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. On The Go virtual events | learnings COURTESY OF ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC Arts&Life celebrity jews NATE BLOOM COLUMNIST COURTESY OF NETFLIX