…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 25 through the publisher, on Amazon and at local Jewish bookstores. It’s not a typical “Jewish” cookbook, even though the recipes use only kosher ingredients and do not mix milk and meat products. There are traditional Ashkenazi- influenced recipes for brisket and kugel, recipes from her Sephardi family for Moroccan fish balls and zucchini feta fritters, and a wide variety of international recipes including T...…
…26 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 T amarack Camps is offering a new six- week session for campers going into grades 2-7 as part of its upcoming 2023 summer program at Camp Maas. The six-week session, which is approximately the equivalent of a traditional session-and-a-half, incorpo- rates Camp Maas Session 1, plus additional days at the Ortonville-based camp that include the session break and part of Camp Maas Session 2. “A lot of our olde...…
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…28 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 CAMP GUIDE B etween outpost camps in northern Michigan and Canada, and travel trips to Alaska and the Western United States, Tamarack Camps is offering Jewish Michigan teens a number of unique and life- changing camping experiences to apply for this summer. Campers entering grades 9-11 can embark on one-of-a-kind adventures that teach life and survival skills, leadership, independence and organization, whil...…
…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 29 Send your kids to a summer camp where they will develop an appreciation for nature, learn new skills and make friendships that will last a lifetime, all without the help of social media. CONNECTING WITH NATURE FAMILIES SAVE UP TO 30% WITH THE EXCHANGE RATE OF THE CANADIAN DOLLAR HOME PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE CAMPER REFERRAL PROGRAM • INTRO SESSIONS Celebrating 88 Summers Experience that lasts a lifetime E S ...…
…30 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 June 19-July 14 and has an early- bird discounted fee of $7,195. Camp Kennedy Session Two runs July 17-Aug. 11 and has the same price. Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, both prices go up to $7,695. CHARLES N. AGREE Situated just outside of Wawa in northern Ontario, Canada, Charles N. Agree Outpost Camp, or Ultimate Agree, is designed for campers entering grades 10 and 11. Slightly larger than Camp Kennedy, this outpost...…
…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 31 CAMP GUIDE J Camp 180, a core pro- gram of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF), will support more than 100 nonprofit Jewish overnight camps over the next five years with its $25 million Forward Together matching grant, including Tamarack Camps in Metro Detroit. “We are, thankfully, a grant partner of The Harold Grinspoon Foundation and this funding will benefit Tamarack and our commu- nity, ” said Ashlei...…
…CAMP TAMAKWA Michigan Address: 1760 S. Telegraph Road, Suite 300 Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302 (248) 335-6400 Toronto Address: 55 Wingold Ave. M6B 1P8, Canada (416) 924-7433 tamakwa.com With one of the most diversified outdoor recreational programs available, Tamakwa campers and staff members enjoy 88 years of rich traditions, core values, family atmosphere and camp spirit, all in a beautiful Algonquin Park Setting. CAMP TANUGA Winter...…
…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 33 maturity and commitment. Nationally accredited by the American Camp Association. CAMP YOUNG JUDAEA MIDWEST E989 Stratton Lake Road Waupaca, WI 54981 (224) 235-4665 cyjmid.org Join the CYJ Midwest family, where we provide a fun, safe and supportive environment for our campers to grow their connection to Judaism and to Israel. Our program features tubing, archery, climbing, bikes and more. HILLEL DAY SCHOO...…
…34 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 continued from page 33 CAMP GUIDE 2022 CAMP LISTINGS ROEPER SUMMER CAMPS 41190 Woodward Ave. Bloomfield, MI 48304 (248) 203-7370 roeper.org From lacrosse to coding to theater, Roeper Summer Programs offer a variety of enriching and rewarding camp experiences to children throughout Metro Detroit. Diversity and respect for everyone’s potential are central characteristics of the community. TAMARACK CAMPS 4...…
…SPORTS T he new year is just a few weeks away. It will be an important year for North Farmington High School senior Josh Rioux. He hopes 2023 will be a year of achieving his goals in track and field and wiping away disappointments. Rioux is a high jumper. He’s a good enough high jumper to have competed in the Michigan High School Athletic Association Division 1 state meet in June and AAU Junior Olympic Games in August and improve his...…
