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PURELY COMMENTARY
4-11 Essays and viewpoints.
OUR COMMUNITY
12
Forgotten No More
Efforts to reclaim B’nai David Cemetery from
blight continue to progress.
16
More Than a Health Club
Longtime members of the JCC of
Metropolitan Detroit’s health club reunited
nearly three years after its closing.
18
Ann Arbor’s New Jewish
Community Security Manager
19
How We Met: ‘An Intertwined
Spiritual-Seeking Journey’
20
Jeopardy! Clue
What’s a Detroit synagogue once called
‘a concrete Sinai on the shoulder of
Interstate 696?’
21
USS Carl M. Levin Commissions
in Baltimore
22
Reunion of Torah Scrolls
Czech Torah scrolls commemorated at
reunion event in Cleveland.
24
Wanted: Volunteers
Help out your neighbors this month.
FACES & PLACES
25
Jewish Historical Society of
Michigan Annual Meeting
26
Jewish Senior Life Honors their
Veteran Residents
27
ORT and the City 2023
SPORTS
28
Ski Do
Meet 9-year-old Eli Cogan, who conquered
‘America’s scariest ski slope.’
NOSH
32
A New Kosher Food Truck
TAIM Middle Eastern Street food hits the
road in Oak Park and West Bloomfield.
BUSINESS
34
Mental Health Care for Older
Adults
Karen Faith LLC celebrates West Bloomfield
ribbon cutting.
HEALTH
36
Prioritizing Mental Health Care
for First Responders
How the community can help prevent PTSD
amongst police, firefighters and EMS.
MAZEL TOV
37
Moments
SPIRIT
38
The Lost Masterpiece
39
Torah Portion
40
Synagogue Directory
ARTS&LIFE
42
A Medical Mystery Memoire
‘You can get through it,’ physician says
in new book.
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July 6-12, 2023 / 17-23 Tammuz 5783 | VOLUME CLXXIII, ISSUE 21
Fast and Shabbat Times
17th of Tammuz: Thursday, July 6
Fast begins: 4:50 a.m.
Fast ends: 10:05 p.m.
Shabbat begins:
Friday, July 7, 8:54 p.m.
Shabbat ends:
Saturday, July 8, 10:04 p.m.
* Times according to Yeshiva Beth
Yehudah calendar.
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Cogan. Courtesy of Sol Cogan
Cover design: Michelle Sheridan
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Correction: In “Pride Shabbat”
(June 22, page 29), Hillel of
Metropolitan Detroit should
have been listed as a sponsor.
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New YA Novel Tackles
Jewish Superstition
The Hand of Miriam
introduces young Jewish
readers to the legacy of
the evil eye.
45
Celebrity News
EVENTS
46
Community Calendar
ETC.
The Exchange 47
Obituaries
49
Looking Back 54