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Essays and viewpoints

COMMUNITY 14

A Third Day of Remembrance

Welcome Back!

Brown Program reopens with artwork and smiles.

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From the Mideast to the Midwest

Diplomat turned educator to head local university.

Cookies for Caregivers

Jewish teens help provide treats to frontline workers.

Powerful Lifter

Seaholm grad seeks to inspire other girls to lift weights.

Faces and Places

Frankel grad chooses unusual career path.

JARC Flower-a-Thon.

Three-Day Whirlwind

A lightening mission to Israel to show solidarity for a shared society.

MAZEL TOV! Moments

SPIRIT

The Message is Love Torah portion Synagogue Directory

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The Music of Words

Metro Detroiter publishes book of poetry that reflects on her Jewish experience.

Jewish Culture Matters

A review of Simon Bronner’s Jewish Cultural Studies.

Celebrity News

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Community Calendar

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SPORTS 69

Goodbye, Tennis and Hello, Hockey

Detroit Country Day alum Sasha Hartje switches sports as she enters graduate school.

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Celebrate Party On!

The Exchange Obituaries Danny Raskin Looking Back

Future-Forward

Shabbat Lights

CELEBRATE

Shir Shalom religious school.

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Jailed journalist’s supporters fight for his release.

The Few, the Proud

How does your garden grow?

Federation’s Annual Campaign surpasses $34 million.

Fun & Learning for Kids

Honor Metro Detroit survivors on June 24, the inaugural Holocaust Survivors’ Day.

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Heroes at Your Doorstep

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Boutique flourishes with a new owner in Huntington Woods. Party planners provide post-pandemic advice.

Mostly Married

‘Keep it With You’

Wrapped Up in Love

Celebrate Safely

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Couple plans to complete the celebration in 2023. Weaving memories into unique keepsakes. Fiber artist’s quilts make great gifts for life cycle events. Celebrations retool as COVID restrictions loosen.

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After COVID

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Shabbat starts: Friday, June 25, 8:56 p.m. Shabbat ends: Saturday, June 26, 10:08 p.m. 17th of Tammuz (fast): Sunday, June 27, 4:45 a.m.-10:07 p.m. * Times according to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah calendar.

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PURELY COMMENTARY Michelle’s peonies in Chicago

for openers

CAROLE MALTZMAN

y sister Olivia Ross and I, as well as our families, look forward to spring each year and the arrival of my mom’s peonies. My mother, Rose Hack, loved to garden and had the most gorgeous peonies. After she died in 1984, we sisters transplanted the peony bushes to our gardens. Over the years, I have has taken peony cuttings to each of my children living in three different time zones: Jon in Redwood City, Calif., Michelle in Chicago and Alicia in Boulder, Colo. We wait all year to see

Jon’s peony cutting from California

whose will bloom first and remember grandma. We watch them grow tall, get buds, pray for the ants to open them, all the while texting the peonies’ progress with photos and remembrances of Grandma Rosie. Jon’s puppy dug his up a few years ago, so he got new cuttings this year; Michelle’s always blooms first; and Alicia’s, transplanted to her new house on a sunny 2020 winter’s day, are last. Olivia’s peonies moved from one house to another, from sun to shade, and

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Alicia’s peonies in Boulder

this year have been re-transplanted to get more sun. Her sons Jeremy and Matt are waiting for their cuttings. The peonies connect the

Olivia Ross and Carole Maltzman

generations and serve to keep a special grandmother alive in our thoughts and hearts. Carole Maltzman lives in West Bloomfield.

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One Generation Departs, Another Steps Up

ometimes when a torch is passed, it’s an actual flame handed off from runner to runner in a torch-lighting ceremony. It’s thrilling to see the athlete sprint with confidence and purpose, torch thrust high. The next runner awaits, ready to Sally Abrams take the flame JTA forward. A quick handoff and the

torch advances toward the next outstretched hand. We see the exhilaration on each runner’s face; we can only imagine the responsibility the runner feels to keep the flame moving ahead. Don’t drop the torch. Don’t fall. Don’t fail. As the first of our grandchildren headed to Jewish overnight camp this week, a torch has passed to me. A torch whose warmth comes not from fire but

from memory. The torch was handed off to me by my parents and in-laws and the parents of so many dear friends, devoted grandparents who never missed the Jewish summer camp sendoff. They stood in the hot, crowded, chaotic synagogue parking lot, bestowing their kids and grandkids with hugs, kisses and words of encouragement. No matter how long it took to load the buses, they stayed. When the

air brakes released with a huff and the buses at last lurched forward, they waved until the buses were out of sight. Sure, some of that was simple devotion, the boundless love that connects grandparents and grandchildren. But these grandparents also understood the essential role Jewish overnight camp plays in building Jewish identity. Not only is camp joyful and fun, camp makes being Jewish continued on page 6

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SCHOLARSHIPS HELP It also makes me think about the ways a Jewish community shows all its children that they matter, and this matters. Jewish summer camp is a bigticket item. Scholarship funds will always be needed. That’s how I was able to go to Jewish summer camp

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passed from the scene. But their example remains. It’s the example I’ve had in mind this week, as the next generation of our family heads to Jewish overnight camp. Now, it’s my turn, our turn, to carry the torch forward.

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one who needs a boost today will be in a position later to help someone else. There are many ways to be a “grandparent.” It’s time to dash off a message to my little campers. No more “snail mail”; now the camp prints out email messages and delivers them to the kids. Times change, but one thing will never change. The sound of the air brakes releasing, and the lurch of the buses moving ahead will always fill my eyes with tears. It’s the poignant sound of time passing; one generation departs, another steps up in its place, and the children, the sweet children, move ever forward.

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joyful and fun. Something you’re proud to be. These camps create experiences that connect kids powerfully with Judaism, enabling them to embrace the heritage that is their birthright. So, those grandparents showed their enthusiastic support with a big farewell. They wrote letters and sent care packages. On Visitors Day or Visitors Weekend, there they were again, lugging picnic baskets and stepping carefully over the uneven ground. They loved the vibrancy of Jewish life at camp, and they said so again and again. Some of these grandparents may have helped pay for camp, too. Their support, in ways large and small, delivered two powerful messages to their grandchildren: You matter. And this matters. With a few exceptions, those beloved elders have

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Arak’s IR-40 Heavy water reactor in Iran

pies steal secrets. Sometimes, those secrets must be carefully studied and analyzed by experts to turn them into products useful to policymakers. The spies I’ll be talking about here worked for the Mossad. The Clifford D. expert who has May painstakingly JNS.org transformed the secrets they collected into actionable intelligence is David Albright. And the policymaker who should be revising his policies in response to a clearer picture of reality is President Joe Biden. The story begins on a cold night in January 2018, when Israeli agents stealthily broke into a warehouse in southern Tehran where Iran’s rulers had stored an archive of their nuclear weapons program. In an interview recently broadcast on Israeli television, former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen revealed new details of the operation. Planning required two years and included the construction of a replica of the warehouse. Twenty agents were trained for the mission. None of them were Israelis. They had less than seven hours to carry out their risky mission. “In the morning, trucks, guards and workers arrive, and there’s a crowd and you can’t just jump over fences and break

through walls,” said Cohen. “Only when they broke into the formidable safes and began to go through the images and Farsi descriptions did we realize that we had what we wanted on the Iranian military nuclear program.” The agents quickly spirited the materials — more than 55,000 pages of documentation and nearly 200 computer disks — out of the country. None of the agents was captured but, Cohen said, some had to be rescued from Iran. Three months later, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a press conference. He said the materials proved that Tehran had a “program to design, build and test nuclear weapons … to use at a time of its choice to develop nuclear weapons.” That meant that the nuclear deal President Barack Obama had concluded in 2015, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), was predicated on lies told by Iran’s rulers, and that the JCPOA did not, as claimed, block their path to a nuclear weapons capability. Proponents of the JCPOA insisted there was nothing earth-shattering in the materials, and that Obama had concluded as good a deal as could be expected. President Donald Trump, long mistrustful of the deal, soon formally withdrew. David Albright, a physicist and the founder and president of the Institute for Science and International Security,

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Iran’s Nuclear Secrets Have Been Exposed also known as “the good ISIS,” persuaded the Israeli government to allow him access to the materials. Since then, he and his team have conducted a comprehensive forensic analysis. THE TRUTH COMES OUT The result is a new book: Iran’s Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons, co-authored with Sarah Burkhard. In it, Albright points out that the very “existence and maintenance of a secret archive containing nuclear weapon design and manufacturing data is not compatible with Iran’s legally binding nuclear non-proliferation commitments” under the NonProliferation Treaty (NPT), the fundamental international agreement for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Albright notes that by “secretly storing and curating an extensive archive focused on developing and building missile-deliverable nuclear weapons,” Iran’s rulers also violated their “JCPOA pledge that ‘under no circumstances will Iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapons.’” The Islamic Republic’s secret nuclear weapons development program, the Amad Plan, was suspended in 2003, after the U.S. military toppled regimes

in both Afghanistan and Iraq, causing Iran’s rulers to fear they might be next. But that was a “tactical retreat, not an abandonment” of the regime’s “nuclear weapons ambitions or activities,” writes Albright. “The post-Amad goals are among the most critical revelations of the archive,” he continues. Over the past decade, an Iranian Ministry of Defense entity known as SPND has been responsible for developing various nuclear capabilities. “Iran’s lack of cooperation with the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] up until today has increased concerns that a subset of SPND’s activities have remained focused on preserving or carrying forward the activities of the Amad Plan.” The archive also reveals that Iran’s rulers have “a host of undeclared nuclear sites and activities, all previously dedicated to a covert, and illegal, nuclear weapons program.” What activities are taking place at those sites now is unknown because IAEA inspectors have been barred from visiting most of them. Under the flawed JCPOA, the IAEA also is not permitted to inspect military facilities where nuclear weapons research has been conducted in the past and continued on page 10

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Hope Against Hope: The New Israeli Government

n Sunday, June 13, a new Israeli government was sworn in, and for the first time in 12 years, Benjamin Netanyahu was not the prime minister. Having served for 15 of the last 25 years, Yael Aronoff Netanyahu has been Israel’s longest serving prime minister. A charismatic communicator and a master politician, Netanyahu can be credited for forging relations with the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan, as well as improving relations with countries such as India. However, Netanyahu also inflicted great harm to the country, weakening Israel’s democracy, further polarizing its society, weakening U.S. bipartisan support for Israel and undermining prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Going into this last election, Netanyahu faced obstacles: For months, thousands of Israelis demonstrated every week against him, and he was already on trial for breach of trust, bribery and fraud. But it was his own lack of emotional intelligence that ultimately caused his defeat. Netanyahu does not

have many long-lasting political friendships; he expects his advisers to be a revolving set of yesmen; and his extreme suspicion of others created a self-fulfilling prophecy by turning allies into enemies. That is why rather than joining him, the leaders of right-wing parties who would otherwise have been his natural ideological allies — and all of whom had already worked with Netanyahu in the past — preferred to join a coalition of parties with whom they would seem to have less in common: two Zionist centrist parties, two left-ofcenter Zionist parties and an Arab Islamist party. Netanyahu has broken so many promises to and alienated so many potential allies, that no one trusted the promises he made to lure them into a coalition. This paved the way for Naftali Bennett, whose Yamina party is to the right of Netanyahu’s Likud party, to become prime minister of Israel, even though his party only secured six seats in the Knesset. Bennett served as Netanyahu’s chief of staff from 2006-2008, but Netanyahu’s propensity to undermine those loyal to him for fear of them

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becoming rivals became a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is fitting that this article on the new Israeli government begin with several paragraphs devoted to Netanyahu, because a rejection of Netanyahu is the glue that holds the ideologically diverse parties of that government together. Bennett will serve as prime minister for the first two years, with Yair Lapid — whose centrist party earned almost three times more votes than Bennett’s — serving as alternate prime minister and foreign minister. Lapid will transition to prime minister for the latter two years of the government; during the four years, each can veto the other’s policies. On one hand, this will significantly limit any real change in several crucial areas around which the continued on page 12

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may be ongoing in the present. Albright deduces that Iran’s rulers currently have “a robust capability to make weapon-grade uranium, a capability that will eventually grow more than tenfold” as restrictions in the JCPOA “sunset”— expire according to calendar dates and regardless of Tehran’s conduct. BUILDING A WEAPON? “At a minimum, Iran has a coordinated set of activities related to building a nuclear weapon,” writes Albright. “At worst, the weaponization team has already conducted a cold test, fulfilled its post-Amad goal of building an industrial prototype, and is regularly practicing and improving their nuclear weaponization craft under various covers or in clandestine locations.” Which leads to this conclusion: “A reinstated JCPOA combined with less-than-vigorous IAEA verification of Iran’s military sites, of the type that existed from 2015 until 2018, appears particularly unstable and dangerous.” Spies risked their lives to steal secrets from an Islamist police state. An esteemed American expert has detailed what those secrets reveal. President Joe Biden can adjust his policies to reflect the reality that has been exposed. Or he can gift militant theocrats whose rallying cry is “Death to America!” billions of dollars and let them develop a nuclear weapons capability over the years ahead. That is almost certain to lead to runaway nuclear proliferation and devastating conflicts. This should not be a tough call. Clifford D. May is founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), and a columnist for The Washington Times.

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parties disagree. However, there is also some hope that the government will begin to heal some of the country’s intense polarization, starkly exhibited by the intercommunal violence this past month between very small segments of the Jewish and Arab citizens. NEW FACES The new government has a record nine women ministers; it includes an Arab Israeli Party in the ruling coalition, the United Arab List Ra’am. It includes government ministers born in Ethiopia and the Soviet Union; an Arab Israeli minister; and Israel’s first openly gay party leader. There are plans for a record $16 billion to go to the Israeli Arab sector, which will help move the country toward greater equality; these might be accompanied by a freeze on home demolition in unrecognized Bedouin villages in the Negev. In addition, it will be the first government since 2015 that does not include ultra-Orthodox parties, making it possible for the reinstatement of one of Netanyahu’s broken promises: to dedicate a space at the Western Wall for egalitarian prayer. The first Reform rabbi, Labor party member Gilad Kariv, along with the new Diaspora Affairs minister Nachman Shai (also of the Labor party) pledge to further equality for all Jewish denominations, with hopes for relative greater flexibility

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on conversions to Judaism. In foreign policy issues, the centrist Lapid will work to strengthen relations with Jordan (he has excellent relations with Jordanian King Abdullah II) and other Arab states in the region, including Saudi Arabia, as well as with the Palestinian Authority. He will also try to repair relations with the U.S. Democratic Party. Prime Minister Bennett’s oft-stated opposition to a Palestinian state and his support for annexation in the West Bank and expansion of settlements are a threat to the legitimacy of a two-state solution, and a threat to Israel’s existence as a state that is both democratic and Jewishmajority, to Palestinian rights of self-determination, and to strengthening ties with Europe, the U.S. and the region. However, there is reason for some hope: Bennett is regarded by some as, in the end, pragmatic, and he will be constrained from annexation and settlement expansion by Lapid’s veto and the need to keep Meretz, Labor and Ra’am in the coalition. Keeping the door open to a two-state solution during this period will require the encouragement of regional actors and the U.S. as well as coalition partners, to restore dialogue and make some improvements on the ground. When Lapid becomes prime minister, that progress might be built upon.

