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Offer expires 5/31/18. 000000 T he Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists held its 2018 Excellence in Journalism Awards banquet April 18 in Troy, and Jewish News contributors walked away with several honors. During the event, Walter Middlebrook, former assistant man- aging editor of the Detroit News, and Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press columnist, were presented with life- time achievement awards. Robert Snell of the Detroit News was named Journalist of the Year, and Hasan Dudar of the Detroit Free Press was named Young Journalist of the Year. Three scholarships were awarded to rising college student journalists. The banquet also lauded the best journalism produced the prior year views by local media. For the first time, the JN was competing against larger daily newspapers: the Detroit News, Oakland Press and Macomb Daily. Despite the tough competition, the JN collected seven awards. JN Contributing Writer Alan Muskovitz won first-place honors for his monthly column, beating out Ingrid Jacques and Nolan Finley of the Detroit News. “Witty and funny, these columns were a welcome reprieve from the daily grind of poli- tics in 2017,” said the judges. Alan did his best Sally Field impression to his colleagues. “You like me. You really like me!” he said to the table after he received the award. JN Contributing Writer Stacy Gittleman took first place in the Feature Story category for her j ews d in the for openers Tomorrow’s News T experts talking over each other during ired of all the crazy news mak- ing headlines today? You haven’t a one-hour program. The new rule also prohibits consecutive programs seen nothin’ yet! from talking about the same topics ad Let’s jump ahead 1,000 years to see nauseam. what 3017 has in store for us in a fea- Meanwhile, grocery shoppers ture I call Tomorrow’s News have reason to celebrate. The Today. National Grocers Association It took centuries of nego- has announced that by 3018 it tiating, but Democrats will be mandatory for all super- and Republicans have market produce departments to finally agreed to a bipartisan offer plastic bags that take less healthcare bill that will pro- than two minutes to open. vide inexpensive coverage to Back to political news … After everyone — except if you’re being cryogenically frozen for a politician; which under the Alan Muskovitz the last 900-plus years, Hillary new law is considered a pre- Clinton was thawed out today, existing condition. And in an ironic turn where upon she announced of events, on the same she’ll run for president in 3020. day the new healthcare Her opponents are already mak- ing Hillary’s age an issue, claiming plan was unveiled, the Federal Drug the former senator will be 1,069 years Administration rocked the world of medicine by announcing the immedi- old in October. But Clinton’s camp maintains that a defrosted Hillary is ate availability of a cheap, super drug that researchers say will prevent and “technically” the same age as the day she was frozen. cure every known medical malady, Asked if her husband, Bill, will also thus eliminating the need for health- care. Go figure! be thawed, Mrs. Clinton reminded the press that “Bill was not cryogeni- Meanwhile, the FDA added that the cally frozen but, quite the contrary, new super drug could conceivably allow people to live forever. Upon hear- is actually residing in a much hotter location.” ing that news, lawmakers amended the one-day-old 3017 healthcare pro- By coincidence, a cryogenically frozen Prince Charles has also been gram to allow children to stay on their thawed. However, upon awakening, parent’s insurance until they turn 826. In other government news … The “the man who would be king” had Federal Communications Commission another “meltdown” of sorts when has issued a new regulation limit- he learned that his mother, Queen Elizabeth, was still alive and well and ing news shows to a maximum of 30 MEL DRYMAN Raised in Detroit, Experienced in Arizona Your Professional & Dedicated ARIZONA REALTOR on the throne; which is a Guinness World Record in two categories. In consumer news … There were celebrations across the country today as people who have lost one shoe on a highway over the past 50 years learned they will be reunited with their miss- ing shoe. Kudos to the world’s shoe manufacturers who began implanting identification chips in their footwear over a half century ago, but only today activated the technology. Gym shoe, work boot and flip-flop wearers from coast to coast have been seen hopping up and down on one foot in celebration. Though the big news was little consolation for those millions of Americans who are still missing one sock. Finally, in the biggest space news since the moon landing, NASA has confirmed the arrival of our first visi- tors from outer space. The flying sau- cer, which landed in Roswell, N.M., was greeted by thousands of nerdy UFO researchers screaming “I told you so!” The interplanetary guests announced their primary mission was to bring Donald Trump back to his home planet. (Hey, don’t forget I did a Hillary joke earlier.) That’s Tomorrow’s News Today. And remember, you can’t spell “Alien” with- out “Al.” • Alan Muskovitz is a writer, voice-over/acting tal- ent, speaker, emcee and a regular guest host on the Mitch Albom Show on WJR AM 760. Visit his website at laughwithbigal.com and “Like” Al on Facebook. Coming Out Of Egypt Amidst the sight of the filled-to-the- rim Elijah’s cup, a Passover Seder tra- dition, the sweet sound of the young- est child asking the Four Questions, and the singing of the beautiful and spirited hymns of the Hagaddah, another seder must be remembered, a seder that never had a chance. It was on seder night of 1943 that the Warsaw Ghetto uprising began, to become known as the ultimate in human struggle for freedom and dig- nity. But, unlike the Hebrews, the for- mer slaves under