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Let’s Go Nuts
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New snack is alternative to high-fat, high-sodium choices.
If you’re noshing more frequently as a result of staying home, you’re not alone.
While we want to provide satisfying and nutritious snacks for our families, it can be challenging to find healthy alternatives to traditional high-fat, high-sodium munchies. A new sprouted nut option is now available from Daily Crunch Snacks, a new business by local community leader and mental health advocate Diane Orley and her niece, Laurel Orley, a marketing professional living in Nashville.
“It started as a fluke,” said Diane, who began making sprouted nut snacks years earlier, after learning the process from her sister, Cynthia Reynolds of Austin, Texas.
Family and friends who sampled Diane’s creations encouraged her to market them to the public. Under the name The Health Nut, she began selling nuts to customers across the country. RONELLE GRIER CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Diane Orley and her niece, Laurel Orley
Laurel Orley was on maternity leave from her job in the consumer-packaged goods industry when she realized she was not eager to return to the corporate culture.
“I’ve been inspired by people who start their own companies,” she said. “I wanted something that was my own, a brand identity and a story that reflected me.”
She kept coming back to her aunt’s sprouted nut snacks, which her family enjoyed during their visits to Metro Detroit.
“We would inhale them, finish a whole bag before we got back home,” recalls Laurel, who is married to former Detroiter Ethan Orley. “There was nothing like this in the marketplace.”
Laurel called her aunt and proposed taking the business to the next level. It was the impetus Diane had been waiting for.
“I had this business for 17 years,” Diane said. “I always knew it would work as a bigger business, but I needed that push.”
The new partners moved quickly to put their plan into action. Using Laurel’s marketing background, they chose packaging geared toward their primary market: busy moms and millennials. They created pastel-colored pouches with bright lettering; the back shares information about the sprouting process and why it enhances the taste, texture and nutritional value.
The nuts are made using Diane’s original
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Larry J. Glanz,
a private wealth advisor with Glanz Wealth Advisors, a financial/private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. in Farmington Hills, has qualified for the company’s Circle of Success annual recognition program and will be honored for this achievement in 2020. He has 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, including six years with Ameriprise Financial. The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan welcomed Mark Davidoff as its newest board member. He currently serves as the president and CEO of the Fisher Group, the central office of the family of Max M. Fisher, overseeing strategy, operations and investments for one of Detroit’s most prominent families. He also serves as the chair of the board of both the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and the Michigan Israel Business Accelerator. The Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel announced that Prof. Kenneth “Ken” Waltzer has been selected as a recipient of the MSU Faculty Emeriti Association “Outstanding Contributions by an Individual Award” for 2019-2020 in recognition of his extensive contributions to the Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel, the College of Arts and Letters, James Madison College and MSU as a whole.
The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus was selected as one of 17 Jewish organizations in Metropolitan Detroit to receive an OnBoard Sustainability Challenge Grant. The Holocaust Memorial Center was awarded the grant based upon its exceptional performance as a member of the fifth cohort of the OnBoard Program in 2018-19. The program is a 15-month program designed to strengthen and develop the skills of board members of Jewish organizations through targeted mentorship, skills-based workshops and personalized Jewish learning. The goal of the program is to nurture effective and dynamic lay leadership for the Jewish community.
recipe, which involves a multi-step soaking and dehydration process. This increases the natural nutritional value of the nuts and adds an airy crunch that is missing from traditional roasted nuts. In addition, sprouting removes phytic acid from the nuts, which can aid digestion.
“Sprouted nuts will help make your pantry staples a little more interesting right now,” Laurel said. “They’re also a great supplement to meals like salads, sauteed veggies and grain bowls.”
The original marketing strategy incorporated retail sales in Nashville and Metro Detroit, with plans for future national expansion. Local retailers included Fuse45 exercise studios in West Bloomfield and Royal Oak, Equilibrium Pilates Studio in Bloomfield Hills and Peter’s Palate Pleaser, also in Bloomfield Hills; however, the coronavirus has put a temporary damper on the company’s retail business.
Providing a healthy snack alternative is a reflection of the partners’ shared belief that mental health and physical well-being go hand-in-hand. A portion of Daily Crunch proceeds go to the Support Network, a peer-to-peer mental health support system on college campuses in Michigan and elsewhere. The organization is an outgrowth of University of Michigan’s Wolverine Support Network, which Diane and her son Sam were instrumental in creating.
There are currently three varieties of Daily Crunch snacks: Just Sprouted Almonds, Coffee-Soaked Sprouted Almonds and a Cherry Berry Nut Medley comprised of sprouted mixed nuts, blueberries and cherries. All varieties are sold in 5-ounce pantry bags and 12 packs of 1.5-ounce grab-and-go pouches. All ingredients are natural, vegan, paleo, Non-GMO Project Verified and contain no oils or added salt. The company is in the process of obtaining kosher certification. “Trying is believing — people who try the product love it and don’t want to go back to raw or roasted nuts,” Diane says.
To order Daily Crunch Snacks, visit dailycrunchsnacks. com. Delivery is available throughout the U.S. with free shipping on orders over $49. JN readers receive $10 off their first online order of $30 or more by using the coupon code MYFIRSTCRUNCH at checkout.
