…FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 | 51 Smith 74th A rthur and Dotty Smith of West Bloomfield celebrated their 74th wedding anniversary on Jan. 27, 2022. The couple met at a Hillel dance after which Arthur had his more outspoken but similar sounding brother arrange their first date. Arthur served as a communications officer in the Navy in WW II, completed his college educa- tion at Wayne State University and worked as a CPA and entrepreneur. Do...…
…52 | FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 T here are lives that are lessons. The late Henry Knobil’s was one. He was born in Vienna in 1932. His father had come there in the 1920s to escape the rising tide of antisemitism in Poland, but like Jacob fleeing from Esau to Laban, he found that he had fled one danger only to arrive at another. After the Anschluss and Kristallnacht, it became clear that, if the family were to survive, they had to l...…
…FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 | 53 the words: “Command the Israelites to bring you clear olive oil, crushed for the light, so that the lamp may always burn” (Ex. 27:20). The Sages drew a comparison between the olive and the Jewish people. Rabbi Joshua ben Levi asked, “Why is Israel compared to an olive? Just as an olive is first bitter, then sweet, so Israel suffers in the present but great good is stored up for them in the time to come. A...…
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…W hen Broadway actor Josh Young originally wrote the Cabaret Valjean, Cosette and a String Quartet before the pandemic lockdown in 2020, he had no idea that it would be nearly two years before he would perform it in front of an audience, but he’s thrilled it’s finally going to happen. On Feb. 12, Cabaret 313 will host Young and his wife, Emily Padgett, to ring in Valentine’s Day weekend for a night of cabaret performances in the Great ...…
…FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 | 57 played him as the hero not the villain, ” he said. “I believed that although Judas loved Jesus, who was an amazing person, he was afraid if [Jesus] raised too much of a ruckus he would hurt the Jewish people. ” His director was on board with his interpretation of the character. Young wore a hamsah around his neck and davened on center stage while singing “Heaven on their Minds. ” At OU, Young is proud of hi...…
…C ollaboration remains a compelling enjoyment factor in the conducting achievements of Andy Einhorn, who has expressed this value since his stu- dent years growing up in Texas. This month, he brings that outlook to Ann Arbor as he joins University of Michigan (U-M) musical theater students with award-winning Broadway stars and the Grand Rapids Symphony to present a concert version of Fiddler on the Roof host- ed by the University Mus...…
…FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 | 59 concerts. He considers the song “Do You Love Me?” — about an arranged marriage deepen- ing into one of love — a mini three-act play. Carly Meyer, a U-M sophomore assigned to be assistant dramaturg while taking the moth- erly role of Shandel, also took part in a high school production of Fiddler. “This production is so overwhelmingly special, ” said Meyer, who grew up in Illinois and volunteered at the Jewish Comm...…
…60 | FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 I WILL BARELY WATCH THE OLYMPICS; CAROLE KING & HER ALL-KOSHER BACKING BAND I doubt I will watch the Beijing Olympic Games. Maybe I’ll look at a few event clips. Holocaust-related recent news stories have cemented my feelings. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) knew that China was not likely to turn into a democ- racy or stop persecuting its citizens when they awarded the 2022 Games to China in 2015....…
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…FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 | 69 P rofessor Yale Kamisar, legal scholar and author, died peacefully on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, sur- rounded by his loving family. Yale was born in the Bronx, N.Y., on Aug. 29, 1929, to Samuel and Mollie (Levine) Kamisar, Eastern European Jewish immigrants with lim- ited formal education. From these modest beginnings, he became an eminent legal scholar, author and teacher. At the time...…
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