metro » Rated #1 In Best Purchase Experience in the Midwest 2013 and 2014 continued from page 14 Jeff Stewart Assistant New Car Sales Manager Serving the Community Since 1969 248-636-2736 CONGRATULATIONS GLASSMAN SUBARU A division of Glassman Automotive Group The Cohens of Franklin at Chautauqua in 2008: Sarah, Karen Couf-Cohen, Sophie and Gerry. Serving Our Community For Over 45 Years! 5FMFHSBQI3Et4PVUIýFMEt t 2115240 NEW MERCHANDISE ARRIVING DAILY STONE'S JEWELRY F By running an offer with HipCityDeals, your promotion will be e-mailed to thousands of loyal subscribers who will read about your offer, visit your website, share your business with their friends and follow you on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. 16 November 17 • 2016 2088610 (248) 851-5030 Feature your business with HipCityDeals to acquire quality and eager new customers via our highly-targeted marketing. up in.” Her daughters went to the on-site day camp while she and her husband enjoyed the lectures and other programs. They frequently participated in Jewish programs at the Everett Jewish Life Center and Chabad house. In 2012, they bought a condo at the center of town they rent out when they’re not using it themselves. “We named it BesheRitz, since we felt it was bashert that we purchased it,” Couf-Cohen said. The previous own- ers were named Cohen and they lived the rest of the year in the same Florida retirement community as her father-in- law. Barbara and Paul Goodman of Huntington Woods discovered Chautauqua six years ago while driving home from Boston. They’ve gone back for a week every year since, staying in a condo they reserve almost a year in advance. Barbara Goodman, a retired business consultant, said she enjoys the Jewish programming and the Friday evening lakeside Kabbalat Shabbat services. “Chautauqua is a magical place filled with exceptional educational, cultural and entertainment experiences within an atmosphere of physical beauty,” she said. * Jewish Chautauqua 6881 Orchard Lake Rd. on the Boardwalk www.stonesfi nejewelry.com exponentially. For several years, Walter was on the Chautauqua Institution’s board, and Joan served as president of the Chautauqua Hebrew Congregation. Their children, grandchildren and now great-grand- children come to visit. “Their two summer months at Chautauqua were the high points of my parents’ lives,” said Gad-Harf, director of corporate relations for Henry Ford Health System. Karen Couf-Cohen of Franklin, who owns a public relations agency, has been going to Chautauqua every year since she was a child. Her father, Hebert Couf, a symphony clarinetist, had friends who played with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and took the family to visit them. Eleven years ago, she and her hus- band, cardiologist Gerry Cohen, rented a house in Chautauqua for themselves, their two daughters and her parents. “We fell in love with the place,” Couf-Cohen said. “It’s a gated, no-cars community, and bicycles are a primary means of transportation. It was the first place my older daughter, then 7, could get on her bicycle and just go wherever!” Couf-Cohen said the Victorian-era, flower-filled lakeside community is “idyllic — the town you wish you grew The Everett Jewish Life Center at Chautauqua, where the Lewises will be hosts. or many years, the Men of Reform Judaism sponsored a Jewish Chautauqua Society, modeled on the “mother Chautauqua” in New York. The Jewish Chautauqua Society was started in 1893 by Henry Berkowitz of Philadelphia and held its first assembly in 1897 in Atlantic City. Its mission was “the dissemination of knowledge of the Jewish religion by fostering the study of its history and literature, giving popular courses of instruction, issuing publications, establishing reading circles, holding general assemblies and by such other means as may from time to time be found necessary and proper.” The Jewish Chautauqua Society’s accomplishments included the first national Jewish teachers’ institute, a correspondence school for religious- school teachers, and programs in adult education, textbook publica- tion, audio-visual production and curricular development. But the Jewish Chautauqua Society never achieved the success of the Chautauqua Institution on which it was modeled, and it was disbanded in 2015 during a reorganization of the Men of Reform Judaism. — Barbara “Bobbie” Lewis