6 July 11 • 2019
jn

The Jewish News aspires to communicate news and opinion that’
s useful, engaging, enjoyable and unique. It strives to refl
 ect the full range of diverse viewpoints while also advocating 

positions that strengthen Jewish unity and continuity. We desire to create and maintain a challenging, caring, enjoyable work environment that encourages creativity and innovation. We 

acknowledge our role as a responsible, responsive member of the community. Being competitive, we must always strive to be the most respected, outstanding Jewish community publication 

in the nation. Our rewards are informed, educated readers, very satisfi
 ed advertisers, contented employees and profi
 table growth.

To make a donation to the 
DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 
FOUNDATION
go to the website
www.djnfoundation.org

The Detroit Jewish News (USPS 275-520) is 

published every Thursday at 29200 Northwestern 

Highway, #110, Southfield, Michigan. Periodical 

postage paid at Southfield, Michigan, and 

additional mailing offices. Postmaster: send 

changes to: Detroit Jewish News, 

29200 Northwestern Hwy., #110, 

Southfield, MI 48034.

OUR JN

MISSION

1942 - 2019

Covering and Connecting 
Jewish Detroit Every Week
jn

views

Arthur M. Horwitz
Executive Editor/Publisher
ahorwitz@renmedia.us

F. Kevin Browett
Chief Operating Officer
kbrowett@renmedia.us

| Editorial
Associate Editor: Jackie Headapohl
jheadapohl@renmedia.us
Story Development Editor: 
Keri Guten Cohen
kcohen@renmedia.us
Digital Editor: Allison Jacobs
ajacobs@renmedia.us
Multimedia Reporter: Corrie Colf 
ccolf@renmedia.us
Social Media Coordinator: 
Chelsie Dzbanski
cdzbanski@renmedia.us
Editorial Assistant: Sy Manello
smanello@renmedia.us
Senior Columnist: Danny Raskin
dannyraskin2132@gmail.com
Contributing Editor: Robert Sklar
rsklar@renmedia.us

Contributing Arts Editor: Gail Zimmerman
gzimmerman@renmedia.us

Contributing Writers:
Ruthan Brodsky, Rochel Burstyn, Suzanne 
Chessler, Annabel Cohen, Don Cohen, 
Shari S. Cohen, Julie Edgar, Shelli Liebman 
Dorfman, Adam Finkel, Stacy Gittleman, 
Stacy Goldberg, Judy Greenwald, Ronelle 
Grier, Lauren Hoffman, Esther Allweiss 
Ingber, Allison Jacobs, Barbara Lewis, 
Jennifer Lovy, Rabbi Jason Miller, Alan 
Muskovitz, Daniel Rosenbaum, David 
Sachs, Karen Schwartz, Robin Schwartz, 
Steve Stein, Joyce Wiswell

| Advertising Sales
Vice President of Sales: Keith Farber
kfarber@renmedia.us
Account Executives: 
 Annette Kizy, Ryan Griffin
Sales Support: 
 Courtney Shea, Ashlee Szabo
 
| Business Offices
Billing Coordinator: Pamela Turner

| Production By 
 FARAGO & ASSOCIATES
Manager: Scott Drzewiecki 
Designers: Jessica Joannides, 
Kelly Kosek, Michelle Sheridan, 
Susan Walker

| Detroit Jewish News
Partner: 
Arthur M. Horwitz
ahorwitz@renmedia.us

Partner: 
F. Kevin Browett
kbrowett@renmedia.us

Partner: 
Michael H. Steinhardt

Operations Manager: 
Andrea Gusho
agusho@renmedia.us

| Departments
General Offi
 ces: 248-354-6060 
Advertising: 248-351-5107 
Advertising Fax: 248-304-0049
Circulation: subscriptions@renmedia.us
Classifi
 ed Ads: 248-351-5116
Advertising Deadline: Friday, 12 p.m. 
Editorial Fax: 248-304-8885

Deadline: All public and social 
announcements must be typewritten 
and received by noon Tuesday, 
nine days prior to desired date of 
publication.

