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…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 51 thinking do not often con- sider what Kanye West did when presenting an award to Taylor Swift at the 2009 Video Music Awards — interrupting her presenta- tion to imply that Beyonce deserved the award. Levine judges Kanye West’s opinion correct — Beyonce deserved the award — but the action inappropriate. Levine uses this incident to illuminate the complex Talmudic discussion of a Kohen who seizes the agri- c...…

…52 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 MYSTERY IN 8 ACTS; BETTY CELEBRATED; GAME-CHANGING VACCINE? AT&T STAR UPDATE The Afterparty is an Apple+ series that premieres on Friday, Jan. 28. It centers on a murder mystery at a high school reunion. Each one of the series’ eight episodes features a retelling of the same night from a different character’s perspective. Each episode has its own unique visual style and film genre to match the teller’s ...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 53 SOULFUL YOGA 10 AM, JAN. 29 Adat Shalom Synagogue invites you to join Rabbi Aaron Bergman and yoga instructor Mindy Eisenberg. Connect body and soul as they apply the wisdom of Torah to the gentle practice of yoga. No yoga experience is necessary. There is no fee to participate. For questions, contact 248- 851-5100. SHALOM SHABBAT 10:30 AM, JAN. 29 Adat Shalom Synagogue invites you to join Hazzan Dan Gross...…

…54 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 A s we have found ourselves at home more and more, many of us have turned to cooking things for ourselves that we’ d usually buy without a second thought. For me, such an item has been yogurt; after making a batch, you suddenly realize that the process is so easy and so straightforward that you won’t need to shop for yogurt again. (You still will, but … you know.) The most important note is to keep...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 55 N early two full years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of Detroit-area Jewish families requiring food assistance is still near the highest it’s ever been — and, for the second year in a row, there’s a way you can help. Now through Jan. 31, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit’s Women’s Philanthropy Tikkun Olam Volunteers (TOV) are holding their “Winter Soup Drive” to benefit Yad Ezra. The volun...…

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…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 57 LENORE. N. BERON, 82, of West Bloomfield, died Jan. 13, 2022. She is sur- vived by her daughter, Rochelle Wetstein; son, Eric Wetstein; grandchildren, Angelo Colella, Hannah Colella, Isabelle Colella and Amanda Wetstein. Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. LOUIS BROWN, 79, of Royal Oak, died Jan. 12, 20...…

…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 58 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 continued on page 60 c. 1985 SUSAN QUINLAN FELDSTEIN, 77, of Bloomfield Hills, died Jan. 15, 2022. Susan was born in Chicago, Ill. She graduated from Shrine High School in 1962, Wayne State University in 1966 and Wayne State Law School (cum laude) in 1973. She was a brilliant attor- ney, a lifelong Detroiter, a feminist pioneer, a passion- ate lover of dogs and, most impo...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 59 Judaism embraces all facets of life . . . including death. Trust us to assist you with dignity and grace. Yeshiva Beth Yehudah eshiva Beth Yehudah expresses its heartfelt and deepest condolences to the family of expresses its heartfelt and deepest condolences to the family of Lois Shiffman Lois Shiffman a”h a”h The Yeshiva has dedicated the learning for this month by our students The Yeshiva has dedicated the lear...…

…60 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY continued from page 58 Dr. Michael Samson; sons and daughters-in-law, Rob and Julie Samson, and Danny and Tami Samson; grandchildren, Jordan, Charlie, Olivia, Abby, Josie, Leo and Henry Samson; sister and brother-in-law, Ruth and Lawrence Daniels; brother and sister-in-law, Dr. Mark Selitsky and Dr. Orit Szwarcman; sis- ter-in-law and brother-in-law, Barbara and Dr. Michael Sitr...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 61 D avid Kahan, 93, of Bloomfield Township and Highland Beach, Fla., beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grand- father, passed away on Jan. 8, 2022. He was born in Gheorgheni, Transylvania, one of six chil- dren born to Moshe Chaim and Raizel Toba. In the spring of 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz with his parents, younger brother, Hersch Leib, and sister, Chaya Sara. Only he survived the ...…

…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 62 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 An Odious UN Resolution L ast month, Dec. 16, 2021, marked the 30th anniversary of the revoking of the odious United Nations resolution 3379. Adopted by the UN’s general assem- bly on Nov. 10, 1975, the resolution “deter- mined” that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” Think...…