MSU CONNECTION While eventually Israel will need to be able to make significant changes to reach a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority, perhaps this coming period will begin some healing from the wounds inflicted by Netanyahu’s desperate lashing out in these last weeks. There are Knesset members with integrity, experience and talent who can help make a positive Professor Alon Tal difference for the country — MK’s like Professor Alon Tal, longtime Serling Visiting Israeli Scholar to Michigan State University, who will be one of the representatives of the Blue and White Party in the Knesset. He will focus on environmental protection, religious pluralism, gender equality and on leaving the door open to a two-state solution. With Knesset members like Alon Tal, we can hope against hope that the country will move in a positive direction. Yael Aronoff is the director of Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel, Serling Chair of Israel Studies and professor of international relations at the James Madison College and the Serling Institute at Michigan State University. She is the author of The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers: When Hard-Liners Opt for Peace and co-editor of Continuity and Change in Political Culture, Israel and Beyond.

No Hatikvah?

We attended the rally on antisemitism on June 6. Several speeches were made, many uplifting Hebrew songs were sung as was the “Star Spangled Banner.” Conspicuous by its absence was the singing of “Hatikvah,” Israel’s national anthem. When we inquired as to why, we were told one of the sponsoring organizations objected to singing it, and therefore it was removed from the agenda. If Jewish groups sponsoring a rally on antisemitism object to the singing of Hatikvah, “hope” is put on hold. Put aside the terrorists for a minute; we are our own worst enemy. Margo and Doug Woll West Bloomfield

Remembering Geli

I knew Allan Gelfond’s daughter Gila during the late-1978-to early-1979 timeframe. So, very willingly, do I offer condolences to Gila, her mother Harriet and others in the Gelfond family, and all who worked with him. May Geli’s memory always be a blessing. Regards for all the Jewish News does. Alex Kovnat Via the web

Corrections In “Fighting Back” (June 10, page 14), some of the statistics stated on antisemitism were inaccurate. According to the latest data from the ADL, there was a 115% rise in antisemitic incidents in May, compared to the same dates last year. In “Jewish Attorneys Honor Their Own” (June 17, page 28), the law student scholarship winner from UD-Mercy should have been identified as Chase Yarber.

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atzalah. What’s your emergency?” Residents of Oak Park, Southfield and Huntington Woods have a trusted number to call in times of crisis — Hatzalah of Michigan, whose volunteers readily and willingly put their lives on pause to respond to emergency calls, often leaving their jobs, homes or child’s birthday party to provide lifesaving care to their neighbors. Hatzalah, which partners with the Oakland County Medical Control Authority (OCMCA), the Southfield Fire Department, Oak Park Public Safety and Alliance Mobile Health, is a team of state-certified Emergency Medical Services (EMS) volunteer responders who stand at the ready 24-7 to respond to local emergencies. The 17 volunteer Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) and 25 volunteer dispatchers are made up of city council members, rabbis, teachers, fitness instructors, corporate analysts and other professionals, moms and dads and neighbors, who drop everything to respond quietly and without fanfare to those in need.

Launched in fall 2017, Hatzalah of Michigan (also known as Detroit Hatzalah) is state-licensed and regulated by the OCMCA, which oversees all EMS personnel in the county. Hatzalah personnel are licensed EMS providers, who are further advised by a panel of doctors and have trained with fire and ambulance personnel. Once licensed, volunteers continue their education with monthly trainings led by local doctors. Hatzalah is designed to complement the emergency response services of their communities — not compete with them. Because Hatzalah volunteers are embedded within the community, they can often reach the person who needs help in less than 2 minutes, compared to the 5-to-7-minute response time of the local EMS. Sometimes, those seconds can mean the difference between life and death. HATZALAH BACKGROUND The first Hatzalah began in Brooklyn, N.Y., by Rabbi Hershel Weber in the late 1960s. Weber was in shul when he witnessed someone having a heart attack. It took EMS nearly 20 minutes to arrive, and Weber stood there and watched as the man died because there was no one there to help him. Weber made a promise to himself that he would never be caught in that situation again. He created the organization made up of volunteer medics. His concept has since continued on page 16

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CLOCKWISE: Michael Feldman of Southfield, Captain Asher Sigler of Oak Park, Rabbi Bentzy Schechter of Oak Park, Mordy Kranczer of Oak Park and Sachee Allswang of Southfield pose in front of their office in Oak Park. Celia Smith of Southfield is on the dispatch radio. Cheryl Zuroff of Southfield talks with a group of dispatchers after a group meeting. Mordy Kranczer checks his medical supply bag.

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Rabbi Bentzy Schechter of Oak Park addresses the Hatzalah EMS workers at their offices in Oak Park. BELOW: Mordechai Katz of Southfield and Chaim Cohen of Oak Park go over their radio protocol. continued from page 15

spread around the world. Today, Hatzalah is the largest volunteer ambulance service in the United States, with more than 80 ambulances and almost 2,000 volunteer EMTs, as well as dozens of branches throughout the world. Hatzalah MI executive board member Nachy Soloff grew up in Monsey, N.Y., and was accustomed to the service. “It was second nature. You had a medical emergency, you called Hatzalah. They would be there a minute later, and you were comfortable with the person coming,” he said. “When I moved here about 15 years ago, I saw the community was missing that.” While Detroit has been home to an Orthodox community for over a century, it hadn’t been until recent years that it grew to some 2,000 families, finally having the resources and call volume to make a Hatzalah feasible. So, in 2016, Hatzalah executive board member Bentzi Oseroff began the process of bringing the volunteer emergency service to Metro Detroit. “I saw the need to provide a link between our Jewish community, where some people — because of cultural and lan-

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“IT WAS SECOND NATURE. YOU HAD A MEDICAL EMERGENCY, YOU CALLED HATZALAH. THEY WOULD BE THERE A MINUTE LATER.” — NACHY SOLOFF

guage barriers or because they are Holocaust survivors — are uncomfortable dealing with outsiders and local emergency service providers in Oak Park and Southfield,” Oseroff said. Oseroff turned to community leader Gary Torgow to help bring Hatzalah MI to fruition. Because it was a new concept, leaders of Oak Park and

Southfield public safety, as well as local municipal leaders were not on board with the idea right away. Torgow helped to arrange a trip to take those leaders to Hatzalah Chicago, which had been operating in the city for 10 years. After listening to the fire chief of Chicago and having all their questions answered, local city and public safety leaders

were convinced it could be done in Oak Park and Southfield and plans moved forward. Oak Park Public Safety Director Steven Cooper had the opportunity to go to Chicago and see Hatzalah in action. “I had Director Steve questions I wanted Cooper answered,” he said. “How was it going to flow? What level of training were the people going to receive? Would Hatzalah respond to all people in Oak Park? It was the chance to talk to people who had boots on the ground.” At the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Oak Park headquarters of Hatzalah MI in summer 2017, Torgow told the crowd, “We have extraordinary leaders and public servants in our cities. Without them, we would not have been able to do this.” Torgow also singled out Bentzi Oseroff for his “vision and dedication to the community.” Southfield Fire Chief Chief Johnny Johnny Menifee told the Menifee

JN, “I’m so happy we took this on. I would do it all over again. It’s been tenfold what we originally envisioned when we first started. “We envisioned a partnership that would help to serve our citizens better. There’s a lot of diversity in Southfield, and we get to learn a lot about the Jewish community from Hatzalah. It’s helped us up our game in the department. “What’s more is that Hatzalah has embraced us,” he added. “It’s like a family, and I love that aspect. I love what we’ve accomplished so far and look forward to the future. It’s been a win-win.” Other key people on the Hatzalah team include Dave Mills, who leads quality assurance and quality improvement for the organization and serves as an instructor. “He makes sure our licensure and continuing education credits are up to date and a lot more than that,” Soloff said. “He has a great grasp of what it takes to make sure Hatzalah is running smoothly and is constantly helping us get better.” Asher Sigler, who has extensive experience as an EMT, serves as Hatzalah’s captain or management level responder. “He’s been involved from the get-go and has helped guide us since the beginning,” said Soloff, who also singles out fellow executive board member Mickey Eizelman for the wealth of management and leadership experience he brings to the board. “He’s a stalwart force behind everything we do at Hatzalah.” Soloff added that “Hatzalah would not be complete without our medical director, Dr. Steve McGraw.” McGraw is also the medical director for the Oakland County Medical Control Dr. Steve McGraw Authority, as well

as runs the emergency room at Ascension Providence Hospital in Southfield. “He’s truly an angel, a remarkable human being,” Soloff said. Dr. McGraw deflected the praise sent his way. “These volunteers are remarkable. They’ve made me, in many ways, a better doctor and, I hope, a better person,” he said. “All I do is provide a signature each spring and some Sunday-night medical conferences. I’m humbled by the fact that they get up in the middle of the night to help their fellow man without being paid. This is essentially a spiritual calling to help someone in need. And I don’t know if you can figure out anything better than that.” BOOTS ON THE GROUND So how does Hatzalah work? According to executive board member Rabbi Bentzy Schechter, Hatzalah volunteers are available day or night, wherever they might be, at work, home or in the community. They live and work throughout the communities they serve, so there is always someone nearby when a call comes in. When a call does come in to Hatzalah, a volunteer dispatcher will put out a radio call to volunteers. Whoever is closest and available will drop what they are doing and respond. Hatzalah services about two square miles and has responders in several “zones” to allow for the quickest response time. The dispatcher sends the call’s address and details to the responder who is equipped with a medical bag of supplies in the trunk of their car. This “jump bag” trauma kit includes all the supplies needed to save lives, including an oxygen kit and an AED defibrillator. The volunteer arrives on the scene in less than two minutes. Meanwhile as per the agreement with Oak Park

“THESE VOLUNTEERS ARE REMARKABLE. THEY’VE MADE ME, IN MANY WAYS, A BETTER DOCTOR AND, I HOPE, A BETTER PERSON.” — DR. STEVE MCGRAW

and Southfield, the dispatcher calls 911 immediately. While Hatzalah volunteers can handle nearly any medical emergency, they cannot transport people to the hospital — although they will meet them there to provide support and comfort. Volunteers respond to anyone in the community — Jewish or not. Orthodox community members more often turn to Hatzalah rather than 911 because they find a comfort level in dealing with people they know, rather than strang-

TOP: Moshe Davis of Southfield carries a Lucas chest compressor with help from Captain Asher Sigler of Oak Park. Sigler talks with adviser Dr. Howard Klausner of Southfield about medical procedures.

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ers. Hatzalah volunteers know that a Jew reluctant to violate Shabbat rules when receiving medical attention may be more at ease and easily convinced of the medical urgency when the emergency responder is a fellow Orthodox Jew. “Hatzalah helps us out a great deal with the Jewish community when there is some hesitancy or if there’s some misunderstandings about the medical treatment to be received,” said Oak Park Public Safety Director Steven Cooper. Soloff cites a recent example. “We had an elderly gentleman patient who was very, very hesitant. He didn’t trust doctors, hospitals and EMS. He didn’t want any care. But his family knew me so they called and asked me what to do,” he said. “I was able to call ahead to the hospital and let the family know, ‘Hey, look, we’re taking care of you. The hospital is going to be on board with us working handin-hand.’ That alleviated a lot of their concerns.” Schechter cited another example that resulted in an award for Hatzalah and the Southfield Fire Department from the Oakland County Medical Authority. “It was a mid-winter, gray morning on 10 Mile,” he said. “A man visiting from Israel was hit by a car crossing the street because of the low visibility.” Southfield first responders got to the scene, but they couldn’t communicate with him because he spoke only Hebrew.

“The medic on scene called into our dispatch, looking for our help. Our dispatcher told him Hatzalah volunteers would meet them at the hospital. There, they were able to translate and reached out to the man’s son in Israel for his medical records, which was critical because the man had a brain bleed and surgeons couldn’t operate without them. We were able to translate those records so he could be rushed into surgery, which saved his life.” Hatzalah recently secured a Lucas device. This easy-to-use mechanical chest compression device delivers high-quality, consistent chest compressions to sudden cardiac arrest patients. “It has major success rates at saving lives,” Oseroff said. “We’ve partnered with the city of Oak Park, so if they have someone who needs it, Hatzalah will rush it to where it’s needed.” Although the lifesaving work of the volunteers is critical, Hatzalah MI offers even more, such as CPR, babysitter and lifeguard training as well as safety awareness. And working with its partners, they’ve done much to improve and safeguard the public health of the community they serve. THE COVID PANDEMIC “Nothing in 28 years of medical practice ever could have prepared me for what I was about to see and do,” Dr. McGraw said of the COVID pandemic that first hit in March 2020. In the beginning, people

who thought they might be ill with the disease were asked to stay away from hospitals if they could. As a result, Hatzalah volunteers responded to numerous calls, going to some patients’ homes multiple times. “There was an increase in call volume,” Soloff said. “People were short of breath and sick, and we dealt with each call using all the personal protective equipment required by state and county protocol so volunteers wouldn’t get sick. From March to May was the peak of it, quite a busy time.” Although volunteers put themselves at risk of catching COVID, Soloff said that none of them considered themselves to be brave. “Because each one of them doesn’t think about themselves. These are people who care about others and that’s their mindset.” Kate Guzman, public health administrator at the Oakland County Public Health Department, became a close partner, according to Soloff. Working Kate with Guzman, Guzman Hatzalah volunteers were trained to do the swabbing for COVID testing, both rapid and overnight testing, during the early days of the pandemic. “I learned how essential Hatzalah is early in our partnership,” Guzman said. “We work with them on COVID testing and vaccination. They help staff our events when we need help. They are always ready to help.” Hatzalah volunteers helped

the health department with swabbing people living in assisted living facilities throughout the county. “We did a lot of swabbing together,” Soloff said. Hatzalah MI also partnered with the Mayo Clinic and other Hatzalah organizations to offer COVID-19 IGG antibody testing in May 2020 to identify candidates eligible to donate plasma and save lives. Results from their blood drive, sponsored by TCF Bank, determined 100 of those tested had the antibodies needed to donate plasma to COVID patients. Volunteers helped with COVID swab testing for young people going to camp last summer; and, when the vaccine became available, Hatzalah volunteers would help at vaccine clinics with post-vaccine observation, and, if at the end of day, there were doses left over, Hatzalah members would find people to receive the vaccines so none would go to waste. When the vaccine became widely available, Soloff said, the only people who were underserved were the homebound. With the help of Dr. McGraw, Hatzalah MI became the only Hatzalah in the country authorized to give in-home vaccines to community members. “I have never been more proud of a group of people that I worked with,” Dr. McGraw said. “The way they stood up, helped each other and worked with one another to get us through that. They encountered personal and community loss on an unprec-

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edented scale and, despite that, they did what they were supposed to and didn’t fail.” CLOSE-KNIT COMMUNITY There’s more to being a member of Hatzalah than the willingness to respond to a call at a moment’s notice. Because many of the people they serve in Oak Park and Southfield are Orthodox Jews, Hatzalah volunteers are also trained in Halachah (Jewish law) so they can navigate lifesaving skills, such as the need to drive on Shabbos, while keeping to Torah law. The organization has a local rabbinic coordinator that runs a class every other week. Volunteers are required to attend a minimum number of classes each year. Those who can’t attend each class are emailed information on the laws discussed. Hatzalah is also like a family, according to Dr. McGraw. “I may be an Irish Catholic kid, but the Orthodox community is my community now, too.” He was reminded of that recently, with the death of someone who “embodied the spirit of Hatzalah,” Rabbi Yehuda Kranczer, 47, who died as he lived, serving the community he loved. His fellow Hatzalah members were unable to resuscitate him after he’d suffered cardiac arrest. “It was heartbreaking, a gut punch,” Dr. McGraw said. “He’d been with Hatzalah since before the beginning. A little bit of a headwind never mattered to him. He saw what we could do with more clarity than anybody.” According to Guzman, two days before his death, Rabbi Kranzcer met with her at the health department, dropping off COVID testing samples from homebound patients. “He said to me ‘What do you need help with?’ I told him we were having trouble getting

out to some homebound residents. He said, ‘I’ll vaccinate anyone — just give me a list. I’m yours.” At Rabbi Kranzcer’s funeral, McGraw said he was “surrounded by folks grieving similarly to me, which made it bearable in some way. He leaves monumental shoes to fill. I’m comfortable people will step up to fill them, though. He was so widely loved and admired that no one would let his legacy go unfulfilled.” Like Rabbi Kranzcer, Hatzalah volunteers are dedicated to hatzalas nefashos, the saving of lives. Volunteer Rabbi Shragie Myers recounts one memorable call he made where the patient was having an allergic reaction and couldn’t catch Rabbi their breath. “To Shragie be able to get Myers there and give lifesaving oxygen,” Myers said, “it was a surreal experience to be giving someone life. Here was a person gasping, and I had the training and the equipment to give oxygen. It was the most incredible experience.” Myers says he became a volunteer so he could have that opportunity. “In Judaism, when you save a life — or prolong a life — you save the whole world,” he said. “There are three pillars of Judaism: Torah, service to God and kindness. Standing at the ready 24-7 adds the element of kindness to everything I do.” The number of lives saved by Hatzalah MI has been amazing, Oseroff said. “Within seconds, people can receive lifesaving help from people dedicated to taking from their time to help any person in need. We’re here to help.”

