurants such as Yours Truly, Republic Food + Drink and Zaytoon Lebanese Kitchen in walking distance, the area’s reinvigorated entertainment, dining, nightlife and more shine among Cleveland’s best.

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Allyson wears off-white straight legged denim jeans by L’AGENCE paired with a sheer floral blouse by Veronica Beard from Kilgore Trout; shoes by Vince Camuto are her own.

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elping and respecting others is core to Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland’s Horvitz YouthAbility program. The initiative of the Pepper Pike organization engages local disabled and at-risk youth in volunteerism and skill building.

While one aim of the program is to learn, another important objective is helping the program’s participants, called ambassadors, become good people who serve their community. That certainly describes the ambassadors who have worked frontline jobs over the past year.

Solomon Several ambassadors and their families decided early in the pandemic that they would continue to work throughout it, says Heidi Solomon, YouthAbility program coordinator. Working at essential businesses like grocery stores

and nursing homes, Solomon says the ambassadors truly put their training from JFSA into action.

One ambassador received a bonus for working amid the risky conditions of COVID-19 and donated the funds to YouthAbility.

“The main thing I want for the young people in the program is for them to be good people,” says Solomon, who was honored in the Cleveland Jewish News’ 2015 class of 18 Difference Makers.

“So they are working through the pandemic, they get a bonus and they donate it, on so many levels that’s just incredible.”

Another ambassador was in the first group to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in December 2020, as a nursing home employee. And all were diligent with keeping up with safety and testing protocols throughout, Solomon says.

In YouthAbility, ambassadors do kind things for the Jewish community and beyond, learning in the process. For example, one non-pandemic activity involves baking cookies and selling

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Occupation: Dietary department at Pleasantview Care Center in Parma

Occupation: Bagger at Heinen’s in Pepper Pike

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r City them around the community, then donating the proceeds to various organizations, including the Jewish Federation of Cleveland’s Campaign for Jewish Needs and the Horvitz YouthAbility College Scholarship Fund. Through the project, ambassadors learn about purchasing ingredients, baking, selling items and making change, communication and philanthropy.

The group also assists Holocaust survivors and the homeless, and tends to a vegetable garden to donate its crops.

YouthAbility engages between 125 and 150 participants during a typical year, ranging from a few hours to as many as 30 hours weekly. While the program had to adapt during the pandemic to more virtual and outdoor activities, the focus on giving back remains. Solomon says an ambassador once described the program as “where we learn to respect each other.”

“I am amazed at how resilient our young people are,” Solomon says. “We call them ambassadors because we say they are representing themselves and other people just like them, and they’ve been incredibly resilient in adapting.” js -Amanda Koehn

Simon Oakley Age: 28

Occupation: Dishwasher at Heinen’s in Pepper Pike Hometown: Shaker Heights

David Reed Age: 25

Occupation: Bagger and clerk at Giant Eagle in Lyndhurst Hometown: Euclid

Courtney Snook Age: 30

Occupation: Dietary department at Heartland Senior Living in Twinsburg Hometown: Solon Submitted photos

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Jewish Cleveland Represents Among Frontline Community When Jstyle made its call to feature Jewish community members serving on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic this past year, an influx of nominations quickly came in. Relatives nominated one another, bosses nominated their staff and several nominated themselves. Here’s a peek at some more frontline workers serving in our community.

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Age: 54 Occupation: First grade teacher in the Nordonia Hills City School District and college professor at Kent State University Hometown: Northfield Center Township

Age: 29 Occupation: Team coordinator at Lifeworks Hometown: Cleveland Heights

DR. MARNI FEUERSTEIN TURELL Age: 43 Occupation: Pediatrician with Lake Health Physician Group in Chardon Hometown: Beachwood Synagogue: Jewish Family Experience

GENE FIXLER Age: 69 Occupation: Chief of police for city of Newton Falls Hometown: Highland Heights Synagogue: Temple Am Shalom

STACEY FRIEDMAN Age: 32 Occupation: Teacher in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights School District Hometown: Lyndhurst Synagogue: Park Synagogue

MILENA GEORGIADI Age: 44 Occupation: Senior physical therapist at Hillcrest Hospital of Cleveland Clinic Hometown: Solon Synagogue: Solon Chabad

IDA LIBERMAN Age: 72 Occupation: Home health aide with Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Hometown: South Euclid

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ROSALYNNE SOMMER Age: 31 Occupation: Director of foster care and adoption at Bellefaire JCB Hometown: University Heights Synagogue: Green Road Synagogue

JORDYN VERHOFF Age: 23 Occupation: Nurse on oncology floor at Hillcrest Hospital of Cleveland Clinic Hometown: Mayfield Heights

DR. SCOTT YASINOW Age: 33 Occupation: Doctor in University Hospitals Internal Medicine Group of Cleveland Hometown: Pepper Pike Synagogue: Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple