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…$200 Jan. 20-26, 2022 / 18-24 Shevat 5782 JEWISH NEWS JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT thejewishnews.com JEWISH NEWS Sculpture Hockey star Elle Hartje explores family roots, grows personally during a pandemic- plagued season in Slovakia. See page 28 Sculpture …

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 3 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-9 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 10 The Lines Are Drawn New congressional districts impact Metro Detroit’s Jewish community. 12 A Place to Mourn Clover Hill Park Cemetery plans on-site shivah center expansion. 14 80 Years Ago In 1942, Joe Biden and the Jewish News were both born. 16 Would You Risk Your Life to Save a Book? The Zekelman Holoca...…

…4 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 PURELY COMMENTARY essay I Called Her Aunt Anna T he stories behind how Jewish families bond with those of other religions have always fascinated me. I grew up in an Orthodox, then later Conservative Jewish family. My parents were very close with a woman from a Greek Orthodox family. Her name was Anna, but I loved her so much and felt so close to her, I always called her Aunt Anna. She came into my fa...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 5 P A R T IS A N S, P OE TS, AND T HE R AC E T O S AVE JEW I S H T REAS URES FROM TH E N A Z I S . be in her life. She closed the door on Susan’s face. Susan and Barry were devastated. After an hour of conversation, I invited Susan and her husband for a weekend visit. We both had so many questions that needed answers. She was hoping I could close the information gap; I ...…

…6 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 1942 - 2022 Covering and Connecting Jewish Detroit Every Week To make a donation to the DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION go to the website www.djnfoundation.org The Detroit Jewish News (USPS 275-520) is published every Thursday at 32255 Northwestern Highway, #205, Farmington Hills, Michigan. Periodical postage paid at Southfield, Michigan, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: send changes to: De...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 7 DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 32255 Northwestern Hwy. Suite 205, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 248-354-6060 thejewishnews.com TWO GENERATIONS OF SOLD 2 4 8 . 8 6 7 . 7 8 0 0 M E L A N I E S O L D . C O M melaniesold@aol.com & ns.cohen26@gmail.com 4130 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills MI 48302 MELANIE BISHOP NOAH BISHOP-COHEN “SOLD” is my middle name The Next Generation Of “SOLD” MB MB MB MB MB MB MB MB MB MB MB MB MB...…

…8 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 column New Year Resolutions that Go Beyond Ourselves B enjamin Disraeli wrote: “I am prepared for the worst but hope for the best.” Mel Brooks sang: “Hope for the best, expect the worst.” In slightly different ways and from very different platforms, both the statesman and the comedian identified the same precarious mix of optimism and pessimism inherent in their shared Jewish faith. Since one of the ...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 9 letters A Touching Column Dr. Jeff London’s article, “40 Years of Psychiatry: What Have I Learned?” (Jan. 6, 2022) touched me deeply with his honesty, humility and hope. I have practiced psychology for many years and can identify with his perceptive insights and lessons about the human condition. I especially resonated with the following paragraph: “The thought that one never knows the effect you might have ...…

…10 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 OUR COMMUNITY LANSING F or the past four years, Michigan has had two Jewish members of Congress, both Democrats: Andy Levin, who succeeded his legendary father Sandy Levin, and Elissa Slotkin, who has twice won a seat that had been designed to elect Republicans. But this year, both will be running in districts that are substantially different. One, Andy Levin, is facing an unexpect- ed primary challenge that...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 11 SLOTKIN’S CHALLENGE Elissa Slotkin, who was also first elected in 2018, has never had an easy elec- tion; she twice has had to raise huge sums — $7.5 mil- lion in 2020 — to narrowly hold on to her seat. That’s the case even though her foreign poli- cy knowledge and experience are highly regarded; though only 45, she already has had a career as a CIA analyst and an Assistant Secretary of State for National S...…

…12 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 T raditionally, families who have lost a loved one conduct daily services and receive visitors at the family home for a week after the funeral. They gather with friends for comfort and often share memories of the deceased individual. Family members often eat together during the shivah period. But times have changed. According to Kim Raznik, executive director of Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham, t...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 13 spread out, and it’s not safe to be in a home,” says Rabbi Aaron Starr of Congregation Shaarey Zedek. The congre- gation has hosted outdoor shivahs and other events at its Southfield facility and grounds. In addition, some shivah services are held in its main sanctuary with partici- pants distanced and masked in this very large space. “We need to honor the deceased and comfort mourners, and achieve those mit...…

