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contents

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.

32

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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. 

ON THE COVER: 
Cover photo/credit: Sol and Eli 
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.

44 
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 