…36 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 M uch to the chagrin of his moth- er — a very good Jewish cook — Mike Ran was a super picky eater as a kid and a real troublemaker in school. The middle child of three boys, Ran knew there had to be more to life than Domino’s pizza every weekend for his limited palate. So he started watching the cooking show Good Eats with Alton Brown on the Food Network. “Sloppy Joes were the first thing I taught myself to...…
…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 37 for four years. His final jobs were as the lead line cook and head chef at Zahav and the Rooster Soup Co. in Philadelphia. “Every time I got to be a sous chef at a restaurant, I would essentially quit so I could be a cook again. They say that when you become a head chef, you cook yourself out of a job. You have to deal more with the operational and business aspects and all the nuances that go with it. It’s a lot of...…
…38 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 Temple Israel families celebrated the weekly Torah portion — Parshat Noah — through a fun, hands-on celebration on Sunday, Oct. 30. Religious school students learned about Noah and the flood through the lens of how we can take care of our animals. Each student gave Hebrew names to their animals (real and stuffed), made special bags for pets and animals in shelters, learned about organizations that care fo...…
…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 39 MAZEL TOV! Joshua Caleb Cooper (Yoel) will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. Proud parents are Tammi and Scott Cooper. He will be joined in celebration by his siblings Adam and Elisha. Kvelling grandparents are Sarah and David Waldshan of Farmington Hills, and Hannah and Jerry Cooper of Atlanta, Georgia. Josh is a student at Walnut Cr...…
…40 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 T his week’s parshah relates a powerful, primal vision of prayer. It is one of the great images of the Torah: Jacob, alone and far from home, lies down for the night, with only stones for a pillow. He dreams of a ladder set on Earth but reaching heaven, with angels ascending and descending. This is the initial encounter with the “house of God” that would one day become the synagogue, the first dream ...…
…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 41 God to do ours? What really happens when we pray? Prayer has two dimensions, one mysterious, the other not. There are simply too many cases of prayers being answered for us to deny that it makes a difference to our fate. It does. I once heard the following story. A man in a Nazi concentration camp knew he was losing the will to live — and in the death camps, if you lost the will to live, you died. That nigh...…
…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 Blo...…
…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 43 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 Farmingto...…
…44 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 G rowing up in Birmingham, Joel Paul Reisig celebrated both Chanukah and Christmas with his family, making him perfectly qualified to be an equal- opportunity movie producer. On Dec. 4, Reisig’s latest film, Christmas at the Holly Hotel, will have its world premiere at two red-carpet screenings at the Redford Theatre. With more than 2,000 tickets sold, Reisig says that it’s the largest film premiere...…
…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 45 seeing a Chanukah movie on the Lifetime or Hallmark channel, is it’s always trying to teach you about Chanukah as if you’ve never heard of it, or it has over-the-top Jewish jokes. I just want to make a normal movie where the people just happen to be Jewish. And I’m looking for investors.” STANDUP KIND OF GUY With a dual major in business and English from Hope College in Michigan, Reisig didn’t have a set c...…
…46 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 ARTS&LIFE ON THE COVER Filming took place in January 2022 over five days at the Holly Hotel — three during a full shutdown and two days while the hotel was open to the public. Holly Hotel kitchen and waitstaff were extras in the film along with local actors. Reisig even used George and Chrissy Kutlenios’ names for the Holly Hotel owners featured in the script. “George and Chrissy’s entire staff was very ...…
