…$200 Aug. 11-17, 2022 / 14-20 Av 5782 JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT thejewishnews.com Car Guy The Car Guy’s Eddie Alterman has spent a career behind the wheel of the world’s snazziest autos. See page 12 …
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…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 3 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-10 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 12 The Car Guy’s Car Guy Eddie Alterman has spent a career behind the wheel of the world’s snazziest autos. 18 Gift of a Torah Centenarian Sam Gotlib’s values and traditions live on. 20 Synagogue Spotlight Beth Israel Congregation, Ann Arbor 22 Shabbos Desserts for Chai Lifeline Danielle ‘DeeDee’ Lefkowitz ...…
…for openers A Bouncing Baby Boy in Very Skilled Hands! M y neighbor Billy Berris knows a thing or two about dribbling; after all, basketball has been an integral part of his life. Both he and his father, Henry Berris, of blessed mem- ory, had stellar high school and college basket- ball careers. Henry was a standout at Northern High School in Detroit in the early 1930s and Billy at Mumford in the late ’60s, each going on to st...…
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…6 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 viewpoint What If Iran — Not Israel — Launches a Preemptive Attack? A s Iran’s nuclear program continues apace, the debate in Israel and abroad has focused almost exclusively on the like- lihood of an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Little if anything has been said, at least in public, regarding the possibility that Iran might pre- empt a potential Israeli offensive. The absence of this scenar...…
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…8 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 opinion We Need to Agree to Disagree H ere’s a story I recently shared on Facebook: I was paddling my inflatable kayak on a lake in the Berkshires. Granted, it is not the sleekest or coolest-look- ing conveyance, but it gets the job done and it fits in the trunk of my car. At one point, I passed two guys in a very lovely canoe. One of the guys says to me, “That looks like fun!” And I say, “And you have a ...…
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 9 America has become obvi- ously a dividing line. And it doesn’t seem to have gotten any better.” Although few, if any, members of Gen Z were taking part in the convening, the group born after 1995 seemed to be on a lot of people’s minds. That’s partly because of Haidt’s framing of the issue; in his book, he dates strict campus speech codes and polarizing identity politics to the arrival of Gen Z on college cam...…
…10 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 essay The Power of Hello A friend once shared a story about a time that she took her grandchildren to the beach. She sat alone and noticed a group of women chatting nearby. She decided to approach them. Her “Hello” led to a shidduch (match) between her daughter and the son of one of the women. Her motto: “The Power of Hello!” I am an introvert by nature, often reticent to approach strangers. However...…
…We Need to Talk About Addiction A Detroit Jewish Community Panel Discussion on addiction, mental health and recovery Please join us for a candid look at substance abuse in the Jewish community. A panel of advocates will share stories and insights that explore the devastating impact of addiction and the path to recovery. Everyone age 13+ is welcome to attend. Addiction help resource fair and kosher refreshments will follow the panel. ...…
…12 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 the Car Guy’s Eddie Alterman has spent a career behind the wheel of the world’s snazziest autos. Car Guy ON THE COVER LaFerrari …
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 13 Car Guy ince the first car ran down Woodward Avenue in 1896, Detroiters have been obsessed with automobiles. The metro area is, after all, known around the world as the “Motor City.” This moniker was earned early in the 20th century when Detroit produced more cars than any place on Earth. Today, as a global automobile research and tech- nology center, Metro Detroit still deserves its nickname. As much as the M...…
…continued from page 13 14 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 Eddie, 50, of Franklin, is married to Kari Alterman; they have two daughters. You may know Kari from her work with the American Jewish Committee and the William Davidson Foundation, among many other activities around town, including being a founding board member of the Detroit Jewish News Foundation. In 2009, Eddie was named editor-in-chief of Hearst Magazines’ Car and Driver, the worl...…