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ewish leaders around the world have rallied in support of a third day of Holocaust remembrance, which helped create the inaugural Holocaust Survivor Day. This day of remembrance commemorating the Jews who survived the horrors of the Nazi regime will be celebrated for the first time on Thursday, June 24. Though the day is brand new, the goal is to spark a worldwide annual event that keeps the legacies of the last generation of survivors in mind. Other days of remembrance include International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 (the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz) and Yom HaShoah (the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising) on 27 Nisan, which occurs during April or early May. The new Holocaust Survivor Day honors Auschwitz survivor Marian Turski, whose birthday falls on June 26. It will be celebrated two days earlier this year because of Shabbat. For the holiday, the Jewish News celebrates three remarkable individuals who survived the Holocaust and now reside in Metro Detroit, educating young generations in the hopes of stopping these atrocities from happening again. Here are their stories,

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with the help of testimonials gathered by the Holocaust Memorial Center: in Farmington Hills. EDWARD MALINOWSKI Born Edward Mersyk in Warsaw, Poland, in 1939, Malinowski grew up in the Polish capital on a street that became part of the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1943, while his parents were away at work, Malinowski, who was hiding in the loft of his apartment building with his grandfather, was discovered by two German soldiers. They were taken from their home to Umschlagplatz, a holding area in the ghetto notorious for being a place where Jews were deported to Treblinka. Discovering his son and father were gone, Malinowski’s father bribed Jewish officers to let his son go, pretending he had typhus and was in need of medical care. While Malinowski was released, he never saw his grandfather again. He then remembers riding in the bottom of a carriage stuffed between boxes of food. His father had smuggled the family out of the Warsaw Ghetto. They hid in different apartments throughout Warsaw, going from one place to another. While attempting to work

with the Polish resistance, Edward’s father was tricked and sent directly to the Gestapo. He never returned. During the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, Malinowski and his family were saved by a German officer who spared their lives and stopped another officer from killing them. They spent the remainder of the war traveling under false papers throughout Poland until the country was liberated. Following the war, Malinowski returned to Warsaw and attended medical school. After being stripped of his position in 1968 following a revolt of Polish intellectualists that the Polish government blamed on Jews, Malinowski emigrated to Detroit in 1969. He worked at Sinai-Grace Hospital for many years as a well-known cardiologist. Malinowski, now retired, continues to work with the Holocaust Memorial Center to educate people about his experiences. BARBARA COHEN Born Basha Schechter in Bukaczowce, Poland, (now part of Ukraine) in 1941, Cohen was an only child. Because Poland was in the midst of World War II at the time of her birth, Cohen and her family went into hiding, going from one place to

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another for shelter. Though she was young, Cohen learned the story of her family’s survival through their stories and their photographs. Her dad’s skills as a great outdoorsman and her mother’s perfect German helped the Schechter family survive. With the help of friends, they were able to escape the ghetto in which they lived and hid in different properties. To make hiding easier, Cohen’s parents decided to separate. Cohen stayed with her mother, who was able to pass for German thanks to her blonde hair and blue eyes, and the two were taken to Durnholz, Germany, where they lived under false papers. Cohen’s father remained in Poland working as a Polish laborer. Cohen’s mother, however, struggled to work and take care of her newborn child, but a German woman offered

to watch the baby while she worked. One day, the German woman, who grew attached to the baby, told her mother she could no longer visit. Yet Cohen’s mother hatched a plan, and on her final visit claimed she was going for a walk and ran away with her young daughter in her arms. They stayed on the road with thousands of other refugees until they arrived in Dresden, which had recently been bombed by the allies. Luckily, the bombing spared them. The Schecters ended up in a displaced persons camp in Stuttgart where Cohen’s father was able to find them through the Red Cross. In 1946, with the help of relatives who sponsored the family in New Jersey, they were able to rebuild their lives in the U.S. Cohen graduated from the University of Michigan as a physical therapist and contin-

ues to educate people about the Holocaust. She has traveled to Poland and Israel with students from Frankel Hebrew Academy as a guest survivor. HENRY WORMSER Born Henry Claude Wormser in Strasbourg, France, in 1936, Wormser was a child survivor of the war. His father was drafted to fight in the French Army, so his mother took care of him. One night, they received a notice slipped under their door in an envelope to report to the City Hall with identification papers. Refusing to show up with a fear of what might happen next, Wormser’s mother went to her brother for help, and they escaped via car to the town of Sayat. They were able to find a family who would hide them. Wormser remembers being able to play with the other children and roam around,

except for when Germans came by to get provisions. Wormser and his family stayed at their shelter until France was liberated, when they returned to their apartment. Every day for six months, Wormser and his mother went to the train station to look for Wormser’s father. Finally, one day, he arrived, and the family was reunited. With family in the U.S., the Wormsers decided to emigrate in June 1953. They first resided in different cities along the East Coast, where Wormser’s father worked for a Jewish hotel and in factories. They eventually bought a farm in Vineland, N.J., where Henry grew up and received an education in pharmacy and medicinal chemistry. In 1965, he began teaching at Wayne State University and raised his family in Metro Detroit, often speaking at the Holocaust Memorial Center.

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hen a small group of older adults walked through the doors of the Dorothy and Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Program in early June, their first time back in 15 months, they were greeted by welcomeback banners, bouquets of paper flowers, hand-decorated cards, posters and, of course, plenty of big smiles. The artwork was created by students at West Maple Elementary School in Bloomfield Township, which has had a long-term relationship with the Brown Program, an adult day program that improves the lives of people living with dementia and their care partners, run jointly by JVS Human Services and Jewish Senior Life. Their relationship started with a pen pal program between fifth-grade students and the Brown Program participants, culminating in an end-of-school in-person visit to the center in prepandemic years. Fortunately, through continued Character Education work at West

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Maple, which included community outreach, children throughout the school, from kindergarten up, became involved in creating artwork for the Brown Program. “We try to meet several times a year to work on our school culture and integrate character into our daily practices, including a way to foster a sense of family amongst all of our students,” said Jason Pesamoska, principal of West Maple Elementary, a Birmingham Public School near Inkster and Maple roads. “Working with the Brown Program has been a wonderful opportunity for our students this spring.” As for the staff at the Brown Program, the first day back June 3 was exhilarating, emotional and long-awaited. “We could feel it in the air, the excitement was palpable,” said Brown Program Director Debi Banooni. “When the program first closed, we had thought it would be for a few months, but then it kept extending. Back in January, we were planning to reopen, but then COVID-19

infection rates went up and it was not safe to do so. Being all together again, finally, was so wonderful. Everyone was smiling so much.” The Brown Program is currently celebrating two recent achievements: Adult Day Services Center of Distinction Award from National Adult Day Services Association (NADSA) and a grant from the Wilson Legacy Foundation to support programming and resources to facilitate positive, meaningful interaction between care partners and their loved ones living with dementia. Banooni said that many older adults, especially the vulnerable population she works with, had struggled with isolation and inactivity over the past year. However, the Brown Program maintained contact with participants with innovative and creative

programming done in a virtual setting. There were twiceweekly Zoom sessions for participants, plus programs for care partners who were struggling to take care of their loved ones, often with little respite. However, nothing beats interacting with people in the same room, enjoying activities such as games, music and physical exercise all together, and building friendships. “Now we can share the excitement and energy of our participants, and share ours with them,” she said. PHASE 1 REOPENING For now, for purposes of COVID-19 safety, the reopening is in Phase 1. The West Bloomfield location is open to serve participants from both sites, while the Southfield location remains closed until a critical level of staffing and participants is reached. Participants must meet strict criteria: they were evaluated and registered back

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in January (with most being prior participants before the pandemic), they are fully immunized against COVID19, they come from a fully immunized household, and they are physically able to wear a mask. As community infection levels drop, more people will be accepted, and restrictions may be removed. Banooni shared that at least one former participant was unable to return because her family knew wearing a mask would be difficult for her although they appreciated the safety measures. In Phase 1, meals are not

being served to participants so attendees either come in the morning or afternoon, with disinfection protocols in place between sessions. “We are looking to continue our phased opening and offer additional programming and lunch once we see how things proceed,” Banooni says. Families who are interested in registering their loved ones in the Brown Program should email Dorothy Moon, the program’s social worker, at info@brownadultday.org. For more information, go to the JVS Human Services website. Donations to the Brown Program can be made through www.jslmi.org/seedsofhope.

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Fundraising Success Federation’s Annual Campaign raises $34.2 million; plus an additional $3.8 million is donated. JN STAFF

he Jewish Federation reported results from its 2021 Annual Campaign, completed May 31. The Annual Campaign is Federation’s central fundraising vehicle, and it provides for the majority of resources Federation distributes to its partner agencies across the local and international Jewish community. The 2021 Annual Campaign raised a total of $34.2 million, meeting the goal established at its outset. The Andi and Larry Wolfe Challenge Fund raised an additional $3.8 million, for both general and dedicated funding to the community. There were 10,450 individual donors to the 2021 Annual Campaign, exceeding Federation’s goal of 10,000 donors. About $6.5 million was raised from community-level donations, including many at $18 and $36, demonstrating the impact of donations of all amounts. Thanks to the success of the campaign, Federation was able to provide $38,236,000 to its local and overseas partner agencies. The 2021 Campaign, and the distributions Jewish Federation will make for the year ahead, will be the most in its storied history. The 2021 Annual

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Campaign was led by Co-Chairs Carolyn Bellinson and Josh Opperer. The Women’s Philanthropy Campaign Chair was Sherrie Singer and the NEXTGen Detroit co-chairs were Danielle DePriest, Judy Landau, Keith Schonberger and Jennifer Maxbauer. “In many ways, this

was a historic campaign,” noted Campaign Co-Chair Carolyn Bellinson. “We began shortly after the start of the COVID 19 pandemic, and it was hard to predict how the community would be able to respond during such a challenging time. “We knew that we needed an ambitious plan to keep our schools, agencies and community organizations healthy and in a position to serve those that relied on them. Fortunately, our community rose to the occasion.” Campaign Co-Chair Josh Opperer added, “We sometimes talk in terms of annual campaign success, but what we really are talking about is com-

munity prosperity. This incredible achievement means more support for our seniors, more assistance for our Jewish students and campers, more services for families in need and many others. “It means we can better take care of today and still build for tomorrow. We are extremely grateful to our many generous donors and support foundations for their commitment.” ALL DONORS HELP Federation’s Senior Director of Philanthropic Operations Lisa Cutler said, “We want to acknowledge the thousands of donors at every level across our community. We always remind people that every dollar is meaningful and makes a difference in our community. We were only able to reach this important fundraising goal thanks to our broad base of supporters. This is truly a community that cares.” And Steve Ingber, CEO of the Jewish Federation, said, “In addition to our dedicated volunteer leaders, I want to also thank and acknowledge the Federation staff. Our entire organization, and especially our incredible fundraising team, put in a tremendous effort to ensure that we had a successful campaign for our community.”

Recommended Reading What makes a family a family? In Hebrew, mishpachah means family — and it’s not just a word, but a value to embrace as well. And families come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and configurations: families can be large, small, multi-generational, all living under the same roof or spread out geographically. Kids take great comfort in seeing families like theirs represented in books, and they become better citizens of the world when they see the many ways a family can be. To celebrate all the different ways a family can be a family, PJ Library, the not-for-profit organization that sends more than 240,000 free books a month to families in the United States (and more than 680,000 books in 32 countries), has set forth some terrific recommendations for picture books that are all about mishpachah and the many beautiful, diverse and varied ways to be a family. The carefully curated list of more than two-dozen books includes beloved PJ Library authors like Lesléa Newman, Patricia Polacco, and Todd Parr — as well as books that PJ Library staff members have on their own shelves. The categories include “Books Featuring Many Different Families,” “Books With LGBTQIA+ Family Representation,” “Books Celebrating Adoption and Foster Families” and “Books Featuring Single Parents.” You can find the recommendations at the PJ Library pjlibrary. org/beyond-books/pjblog.

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n an effort to spread awareness to help free detained journalist Danny Fenster, a professionally designed website at bringdannyhome.com is offering $20 T-shirts with proceeds going to a charity of Fenster’s choice after he gets home. Robbie Fenster, manBiederman aging editor for Frontier Myanmar, was detained on May 24 at Yangon International Airport shortly before boarding a flight on his way home to see family and friends. Fenster, currently being held in Insein Prison, is one of many journalists who has been detained, imprisoned or expelled from the country since a military coup took over Myanmar’s government in February. The shirts are designed by Robbie Biederman, a

Huntington Woods resident who is creative director at StockX, a Detroit e-commerce startup. Biederman, a longtime friend of Danny Fenster’s brother Bryan, offered to assist Danny’s cause. Bryan suggested that he use his graphic design skills to design a T-shirt to spread awareness. Biederman was on board immediately. “Bryan and I worked together on getting it out quickly; this was probably day two or three,” Biederman said. “It was really early on, and he wanted to help spread the word. I just wanted to help in any way I could.” Biederman, with Bryan’s input, wanted the shirt design to have the patriotic feel of an old vintage campaign pin, specifically modeling it after President John F. Kennedy’s in 1960. Along with the T-shirt, another way word is spreading is through illustrations

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Biederman’s illustration, which is included in the gallery.

The Associated Press reported last week that Danny Fenster appeared before a judge inside Insein Prison, where he is being held. During the closed hearing, his detention was then extended for two more weeks. He faces a possible three-year prison term. Another hearing was

of Fenster being shared on social media using #BringDannyHome. Some of the illustrations are also displayed on the bringdannyhome. com website. The gallery of illustrations is coordinated by New Yorker cartoonist Amy Kurzweil, a 34-year-old cousin of the captive who lives in California. She and several other New York cartoonists have sketches on the site. The gallery also includes contributions from California, Connecticut, Texas, Illinois and Canada. Biederman has participated with his own illustration (see below) and loves seeing the range of styles and skills for a

scheduled for July 1. In the meantime, neither the U.S. State Department nor Frontier Myanmar, the online news magazine he is managing editor of, has had any contact with him. Since seizing power, the government has tried to silence the independent press by charging them with, among other things, “attempts to cause fear, spread false news.”

great cause. “It’s all for the greater cause of spreading the word, and I think the biggest thing we can do in a situation where we ultimately feel helpless is just making sure this story doesn’t fade and stays important,” Biederman said. “Anything that’s clickable on social media that’s of interest is going to help this cause, so every day as more and more people contribute to the art, it’s more things for people to look at; and it’s just going to generate more interest and keep this story from fading because the most dangerous thing that can happen is this story goes away from the news cycle, which is an uphill battle.”

