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November 20 • 2008

MI

Our Hour Of Fame

Detroit Jewish history to be TV focus.

Keri Guten Cohen
Story Development Editor

D

ocumentary film-
maker David Grubin
spoke last week at the
JCC Jewish Book Fair in West
Bloomfield about his award-
winning series The Jewish
Americans, broadcast earlier
this year on Detroit Public TV,
Channel 56 (DPTV).
Dan Alpert, DPTV COO and station manager,
At a dinner in the Janice
Rich Homberg, DPTV president and general
Charach Gallery prior to
manager, local filmmaker Sue Marx.
Grubin's public talk, DPTV
announced its Jewish
Programming Initiative (JPI),
the first in a planned series of projects Service] for its national audience:'
that will explore and celebrate the cul- Strome said. "We clearly heard and
ture and heritage of the many ethnic
have given much thought to the strong
groups in Metro Detroit.
recommendation that we localize
The heart of the project is a 60-
the Jewish American experience for
minute documentary, tentatively titled
southeast Michigan with the same
Detroit Remember When: The Jewish
high standards."
Community, to be produced with
Rich Homberg, DPTV president
DPTV and local filmmakers Sue Marx and general manager, said, "This bold
and Allyson Fink Rockwell.
and dynamic project is designed to
Through interviews, archival photos, engage people of all ages, including
home movies and conversations, the
your children and grandchildren, to
film will give historical background on reveal untold stories and to educate
the Jewish community's beginnings
and celebrate the history, culture and
in the late 1700s and trace its growing
contributions made by our Detroit
importance through Detroit's boom
Jewish Americans."
years to the present, highlighting its
Homberg says he sees such DPTV
impact on the region.
projects as helping to connect Detroit's
The project, estimated to cost
cultural communities. He announced
$472,000, also will include in later
at the fundraising dinner that $50,000
phases an interactive Web site, 12
has been raised so far, including a
Detroit Jewish "history minutes" to air
substantial gift from the Bruce H. and
during DPTV station breaks and on
Rosalie N. Rosen Family Foundation.
the Web site, kiosks in 10 locations to
The Jewish Historical Society of
gather and share stories, a teen story-
Michigan, the Jewish Federation
collecting project and various educa-
of Metropolitan Detroit, the Jewish
tional components.
Community Relations Council, the
DPTV's JPI advisory committee is
Jewish Community Center and the
headed by board member Stephen
Detroit Jewish News are helping DPTV
Strome and includes Steve Harris,
gain knowledge of the community and
Sue Kaufman, Barbara Kratchman,
gather information.
Jim Michelson, Rosalie Rosen, Dulcie
"The Jewish Community Relations
Rosenfeld, Lois Shaevsky, Phyllis
Council welcomes Detroit Public
Strome and Mary Lou Zieve.
TVVs Jewish Programming Initiative,"
For DPTV, one impetus to launch
said Todd Mendel, JCRC president.
its Jewish Programming Initiative was
"It will be an important vehicle
Grubin's Jewish Americans series.
through which the entire community
"Viewers contacted us by telephone,
can learn about our local Jewish com-
mail, e-mail and individually to
munity's history, culture and contribu-
express how pleased and proud they
tions to the fabric of Detroit and the
were that such an educational and
region. This is an important project
enlightening documentary had been
for our Jewish community's and the
produced by PBS [Public Broadcasting region's past, present and futur' Ell