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 15 continued on page 16 JN: What do you consider to be the most important benchmarks in your career as an auto writer? EA: My time as a copy editor, in the trenches at Automobile, taught me how a story comes to life. Starting mph magazine in 2004 taught me how to build something from scratch and how to lead talented people (mainly by getting out of their way). Writing for the New York Times taught me the power of grea...…
…16 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 ON THE COVER continued from page 15 ence to help people shop for cars and demystify the increas- ingly complex retail environment. JN: What is the future of auto reporting? EA: More lone wolves. When I started out 30 years ago, if you wanted to write about cars, you had to land a rare job at a car magazine. Now, you can just hang your shingle out on YouTube or Apple Podcasts or TikTok and learn how to build an a...…
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 17 For more information and to register, contact the synagogue office at (248)357-5544. Generously sponsored by Joy and Allan Nachman Host Committee: Joy and Allan Nachman • Susan Kozik Klein • Lynda Giles • Barbra Giles Barbara Kratchman • Wendy Handler • Dottie and Don Wagner • David Broner • Richard J. Burstein Cost: $5 a person (Catered Breakfast) Registration Required Coffee House is a community engagement program f...…
…OUR COMMUNITY S am Gotlib is about to receive the most memorable and lasting gift of his life in honor of his 100th birthday. His family has commissioned a Torah to be written in Israel and they will host a Hachnasat Sefer Torah (inauguration of a new Torah scroll) on Aug. 21 and the entire Detroit Jewish commu- nity is invited. “ About a year or so ago, we started thinking about what we could do to mark this incredible milesto...…
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 19 When Daniel married Joanne, they settled in Flint at first because Daniel had joined his father’s dental practice, but they moved to Southfield to be clos- er to the Jewish day schools in 1986. Daniel commuted to Flint until he retired in June 2022. “I’m the luckiest daughter- in-law in the whole world,” Joanne said. “I knew my in-laws longer than my own parents. My father-in-law is the most incredible person....…
…OUR COMMUNITY S ince its establishment in 1916, Beth Israel Congregation has had a key influence on Jewish life in Washtenaw County. The congregation began informally by celebrating the High Holidays in the home of Osias Zwerdling. For the next 40 years, Zwerdling served as president of the con- gregation. Over the course of that time, Beth Israel functioned as the sole Jewish congregation in Ann Arbor. The congregation went without...…
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 21 A nearly 450 family/member unit synagogue, Beth Israel has an active conversion/intro to Judaism program, which has become a special feature of the congregation. Caine sometimes works with 12 to 15 students a year. The congregation has lec- tures and classes all the time, usually led by experts in their field. “This year, we’re going to be doing a lot with the mental and spiritual health of teenagers, given w...…
…OUR COMMUNITY D anielle “DeeDee” Lefkowitz, 9, of Southfield was nominated as Volunteer of the Week for her suc- cessful bake sale to raise money to support Chai Lifeline, a New- York-based organization that helps children and families coping with cancer and other serious illnesses. This summer, DeeDee has been enjoying her time at Camp Ganeinu in Farmington Hills, a Jewish day camp where they teach campers about giving back throug...…
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…24 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 W hat do you do next when you retire after a long and successful career? David Goodman faced that problem when he completed his career as a journalist in Detroit with Associated Press. Surprising even himself, Goodman registered at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pa. He graduated in 2022 and now works as the rabbinical leader of Nafshenu, a Jewish community in Cherry Hill, N.J., a...…
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 25 pare to become cantors or rab- bis, Goodman felt some envy. He enjoyed the idea of advanced rabbinical studies, thinking, “Wouldn’t it be fun!” But he felt misgivings about applying to rabbinical school. Would it be fair to ask the rab- binical school to give him access to “all these great teachers and learning opportunities” when a younger person could expect to serve in the rabbinate for far longer? People ...…
…OUR COMMUNITY D etroit Youth Choir, the beloved Detroit- based children’s choir that achieved the second-place spot in America’s Got Talent in 2019, will perform in a fund- raising concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 21, at Temple Shir Shalom, 3999 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield. The concert, “ An Afternoon of Music for All Ages,” is being held by National Council of Jewish Women, Michigan (NCJW|MI) to raise money for its many...…
