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to California to be closer to our young
grandchildren, but we always come
back to the fact that this is our home,
our memories, our friends, our com-
munity,” she said.
She has fond memories of reading
the Jewish News every week — from
back to front!
H. James “Jimmy” Zack of
Franklin, a certified public accoun-
tant, graduated from Mumford and
went off to Ferris State College. A
highlight of his life was serving as
president of JARC.
He says he has wonderful memories
of Detroit from his youth and stays
here because “this is my home.”
Zack says the Jewish News has great
value in keeping readers up to date
with what’s happening in the com-
munity.
Barbara Hillman Eisenberg of
Bingham Farms graduated from Oak
Park High School before earning an
art education degree from University
of Michigan and a master’s in social
work from Wayne State. She is a
retired clinical social worker.
Family was very important to her
while growing up. “I can easily visual-
ize my maternal grandfather reclining
in his chair at the head of the Passover
table,” she said. She appreciates the
education she received in Michigan
and in retirement is returning to art.
Dealing with loss and change can
be depressing, but her four grand-
children “challenge our aging with
their vitality.” Eisenberg says she has
developed a very satisfying sense of
patience over the years, which affects
how she is seen and how she views
life. She never considered leaving
Detroit, and says her husband, Gary,
feels the same way. “The Jewish com-
munity of Metropolitan Detroit is an
organizing force in our social and
family life,” she said.
Eisenberg says she can’t remember
when the JN wasn’t part of the “begin-
ning of the weekend” at home. They
now have it delivered to their winter
home in Florida. “I am always happy
to see the JN on newsstands around
town,” she said. “Its presence makes a
loud statement of ‘Here I am!’”
Stan Dorfman moved to Oak Park
with his family in 1956 and graduated
from Oak Park High School. He went
on to Wayne State for undergraduate
and medical school, and after two
years in the U.S. Air Force, joined the
staff at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in
Pontiac as an ob/gyn. He retired from
private practice in 2009 but continues
to serve as director of the hospital’s
medical school program.
There were so many kids on his
Detroit block that there was always
someone to play with, Dorfman
recalled. “We were always outside,
both day and evening. Our neighbor-
hoods were safe; our house doors
were open and our mothers did not
ever worry where we were as long as
we were home for dinner,” he said.
In the late 1940s, his father brought
home the first television on the block:
an 8-inch, black-and-white Admiral.
“I became the king of the block and
everyone used to come over to watch
The Lone Ranger,” he said.
Television made quite a different
impact in the late 1950s and 1960s,
as he watched coverage of the civil
rights struggles in the South. He says
the assassinations of John F. Kennedy,
Martin Luther King and Robert
Kennedy, the war in Vietnam, the
Detroit riots of 1968 and other events
spelled the end of the simple and
happy years of his childhood.
Dorfman remembers his mother
reading the Jewish News every week.
Echoing Jackier, he says the paper is
the “glue” that keeps the community
together.
“The Jewish News crosses all of the
different levels of Judaism, from the
ultra-Orthodox to those with no affili-
ation who still consider themselves
Jewish either by birth or tradition,” he
said. •
At the JN Legacy Gala May 3 at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek marking the paper’s 75th anni-
versary, Class of 1960 graduates will be rec-
ognized. The event features a strolling dinner,
program and a performance by the Grammy
Award-winning Klezmatics. For tickets, go to
djnfoundation.org or contact Tessa Goldberg
at (248) 351-5108 or tgoldberg@djnfoundation.
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