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Representatives from the Michigan Jewish Sports 
Foundation presented a check for $25,000 to 
the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, 
the money raised at the 2023 Michigan Jewish 
Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet.
“The foundation has now donated more than 
$1.5 million to several organizations for can-
cer prevention and care since 1984,” said Don 

Rudick, the foundation’s executive director.
Joining Rudick and Stuart Raider, the founda-
tion’s president, at a ceremonial check presen-
tation were Dr. Boris Pasche, Karmanos presi-
dent and CEO; Arnold D’Ambrosio, Karmanos 
chief development officer; and Linda Filipczak, 
Karmanos fund development officer.
Karmanos offers cancer care at 16 locations 
throughout Michigan and northern Ohio. It serves 
about 12,0000 new patients annually. Cancer 
screenings are done at several locations.
It was announced at the Hall of Fame ban-
quet, held in October at Congregation Shaarey 
Zedek in Southfield, that the foundation made 
a $10,000 donation to the Friends of the Israel 
Defense Forces.

SPORTS

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here are 14 Jewish bowlers among 
the 50 bowlers on 14 teams in 
the Tuesday Night Farmington Men 
league. 
Three of the Jewish bowlers — Rob 
Pliskow, Bernie Goodstein and Gary Gold 
— are on the Rob’s Guys team that won the 
first-half league championship. 
Janis Feingold, another of the Jewish 
bowlers, is the lone woman in the league. 
She has two Jewish teammates on the Super 
Friends team: Ken Bershad and Randy 
Davidson. The fourth member of the team 
is Sam Moore.
Being the only female in an otherwise 
male bowling league isn’t a new experience 
for Feingold. 
She previously was the lone woman in the 
now-defunct Downtown Fox B’nai B’rith 
league for 15 years, including the first six 
years on the same team as her late husband 
of 36 years, Nathan, who died in 2012.
“The guys in the league welcomed me 
back after my husband died,
” she said. “That 
meant so much.
”
Feingold doesn’t look at herself as a 
trailblazer. She started bowling in the 
Downtown Fox league to bowl with Nathan, 
not just watch him bowl, when there was an 
opening on Nathan’s team.
The Tuesday Night league bowls at 
Perfect Game in Farmington Hills. That’s 
the former Drakeshire Lanes, home of the 

Downtown Fox league for many years.
This is Feingold’s third year in 
the Tuesday Night league. She learned about 
the league from former Downtown Fox 
bowlers after that league folded.
“I actually enjoy bowling in a men’s league 
more than a women’s league,
” Feingold said. 
“Men seem to take bowling more seriously. 
They make adjustments with how they 
bowl. Women just seem to bowl. Bowling 
with men inspires me to be a better bowler.
“Of course, some men take bowling a 
little too seriously,
” she said with a laugh.

Feingold describes herself as “not a great 
bowler, but decent.
” Her highest average was 
121 when her team won the Downtown Fox 
league championship a few years ago. She’s 
averaging 107 this season in the Tuesday 
Night league.
The men in the Tuesday Night league 
have been welcoming, she said.
“Sometimes when I bowl a strike or pick 
up a spare, the guys on the opposing team 
give me a high five or clap,
” she said.
Pliskow is a former longtime B’nai 
B’rith bowler. He was president of the 
Morgenthau-L
’Chayim-Zeiger-Gross-Jewish 
War Veterans League for 10 years. 
This is his second year in the Tuesday 
Night league, his first on his current team. 
He joined the team, which includes Dave 
Opperman, to fill an opening.
Pliskow and Gold have known each other 
for a long time — since they were students 
at Frost Junior High School in Oak Park.
“We have a good time bowling together 
on our team and the league is a nice group 
of guys ... and, of course, Janis,
” Pliskow 
said.
If Rob’s Guys can finish in first place in 
the second half of the league season, they’ll 
capture the league championship. There will 
be a playoff if another team places first in 
the second half. 

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Janis Feingold says bowling in a men’s league 
‘inspires me to be a better bowler.’
Just One of the ‘Guys’

STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

quick hits
BY STEVE STEIN 

MASSERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Hall of Fame Banquet 
Raises $25,000 for 
Karmanos Cancer Institute

Stuart Raider and Don Rudick from the 
Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation (third 
and fourth from left) join Arnold D’Ambrosio, 
Dr. Boris Pasche and Linda Filipczak from 
the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute 
for a check presentation.

ROB PLISKOW

Janis Feingold is the lone woman in the 
Tuesday Night Farmington Men bowling league. 