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Debra Zivian of West Bloomfield has been elected to the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan volunteer Board of Directors. She is a teacher consultant for the hearing-impaired and a longtime NKFM volunteer. She has been involved with the NKFM, specifically the Kidney Walk at the Detroit Zoo, for over 10 years. Inspired by her son Danny, who has chronic kidney disease, she has been a steadfast supporter of the NKFM.
Hygieia, a Livonia-based health tech company for insulin management, is adding to its roster as the population of people with Type 2 diabetes who need insulin grows. Hygieia’s d-Nav Insulin Management System uses artificial intelligence and patented technology to help people manage blood sugar levels. Veteran local health care executive Robert Frank, M.D., has joined Hygieia as chief medical officer where he will help connect the d-Nav system with physicians, health plans and health systems, both locally and nationally. Dr. Frank is a cardiac surgeon. The d-Nav clinic sites are in Livonia, Sterling Heights, Allen Park or Sylvan Lake. A fifth site in the Detroit Medical Center will open this spring. Hillel of Metro Detroit announced that
Sarah Timlin
has been chosen as the recipient of the 2020 Direnfeld Family Scholarship. She is in her junior year at Wayne State University studying economics. Sarah is an Applebaum Family Engagement Intern at Hillel of Metro Detroit. The Direnfeld Family Scholarship is awarded annually to an undergraduate or graduate student currently enrolled in a Metropolitan Detroit university on the basis of academic strength, need, service to the community, and Hillel of Metro Detroit involvement.
Benjamin
Francis has been named a recipient of the Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel Student Achievement Award for 2020. He is working on a dual major in political theory and constitutional democracy at James Madison College, as well as finance at the Broad College of Business as he minors in Jewish studies. Although only a junior, he has already completed the minor with 28 credits of JS content courses and plans to have 31 such credits after next fall.
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paper “SelfRegulatory Peer Review as a Mechanism for Audit Quality: A Synthesis of the Literature” earned the Best Paper Award [out of more than 50 submitted papers] at the 2020 annual meeting of the North American Accounting Society, held recently in Chicago.
Jessica Goldberg, 18, of Farmington Hills is one of Michigan’s top youth volunteers for 2020. She was recognized for outstanding volunteer service during the 25th annual and first-ever virtual Prudential Spirit of Community Awards national recognition celebration. She has been given $2,500 to donate toward the local COVID-19 response efforts of a nonprofit organization of her choice. These funds come in addition to a $1,000 scholarship and engraved silver medallion. Goldberg, a senior at North Farmington High School, is the founder of Sib4Sib, a support network for the siblings of people who struggle with mental health or have developmental or cognitive differences.
During this critical time of crisis for nonprofit organizations and Metro Detroit, the Jewish Fund recently approved $600,000 in new urgent needs grants addressing the impact of COVID-19 on the community. The Fund is supporting the Jewish Federation’s Emergency COVID-19 campaign with a grant of $500,000. Funds will support physical and mental health, food access, emergency financial support, in-home support and necessary transportation.
The Fund will consider additional financial support of urgent and recovery needs in the coming months.
Additionally, the Jewish Fund approved grants for food access to Project Healthy Community, Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Lighthouse and Forgotten Harvest and grants for personal protective equipment and tele-health to Freedom House, Hope Recuperative Care Center and Covenant Community Care.
The Jewish Fund’s Teen Board approved an additional $100,000 to support urgent and ongoing needs for nonprofits throughout the community.
Multi-year grants to continue needed human service programs continue to be supported through approved grants of more than $925,000.
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Dana Regev Life in the Gaza Envelope
DANA REGEV
Between rockets, elections and coronavirus, life on the Gaza border must go on.
Nobody in Israel’s Gaza Envelope communities can quite remember when the last escalation round with Hamas occurred. “Was it last August…? No, we’ve had some rockets falling later than that. December? Yes. It was December,” Adi Batan-Meiri recalls.
The 32-year-old has been living near the Gaza border for over a decade, climbing all the way from a first-year student studying media at Sapir College in the Negev, to her current, sleepdeprived role as the spokesperson of Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council.
“People think that because we are so-called ‘used’ to lockdowns, then we are somehow more immune to this new situation that was imposed on us with the coronavirus. This couldn’t be further from the truth,” she says. DANA REGEV CONTRIBUTING WRITER
What has become clearer amid the global pandemic, she claims, is that people living in the Gaza Envelope communities have lost hope completely.
“Even before this outbreak — namely after March’s election — it was obvious that the government has accepted the absurd situation in Israel’s South. That every few months we will suffer from rockets, accept it and move on,” she says. “And as if this wasn’t bad enough, the corona came.”
MENTALLY EXHAUSTED
With more than 15,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and over 200 deaths in Israel as of April 30, Israelis living within Hamas’ missile range are afraid the coronavirus will be the last straw that would break their otherwise-ingrained sturdiness.
Yam Braude-Amitai and her
DANA REGEV
Adi Batan-Meiri
husband have been living near the Gaza border their entire lives. Born in a kibbutz under constant security threat, Braude-Amitai never doubted wanting to build a home in the area. Until now.
“People keep asking why we just don’t get up and leave. It’s not that simple,” she explains.
After living and working in various countries around the world, changing location is no threat to the 33-year-old community relations manager. But it’s not the move she’s afraid of.
“A stranger won’t understand. Even if we leave, our parents are here, our friends are here. It’s not like the concerns will magically vanish. Our entire lives are rooted in this place, and if it’s not us who are under threat, then it’s all of our loved ones,” she explains.