JONATHON M. YASSANYE Age: 35 Occupation: Care navigator and dementia care specialist at Jewish Family Service Association of Cleveland Hometown: Lakewood Synagogue: Suburban Temple-Kol Ami

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By Becky Raspe At the first sign of warmth, we pack away our coats and dust off our summer wardrobes – much of which employs lighter, pastel tones to bring a bit of brightness into our lives. Unsure how to make it work for you? For women, it’s a bit easier – chuck on an airy shirt or a maxi dress for maximum color payoff. As for guys, you can either embrace pastel fully from head to toe, or test the waters with pastel details incorporated with another trend: bomber jackets. Either way, Ticknors Men’s Clothier in Beachwood, Knuth’s in Pepper Pike and DRESSCODE Boutique in Beachwood have you covered.

TICKNORS Left: Missani reversible leather bomber jacket with hood. Pastel blue side features black details, paired with the Robert Graham floral print shirt and khaki jeans

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Above: Missani reversible leather bomber jacket with hood. Black side features pastel blue details and two pockets, paired with the Raffi polo and gold chain

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KNUTH’S Below: Clockwise from left: smocked tie shoulder top by Central Park West; Dahlia scrunchie pack by Lucca Couture; Tie-dye bucket hat by Fashion City; Aniston Dip Dye top by Ecru; and Split Neck Gauze Tie Dye top by bobi Left: Flores floral maxi dress by French Connection

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Appetizing bites about Jewish chefs

and restaurateurs in Northeast Ohio Compiled by Becky Raspe

Amba prepares for move into physical space

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, chefs around the country opened ghost kitchens that operated delivery and pickup only – catering to customers that couldn’t or wouldn’t dine out. Cleveland chef Doug Katz was one of those innovators, and his Indian-inspired concept Amba is now preparing to set down roots in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood’s Hingetown district. Located at 1430 W. 28th St., Katz told the Cleveland Jewish News in April that the restaurant is planning for a fall opening.

“I just love the area, I love what people are doing there and the level of creativity there is great,” he says.

“I think the neighborhood is very diverse with people who are interested in trying sort of new cuisine. So, Amba fits well in that neighborhood. And I think that Amba is our most creative Indian fusion concept.

It’s out of the box and I think that is the perfect neighborhood to introduce that space.”

Katz’s other ghost kitchen, Chimi, which offers a South American-inspired menu, operates out of the kitchen at 1975 Lee Road in Cleveland Heights. Until the fall opening, Amba’s orders will continue to come out of that kitchen as well. Katz also owns Zhug, a Middle Eastern-inspired restaurant at 12413 Cedar Road in Cleveland Heights. He closed the fast-casual Indian/Thai bowl restaurant Chutney B at Van Aken District’s Market Hall in Shaker Heights in June.

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Blu, the Restaurant’s Bibb salad.

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Amba Above: Amba’s chicken masala. Below: Amba’s chickpea fritters.

Blu reopens, next Friedlander concept coming soon

Armed with a new menu, decor, staff and head chef, Brad Friedlander’s Blu, the Restaurant reopened April 28 at 3355 Richmond Road in Beachwood.

“We have a new staff and a new chef that we searched the country for and brought here from Texas. And he’s extremely talented,” Friedlander said in April. “I’ve worked with a lot of talented chefs in the past, but this is exciting for the team.”

The new chef, Brian Moses, formerly of Olive & June restaurant in Austin, put together a new menu, which Friedlander says “is pretty exciting.”

Moses is also Jewish, having been raised in a Conservative Jewish home in Fort Worth, Texas. “(It’s) a completely new menu and just bringing in a different kind and style of food,” Moses told the CJN in April. “It’s seafood-focused like it has been, but with the improvements made to the

dining area, it’s just a little bit nicer. That is the vibe we wanted to go with.”

Friedlander’s other restaurant on site, Rosso Italia, had only been open a few months before the pandemic hit Ohio, and won’t reopen. He is currently planning a new concept there, Cut 151, which has a projected August opening.

“The vibe will be a warm, sexy and very intimate restaurant,” he says.

Passion puff dessert from Blu, the Restaurant.

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Birdigo

Solon will soon have a new dining option in Birdigo, a chicken concept to open in the former Mama Jo’s Pizza storefront at 32975 Aurora Road within the next month.

The concept was created by Jay Leitson and Izzy Schachner of 56 Kitchen, and Michael DuBois and Adam Kemelhar of Imperial Wok, both with locations in Solon. Marc Glassman of Marc’s grocery stores, Mike Fratello, former Cleveland Cavaliers coach and NBA analyst, and Bob Reiner, former president of Joshen Paper & Packaging, also helped develop the concept.

