JANUARY 25 • 2024 | 37 J N 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 T 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. Send sports news to stevestein502004@yahoo.com. 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.