The election results, however, which came weeks after the area was shelled with rockets yet again, sowed doubt in her mind. “We don’t have to live here,” she says. “It’s an active choice, and one that I get more and more hesitant about with time.”
Even before the coronavirus outbreak, the sense of communal strength was starting to crack. “People are just exhausted,” Batan-Meiri shares. “We don’t know what to tell our kids anymore, which excuses to pull from the hat this time. Even we have our mental limits.”
NO ALERTING SIRENS
Roughly 65,000 people live in the Gaza Envelope communities,
MAY 14 • 2020 | 33 according to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. But hundreds of thousands more live within the missile range, including more than 220,000 in the coastal city of Ashdod, and over 145,000 in the city of Ashkelon, located merely 10 miles from the Gaza Strip border.
“You could almost say that the corona crisis has added insult to injury,” says Sapir Fischer, who moved from Sderot to Ashkelon a few years ago. Not seeing many people on the street is one thing, she says, “but at least during escalation times we can still hang out with friends or visit our families.”
Her 5-year-old daughter understands why she can’t go outside to play. “She’s used to it,” Fischer says with a smile, “but now I also have to explain to her why we can’t see grandma or go to kindergarten.”
Batan-Meiri shares the same feelings. The coronavirus outbreak was able to catch even her off-guard. “Give me rockets over corona any day,” she laughs. “At least that’s a crisis we’ve learned how to masterfully manage.”
While neither Fischer nor Batan-Meiri have plans to leave the area, Braude-Amitai is more hesitant. Today, with two small daughters, she’s no longer certain of the life she chose for them and herself.
“We grew up on the notion that what we’re doing is, in fact, the new Zionism,” she says. “But when my partner tells me none of this is worth my fear, my anxiety, I don’t know what to answer him. Could be that he’s right?
“We’ve built our home here; our daughters were born here,” she adds, as a tear starts running down her cheek. “But if another siren goes off now, in the midst of all this, I don’t know what I’ll do. I love this area to death — but I wouldn’t want this metaphor to become reality.”
Artistic notecards keep people connected and fi ght COVID-19. The Art of a Handwritten Note
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Jodi Beals
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Jodi Beals describes herself as an energetic people person with a commitment to career, community and hands-on artistry. That explains how she came up with the idea for her latest project — note cards.
“I love art, and I painted a colorful heart design with acrylics on canvas,” Beales told the Jewish News.
Although Beals has lived in Chicago for almost eight years and works as a business development director for Groupon, she decided to return to West Bloomfield to social distance near family, remotely completing full-time job responsibilities. At the same time, she decided to turn her colorful painting of heart designs into stationery that can connect others one-to-one, bring in extra income and raise funds for the CDC Foundation, which supports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in combating COVID-19.
“I had the design transferred to cardstock to be used for postcards or multi-purpose cards to be mailed on birthdays, as invitations or simply notes that send messages of love at a time when we can’t be together,” she said.
Beals will donate 20 percent of proceeds to the CDC Foundation.
“My interest in art began when I was a little girl visiting my great-grandfather Abraham Lack,” Beals, 36, recalled. “He was a wonderful artist who began this hobby in his 80s, and his walls were covered with landscapes and still lifes.”
Impressed with what he’d done, Beals tried artistry of her own. “I turned to the abstract for some different kinds of images, and my downtown apartment walls display my designs that I think provide a contemporary decor.”
Beals attended Hillel Day School and West Bloomfield High School before going on to graduate from Michigan State University, where she majored in communication. She had her bat mitzvah at the synagogue now known as Congregation Beth Ahm and joined in activities with the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
“I have almost 3,000 friends on Facebook, and so many have been responsive to my postings about these cards,” Beals said. “I’m reconnecting with people I haven’t talked to in a long time, and I’m so glad that they want to support this project.”
The cards come in packages of 50 without envelopes and cost $30. They can be ordered by calling Beals at her customized phone number, 866.REDHAIR, or sending her an email at 866.REDHAIR@gmail.com. Payments can be made through PayPal or Venmo.
“Orders for these cards have brought me a special bonus,” Beals said. “Delivering nearby orders allows me some fresh air. I leave the packages on porches so there’s no person-to-person contact. The person-to-person connections are meant for the handwritten cards.”
COURTESY OF RONNY GREENBERG
DARIO ACOSTA
Virtual Kaddish San Francisco opera musicians join forces to offer online music. Ronny Greenberg Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen
JULIE SMITH YOLLES CONTRIBUTING WRITER A few days before Passover, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen and Ronny Michael Greenberg were talking on the phone about gluten-free matzah, charoset and brisket recipes for their upcoming remote seders. The two friends live near each other in San Francisco and met through the San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellowship.
Greenberg, 31, is a pianist and opera coach with the San Francisco Opera. Cohen, 26, is a freelance opera singer. Both say their Jewish upbringings forged their career paths and led to their most recent collaboration — a virtual performance of French composer Maurice Ravel’s “Kaddish.”
“When Aryeh and I first met, we just bonded musically and culturally, and this collaboration is embracing who we are as Jews right now,” says Greenberg, who attended Jewish elementary school in Montreal. He grew up speaking fluent Hebrew, French and English, and he took classes in Italian and German in high school. “That and learning songs and prayers taught by my Hebrew teachers were an integral component to my vocal coaching and collaborative piano performances.”
