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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.