b Nobody lipur
our
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ing, there are far too few Jews to
form a youth group.
Drs. Cary and Carol Gottlieb
don't plan on forfeiting the battle
for Jewish continuity, however.
The couple moved to Marquette
from Oak Park four years ago.
They joined Temple Beth Shalom
in Ishpeming and participate in
Jewish book-club meetings,
which regularly draw anywhere
from five to 12 people. Monthly
religious services, led by HUC
student rabbis, are held at the 40-
year-old temple.
The Gottliebs have no delu-
sions about raising their 2-year-
old daughter, Hannah, Jewish.
They know it won't be easy. Plans
are to sign her up for religious
school at Beth Shalom. Typical
to UP congregations, the temple
relies on the volunteer efforts of
parent-teachers.
Dating Jewish? Barely possi-
ble, although JUPer young peo-
ple have been known to fall in
love and marry the student rab-
bis who visit.
For exposure to Judaism, par-
ents stress thorough preparation
for bar and bat mitzvah cere-
monies. Far from solely reading
a Torah portion, the children lead
entire services.
Some parents ship their chil-
peeling northward along
a UP highway in August, dren off to Jewish summer
goldenrod and purple camps, and one father in Mar -
chicory grow amid patch- quette sent his son to Israel for
es of Queen Anne's lace. Inden- three months this year.
The Drs. Gottlieb work at Mar-
tations from pulled-up railroad
tracks show the way to yet an- quette General Hospital. Cary is
a pathologist; Carol, a psychia-
other old mining locale.
With a population of 22,000, trist. Like many young, profes-
Marquette is the UP's largest city, sional Jews who move to the UP,
with two hospitals and Northern they came for jobs.
Many of them have become ac-
Michigan .University. Its hilly
downtown offers blocks of stores, tive in civic, academic as well as
a theater, hotel and restaurants. religious affairs. Their outreach
Not surprisingly, the om- is reciprocated by the general
nipresent Cohodas family also community. In Marquette each
made its mark on Marquette and year, an interfaith council spon-
Temple Beth Shalom in nearby sors a Yom Ha'Shoah memori-
Ishpeming. In an informal al. Authors like Elie Wiesel have
chronology, Bill Cohodas, who addressed the crowds. A library
still lives in the area, writes: "My at NMU contains a Holocaust col-
earliest memory of High Holiday lection of books and an exhibit
services in Marquette are from funded by Bill Cohodas.
Similarly, in Sault Ste. Marie,
1920. That year we had services
in the old Eagle's Club building an annual men's benefit raises
money from the general public.
on the third floor.
"... When our daughter, Lynn, Proceeds go toward the religious
was 5 years old (during the school and Israel.
Jews are far from unseen in
1940s), she came home one day
and asked her mother if she could the UP, and yet, the aura of Yid-
join in the Presbyterian Sunday dishkeit is notably absent. To
help, the Lubavitch movement
School with all of her friends.
"It was then we realized we conducts outreach to far-flung
had to do something religiously communities in the UP.
Louis Owen, unlike many a
for our children. We started a re-
ligious school in our home with JUPer, doesn't fly south for the
winter. No less migratory, he rel-
five children ..."
Over the decades, passing on ishes trips with his wife to deso-
Jewish identity from generation late areas north of the UP.
to generation hasn't become any Ironically, this troll-by-birth de-
less challenging. In Houghton- scribes membership in big tem-
Hancock, the high school's only ples of southern Michigan as "an
Jew graduated this year. A sin- alienating experience."
"This place has turned me
gle Jewish boy, a Russian immi-
rno n cl as a Jew. I'm needed here,"
grant, attends thc ;unior hial,
Even in Marquette and Ishpem- he says. "Everybody counts." 0
I don't know. It's guys like me and
my brothers and some others who
keep the shul going so it's conve-
nient for the rest of them, but
they don't give a damn, which
makes me a little upset. But,
there's nothing I can do about it."
The sanctuary of Anshei Knes-
seth, refurbished in the 1950s,
looks new and Torah scrolls in
the ark are well-preserved. But
the eternal light above the ark
has blinked off, and in the
vestibule, an old memorial plaque
lies on its side against the wall.
It came from a synagogue in
Iron River, to the west of Iron
Mountain. That shul closed a
long time ago, he says. Mr. Co-
hodes shrugs and walks outside
to his car.
Driving around town, he points
to a house — the one where he
grew up, raised his sons — the
same one his father lived in and
died in. Beral Cohodes' boys
haven't stayed in Iron Mountain.
They moved to Milwaukee, Wis.
It's larger, more Jewish.
In spite of seeing Judaism
wither in his hometown, Mr. Co-
hodes takes heart in the fact that
seeds of faith were well-planted
in his sons.
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