…E ighty years ago, there was much to talk and read about. America was still reeling from the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Japan declared war on the United States and Britain after the attack on Hawaii and Honolulu. The following day, the United States declared war on Japan, and three days later, Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S, after which the U.S. declared war against them. Detroit’s newspapers o...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 15 Small in stature, Slomovitz towered over others as a ferocious fighter for and defender of justice and Jewish causes. Slomovitz con- tacted Danny Raskin, then a young reporter with the Detroit News, to join the new pub- lication. Raskin didn’t think there was room for two local Jewish weeklies, But Slomovitz’s determination soon melted Raskin’s reluc- tance. Raskin’s first column in the first Jewish News on March ...…

…16 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 OUR COMMUNITY W ould you risk your life to save a book? That is the under- lying question of “The Book Smugglers: Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis” on view at the newly renamed Zekelman Holocaust Center (HC) now through May 31, 2022. The exhibi- tion was curated by Holocaust Museum Houston and based on the book of the same name by Dr. David E. Fishman. “The Book S...…

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…18 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 F light cancellations, changing travel rules and getting stuck abroad: These are just a few of the many issues trav- elers are facing in recent weeks as the rapid- ly spreading Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to impact the travel industry. Having recently returned from a trip to Aruba, I faced all these issues and then some as Omicron quickly went from what felt like a small possibility in the back- ground...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 19 A mong many programs the Woodward Avenue Shul is offering this winter is the “Soup and Study” program, an opportunity to participate in a weekly discussion analyzing a larger Jewish topic that connects with the weekly Torah por- tion, accompanied with a warm, hearty soup. There have been three ses- sions so far, the first on the topic of trust and faith in God and the next two on freedom of choice and de...…

…20 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 W ant to do a mitz- vah and have some tasty, fresh challah delivered to someone’s doorstep? Challah Train, an initiative of JFamily, is just the program for you. Challah Train entails challah being delivered each Friday to two members of the community, mostly families with children that would be served by JFamily. Jamie Kaniarz, Challah Train’s parent connector and “train conductor, ” says the initiative ...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 21 F ederation’s NEXTGen Detroit is hosting a spe- cial edition of its happy hour/bar night series, L ’Chaim Detroit, on Jan. 26 from 6-8 p.m. L ’Chaim Detroit: Newish and Jewish Edition is aimed at those who moved to town (or back to town) between March 2020 and present day and haven’t gotten out much or experienced all the awesome people and excit- ing things Detroit and Jewish Detroit have to offer. The eve...…

…22 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 A holiday vacation taken by a West Bloomfield family in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, turned into a vehicle to help those in need. Ten-year-old Hillel student Emeri Charlip, along with her two friends, Oliver and Alice Hybl, raised more than $400 for the Vallarta Food Bank by collecting, decorating and selling rocks. It began when the kids decid- ed to do an art project when they were on the beach one day, and...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 23 University of Michigan’s Judaic Studies Center gets $1M grant T he University of Michigan’s Frankel Center for Judaic Studies announced that it had received a new gift in excess of $1 million from local benefactors. The money will primarily be used to create a new full- time endowed professor- ship on the faculty. The gift comes from the estate of Stuart and Barbara Padnos, and will endow a Stuart B. and ...…

…24 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 T he Rabbi and The Shrink is a pod- cast that’s aptly named. With a mission of advancing a global discussion on everything eth- ics, from ethics in business to ethics in relationships, the podcast — which is, of course, hosted by a rabbi and a shrink — aims to teach people moral principles while improving understanding of differ- ent perspectives. “It’s nice to have people who you can disagree with to show how t...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 25 “I thought of the rabbi immediately,” Gurri says. Goldson, a self-proclaimed “hitchhiking rabbi,” has host- ed a TEDx Talk and works with leaders to create ethical business cultures. “He is a guy who is unusual for a rabbi because he’s very Orthodox now, but he wasn’t raised that way. He’s never short of stories [to tell].” Gurri called “the good rabbi,” as she refers to her co-host, and asked him to “say y...…

