… DECEMBER 17 • 2020 | 37 “I incorporate art as both an avenue for self-expression and a way to cope with their hospital experience, ” Kaplan said. Her face-to-face work ended when she was furloughed in March. Kaplan found a way to continue providing pediatric patients access to art, even when she couldn’t be with them. “I approached the hospital with the newly released kits, and they realigned the grant guidelines. ” In addition ...…
…38 | DECEMBER 17 • 2020 PUPPY LOVE. STEWART IS KOSHER? A FICTIONAL PANDEMIC (OY!) As I’ve noted before, actor/ writer Daveed Diggs, 38, is the son of an African American father and a (white) Jewish mother. He was raised Jewish. On Dec. 5, a video he created, Puppy for Hanukkah was released on the Disney Channel and YouTube. It is great in so many ways. It features sev- eral children, all of whom appear to be biracial and Jewish,...…
… DECEMBER 17 • 2020 | 39 ON THE GO PEOPLE | PLACES | EVENTS COME PLAY, DETROIT DEC. 17-18 The Well presents “A Bananagrams Holiday Tournament.” Whether you’re receiving Well-A- Grams in your Chanukah box or using your own Bananagrams from home, we’re partnering up with Come Play Detroit for a two-day virtual tourna- ment. Brush up on those Chanukah vocab words and you’re in for a treat. Solo player and team registration available...…
…40 | DECEMBER 17 • 2020 J im Berk and Jeff Ellis have won mul- tiple medals at the Michigan Senior Olympics, but they didn’t add to their totals this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In-person swimming and powerlifting events weren’t held, and Berk and Ellis didn’t want to compete in the virtual ver- sions. “The virtual swimming competition didn’t appeal to me,” Berk said. “I mean no disrespect to those who did it.” With no co...…
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…42 | DECEMBER 17 • 2020 S eger Hoff’s promising soccer career came to an untimely end, but not his love for the sport or the Berkley High School boys soccer team. Hoff suffered a torn ACL in each knee during a six-month stretch while playing for club soccer teams before his junior year at Berkley and needed sur- gery twice. He could have felt sorry for himself, but the outgoing teen took another path and it led him to the fulfill...…
… DECEMBER 17 • 2020 | 43 NORTH FARMINGTON’S HISTORIC FOOTBALL SEASON STOPPED BY PANDEMIC It’s been a memorable season for the North Farmington High School football team. The memories are both good and bad. The Raiders won their first playoff game and first district championship since 1978 and have advanced to the Division 2 quarterfinals. But their already-shortened season has come to a screeching halt because of the ...…
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… DECEMBER 17 • 2020 | 45 SOUL OF BLESSED MEMORY FAYE BENENSON, 96, of West Bloomfield, died Dec. 5, 2020. She is survived by sons, Alan Benenson, Howard (Robert Beiser) Benenson; daughters and sons-in-law, Deborah and Howard Ball, Hedda and William Panzer; grandchil- dren, Jessica (Robert) Fink, Larry (Sarah Lamoree) Benenson, Alyse Benenson, Lauren (Nick SanFilippo) Ball, and Ashley Ball; great-grand- children, Leo, Sam, Sop...…
…46 | DECEMBER 17 • 2020 SOUL OF BLESSED MEMORY Hospital. Dr. Berkower held many professional memberships and participated in numerous lectureships. In addition to his distinguished medical career, Dr. Berkower served in the U.S. Air Force as a captain at Selfridge Air Force Base in Michigan from Sept. 1963 to Sept. 1965. He will be remembered for his devotion to his family and the outstanding psychiatric care he gave to his pa...…
… DECEMBER 17 • 2020 | 47 Jordyn and Olivia Singer, and Cady and Charlie Tobias; brother and sister-in-law, Peter and Marge Fein; sisters and brothers-in-law, Susan and Bruce Sitron, and Penny and Vernon McGarity; nieces and nephews, Hayley and Pat Greenleaf, and Jessica McGarity and Keith Nichols. Mrs. Goldberg was the beloved wife of the late Howard Goldberg; the devoted daughter of the late Mildred Wise; and the loving aunt o...…
…E velyn Orbach, who was at the helm of founding and developing the pro- fessional theater company that has staged more productions of The Diary of Anne Frank than any other theater in the world, died Dec. 4, 2020, from COVID-19. She was 88. Orbach, longtime artistic director of the 31-year-old Jewish Ensemble Theatre (JET), spent decades spotlighting sea- soned and new dramatizations exploring ethnic aspects of issues, joys, histo...…
… DECEMBER 17 • 2020 | 49 plays I wrote, including Change of Life and The Day We Met. “Evie had enormous faith in me as a playwright when I was just starting out. Her faith in me made me believe in myself, and I will be forever grateful to her for that. She was a dyna- mo who could make things happen, a can-do person who, in spite of what the obstacles were, always plowed ahead. ” Henrietta Hermelin Weinberg and Mary Lou Zieve (a c...…
…50 | DECEMBER 17 • 2020 continued on page 52 SOUL OF BLESSED MEMORY Weiner, Lior Weiner and Layla Weiner. Mr. Mendelson was the beloved husband for 57 years of the late Judith Carole Mendelson; the cherished father of the late Lisa Sue Weiner. Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be to Wounded Warriors, P .O. Box 758516, Topeka KS, 66675, woundedwarriorproj- ect.org; or Jewish Community Center of Metr...…