The AP reports Frontier Myanmar says it was barred from Fenster’s court hearing, but he was represented by a lawyer. The magazine stated, “We are still seeking information on the reason for Danny’s arrest and continued detention.” The State Department continues to seek access to him under the Vienna Convention. JUNE 24 • 2021

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Mideast to the Midwest Diplomat turned educator will head local university. SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

pproaches to higher education alternatives as affected by COVID-19 confront Alan Drimmer as he moves into the presidency of Cleary University July 1. Cleary is a nonprofit Michigan school established in 1883. Drimmer, whose career has placed him in Midwest educational posts after Mideast diplomatic assignments, is thinking through plans to accelerate programming that realistically prepares students for the job market and expands the community served by the university, which is based in Howell and has a Detroit center. “I’m very excited to join the Cleary community and help build awareness for the good things Cleary is doing with the Cleary Mind, a trademarked program that needs more visibility,” Drimmer said of the university centered in business arts. “Cleary came to my attention

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because several years ago they developed a framework [the Cleary Mind] for the kinds of skills and competencies that people need in the workforce, and they used data to find out what people need to be successful. A lot of that was not in the curriculum earlier, but they made a conscious effort to encapsulate that.” Besides the knowledge specific to certain jobs, Cleary research found eight skill factors necessary for students to master regardless of the job direction each is pursuing: critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, communications, persuasion, entrepreneurship, leadership and ethics. “I thought this was really innovative,” said Drimmer, 60, whose work as a higher education consultant included an affiliation with the Boston Consulting Group, which has a Detroit office. “Cleary rewired the whole curriculum to map

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it to these eight. These are not just things that we think are important. They’re important to employers.” Cleary, founded in Ypsilanti, offers associate’s, bachelor’s and master’s degrees while focusing on personalized experiences that encompass sports and and other programs of community interest. The school is able to serve nearly 1,000 students in person and online — a number

administrators are aiming to increase — and has a capacity of housing about 200 students. Drimmer, raised in a Cleveland Jewish family committed to the Civil Rights Movement, understands the importance of accommodating personal interests as he looks back on his own educational and career choices. Interested in the Mideast as a teenager, he was allowed to live on a kibbutz during his 16th year. At the University of Chicago, political science was at the center of his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. “My focus was on the ArabIsraeli wars, and that was the subject of my dissertation,” said Drimmer, who became a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Research Fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad at the American University in Cairo. “I joined the foreign service and was a diplomat in Jordan representing the State Department between the two Gulf Wars, and there was excitement and intrigue.” Back in the United States, he served as an international economics sanctions officer for the Treasury Department before deciding to alter his professional direction. PIVOT TO EDUCATION “I decided to pivot to education because I wanted to make a change in the world,” said Drimmer, whose father had taught history at Spelman College in Atlanta and Cleveland State University. “I believed — rightly or wrongly — that my ability to impact foreign policy was very limited. However, I did think I could make an impact in education. “My teachers at the University of Chicago made

a strong impression, and my dream became to improve the quality of student-faculty relationships. At the University of Chicago, the faculty cared about me as a person and challenged my assumptions about building a meaningful life, inspiring me to dedicate my professional life to improving access to education.” To achieve his revised career goals, Drimmer earned a master’s degree in business administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He went on to positions that included provost and executive vice president at the University of Phoenix, chief academic officer and senior vice president at the University of Maryland Global Campus in College Park

and provost at the National Defense University in Chicago. “When I decided to work in education about 20 years ago, I made a conscious decision to focus on helping students move into the labor market,” Drimmer said. “I also made a conscious decision to focus on institutions, probably the vast majority of institutions in this country, that are not elite and highly selective. They are institutions that help people find a path. “One of the reasons I wanted to come to Cleary was that I really think they’re on the right path. They want to help people develop and position themselves to be successful in the job market, and they have some very sophisticated ways of doing that.”

Drimmer, married to an attorney (Jacki) and the father of two university and two high school students, envisions an important part of his job as motivating current students to stay in college and motivating former students to complete their degree requirements. “The first critical issue facing college students is to find flexibility,” said Drimmer, who points out that half the students starting college do not finish and so he wants Cleary to offer adaptability for students in various age groups, whether working or not and whether comfortable with different kinds of technology or not. FLEXIBLE PROGRAM “Cleary tries to maximize the classes students already have

taken and the skills that they have. Students can go fast or slow. They can go online or face-to-face or a mix. They can get a degree or a certificate.” Addressing the rising costs of higher education, Drimmer will be looking into diverse ways Cleary students can get financial aid and allow credit for accomplishments at other schools and on-the-job experiences. “At Cleary, we really want to have an impact on students to deepen their experiences and help them reflect,” Drimmer said. “We want to help people launch either into new careers or into milestones in their existing careers, but it’s not just about learning skills. It’s also about developing as a person.”

Jewish teens help provide treats for frontline workers.

West Bloomfield Police received treats made by teens at Temple Shir Shalom.

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ven as COVID-19 infection numbers go down and vaccination numbers go up, Anne Marie Miruzzi and Susan Dumond keep responding to the vast frontline worker community with home-baked goods from their Southeast Michigan chapter of Cookies for Caregivers. Since Jan. 3, Inkster native Miruzzi and West Bloomfield native Dumond have helped deliver more than 11,000 cookies across Michigan. The two women have teamed up with BBYO for a J-Serve Initiative under the direction of Ellery

Rosenzweig of Repair the World. Because the BBYO teens didn’t have access to a kitchen, they put together treat bags filled with storebought snacks for Cookies for Caregivers. The teens included handwritten thank-you notes to the essential workers in each treat bag. These bags were then donated to the stroke unit at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Rosenzweig also led a group of religious school eighth-grade students at Temple Shir Shalom in assembling treat bags to give to Cookies for Caregivers: Southeast Michigan chapter,

which then donated them to the West Bloomfield Police Department. Mental health therapists, funeral home workers and emergency services are a few of the many groups enjoying home-baked goods from the organization. If you search for Cookies for Caregivers on the web, you won’t see an official website. “It works by word of mouth and Facebook,” Dumond said. It’s quite simple to get

involved. “Bakers do this out of the goodness of their heart,” Dumond said. “The bakers pay for it all themselves.” To join the effort, visit the Southeast Michigan Cookies for Caregivers Facebook page. For anyone interested in baking, a minimum of two dozen cookies is suggested. For non-bakers who still want to get involved, the group welcomes delivery drivers and people to make cold calls to essential businesses. JUNE 24 • 2021

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OUR COMMUNITY Powerlifting High School Nationals in Aurora, Colo. “I knew I’d go in and do my best. I’m proud of the work I did leading up to the meets and my performance at the meets. I couldn’t have asked for better support from anyone,” she says. Lira’s personal records for squat, bench and deadlift are 270, 125 and 250 pounds, respectively. “I would say that Judaism has a certain culture surrounding the religion, a culture of compassion and dedication. I think that same culture surrounds lifting, and that culture is important to me,” she says.

Powerful Lifter Seaholm grad seeks to inspire other girls to lift weights.

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ira Bordoley, 18, didn’t always know she’d be drawn to powerlifting or that it would set the course for her college plans and career goals. The nationally ranked powerlifting athlete will attend the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology in the fall, with plans to become a strength and conditioning coach who can help athletes persevere. The recent Seaholm High School grad, who attends Temple Shir Shalom with her family and served on the board of the Shir Shalom temple youth group her freshman year, first got involved with powerlifting in 2019 through her participation in CrossFit. She won first place at her first regional powerlifting meet and kept going, working with coaches from Henry Ford II High School in Sterling Heights to develop her powerlifting skills. “Powerlifting has helped me discover my passion. It also gives me a purpose and the chance to find out what I’m capable

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of when I set my mind to it. Powerlifting gives me a benchmark, and helps me set goals to get there,” she explains. Powerlifting revolves around athletes trying to lift the maximum weight possible in squat, bench press and deadlift events. Bordoley placed sixth at her first state meet in March 2020. She kept training throughout the pandemic with her eye on the Michigan High School Powerlifting Association State Championship, held in Adrian, Mich., on March 13. “I didn’t let the pandemic get me down or get in the way of that,” she says. “I was fully driven. And my efforts paid off. That was so huge for me.” She placed first in her weight class at the state meet, and then in April, drove 10 hours to compete in the 2021 USA Powerlifting Pennsylvania State Championships. She won her weight class, and in May, placed eighth in the nation in her weight class at the 2021 USA

HIGHER SELF-ESTEEM Beyond the satisfaction of competing at the events themselves, she says powerlifting has boosted her confidence and self-esteem. It’s a versatile sport that has a lot to offer, she adds. Now, she wants to empower other women and girls to walk into the gym and ask for help so they can find their passions and achieve their goals. “Really, anyone can train for this. It’s strength training, and I think for little girls to see women in sports is good. Maybe it would be good to see women lifting weights because I think there’s a real stigma around women lifting weights or getting bulky or getting strong,” she says. “I think it’s a problem that needs to be solved because girls should be able to feel secure in wanting to go to the weight room and lifting weights. I love it, and I think it’s important for people to know that they can love it, too.” Strength and conditioning coach Francesco Ruffini first connected with Bordoley at a January 2020 powerlifting meet and has been working with her three times a week ever since. “Since then, I’ve seen her grow physically and mentally. She’s been able to push her limits and abilities in each workout,” he says, adding that he’s impressed by her dedication and drive as well as the amount of weight she can lift. “She is very determined in what she does, she definitely has the passion for getting better, and for trying to achieve whatever she’s setting out to achieve.”

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“POWERLIFTING HAS TAUGHT ME HOW TO BE MENTALLY TOUGH AND TO FIND FOCUS.” — LIRA BORDOLEY

He’s also been impressed by the focus it’s given her on her career path, he says. “She’s found a passion in coaching and being a strength athlete and someone who’s so in tune with their body, being able to help other people become more in tune with their bodies as well.” MUCH ENCOURAGEMENT Bordoley says she’s grateful for the support of her coaches and her family, who have encouraged her in her efforts and been supportive along the way. “The passion Lira has for powerlifting is something you hope for when your daughter competes in sports,” says her mother, Ronna Bordoley, of her daughter’s ambition. “She’s an impressive athlete whose talents shine in a multitude of ways.”

Meanwhile, Lira Bordoley has already started sharing her skills, putting her powerlifting experience to work as a volunteer student strength and conditioning coach for high schoolers. “I love watching the growth and determination of athletes who strive to reach their goals, and I want to empower them to take risks and face adversity on the road to success,” she says. In the fall, she plans to participate in powerlifting at the University of Michigan via its club sports, and to put what she’s learned to work as she pursues her degree in Applied Exercise Science. “Powerlifting has taught me how to be mentally tough, and how to find focus wherever I am,” she says. “It has taught me how to be a well-rounded individual.”

A motorcyclist from the Chicago-area stopped by Ann Arbor as part of a cross-country trek visiting Jewish-style delis in nearly every state to call attention to the persistent hunger crisis in the United States that has been exacerbated by the pandemic. On Saturday, June 5, Steve Goode stopped for lunch in Ann Arbor as part of his 16,000-mile “Great American Deli Schlep’’ at Zingerman’s Deli. Goode, whose trip will run through the summer, is partnering with MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger to

raise awareness and funds for the organization’s fight to end hunger in the United States and Israel through structural policy change. At Zingerman’s, he enjoyed a meal with patrons and discussed the hunger crisis and how to take action for structural change. Across the U.S., one in four people are experiencing hunger — a crisis that has doubled from 40 million people to 80 million because of the pandemic. In Michigan, the number is 1.9 million people, or nearly one in five Michiganders.

‘Judaism Decoded’ with Rabbi Dubov Beginning in July, Rabbi Levi Dubov of the Chabad Jewish Center will present Judaism Decoded: The Origins and Evolution of Jewish Tradition, a new six-week course by Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI), which will uncover the inner workings of Judaism, shedding light on the mysteries surrounding the origins and evolution of Jewish tradition. The course will address fundamental and daring questions, such as: Is there any evidence supporting the veracity of Judaism as we practice it today? What in Jewish tradition was invented by the rabbis, and what can be traced back to biblical texts? Why do we need an oral tradition in addition to the Torah?

The six-week course, geared toward people at all levels of Jewish knowledge, will be offered in-person and virtually via Zoom, beginning Wednesday, July 7, with two class options: a morning option, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., and an evening option, 7:30-9 p.m. The classes will be offered safely in person at the Farber Soul Center in West Bloomfield. The course fee is $80 and includes the course textbook, with discounts available for couples and groups. Scholarships are available upon request. To register, visit www. BHchabad.org/decoded, or contact Dubov at (248) 949-6210 or rabbi@ bloomfieldhillschabad.org. JUNE 24 • 2021

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COURTESY OF AMANDA SCHLUSSEL

manda Schlussel active service and four grew up in West years in the reserves. Bloomfield, early on watching three ‘A TOUGH COOKIE’ older brothers and two “As Amanda’s mom, I cousins shooting baskets could not be more proud and playing catch. Her that she has figured out home, on occasion, what she wants to do,” seemed a bit of a sports Michelle Baskin said. center for the five, and “If she were going off she soon joined in. to college, I would be Schlussel enjoyed nervous, but this ups watching her stepbrother that feeling a little. I was play hockey at the Jewish surprised at first, but Community Center, and she’s always been a tough at 7 years old, she started cookie.” playing roller hockey Schlussel’s pre-military at the JCC. Two years schedule has included later, she moved into ice a trip to Florida with hockey and continued her mom and outdoor with afterschool play experiences, hiking while attending Doherty and water rafting, in Elementary School and Colorado and Montana Orchard Lake Middle with her dad, Steve School. Schlussel. She will be a “I always did my work waterskiing specialist at SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER for classes at Frankel Camp Tamarack for one Jewish Academy, but session. I was most happy when I was playing Shana Kantor, Frankel director of Travel has been a special interest for hockey and doing workouts to be in advancement, said that Schlussel has made Schlussel, who decided against a large condition for hockey,” she said. a choice that’s unique for the school’s bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in favor of Schlussel, a graduating senior, had graduating students although some have a home celebration so that party money planned for college, where she could keep gone into the Israeli military. could be used instead for visits to new up with her favorite sport, but COVID“We’re proud of different choices made places. 19 interfered. The pandemic shut down by our students,” Kantor said. “We try to “I’m focused on working out and practice and games, and Schlussel decided help them take the next right step for each getting physically and mentally ready she just would not be ready for college of them.” for the Marines,” Schlussel said. “I run competition. A grandfather is the only family member more than two miles at a time and do Instead, she made up her mind that the that Schlussel understands had any pushups and sit-ups. I’m excited to have best way to stick with intensive physical military background, but he was part of an something completely new to do in a new activity was to join the U.S. Armed Forces. educational program that had to do with community.” Starting Aug. 2, Schlussel begins basic academics rather than grueling mission While Schlussel advances the workouts training to become a Marine. preparation. introduced by her brothers, she will think “My friend is currently serving, and Although Schlussel gave a year’s thought of them choosing more book work. One she brought up the idea to me,” Schlussel to enlisting, she did not tell her family until is employed by a mortgage firm after explained. “I picked the Marines because her decision became firm. completing Michigan State University. it’s the hardest branch. I just find a lot “My parents were shocked because Another attends the same school, more pride in being able to say I’m a they know of no kids who have gone into undecided about a career, and yet another Marine. the military except for that one friend,” is enrolled at Wayne State University, also “I’m super open about how it’s going Schlussel said. “They knew I had planned undecided. to be. If I like the Marines, I’m going to on going to college, but they ultimately “I’ll miss my close friends and family, continue and make a career out of it. If I became supportive because they know how but I’m sure this is right for me now,” don’t like it, I’ll get out and do something happy I am with my choice.” Schlussel said. “It’s also nice to be doing else.” Schlussel has signed up for four years in something for my country.”

