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she has met a life goal.
“I feel certain that I’
ve ful-
filled one of my dreams and
I feel these books were very
worthy of my efforts,” she
said. “It was a real coup to
have written (Jethmalani’
s)
biography.”
Currently, Adelman con-
tinues to serve as a delegate
from Wayne County for
the Michigan State Medical
Society and is president
of the Detroit Medical
Academy. She also is edi-
tor emeritus of the Detroit
Medical Journal, a publica-
tion she edited for 17 years.
She and her husband are
members of Adat Shalom
Synagogue in Farmington
Hills, are involved with
the Jewish Theological
Seminary in New York and
have been involved in spon-
soring Israeli students. They
also help raise money as
part of Friends of Hebrew
University of Jerusalem.
“We’
re particularly
interested in education,”
Adelman said.
Along with her profession-
al, religious and philanthrop-
ic pursuits, Adelman wants
to continue focusing on her
creative life, specifically sell-
ing her custom-made jewelry
and paintings. She even has
an idea for a third book, one
that would explore why so
many Jews, including those
living in Israel, feel comfort-
able in India, a country she
and her husband have trav-
eled to 20 times among the
60 or so countries the couple
has visited.
“There is a more mystical
and philosophical reason
for that connection,” she
said, beyond the fact that
India has become quite
pro-Israel and the more
mundane facts that it is
inexpensive to travel to
India and that the two
countries share English as a
spoken language.
“I think there’
s an atavis-
tic connection between the
two religions” of Judaism
and Hinduism, she said.
Adelman notes that she
lives by a simple philosophy
in remaining active, even
when she has the choice of
slowing down after accom-
plishing so much in her
lifetime.
“If you don’
t stay active,
you die,” she said. “If you’
re
not part of this world and
making contributions,
you’
re in God’
s waiting
room. You need a raison
d’
etre,” which means having
a reason for living.
Susan Adelman, author of After Saturday Comes Sunday,” with
Norma Hakim, 93, whose story is told in the book that explores
the history of Christian and Jewish communities in the Middle
East and the Aramaic language.
PHOTO COURTESY SUSAN ADELMAN
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