… DECEMBER 17 • 2020 | 51 E thel R. (Kimmel) Ellis, 100, of Ann Arbor, died Dec. 6, 2020, of non- COVID natural causes, two weeks after her 100th birthday. Born in Detroit, she grew up in Royal Oak and attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and Hillsdale College. She lived in Hillsdale, Mich., from 1941 to 1990. Ethel and her husband, Sheldon Ellis, who practiced law in Hillsdale, were widely known in the Hillsdale area...…
…52 | DECEMBER 17 • 2020 Kenneth (Laura) Clubok, and Mark Cohen; great-nieces and great-nephew, Rebecca Starkman, Danielle Starkman, Nathan Starkman, Rose Clubok and Sarah Clubok. She was the sister of the late Mayda Cohen; sister-in-law of the late Henry Starkman, the late Arthur Clubok and the late Aaron Cohen. Services and shivah were private. Contributions may be made to Hillel of Metro Detroit, hillel-detroit.org; or to th...…
… DECEMBER 17 • 2020 | 53 W hen it originally opened in 1988, it was written about … and lauded … for its striking beauty, ultra-cleanliness and good neighbor- hood presenta- tions of whole- some food. The Gallery Restaurant … moved years ago from Southfield and located with high appeal today to the Bloomfield Plaza on the south- west corner of Telegraph and Maple … continues to satisfy many with much appeal. Signature dishes in...…
…54 | DECEMBER 17 • 2020 Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org The Camp David Accords T he historic “ Abraham Accords” were announced on Aug. 13, 2020. Israel signed “normaliza- tion agreements” with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Later, Sudan and Morocco joined the process. This event was significant and a source of reports and essays for media in...…
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… SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 | 3 contents OUR JN MISSION: We aspire to communicate news and opinion that’ s trusted, valued, engaging and distinctive. We strive to reflect diverse community viewpoints while also advocating positions that strengthen Jewish unity and continuity. As an independent, responsible, responsive community member, we actively engage with individuals and organizations dedicated to enhancing the quality of life, and Jewish lif...…
…4 | SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 Arthur Horwitz F. Kevin Browett Amy Gill Andrew Lapin Carol Kruemmer Jackie Headapohl Sy Manello Andrea Gusho Ashlee Szabo Danielle Smith Pamela Turner Nathan Vicar Keith Farber Kathy Harvey-Mitton Catherine Grace Kristine Bonds Tim Brown Anne Perlin Danny Raskin David Sachs Danny Schwartz Shana Tovah From The Detroit Jewish News! …
… SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 | 5 Views Jewfro New Year’s Rockin’ Ease I have previously persuasively argued that the greatest gift the Jewish people ever gave the world was summer camp. In the anguished absence of camp — shoutout to the HW Backyard Boys for their Saved by the Bell- caliber scheme — we still have some- thing invaluable to offer this year. The opportunity to end it early. Let the fresh wheels and neon lights of 5781 tran...…
…6 | SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 Views Editor’ s Note Rosh Hashanah Love I stepped outside the other day, after my morning round of Zoom meetings and endless emails, only to realize — with some surprise — that a pleasant chill had lifted the air. Fall is here. Fall, in Michigan! What a blessing! My primary association with Rosh Hashanah, and my favorite thing about it, is that it comes in the fall. You see, I’ m a big fan of Michiga...…
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…Views guest column Goodbye 5780 – It Wasn’t All So Bad A friend recently sent me a picture of a cartoon book, titled How to Deal with the Upcoming Recession, Inflation, Ice Age, Population Explosion and the Complete End of the World in the Year 2020. I think we can all agree that 2020 will not go down as a banner year. Between econom- ic collapse, an exhausting polit- ical race, racial injustice and the world’ s worst global pa...…
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…10 | SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 community greetings We Are Built for This Moment Views T his has been a year like no other. Without a doubt, we are living in a unique and difficult moment in our history. The global COVID-19 pan- demic has affected every dimension of our daily lives, dis- rupting our social, professional, educa- tional and spiritual pursuits. Worst of all, of course, is the human toll it has taken, the friends and lo...…
…12 | SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 OUR JN MISSION: We aspire to communicate news and opinion that’ s trusted, valued, engaging and distinctive. We strive to refl ect diverse community viewpoints while also advocating positions that strengthen Jewish unity and continuity. As an independent, responsible, responsive community member, we actively engage with individuals and organizations dedicated to enhancing the quality of life, and Jewish life, in...…
… SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 | 13 to be their rabbi year-round, one weekend a month. Come visit us! —Rabbi Arnie Sleutelberg Traverse City Don’ t Take Sides I’ ve subscribed to the JN for over 25 years, and it’ s becom- ing more clear to me that not only is the paper leftist but looks like it’ s now going out of its way to prove it. Whatever happened to reporting on the Jewish events and ideas going on in the Detroit community? The artic...…
…14 | SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 Bridging the Distance T he last six months brought with them many challenges. We’ ve instituted extreme measures for the safety of ourselves and others. We’ ve made the difficult decision to close our synagogues, barring ourselves from communal prayer for the sake of communal health. For some, that reality persists even today, and the High Holidays will therefore take unprecedented form. For others, desp...…
… SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 | 15 our ancestors carried off into diaspora nearly 2,600 years ago, they focused on what made us a people — to live with holiness, to honor every individual as created B’ tselem Elohim (in the image of God), to create community even without the Temple, and do so with their mikdash me’ at, their home sanctuaries, so to speak. We will do the very same right now. And in so doing, we’ ll make our faith more rele...…
…16 | SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 The Most Vulnerable Among Us The Jewish community rallies to make the holidays special for isolated seniors. W hen you participated in your virtual seder last Passover, did you really think five months later you’ d have to “Zoom” through another Jewish holiday on your laptop, iPad or iPhone? Welcome to the High Holidays 2020. Same pandemic, same challenges. And nowhere are those challenges more pr...…
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…18 | SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 continued from page 16 COURTESY OF JSL Hashanah and Yom Kippur, two musicians from the DSO will play concerts from parking lots or courtyards. Residents will enjoy the music in comfort and safety through open windows in their apartments or on their personal balconies. SOUND OF THE SHOFAR Music from the DSO will not be the only melodic sounds emanating from outdoors on the campuses. Volunteer shofar blow...…
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…20 | SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 Live on Tape Cantorial soloist prepares for the High Holidays. W hile non-Orthodox Detroit-area cantors and cantori- al sololists are planning to con- duct High Holiday services via Zoom or live-streaming (or a combination), Marci Shulman is taking a different approach. She’ s hard at work recording the traditional liturgy for use on Rosh Hashanah, which starts the evening of Sept. 18, and Yom Kippur, w...…
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…22 | SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 Rosh Hashanah 5781 Safe Worship Surgeon General advises shuls during COVID. I n a Zoom meeting on Sept. 1, U.S. Surgeon Gen. Jerome Adams spoke with the rabbis and lay leaders of the Orthodox Union about safe worship during the High Holidays. Adams said that faith leaders play an important role in deal- ing with epidemics. “Health professionals need the support of faith leaders to get their messages to...…
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…24 | SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 H illels at Michigan uni- versities are usually buzzing with activity around the High Holidays as they work to prepare Jewish learning, programing and wor- ship opportunities for students across their schools. But this year, COVID-19 has required Hillel staff to reimagine the High Holidays on campus. “We’ ve never seen anything like this — everything’ s different, ” said Sam Appel, assistant director of H...…
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…26 | SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 I n recent years, The Well, Metro Detroit’ s nationally recognized organization for Jewish young professionals, organized large public Tashlich services leading up to and during Rosh Hashanah. Tashlich, the custom of cere- monially throwing one’ s sins into a body of water as a way of start- ing with a clean slate for the New Year, is a ritual that has evolved over the centuries and is one that is easily...…
…28 | SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 P lanning for the Days of Awe, like planning for almost everything else in the first year of the novel coro- navirus, involves preparing for surprises. This time, we might have to do things differently. The rabbis of several local congrega- tions spoke with the Jewish News about how they plan to modify services to com- ply with the uneven progress of the pan- demic, or with changed orders from Gov. Gretchen W...…
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…30 | SEPTEMBER 17 • 2020 “We are in a pandemic. Talk to your doctor. If you should not come to shul, do not come.” — RABBI YECHIEL MORRIS continued from page 28 If you should not come to shul, do not come.” Rabbi Shaya Katz indi- cated that while the Young Israel of Oak Park has not yet set its plans as of late August, it contemplates a similar set of three services, with two out-of- doors and one inside. Rabbi Sasson Natan at ...…