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Shir Shalom Religious School Celebrates Year of Learning RABBI DANIEL SCHWARTZ SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

emple Shir Shalom’s Religious School’s mission is to help kids love their Judaism. And, despite a pandemic, its teachers and leaders continued to fulfill that mission as the only local religious school to meet weekly this year. Pre-K through sixthgrade programming took place using the shelters and fields of

the Jewish Community Center while seventh-12th grade programming took place outdoors at the temple. Students and families shared that they were thrilled to find a fun, safe and engaging way to learn about and celebrate their Judaism and can’t wait to be together again next fall.

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ABOVE, TOP TO BOTTOM: Pre-K Teacher Jenny Dok and student Mavis Dok. Yuval Aviram, one of Detroit’s two shinshinim from Israel, teaches some of Temple Shir Shalom’s kindergarten class about Israel through a team-building activity. RIGHT, TOP TO BOTTOM: Sixth-grader Charlie Guralnick and his father, David, participatie in a tailgate Tefillah, the morning service to start their day at Temple Shir Shalom’s Religious School. Sixth-graders Jillian Parel, Max Columbus, David Solomon and Hannah Becker practice their Hebrew. Teaching assistant Brock Vinter works with secondgrader Malcolm Fiander to make dog treats for Detroit Dog Rescue as they explore the concept of G’milut Chasadim, acts of lovingkindness.

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FROM THE TOP: A 1,000-year-old hotel in Lod. With Yuval Bedolah and Sharon Avis of Totzeret Haaretz. With Eyal Betzer of Jezreel Valley Regional Council and his wife, and Federation’s Yoav Raban. With Nazareth Mayor Ali Salam, and Eli Barda, mayor of the nearby Jewish city Migdal HaEmek.

ust days after the rockets stopped flying over our brother and sisters in Israel, I received a call from the Israeli Consulate to the Midwest asking if I could possibly head to the Holy Land to show solidarity. The Israeli foreign minister had called the Consulate asking for as many leaders of Federations and JCRCs to show that the Jewish community in America has Israel’s back. After I got the thumbs up, I booked my flight. Little did I know that there were PCR COVID tests to take, forms to fill out, and an antibody serology test in Israel that would need to be positive to avoid a two-week quarantine. In fact, I first booked the trip for just one day, but my wife, Rachel, persuaded me to extend it, and I rebooked for three days: Arriving Monday morning — in order to test and quarantine till the results came back — and then having two days to explore my second reason for

going besides solidarity: to determine for myself that Israeli shared society — between the Jews of Israel and the Arabs of Israel — was alive and well and meeting the challenges of riots in mixed cities all over Israel. Hamas had said: “Shared society and coexistence in Israel has been destroyed.” I went to prove them wrong. We are blessed in Detroit to have the perfect Partnership Region for exploring coexistence — the Central Galilee: the largest Arab city in Israel, Nazareth, nestled in the Galilean hills right next to Nof HaGalil, Migdal HaEmek and a host of other small Jewish and Arab towns, villages and kibbutzim in the Jezreel valley. We are also blessed to have the most amazing leadership in the Israel and Oversees office of the Jewish Federation: Jennifer Levine leading the department from Detroit, and our folks on the

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ground, Yoav Raban, Naomi Miller Rockowitz and Noa Noff. Together, this incredible team set up a miracle trip for me for my two days in search of shared society. I am also deeply grateful to Consul Daniel Aschheim of the Israeli Consulate to the Midwest, who helped set up a great meeting with the mayor of Umm al-Fahm, the third largest Arab city in Israel. I came to Israel to show solidarity; to show that we in Detroit care about our Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel and for all those in Israel — Jewish, Muslim, Christian or Druze — who are building an incredible state together. What I found in Israel was inspiration: People who were not giving up on shared society in Lod, despite the violence and the breakdown; mayors, teachers, heads of schools, community activists, high-tech folks and entrepreneurs, all committed to Jews and Arabs making the modern Jewish state work.

15 Cities; 3 Days I went to 15 cities in three days: My quarantine day in Jerusalem; Netanya and Ramat Poleg; then Tel Aviv (meeting the mayor of Umm al-Fahm); Lod: where I saw a torn, scruffy city that has not given up the goal of the 70% Jews and 30% Arabs building a flourishing city together — with the help over the years of Detroit philanthropists; Kfar Kassim

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TOP LEFT: Arab Mulsim fourth graders. In the back right is Head of School, Dr. Sirin Magli-Knana. ABOVE: In front of the Arab Israeli elementary school, Al-Qastal in Nazareth with Samia Basul, head of the Education Department of Nazareth; Samia AbuAlrab, Deputy Mayor of Nazareth; Lior Scher, programming director for “A New Way,” which sponsored the shared society; and Noa Noff, Partnership Director, Central Galilee. LEFT: Adorable kids from the Al-Qastal school.

I came back energized and inspired that we, too, in Detroit, can work together with diverse communities and build a shared society right here in the Motor City. Israel is a land of miracles; the Galilee is a region of wonders — from the days of Elijah to today. May the great accomplishments of shared society and mutual respect that I found amongst the students of the Al-Qastal Arab elementary school in Nazareth, to the high school students — Arab, Jewish and — a charming Arab town that tried to help me find my destination, Givat Haviva International School; Tel Aviv — the Namal, the Old Port — one of the coolest places on earth; night in Hadera and then to Nazareth, to meet the mayors of Nazareth and Migdal HaEmek; then on to Migdal HaEmek “Shehechiyanu” restaurant to meet local community activists — Jews and Arabs — working in

Christian — in the International School of Givat Haviva permeate our divided world and teach us how people can work together despite different narratives and different histories. Israel with all its challenges, external and internal, will always be the land that pushes us to be better, to dream bigger and to be proud of who we are as Jews — Jews who are a light onto the entire world. Rabbi Asher Lopatin is executive director of the JCRC/ AJC.

Nof HaGalil, and small Bedouin and Jewish towns to build a shared society for all. Then to the small Arab town of Manshiya Zabda to meet with local leaders — Jewish and Arab — from all over the Jezreel Valley, in the Al-Ro’aa special needs Arab school. Of course, how could I go to Israel without visiting relatives in Modiin, and then on to the Ben Gurion Airport.

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TORAH PORTION

Of Blessings and Curses

ur Torah portion this week tells the story of a Moabite king named Balak. He saw what the Israelites had done to the Amorites and how large the Israelite community had grown. Terrified of what may become of the Moabites, he hired Balaam, a seer, to curse the Israelites. But nothing went as planned as God intervenes, first obstructing Balaam’s donkey from moving and then speaking through the donkey, instructing Balaam not to curse the Israelites. In the end, rather than offering curses, Balaam offers blessings to the Israelites, speaking words

Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell notes the irony of a seer who only truly sees when God opens his eyes. When that happens, Balaam saw so much more than just the that are a well-known part Israelites he was sent to of our morning liturgy: curse. He saw the tents Ma tovu ohalecha, Yaakov, that were homes and gathmishkenotecha Yisrael ering places for families; “How beautiful are your he saw the community tents, O Jacob, your dwellthat was created out of Rabbi ing places, O Israel.” respect and trust; he saw Arianna At first read, this pora people who had forged Gordon tion seems fanciful and their way through slavery Parshat amusing. Yet, delving and wilderness, seeking a Haazinu: deeper into the text, we place to call home. Noting Parshat all this, Balaam exclaims understand that this Balak: those familiar words, divine contest between Numbers 22:2-25:9; “Ma tovu ohalecha,” once the Moabite seer and the Micah again opening his mouth God of Israel serves as a 5:6-6:8. to curse the Israelites and reminder to the Israelites blessing them instead. not to stray from their monoIn this strange and challenging theistic beliefs, that no one is year, we are well accustomed to as powerful as the God that the notion of blessings and cursredeemed them from Egypt.

es. Yet today, I stood in our tents to watch our early childhood students read a story under one, to have a face-to-face meeting in another and to welcome a Jew-by-choice to our community in a third, and I experienced blessings. It has been a long, lonely, scary year, truly a curse. But as the weather warms, COVID numbers decrease and vaccinations increase, we are finding blessing in coming together under our tents to celebrate, to pray, to reengage, to gather. Our community is living the words of Balaam as we indeed find our tents, all our gathering spaces, beautiful and full of blessing.

He loved Abraham. He loves Abraham’s children. He is exasperated by their conduct, but He cannot relinquish that love. Where in the Torah does God express this love? In the blessings of Balaam. That is where He gives voice to His feelings for this people: “I see them from the mountain tops, gaze on them from the heights: This is a people that dwells apart, not reckoned among the nations.” “Lo, a people that rises like a lion, leaps up like the king of beasts.” “How good are your tents, O Jacob, Your dwellings, O Israel!” These famous words are not Balaam’s. They are God’s — the most eloquent expression of His love. Balaam is the most unlikely vehicle for God’s blessings. But that is God’s way. He chose an aged, infertile couple to be the grandparents of the Jewish people. He chose a man who couldn’t

speak to be His voice.He chose Balaam, who hated Israel, to be the messenger of His love. As Moses explains: “The Lord your God would not listen to Balaam but turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loves you.” That is what the story is about: not Balak, or Balaam, or Moab, or Midian, or what happened next. It is about God’s love for a people, their strength, resilience, their willingness to be different, their family life (tents, dwelling places), and their ability to outlive empires. I believe all God’s acts have a moral message for us. God is teaching us that love can turn curses into blessings. It is the only force capable of defeating hate. Love heals the wounds of the world.

A WORD OF TORAH

The Message is Love

e often wonder why Malkizedek, Abraham’s contemGod made a covporary, “a Priest of God most enant with high.” (Bereshit 14:18). a people who repeatedly Yitro, Moshe’s father-inproved to be ungrateful, law, was a Midianite Priest disobedient and faithless. who gave his son-in-law God Himself threatened sound advice. When the twice to destroy the people, prophet Yonah arrived at Rabbi Lord (after the Golden Calf and Nineveh and delivered his Jonathan the episode of the spies). warning, immediately the Sacks At the end of Parshat people repented, someBalak, He sent them a plague. thing that happened rarely in There were other devoted Judah/Israel. Why then choose Israel? The and religious peoples in the ancient world. The Torah calls answer is love. God loves Israel.

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Rabbi Arianna Gordon is the director of education and lifelong learning at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield.

The late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks served as the chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, 1991-2013.

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memories to the just the music of the passage of time. words,” Hochberg “Then I would say said. “Often the Waiting for the a line. We would go poems would surSnow: Poems on in that fashion prise me, illumiis available on Amazon. for a while.” nating something I $12.95. On her own and didn’t realize I knew. with what she antic“The writing has ipated as perpetually private, been a map of the wanderings Hochberg wrote about heritage, of my soul through the world. relationships, everyday activ“Years ago, I attended a readities and anything that gave ing by poet Robert Bly, and he her pause. While her closest said something like poetry is relatives, a brother and sister, the place where the soul and as well as friends followed her the world touch, and it made an classical piano training, chamimpression on me.” ber group performances and Raised in a secular Jewish home gardening talents in Oak home with a strong cultural Park, they were not told about identity, Hochberg has a few the poems. poems that reflect the Judaism “They are all reflections, she explored in adulthood. aspects and facets of myself,” Hochberg studied religion said Hochberg, who also through programs offered by devoted time to writing movie the Florence Melton School of reviews for the Metro Times. Adult Jewish Learning. The pandemic kept her Jewish heritage entered writing poems and somehow into thoughts about family, awakened her to the possibility unknown and known. In honor of opening up her reflections of her personally unknown through publishing. After work great-grandmother, she wrote: with other nurses testing people “From the ashes for COVID-19 and thinking of your unmarked grave about the life-threatening at Treblinka implications of the pandemic, the light of your spirit rises Hochberg contemplated morto inspire my life.” tality and wanted an aspect of “In 2011, I traveled to Poland herself to be lasting. with an Israeli company,” “I had all these poems, and Hochberg said. “I saw paintthere was something in me that ed synagogues, and I visited wanted to create a book,” said Treblinka, where so many of Hochberg, 60. “I wanted my my family members perished. poems to be preserved in the I walked the same streets of world.” Warsaw where my maternal Through Mission Point Press grandparents walked, and we in Traverse City, she chose 50 briefly stopped in the town poems for her book Waiting where my father was born.” for the Snow: Poems. The Whether about travels or title comes from a poem that daily experiences, Hochberg reflects on a Sunday of shoppresents a serious outlook. ping before a snowfall. It reads “Occasionally, I am kept in part: awake by lines of poetry that “Home before the first flakes come to me late at night,” Drift from the sky.” Hochberg said. “The poems [enter into] “I rest easier after I write exploration and awareness and them down.”

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hile most of Deborah Hochberg’s professional hours have been spent as a nurse practitioner helping patients overcome insomnia, many of her waking hours away from work have been given to the satisfaction of writing poetry to express deep feelings. It started years ago after observing the way her late father, Israel Hochberg, wrote verse in English and Hebrew. Gradually, they wrote together. “We would talk on the phone, and he would say a line,” Hochberg recalled about their subjects, which vary from

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Jewish Culture Matters A review of Simon Bronner’s Jewish Cultural Studies.

