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… played nearly 400 games for various teams in 13 seasons in the NHL. Hartman is also another Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Famer. So, Beckman was right. Jews and hock- ey go together. Go Wings! Want…

…46 | JANUARY 28 • 2021 Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org Jews & Hockey I really enjoyed JN sportswriter Steve…

… answer. To quote Frank Beckman’s sports column in the Nov. 14, 1947, issue of the Jewish Chronicle: “Yes, there are Jews in hockey.” (Note: this Frank Beckman reported on sports much earlier than WJR…

… radio’s sports legend Frank Beckmann.) Detroit Jews have a long relationship with the sport. Hockey is mentioned on 3,268 pages in the Davidson Archive; the Detroit Red Wings on 398 pages. The…

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… increase in the Middle East. Groups participating were the Jewish Community Relations Council/American Jewish Committee (JCRC/AJC), the Zionist Organization of America-Michigan Region (ZOA-MI), ADL…

… Michigan, Hadassah Greater Detroit Chapter and the National Council of Jewish Women-Michigan Region (NCJW- MI). “We stand together against antisem- itism, and we stand together against hatred,” said…

… Rabbi Asher Lopatin, the executive director of JCRC/AJC, noting that although all the sponsoring groups do not agree on many issues, they are united in their desire to defend Jews. “ All the groups…

… here have passions for Israel and so many other things that are central to our lives. “This rally is about stopping Jew hatred, stopping antisemitism,” Lopatin said. “Before the Holocaust, there was…

… not enough protest against antisemitism,” said Kobi Erez, executive director of ZOA-MI. “Jews were discriminated against. Their stores were boycotted. They were attacked in the streets. People…

…, including some Jews, thought it would pass if they just stayed silent. “In the face of hate, in the face of antisemitism, the worst thing we can do is stay silent. We are here. We are proud to be Jewish…

…. We are proud of our non-Jew- ish allies who showed up to support us today. “We stand up against hate against of any group, and we are standing up against hate against the Jewish people,” Erez said…

…. ZOA-MI President Sheldon Freilich, added, “Since the 1930s, we have not seen this kind of hatred, Jews attacked on the streets and graffiti defacing buildings. I’m a child of Holocaust survivors…

…, and I’m scared of what’s going on in our United States of America. As Americans, we need to stand up and not accept this. “Many antisemites today view Israel as a reason to attack Jews. This is…

… antisemitism.” ‘ALL HATRED IS INTOLERABLE’ Seth Gould, president of JCRC/AJC, said, “We stand together against antisemitism and hatred of any kind — hatred against Jews, hatred against Muslims, hatred…

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…. Following the 11-day conflict between Israel and Hamas, acts of hatred toward American Jews — mainly online but also with physical attacks — have risen globally by 438%, accord- ing to the British Jewish…

…AgainstAntiSemitism online campaign and held an online rally May 27 to provide the public with information. Carolyn Normandin, director of ADL Michigan region, said in the 10 days of the 11-day conflict, 14 incidents…

… of hatred against Jews were filed to her local office. They include: • At a May 22 anti-Israel protest in Flint, a demonstrator held a sign demonizing Zionists that read, in part, “being pro…

… was right” as a rationale to call for the end of the existence of the Jewish state. She urges anyone who has received or viewed hateful online messages about Jews or any minority group to contact…

… the ADL and file a report. “It’s this vicious kind of ubiq- uitous blame that right now is troubling, ” Normandin said. “We have seen tremendous blame of Jews for all Israel’s policies. They are…

… getting violent responses because they posted a statement in support of Israel or have been asked to leave online groups because they are Jewish. ” Locally, Jews say they have seen an increase of anti…

…-Is- rael and anti-Jewish posts on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. The hateful rhetoric against Jews and Israel support- ers lately has inundated every facet of life and is impacting all generations…

…. ANTI-ISRAEL ACTION IN ANN ARBOR At the University of Michigan, student Ben Moss of Bloomfield Hills serves on the Michigan Hillel governing board as communica- tions officer and is charged with…