The Kaddish piece is the second in a new virtual series he created during the pandemic called “Songs from a Distance.” “Because it’s a very somber piece, we thought it would fit the tone of the world we’re living in right now,” said Cohen, a countertenor whose fiancée grew up in Kalamazoo, while he grew up in Brooklyn and aspired to be a cantor/rabbi. “It’s a complicated piece, and it’s a whole new process of figuring out this new ‘normal’ medium of putting together an electronic performance while not being in the same physical space.”
Cohen and Greenberg rehearsed over Zoom. Cohen recorded his vocals a capella in his apartment and sent it to Greenberg, who played the accompaniment on his baby grand piano in his home recording studio. Greenberg then edited the two parts together.
“This piece is very improvisatory, in line with the cantorial tradition of having a flow and cadence,” said Cohen, who sang the Kaddish at his grandfather’s funeral last year.
To view their performance, search for “Kaddish by Maurice Ravel” on YouTube.
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MORE BROADCAST AND STREAMING SHOWS TO EASE THE QUARANTINE
The Wrong Missy, an original Netflix film, began streaming on May 13. Capsule plot: A man (David Spade) accidentally invites a crazy blind date from his past (Lauren Lapkus) who shares the same name as the woman of his dreams to his work retreat. Missy was made by Adam Sandler’s production company and Sandler’s wife, Jackie Sandler, 45, has a small role in the film. The director is Tyler Spindel, 30ish. A little research disclosed that Spindel is Sandler’s nephew. Sad to say, Spindel, a Harvard grad, doesn’t have a great track record. He directed the universally panned Father of the Year, a 2018 Netflix comedy (also starring David Spade). He also directed Deported, a 2020 comedy that went straight to video. Maybe he’ll make Uncle Adam proud with Missy.
Seberg is an Amazon Prime original film that had a short theater run in 2019. It received mixed reviews. It will begin streaming on Amazon Prime on May 15. It stars Kristen Stewart as actress Jean Seberg (1938-1979). In 1957, director Otto Preminger plucked her from obscurity (a small city Iowa girl) and cast her as Joan of Arc in the film St. Joan. She got bad reviews as Joan, but re-established her career in France, where she was praised for her film work, especially in the “New Wave” classic Breathless (1960). In 1962, she wed Romain Gary (1914-80), a very important writer (novels, essays) who was also a WWII hero and a diplomat (He’s played by Yvan Attal, 55). The film focuses on the well-documented campaign by the FBI (c.1970-75) to destroy her career because she supported African American organizations, including the Black Panthers.
ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox will “join hands” and broadcast a onehour special program on May 16 (starts 8 p.m.). It’s called Graduate Together: America Honors the Class of 2020. The COVID-19 virus has forced the cancellation of most high school graduation ceremonies. This ad-free special will honor the new graduates. It will include videos from students and teachers as well as video greetings by many famous people (including Broadway and film star Ben Platt, 26). President Obama will deliver a commencement
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FJA 20TH ANNIVERSARY GALA 8 PM, MAY 18 Virtual event to celebrate 20 years of Frankel Jewish Academy and 18 graduating years of students. Ross and Samantha Partrich will be honored. Live on Facebook at 8 p.m. More information at frankelja.org/gala.
TOUR MASADA NOON-1PM, MAY 19 Temple Shir Shalom offers a live, virtual tour of Israel with Rabbi Daniel Schwartz and Israeli tour guide Beni Levin. Learn the history and stories of Masada on this one-hour guided tour on Zoom. To learn more or register, call 248-737-8700 or email audrey@shirshalom.org.
EMPLOYMENT TRENDS 8 PM, MAY 19 Jewish Working Women’s Network and NEXTGen Detroit present “NEXTWork: Employment Trends During and After COVID-19” on Zoom at 8 p.m. Join a panel of young adult employment experts, Ryan Landau, Jason Charnas and Johannah Schiffer, for a discussion and Q&A moderated by Jess Katz. Register at jewishdetroit.org.
MAY AT THE WELL MAY 20 “Fireside Chat with Professor Barbara McQuade.” She is going to chat about legal COVID-19-related questions and federal vs. state laws as well as what happens with elections. Details will be posted on The Well’s Facebook page.
YIDDISH PROGRAMMING National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene brings the stage to global audiences throughout May with virtual programming. Audiences can learn Yiddish in weekly lessons on Tuesday afternoons, starting on May 19. Launched in May with Zalmen Mlotek’s Living Room Concert, Folksbiene! LIVE is an online celebration of Yiddish culture, featuring livestreamed theater, American Jewish performers, concerts, lectures, talks and other events. Catch up on past
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You’ll see a lot more of Platt in his Netflix special, Ben Platt Live From Radio City Music Hall. It was filmed last year and begins streaming on May 20. Platt, a Grammy, Emmy and Tony winner, performs before a full orchestra. His guest stars include two actresses who can really sing: Beanie Feldstein, 26, and Zoey Deutch, also 26. Check out, on YouTube, Platt and Deutch singing together a “Yom Kippur theme song” that Platt wrote (James Corden show, 2019. Just search for “Yom Kippur theme song”).
episodes at nytf.org/live. Each episode is also broadcast on Folksbiene’s Facebook page at facebook.com/folksbiene.
PUBLIC PROGRAMMING Yiddish Book Center is online with virtual public programming: talks, presentations and readings, accessible through Facebook and Zoom and posted on the center’s website. For more information and links to register for specific events, visit yiddishbookcenter.org/events.