Subscriptions:
1 year. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $85
2 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$153
3 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$204
1 year out-of-state . . . . . . . . . . .$125
2 years out-of-state . . . . . . . . . .$225
Per year foreign 
 . . . . . . . . . . . . .$300

Detroit Jewish News
29200 Northwestern Highway, 
Suite 110
Southfi
 eld, MI 48034

©copyright 2019 Detroit Jewish News

Women Who 
Make a Difference
Much thanks to Mike Smith who 
wrote in last week’
s JN praising 
the Jewish Historical Society 
of Michigan for honoring Peg 
Finkelstein with the Judith Levin 
Cantor Lifetime Achievement Award 
for her work on the extensive archive 
at Temple Emanuel in Grand Rapids 
(June 27, page 46).
Peg received the award in person 
from Risha Ring, president of 
the Jewish Historical Society of 
Michigan, and from Catherine 
Cangany, the executive director, on 
June 29, 2019. The temple in Grand 
Rapids was filled with friends, family 
and congregants.
For readers interested in learning 
about other inspiring Jewish 
women in Michigan, they can go 
to the Jewish Historical Society of 
Michigan website and click on the 
Women Who Made a Difference 
gallery. Peg Finkelstein will soon be 
joining those extraordinary women 
who have achievements in many 
different fields throughout Michigan.

Jeannie Weiner

Member of Board of Directors

Jewish Historical Society of Michigan

letters
 editorial 
Federation Needs To Emphasize, Not 
Downplay, Partnership2Gether Anniversary
P

artnership2Gether (P2G). 
Ever hear of it? What about 
Partnership 2000? They are 
one in the same. But unless you 
are a Jewish community insider or 
Israel junkie, you probably haven’
t 
… though it’
s likely you, your chil-
dren or grandchildren have been 
touched by it.
Since 1994, the Detroit Jewish 
community has partnered with 
Israel’
s central Galilee region via 
a Jewish Agency for Israel/United 
Jewish Appeal initiative pairing 
27 American Jewish communities 
with socioeconomically challenged 
areas. The intention was to create 
a partnership of equals with broad 
and deep people-to-people rela-
tionships. It would also serve as a 
modest counterbalance to the high-
ly mechanized funding allocation 
models that impersonally funneled 
charitable dollars from Federation 
annual campaigns to quasi-govern-
mental bodies in Israel for distri-
bution.
Twenty-five years later, the 
Detroit/Michigan partnership with 

the central Galilee region is the 
initiative’
s most successful. It has 
connected literally thousands of 
Detroiters and Michiganders with 
individual Israelis. From Tamarack 
campers to host families, physicians 
to breakthrough treatments, English 
teachers to middle-school students, 
mayors and council members to 
legislators and governors, archaeol-
ogists to the ruins at Zippori, hos-
pice innovators to medical staffs in 
need of end-of-life counseling capa-
bilities … teen musicians, Maccabi 
game athletes, newspaper editors, 
family bar/bat mitzvah trips, mis-
sions of almost every size and flavor 
… and the list goes on.
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan 
Detroit leaders deserve our appre-
ciation for seeing the potential 
of the Partnership 2000 initiative 
and making the ongoing, though 
largely quiet, investment of human 
resources and dollars — likely 
exceeding $25 million — in it.
At a time when hyper-charged 
political atmospheres in Israel and 
America are causing consternation 

among many Detroit Jews, chipping 
away at the once solidly bipartisan 
support Israel enjoyed regardless of 
political party affiliation, religion or 
gender, the people-to-people rela-
tionships fostered by P2G are more 
critical than ever. 
Despite the successes, there 
are no known plans here to com-
memorate the 25th anniversary of 
Partnership2Gether … there have 
already been celebrations in the 
central Galilee by our partners. 
Federation must seize the oppor-
tunity to more fully educate and 
inform the community about the 
impact this wise and noncontro-
versial investment of charitable 
dollars has on those living in the 
central Galilee region. It should 
also lay out its vision for sustaining 
and strengthening this program in 
the coming years, assuring it con-
tinues to provide ways for Jewish 
Detroiters to bypass political agen-
das and embrace the people of 
Israel … those who have names, 
faces, hopes, dreams, challenges and 
will always treat you like family. ■

