…OCTOBER 10 • 2024 | 55 J N sons she adored, Geoffrey and Alex. Born in Detroit to Brenda (Burton) and Monte Levitt, Nancy shared the house with older brothers Andrew and Stuart. There were many family gatherings that included her nieces, Wendy, Aimee and Susie; their mothers, Sandy and Marilyn; her nephew, Michael (Kelly). Nancy recently traveled with her family to Quebec City. Over the years, they frequently visited friends and fam...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 56 | OCTOBER 10 • 2024 J N OBITUARY CHARGES The processing fee for obituaries is: $125 for up to 100 words; $1 per word thereafter. A photo counts as 15 words. There is no charge for a Holocaust survivor icon. The JN reserves the right to edit wording to conform to its style considerations. For information, have your funeral director call the JN or you may call Sy Manello, editorial assistant, at (248) ...…
…OCTOBER 10 • 2024 | 57 J N Y ou’ve probably listened to WDET, Detroit’s public radio station, countless times to catch up on the news, weather, and local music and conversations. However, WDET also has a jewel you may not know about — the Detroit Radio Information Service, which provides radio reading for the blind and visually impaired. Since 1978, DRIS has filled an information void in the blind and print-impaired population ...…
…58 | OCTOBER 10 • 2024 J N Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at thejewishnews.com An American Tradition P araphrasing a holiday song, “Tis the Season.” The season for political advertisements, that is. The long, tedious, unrelenting, bombardment of political ads that will continue until election day. By now, unless you have been totally isolated from radio, TV or social media, ...…
…6 | OCTOBER 10 • 2024 J N 1942 - 2024 Covering and Connecting Jewish Detroit Every Week To make a donation to the DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION go to the website www.thejewishnews.com The Detroit Jewish News (USPS 275-520) is published every Thursday at 32255 Northwestern Highway, #205, Farmington Hills, Michigan. Periodical postage paid at Southfield, Michigan, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: send changes to: ...…
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…OCTOBER 10 • 2024 | 7 J N Photo courtesy of Robert Bruce Photography Your support of The Zekelman Holocaust Center is essential. With your help, this year we will teach over 100,000 people about the Holocaust and the critical need to stand up to hatred and antisemitism. Please join us on Sunday, November 10, at 5:30 PM, for our 40th Anniversary Benefit at Huntington Place in Detroit. Together, we will make a better world. MARCIE & R...…
…8 | OCTOBER 10 • 2024 J N OUR COMMUNITY ON THE COVER The iconic silhouette of CSZ, which recently renewed the entrance of the building. Congregation Shaarey Zedek renews its entry plaza for the next generation of Jewish Detroiters. STACY GITTLEMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER A New Gateway to Righteousness Righteousness …
…OCTOBER 10 • 2024 | 9 J N D riving along Northwestern Highway, one sees the silhouette of Congregation Shaarey Zedek’s striking Mount Sinai-shaped sanctuary, one of the most prominent in Metro Detroit. Completed in 1962, it is an architectural mar- vel designed by Percival Goodman, one of America’s most prolific Jewish architects, who designed more than 50 synagogues between 1948 and 1983. Looking ahead, congregational leaders and vision...…
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… OCTOBER 10 • 2019 | 3 contents Views 5-12 Jews in the D A Family Affair 14 Five generations have made Porter Bottle Co. a fixture in Detroit. Shaken Not Stirred 18 The Well presents a Sukkot-inspired escape room. Sukkah Sleeping 20 The tradition of dwelling in a sukkah for seven days can include overnight stays. 1 Day, 18 Games, 3 Playoff Champions 22 Inter-Congregational League results. Young Jews Making Moves: Emma Cherrin 24...…
…Afternoon Concert Series Temple Israel’s In Conj unct i on wi t h t he Cari ng Communi t y, Cel ebrat i ng Our 22nd year Feat ur i ng Walled Lake Central Chor al Gr oups Thur sday, October 17, 2019 1:30 pm • Temple I srael Open t o t he communi t y free of charge. Refreshment s fol l ow program. Reservat i ons are not necessary, however, i f you are bri ngi ng a l arge group, pl ease ...…
… OCTOBER 10 • 2019 | 5 Views T he royal flush (10-Jack- Queen-King-Ace, same suit) is the best hand to hold in poker; it is unbeatable. Kn owing that playing cards have a long history, I find it no wonder that the cards of this “famous” hand influence our everyday speech. If you have strong faith in a venture coming off very well or failing misera- bly, you might offer someone 10-to-1 odds on the outcome. A salesperson tryin...…
…publisher’ s notebook JN: Can It Continue To Connect Us? Views online comments I ’ m often asked what makes Detroit unique among North American Jewish commu- nities. Yes, we are generous with our time and treasure. And we have a tradition of cultivating leaders and shar- ing them locally, nationally and internationally. However, our “special ingredi- ent” is everyone here knows each other or thinks they should! With a local J...…
…MAGEN DAVID ADOM Det r oi t Event Thur sday, Oct ober 24, 2019 Keynote Speaker Br et St ephens Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist at the NY Ti mes Honor ing Sandy and Ji m Dant o Co-Chair s: Lor i and Steven Weisber g 27375 Bell Road • Southfield, MI 48034 5 p.m. VIP Reception with Br et St ephens 6 p.m. Pr e-Glow Reception Cocktails & Hors D’oeuvr es with Br et St ephens 7 p.m...…