…APRIL 29 • 2021 | 61 W hen people speak about various ventures in ethnic dining, the usual ones seem to pop up all the time because of their popularity. When Seifu Lessanework, an Ethiopian Jew…

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… Hills, famous for his sports memorabilia collection, died Feb. 2, 2021, at age 85. MARCH Longtime Michigan Attorney General and friend to Michigan Jews, FRANK KELLY died at age 96. Micki Grossman…

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… more posi- tive light than I probably deserve. Yet, conventionally, our friendship is improbable. Yehuda is a self-identified ultra-Orthodox Jew. To label myself, I am an intermar- ried Jew that…

… person and a Jew because of our friendship. But even as I constantly grow within my faith, I am who I am. I am not halachically observant. I drive on Shabbat. I love a good cheeseburger. Pew asked…

… the partic- ipants how much they had in common with Jews from the various denom- inations. When Orthodox Jews were asked about how much they had in common with Reform Jews, 50% responded a lot or…

… some. 48% responded not much or nothing at all. When the question was asked of Reform Jews, 39% said they had a lot or some in com- mon with Orthodox Jews. And 60% said they had not much or…

… nothing at all in common. At first, these numbers appalled me. As Jews, we definitionally have some- thing in common with each other. But then I wondered, five years ago, before I became friends…

… enhancing the quality of life, and Jewish life, in Southeast Michigan. Jan. 14-20, 2021 / 1-7 Shevat 5781 | VOLUME CLVIII, ISSUE 24 VIEWS 4-9 IN THED JEWS 10 Hypodermic of Hope Jewish seniors…

… SOAS college in London. 24 What Our Neighbors Think of Us AJC surveys Jews’ and non-Jews’ opinions on antisemitism. 28 End of an Era Last artist moves out of Detroit’s Atlas Building…

… A new boxed set unearths 10 classics from a forgotten era of filmmaking. 36 Celebrity Jews Shabbat Lights Shabbat Starts: Friday, Jan. 15, 5:07 p.m. Shabbat Ends: Saturday, Jan. 16, 6:13 p…

… JANUARY 14 • 2021 | 25 identify them as Jews since the Tree of Life shooting in October 2018. • 37% reported being the target of an antisemitic incident, such as a physical attack or an…

…” about the “lack of deference” non-Jews show toward Jews in defining the term. The study revealed nearly two thirds (65%) of U.S. adults said it would make no difference in their opinion of a given…

…-Zionism — the belief that Israel has no right to exist — to be a form of Jew- hatred. Rabbi Asher Lopatin, executive director of Jewish Community Relations Council/ AJC Detroit, said the findings are…

… battle. Jews must work toward letting the broader community know our sensitivities, just like we are sensitive to racism, ” Lopatin said. “This [understanding] is not something that can be forced…

…, and others must come to under- standing antisemitism on a grad- ual basis on their own through meaningful dialogue. ” Lopatin was encouraged that non-Jews viewed denying Israel’s existence as a form…

… – Farmington Hills Center Dr. Kleinsmith received her bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University, and her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine. Dr. Kleinsmith completed her…

… Dr. Kleinsmith received her bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University, and her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine. Dr. Kleinsmith completed her dermatology…

…. Kleinsmith received her bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University, and her medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine. Dr. Kleinsmith completed her dermatology residency at…

… statements about Jews.” Is this a tall order to learn to say such calm replies? Yes! And we all must learn to do it — to educate one person at a time. I attended Michigan State University in the late…

… farm in Michigan. She had never before met a Jew. Third quarter — I shared with a young woman from Oak Park, who I heard tell someone on the dorm hall phone that she now had a Jewish friend. Then…

… comments calmly and in a way that educates the other person. In the case of the statement about Jews only caring about money, perhaps an appropriate answer could be: “You may not realize that what you…

