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PURELY COMMENTARY
4-12 Essays and viewpoints.

OUR COMMUNITY
14
Thank you, Danny ...

you gave us the best!
The life and legacy of Danny Raskin.

25
Closer to Normal
Funerals and shivahs edge back to usual

practices without COVID restrictions.

26
‘A Big Heart and a Kind Soul’
Sen. Carl Levin led a life dedicated to

public service.

28
Lasting Gifts
Loving patriarch, 85, carves yads for

great-grandsons’ future bar mitzvahs.

32
Food Fest Returns
Hazon festival has new format and

location.

32
Green Shabbat
Several synagogues and organizations will

join Hazon event.

NOSH
34
Here’s the Beef

SPORTS
36
Rock Solid
Home climbing gym keeps Nate Emery

reaching for the stars.

38
Helping Others Play
Local students hold a collection drive of

sports equipment.

26

Shabbat Lights
Shabbat starts:
Friday, Aug. 6, 8:28 p.m.
Shabbat ends:
Saturday, Aug. 7, 9:32 p.m.
* Times according to Yeshiva Beth
Yehudah calendar.

ON THE COVER:
Cover photo/credit: Danny
Raskin. Photo by Angie Baan
Cover design: Kelly Kosek

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Aug. 5-11, 2021 / 27 Av-3 Elul 5781 | VOLUME CLIX, ISSUE 26

Carl Levin
(1934–2021)

MAZEL TOV!
38
Moments

SPIRIT
39
Torah portion

40
Why Preparation Is


Essential for a Spiritual

Experience

42
Synagogue Directory

ARTS&LIFE
44
Top of the Charts!
Decades-old Ann Arbor jazz

band reunites to find fame and

success.

46
Art in the Garden
Ellen Stone opens home and

garden for event to benefit Mint

Artists Guild.

48
Funkadelic!
Don Was celebrates music of

legendary George Clinton in

Concert of Colors program.

49
Celebrity News

EVENTS
50
Community Calendar

ERETZ
51
U.S. Says Iran Nuclear

Talks Cannot Continue

‘Indefinitely’

ETC.
The Exchange 51

Obituaries
53

Looking Back 62

See next week’s Jewish
News for a special tribute
to this great statesman.