CHAMBER MUSIC The Chamber Music Society makes available a broadcast on YouTube of a concert by pianist Aaron Diehl (originally done on May 1). Go to youtube.com/ watch?v=1hlOWJ5650.
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RANDY
BALAMUT, 51 formerly of Southfield, passed away on April 3, 2020, at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz.
He leaves behind his wife, Jenny; three children, Hannah, Marni and Zane (Daisy); and a granddaughter, Alexcia.
Randy was the loved son of Sharon (Dave Moran) Balamut and the late Michael Balamut. He is survived by his brothers, David and Todd; nieces and nephews, Jacob, Casey, Noah, Jordan and Shayna; aunts and uncles, Madeline Rosenfield, Lois (Nat) Fishman, Nate (Nancy) Goldberg; and many loving cousins and friends.
MORRIS “MORREY”
BEIDER, 97, a longtime resident of Oak Park and Waterford, died May 6, 2020, in Traverse City.
He proudly served in the United States Navy, enlisting in 1943.
He taught industrial arts and drivers’ training at Ferndale High School for 28 years and continued serving as the golf coach for some years after his retirement in 1983. As a strong advocate for teachers and the teaching profession, he was active for many years in the Ferndale and National Education Associations.
He was the devoted husband and, ultimately, caregiver of Shirley Harriet Greenspan Beider, his wife of 72 years.
Mr. Beider is survived by sons and daughters-in-law, Andy and Libby Beider, and c. 1943
Perry and Alida DeCoster Beider; daughter and sonin-law, Felica and Dennis Barnes; grandchildren, Cantor Marla (Newell) Bentley, Rachel (David Woolston), Shoshana (Aaron) Freedman, Brittany (Brandon) Morgan, Christopher, Brandon and Louis Beider, Calvin, Sakara and William Barnes; great-grandchildren, Milani, Hannah, Jared, Matthew, Ariana, Raejean, Jamal and Noah; sisters-in-law, Lorraine Levin and Rosalie Greenspan; a host of close relatives and friends.
HAROLD “HAL”
CHERNY, 82, of West Bloomfield, died on April 24, 2020. FLORA “FLO” CHERNY, 79, of West Bloomfield died April 27, 2020.
A love story on another level involves 55 years of marriage and being each other’s soulmates. Two hearts beat as one. Within three days of Harold’s passing, Flora, who suffered from dementia and was completely unaware of his passing, also passed away. She could not live in this world without him. She knew they had to be together.
Harold “Hal” Cherny was born on March 10, 1938, in Sokolow Podlaski, Poland, as Hersz Czerniewicz. His parents were Chaja Hochberg Czerniewicz and Sigmund Czerniewicz. When WWII started, Sigmund was recalled for active army duty and the Germans entered the city on Sept. 8, 1939.
After the men in the town over age 14 were shot (including one of Chaja’s brothers), Chaja took her 1-year-old son and ran into the forest to hide. She tried to bring her mother and sister (who had twins) along, but they decided to stay and were murdered on Sept. 22, 1942, at Treblinka, when the ghetto was liquidated. Remembering what her husband told her about the Germans, she traveled east to seek refuge in the Soviet Union. After a month dodging bombs, the Germans and trying to avoid starvation, they were captured by the Soviet army. They were sent to a series of forced labor camps in Siberia, where Chaja worked hard and gave her rations to her young son.
Their nightmare ended in May 1945 when Chaja and Hal were expatriated to Poland. Finding no family left in their hometown and fearing her husband was dead, they were placed in Reichenbach, East Germany, where Chaja obtained work in a restaurant and was able to keep an eye on Hal (who spoke Yiddish and Russian). Unbeknownst to them, Sigmund survived the war and hired a private investigator, using information from the International Red Cross, to smuggle Chaja and Hal out of East Germany in 1946. A series of displaced persons camps followed until the family, along with new brother, Seymour, born in West Germany in 1948, were able to emigrate to the United States in 1949. At Ellis Island, the name was changed to Cherny and the family moved to Detroit.
The couple are survived by their daughters, Terri (Mark) Rotenberg, Marci (Jeff) Graff, Lauri (Dr. Jeffrey) Schwalb; grandchildren, Dr. Chad, Cameron and Chloe Schwalb, Jared and Olivia Rotenberg, Ryan, Rachel (Walter) Calle Guerrero; sisters and brothers-in-law, Sandi (Cherny) and Dr. Joel Felsenfeld, Fran (Cherny) and Jeff Israel; sisters-in-law, Barbara Snitz and Karen Cherny; brother-inlaw, Aaron “Butch” Stern.
They were preceded in death by brothers/brothersin-law, Seymour “Sy” Cherny and Stan Snitz; sister/sisterin-law, Roz Stern.
A private graveside service was held. Contributions may be made to the Holocaust Memorial Center, Parkinson’s Foundation, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation or the Alzheimer’s Association. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
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ROBERT MITCHELL
CUTLER, 93, of Southfield, died May 2, 2020.
Born in New York City and formerly of Philadelphia and Novi, Mr. Cutler was a successful engineer in aerospace and hospital management engineering.
Mr. Cutler was the beloved husband of the late Jean Cutler. He is survived by his daughters and son-in-law, Ardith Cutler, and Jodi Lyn Cutler and Kip Foley; Jean’s children, Mark Dubrinsky and Barbara Maxwell, Susan and Tim Mcallister, and Shari and Larry Friedman; 10 grandchildren; one great-grandchild.