…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 47 Joel Paul Reisig and his parents, Martin and Julia Reisig, at their Birmingham home. everyone else. We can see something and put a unique twist on it.” At 27, he went on a Birthright trip to Israel. In 2014, he took a trip to Peru and hiked the Andes Mountains to Machu Picchu. “I took notes the entire time, and when I came home, I wrote — and finished — my first true adventure story, all through the len...…
…48 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 Details The 45th Annual Potters Market runs Dec. 1-4 at the Southfield Pavilion, 26000 Evergreen. Preview Night, 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, ($10 admission); 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, (free admission); 10 a.m. -7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 3, (free admission); 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 4, (free admission). For more informa- tion, email annualpottersmarket@gmail.com or visit www.thepottersmarket.com. H undreds o...…
…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 49 Pearlman, on the board of the National Council of Jewish Women and a member of Adat Shalom Synagogue, keeps a small statue she made by copying a picture that reminds her of her late husband. That piece stays on the mantel in her living room. Weinbaum had been asked to join the Potters Market by the late Charlie Blosser, who taught at OCC and was married to Bridget Blosser, the woman who subsequently accepted res...…
…50 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 S even years ago, Hamilton exploded onto the off-Broadway stage at the Public Theater with an unprecedented take on the people whose vision laid the groundwork for a free and democratic nation. Later that year, the exceptionally successful production moved to Broadway, sweeping the Tony Awards and becoming the most coveted ticket on the street. And the rest, they say, is history, a chronicle of the past ...…
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…52 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 SPECIAL ‘HOLIDAY’ SHOWS, RETURNING SERIES, AND ALL ABOUT PEACOCK This is the time of year that “holiday” shows begin flooding every “visual” media outlet. Usually, this means Christmas- related shows. However, just because a show calls itself a holiday show, or a “holiday edition,” doesn’t mean they have much to do with Christmas. For example, two game shows airing this week claim they are special “holid...…
…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 53 BOOK TALK 7 PM, DEC. 1 On Zoom and facilitated by Edie Broida. Debut novelist who wrote Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris creates an unforgettable cast of characters depicting Georgia during the violent reconstruction period. Equal parts beauty and terror, as gripping as it is moving. To register, visit NCJWMI.org. WISDOM & COFFEE 9:30 AM, DEC. 3 At Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. We will g...…
…54 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 SPOTLIGHT Temple Israel Executive Director Jason Plotkin was recognized by the National Association for Temple Administration (NATA) with “Senior Member” status at its conference held in early November in Clearwater, Florida. Plotkin is the first Metro Detroit executive director to achieve this status. This designation by the professional organization representing executive directors and temple administ...…
…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 55 SHABBAT: CHANUKAH 6-8 PM, DEC. 9 At Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. A special Chanukah- themed dinner and service. Families and individuals of all ages are welcome to join us for beautiful prayers, delicious food, fun children’s activities and songs. Cost: $20/adult & $12/child. Registration requested by Tuesday, Dec. 6: shaareyzedek. shulcloud/event/t.g.i.s. CENTENNIAL 4-6 PM, DEC. 11 Bethel C...…
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…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 57 BEVERLY BENNETT, 90, of West Bloomfield, died Nov. 18, 2022. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Lori Bennett and Steven Stein; sons and daughters-in-law, Howard and Laine Bennett, and Mark Bennett and Joyce Luft; grandchildren, Bennett Stein and Libby Ashton, Allie and Charles Fahlsing, Eliza Stein and Sean Saint, and Francesca, Dylan, Brynn, Piper and Brooks Bennett; loving nieces, nephews...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 58 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 Phoenix Khan. Mr. Boesky was the beloved husband of the late Judith Boesky. Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to JARC, 6735 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301, jarc.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. HOWARD FELDMAN, 82, of Macomb, died Nov. 19, 2022. He is sur- vived by his sons and daughters-in-law, Steven and Patricia Fel...…