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 27 the form of cozy blankets to sick children or those in fos- ter care. This fundraiser will ensure that these projects remain strong and effective.” Artistic Director and President of the Detroit Youth Choir Anthony White said his young singers were very grateful for the oppor- tunity to headline the con- cert. “To perform for NCJW will be an amazing oppor- tunity to share our gifts and talents to a brand-new a...…
…28 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 C ontemporary music blares and the Royal Oak studio is filled with a dozen exhilarated women from all walks of life. They’re copying the uncom- plicated choreography of the energetic woman on the stage who’s leading them in a cardio- vascular dance routine that feels like more fun than exercise. On this particular day, there are three generations of Jewish Jazzercisers — Allison Weinmann of Huntington Wood...…
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 29 continued on page 30 Jane is proud to boast that the Royal Oak location is the No. 4 top-producing location in the world in terms of num- bers of customers, classes and instructors. A JEWISH CLIENTELE Of the 300 members at the Royal Oak location, Jane esti- mates that a solid 30% of her clientele are Jewish. “There was a whole wave of new members after the JCC (in Oak Park) closed a few years ago; the first ...…
…30 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 OUR COMMUNITY Three generations of Jewish Jazzercisers: Allison Weinmann, Ronit Szczotka and her daughter Orli. continued from page 29 ciously and double check, “Did you go to Jazzercise today?!” That is exactly what McNamara loves best about her job. “We really change people’s lives for the better, not necessarily just their bodies, but internally, their healthy outlook. ” There’s also a tremendous sen...…
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 31 W hen psychiatrist Dorit Ben-Ami and her husband (also a physician) moved back to Southfield last year after a few years away, they bought solar panels with battery storage for their new home. Their reasons for getting solar power had every- thing to do with the health of the planet for humans and animals. She wanted to power their home with electrical energy produced by solar power, an essen- tially non...…
…32 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 continued from page 31 SAVING MONEY, ENERGY Reuven Gevaryahu has a different analysis for why he had solar panels installed at his Southfield home in 2020. Gevaryahu, a software engineer at Rocket Mortgage, describes himself as “a tech- nology person.” He invested in solar panels when he eval- uated them as “saving money and saving energy.” When he began investigat- ing solar power, Gevaryahu set a test for d...…
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…34 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 JN: Was there Zionism in your home? Shira: My parents have always been pro-aliyah, but aliyah was not realistic when they bought a house and had full-time jobs and three young kids. When people talk about aliyah, they think about the ages of the kids, which was always a factor for us. JN: Tell me about your par- ents’ aliyah. Shira: I was just wrapping up my second year in Israel and I got a phone call from...…
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…business SPOTlight brought to you in partnership with here’s to B I R M I N G H A M E verything about Barry Franklin screams super- achiever. He is the direc- tor of Preventative Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation for Beaumont Health and a pro- fessor of internal medicine at Oakland University’s William Beaumont School of Medicine. He received bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Kent State, University of Michigan a...…
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 37 viewing superachievers, filling folders and notebooks with observations, stories and key traits they shared. Those traits include being goal- and action-oriented, a person of integrity, hardworking, col- laborative and an outstanding communicator. Two decades of research led to his latest book, GPS for Success: Skills, Strategies and Secrets of Superachievers, (Productivity Press, NYC, NY), which provides a ...…
…F or brothers Ryan and Dylan Burke, 24 and 21, leaning into the zeitgeist for nostalgia has manifested itself into a newly opened brick-and-mortar shop called The Vintage Vault, located in Clawson’s down- town shopping district. Older brother Ryan, whose passion for authentic retro apparel started when he was attending college in Kalamazoo, waxes poetic about items produced years, even decades before he was likely a glimmer in h...…