“Chicken is a super hot craze right now and hopefully it’ll keep going, and it’s an economical protein,” Leitson said in January. “Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, we closed our restaurants the first month or so and spent that time developing recipes for Birdigo. So, it’s been in the works for a while now.”

The menu will feature chicken in a number of ways, such as rotisserie, fried chicken, tenders and sandwiches, as well as other proteins and sides.

Chicken served at the concept will be “all-natural and antibiotic-free,” Leitson says. Plans also call for each parent restaurant, 56 Kitchen and Imperial Wok, to develop sauces inspired by their menus.

Operating first as a test kitchen offering only pickup and delivery, customers will be able to order by phone or online.

Leitson and Schachner are also preparing to open another Solon restaurant, Elle, an upscale French and Italian eatery at 33730 Bainbridge Road in the former Harvest Kitchen space. The pair is aiming for a summer opening with chef Patrick Capuozzo heading the kitchen. Capuozzo has experience in the kitchens of Parallax, Nora and the Flying Fig, all in Cleveland.

Examples of what could end up on Birdigo’s sandwich menu, which focuses on chicken and custard.

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FIRST COURSE

As health restrictions relax, local chefs focus on creative seasonal ingredients, ever-changing precautions this summer

By Jane Kaufman

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ummertime and the living is easier – at least that’s what local restaurateurs and chefs are hoping for as vaccinations increase, COVID-19 restrictions ease up and outdoor dining becomes a trusty option for diners, even as indoor seating remains limited for some.

For Zack Bruell, chef and owner of L’Albatros, Parallax and Zack Bruell Events, the focus at L’Albatros will be on what’s fresh in the raised beds in the gardens on site.

Ever since founding the brasserie in Cleveland’s University Circle neighborhood in 2008, Bruell has kept a garden. While a hallmark of a brasserie is an unchanging menu, Bruell says he finds space for what’s growing both as part of the menu and on the list of specials. For example, greens from the hydroponic watercress table are featured in L’Albatros’ Caesar salad. As the languorous days of the season continue and other vegetables come in, ingredients such as tomatoes – both from the raised beds and from local purveyors – will be featured on the menu as well.

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“In the last six weeks, people have started coming back out. I have a lot of customers who’ve come to me and said ‘This is my first time out in over a year.’ It’s sort of an honor that they’re coming to my restaurant to dine.”

Zack Bruell While L’Albatros uses watercress year-round, the type grown in-house is different.

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“It’s got that peppery flavor that arugula has, but it’s watercress,” Bruell says, adding vegetables are expected to come in early this year, giving his kitchen a jump on summer’s bright colors and flavors.

Diners at L’Albatros are already using the patio and, like summer produce, are also arriving earlier this year – for dinner.

Bruell says it’s not unusual to have a dinner rush at 4 p.m. this season, attributing that timing shift to customers working from home as a result of the pandemic.

That’s not the only late-stage pandemic nuance local restaurants are experiencing as more people become comfortable eating outside their homes. And like Bruell, local chefs are focusing on creative and fresh seasonal ingredients to elevate their menus for a summer that promises to be one of change.

At L’Albatros, customers are still asked to wear masks when walking to or away from their tables and Bruell is maintaining limited seating indoors. Parties are limited to 10, and employees are still donning masks, even at the back of the house. Paper menus aren’t regularly furnished, with customers encouraged to view the menu and specials on their cellphones as an additional precaution.

“I’m trying to be vigilant and do the socially responsible thing,” says Bruell, who worked with Cleveland Clinic to develop protocols for his restaurants.

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NEW FLAVORS AT LARDER Jeremy Umansky, chef and co-owner of Larder Delicatessen & Bakery in Cleveland’s Hingetown neighborhood, is noticing more customers now that the pandemic has subsided.

“From a business standpoint, that’s been a huge relief,” Umansky says. “We’re ready for a safe change.”

With summer, Umansky says he’s looking forward to what the forest will offer as well as local farms.

“I’m especially excited to see chanterelle mushrooms to start appearing in the forest,” says Umansky, eager to pour a chanterelle soda for customers.

“It’s not as umami as you would think,” Umansky says, adding chanterelles in this preparation – with sugar and vinegar – actually resemble the flavor of stone fruit such as peach and apricot. “If you were handed a chanterelle soda and you took a sip not knowing there were mushrooms in it, you would probably think it was a peach soda.”

During the pandemic, Larder offered bottled beverages only, but with restrictions lifting, he’s able to put homemade sodas back on the daily changing menu.

“Just the other day, I started fermenting about six pounds of asparagus so that we can enjoy it later in the year,” Umansky says, adding that asparagus has been used in chilled soups, sandwiches, salads and as part of a vegan charcuterie, which he described as “Slim Jim-esque.”

As strawberries come into season this month, Umansky’s wife, Allie La Valle-Umansky, who is Larder’s baker and a co-owner, is making preserves, jams, shortcake, strawberry cookies and strawberry rhubarb toaster pastries.

