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Nov. 24-30, 2016 | 23-29 Cheshvan 5777 | Vol. CL, No. 17

From the DJN

Around Town ...................30
Arts & Life ........................63
Business ...........................48
Calendar...........................34
Eats ...................................70
Editor’s Picks ...................69
Eretz..................................38
Gift Guide ........................39
Health ...............................52
Israel ....8, 24, 36, 38, 54, 60, 63
jewish@edu .....................58
Marketplace ....................75
Metro ................................10
Moments ..........................73
Obituaries ........................78
Spirituality .......................49
Sports ...............................62
Synagogue List ...............50
Torah Portion ..................51
Viewpoints.........................5

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Columnists

Sy Manello .........................5
Danny Raskin ..................72

SHABBAT LIGHTS

Shabbat: Friday, Nov. 25, 4:45 p.m.
Shabbat Ends: Saturday, Nov. 26, 5:49 p.m.

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Noah’s Marketplace

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Chaldean grocer opens
new store stocked with
kosher items.

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Civics Lesson

Students at Ann Arbor
Hebrew Day School act
out the election of 1800.

JN Online Offerings:

Hot!

Rebecca Silverman joins
Epiphany Glass Studio.

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Henna Habits

WSU group hosts event
to learn about henna.

Shabbat: Friday, Dec. 2, 4:42 p.m.
Shabbat Ends: Saturday, Dec. 3, 5:47 p.m.*

* Times according to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah calendar.

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for their first concerts in America in February
1964. They played Detroit's Olympia Stadium
in 1964 and 1966.
COVER DESIGN: Michelle Sheridan
COVER PHOTOS: Wikipedia, Karen Tintori Katz

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Davidson
Digital Archive

Mike Smith
Detroit Jewish News
Foundation Archivist

T

wo Sundays ago, an inter-
esting thing happened
for the most historically
oppressed (depressed?) group I
know of: fans of the Detroit Lions
football team. Oh, how we —
young and old, men and women
— have suffered! But, on Nov. 13,
without playing a game, the Lions
moved into first place, and our
hopes were raised.
Could the Lions actually make
the playoffs this season? By just
mentioning this hope, have I jinxed
them?
While cruising the Davidson
Digital Archive with the Lions on
my mind, I ran across an interest-
ing story about the Lions’ first
trainer — Aid “Abe” Kushner — in
the Nov. 11, 1983, issue of the
JN. Kushner was Jewish and the
youngest trainer in the National
Football League at the time. He
became trainer in 1934 when the
Lions moved from Portsmouth,
Ohio, to Detroit.
As Kushner relates in his story,
he became something of an insti-
tution for the Lions, helping to
form its alumni group in 1950.
The JN article also provides some
interesting historical facts about
professional football, such as most
players received $100 a game in
the early years and were expected
to play for the entire 60 minutes of
a game.
Kushner’s story about the first
50 years of the Detroit Lions is an
interesting read. Now, if only the
Lions can repeat the success of
1935, 1952, 1953 and 1957, when
they were NFL champs.

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for free at www.djnfoundation.org.

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