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…4 | DECEMBER 17 • 2020 VIEWS 6-10 IN THED JEWS 14 The Well Digs Deeper Rabbi Jeff Stombaugh takes over as executive director of celebrated Jewish young-adult group. 20 Chanukah in the D Menorah lighting and a colorful mural brighten Downtown Detroit. 22 Virtual Fun FJA teacher leads Zoom class in costume. 24 SCOTUS Hears Holocaust Restitution Case Local attorney who works to help victims recover s...…
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…14 | DECEMBER 17 • 2020 Rabbi Jeff Stombaugh takes over as executive director of celebrated Jewish young-adult group. ANDREW LAPIN EDITOR The Well Digs Deeper F or the time being, Rabbi Jeff Stombaugh is still uncomfortable with being referred to as The Well’s new exec- utive director. “Who am I to embody this thing?” he asks. “I’ve only just arrived. I’m trying to keep it floating. I haven’t actually built anything yet. ” ...…
… DECEMBER 17 • 2020 | 15 unique model of form- ing informal Jewish communities around “shared interest groups,” they believed its model could be exported to other metropolitan areas around the coun- try. By 2019, The Well was turning out more than 1,700 unique attendees per year to its gatherings, of which there were 350 in a sin- gle year. So, it was a surprise to many when Horwitz announced, in January of this year, that he wa...…
…16 | DECEMBER 17 • 2020 IN THE JEWS D ON THE COVER for both Horwitz’s tenure and Stombaugh’s, knew the transi- tion was part of the mission. “ As an organization that really champions the idea of innova- tion, we are always interested in change, ” she said. “ Anyone who’s in that role is going to champi- on innovation and progress. ” To replace the passion and vibrancy that Horwitz brought to the role, The Well would need a singular...…
… DECEMBER 17 • 2020 | 17 Of the 2.5 percent of the world’s water that’s safe to drink, how do we keep it that way, seeing as it’s mostly underground? Thanks to the Weizmann Institute’s groundwater dynamics model, we can now pre- dict how contaminants will spread, so we can reach endangered parts of the water supply faster, and detoxify any polluted groundwater before it disperses. Every day, Weizmann Institute scientists in Israel work to...…
…18 | DECEMBER 17 • 2020 COURTESY OF THE WELL “You don’t have to have the right things, you don’t have to know all the words to be Jewish, ” he says. “You can create meaningful Jewish experienc- es with the things you have around you.” This is the kind of messaging that Yedwab believes will reso- nate with young Jewish adults who may see traditional mem- bership as too old-fashioned or too regimented. He views The Well as “a feeder ...…
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…20 | DECEMBER 17 • 2020 T wo events, five minutes away from each other in Downtown Detroit, marked the first night of a reimagined Chanukah. Menorah in the D, the yearly event that usually draws thousands to Cadillac Square to watch local luminaries light a giant menorah to ring in the holiday, took place mostly virtually Dec. 10 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The hybrid event took place in Campus Martius Park like usual as h...…
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… DECEMBER 17 • 2020 | 25 W hat began as a virtual Melaveh Malka, the traditional com- munal meal held at the close of Shabbat, ended up as possibly the world’s longest Zoom meeting. The call, part of November’s International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, was only supposed to last a day. Due to the pandemic, for the first time in 40 years, the con- ference was held virtually and included 5,000 rabbis tuning in from mo...…
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… DECEMBER 17 • 2020 | 33 MOMENTS BIRTHS HERE’S TO MILESTONES Farber-Snider W ith much love and joy, Miriam Neuman Farber, Stuart and Donna Farber, and Beth (Batya) and Dan (Yaakov) Snider announce the marriage of their children, Alaina Farber and Avi Snider. Alaina and Avi were joined under the chuppah in an intimate ceremony on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. Along with their parents was Alaina’s zaydie, Sidney Neuman, and Avi’s gr...…
…34 | DECEMBER 17 • 2020 SPIRIT Blessing of Brothers F riday evening Shabbat dinners overflow with blessings. It’s a wonderful once-a-week opportunity to step back from our busy lives, express gratitude and count our blessings. We bless candles, our chil- dren, spouses, wine and challah. When we bless our children, we ask that our girls grow up to be like the matriarchs, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah, and that our boys grow ...…
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…36 | DECEMBER 17 • 2020 W hen local artist Gail Rosenbloom Kaplan’s community and person-to-person professional immersion came to a halt because of COVID-19 restric- tions, her talent and innovation aimed her in a new direction. She turned her focus to the creation and sales of multi-colored, multi-de- sign, Do-It-Yourself (DIY) sand art sets. “The kits came to life as a result of the pandemic and not being able to continue m...…
… 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...…
