 JUNE 25 • 2020 | 35

STAYING CONNECTED
At this time of social distancing, 
the Jewish News will try to bring 
awareness to events/learning 
situations offered online by 
synagogues, temples and 
community organizations. 

ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC
JUNE 28
American Friends of the Israel 
Philharmonic Orchestra announced 
that the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 
will hold a virtual gala in partnership 
with Medici TV, to benefit the orchestra 
three months after COVID-19 forced 
indefinite concert cancellations. 

Featuring classical music’s premier 
talent, this landmark moment in the 
IPO’s history will be available to stream 
internationally, free of charge. Register 
online at ipogala20209@ipofund.co.il, 
with the broadcast to stream on Medici 
TV’s site.

FINDING YOUR ROOTS
11 AM-NOON, JUNE 28
The Well hosts “Finding Our Roots: A 
Bring your own Brunch event with JDC 
Entwine” on Zoom. Remember that 
one family tree project you had to do 
in middle school? As a young adult, do 
you have more questions about where 
your family came from and how they 
arrived in Detroit? Guests are amateur 
genealogist Corey Rosen and Laura 
Williams, director of cultural resources 
at Temple Beth El. Share your own 
family's immigration stories, learn 
about doing your own genealogical 
research and discuss the history of 
the Jewish community in Detroit. 
Representatives from JDC Entwine will 
take things to an international level, 
as they discuss global Jewish history. 

Register at meetyouatthewell.org or on 
its Facebook page.

CRISES IN JEWISH LIBERALISM
3 PM, JUNE 29
A virtual gathering on Zoom sponsored 
by the Jewish Historical Society of 
Michigan. Drawing upon her research 
on Detroit and her newest work on 
American Jewish philanthropy, Lila 
Corwin Berman shows how liberal 
tension between individual rights and 
collective protections shot through the 
political, economic and spatial realities 
of American Jewish life. Cost: $10 for 
members and $18 for non-members. 
Register by 9 pm Sunday, June 28. 
Instructions for joining the Zoom call 
will be sent the day before.

TOUR ISRAEL
NOON-1 PM, JUNE 30
Temple Shir Shalom is offering a live, 
virtual tour of Sefad with Rabbi Daniel 
Schwartz and Israeli tour guide Beni 
Levin. Learn the history of Sefad and 
stories of the Jewish mystics on this 
one-hour guided tour on Zoom. To 

learn more or register, call 248-737-
8700 or email audrey@shirshalom.
org. 

FOR JOB SEEKERS
JUNE 30, JULY 7 & 14
JVS Human Services offers “The 
Road Ahead,” interactive Facebook 
webinars for job seekers and 
employees affected by the COVID-19 
pandemic. Rights and responsibilities 
at work – Tuesday, June 30, at 10 am; 
Strategies for working from home – 
Tuesday, July 7, at 10 am; Overcoming 
age discrimination – Tuesday, July 14, 
at 10 am. Info: jvshumanservices.org.

FOR MUSIC LOVERS
The Chamber Music Society 
(chambermusicdetroit.org) has an 
archive of performances that can be 
viewed. Check out the variety available 
at any time.

Compiled by Sy Manello/Editorial 
Assistant. Send items at least 14 days 
in advance to calendar@thejewishnews.
com.

STREAMING OPTIONS:
COMEDY, CRIME AND MORE
The second season of the original 
Netflix musical/satirical series 
The Politician began streaming 
on June 19 and, boy, is it “tribe 
heavy.
” As the season starts, star 
character Payton Hobart (Ben 
Platt, 26) is a college student 
in New York City. He opts to 
challenge Dede Standish (Judith 
Light, 71), a long-time incum-
bent, for her state senate seat. 
Bette Midler, 74, co-stars as 
Hadassah Gold, Dede’
s chief 
of staff. The supporting cast 
includes Gwyneth Paltrow, 47 (as 
Payton’
s mother), Zoey Deutch, 

25, as Infinity, Payton’
s righthand 
woman, and Jackie Hoffman, 59, 
as Dede’
s receptionist. 
The original, six-part HBO 
documentary I’
ll Be Gone in 
the Dark will premiere June 28. 
It is based on the best-selling 
2018 book of the same name 
written by Michelle McNamara 
(1970-2016) and it chronicles her 
hunt for a serial killer and rapist 
called the “Golden State Killer” 
(McNamara gave him this moni-
ker). A suspect, Joseph D’
Angelo 
Jr., was arrested last April and, as 
I write this, is set to plead guilty 
to 13 murders on June 29. The 
documentary director is Emmy 

winner and Oscar nominee Liz 
Garbus, 50.
Note: comedian Patton Oswalt 
was McNamara’
s husband. He 
appears many times in the doc-
umentary (among other things, 
he arranged for the completion 
of his late wife’
s book and its pub-
lication). After Michelle’
s death, 
he struck up a Facebook corre-
spondence with actress and legal 
mediator Meredith Salenger, 
50. They hit it off and wed in a 
Jewish ceremony in November 
2017 (I don’
t believe Oswalt con-
verted to Judaism). Salenger is 
still best known for playing the 
title character in the acclaimed 
film The Journey of Natty Gann 
(1985). 
Athlete A is a Netflix documen-
tary (premiered June 24) about 
the sexual abuse of top female 
gymnasts by Dr. Larry Nassar, a 
Michigan State faculty member. 
His victims included Olympic 
gold medal winner Aly Raisman, 
26. The film was made by Bonni 
Cohen, 55, and Jon Shenk, 51 

(they co-wrote, co-produced and 
co-directed it). They’
ve long been 
a team. In 2017, they co-helmed 
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth 
to Power. Cohen’
s other credits 
include producing The Rape 
of Europa, a 2006 documen-
tary about the Nazi looting of 
European art treasures, including 
those owned by Jews. 
On July 1, Netflix will begin 
streaming Anne Frank: Parallel 
Stories. Narrated by Helen Mirren 
(The Woman in Gold), this docu-
mentary film got a limited theater 
release last January. Frank’
s story 
is intertwined with the story of 
five other (real) girls who did sur-
vive the Holocaust. A set was cre-
ated that carefully reconstructed 
the apartment in which Anne hid, 
to give, in the filmmakers’
 words, 
“the sense of claustrophobia and 
oppression” Anne experienced. 
Mirren reads excerpts from 
Anne’
s diary in Anne’
s re-created 
apartment. Had Anne Frank
lived, she would have been 90 this 
year. 

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