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Above: Watercress Caesar salad at L’Albatros at University Circle features watercress grown on site during summer months.

Below: L’Albatros is open for outdoor dining, as it has been in past summers, even while the restaurant’s indoor seating remains limited. Opposite Page: As seasonal fruits and vegetables roll in from local farms, Larder Delicatessen & Bakery in Ohio City’s Hingetown neighborhood serves a tomato tart.

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Umansky also plans to use juneberries, a wild berry that has a very limited shelf life.

“If you buy them from a farmer, you can only get them frozen ‘cause they’re so perishable that within like a day or two of picking them, they start to turn,” he says. “We’re really excited for those. We forage as many of them as we can.”

Umansky says Larder uses them in tarts as well as salads.

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FIRST COURSE Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink

Above: Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink Cleveland offers a special of wood-fired black bass with a citrus salad with blood orange and Cara Cara orange, in keeping with its Miami-inspired flavor.

will be smoked or grilled. “We’re actually at a historical point with the amount of walleye in Lake Erie,” Umansky says, while the price of yellow perch has gone up as the walleye have been feeding on them.

“We want to be able to take a lighter, fresher approach for spring and summer,” Umansky explains.

MICHAEL’S GENUINE MIXING IT UP At Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink at the Van Aken District in Shaker Heights, chef de cuisine Andrew Alvarez says his restaurant will introduce cobia, also known as black kingfish or black salmon on the summer menu.

He says the emphasis will be on “bright, fun, simple” in keeping with the food ideology of Michael’s Genuine. The restaurant’s first location was created in Miami by Michael Schwartz, a James Beard Award-winning chef. The Shaker Heights spot is Schwartz’s second location.

At the same time, the menu will respect Midwestern customers’ tastes, Alvarez says. While his own fine dining training would dictate a beurre blanc, or classic French butter sauce, or an asparagus pairing, Alvarez says, “I’m trying to stay away from that.”

Closer to Cleveland, Alvarez says his menu will include walleye this summer.

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“We have a wood-fired oven, so we’ve been featuring lake walleye,” he says.

He says he has been working with duck lately and will offer New York strip steak for steak frites.

In terms of guests returning, dining outdoors at Michael’s will be an easy option, Alvarez says, with booths set up in front of the restaurant.

“I’m looking forward to the general … energy difference,” Alvarez says. “Seeing the mom and pop again or like the privately owned (restaurant) being able to thrive again.”

Alvarez also says he’s also hoping to see more creativity and innovation on menus at restaurants as a whole, which didn’t seem to happen during the pandemic when restaurants were playing it safe.

“I don’t think anyone was trying necessarily to innovate or push anything,” he says. “I think everyone was focusing on surviving last year.”

Surviving – for both restaurateurs and customers – is still of concern even as diners return in greater numbers than they have in the past year.

“In the last six weeks, people have started coming back out,” Bruell says. “I have a lot of customers who’ve come to me and said, ‘This is my first time out in over a year. ‘It’s sort of an honor that they’re coming to my restaurant to dine.” js

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No matter where you go on the globe, you’ll always find a cup of Joe. Now whether that coffee is served atop cheese curds like in Finland, with the grounds like in Turkey, or in a clay mug simmered with a cinnamon stick and sweetened with unrefined cane sugar like in Mexico, depends on your location and taste buds.

Coffee is second only to oil as the most valuable legally traded commodity in the world, and it’s estimated almost 2½ billion cups of coffee are consumed each day, according to PBS. And not all of those billion-plus cups of coffee are served in the same way – or at the same steaming hot temperature. Iced coffee allows people to get their caffeine fix and cool off, and it manages to grow in popularity each year.

If you go to Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts or any local cafe in the United States and order an iced coffee, chances are you’ll receive just what the name

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implies: unsweetened, black coffee poured over ice cubes. But in Israel – a nation bordering coffee’s modern-day birthplace, the Arabian Peninsula – that same order will result in a different frosty beverage boasting a creamy, sweet taste.

“It’s similar to what a Starbucks’ Frappuccino is in the States,” says Charlie Eisenstat, co-owner of small-batch roastery Pour Coffee Co. in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood. “It’s pretty much iced coffee blended with ice, milk and sugar – not overly complicated.”

Unlike his fellow Pour Coffee Co. co-owner, Anthony Lazzaro had known about the drink for years, having been to Israel numerous times since converting to Judaism with the marriage to his wife in 2006. However, before inventing Pour Coffee Co.’s version of the icy beverage, neither owner had ever tasted an Israeli iced

coffee – yet.

“I’ve heard good things about it, and I was excited that we could learn how to make it here in Cleveland and put our own twist on it,” says Lazzaro, a resident of Moreland Hills and member of Park Synagogue in Pepper Pike and Cleveland Heights.