… said is an antisemitic statement said for hundreds of years to harm Jews. I know you wouldn’t say such a statement about Blacks or Asian Americans. I hope in the future you won’t say such…

… 1960s. In my hometown of Elgin, Ill., I had been the only Jewish stu- dent in my classes, and I had so looked forward to being among Jews at college. Fall 1966 — I am assigned to be roommates in…

… when you heard about the deadly synagogue attacks on Jews in Pittsburgh? In Poway, Calif.? Remember the emo- tions you went through? Did you feel outrage? Were you sick watching the news…

… fired toward Israel from Hamas- controlled Gaza in a terrorist effort to murder Jews. Not all of them landed in empty fields; that miraculous Iron Dome that saves so many lives isn’t infallible…

…. I’m a Jewish mom of two teenagers living in a Philadelphia suburb. I grew up in a Connecticut town with very few Jews, and I was raised in a secular Jewish home with no connection to Judaism…

…; however, Israel and Zionism were an integral part of my upbringing. L’dor v’dor: I am raising my children to be unapolo- getic Zionists and Jews. I’m proud that my daughter, who just graduated high…

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… about 50,000 Jews living in Salonica (or Thessaloniki), the largest Jewish community in Greece. Between March and August 1943, the Germans deport- ed more than 45,000 Jews to the Auschwitz…

… Jewish history. But a few Jews managed to survive the massacre. Two of those survivors gave birth to a man, Albert Bourla, who is now at the center of the biggest public health crisis of modern times…

… Holocaust survivors has helped provide the vaccine that will save countless lives, not just around the world but also in the country of Jewish refuge, Israel. There was no ref- uge for the 6 million Jews…

… who perished in the Holocaust, nor for Bourla’s fellow Greek Jews who were gassed at Auschwitz. Today there is. Consider the speed with which Israel is getting its people vaccinated. We know that…

… Jews survived. I hope you’ll agree there’s something remarkable about all of this. ” There is, indeed. The very sequence of the Holocaust followed by the birth of Israel is haunting. Within a few…

… years, Jews went from the lowest to the highest, the dark- est to the brightest, the pits of despair to the heights of hope. They went from the verdict of death to the promise of life. A vaccine is…

… the antidote to death. A Greek Jew who hails from a community of death is now spreading the hope of life. Eight decades after the massa- cre of Salonica, Albert Bourla stands as an enduring…

… testament to the power of resiliency — for Jews and for humanity. David Suissa is editor-in-chief and pub- lisher of Tribe Media Corp and Jewish Journal. He can be reached at davids@ jewishjournal…

…34 | MAY 27 • 2021 A s part of its ongoing efforts to facilitate greater connections between Israel and world Jewry, the Jewish Agency for Israel’s Central Galilee and Michigan partnership…

… run- ning tours of Central Galilee areas to provide Michigan residents with the opportunity to immerse themselves in that region and meet its people while they work out on a tread- mill and “run…

…” with the tour guides or relax on a sofa. The Central Galilee tour represented the Jewish Agency’s latest initiative to maintain and grow the closeness between Israeli and diaspora Jews during a…

… period when the COVID-19 pandemic has limited, if not halted, travel between Israel and North America. “Whether it be in extraor- dinary or more normal times, Jews from Israel and around the world…

… continuing its work to bridge the distance between Israeli and Jewish com- munities, on Yom HaAtzmaut and year-round, as a crucial vehicle for uniting the global Jewish people. ” Michigan’s P2G…

… participants toured the hub of immigration absorption in Migdal HaEmek, where Jews from many different backgrounds and origins from North Africa, the former Soviet Union, Ethiopia and more live together…

… Michigan were also able to meet the new shin- shinim (service year emissaries), who will be joining the commu- nity next year. Since 1994, the Michigan communities of Metropolitan Detroit, Ann Arbor and…

… focuses on building a vibrant Jewish future, includ- ing through the Michigan communities’ support for an English-language instruction program that reaches more than 4,000 students in 35 schools…

