FEBRUARY 18 • 2021 | 3

contents

PURELY COMMENTARY 

6-10

OUR COMMUNITY
12 
Sense of Duty 
 
Young Detroiters serve in IDF to 
 
“give back” to Israel. 

15 
Advocacy Always, 
 
Inclusion Indubitably 
 
How JCC Detroit is honoring Jewish 
 
Disability Advocacy and Inclusion 
 
Month all year.

17 
A Safe Purim 
 
Orthodox organizations issue 
 
guidelines for Purim.

18 
You Have a Pandemic Story. 
 
We Want It. 
 
Instead of letting future generations 
 
rely on snippets from the newspaper 
 
or a random photograph, let’s give 
 
them the gift of knowledge 
 
and certainty.

20 
Food for All 
 
Temple Kol Ami pantry feeds 
 
90 families a week.

NATIONAL
22 
Fair or Unfair to Jews? 
 
California revises proposed ethnic 
 
studies curriculum, but controversy 
 
remains. 

MAZEL TOV
24 
Mazel Tov

SPIRIT 
26 
 Torah portion

jewish@edu 
31 
Pandemic Podcast 
 
MSU Hillel launches 
 
The Weekly Kvetch.

32 
Butter, Flour and Hillel 
 
New MSU Hillel Circles program 
 
connects people with shared interests.

34 
Trivia Night at Hillel 
 
of Metro Detroit

SPORTS

36 
MSU Grad Plays ‘Motor City 
 
Hardball’ On His Podcast 
 
West Bloomfield resident Brandon 
 
Rothenberg steps up to the plate each 
 
week on the Blue Wire platform.

36 
Quick Hits

38 
A Natural on Ice 
 
Hockey star, 16, has her eyes set 
 
on bigger goals.

ARTS&LIFE
39 
A Lifelong Love Affair 
 
with Judaism 
 
Historian, age 95, writes a 200-page 
 love letter to the Jewish people. 

40 
Lots of Reasons to Celebrate 
 
Purim is coming up soon — 
 
better get baking!

41 
Celebrity Jews

EVENTS
42

ETC. 
The Exchange 43 
Obituaries 
44 
Danny Raskin 53 
Looking Back 54 

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Shabbat Lights 
Shabbat Starts: Friday, Feb. 19, 5:52 p.m. 
Shabbat Ends: Saturday, Feb. 20, 6:55 p.m. 
Fast of Esther: Thursday, Feb. 25, 
6:02 a.m.-7:01 p.m. 
Purim: Friday, Feb. 26 
* Times according to Yeshiva Beth 
Yehudah calendar. 

ON THE COVER: 
Cover photo/credit: Yossi Nadel, 
courtesy Nadel family 
Cover design: Michelle Sheridan

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