…26 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 faces&places TOP: Marc Bernstein MIDDLE: Rabbi Asher Lopatin, Rev. Ken Flowers (Greater New Mt. Moriah), Luke Moon (Philos Project), Adar Rubin, Ashira Solomon (JCRC/AJC). BOTTOM: Ashira Solomon, Rabbi Asher Lopatin and Adar Rubin. PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF JCRC/AJC Shine a Light on Antisemitism The Detroit Metropolitan community gathered on Sunday, Dec. 5, to Shine a Light on Antisemitism. Members of the Jew...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 27 faces&places I n its 25th year, Mitzvah Day turned into Mitzvah Weekend, running from Dec. 24-26 to expand its outreach and offer alternatives to Jewish volunteers who observe the Sabbath. Hundreds of volunteers of various faiths came together to serve Metro Detroit non- profits. Historically, Mitzvah Day is the single largest day of volunteering by Detroit’s Jewish Community Relations Council/American Jewish...…

…28 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 E lle Hartje was making a name for herself in women’s hockey at the dawn of the new year. The 20-year-old Yale University sophomore from Bloomfield Hills was averaging 1.29 assists per game, the highest average among NCAA Division I women’s hockey players. Hartje had six goals and 18 assists in 14 games for the Bulldogs (10-3-1), who were ranked No. 6 in the country, the highest ranking in program history. ...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 29 from Hungary, Germany, Poland, Austria, Sweden and Kazakhstan. She also played for the Slovakia national team in games against Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic after fulfilling a requirement set by Slovakian and international hockey organizations to establish residence in Slovakia by living in that country for at least eight months. The 5-foot-5 forward received permission from USA Hockey to join th...…

…30 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 she had to quarantine for two weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to family friends, she had an apartment in the city where she could stay, and food was brought in for her. She lived in a hotel in Bratislava along with her club teammates the rest of the time she was there. The team had a floor to itself. Her roommate, Simone Bednarik, spoke English. But the rest of her teammates “spoke only servicea...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 31 BACK IN THE U.S.A. She planned to compete with the Slovakia national team in an Olympic qualification tournament in November but was ill (not with COVID) and decided not to travel. It turned out to be a wise decision. The four Yale games Elle would have missed had she traveled — against Cornell, Colgate, Harvard and Dartmouth from Nov. 5-13 — were all wins for the Bulldogs, who outscored their four opponents 22...…

…32 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 H e grew up in the food business, at the super- market chain his late grandfather Sidney Hiller start- ed, and his father, Jim Hiller, ran for decades. Now Justin Hiller, former VP of Hiller’s Markets, has returned to the retail food industry, bringing a new healthy fast-food concept to Metro Detroit. He opened Saladworks and Frutta Bowls at Crosswinds Mall on Orchard Lake Road in December, creating 15 new...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 33 once had more than 1,200 employees and seven locations: West Bloomfield, Ann Arbor, Northville, Plymouth, South Lyon, Commerce Township and Union Lake. Hiller’s was sold to Kroger in 2015. After that, Justin worked with Gleaners Community Food Bank to help launch a neighborhood mobile grocery program and as a stewardship administrator. “The food service industry has played an integral role in my life and I...…

…34 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 T here’s a tremendous collection of cookbooks in the libraries of Michigan State University, and they’ve digitized a number of them for researchers and the public alike to read and enjoy. Amongst these tomes is The International Jewish Cook Book, published in 1918. A snapshot of Jewish foods from all corners and of all types, the recipes pay attention to kosher laws and holiday concerns, and cove...…

…JANUARY 20 • 2022 | 35 M any wonder what is the real secret of the Jewish nation? How do the Jews have so many members who invest their entire lives in study and scholarship? What is the deeper reason for motivation to acquire knowledge and be edu- cated? More than 3,000 years ago, a small percentage of people knew how to read. Only the most elite received education. The ruling class specifically intended it that way to ensur...…

…36 | JANUARY 20 • 2022 W hat are the key turning points in history? What are the events that changed the world beyond recognition and whose impact was felt by everyone, everywhere? You could talk about the invention of the electric light bulb or Gutenberg’s printing press. You could mention the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, which set off World War I and led to World War II, or the French and American Revolutions, or the ...…