… Michigan and Central Galilee. On the Road 2Gether JN STAFF …

… coordination with the Michigan chapter of the Anti-Defamation League and Wayne State University psychologist Erika Bocknek. Around 25 households Zoomed into the seminar in response to the record…

…-breaking rise in global antisemitism that reached a crescendo following Hamas’ latest war with Israel. “Social media has been exploding with hatred, ” said Michigan ADL Director Carolyn Normandin. “We…

… have seen a tremen- dous amount of anti-Jewish rhetoric targeting Jews, including ‘Hitler was right, ’ and ‘We should have burned all the Jews’ because of the violence in Israel. ” ‘PYRAMID OF HATE…

…’ Michigan ADL Education Director Kristin Jager said it is important to educate youth about the “Pyramid of Hate” to under- stand through the lens of history how attitudes of bias and micro- aggressions…

… toward Jews or any minority can escalate to violence and potentially, genocide. “The ADL is most effective when we can work in the two lowest tiers of this pyramid in countering bias attitudes and…

… FEBRUARY 4 • 2021 | 27 SPIRIT A Forced Judaism? T he newly liberated band of Jews just left Egypt and are now marching toward Mt. Sinai. They would finally meet their God and enter into a…

… relationship with Him by accepting the Torah and the historic Jewish mission. As the Jews camped, they proclaimed their com- mitment to the Torah, pledging “We will do and we will hear.” But the Talmud…

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… trickle turned into a wave and thou- sands of Soviet Jewish refugees left the Iron Curtain for good. It’s estimated that by the time the mass emigration finally slowed down, some 2 million Jews escaped…

… cause of Soviet Jewry eventually entering her life. “It was an issue that had really developed after the 1967 Six-Day War,” she said, “when Soviet Jews wanted to get out of the Soviet Union and get…

… MICHIGAN COURTESY OF JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN OUR COMMUNITY Photos taken at the JCC during the Freedom Run for Soviet Jewry on September 25, 1983. A screenshot, from the 2007 documentary…

… Refusenik by Laura Bialis, which chronicles the 30-year international movement to free Soviet Jews. …

…JUNE 10 • 2021 | 19 star. We stand here today as proud Jews. “Hate against any one of us is hate against all of us,” Gould said. “The Jewish people know what it means to be silent to crimes…

… against us. Today we say, we will not be silent. We will not bow to ter- ror. Never again!” Carolyn Normandin, regional director of ADL Michigan said, “My office is get- ting incident after incident…

…- lege campuses and places of worship. “For 130 years, NCJW Michigan has been fighting against hate on behalf of people of many different racial, ethnic, national, religious and cultural back- grounds…

… there. “Statistics show we’re in a particularly dangerous time,” Rubenstein told the JN. “I think it’s important for Jews to be together and to speak out and bring in other allies to speak against…

… that read “Stop Jew Hatred” and “Proud to Be Jewish.” Rabbi Asher Lopatin of JCRC/AJC says, “We stand together.” ZOA-MI board member Charles Greenberg and Executive Director Kobi Erez. Hadassah…

… mentor,” Sharfman said. “Then we formed a group in the Michigan area.” Armed with a telephone and a list of Soviet Jews who had been arrested, harassed or refused exit, Sharfman made calls. “There was…

… Soviet Jewry shortly after the first Leningrad Trial, which happened on Dec. 15, 1970. In it, a group of Soviet Jews was charged with attempting to hijack a small Soviet commercial plane. Their aim was…

… Richter at the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, which had been founded by Jacob Birnbaum in 1964 and was among the first grassroots movements for the liberation of Jews from the USSR. “He became my…

…’re in touch all the time, whether we’re in Israel or not,” said Sharfman, who moved back to Michigan from Israel two years ago but hopes to return soon. One of those friends was Pam Cohen, whose…

