…NOVEMBER 17 • 2022 | 51 S ome are born into the Jewish tradition; others marry into this tradi- tion, and others take a cultural approach on bagels in their belonging to the Jewish peo- ple. While this is by no means an exhaustive list, Chayei Sarah provides three motifs to help us examine who belongs and how open we should make our Jewish community tent. The stories of Abraham making buri- al arrangements for his late wife, Sar...…
…52 | NOVEMBER 17 • 2022 H e was 137 years old. He had been through two traumatic events involving the people most pre- cious to him in the world. The first involved the son for whom he had waited for a lifetime, Isaac. He and Sarah had given up hope, yet God told them both that they would have a son together, and it would be he who would continue the covenant. The years passed. Sarah did not conceive. She had grown old, yet...…
…NOVEMBER 17 • 2022 | 53 an entire world. While he and his family were safe on board the ark, everyone else — all his contemporaries — had drowned. It is not hard to imagine this righteous man overwhelmed by grief. Lot’s wife, against the instruc- tion of the angels, actually did look back as the cities of the plain disappeared under fire and brimstone and the anger of God. Immediately she was turned into a pillar of salt, the Torah...…
…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 Bloomfield (248) 78...…
…NOVEMBER 17 • 2022 | 55 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 Farmingt...…
…56 | NOVEMBER 17 • 2022 C arnegie Hall in New York City was the first of five stops for this season’s American per- formance tour by the Berlin Philharmonic, which moves on to Ann Arbor appearances Friday-Saturday evenings, Nov. 18-19. The Michigan visit is host- ed by the University Musical Society and features first con- certmaster and klezmer com- poser Noah Bendix-Balgley. The concertmaster, who grew up in North Carolina and h...…
…compose his own klezmer piece. “My dad became an expert in Eastern European folk dance and Yiddish dance, ” the concertmaster explained. “I grew up around klezmer music. When I studied the violin, I also started to learn klezmer music. “I’ve tried to keep that active. A few years ago, I had the idea to compose a klezmer piece (“Fidi-Fantazye”) for concerto. I did that while I was in Pittsburgh and since then played it all aroun...…
…58 | NOVEMBER 17 • 2022 ARTS&LIFE BOOK REVIEW I t is well-known that Jews did their part to defeat Nazi Germany in World War II. Many Jewish men and women from America, Great Britain, Canada and else- where in Allied lands joined the military and fought the Nazis with rifles, tanks, ships and air- planes. Others, such as the “Ritchie Boys” — named for the American camp where over 20,000 men and women were trained — were German-sp...…
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…60 | NOVEMBER 17 • 2022 MORE FABELMANS, AMAZON COMEDY, STALLONE’S NEW FAMILY As I wrote last week, The Fabelmans opens wide in theaters on Friday, Nov. 23. It’s a “sort of” memoir of Steven Spielberg’s teen years, and it was directed and co-written by Spielberg, 75. I have to add to my last column. First, to my great surprise, Spielberg disclosed the “devasting family secret,” as it was described in the Fabelmans’ advance p...…
…NOVEMBER 17 • 2022 | 61 RADIOTHON 6 AM-6 PM, NOV. 18 104.3 WOMC will host a radiothon to raise funds for children treated at Beaumont Children’s, a Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. The event will highlight local patients and families and offer incentives for donations. Make a difference in a child’s life by calling 877-335-KIDS (5437) or text WOMCKIDS to 51555 to donate. CONCERT SET 7:30 PM, NOV. 18 Detroit Chamber Winds & ...…
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…64 | NOVEMBER 17 • 2022 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY FRANCES BRODER, 98, of Scottsdale, Ariz., died Nov. 7, 2022. The oldest of four children, Frances was born Oct. 29, 1924, in Detroit to Sam and Diana Ginsberg. Though born in the Roaring ’20s, Frances came of age in the Great Depression. She met her husband of 76 years in junior high school, and they were inseparable after he finished a stint in the army during World War I...…
…NOVEMBER 17 • 2022 | 65 he had disappeared to. Sadly, the story of his adventures (and misadventures) won’t add any more chapters, as he passed away due to a highly aggressive bladder cancer. Thankfully, he was surrounded by family and friends when he said “Shalom” for the last time. A few months ago, he was eating gelato in Capri with his daughter Ronit and grand- daughter Aviella, doing his favorite thing — traveling with his fa...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 66 | NOVEMBER 17 • 2022 to Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw County, jfsannarbor.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. JOSEPHINE KESSLER, 93, of Huntington Woods, died Nov. 9, 2022. She is survived by her daughters and son- in-law, Amy Kessler, and Dr. Susan Kessler and Bruce Shaw; daughter-in-law, Cathy Cordes; grandchildren, Jonathan, Emily and Sarah Shaw; many loving nieces, nephews, othe...…