RECIPE WRITING Eisenstat says coming up with the iced coffee creation was a pretty straightforward process, where he scanned the internet for pre-existing recipes and then devised opportunities for customization.

“It’s a very easy recipe to replicate, then we just blend it all together,” says Eisenstat, who attended the Joseph and Florence Mandel Jewish Day School in Beachwood, where he visited Israel as an eighth grader. “Really, anybody can make it.”

Eisenstat’s first tip when making the drink is to use the best and freshest ingredients. If possible, the milk and sugar should be organic or minimally

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He also recommends using cane sugar instead of Domino Sugar to avoid intense sweetness, and locally sourced whole milk from Hartzler Family Dairy, which can be purchased at Heinen’s and Whole Foods, or Wholesome Valley Farm, which can be purchased at Ohio City Provisions and Larder Delicatessen and Bakery, both in Cleveland. Nondairy milks are also an option.

The most important part of the drink is the coffee, Eisenstat says. Pour Coffee Co. used a Tanzania Kilimanjaro Peaberry coffee – roasted in-house – boasting notes of warm brown sugar and red grape acidity with a smooth vanilla finish.

He recommends using African coffees for iced coffees for a more interesting, vibrant taste.

“No matter how you brew it, if you start with good coffee, you’re going to end up with good coffee,” says Eisenstat, a resident of Lakewood.

The drink can be made using cold brew coffee readily available at grocery stores, home-brewed coffee or even instant coffee. If you’re brewing coffee at home for the drink, make sure the coffee is ground to a coarse, table salt-like texture.

Pour Coffee Co.’s recipe starts by following a Japanese pour-over method to brew the coffee. The iced coffee recipe works by brewing a concentrated amount of coffee and then diluting it over ice, so it results in a similar concentration to brewed hot coffee – but at a much cooler temperature.

“The advantage of iced coffee over cold brew is you get the acidity that you do from regular hot coffee,” Eisenstat says.

“Cold brew is great, it brings out a lot of alkaloids and chocolate-y flavors that people like, but it kind of loses some of the acidity to the coffee.”

Pour-overs also maintain a coffee’s flavor while preventing you from shocking the coffee, like if a diner took a carafe of coffee that had been brewed in the morning and then put it in the fridge at the end of the day.

Depending on personal preference, the Israeli iced coffee can be made with whatever flavorings preferred, like vanilla.

After sampling Pour Coffee Co.’s version

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of the Israeli iced coffee, black-coffee drinker Eisenstat and espresso aficionado Lazzaro discovered a new caffeinated drink perfect for the summer.

“Delicious,” both men agree, taking second sips of their frothy glasses.

POUR’S UNEXPECTED BEGINNINGS Coffee and its delicious science have been a love of Eisenstat’s for years. The caffeine king first fell into the brain juice while attending law school, where he frequently studied in big-box coffee shops. In Washington, D.C. attending Georgetown University, he continued his cafe studies, spending time in specialty, locally-owned coffee shops, quickly falling in love with the cafe atmosphere.

It was at a cozy D.C. coffee shop where a barista encouraged Eisenstat to drink their coffee black instead of adding cream and sugar as he normally did.

“I didn’t think I would like it,” Eisenstat says. “But the coffee blew my mind. It stuck with me ever since.”

From that moment, coffee started to eclipse his other interests, including his passion for law. He completed law school and started his law career, and at the same time, experimented with java at home.

It wasn’t long until Eisenstat heeded the rocket fuel’s alluring call and left the world of law. In 2013, he opened a multi-roaster

pour-over and espresso bar in downtown Cleveland named Pour Cleveland.

A year later, Lazzaro, also a lawyer, contacted Eisenstat about purchasing a La Marzocco espresso machine Eisenstat was selling at Pour Cleveland. Lazzaro, who owns employment law office Lazzaro Law Firm LLC in Moreland Hills, has been into traditional Italian espresso since high school. Lazzaro’s love for espresso runs deep – he even installed an espresso machine in his hotel room when he took the bar exam.

Eisenstat taught Lazzaro how to use the espresso machine, and the two immediately hit it off.

“I went from drinking traditional espresso to the type that Charlie was serving – more Nordic-type coffees, really flavorful coffees,” Lazzaro says. “I was just hooked, and I’ve never looked back.”

The two came together to open roastery Pour Coffee Co., after Eisenstat recognized a need for a good roastery, having sampled coffee after coffee sent to him from across the world. The duo’s roastery, which opened in fall 2019 at 807 Literary Road in Tremont, focuses on high quality, freshly harvested green coffee beans from Peru, Colombia and Tanzania that are mainly sourced from Nordic Approach in Oslo.