… we were there,” she said. “People came from all over the Soviet Union to speak. It was amazing.” Once the Soviet Union began to break up in the late 1980s, Soviet Jews were finally free to go…

… history of the Soviet Jews and what a “miracle it was that we won.” Sharfman is uncomfortable getting acco- lades for her volunteer work that helped make that miracle happen. “It’s not me. It was a…

… whole group of us doing the same thing,” she said. Sharfman said a majority of the Jews who fled the Soviet Union came to Israel, where more than a million of them live now. “They have made an amazing…

… left out extra matzah on the table in honor of fellow Soviet Jews unable to celebrate the holiday. As more Soviet Jewish families resettled in Metro Detroit and the rest of the country, knowledge…

… about the wide- spread issues they faced in getting approval to emi- grate continued to grow. “There was a lot of red tape,” Yost recalls. Some Soviet Jews waited upwards of years for approval, often…

…6 | MARCH 11 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY guest column The Man Who Flew 120,000 Iraqi Jews to Safety in Israel J ews with roots in Iraq are today the third largest community in Israel — after…

… the Soviet and the Moroccan. Did you ever wonder how they got there? The mass aliyah of some 120,000 Iraqi Jews between 1950 and 1951 is attributable largely to the efforts of one man — Shlomo…

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… English les- sons as they prepared for their new lives. Still, despite their effort and sacrifice, many Jews were denied the right to come to the U.S. “People were there [in Italy] for six months or a…

… year, even more than that,” Feterovich says. It was the same story over and over during interviews at immigration offices — Soviet Jews explained that they were persecuted. This was why they wanted…

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… make so much sense. ” Cantor Smolash said he doesn’t like getting into poli- tics. “I like sticking to music. It brings people together. Where there are tensions between American Jews and Israeli…

… Jews ... music is the perfect counter- balance.” The cantors’ relationship with Rabotai dates back to Purim. Cantor Smolash left a comment on Rabotai’s YouTube channel praising the group’s work…

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… Jr. marching in civil rights demonstrations, oftentimes locked arm and arm with Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, his fellow activist and close friend. As Jews, we see these pictures and we…

… his friend’s funeral. Over the years, Rabbi Heschel has become an iconic symbol of commitment and solidarity between Black and Jews. But that was then, and this is now. The Black and Jewish expe…

…, mem- bers of the Michigan legis- lature followed suit with its own Black and Jewish Unity Caucus. Both groups cited the urgent need for the communi- ties to come together in light of the dramatic…

… spike in white supremacy groups and hate crimes targeting Blacks and Jews. Last September, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and the National Urban League kicked off Black- Jewish Unity Week, a…

… Black and Jewish unity. The joint efforts among Blacks and Jews to form solid, meaningful and effective alli- ances are alive and well today. There are still critics and detractors, but for many peo…

… and Jews are facing a surge in hatred and violence. Dr. King once wrote that “we may have all come on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now.” That is indeed true today. How we…

… honor the life and legacy of Dr. King, Jews can educate themselves on what’s being done to pre- serve Black-Jewish unity and we can work to strengthen and renew it. Rabbi Heschel left us a shining…

… Jewish community as we observe the King holiday this year, as well as a fitting and beautiful way to honor his dream. Mark Jacobs is the AIPAC Michigan chair for African American Outreach, a co…

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… program he thought were Jewish. He wanted to prove other Jews had survived. Otto died before I was born. When I began studying at the University of Michigan in 2017, I knew only a few other facts about…

… his life. I knew that he and his wife, Yvonne, managed to obtain two of the few emergency visas granted by the United States to Jews in 1941. I knew that she gave birth to my great-uncle Bob on the…

… [who] had spoken out against the Nazi government. ” As an investigative report- er for U-M’s student newspaper, The Michigan Daily, I felt a connection in that moment that extended beyond my genes. I…

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… statements and acts around the globe, the rise in these statements and acts in recent years has been alarming. And as Evelyn Markus, a Dutch Jew and the daughter of Holocaust survi- vors, discusses in…