the great leadership of Moses, the heroic fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising could not hope for freedom, not even for mere survival. For them, the redemption of Jewish honor, so outrageously tram- mel.dryman@azmoves.com Lori Lutz, Detroit Jews for Justice, holds up a sign bearing a quote from Exodus at an anti-deportation protest on June 21 ahead of the ACLU lawsuit aimed to slow the deportation procedures of Iraqi Christians living in Metro Detroit. Offering Support Become an HFL Donor. Click. Call. Give Now. www.hfldetroit.org 248.723.8184 letters Mobile: (480) 239-8686 My Story Years ago, Bashy Cagan moved to Michigan as a recently-married woman. An old Hebrew Free Loan program, Neighborhood Project, helped her and her husband, who were expecting their first child, purchase a home in Southfield. Fast forward several years and five children later, and Bashy returned to HFL for help with attorney fees when going through a divorce. The loan was made through HFL’s Building My Tomorrow fund, which lends to women on their own, and was established with grants from the Jewish Women’s Foundation. “I’m now a single mom with five kids, and it’s fine,” Bashy said. “When you go through a life-changing event like a divorce, you have to find a way forward on your own. I’m lucky that my Ex and I remain friendly, and we are partners in raising our kids, which gives them stability. But at that time, I needed some stability as well. I had to re-learn how to rely on myself. “The people at HFL were so nice, so compassionate and caring, they did everything in their power to set me at ease, and what they gave me was the knowledge that I could stand on my own two feet and do this. Because it was an interest-free community loan, not a bank, I knew I could repay it in a reasonable way, and it was quite empowering. This group of empathetic people helped me take back my independence, and things started falling into place. Everyone is happy and healthy, and Hebrew Free Loan helped make that happen.” pled by the Nazis, was good enough reason to fight to the bitter end, as they surely did. Among the readings we do during the seder, the festive celebratory meal during the first two nights of the eight days of the Passover celebration, there is a powerful statement we all say in unison: In every generation, a person should regard himself as if he person- ally came out of Egypt. I regard this declaration as the most important among the various Hagaddah readings. It tells us that we do not only celebrate the exodus from slavery to freedom of our ancestors, the Hebrew slaves. It tells us that we should celebrate the redemption from all the other Egypts each one of us has suffered. Indeed, the festival of Passover is not only the Jews the world over cel- ebrating the exodus from Egypt so many years ago. It is a celebration for all us, no matter what our religion or ethnicity. We all have our own Egypts, now more than ever, to celebrate our exodus from. Rachel Kapen West Bloomfield Health. A fresh start. A good education. The next great business idea. Hebrew Free Loan gives interest- free loans to members of our community for a variety of personal and small business needs. HFL loans are funded entirely through community donations which continually recycle to others, generating many times the original value to help maintain the lives of local Jews. W Kudos On Friedman Appointment With the approval by the Senate of David Freidman as ambassador to Israel, the moral stature of Sen. Robert Menendez became clear once more. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a staunch Zionist, said “The ultimate 6735 Telegraph Road, Suite 300 • Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301 Hebrew Free Loan Detroit @HFLDetroit hen news broke on June 11 of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) roundup of 114 Iraqi Christian immigrants with fears of deportation, the phones at the Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC lit up. Executive Director David Kurzmann said his agency received fearful calls from rabbis and other leaders in the Jewish community asking what they could do to help. “As soon as the arrests happened, we received dozens of phone calls asking how to support our Chaldean neighbors,” Kurzmann said during a phone interview and again reiter- ated at a June 21 anti-deportation rally held outside the U.S. District Court Clerk’s office in Detroit. “As Jews, it is very distressing to hear about this,” he said. “We recently commemorated the anniversary of the return of the St. Louis to [Europe], where Jews seeking refuge in this Jewish community stands together with Chaldeans over deportation issue. STACY GITTLEMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER/ PHOTOGRAPHER country were turned away and sent back to their deaths. The U.S. risks repeating this same dark mistake. The Jewish community knows the tragic consequences of shutting down pathways to safety for people in harm’s way. We must not let this happen again. ‘Never Again’ is as appli- cable today as it has ever been.” On June 21, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith listened to a class- action lawsuit filed by area attorneys and the American Civil Liberties Union designed to postpone deportations to Iraq, where Christians have faced brutal persecution, torture and death in recent years because of the rise of ISIS. Goldsmith concluded the detainees would not be deported to Iraq until at least June 28. Inside and outside the courthouse, and in the days leading up to the filing of the lawsuit, Jews and other ethnic minority groups reached out to the Chaldeans with legal, moral and social support. But until the deportation ruling is appealed or reversed with reopening of individual continued on page 10 continued on page 8 jn Each Office Independently Owned and Operated 2117430 28 May 10 • 2018 jn April 6 • 2017 5 8 June 29 • 2017 jn continued on page 30