Simon J. Bronner

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n one approach to Jewish customs, scholars investigate the back story of current Jewish practices. They trace the source of a behavior back to a verse in the Torah or to a comment in the Talmud to the recommendations of the rabbinic leaders of a specific community. Excellent scholarship in this approach appears in Minhagei Yisrael (Customs of Israel), an ongoing series published by Rabbi Daniel Sperber, head of the Talmud department at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. This approach leads scholars to emphasize practices that connect directly with holy books and religious observances. Simon J. Bronner, in Jewish Cultural Studies (Wayne State University Press, 2021), takes a starkly different approach. Bronner takes as his subject any practice that Jews, or non-Jews, identify as characteristic of Jews, especially in contemporary America. Practices may originate in religious observance or in the host country where Jews lived a generation ago, or in a peculiarity of the position of Jews in our current homes. Different practices register as Jewish in different communities. Bronner does not need to distinguish between essential Jewish practices and practices that Jews accidentally happen to do. He identifies this field of inquiry as “Jewish cultural studies.” He focuses a chapter on the struggles of Jewish cultural studies to find a place in the politics of scholarship. Where does it

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belong? In the general field of cultural studies, some scholars consider Jews just a minor subset of privileged whites and not an ethnic group worthy of study at all. Scholars in the field of Jewish studies prefer to honor inquiries into classical Jewish texts. But Bronner argues that the actual lived culture of modern Jews deserves its place as a field of study. Furthermore, knowledge of actual culture can help leaders of the Jewish community make informed decisions to prepare for our shared future. BAR MITZVAH ROOTS One fascinating example of this approach appears in “Fathers and Sons,” Bronner’s chapter on the bar mitzvah in American and Western European Jewish culture. Far from being an adaptation of an ancient ceremony, the modern bar mitzvah developed from a much more modest observance in medieval Germany and Italy, from where it spread to Eastern Europe in the past few centuries, and only later to other Jewish communities. Anthropologists sometimes call the bar mitzvah a “rite-ofpassage,” but, Bronner objects, passage from what to what? He has a point: A seventh-grader in America does not have a life situation significantly different from that of an eighth-grader. For many Jews, the ceremony does not mark the beginning of participation as an adult in synagogue ritual. So why has the American bar mitzvah since the

1950s become the occasion for a huge party, nearly equivalent to a wedding? Bronner sees “the bar mitzvah as an invented milestone tradition that deals with father-son conflicts as the boy wrestles with the uncertain status of his masculinity in a wider modern context.” Fasting on the Yom Kippur before one’s bar mitzvah, in Bronner’s psychological analysis, symbolically moves one from the maternal space of home to the paternal space of the syn-

agogue. The ordeal of reading from the Torah in public tests him before his father and his teachers. Even egalitarian liturgy and female rabbis do not, for Bronner, completely neutralize the synagogue’s masculine identity. As the synagogue became feminized, bar mitzvah parties became more muscularly masculinized, with parties “in auto museums, on ski slopes or in sports stadiums.” The ceremony, that once transferred a boy from the custody of his mother to his father, to his teachers, now

transfers his allegiance “to his pals,” in Bronner’s trenchant formulation. Oddly enough, Bronner presents the practice of fasting on Yom Kippur the year before bar mitzvah as entirely a folk practice, without a source in classical Judaism. In support of this analysis, he notes that contributors to an internet discussion of this practice do not mention any text. Bronner overlooks the Mishnah, at Yoma 8:4, which instruct parents not to let young children fast, but to train children to begin to fast “a year or two earlier.” Bronner sustains his larger point, however, that the classical sources do not mention any celebration related to reaching the age of bar mitzvah. Bronner expresses the hope that these studies will influence the standing of Jewish culture in academia and will help leaders understand Jewish culture in the home, synagogue and community organizations. An unfortunate impediment to that hope, in my opinion, comes from his academic writing style. In a typical example, here Bronner explains that his fellow practitioners of Jewish cultural studies do retain an interest in the possible historical roots of current culture: “Despite the synchronographic or ethnographic orientation of Jewish cultural studies that draws on the legacy of Jewish folkloristics and anthropology, a historicism adapted from Jewish studies is apparent.” That kind of writing is tough to get through.

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good film of the same name in 2015. The novel had a lot of Jewish content (two of the three main characters are Jewish). Good on Paper, an original Netflix film, began streaming June 23. The capsule plot: stand-up comic Andrea (Iliza Shlesinger, 38) puts her career first for years. Then she meets Dennis (Ryan Hansen), a seemingly perfect guy: smart, nice and successful. It’s not really a spoiler when I tell you things don’t turn out well for Andrea and Dennis. Shlesinger wrote the film, and she’s happy to tell anyone that her screenplay is based on a real-life horrific (and hilarious) dating experience she had. Shlesinger, who has had five Netflix stand-up specials, is out of the dating pool now. In 2018, she married top chef Noah Galuten, 38, in a Jewish ceremony.

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MUSIC EVENT 8 pm, June 24 The Ark in Ann Arbor will present a virtual concert from Connie Kaldor, who uses a mix of song and humor. Show is free and streamed to The Ark’ s Facebook page. Donations to the “virtual tip jar” during shows support both The Ark and the participating artists. Visit theark.org. PIRKEI AVOT STUDY 11 am, June 25 Adat Shalom Synagogue invites adults of all ages to join Rabbi Aaron Bergman for a weekly discussion on Zoom to explore one of the most beloved and wise books of our people. Free and open to the community. To RSVP and receive a Zoom link, contact Jodi Gross, jgross@adatshalom. org. CONCERT EVENT 8 pm, June 25 A2SF & The Ark present Kishi Bashi, the pseudonym of singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Kaoru Ishibashi. His live show often includes violin and vocal loops, beatboxing and

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original compositions. This will be an outdoor concert live on stage at Fuller Park in Ann Arbor. Limited tickets are available at $25, $75 and $125. Should weather force a cancellation, respective concerts will be broadcast live from The Ark with an exclusive streaming link provided to ticket holders. Visit theark.org.

invites adults of all ages to join Rabbi Aaron Bergman on Zoom. The class is designed to help individuals find their internal spirituality and realize how Judaism can make them happier. Free and open to the community. To RSVP and receive a Zoom link, contact Jodi Gross, jgross@adatshalom. org.

LIVE CONCERT 4 pm, June 26 A2SF & The Ark present Laith Al-Saadi Trio in an outdoor concert live on stage at Fuller Park in Ann Arbor. He presents an authentic blend of blues, soul and classic rock. Limited tickets are available at $25, $75 and $125. Should weather force a cancellation, respective concerts will be broadcast live from The Ark with an exclusive streaming link provided to ticket holders. Visit theark.org.

HMC PROGRAM 7 pm JUNE 27 The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus presents “Trauma and Adventure in Transit: Jewish Refugees in Iran and India,” featuring Atina Grossmann, professor of history at the Cooper Union in New York City. The virtual event will provide insight on the Jews who escaped to India and Iran after 1933. On the margins of the Holocaust and anxious about their families’ fates, they were homeless and stateless, but also oddly privileged as adventurous Europeans in non-western societies. The program will take place online as a live Zoom webinar. To register for a link to the program, visit www. holocaustcenter.org/june.

A WEEK OF CONCERTS Jun 26-July 3 The Chamber Music Society of Detroit will present on-demand access to six concerts by world-class artists from its CameraMusic Premium Series. Get access at no cost thanks to the generosity of CameraMusic supporters and patrons. Visit cmdetroit. org. You will receive an email confirmation; save it as access to all the concerts. From June 26-July 3, you can click on the “Access Online Event” button on your email confirmation to watch all the concerts. MEDITATION & MINDFULNESS 9:30 am, June 27 Adat Shalom Synagogue

SUPPORT GROUP MEETS 5:30-6:45 pm, June 28 A virtual caregiver support group will meet for individuals who are care partners for those living with cognitive changes including various types of dementia. Contact Dorothy Moon, Brown Adult Day Program social worker, for Zoom link and more information: 248-514-3627 or dmoon@jvshumanservices. org.

A CONVERSATION 7:30-8:30 pm, June 29 The Jewish Theological Seminary of America will present free the Annual Henry N. and Selma S. Rapaport Memorial Lecture. Ben, Jonah and Henry Platt will discuss their professional achievements and aspirations as well as how their Jewish upbringing and involvement, including Camp Ramah, have influenced their careers. The brothers will speak with acclaimed author and interviewer Abigail Pogrebin, who’ ll ask about their achievements and the role Judaism plays in their lives and art. Register at jtsa.edu for confirmation email with Zoom link.

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ast May, Amy Regal, longtime makeup artist and owner of Glamour Puss and Party Girls in Franklin, closed Party Girls — and her legions of fans were in mourning. The boutique was created to be a fun and comfortable space just for girls, like their bedroom at home, where they could try on dresses for each other for proms, homecomings, bar and bat mitzvahs and other special occasions. That’s when Kimberly “Kimi” Rott stepped in. “I worked with Amy in the beauty business on and off for years,” Rott says. “When she decided to close Party Girls,

she called and asked if I was interested in taking over.” Rott jumped at the chance and then some. As a young mom of twin girls in 2005, the then-manicurist fulfilled a lifelong dream of opening a children’s clothing store, Syd & Samz in Royal Oak. “There were no stores for tweens at that time,” Rott says. “I wanted a place that I would have shopped at. So, I went to a trade show in Chicago and opened the store three weeks later.” Rott closed the boutique, which had quickly become a local favorite, in 2007, when she became pregnant with her third daughter, but kept her toes in the water continued on page 48

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sonable,” says Rott, who books private showings by appointment. “I can personally help each girl, I can fit them, help decide what looks good on them. “It’s a customized experience with an expert and it makes them feel special. There are no distractions,” she says. “It takes the weight off the parent, too. I can say to the girls, ‘no pressure, you have to like it.’ And we’re all happy.”

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embellished with sparkles and tulle — Rott plans to incorporate more stock and more of her own style once trade shows reopen post-pandemic. But in the meantime, she works with a variety of designers and can special order almost anything. She has an entire back room devoted to the business with a dressing room, cozy sofa and fun touches. “Everybody who walks in says it’s so per-

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of fashion, working part-time at Sundance Shoes (now in Birmingham) and other projects. Now that her twins are out of college, and her youngest daughter is 12, it seemed the perfect time to get back to her love. She opened her own version of Regal’s boutique, now called Party Girls Mitzvahs, in a private room in her Huntington Woods home last July. “Fashion is my passion,” Rott says. “At one time, I thought about being a personal shopper for kids, because so many parents hate taking their kids to try on clothes, but I love it. My kids’ friends say I’m the cool mom — but I think I’m just real with them. I tell them the truth. “When I had Syd & Samz, I had a little girl who would come into my store who was not a ‘typical’ easy-to-fit size. It made me feel so good to help her feel special. That’s what my life is all about — I love when I can help someone else feel good about themselves.” Party Girls Mitzvahs fills a niche for an often-forgotten age group, that’s not an adult, but not a little girl, and, for now, Rott plans to focus on mitzvah service and party dresses. In addition to Regal’s leftover inventory — which includes a range from sleek fitted and straight dresses to flouncy styles

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before COVID hit. More than 175 events have been canceled and another 100 rescheduled. “The virus killed all business very quickly,” said Janice Cherkasky of Franklin, who Janice Cherkasky has been in the party planning business for 34 years. Dee Dee Hoffman of West Bloomfield had five events ready to go when Michigan locked down last year, includ-

ing a big bar mitzvah scheduled the weekend after the state’s stay-at-home order began. Twenty of the 22 events planned by Susan Siegal of Susan Franklin for 2020 were canSiegal celed. She pulled off a Zoom bridal shower last June. But a drive-by bar mitzvah party scheduled for October was canceled a day before by the celebrant’s

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would cancel and return their deposit in full,” he said. “If the customer wanted to downsize and get creative with a venue, then we would help in that process.” Cherkasky said she appreciates her vendors’ efforts to be as flexible as possible. Even though things are now opening up, the party planning business has a long way to go before it will again be what used to be considered normal, said Solomon, who has been coordinating events for 32 years. One of her brides canceled her wedding last June and rescheduled it for this June, but in line with current state regulations, she can have only 100 guests, not the 300 she had originally wanted. The planners share one piece of advice for anyone looking to schedule a big event this year or next: Start planning early. Many vendors are already completely booked through 2022, said Solomon.

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school, which felt it exposed students to too much risk. Wedding receptions are being rescheduled as many as five times, and usually to smaller events. But parties for bar/bat mitzvahs and special birthdays or anniversaries are more often just canceled. Hoffman was able to pull off three events in 2020, including an outdoor family event and an outdoor bar mitzvah party. She has coordinated one outdoor wedding so far this year. “We social distanced, and everyone wore masks,” she said. “Most staff were tested for COVID a few days prior to working the event.” The tented party space featured shields around seating areas, separate pods for each family, and specific entrances and exits. “One larger event did two different timeframes so they could accommodate more people.” Star Trax’s Geoff Kretchmer says he was most devastated at having to furlough many of his staff, some of whom have found other opportunities and won’t be coming back. Many vendors who serve the party business have closed shop, including photographers, Geoff videographers and caterers, Kretchmer making the planners’ job more difficult. “The vendors set the rules,” said Andrea Solomon of West Bloomfield. Last fall, she was able to reschedule some events to a large tent on the grounds Andrea of Congregation Shaarey Zedek Solomon in Southfield. “I did a wedding every weekend there,” she said. But where the hosts may have wanted to have several hundred guests, they could not have more than 50 due to state regulations. Guests were widely spaced in the tent, and sanitation stations were plentiful. Food was served in boxes — no more buffets — and there wasn’t much dancing. The most popular party favors of 2020? Masks and hand sanitizer, she said.

“Be flexible and roll with the punches,” said Siegal. “The largest, most expensive, lavish events are not always the most meaningful.” Hoffman suggests that clients request a “COVID clause” in contracts so they can get a refund if the event is canceled for a reason completely beyond their control. “Carefully read a contract and see how flexible any vendor will be throughout the planning process. You just never know when something will come up that can change your whole event.” Star Trax has updated their party-planning resource, Plan it! Magazine, which is now online at startrax.com/plan-it-magazine. They will also hold their annual Event Show at Orchard Mall in West Bloomfield on Sunday, Oct. 21, with more than 50 special event vendors. An outdoor event planned by Susan Siegal

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race Van’t Hof and Aaron Jonah Lewis wanted a big, but casual wedding, ideally in an outdoor camp-like setting where all their friends and family members could celebrate with lots of old-time music and dance. Both Americanroots musicians, they wanted participants to be able to jam away on their banjos, fiddles, guitars and mandolins. Van’t Hof, 35, and Lewis, 39, caught each other’s eyes at the Knoxville Stomp in 2016. They frequently appeared on the same music festival bills, she with Bill and the Belles and he with Roochie Toochie or Barbara the Corn Potato String Band, Lewis but they didn’t actually meet Contributing Writer until the 2019 Brooklyn Folk Festival. Van’t Hof was sitting in with a pick-up country band and Lewis was playing with the Lovestruck Balladeers. They played some tunes together, realized

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Couple plans to complete the celebration in 2023.

they both lived in Michigan, and have been together since. Van’t Hof moved from Holland, in West Michigan, where she grew up, to Lewis’ home in Southwest Detroit. She works as a freelance graphic recorder — taking notes on meetings and workshops using pictures instead of words — as well as a musician. Lewis, who graduated from Hillel Day School and Interlochen Arts Academy, is a full-time performer and private music teacher. Van’t Hof is the one who proposed, by taking out an ad in the November 2020 issue of Banjo Newsletter. The ad, which she drew herself, shows her small banjo talking to Lewis’ larger instrument and saying, “Dear Precious and Singular Aaron Jonah Lewis, I love you as much as I love banjo. Will you marry me?” For their ideal wedding to accommodate friends and family from out of town — which describes many of their would-

be guests — they wanted a nice-weather three-day weekend. To hold it at a camp, they would have to plan it for a Memorial Day or Labor Day weekend when camp would not be in session. CHOOSING A WEEKEND This year was out because of COVID. Next year was also out because both sets of parents — Bobbie (me) and Joe Lewis of Detroit and Ellen and Dave Van’t Hof of Holland — will be celebrating their 50th anniversaries, and the young couple didn’t want to compete. And Labor Day weekend 2022 will be Lewis’ niece’s bat mitzvah. So they scheduled the big blowout for Memorial Day 2023 at HabonimDror Camp Tavor in Three Rivers, Mich., where Lewis spent many happy summers. But they wanted to be legally married in the meantime, so they got a license and planned a small signing ceremony at their home, to be attended only by parents and siblings.