… interviewing both Jews and non-Jews about the antisemitism they or oth- ers currently face, their antise- mitic experiences in the past, and the first time they learned about the Holocaust. That show has…

… non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism that many organizations are adopting: “ Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews…

… reason our podcast is important is the same as the reason this definition is important: To make people aware of what antisemitism is. For example, when someone says in front of you that Jews only…

… worth of a Black family. WHAT CAN WE DO? As compassionate human beings and as Jews who are obligated to care for our own people (which includes Jews of color), we must try to remedy the causes of…

… there is so much on which most of us agree, there appears to be a border that we Jews choose not to cross in terms of ending racial inequality. While Jews have long supported affirmative action in…

…, one might support more people of color attending the University of Michigan. However, one might object if allowing more people of color to attend the University means that his or her own child…

… our own day the German government gave reparations to Holocaust survi- vors. On the other hand, today’s African American community is generations removed from slavery and, for many Jews, our…

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… youngest of 11 children of an Iraqi- Jewish merchant importing goods from India, Japan and Manchester. Iraqi Jews were not generally Zionist, but until the rise of pro-Nazi feeling in the 1930s, there…

… Christians, what will they do to Jews?” He moved the rest of his family to Israel. A founder of kibbutz Ma’agan Michael, Shlomo Hillel married Temima, who came as a refugee from Europe on the Patria. He…

… Israel Prize in 1988. But he was always modest about his achievements. AIDING ETHIOPIAN JEWS Later Shlomo Hillel was involved in the mass emigra- tion of Jews from Ethiopia. The wheel came full circle…

….” Lyn Julius is a journalist and co-founder of Harif, an association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa in the UK. She is the author of Uprooted: How 3,000 years of Jewish…

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… government and Jews in general. Liss is a member of Temple Israel and belonged to BBYO Michigan Region. In the fall, he will attend the University of Michigan where he plans to continue his work in the…

…26 | SEPTEMBER 16 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY A cross Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, antisemitism is no stranger to American Jews. Jonah Liss, 18, a recent grad- uate of International…

… Academy in Bloomfield Township, while scrolling through Twitter, unfortu- nately saw messages such as “I wish Hitler was still alive, ” “Kill the Jews” and other hate directed at Jews. He then felt…

… language on Twitter. ” Liss pulled 100,000 tweets containing the words Israel, Israeli government, IDF, Jew, Jewish people and Judaism to see the relationship in rhetoric between the two groups. “What…

… very negative tweets about Israel outnumbered positive and very positive ones by about 23,000 to 21,000, and negative tweets about Jews out- numbered the positive by about 26,000 to 17,000. Liss…

… hatred? With all respect to Chief Judge Sutton’s legal acumen, there are solid reasons in fed- eral and Michigan law to sus- tain the Jewish worshippers’ claim that gatherings and placards designed to…

… law gave the con- gregants only until Sept. 29, when Jews around the world will be celebrating Simchat Torah, to file a request with the Sixth Circuit to have the appeal considered anew by the…

… that he took the weekend off, and he reported, “The hotel mainly filled with Jews, and we are a little surprised to see so many of them still prospering and apparently unafraid. I think they are…

… unduly optimistic.” How right he was. Less than five months later, the Nazis formally codified Jew- hatred with the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived Germany’s Jews of citizenship and all basic human…

… against American Jews since ADL started tracking the data in 1979. Other incidents of hate are also on the rise in the state of Michigan, with the ADL receiving more than 170 reports of hateful…

…MAY 6 • 2021 | 25 T he 2020 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents issued April 27 by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows cases of antisemitism in the state of Michigan rose by 21% in 2020, which…

… total. The 51 incidents place Michigan at eighth-most in the country. Michigan Regional Director Carolyn Normandin said the rise in antisemitism in Michigan is discouraging. “This is the second year…