…NOVEMBER 17 • 2022 | 67 Jennifer Stauber; grandchildren, Ella, Benjamin, Jeremy, Carly, Rachel, Sari, Benjamin and Olivia; sister and brother-in-law, Myrna and Spencer Partrich; nephew, Ross (Samantha) Partrich; niece, Andrea Brown. She and Sandy traveled the globe and enjoyed a loving life together. Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network, 6555 W . Maple, West...…
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…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 70 | NOVEMBER 17 • 2022 A Ground-Breaking Film T wo very public instances of antisemi- tism occurred over the past few weeks. High-profile celebrities, the rapper/ songwriter Kanye West — or as he now calls himself, “Ye” — and National Basketball star Kyrie Irving made international news for their promotions of long-d...…
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…MARCH 17 • 2022 | 3 contents contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-10 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 12 There’s A Group for That Federation’s Affinities Department offers lots of options for Gen Xers.12 16 Local Effort Effecting Change A global network is sending Ukrainian civilians supplies, battling Russian propaganda. 20 Someday … Is Here Rabbi Josh Warshawsky will lead Shabbaton at Congregation Shaarey Zedek ...…
…4 | MARCH 17 • 2022 I t is in times of crisis that the strength and resilience of our local and international Jewish community is most evident. This remarkable community has raised over $3 million to provide urgent support to the Jewish population of Ukraine. Roughly half of those funds have been allocated through the Jewish Federation’s Ukraine Emergency Campaign to our international partners on the ground: American Joint Distri...…
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…6 | MARCH 17 • 2022 update Operation Re-Connect A fter two years of COVID-restricted travel to Israel, Michigan Israel Business Accelerator (MIBA) CEO Scott Hiipakka finally arrived in the Start-Up Nation for a five-day whirl- wind visit in January. Meeting hosts rolled out the “red carpet” — meeting a real live American in the flesh, without the filter of a computer screen, was both exciting and encour- aging as we hopefull...…
…Guest Lecturer Dr. Katherine Kasdorf In 2019, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) acquired a richly detailed, double-sided folio that once belonged to an album commissioned by the emperor Shah Jahan (r. 1628–58), patron of the Taj Mahal, toward the end of his reign. In this presentation, we will take a close look at the DIA folio, as well as related works, exploring its details, its historical and artistic contexts, and what it tells ...…
…8 | MARCH 17 • 2022 student’s corner Let Freedom Prevail “N ever shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never,” wrote Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in his poem Never Shall I Forget. “We shall never forget” is often repeated on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, to mourn the death of more than 6 million Jewish people. Six million mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and fr...…
…MARCH 17 • 2022 | 9 Ukraine may seem rather irrelevant to the tasks pre- sented in our everyday lives, we must understand its similarities to Adolf Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland. Hitler’s invasion was a sign of his intention to not only obtain more land, but also more influence. This invasion of a bordering country, like the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian conflict, would be the first act of Hitler’s regime, and the beginning of the ...…
…10 | MARCH 17 • 2022 essay Playing the Hand You’re Dealt I and a lot of other folks recently have learned how important our regular poker/canasta/bridge/mahj games were, when COVID showed up and made it much harder for us to meet in person. And while many of us found ways to play online or on Zoom, we soon learned that the intimate experience of guys or gals getting togeth- er around a card table was not the same online. T...…
…MARCH 17 • 2022 | 11 me, and the subject of our respective weekly poker games came up. This guy was flying to St. Louis to meet up for a poker week- end with his old poker buddies who had spread throughout the country. He was planning to drive 500 miles to pick up a friend who otherwise wouldn’t have been able to come to the reunion game. The prospect of my week- ly poker game disappearing is sad and scary. While we continue to l...…
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…MARCH 17 • 2022 | 13 N eil Sherman didn’t grow up in Metro Detroit and wanted a better under- standing of the Jewish community. Bill Goldstein “got invited to a fun event.” Stacey Goodman wanted to give back to the organization that supported her family when she was younger. Her mom struggled financially, but she was able to go to Camp Tamarack because they received financial assistance. Josh Rubin went to Israel on a Federation ...…
…continued from page 13 14 | MARCH 17 • 2022 attorneys section that launched last fall. The real estate group had a brainstorm- ing session in 2020 to discuss the issues members faced due to the pandemic. According to Kaplan, participants offered great ideas on handling difficult situations created by COVID. Sherman, a 45-year-old Bloomfield Hills real estate attorney and investor, is involved with the attorney and real estate groups....…