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Krafters” that include weavers Michael Daitch and Rayme Jacobs, who is also a co-founder, and sewist Susan Tauber. Each creation incorporates personal items that reflect the subject’s interests, experiences and personality. Projects have included pillows made from concert tees for the music lover; school sweatshirts or sports memorabilia for the graduate; summer camp swag for the grown-up camper’s birthday; wedding keepsakes for the anniversary couple — the ideas are boundless. The idea for Kiwykeepsakes came to Sklarchyk about 10 years ago, after the death of her mother. “I was cleaning out her closet,

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and so much of her clothing brought back so many memories. I decided to weave several pieces of her clothing into a pillow. It's an instant reminder of all those good times,” said Sklarchyk, who began weaving as a teenager. When her father passed away two years ago, her fellow weavers surprised her with a pillow made from his favorite ties. It has become one of her most treasured possessions. A pillow made from their beloved dog’s blanket brought comfort to a grieving family, while a mother celebrated her son’s graduation from medical school with a pillow made from his lab coat. In addition, personalized laser cut leatherette tags, called Kiwy Kards, made from photos provided by the customer, have become a popular accompaniment to the pillows, purses and wall hangings. Now that COVID restrictions are lifting, Sklarchyk and her staff look forward to creating innovative gifts for long-delayed celebrations such as weddings,

bar and bat mitzvahs, and parties commemorating birthdays, anniversaries and graduations. While Sklarchyk has been weaving for friends and family for many years, she officially started Kiwykeepsakes in 2018, after a career as a professional social worker and a stint as Fiber Arts Facilitating Artist at the Farber Soul Center in West Bloomfield. Now, she has come full circle. “I’ve returned to my first love — weaving,” she said, “and it’s not just the weaving, but helping people celebrate life events or cope with life events. It's like I get to combine social work and weaving together. I love people's stories!” Local deliveries are safely made by Sklarchyk’s son, and accomplished artist, Sam Morris, who will be joined by Soul Center artist Alyssa Gold. Shipping is also available. For more information, visit the Kiwykeepsakes Facebook page at facebook.com/ Kiwykeepsakes-796701377365673/, email kiwykeepsakes@gmail.com or call (248) 505-6269.

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opefully, Zoom birthday celebrations, virtual seders and drive-thru sukkahs will soon be only memories. After a frightening spring COVID surge in Michigan, weekly average COVID cases have declined to 301 and the COVID positive test rate is now less than 2%, compared to double digits not long ago. Vaccinations are probably responsible for much of this progress, but not everyone has been vaccinated. COVID is still prevalent in Michigan, so health authorities urge continued precautions. So, hugs and kisses at crowded buffet lines are still discouraged, but there are ways to celebrate that reduce the risk of COVID transmission. Outdoor celebrations are recommended because the possibility of coronavirus transmission is much less than indoors. Dr. Dennis Cunningham, medical director for Infection Control and Infection Dr. Dennis Prevention at Cunningham Henry Ford Health System, says, “Outside is so much safer, espe-

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All past and present U.S. military receive 50% off lunch or dinner. Beverages and gratuity are not included, US Military ID is requested, (dine-in only). A donation will be made to Veterans Outreach Project of Southeast Michigan.

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Pizza boxes will be sporting pink. $2 will be donated for every Large Pizza sold. Benefiting “Breast Friends Forever” organization at St. Joseph’s Mercy Health System; taking care of underserved women who are in need of treatment. In memory of Fernanda Santioni ~

“In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue…” Order any entrée off the menu and pay $14.92, includes dessert and a non-alcoholic beverage. Dine-in only, tax and gratuity not included, some exclusions apply.

calling Samantha at (734) 981-9800 (Canton) and Brandon at (313) 278-6000 (Dearborn Heights) Tickets $23 per person, Children 3 and under $8 Tax (6%) Gratuity (20%) will be added.

Each Guest is required to bring an unwrapped toy or make a donation and toys will be purchased to Benefit Wayne County Good Fellows.

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Canton: 734-981-9800 Dearborn Heights: 313-278-6000 Farmington Hills: 248-994-4000 Dearborn: 313-842-2100 Livonia: 734-513-8000 (no banquets antoniosrestaurants.com Antonio’s Cucina Italiana, the Rugiero family and its staff have impressed their guests since 1964 with their traditional and authentic Italian cuisine. Signature dishes like Gnocchi Ron Lieberman Photography Rita, Chicken Antonio, mouthRon Lieberman Photography Invitations - Place Cards - Kippahs - Napkins - Calligraphy - Giveaways - and more! watering veal dishes, our famous bread and awesome From full party and event planning to “just a little extra help,” pizzas. A banquet facility, full bar and extensive wine list are I will make your special day run smoothly. My knowledge and experience means your wedding, mitzvah, shower, birthday, available at Dearborn Heights, anniversary or corporate event will be a huge success! Canton, Farmington Hills and Roman Village in Dearborn.

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BUDDY’S PIZZA

Multiple locations buddyspizza.com In 1946, Buddy’s Pizza became the birthplace of the Original Detroit-Style Pizza. For more than seven decades, it has been consistently voted Detroit’s number one pizza locally, regionally, and nationally. Bring some DetroitStyle to your next gathering with Buddy’s Catering.

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30 Clifford St. Detroit, MI 48226 (313) 961-1600 www.downtownlouieslounge. com Downtown Louie’s Lounge is an upscale restaurant, and the food is delicious! While the restaurant itself is new, the building has been around for over 100 years.

STAR DELI

24555 W. 12 Mile Road Southfield, MI 48034 (248) 352-7377 stardeli.net The Star Deli is a take-out only restaurant that also provides personal catering deli trays, using only the highest quality products. Serving the Metro Detroit community for over 40 years everyone is warmly welcomed, whether you are a lifelong customer or just coming in for the first time.

STEVE’S DELI

6646 Telegraph Road @ Maple Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301 In the Bloomfield Plaza (248) 932-0800 stevesdeli.com Steve’s Deli is one of Metro Detroit’s most popular and wellknown delis. Providing quality food and service Steve’s serves breakfast, lunch and dinner and offers a fabulous carryout department with hot dinners to go every night. We also provide party trays and catering for home and business events. We will assist in all your shivah needs and offer suggestions for delicious Shabbat dinners. Steve’s is a little bit of New York right here in Bloomfield Hills!

ZAO JUN MODERN ASIAN & SUSHI (248) 949-9999 info@zaojunnewasian.com 6608 Telegraph Road Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301 With beautiful fusion of intermingling cultures found around Asia, Zao Jun celebrates food of Japan, Thailand, Korea, China and more. At Zao Jun, we take classic dishes and modernize each one by upgrading ingredients, cooking technique and presentation.

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The Townsend Hotel Extraordinary events and memories are created at the Townsend Hotel in Birmingham, Michigan. Opened in 1988 and rejuvenated in 2018 to a more modern luxury design, The Townsend Hotel is a AAA Four-Diamond and Forbes Travel Guide FourStar boutique luxury property with 150 guestrooms. It offers unparalleled catering, culinary and banquet services that will leave your guests with a lasting impression. The Townsend Hotel absolutely delights in all things social including intimate and larger weddings, engagement proposals or parties, showers, mitzvahs and much, much

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Experience the Extraordinary. The Townsend Social Catering Team invites you to connect with them on your very special event or celebration. They would be thrilled and honored to assist you. And if it is one thing they know, it is that events are the cornerstone of their lives. Please reach out to Lizz Smith at lsmith@townsendhotel.com. FIND US 100 Townsend Street Birmingham, Michigan 48009 Lizz Smith

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SALON KRYSTYNA’S EUROPEAN SPA

31815 Southfield Road Suite 32 Beverly Hills, MI 48025 (248) 540-0600 Krystynaseuropeanspa.com Krystyna’s European Spa is a quiet retreat from the frenzied urban existence. Whether it’s a luxurious pedicure, a relaxing massage or a gift for a friend or loved one, our team is ready to help you celebrate all of life’s milestones so you leave feeling truly rejuvenated.

VENUES DETROIT PAL

1680 Michigan Ave. Detroit, MI 48216 (313) 833-1600 detroitpal.org In partnership with the Detroit Police Department and community volunteers, Detroit PAL is helping youth find their greatness through athletic, academic and leadership development programs. The Banquet Facility at The Corner Ballpark (site of historic Tiger Stadium) can host a variety of both indoor and outdoor events, including weddings, formal galas, mitzvahs, birthday parties and more!

HURON-CLINTON METROPARKS

13000 High Ridge Drive Brighton, MI, 48114 metroparks.com The Huron-Clinton Metroparks is a regional system encompassing Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Wayne counties. The Metroparks offer 365-day access to open space, outdoor experiences for the communities of

Southeast Michigan. Our open-air picnic shelters are available for reunions, graduations, weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and any other way your family gets together — make your special event more eventful with your Metroparks!

Catering Bring some Detroit-Style to your next gathering! Buddy’s Catering is perfect for any event with our hometown favorite Detroit-Style Pizza, Salad, Pasta, Desserts, and more. Customize your celebration with party packages, individual combos, vegan, and gluten-free items.

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MGM GRAND DETROIT 1777 3rd St. Detroit, MI 48226 (877) 888-2121 mgmgranddetroit.com MGM Grand Detroit is the city’s premier gaming and entertainment destination. Bringing the best of Las Vegas to the heart of Detroit!

PARADISE PARK

45799 Grand River Ave. Novi, MI 48374 (248) 735-1050 paradiseparknovi.com Paradise Park is a 10-acre family entertainment facility and is sure to have something the entire family will love! With over 16 years in the event business, a full-service restaurant and two bars, we specialize in first-class service in every regard. We are available to host all your events including birthday parties, mitzvahs, corporate events, nonprofit, school and much more! Whether you are hosting an event of 2,000 guests or an adult party for 10, Paradise Park is sure to wow your guests.

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THE TOWNSEND HOTEL 100 Townsend St. Birmingham, MI 48009 (248) 642-7900 townsendhotel.com Located in the heart of the walkable upscale community of Birmingham, the Townsend Hotel is known for its exceptional service and amenities, including an award-winning contemporary restaurant and a variety of worldclass banquet, catering and wedding services. The Townsend is a AAA FourDiamond hotel and a Forbes Travel Guide Four-Star boutique luxury property.

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The wait is over...We Are Back! The First Comeback Concert of the Summer!

MOTOWN Meets DOO WOP Detroit Style The Contours

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s COVID receded and patients started to return in normal numbers to the Beaumont Ministrelli Women’s Heart Center, Pamela Marcovitz, M.D., a cardiologist and the center’s medical director, began to observe the pandemic’s impact on her patients. From a cardiac perspective, she found that some patients’ lifestyles improved during the lockdown. They had more free time and couldn’t eat in restaurants, so they began cooking with healthy ingredients, which had a positive impact on their heart health. “Restaurants tend to use a lot of salt. By eating at home their blood pressure was controlled better,” Marcovitz says. “Sometimes they used the extra time to exercise more. So, they had better cholesterol levels and blood pressure. Some lost weight — usually 5-10 pounds but one woman lost 38.” But other patients responded differently — eating more restaurant carryouts and binge watching television. These patients didn’t do as well, she reports. Sindhu Koshy, M.D., a cardiologist affiliated with Henry Ford Health System, says that her female patients tended to fall into bad health habits during the pandemic. “They were not exercising and were eating more junk food,” she explains. “The pandemic took a higher toll on women because many had to supervise their children doing virtual schoolwork, as well as do their own work and handle household chores. It took a toll on their mental health, so they didn’t feel they could do as much exercise.” POST-COVID HEART PATIENTS Both Marcovitz and Koshy provided follow-up care to their regular cardiac patients after recovery from the virus, as well as new patients who experienced first-time cardiac symptoms after COVID. “Many patients had complications [after having the coronavirus] including myocarditis, and some had reduced heart function,” Marcovitz says. “Some have prolonged symptoms of fatigue and shortness

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After COVID Some women deal with lingering effects on their heart. of breath.” Koshy explains, “Anecdotally, there seem to be more women experiencing post-COVID fatigue and shortness of breath. Their brain fog Dr. Sindhu and fatigue seem to last Koshy longer but most improve within three months. “The younger patients — under 60 — tend to be the long haulers. Younger people who hadn’t been vaccinated yet were more likely to experience severe complications.” Sometimes it just takes time, Marcovitz says. “We use exercise to build tolerance. Patients need to hydrate while exercising and their heart rate and blood pressure must be monitored. Some people put off routine checks of their blood pressure and cholesterol because of the pandemic and may need medical or other intervention for coronary blockages.” In addition, some patients cut back on cardiac rehabilitation out of concern for COVID transmission or because these outpatient programs were temporarily halted. As an alternative to in-person rehabilitation, some patients were given exercises to do at home, including video instruction, she says. Post-COVID patients have an increased risk of developing clots in their legs and lungs or having a stroke. This could be because they were immobilized during their bout with COVID, which can lead to clots, Marcovitz says, or because their lifestyle or work life became more sedentary during the pandemic.

TREATING POTS Both cardiologists have tested and treated for Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) — a condition which some patients developed after COVID. POTS is a condition which affects blood flow, causing rapid heart palpitations, fainting and lightheadedness as well as chronic fatigue and brain fog. “POTS is a condition of the autonomic nervous system, not primarily a cardiac problem,” Marcovitz says. “It can be very debilitating and last a long time. POTS affects mostly women between 13 and 50 years of age. We are seeing more of it in the last year. Any severe illness, surgery or extreme weight loss can trigger it, she explains. Symptoms can occur when individuals stand up after sitting or reclining, or among those who stand for a long time as part of their jobs. Treatments include core and leg exercises, increased intake of fluids and greater salt intake to lower adrenalin levels that control heart rate. Compression stockings or pantyhose can also help. She adds that some medications, including beta blockers, are available to treat it. “This is a common reason why people are coming to us now,” notes Marcovitz. Koshy has treated more cardiac patients with POTS or POTS-like symptoms after COVID as well. Many are severely dehydrated. “People who exercise are more likely to notice it. COVID can affect any or every system in the body,” she says.

asha Hartje loved playing tennis at Emory University. “It was amazing,” the Detroit Country Day School graduate and 2017 Jewish News Female High School Athlete of the Year said about her four years at Emory, a private school in Atlanta. Hartje even has fond memories of the women’s tennis season this spring, when she played only one match for Emory because of COVID-19 quarantines and a positive test for COVID-19. “I was completely asymptomatic when I tested positive,” she said. “I never lost my sense of taste or smell or had any symptoms.” To make matters worse, Hartje had to endure the nasal swab COVID-19 test “where it feels like it’s touching your brain” on her follow-up negative test. It wasn’t an entirely lost season for Hartje, even though she played only a No. 2 doubles match April 20 vs. Brenau (Georgia), winning 8-2 with partner Defne Olcay. She was 20-11 in singles and 14-13 in doubles in three previous years for Emory. Hartje enjoyed the season because Emory won the NCAA Division III national championship for the first time since 2016 and the eighth time in program history when it defeated defending national champion Wesleyan (Connecticut) 5-0 on May 26 in Chattanooga, Tenn. As one of Emory’s three captains, Hartje did what she could to be a leader for the Eagles, who finished 10-3 in an abbreviated schedule. “I was sad that I didn’t get to play because I’m a competitor, but you can’t take someone’s spot in the lineup when you’re not practicing,” she said. “Everyone on the team is equal. Everyone is out there busting their butt.” To stay involved with the team and be productive, Hartje took on tasks like putting together music playlists for practices, coming up with games for weekly team Zoom calls, and organizing safe team outings like strawberry picking. After the season was over, she designed the team’s national championship ring, which has the word “Gratitude” imprinted on the inside.

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Goodbye, Tennis and Hello, Hockey Detroit Country Day alum Sasha Hartje switches sports as she enters graduate school. STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Sasha Hartje had a 20-11 record in singles and a 15-13 record in doubles playing tennis for Emory University.