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 39 Eventually, he explained, his accumulation of items outpaced his ability to store his wares. “I was selling online, like on eBay, Depop (another peer-to-peer selling platform), Facebook, wherever I could generate sales out of my college dorm,” Ryan says, adding how, when he returned to the Detroit area, his vast inven- tory allowed him to not only sell directly to the public but also provide wholesale lots to the ...…
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…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 41 B uried inconspicuously in this week’s parshah is a short sentence with explosive potential, causing us to think again about both the nature of Jewish history and the Jewish task in the present. Moses had been remind- ing the new generation, the children of those who left Egypt, of the extraordinary story of which they are the heirs: “Has anything so great as this ever hap- pened, or has anything like it ever b...…
…and wonderful phenomenon demonstrating that the life of this people is governed by a special predetermination, tran- scending the processes of adap- tation expounded by the materi- alistic interpretation of history. “The survival of the Jews, their resistance to destruction, their endurance under abso- lutely peculiar conditions and the fateful role played by them in history: All these point to the particular and mysterious foundatio...…
…Synagogue Directory METRO DETROIT CONSERVATIVE Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills (248) 851-5100 adatshalom.org Congregation Beth Ahm West Bloomfield (248) 851-6880 cbahm.org Congregation Beth Shalom Oak Park (248) 547-7970 congbethshalom.org Beth Tephilath Moses Mt. Clemens (586) 996-3138 bethtephilathmoses.com B’nai Israel Synagogue West Bloomfield (248) 432-2729 bnaiisraelwb.org Congregation B’nai Moshe West Blo...…
…Temple Emanu-El Oak Park (248) 967-4020 emanuel-mich.org Temple Israel West Bloomfield (248) 661-5700 temple-israel.org Temple Kol Ami West Bloomfield (248) 661-0040 tkolami.org Temple Shir Shalom West Bloomfield (248) 737-8700 shirshalom.org REFORM/RENEWAL Congregation Shir Tikvah Troy (248) 649-4418 shirtikvah.org SECULAR/HUMANISTIC Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Metro Detroit Farmington Hills (248) 477-1410 ...…
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 45 SPORTS M ike Getman had a brief stay in the Detroit area in the early 1980s, but it certainly had an impact on him — and he made an impact on Detroit sports history. Getman was a member of the 1982 Detroit Express soccer team that won the American Soccer League championship. The defender from Bloomington, Ind., played all 90 minutes of the Express’ championship-clinching 4-1 win over the Oklahoma City Slickers...…
…46 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 NEXT DOR J ackie Yashinsky always knew she wanted to work with the Jewish com- munity, but the question was how. The associate director of the annual campaign at Frankel Jewish Academy says the “aha” moment came during her years at Michigan State University, when she realized that working with the Jewish community was a career path she could easily pursue. “It took me a little bit of time to realize that peop...…
…like we were never apart. We were a tight group then, and we are now. ” Getman played soccer for Indiana University in his home- town of Bloomington from 1978- 81, playing in NCAA national championship games in 1978 and 1980. After graduating from IU in December 1981, he attended try- out camps for ASL teams. He remembers the Express try- out was held on a soggy, muddy field in February 1982, most like- ly at Oakland University. “I didn...…
…48 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 NOSH EATS | DRINKS | SWEETS I nside her neat Oak Park home, Shirah Fish is layering let- tuce, sliced avocado, broiled chicken and quinoa in the 20+ plastic containers spread along the kitchen counter. Soon customers will be picking up their lunches, and she’ll deliver the rest in the Oak Park/Southfield/Huntington Woods area. “People forget to take care of themselves. Moms are busy with their kids all day and lu...…
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 49 A new option for people on special diets. Filling a Need: The Lunch Box has recently begun providing breakfast power bowls, which include steamed spinach and scrambled eggs on a base of rice and beans, with pico de gallo and guasacaca sauce. Most of her clientele are people with some kind of special diet — dairy free, allergies, gluten-free, vegan — and there aren’t many kosher choices for them in Metro Detroit. ...…
…50 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 S ummer heat has been evaded in many ways throughout history. When traveling the U.S., you may find bars called icehouses because they were exactly that at one point. Often they were buildings, usually set somewhat into the ground (much like many base- ments today) and well-in- sulated. These icehouses could be packed with ice during the winter, and the ice could be stored for decent quantities of time. At...…