…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 59 and brother-in-law, Miles Halpern, their daughters, Edie and Golda; his mother- in-law, Ana Wolfe; his sister- in-law and brother-in-law, Karina Reskinow and Benny Szylkowski; their children; and many wonderful and caring friends. A memorial service was held in San Francisco, and one will be held in Michigan. Contributions may be made to Temple Emanuel-El or a charity of your choice. DR. LARRY LAFOND, 71, o...…
…60 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY L eypsa Groner, 88, of Southfield, widely viewed as a matriarch and one-of-a-kind rebbetzin of Congregation Shaarey Zedek, died on Nov. 18, 2022. The funeral was held at CSZ on Nov. 20, 2022. Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. “Who else but Leypsa Groner could bring seven colleagues together on this bimah?” Rabbi Joseph Krakoff asked at the funeral. Krakoff, Rabbi Aar...…
…DECEMBER 1 • 2022 | 61 her condition. Debbie was independent and able to go to college, but eventually had to move home because of the illness. Leypsa doubled up her efforts to make sure Debbie was taken care of. “There was nothing my mother wouldn’t do for Debbie, ” David Groner said at the funeral. “Joel and I watched in amazement as to how a mother dealt with a sick child for so many years. ” When Debbie passed away in 2001,...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 62 | DECEMBER 1 • 2022 Camp: A 100-Year-Old Summer Tradition T his is the JN’s “Camp Guide” issue. Time to start thinking about enrolling the kids at your favor- ite camp and, perhaps, antici- pating a bit of a break for mom and dad? Well, check out the ads in this issue for Tamarack Camps and Camp Tanuga, two of ...…
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…SEPTEMBER 1 • 2022 | 3 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-9 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 10 Victory for MSU MSU’s Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel celebrates three decades of success. 16 Ukraine Relief Efforts Continue Major dental donation marks latest milestone for Congregation Shaarey Zedek’s Ukraine relief efforts. 18 Critical Help Provided Temple Israel volunteers pack 1,...…
…4 | SEPTEMBER 1 • 2022 for openers PURELY COMMENTARY W e are surrounded daily with many shapes. The square of a house; the round- ness of the Earth. (I have recently been forced to face the fact that the Earth is actually round! Wow!) Our aware- ness often translates into expressions in our conversa- tions. Consider angles and arcs, for instance, as they are hidden in our vocabulary. A beautiful bracelet, for example, a bangl...…
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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 32255 Northwestern Hwy. Suite 205, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 248-354-6060 thejewishnews.com SEPTEMBER 1 • 2022 | 7 T he calming messages from Washington that a final nuclear deal with Iran is still far off seem to be more a method of desensitizing Israel and less of an indication that there are serious disputes between the U.S. and Iran that cannot be overcome. The reason is simple: Both sides want the dea...…
…8 | SEPTEMBER 1 • 2022 PURELY COMMENTARY opinion Judaism Without God? God Forbid. I n a recent Jewish Telegraphic Agency column, Andrew Silow-Carroll identified a trend in American Jewry, which he described as “fiction- alism. ” In the article, he defines it as “pretending to follow a set of beliefs in order to reap the benefits of a set of actions” and cites the philosophy professor Scott Hershovitz, who explains that he f...…
…SEPTEMBER 1 • 2022 | 9 than discarded it. Judaism makes specific truth claims about the world and the nature of reality, and these claims are supported by rational inquiry. We must discover the compelling evidence, and the power- ful philosophical, scientific and historical proofs for the authenticity of the Torah and its claims about the existence of God,and all He did: the creation of the universe, the Exodus from Egypt and the...…
…10 | SEPTEMBER 1 • 2022 OUR COMMUNITY ver the past 30 years, Jewish life at Michigan State University has experi- enced a renaissance. More Jewish students have started choosing the school, which today boasts a Jewish-friendly campus and is home to a recognized Jewish Studies program. When MSU senior Ellie Baden, 21, was choosing a col- lege, it was very important to her that the school she picked had a Jewish community and sup...…