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Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to American Heart Association, 27777 Franklin Road, Suite 1150, Southfield, MI 48034, heart.org. For more information, visit irakaufman.com. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
FLORENCE
DAVIDSON, 86, of West Bloomfield, died May 7, 2020.
She is survived by her children, Nancy Lewis, Martin (Helene) Davidson and Julie (Brian) Papo; grandchildren, Marla (Mike Koenigsberg) Lewis, Jaymie Lewis, Jennifer Davidson, Laura Davidson, Amanda Papo and Josh Papo; sister, Betty (Louis) Chernoff; special friend, Richard Zirkin; nieces, Cathy (the late Rick) Slavik, Joan (Robert) Epstein; many other loving nieces, nephews, family members and friends, and her team of wonderful caregivers.
Mrs. Davidson was the beloved wife of the late Paul Davidson; daughter of the late George and the late Bessie Spector; sister of the late Ronald (Heather) Spector; sister-in-law of the late Rose (Sanford) Rubin.
Interment was held at Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to Hadassah, to the Jewish Hospice and Chaplaincy Network or to the Henry Ford Hospice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.
JOAN ERMAN, 69, of Farmington Hills, died May 4, 2020.
She is survived by her beloved husband, Michael “Mickey” Erman; daughter, Elissa Erman; sister and brotherin-law, Madeline “Maddie” (Sidney) Forbes; many loving nieces, nephews, other family members and friends.
She was the sister of the late Anita Rogers.
Interment was held at Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to the Michigan Humane Society or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.
DR. IRA J.
FIRESTONE, 78, of Bloomfield Hills, died May 7, 2020.
He was a professor of psychology at Wayne State University for almost 50 years. He was also an avid stamp collector, an opera lover and a dedicated volunteer at the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Bloomfield Township Public Library.
Dr. Firestone is survived by his wife of 46 years, Joan Firestone; daughters and son-in-law, Beatrix and Steven Stern, and Liana Lane; son and daughter-in-law, Ari Firestone and Delquin Gong; grandchildren, Abigail and Helen Stern, Taryn and Bryce Lane, and Fenix and Helix Firestone.
He was the loving brother of the late Helene Salzman.
Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Ave., Detroit, MI 48202, dia. org; Gleaners Community Food Bank, Oakland Distribution Center, P.O. Box 33321, Detroit, MI 48232-5321, gcfb.org; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
GEORGE J.
FULKERSON, of Bloomfield Hills, died May 3, 2020.
He was the beloved husband of the late Ruth Jean Fulkerson; son of the late George and the late Octavia Fulkerson; dear father of Tavi Fulkerson-Hampton and Derek Joseph Fulkerson; loving grandfather of Jeffrey Allen Fulkerson and Georgia Ruth Hampton; devoted brother of seven brothers and four sisters.
Obituary and condolences may be found at lynchfuneraldirectors.com.
JONATHAN
GOURWITZ, 39, of Birmingham, died May 2, 2020.
He is survived by his beloved wife, Sarah Gourwitz; loving parents, Donna (Dr. Glenn) Gradis and David (Pam) Gourwitz; sisters and brothers-in-law, Jennifer Sisk, Jillian and Jeremy Livingstone, and Michael Gradis; adoring nephews and nieces, Devon Sisk, Dylan Sisk, Dalton Sisk, Olivia Livingstone, Cashton Livingstone, Caelan Livingstone, Kolton Livingstone and Kyler Livingstone.
Contributions may be made to the Jewish Hospice and Chaplaincy Network or to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Association. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.
FRIEDELL
KERT-WOLSON, 91, of West Bloomfield, died May 3, 2020.
She was an eighth-grade English literature teacher in Detroit for her entire career.
Mrs. Kert-Wolson was very involved with her children and grandchildren. She also volunteered for many years at the Holocaust Memorial Center and the Waterford Historical Society.
She is survived by her children, Merritt Wolson, Toby (Julie) Wolson and Charlene Wolson; grandchildren, Rachel Wolson Stone, Erin Wolson, Max Wolson (fiancée, Sarah Friedman), Sam (Christina) Wolson, Juleigh Wolson and Adam Wolson; great-grandchild, Fern Stone; sister and brother-in-law, Glorine (Norman) Katanick; sister-in-law, Corrine Kert; many loving nieces, nephews, other family members and friends.
Mrs. Kert-Wolson was the beloved wife of the late Leonard Wolson; dear daughter of the late Charles and the late Fern Kert; sister of the late Harry Kert; daughter-in-law of the late Sam Wolson, the late Helen Wolson, the late Minnie Wolson; sister-in-law of the
late Rosaline and the late Alex Zimmerman, the late Dorothy Pleasant.
The family would like to thank Claude and Daniela Marit of Ahava Senior Care for the excellent love and care given.
Interment was held at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Contributions may be made to the Holocaust Memorial Center, Ahava Senior Care, Elizabeth Lake Animal Rescue or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.
BLAKE KING, 27, of West Bloomfield, died May 3, 2020.
He is survived by his parents, Eric King and Loren King. He was the devoted and caring brother of Sean King and Jaden King; loving grandson of Marcia King (the late Isadore King) and Peg Stacey; uncle extraordinaire to Anais King. He is also survived by many aunts, uncles, cousins and countless friends, including Melissa, Chandler and Camryn Strong.
