contents Quick Click … Oct. 27-Nov. 2, 2016 | 25 Tishrei-1 Cheshvan 5777 | Vol. CL, No. 13 From the Davidson Digital Archive 30 Around Town ......18, 20, 22 Arts & Life ........................47 Auto ..................................28 Business ...........................30 Calendar...........................24 Editor’s Picks ...................52 Marketplace ....................62 Metro ................................12 Moments ..........................59 Obituaries ........................66 Out To Eat ........................56 Real Estate .......................34 Sports ...............................46 Synagogue List ...............36 Torah Portion ..................37 Viewpoints.........................5 Columnists Ryan Fishman ..................57 Sy Manello .........................5 Danny Raskin ..................58 12 A SHABBAT LIGHTS Shabbat: Friday, Oct. 28, 6:12 p.m. Shabbat Ends: Saturday, Oct. 29, 7:13 p.m.* 8 30 Shop Elite: 38 8 New Torah: Or Chadash memorializes rabbi. JN Online Offerings: Tikkun Olam Responses to Rabbi Starr’s sermon. Mr. Alan’s plans to grow. 12 Mike Smith Detroit Jewish News Foundation Archivist Shabbat: Friday, Nov. 4, 6:03 p.m. Shabbat Ends: Saturday, Nov. 5, 7:04 p.m. * Times according to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah calendar. ON THE COVER: Our Biographies was created by Jozef Szajna while he was a prisoner at Buchenwald. Created on a piece of brown paper, the images of prisoners are actually fingerprints. COVER DESIGN: Michelle Sheridan 38 Health & Wellness • Breast cancer decisions • Genetic testing update • Art helps fi ght the blues The Detroit Jewish News (USPS 275-520) is published every Thursday at 29200 Northwestern Highway, #110, Southfield, Michigan. Periodical postage paid at Southfield, Michigan, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: send changes to: Detroit Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Hwy., #110, Southfield, MI 48034. • NCJW Women of Vision • Heart2Hart • Higher Hope’s Thanksgiving Drive s an avid reader of the Jewish News, as well as a cruiser of the Davidson Digital Archive, I have read quite a few stories about a certain organization in Metro Detroit: Yad Ezra. For the past 26 years, this food pantry has provided kosher food for those who are hungry in our com- munity. I wondered — How did Yad Ezra get its start? The Jan. 5, 1990, issue of the JN provided me with the answer. The headline to the story was quite simple: “Kosher Food Pantry to Open.” It would be one of 80 food pantries or soup kitchens in Oakland County where, in 1990, an estimated 70,000 people needed some sort of food assistance; as many as 2,000 Jews were included in this estimate. Yad Ezra was expected to open in February of that year, and it would have one unique feature that set it apart from the other 80 pantries; it would provide kosher meals to those Jews who needed help. It is sad to think there is still hunger in a rich nation like the United States. Yad Ezra is still fulfilling its original mission, and the Detroit Jewish community is the better for it. * OUR JN MISSION The Jewish News aspires to communicate news and opinion that ’s useful, engaging, enjoyable and unique. It strives to reflec t the full range of diverse viewpoints while also advocating positions that strengthen Jewish unit y and continuit y. We desire to create and maintain a challenging, caring, enjoyable work environment that encourages creativit y and innovation. We acknowledge our role as a responsible, responsive member of the communit y. Being competitive, we must always strive to be the most respec ted, outstanding Jewish communit y publication in the nation. Our rewards are informed, educated readers, ver y satisfied adver tisers, contented employees and profitable growth. Want to learn more? Go to the DJN Foundation archives, available for free at www.djnfoundation.org. October 27 • 2016 3