…Views essay The Women’s March It fi nally might be ready to take Jewish women seriously. F or the first time in a while, I am cautiously hopeful that the Women’ s March may be turning a corner. I am not talking about the dramatic changing of the guard, though it is certainly a big deal that three of the march’ s four prominent co-chairs — Bob Bland, Tamika Mallory and Linda Sarsour — have stepped down after the organi- zation...…
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…10 | OCTOBER 10 • 2019 Views commentary Is Regulation of Anti-Semitism on Campus Censorship? A s far as President Donald Trump’ s liberal critics are concerned, this is just the latest instance of his administration’ s hostility to free speech. The Department of Education announced last month that it had ordered the Middle East Studies Department run jointly by Duke University and the University of North Carolina to revam...…
…Views 12 | OCTOBER 10 • 2019 and liberals, might be inclined to answer “no. ” Yet, if the DOE is dispensing money to schools throughout the country, why shouldn’ t it monitor how funds are being spent? The federal government is quite vigilant about policing the use of grant money when it comes to possible discrimina- tory conduct or practices. The same is true for a host of other issues relating to federal pref- erences about a wi...…
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…A Family Affair Five generations have made Porter Bottle Co. a fi xture in Detroit. SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER Jews in the D JERRY ZOLYNSKY 14 | OCTOBER 10 • 2019 …
… OCTOBER 10 • 2019 | 15 W hen Rena Tepman, son Larry and cous- in Dan Grubner separately do their personal grocery shopping, they can spend as many as three hours in a supermarket. It’ s not that they’ re preoccu- pied with food; it’ s that they’ re preoccupied with containers. The three are among five generations of a family owning and/or working for Porter Bottle Company in Downtown Detroit, their base for distrib- uting glass a...…
…Jews in the D continued from page 15 16 | OCTOBER 10 • 2019 the early 1940s until he retired at the age of 89. He mostly monitored all the trucks that came and went. ” Rena’ s late husband, Jerry, who had worked in sales, joined the business in 1981 as Dave Schwartz was preparing to retire. Only one year later, as Jerry was immersed in learning warehouse operations, Schwartz suffered a debilitating heart attack and Jerry took ch...…
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…Oak Park Mayor Marian McClellan and pharma- cist Marwan Isa joined artist Howard Fridson of Huntington Woods (Henry Ford High Class of 1967 and member of Congregation Beth Shalom) at a Sept. 24 dedication of Howard’ s mural, “Dedicated to the Proposition” on the Lincoln Road side of Lincoln Liquor and Rx (former Lincoln Drugs) on Coolidge Highway in Oak Park. Fridson worked on the mural for six weeks with temperatures soaring in...…
…Thursday, November 7 DEDICATION We learned. We grew. LUNCHEON 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM PROUD PARTNERS Former Durfee students, family members and friends are invited to reminisce and celebrate with Durfee Alumni, Senator Carl Levin and Congressman Sander Levin. The newest locaon for Metro Detroit Youth Clubs, located in Durfee, is being named in honor of the Levin brothers and Detroit philanthropist, James Comer. This extraordinary...…
…20 | OCTOBER 10 • 2019 T he Torah tells us what to do with a sukkah: “In Sukkot you shall dwell for seven days; every citizen of Israel shall dwell in sukkot” (Leviticus 23:42). Dwelling, as the ancient rabbis understand the term, means treating the sukkah as one treats home the other weeks of the year: “One eats and drinks and walks around and sleeps in the suk- kah” (Talmud Sukkot 28b). The Talmudic rabbi Rava also derives o...…
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…22 | OCTOBER 10 • 2019 STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER 1 Day, 18 Games, 3 Playoff Champions I t was a rainy season for the Inter-Congregational Men’ s Club Summer Softball League. Postponements and makeups during the regular season shortened the playoffs from two weeks to one week in the weekly league. Eighteen post-season games were played Aug. 18 at Keith Sports Park in West Bloomfield to determine the three division playof...…
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…CORRIE COLF STAFF WRITER | PHOTOS COURTESY OF EMMA CHERRIN S ixteen-year-old Emma Cherrin considers herself a feminist with a passion for empowering women. She attends Berkley High School, where she and a friend started a women’ s club called Girl Up. “My friend Zoe Zaltz and I were interested in joining a feminist club at Berkley but when we got there in ninth grade, we realized there wasn’ t one in place, ” Cherrin said. “We end...…
… OCTOBER 10 • 2019 | 25 Sunday, November 10th Adopt a Family Help rake leaves and winterize homes of older adults. Specific sites available for families, young adults, and 6th-12th graders. Help everyone enjoy the holiday! Just $50 provides a complete holiday meal for a family in need. Make the holidays bright for families in our community. Shop from a wish list or make a general donation. Visit jfsdetroit.org or contact ...…