…, harassment and vandalism. Of the total incidents reported in 2020, there were 44 harassment incidents and seven vandalism incidents. There were no antisemitic assaults reported to the Michigan office in…

… incidents during 2020, an increase of more than 40% from the previous year. Last year was dramatically impacted by the COVID- 19 pandemic, which led in some cases to Jews and other marginalized…

… videoconferences. In 2020, ADL recorded 12 incidents of antisemitic videoconferencing attacks in Michigan. Normandin says it’s important for people to report these incidents because the data helps them know…

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… Web: Year in Review 7. HoMedics overhauled its production process in China to produce protective gear for those on the front lines. 2. Dawn Perreca protests on the front steps of the Michigan State…

… Capitol building in Lansing, Mich., Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Flag-waving, honking protesters drove past the Michigan Capitol on Wednesday to show their displeasure with Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s orders to…

… asked her son, Stephen. “Write another book, ” he suggested, and she did just that, dedicating it to him and his wife, Ruth. The Many Ways Jews Loved: A History from Printed Words and Images (Mc…

…Farland) came out this year and follows her two other books also published by McFarland — The Way Jews Lived: Five Hundred Years of Printed Words and Images (2009) and Portraiture in Prints (1987). The new…

… artifacts, amassing a large collection with her late husband, Theodore. It was given to the Special Collections Library at the University of Michigan, and that artistic interest made its way across the…

… people. Her Lifelong Love Affair with Judaism Howard Lupovitch SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER DETAILS The Many Ways Jews Have Loved is available on Amazon. Constance Harris …

… year, according to Weil. “Our goal in Israel is that no Jew is left behind, and no Jew isn’t provided a chance to succeed and thrive, ” Weil said. “That’s our goal, to fund those opportunities…

… Arabs will now be raised in a world where they’re not taught Jews are apes and pigs, and Israel is the devil, but that Jews are human beings who they can have real relationships with and can…

… support from American Jews, donors or not. “I hope that every young man and woman who gives between two and 10 years of their life to the Jewish people knows that all segments of American Jewry…

…. For Weil, the memories of his time in the Metro Detroit area are reflective of how he wants to lead the FIDF and give back to the soldiers. “The six years our family lived in Southeast Michigan…

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… against antisemitism. As a student at the University of Michigan, focused on Jewish studies, he wrote a 1993 editorial for the “Campus Life” section of the Detroit Jewish News, repeating his criticism…

… among people of different her- itage. He worked behind the scenes and before cameras as part of a team bringing togeth- er Christians and Jews — representing Israel, America and Africa — to sing out…

… use of American, African and Israeli music stars — Jews and Gentiles — bridged a gap to combat the lies of global antisemitism.” ADDING THE JEWISH EXPERIENCE HarPaz gives credit for the video…

… idea and the initial efforts bringing it about to Daniel Berkove, a longtime friend from Michigan also relocated to Israel. After hear- ing an earlier version of the prayer set to music, Berkove…

… wanted to create a video that could be more directly related to the Jewish experience. An observant Jew, Berkove speaks the prayer every day during morning services and every Friday night during his…

… destruction to the English-reading public. ” While Sinkoff delves into the Dawidowicz book The War Against the Jews 1933-1945, written in 1975 to tell about the Jewish response in keeping ethnic communal…

… Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Dawidowicz, whose values had her working with the American Jewish Committee and helping displaced persons, is described as a public…

… speaker who expressed a belief that the greatest threat to Jews in her later years was the antisem- itism she saw coming out of the Soviet Union and radical anti-Zionism. “My academic interests have…

… been connected to Eastern European Jewish life, ” said Sinkoff, who also has written Out of the Shtetl: Making Jews Modern in the Polish Borderlands. “Lucy S. Dawidowicz was witness to it. “Wayne…

… Michigan, identify as Jewish and be students in grades 9-12; they can be self- nominated or may be nominated by others today through March 17. Nominees should be recognized for impact, contribution…