Eisenstat and Lazzaro both oversee the

Above: Pour Coffee Co. co-owners Charlie Eisenstat and Anthony Lazzaro clink glasses of their freshly made Israeli iced coffee. Opposite page: Charlie Eisenstat shows off some newly ground coffee roasted at Pour Coffee Co.

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overall operations of the business, work with customers, obtain new customers and forge wholesale accounts. Eisenstat takes the lead on operating the roaster, and an assistant comes in several days a week to help with bagging, social media and other tasks.

A ROLLER COASTER OF BUSINESS Just months after opening Pour Coffee Co., the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

Unsure of what the downtime would do to his multi-roaster and espresso bar business, Eisenstat decided not to renew Pour Cleveland’s downtown lease when it expired at the end of 2020.

Eisenstat still runs Pour Cleveland online, where customers can purchase a range of specially curated roasted coffees, subscriptions and merchandise.

Pour Cleveland’s closure did prove to be a bit of a challenge for Pour Coffee Co., as Pour Cleveland was its biggest source of customers, Lazzaro says. But the pandemic forced Eisenstat and Lazzaro to expand their thinking for the small batch roastery.

They started diving into wholesale opportunities, supplying to area coffee shops, bakeries, offices and businesses like the Vegan Doughnut Company and Goodkind Coffee, both in Lakewood, and Luna Bakery & Cafe in Cleveland Heights

and Moreland Hills. They started offering coffee subscriptions businesses and individuals could purchase.

Prior to COVID-19, Eisenstat would guide educational opportunities for partner businesses at the shop, teaching participants how to make perfectly crafted coffee beverages. The pandemic forced Eisenstat to temporarily stop lessons, but he hopes to resume them soon.

Pour Coffee Co. didn’t allow people to come into the store and buy coffee and equipment throughout the pandemic, but it is now open select hours for walkin customers. All of Pour Coffee Co.’s coffee subscriptions, equipment and merchandise can be viewed at pour.com.

Like many locally owned businesses, Pour

ISRAELI ICED COFFEE RECIPE

FOR REGULAR ICED COFFEE

Yields about four servings

Place Hario V60 dripper on top of a carafe. Fold V60 filter over the tab and place in the brew cone of the dripper.

Rinse filter by running boiling water (about 200 grams) through the filter.

Once the water drains out into the carafe, dump out the water.

Add the 200 grams of ice into the carafe. With the dripper placed on top of the ice-filled carafe, add the ground coffee into the brew cone.

Take the remaining 500 grams of boiling water off of the heat and wait until it stops boiling, about 10 seconds.

Pour 70 grams of the water on top of the coffee grounds, and then wait 30 seconds for the grounds to absorb the water. Pour in the remaining 430 grams of water in slow, concentric circles around the middle, finishing the

Ingredients for iced coffee: • 700 grams of boiling water • 200 grams of ice • 42 grams of ground coffee To make Israeli iced coffee: • 700 grams of room temperature or chilled brewed coffee • 2/3 cup of whole milk • 25 grams of sugar • 240 grams of ice • Optional: whipped cream Equipment: • Hario V60, size 02, coffee dripper and paper filter • Carafe • Blender

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Above: Charlie Eisenstat pours Pour Coffee Co.’s twist on Israeli iced coffee.

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Coffee Co. had to endure a difficult year, but much to Eisenstat and Lazzaro’s happiness, the roastery continues to find growing success. Lazzaro says Pour Coffee Co. has outgrown its cozy Tremont location, so he and Eisenstat will be looking to move into a bigger space next year.

“Because of the pandemic, a lot of multi-roaster shops like Pour Cleveland closed,” Lazzaro says. “But we’re picking up some clients now; we’ve been not only steady but we’re actually growing.

The coffee is delicious, customers love it, so I think it’s going to go really well.” js

To view a video with this story, visit jstylemagazine.com/ Pour-Israeli-Coffee pour after about one minute and 30 seconds.

If needed, give the dripper a few gentle taps to level the grounds and water. The brewed coffee should drip through after about two minutes and 30 seconds.

FOR ISRAELI-STYLE ICED COFFEE Add all of the coffee made in the directions above, or 700 grams of any brewed coffee, into a blender. Add the milk, sugar and ice into the blender.

Blend, and pulse a little to add froth.

Pour into four glasses and top with whipped cream, if desired.

-Source: Pour Coffee Co.

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hen you enter The Lumen at E. 17th Street and Euclid Avenue you step into an atmosphere designed to make you feel larger – and, perhaps, richer – than life. Part of that derives from the luminous, silver-colored upholstery on the sleek lobby furniture. Part, too, stems from the giant mosaic of Selene behind check-in.

Framed in a red more akin to scarlet, the Greek goddess of moonlight in the tall, silver lobby consists of 22,400 tiles created in Spain. Selene’s image took about a week to install. Selene looms large in a very big, paradoxically graceful building.

