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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.