Interment was held at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.
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DR. DAVID LEVADI, 88, of West Bloomfield, died May 7, 2020.
He was a longtime member of Keter Torah Synagogue.
A dedicated and compassionate psychiatrist, Dr. Levadi was loved by his patients. He was also a nationally ranked chess player, and he loved gardening and dogs.
Dr. Levadi is survived by his wife of more than 54 years, Laurette Levadi; daughter and son-in-law, Kadima and Isaac Benezra of West Bloomfield; brother and sister-in-law, Victor and Barbara Levadi; grandchildren, Solomon Benezra, Rebecca Benezra, Jonathan Benezra, Lauren and Ron Tritt, Michael and Sophia Benezra; great-grandchildren, Milo, Eve, Yitzhak, Sarah, Shoshana, Esther, Adina; treasured in-laws, loving nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends from Michigan, Atlanta, Montreal, Paris and Maryland.
He was the loving father of the late Ari Levadi.
Contributions may be made to Keter Torah Synagogue, 5480 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323. Service and interment were held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
DEBORAH LEVENSON, 68, of Delray Beach, Fla., died April 28, 2020.
She is survived by her daughters and son-in-law, Sara Thomson, and Rebecca and Noel Rollins; grandchildren, Lily Thomson and Mikayala Thomson; sister and brother-in-law, Stephanie and Bruce Rudolph; nieces, Nichole and Rochelle KaplanRudolph; great-nephew and great-niece, Jaxson and Vivian Kaplan-Rudolph.
Mrs. Levenson was the devoted daughter of the late Roslyn and the late Meyer Kravitz.
A memorial service will be held in Detroit at a later date. Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
IRVING
LOPATIN, 94, of West Bloomfield, died May 3, 2020.
He was born in Kremenets, Ukraine (then a part of Poland), the youngest of three children; he emigrated to Canada at the age of 3.
He grew up in Windsor, Ontario, and served in the Canadian army in WWII. After his marriage in 1952 to his wife of 67 years, Dorothy Simon, he moved to Detroit. Irv was a respected architect and owned his own firm for many years. His gregarious nature and wit served him well in both his professional life and volunteer activities.
He was a past president of both B’nai B’rith Oak Woods Lodge and Congregation B’nai Moshe.
In addition to his loving wife, Dorothy, Mr. Lopatin will be sorely missed by his children, Judy, Donna and Jerry (MJ); his granddaughters, Rachel, Jennifer and Anna; his brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Beverly and Tom Klimko, Bitsy and Rabbi Milton Simon, and Rene Lopatin; his nieces and nephews; his dedicated care
givers over the past year.
He was the brother of the late Leonard Lopatin and the late Charlotte (the late Gordon) Strosberg.
Interment was at Adat Shalom Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Congregation B’nai Moshe, 6800 Drake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, bnaimoshe.org; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
AUDREY
MORRIS, 91, of Huntington Woods, died May 5, 2020.
She is survived by her daughter, Lynn Beckerman; son and daughterin-law, Jon and Cyndy Morris; grandchildren, David Shogan and Sarah Kubacki, Robert and Rasna Beckerman, Emily Beckerman and Ryan Decker, Adam and Betsy Seltzer, Rachel Morris and Braden Leier, and Jennifer Morris; great-grandchildren, Greyson Seltzer, Ari Beckerman and Elliott Decker; sister, Maxine Brickman; many loving nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Morris was the beloved wife for 62 years of the late Kenneth Morris; the cherished mother of the late Robert Morris; the loving mother-in-law of the late Arnold Beckerman; the dear sister-in-law of the late Frank Brickman, and the late Evelyn and the late Milton London.
Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Alzheimer’s Association Greater Michigan Chapter, 25200 Telegraph Road, Suite 100, Southfield, MI 48033, alz. org/gmc; Yad Ezra, 2850 W. 11 Mile Road, Berkley, MI 48072, yadezra.org; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
SHERWIN
NEWMAN, 77, of Farmington Hills, died April 30, 2020.
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Mr. Newman was the beloved son of the late Charles J. Newman and the late Libbie Newman Zalenko; the loving brother of the late Sanford and the late Miriam Newman.
Interment was at Adat Shalom Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Adat Shalom Synagogue, 29901 Middlebelt, Farmington Hills, MI 48334,
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BENJAMIN
SCHECTER, 94, of West Bloomfield, died May 4, 2020.
A World War II veteran of the Army Air Corps, Mr. Schecter was the last surviving member of the Display Guild. He started at the age of 25 and worked up till his retirement at age 88.
He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Linda and Lenny Brett of West Bloomfield; sons and daughter-in-law, Jeff and Sandra Schecter, Steve Schecter; sister-in-law, Vivian Schecter; grandchildren, Rachel Brett and fiancé, Alex Rabin, Sara Brett; many dear nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
Mr. Schecter was the dear brother and brother-in-law of the late Nate and the late Bernice Schecter, the late Bernice and the late Jack Tomarin, and the late Larry Schecter.
Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Service and interment were held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
CORRECTIONS
The obituary for Sara Bilander (April 23) should have indicated that she was a Holocaust survivor.
The obituary for Miriam Konstantin (April 16) should have indicated that she was the dear sister-in-law of th late Sylvia (the late Maurice “Red”) Stotzky.