…. Jeremy Moss, the only Jewish member of the Michigan Senate, decried that lessons “weren’t learned” from the armed “mini-insurrection, ” which foreshadowed the vio- lent breach of the U.S. Capitol…

…. Samantha Steckloff (37th District), the only Jewish mem- ber of Michigan’s House. “It was so inspiring to hear from the mostly women politi- cians,” said Leah Klein of West Bloomfield after the event. “I…

… really appreciated the emphasis on working against hatred — especially antisemitism.” Her daughter, Rebecca Berenbon, said, “I’m really proud of Michigan Democrats for talking about not just how we…

… can fight hate against Jews, but how we as Jews can fight hate against all people. ” Michelle Zukowski-Serlin of Kalamazoo said, “We always hear about antisemitism and the terrible things happening…

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… narrow range of rabbinic homilies and expli- cations antiquated texts that often resonated very little with the pressing issues of the present — encour- aged more Jews to attain a level of literacy…

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… FEBRUARY 11 • 2021 | 15 NICOLE FEINBERG Nicole Feinberg graduated from Michigan State University in 2015 and is the current program coordina- tor at the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, the…

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… bread recipe during the pandemic. CHRIS HARRISON Chris Harrison (he/him) is a writ- er/editor at the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) and an alumnus of the URJ’s 2018 JewV’Nation Fellowship’s Jews…

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… alumni of higher education across the country as well at the University of Michigan have launched a campaign for universities and other institutions to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance…

… Association’s (IHRA) Working Definition of antisemi- tism so hatred toward Jews on campus can be more clearly identified. IHRA defines antisemitism as: “A certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed…

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… it to standards expected of no other dem- ocratic state, denying Israel’s right to exist, and holding Jews collectively responsible for its actions.” Criticizing the Israeli government and its…

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… America-Michigan, said that in the past it was easier to visibly stand up for Israel and that there always have been undercurrents of antisemitism domestically and globally. The ZOA blames the silence…

… in the media as well as political lead- ers and fear of “cancel culture” for not taking a stronger stand against hatred geared toward Jews and Israel. “Everyone is afraid of being canceled…

… support for Israel. The ‘woke’ culture is against Israel so, sadly, the Jewish lead- ership is afraid to speak up for it. ” To train others on how to counter hatred toward Jews and Israel, ZOA will be…

… Jews trying to counter-protest at the many planned pro-Palestinian rallies happening in Dearborn and across the region. “Though it is our right and often our responsibility to counter an unfair…

… anti-Israel rally, at this time, we cannot, in good conscience, put anyone’s life at risk, ” Erez said. “Jews are being assaulted all over the world right now. Hate crimes against Jews in London…

… Bloomfield said he was alarmed at the social discourse and distorted and inaccu- rate information about Jews, Zionism and Israel in the form of memes and infographics appearing on his social media feeds…

… think and research things before people hastily share them on social media. “Jews, who have our own conflicted feelings about the conflict, don’t owe others a pref- aced opinion nor should we be…

… Constitution and the world of law is exactly the way we’re taught as Jews to examine the biblical text in the Talmud and have it connect to our personal lives.” As they navigate successful careers as…

… THE BEAUTIFUL MUSIC, WE ARE DOING SOME GOOD.” — MICHAEL HARPAZ as Christian students from Michigan colleges appear on the organization’s website to give testimonials of the value of their…

… travel. “This is a good song to bring Jews and Christians together,” said Scott Phillips, Passages executive director. “I’ve heard this song many times in church.” Passages has been compared to…

… that supports Israel and is friendly toward Jews. “‘The Blessing’ is a Christian song and so it was decided that this would be a Christian- Jewish collaboration,” Berkove said. “However, we are all…

…-Survivors Association in Michigan Hidden Children and Child Survivors Association of Michigan Honoring our mothers Rosa Krasman and Lisa Dell Silver and remembering our fathers. Barbara & Manus Krasman In memory…

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