It wasn’t the first time the team turned to Hartje for design help. She also designed team apparel. “Everyone trusted my opinion on designing things,” she said. Emory didn’t have a season in spring 2020. The season was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic before the Eagles could play a match on their spring break trip to Orlando, Fla. While college women’s tennis teams play in the fall, spring is their main season. Hartje graduated from Emory in May with a bachelor’s degree in sociology. While she loved playing tennis at Emory after being a two-time high school girls tennis state champion at Country Day, Hartje also missed playing hockey. So much that when she looked for a school to pursue a master of business administration degree, playing Division I women’s hockey there was a prerequisite. The 22-year-old defenseman from Bloomfield Hills is headed to Long Island University, a private school in Brooklyn, N.Y. Hartje has three years of eligibility there — two years because of the COVID19 pandemic and one year because she

switched sports — but she plans to use only two years because getting an M.B.A. is a two-year program. Long Island will play Yale at home Nov. 23. Sasha’s sister Elle Hartje plays for Division I Yale. “Elle and I have never played against each other in any sport,” said Sasha, who was on an age 14-and-under national champion girls hockey team in 2014. Sasha reached out to several schools while looking to play Division I women’s hockey. She connected at Long Island with Coach Rob Morgan, who recruited her to play hockey at Yale while Sasha was at Country Day. Morgan brought Elle Hartje, who also attended Country Day, to Yale. Sasha said Long Island is the perfect place for her to return to the ice. “Coach Morgan has known me and my family for years, and he’s willing to take a risk with me after I didn’t play competitive hockey for four years,” Sasha said. “I’ve missed hockey so much. I can’t wait to play again. I’ve really missed the fastpaced team aspect of hockey. Tennis is a team sport in college, but it’s also very much an individual sport.” JUNE 24 • 2021

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Jessica Davidova Receives Elaine C. Driker Award Hillel of Metro Detroit named Jessica Davidova as this year’s Elaine C. Driker Award recipient. The award was given via Zoom at a recent Hillel of Metro Detroit Board of Governors meeting. The Elaine C. Driker Award recognizes a Hillel of Metro Detroit student who has demonstrated a commitment to Jewish Life in Detroit. Jessica is a J.D. Candidate at the Wayne State University School of Law and president of the WSU International Law Student Association. Her winning essay concluded by saying: “After having had the opportunity

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r. Stan Alfred, 85, died peacefully at his home in Los Angeles, Calif., on June 14, 2021. Dr. Alfred was born in Flint on Nov. 18, 1935. He lived with his parents, Fay and Clem Alfred, and his younger sister, Marlene. He loved his childhood in Flint, surrounded by his extended family, playing golf and basketball and visiting his family’s resort in South Haven in the summers. Above all else, Stan would proudly describe himself as a family man. Throughout his life, Family always came first. Well before it became the norm, he made sure to be home from his medical practice to have dinner with his family, eagerly listening to his wife, Jo Ann Nedelman, and daughters’ stories of the day. You could always see his smiling face in the stands at every one of his daughters’ swim meets, tennis matches, softball games and basketball tournaments. Stan was blessed to find love twice in his life. He married Janis Rabin in 1995. His deep love of family extended to Janis and her two children. Stan shared in the joy of being a part of a beautiful, blended family. His 15 grandchildren adored him, excited whenever their Pop Pop came for a visit and could make one of his famous milkshakes, shoot some hoops with them, attend a school play or cheer the loudest from the soccer field. Of course, there was golf, another passion in his life. He was truly happy when he was on the golf course. He approached golf like he did his medical practice always

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studying the game, learning the best technology to assist him and helping others who needed a tweak with their swing. All his family will tell you that they have him to thank for their perfect golf swings. In his professional life, Dr. Alfred earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan and his medical degree and residency training in dermatology at Wayne State University College of Medicine. He was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society and board-certified by the American Board of Dermatology. He enjoyed his last 20 years of practice with Santa Monica Dermatology Medical Group and served as an adjunct faculty member at John Wayne Cancer Center at St. John’s Medical Center in Santa Monica, Calif. Over the years, Dr. Alfred published numerous articles, spoke on television and lectured on the patient-doctor partnership and its importance in combating difficult illness. He made sure that his own practice followed the principles he described in his writings. He took time with each of his patients, making sure they understood what their diagnoses

were and what they could expect. He showed genuine care and compassion. Every patient understood that he was in their corner, helping to not only fight their illness but also standing by their side as a partner on their medical journey. This special guy will be incredibly missed by his wife, Janis Rabin; his sister and brother-in-law, Marlene Addlestone and Larry Bursten; his sister-in-law, Becky Nedelman; his daughters and their spouses, Erin and Keith Rosen, Susie and Marc Schechter, Amy and Russ Wise; his stepchildren, Amy and Elan Omessi, and Lisa and Lee Goldstein. His 15 grandchildren Andy, Hannah and Zoe Rosen, Josh, Annie and Sammie Schechter, Graham, Jack and Sari Wise, Zac, Zoe and Max Goldstein, and Noa, Kovi and Avi Omessi, will always have Pop Pop in their hearts and think of him when they swing a golf club and drink a milkshake. The family would like to recognize and thank Frederick F. Buck, who became part of Stan’s family, for his kindness and care. Contributions may be made to International Sports & Music Project, ismproject. nationbuilder.com. For any questions you may have, please reach out to Director Jason Steinberg at jason@ ismproject.org; Weizmann Institute, 6735 Telegraph Road, Suite 365, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301, weizmann-usa. org; Community Foundation of Greater Flint, Dr. Clement Alfred Scholarship Fund, 500 S. Saginaw St., Suite 200, Flint, MI 48502; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

JERALD “JERRY” N. AARON died April 21, 2021. The only son of Ruth Aaron (centenarian) and George Aaron (deceased) was born Jan. 24, 1947. For decades, he successfully led his Michigan Biker Law practice as the original “lawyer who rides.” Traveling to biker events on his Harley Davidson, he was a legal champion for injured Michigan bikers, and their families. Jerry grew up in Detroit and later Huntington Woods. He attended Berkley High School and earned his law degree from Wayne State University. He had a strong work ethic and helped put himself through school with various jobs: everything from doorto-door salesman to social worker. In his 40s, he co-owned Paparazzi restaurant on Orchard Lake Road, where his charm as a raconteur flowed as did his knowledge of wines. Jerry was a twin to Judy and a mentor to their little sister, Hillary. A middleclass kid, he was fun-loving and big-hearted. He valued integrity, extending a helping hand; and all agree he always seemed younger than his age. He was high energy and passionate about politics. This world traveler enjoyed his six Bouvier dogs, car racing, boating and scuba diving. But mostly, he adored his “daddy’s girl” daughter, Amy, a University of Michigan graduate who shared a love of U-M football

with her dad. Wife and mom Ruth is a retired Channel 4 news anchor (Ruth to the Rescue). The three of them were a grateful family, praying Jerry would win his war with CLL and Richter Transformation. It was waged during the pandemic at their winter home in Florida he had built on Longboat Key and at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa during an immunotherapy clinical trial. Jerry had genuine friends who miss him, too numerous to list, but they know who they are. How he treasured their friendship. He is also survived by his closest extended family: brothers-in-law and sistersin-law, Chuck, Dave, Kim, Lorraine, Duane; nieces and nephews, Eryn, Andrew (Becky), Kali (Danny); great-nephews, Brayden and Max; cousins, Cindy, Jay and Bobby. Contributions to honor Jerry’s life may be made to St. Jude’s Hospital, Penrickton Center for Blind Children or a charity of one’s choice. SCOTT CHANESS, 65, of Boca Raton, Fla., died June 16, 2021. He is survived by his wife, Nicole Chaness; children, Nathan Chaness, Kali Yonowitz and Corey Yonowitz; parents, Fred and Enid Chaness; brothers and sisters, Brian Chaness, Neil and Shelley Chaness, Steven and Ruth Chaness, and Andrea Chaness and Kerry Fazio; many other loving

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family members and friends. Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, ATTN: Scott Chaness Memorial Fund, 9901 Donna Klein Blvd., Boca Raton, FL 33428, jewishboca.org/scottchaness. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. EMIL THOMAS “TOMMY” CITRON, 74, of Southfield, died June 13, 2021. He is survived by his beloved wife of 44 years, Mary Lou; and their children, James Ethan, William Andrew, Emily (Thomas Walsh), Erin, Jonathan Evan; grandchildren, Brianna, Chase, Brielle, Elizabeth, Mary Catherine, Eli, Jude and Javier; his beloved brother, Kenneth Citron; many other family members and a strong group of friends. Mr. Citron was preceded in death by his siblings, Patti Briggs, Eric and Tony. He was the son of the late Ernest Citron and the late Esther Citron Larsen. Contributions can be made to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. DR. LIONEL GORBATY, 77, of Florida, formerly of Michigan, died June 13, 2021. He is survived by his daughter, Reva Gorbaty and fiancé, David Hughes of The Villages, Fla.; brothers

and sisters-in-law, Isaac and Adriana Gorbaty of Los Angeles, Calif., Elliott and Nava Gorbaty of Owings Mills, Md., Mayer and Dena Gorbaty; sisters and brothers-in-law, Barbara and Fred Rosenberg of Palos Verdes, Calif., Sheila and Jerry Silver of Israel; loving nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Dr. Gorbaty was the beloved husband of the late Arlene Gorbaty. Contributions may be made to Barbara Karmanos Cancer Center, 4100 John R Road, Detroit, MI 48201; Jewish Senior Life Meer Residence, 6760 Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322. A graveside service was held at Workmen’s Circle, Beth Yehudah Cemetery. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. GARY ALLEN MILLER, 76, passed away in San Luis Obispo, Calif., on May 16, 2021. He is survived by his daughter and sister, Hannah and Sharon Miller; his niece and great-niece, Jennifer and Olivia Lindsey. He was the beloved son of the late Ida and William Miller. Gary was a loving father, brother, uncle and son. He was a kind and generous man and a true hippie. He loved music, languages and books, especially Dylan, Spanish and Bukowski. An electrician by trade, he retained a keen interest in history and politics. Road trips, concerts, crossword

puzzles and movies were among his favorite things. He was a topnotch bridge and backgammon player with a slew of friends who enjoyed his sense of humor and ability to have a good time. Moved by the beauty of life, it was unequivocally clear that Gary loved his family deeply and put them before all else. He would often say, “It doesn’t matter what you do every day as long as you get up and do something that you love.” Gary will be deeply missed. May his memory be a blessing. A graveside memorial will be held Friday, June 25, 2021, at 11 a.m. at Machpelah Cemetery, 21701 Woodward Ave. in Ferndale, MI 48220. A gathering to follow; details

to be announced. Donations in Gary’s memory may be made to the Center of Hope for Vietnam orphans in crisis, soworldwide.org/ vietnam-center-of-hope. FRIEDA SHERMAN, 83, of Sharpsburg, Ga., died June 15, 2021. She is survived by her sons and daughtersin-law, Mark and Bonnie Sherman, Bernard Sherman, Lawrence Sherman, and Howard and Ruth Sherman; daughter and son-in-law, Marlene and Scott Nyquist; grandchildren, Alan and Erica Rudder, Joshua and Michelle Sherman, Randi

Sherman and Stacy Albunio, Leonard and Amanda Sherman, Jack Sherman, Glen Sherman, Roslynn and Adam Chayes, Andy and Sarah Sherman, Aaron Sherman, Leah Sherman, and Megan and Sean Morrison; great-grandchildren, Miriam, Ariella and Naomi Sherman, Ella, Fiona and Holly Rudder, David and Alyssa Sherman, Matthew and Mierriell Chayes, and Easton and Kinsley Morrison; niece and nephew, Deborah and Jim Ferrar; other loving relatives and friends. Mrs. Sherman was the beloved wife for 61 years of the late Fred Sherman. Interment was at Machpelah Cemetery. Contributions

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the late Marjorie Kaufman. Interment was held at Beth El Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions can be made to the American Diabetes Association, to the College for Creative Studies or to Hospice of Michigan. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. ARLENE C. WEISER, 82, of South Lyon, Mich., died June 12, 2021. She is c. 1965 survived by her husband, Martin Weiser; daughter, Kerry Platt; sons, Steven Weiser and Scott Weiser; grandchildren, Connor Platt, Michelle

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Looking Back

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his week, the JN is launching a new section: “Apple Tree.” Although the name of this section has been previously used, it’s a good title and the new Apple Tree will be the first feature in the history of the JN to be exclusively for children. Now, to be sure, a search into the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History demonstrates that, over the past 80 years, the JN has published plenty Mike Smith of content specifically geared Alene and Graham Landau toward Jewish children and Archivist Chair youth — my personal favorite is the JN’s annual Chanukah Art Contest. Until now, however, kids have not had their own section. In the earliest issues of the JN, there was “Our Children’s Corner,” by “Uncle Daniel.” I don’t know the name of the writer behind “Uncle Daniel,” but he wrote about Jewish religious affairs. For example, see his column on Jan. 8, 1943: “Dear Boys and Girls: an interesting minor holiday is approaching. We know it as Hamisho Osor b’Shevat, the Jewish Arbor Day” (also known as Tu b’Shevat). By the way, in the first issue of the JN (March 27, 1942) and for many years after, Danny Raskin wrote the “Jewish Youth’s Listening Post” column. And, believe it or not, Danny was a youthful 23 at the time! Sprinkled throughout the pages of the JN, one can find content just for children. For example, the April 5, 1985, issue had a page: “Kids make your own treats.” The recipes included Gefilte Fish Kabobs and Chocolate Matzah. In September 1987, the JN launched a special section for Jewish families titled “L’Chayim.” It was created in a collaboration with Harlene Appleman, director of Jewish Experiences for Families, or J.E.F.F., at Metro Detroit’s Jewish Family Service.

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L’Chayim was distributed to more than 21,000 JN subscribers, and 5,000 copies were sent to schools, synagogues and other Jewish organizations throughout Metro Detroit. It was an influential publication. So much so, that, at its 1990 General Assembly, the Council of Jewish Federations bestowed its Smolar Award to the JN for L’Chayim citing its “vital role as a provider of informal Jewish education; a ‘hands-on’ Jewish family experience.” Although L’Chayim provided some content for children, it was notably a family feature. The kids still did not have their own special section. L’Chayim morphed into “Apple Tree” in 1996, for which Elizabeth Applebaum was the editor. Apple Tree was published as a separate JN section. Again, the focus was upon Jewish families, but it included more content for children than L’Chayim, including a very popular page called “Kaleidoscope,” a coloring page for kids. Another popular item was “Family Album,” that featured photographs of adorable tots and tykes, such as the page from Jan. 17, 1997. “Apple Tree” also had an educational mission. For one example, see Applebaum’s “Happy Purim” page in the March 9, 2006, issue of the JN. It is a short and sweet introduction to the holiday, probably a nice briefing for some adults as well. Kids, your wait is over! This week, the JN debuts an all new “Apple Tree.” The name is tried and true, but in this new Apple Tree, all of the content is devoted to the interests of children. We hope they, as well as their parents, enjoy it. Look for it in the last issue of the month. Want to learn more? Go to the DJN Foundation archives, available for free at www.djnfoundation. org.

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The Exchange

Danny Raskin

Goodbye, Tennis and Hello, Hockey

Celebrate Safely

After COVID

Wrapped Up in Love

‘Keep it With You’

Mostly Married

Future-Forward

Party On

Community Calendar

Jewish Culture Matters

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Three-Day Whirlwind

The Music of Words

Faces and Places

The Few, the Proud

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From the Mideast to the Midwest

Cookies for Caregivers

Heroes at Your Doorstep

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Powerful Lifter

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