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The third anniversary of a restaurant in many instances is usually, in my reasoning, only a two-year step away from a five-year successful endeavor … with all the major holdbacks taken care of.
However, in the case of the new Caucus Club in Downtown Detroit’s Penobscot Building on Congress Avenue, it might not have been necessary … with its third owners, George and Alicia Sboukis, ahead of the game by being previous partners in another dining venture and knowing what to look for.
Intelligence also plays a large role in a successful takeover of an eatery … In the case of the Caucus Club, it may not be needed because its highly prestigious presence is still considered among the dining jewels of Downtown Detroit dining.
And George being his own executive chef plays a major role in the keeping and, if needed, even betterment of those menu items that might be even more enjoyed, although this may not be necessary … The Caucus Club has always been held with so much high esteem.
Its dining items have never been with anything but simple ingredients, and prepared and presented with only high acclaim … Modest entrees such as pan-seared halibut, osso bucco, prime rib, baby back ribs, beautiful steaks, etc. have always been of the highest quality and much elegant esteem, together with other Caucus Club dining notables … French onion soup, tableside Caesar salad, special steak cuts, etc.
Caucus Club hours when open again are seven days … Monday through Thursday, lunch menu 11 a.m.-10 p.m., cocktail hours, 3-6 p.m., dinner menu 6-10 p.m.; Friday, lunch Danny Raskin Senior Columnist On third anniversary, Caucus Club is looking forward to reopening when it can. VIA CAUCUSCLUB.COM
menu 11 a.m.-10 p.m., cocktail hours, 3-6, dinner menu 6-11 p.m.; Saturday, private events 11 a.m.-4 p.m., dinner menu 5-11 p.m.; Sunday dinner menu, 3-7 p.m. …Live music entertainment is Friday and Saturday from 7 p.m.
REARVIEW MIRROR …
Harry Harris’ rendition of his tune, “Put On A Smile,” at the 24 Karat Club was worth the price of the entire evening … When Harry was off stage, the first partner that Jimmy Durante ever had went around the club selling greeting cards to customers.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE …
Two fellows, one old and one young, are pushing their cart around the supermarket and collide … The elder gent says to the young man, “Sorry, just looking for my wife and paying no attention to where I was going.”
The young gent says, “That’s OK. I’m looking for my wife too and getting a little desperate.”
George and Alicia Sboukis
The old fellow says, “Well, maybe I can help you find her. What does she look like?”
The young man says, “Well, she is 27 years old, tall, with long red hair, long legs and wearing shorts. What does your wife look like?”
“It doesn’t matter,” says the old gent. “Let’s look for yours!”
CONGRATS … To Michael Hermanoff on his birthday … To Warren Pierce on his birthday.
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Looking Back
From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org
Walter Reuther: A Friend to Jews
Fifty years ago, legendary president of the United Automobile
Workers of America (UAW) Walter P. Reuther died in a plane crash near Pellston, Michigan, on May 9, 1970. Reuther’s funeral in Detroit was a massive event, attended by thousands of people, including UAW members, American labor leaders, officials from nations around the world, U.S. congressmen and senators and many other dignitaries.
In Metro Detroit today, the name of Walter Reuther refers to an expressway in the northern suburbs, an academic library at Wayne State University and a middle school in Rochester. There are schools named after Reuther in Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Most people will not, however, know anything about the man behind the name, or that Reuther was a friend to Detroit Jews.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Reuther was the most prominent labor leader in America and an influential statesman. Reuther led the UAW when it boasted 1.5 million members, during an era when nearly four of every 10 American workers belonged to a union.
Under his leadership, UAW members became the elite of the world’s industrial workers, and the union was a powerful force for social justice, civil rights and the fight against anti-Semitism. Moreover, unlike the recent history of the UAW, during the Reuther era, there was never the slightest hint of scandal among the top officials of the UAW. Reuther himself was known to be incorruptible.
Reuther is cited on 196 pages in the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History. He was first mentioned in 1937, just as he was beginning his career in the UAW. By this time, Reuther had married a Jewish Detroiter, May Wolf, who was a teacher and labor activist in her own right (May died in the plane crash with Walter).
As president, Reuther appointed many Jews to important positions within the UAW. For example, one of his closest advisors and friends was Vice President Irving Bluestone. For another, Reuther asked the esteemed Shaarey Zedek Rabbi Morris Addler to head the UAW Public Review Board, which is a nonpartisan, independent citizen organization that serves as a mediator for disputes between UAW members and their administrators. In Metro Detroit, Reuther was often a guest speaker at local Jewish organizations, such as the Workman’s Circle, the Jewish Federation and various synagogues.
Reuther was also a staunch supporter of Israel and provided substantial support for Histadrut and the Jewish National Fund, to name only two initiatives. As reported in the Sept. 2, 1955, issue of the JN, he visited Israel in 1955. When asked for comment upon his arrival, Reuther immediately spoke to Israel’s right to defend itself: “The people of Israel have a right and a moral obligation to stand up and fight for it [the nation].”
In 1968, the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel honored Reuther with the Weizmann Award in the Sciences and Humanities and established the Walter P. Reuther Chair of Research in the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy in his honor. The Chair still exists today.
By his death, Walter Reuther was a famous American. The next time you drive on the Reuther Expressway, you’ll know why it bears his name. Want to learn more? Go to the DJN Foundation archives, available for free at www.djnfoundation.org. Mike Smith
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