…MARCH 17 • 2022 | 15 participants crediting Kaplan for the program’s accomplish- ments. “ A number of us participate because of the overreaching gift she has to be a connector within our community. It’s a balancing act of putting on a great event, getting a strong group of people there, tying them to our community; and she’s masterful, ” said Sherman. Kaplan, however, praises the department’s associate director Jodi Feld, the lay...…
…OUR COMMUNITY R ussian Five (2018) filmmaker Jenny Feterovich, a Soviet Jewish immigrant, is on the phone day and night orga- nizing supplies and medical care for Ukrainian civilians stuck in the middle of war. One hour, she’s working on finding shelter for nearly two dozen orphans. Another, she’s assembling what she calls a “laundry list” of first- aid items, like bandages and tourniquets, for Ukrainian soldiers and civilia...…
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…18 | MARCH 17 • 2022 ter, water, heat or means of escape. They work together through WhatsApp, Telegram and other cell phone apps, while raising money to help support various projects. “It’s a minute-by-minute type of situation, ” Feterovich says. Currently, the network assists all areas of Ukraine: Kharkiv, Kyiv, Kherson and regions in western Ukraine where many civilians are escaping to get away from the fighting. The biggest n...…
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…20 | MARCH 17 • 2022 OUR COMMUNITY Rabbi Josh Warshawsky serves as the rabbi-in-residence of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago. He was ordained as a rabbi in May 2019 from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies in Los Angeles and has spent the past 20 summers at Camp Ramah in Wisconsin, and the last nine summers also teaching and performing at Ramah camps across the country. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, wi...…
…MARCH 17 • 2022 | 21 We’re trying to live lives of meaning and purpose and trying to figure out how we can be a better version of ourselves today than we were yesterday. When I real- ized that’s so embedded in all that Judaism is, I wanted to share that with as many people as possible. Rabbi Dahlen: I’m wonder- ing if you have any thoughts on why prayer with inten- tionality can be so hard for us. How can we get into a place whe...…
…W hile there are many soldiers throughout Israel who serve for various reasons from the U.S. some follow in their family’s footsteps. That’s exactly what Joseph Icikson, whose grandparents live in Metro Detroit, decided to do. Joseph Icikson of New York, age 22, is an active combat soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Instead of studying in college like most people his age, he decided to serve as a soldier in one of the world...…
…MARCH 17 • 2022 | 23 who suffered and lost other family during World War II. “If the Jewish people had an army 80 years ago, we wouldn’t have had the Holocaust. Through his actions — and those of his fellow soldiers — the IDF is ensuring that the horrors we have seen in the Holocaust were not in vain, and that these atrocities will never happen again,” William said. Esther went on to explain how Joseph’s love for Israel started ...…
…24 | MARCH 17 • 2022 P assover can be one of the most expensive holidays on the Jewish calendar, and for the Orthodox community, who purchase many more kosher-for-Passover specialty products and carry out extensive additional cleaning, the cost can be thousands of dollars, causing financial stress. Even for those who consider themselves to be less observant, the costs associated with putting on a seder — especially with a l...…
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…OUR COMMUNITY U kraine is home to some 350,000 Jews. Now, Chabad- Lubavitch is tapping its sprawling international network to help keep them safe during the Russian invasion. “We’re in touch very much with what’s going on in Ukraine, ” says Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov of The Shul-Chabad Lubavitch in West Bloomfield. “There is a very active effort right now of a very large pro- portion on many levels. ” The Shul is one of many Chabad loca...…
…MARCH 17 • 2022 | 27 “ A Chabad in Vienna offered to take in 1,000 refugees,” Rabbi Shemtov says as an example, one of many offers that have come through in recent days. DOING MITZVAHS FOR UKRAINE The quick and effective mobilization by Chabad, he says, leaves many people amazed, including himself. “It’s very heartwarming to see,” Rabbi Shemtov says. “We stand in awe watching these people doing things that seem superhuman, and...…
…OUR COMMUNITY O ver 100 Jews came together March 7 for the grand open- ing of the Chabad Jewish Community Center located in Auburn Hills. The event featured a ribbon cut- ting, building dedication, live music and a talk by Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein. More than two years after opening the Chabad Jewish Center of Troy, Rabbi Menachem and Chana Caytak took the next step in Fall 2021: signing a lease for the JCC a...…