According to Matt McClung, senior community manager for Greystar, the company managing The Lumen, the 34-story, glass-walled edifice in downtown Cleveland’s Playhouse Square is Ohio’s tallest residential structure. It’s also the first ground-up apartment building constructed in Cleveland in 40 years, according to a news release from Playhouse Square, the nonprofit that owns The Lumen.

At nearly 400 feet, Cleveland’s newest skyscraper dominates its one-acre lot and is far more dramatic than the parking lot it supersedes. The Lumen’s glittering palette, underlined by

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those vivid “theater red” accents, also references the giant GE Chandelier beaming over Playhouse Square. The developer chose “lumen” as the building’s name “to reflect the energy surrounding Playhouse Square” and the importance of light in theater, according to the Playhouse Square website.

Groundbreaking for the project took place in April 2018.

Putting together the financing took quite some time, and construction wasn’t over until fall of 2020. A $55 million construction loan, $50 million in tax-exempt bonds, a $1 million Cuyahoga County loan and $5 million in the tax-increment financing that has helped so many downtown Cleveland projects figure in The Lumen’s finance stack.

Despite a challenging gestation, The Lumen is doing well, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, McClung says.

Occupancy stood at 44% as of mid-May, and more than 75% of the apartments in the gleaming, 318-unit structure have been leased.

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Above: A one-bedroom model apartment at The Lumen includes a bright, modern kitchen.Right: The Lumen, located at E. 17th Street and Euclid Avenue, is in the heart of Playhouse Square. Opposite Page: Furniture and decor in The Lumen’s 35th floor Sky Lounge fit with the dramatic, polished and highly textured aesthetic core to the building and neighborhood.

“We have an abundance of people coming in this summer,” McClung says.

Which is sweet news coming after 2020. The coronavirus slowed construction of the $135 million project by only a few weeks, McClung notes, adding people began to move into The Lumen that July 19. “We were supposed to open July 1,” McClung says. “Not too bad.” Adjusting to COVID-19 also meant marketing the space had to shift from actual to virtual.

The tenant mix includes professional athletes, medical professionals, college students and suburbanites seeking to downsize. Those accustomed to working from home but miss going to the office can use the business center on the fifth floor to “go somewhere different within the building,” McClung says.

McClung speculates the average age of a Lumen tenant is 38, and the dominant demographic is working professionals. He notes that “at this point, we don’t have many children.”

Reserved for business and socializing, the fifth floor has no residences. In addition, the Sky Lounge – the building’s upper deck and in effect its 35th floor – offers commanding views of downtown Cleveland, including Progressive Field and, of course, Playhouse Square. Designed to nurture the building’s own

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Above: The Lumen’s 35th floor Sky Lounge overlooks downtown Cleveland, Cleveland State University and the lakefront.

community, the Sky Lounge is open to all residents and includes a “rentable space” for private parties. That space includes an area with state-of-the art cooking equipment and a big drink cooler in the middle. Sink into an inviting chair at the edge of the Sky Lounge, look down on the city in all its welcome summertime bustle, and you’ll feel in charge.

The fifth floor features 22,000 square feet of amenities, both inside and outside. Spiced with theatrical touches including imaginative, faux-Romanesque statuaries, it boasts two outdoor televisions, fire pits, a dry bar area and four gas grills. There’s a game room with billiards and shuffleboard that residents can retire to after they hold business conferences or for hangouts with friends.

Other niceties in Cleveland’s latest version of luxury apartment living include an outdoor terrace with gas grilling stations, a heated lap pool, a fitness center spanning cardiovascular machines and a separate area for yoga and wellness classes, a pet spa and dog run, an attached parking garage with an entrance exclusive to residents, and floor-to-ceiling windows and up-to-the-minute residential appurtenances that are hallmarks of such upscale clusters.

Units range from a one-bedroom at 571 square feet to a three-bedroom penthouse of 1,932 square feet. The respective monthly rates are $1,488 for the one-bedroom “to a little over $7,400” for the penthouse, McClung says. Rent covers water, sewer and gas. Residents pay for electricity and communications and entertainment media. Sanitizing is a value: The Lumen offers contactless options for rent payment and service requests, and the air-filtration system is state-of-the-art. Security

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is exacting and contemporary, McClung notes: “You have to use a fob to even operate the elevator.”

Other recent entries in the busy Cleveland luxury apartment mix are The 9, The Beacon, The Standard and The May. Work on Euclid Grand Apartments, another Greystar-managed property on Euclid some five blocks west of The Lumen, is nearing completion.

What makes The Lumen so special?

Joshua Halpern is a veteran of downtown living who signed a lease for his 890-square-foot one-bedroom last July.

“I’ve been living downtown for seven or eight years now,” he says. “I went to law school at Cleveland-Marshall right down the street. I worked in a law firm in Public Square.”