…26 | OCTOBER 10 • 2019 Jews in the D continued from page 24 involved with Girl Up and I came across the partnership with Fabletics, ” Cherrin said. “The competition embraced the theme of ‘ girl hero’ and asked you to design a T-shirt on however you interpreted that statement. ” Cherrin immediately grabbed a Sharpie and began doodling T-shirt concepts, landing on a design that included the words, #Girl Hero in the center with h...…
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…28 | OCTOBER 10 • 2019 Jews in the D Lisa Brown, Oakland County clerk/register of deeds, was designated as a certified elections/ registration administrator (CERA) in a recent cer- emony conducted by the Election Center. Brown, a lifelong resident of Oakland County, has been serving since 2013. A National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Collaborative Research grant was award- ed to Professor Shachar Pinsker of the Frankel Center f...…
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…30 | OCTOBER 10 • 2019 Lian Najami, Israel’ s first Arab Rhodes Scholar, spoke to an audience of about 35 mostly Jewish and Arab students at a Sept. 23 speak- er event hosted by Wayne State University’ s Students for Israel, Hillel of Metro Detroit, the Center for the Study of Citizenship and the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies. Najami graduated with a bachelor’ s degree in political science from the University of Haifa ...…
… OCTOBER 10 • 2019 | 31 Michigan Supreme Court Justice Richard Bernstein, the first blind State Supreme Court Justice in the U.S., will run in the Detroit Free Press/ TCF Bank Marathon on Oct. 20. This marks the first time he has run his hometown marathon since an accident seven years ago in which his hip and pelvis were shattered and led to a 10-week stay in Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. From being a competitive runner who ...…
…32 | OCTOBER 10 • 2019 Hillel of Metro Detroit has received funding for four Applebaum Family Engagement Interns for the 2019/2020 school year. Each student intern works to connect Jewish students to Jewish life on campus and in the Detroit community. Rachel Peysakhova is a Wayne State University soph- omore majoring in global studies. This summer, she participated in a Birthright Israel trip. Jeremy Rosenberg is in his third ...…
… OCTOBER 10 • 2019 | 33 | faces&places Jews in the D The Well welcomed Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess) Keshira haLev Fife of Pittsburgh to the Detroit Jewish community for a recent weekend of learning and Shabbat celebration that was kicked off with song and prayer at Samastah Yoga in Ferndale. A plant-based Shabbat dinner was catered by Nosh Pit Detroit. On Saturday morning, Fife joined The Well at Tot Shabbat: Rosh Hashanah Edition...…
…Moments 34 | OCTOBER 10 • 2019 AUG. 22, 2019 Sara and Jordan Stav are delighted to announce the birth of their son, Liam Sawyer, brother of Ezra. He is the grandson of Wendi Zupmore of West Bloomfield, Marc Zupmore and Mark Johnson of Franklin, Sheri Stav and Lonnie Pukoff of Commerce, and Ron Stav of Ferndale. He is the great-grandson of Audrey Zupmore of Commerce, Lois and Cyril Levenson of West Bloomfield, and Haim Stav of Israel....…
… OCTOBER 10 • 2019 | 35 D iane Pomish of West Bloomfield and Boca Raton, Fla., turned 90 years old on Oct. 7, 2019. She was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, where she lived her early life before mov- ing to Detroit. Diane had a valued career in education. She indulged her grandchildren with special trips both stateside and abroad, always encouraging education and world experiences. Diane will celebrate her milestone with her lovi...…
…36 | OCTOBER 10 • 2019 “L et the skies hear as I speak; let the Earth listen to the words of my mouth. May my message descend as the rain; may my speech distill as the dew. ” These are Moses’ last remarks as he calls upon the heavens and the Earth to wit- ness his final testament to the Israelites. He probably asks for their witness not only because they are eternal but also because they are a daily part of the lives of the I...…
… OCTOBER 10 • 2019 | 37 I n a first, special-needs soldiers who volunteer in the IDF will soon be able to combine Torah study with army service, just as many regular religious soldiers do in a five-year Hesder program, according to Israel Hayom. The new system will begin in November, within the frame- work of a program that allows special-needs men and women aged 18-25 to do meaningful service in the army. Called Olim Darga, whic...…
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… OCTOBER 10 • 2019 | 39 F ive years ago, Linda Solomon received a Facebook friend request from Kay Cunningham. “Who?” Solomon pondered. Not knowing a Kay Cunningham, Solomon simply didn’ t respond. A couple of days later, Solomon received another message. “Linda, you didn’ t friend me back. It’ s me, Aretha. ” As in Franklin. So, of course, Solomon accepted Franklin’ s friend request. Franklin had only 22 Facebook friends on her pri...…
…Solomon to meet and cover her family at a reception at the Manoogian Mansion in Detroit. “That was a life-changing photo assignment for me,” says Solomon, a member of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame and founder of her non- profit Pictures of Hope, which provides digital cameras and photography tutorials to chil- dren living in shelters in the United States. “ Aretha really helped me with my career. She knew I was just starting ...…
