34 January 17 • 2019
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Max Feber, 19, of West 
Bloomfield appeared on ABC’
s 
Shark Tank Jan. 6 to pitch his 
cold brew coffee filter to the 
sharks. Well, Mark Cuban bit 
and offered Feber $50,000 for 
30 percent of his company, 
BRUW. The two struck a deal. 
“I email with Mark at least 
a few times a week,” Feber, a 
business student at Babson 
College in Massachusetts, told 
the JN. “He’
s an amazing men-
tor and a huge help to me. All 
his emails come from him, not an assistant. 
“I want BRUW to be known as a household product; I want it to be the 
new standard for making cold brew.”
And what’
s brewing with his business after the show? 
“We’
ve been slammed with orders,” the BRUW founder and CEO said. 
“More than 1,200 units sold in less than 72 hours.
“I’
ve gotten so much love. Total strangers are posting videos about me, 
and friends from years ago are calling me. It’
s an amazing feeling.”

A Shark Bites! 

Max Feber on Shark Tank on Jan. 6

ERIC MCCANDLESS/ABC

On Feb. 3, from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 
at the Tugman Bais Chabad of West 
Bloomfield, Rabbi Shneur Silberberg, 
Attorney Sanford A. Schulman and 
former inmate Steven will discuss why 
society locks people up and what we 
hope to achieve by doing so.
More than 2.2 million Americans 
are incarcerated, making the United 
States the world leader in incarceration. 
Hundreds of thousands of people are 
released from U.S. prisons each year 
to try to make a go of it. More than 
two-thirds will be rearrested within 
three years; half will go back in prison. 
In our pursuit of justice, are we really 
accomplishing justice for all? Is there 
anything we can do to make a differ-
ence?
This session is the first in a series 
of six classes on the topic of criminal 
justice. In addition to the opening 
class, there will be guest appearances 
by Justice Richard Bernstein and Judge 

Mark Goldsmith in later classes in the 
series.
In the classes, Rabbi Silberberg will 
contrast Jewish wisdom and American 
law in topics such as criminal convic-
tions, sentencing, crime prevention and 
rehabilitation, pondering the applica-
tion of Talmudic principles to real and 
complex, modern-day cases
Classes are offered twice weekly: 
Sundays, 11 a.m. at Bais Chabad of 
West Bloomfield, and Thursdays, 
7 p.m. at Hillel Day School in 
Farmington Hills. Cost for the series 
is $80 (includes student textbook). Try 
out the first class at no charge.
Course offered in partnership 
with Tugman Bais Chabad of West 
Bloomfield, JCC’
s Fed-Ed, JBAM 
and Cohn Haddow Center for Judaic 
Studies. The course is sponsored by the 
Kosins Family Foundation.
Visit baischabad.com/justice for 
more information and to sign up.

A Rabbi, A Lawyer & An Inmate: 
First in a Series of Classes

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