Halpern, who attends B’nai Jeshurun Congregation in Pepper Pike, clearly likes contemporary Pop Art, examples of which adorn the walls of his apartment. Not to mention the views of downtown and the fresh air he can bring in through his open-latch windows.

When the Independence office where he worked closed because of COVID-19, he went looking for a place where he could both live and work. Now Halpern manages the financial practice he inherited from his father, working out of a nicely arranged room just off the entrance to his Lumen home. He also does business with clients on the fifth-floor amenity lounge at The Lumen.

“Not bad for a home office,” Halpern says of his functional, stylish work space. js To see more of The Lumen, turn to the photoshoot on Page 16

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he weather is warming up, the UV index is rising and the sun is out until 9 p.m. again.

All of this could only mean one thing: the season of house and backyard parties is back.

Whether a small gathering amongst a couple of friends or a large holiday barbecue, homeowners are starting to prepare their homes and yards for guests again.

For some Northeast Ohioans, that means sprucing up spaces to hang out in the warmer months, and either adding, renovating or decorating a patio or three-season room.

Laura Friedman, owner of Interiors by Laura Friedman in Pepper Pike, says many of her clients are moving away from formal decor and adopting a more casual lifestyle.

“They don’t do formal dinner parties and things like that,” Friedman says. “They like a more casual feel. So, not super formal furnishings anymore – more laid back, textural-type things like open concept rooms.”

In keeping with seasonal shifts, Friedman advocates for having certain rooms to hang out in during the winter, and a

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different room to congregate in for the summer. The “summer rooms” would have lighter and airier floors, larger windows to let in more sunlight and lighter colors.

Another aspect of the home that will see a rise in popularity is the usage of three-season rooms – essentially an extension of the house used in the spring, summer and fall. Enclosed by glass and walls, they are sturdier than a screened patio. But they still offer ample sunlight to come in and provide an outdoorsy feeling.

Many decor and functional features can go into a threeseason room to enhance the experience for the homeowner and guests, with window treatments being especially important to get right. Joel Herman, owner of Herman Textile Window Fashions in Highland Heights, says the current trend in window fashion is multi-functional shades. These shades can provide privacy, insulation and protection from the sun.

One type is sunscreen shades. These use mesh-like materials with certain degrees of openness, minimizing sun glare and increasing insulation while still providing a sense of visibility.

A big revolution in the window fashion industry is the popularization of automated shades. Herman says these come

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in handy when a large piece of furniture blocks a shade and makes it a hassle for the user to pull the shade manually. Ease of operation is imperative, Herman says.

“I use automation in three-season rooms often because there are obstructions in front of the windows,” says Herman, who adds that these treatments are also battery powered.

“With those obstructions, operating a window fashion could be challenging. Today, automation is affordable. I find that my clients that have three-season rooms are interested in convenience of operation. They don’t want to be limited in using their window treatments.”

While the three-season room itself offers a great atmosphere for relaxing on your own or for hosting a gathering, the furniture you put into that space is important for setting a good vibe, too.

“Woven-type furniture is very popular right now, along with rattan-type furniture and lighter canvas-type fabrics,” Friedman says. “Even indoor-outdoor pieces. People will use porcelain tiles for floors or different kinds of stone for their three-season rooms. And as far as furnishings, again, it’s a lighter feel because it’s for those warmer months. So, it’s not your heavy type of upholstery fabrics. It’s your airier type of canvas or Sunbrella indoor-outdoor fabrics people use in these threeseason rooms.”

Even for those without three-season rooms, many people want to bring the party outdoors. Therefore, furniture and decor that can function in outdoor settings are very popular right now, says Deborah Danals, interior designer and buyer at Leopold’s Fine Home Furnishings in Brecksville.

Resin furniture, which is made up of a high-quality plastic called high-density polyethylene, is also becoming very popular.

Chairs and couches made from performance fabrics are also rated for outdoor use. These have a special type of cushioning that will let water go through the cushions and drain through.

Other options available for bringing the inside to the outside are outdoor area rugs. These rugs have been around for quite

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Opposite page: The Summer Classic line is available from Leopold’s Furniture. Above: An example of the sun shades at Herman Textile Window Fashions. Below: The Telescope line available from Leopold’s Furniture.

a few years, but have expanded into more interesting textures and colors. They use 100% polyester or acrylic combinations to make them feel more like indoor rugs, but can be used outdoors.

“They’re really making the outside to be an extension of their living room,” Danals says. “They don’t just want patio furniture, they want it to be spectacular. They want to entertain out there, they want to bring nature into the focus. And they want comfortable seating, they want a firepit, they want a television.

They want to be able to be in that outdoor space, and have it be as comfortable as an indoor space for them as possible, and be magnificently decorated.” js Publisher's Note: Joel Herman is a member of the Cleveland Jewish News Foundation Board of Directors.

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