…FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 | 41 45,000 attendees in person, with 30% of attendees travel- ing from outside the U.S. and representing 119 countries. “Innovation came to life this week at CES 2022 — with technologies that will reshape industries and provide solutions to press- ing worldwide issues from healthcare to agriculture, sustainability and beyond,” said Shapiro. “The CES show floor buzzed with the joy of human interaction and a five...…
…42 | FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 T his past semester, and year, has been unconventional to say the very least. At the start of the fall 2021 semester, I expressed my excitement and anticipation to return to a semi-normal college experience at Wayne State University, with a fresh appreciation for the little moments in life that make days so sweet. Now that I am beginning a new semester yet again, I thought it prudent to check in with myse...…
…FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 | 43 As the weeks flew by, and September became October and morphed into November, I settled into a comfortable and enjoyable routine. I would meet in person for my class on Tuesday evenings, attend in-person history club meetings and lead in-person JSO meetings. My days were brightened by forays into the student center to get a coffee or excursions with my brother to visit the Detroit Institute of Art. A SP...…
…44 | FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 M y name is Mary Yousif. I am 22 and am the first generation born in the U.S. to my family. I take on many roles within my daily life and community, whether it be a daughter, student, teaching assistant, volunteer, researcher or, most of all, a proud Israel supporter and advocate. Israel. There is no place that I’ve had as strong of a connection with than the state of Israel. I’m sure many of you are w...…
…FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 | 45 our Nissim Black event. Nissim came, via Zoom, and told his story about how he began with music and his spiritual awakening in the Jewish community. We were so fortunate to collaborate with Wayne State’s Black Student Union for this event and involve other groups on campus. Eventually, I became an Israeli American Council (IAC) Mishelanu ambassador, a position I still proudly hold and value dearly becau...…
…for college students by college students Nicole Ruza } jewish@edu writer Jewish Learning with a New Twist J ewish learning has always been important to me. However, sometimes, I find that Jewish learnings I participate in could use a refresh to be more relevant and exciting. This is why I was so drawn toward Michigan State Hillel’s Chavurah program, an initiative launched in October 2021 to help students develop a better rela- t...…
…FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 | 47 SPORTS T he Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation has a new executive director. He’s a familiar face. Don Rudick, a foundation Pillars of Excellence honoree in 2016 and active volunteer at foundation events, was named the executive director in December. The West Bloomfield resi- dent replaced Sari Cicurel, who resigned as executive director to devote more time to her busy public relations business. Cicurel had ...…
…48 | FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 business SPOTlight brought to you in partnership with B I R M I N G H A M I n a few short months, vis- itors to Detroit’s historic Eastern Market will find a new eatery for indulging in corned beef sandwiches and other Jewish deli fare. They will also find a market offering locally sourced food and prod- ucts, plus grocery items. Bringing the two distinct businesses to fruition is EW Grobbel, a globally...…
…FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 | 49 here’s to nient grab-and-go items and company’s brands, such as Grobbel’s Gourmet smoked meats and its line of premi- um, sliced and prepackaged deli products. “The new locations will offer a way for people to interact with the brands in an entirely new way,” Grobbel said. For example, “our kosher dill pickle line, Topor’s, will be available in the deli as well as the market.” He was referring to the popu...…
…50 | FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 MAZEL TOV! Quinn Regan Cohen, daughter of Cassi and Michael Cohen, will be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. She will be joined in celebration by her siblings, Jaden, Madison, Logan and Ethan. Quinn is the loving grandchild of Esther and the late Morry Wexler, the late Ronald Cohen, and Margaret and J.D. Himmelstein. Quinn is a student at W...…
…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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…FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 | 55 Shomer Israel Oak Park (248) 542-4014 godaven.com Shomrey Emunah Southfield (248) 559-1533 congregation-shomrey- emunah-105705.square.site The Shul-Chabad Lubavitch West Bloomfield (248) 788-4000 theshul.net Yagdil Torah Southfield (248) 559-5905 Young Israel of Oak Park (248) 967-3655 yiop.org Young Israel of Southfield (248) 358-0154 yisouthfield.org RECONSTRUCTIONIST Congregation Kehillat Israel...…
…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....…
…NOSH & KNOWLEDGE NOON, FEB 10 “Caring Capacity: A Jewish Perspective” will be presented on Zoom, sponsored by NCJW | MI and featuring Rabbi Blair Nosanwisch, director of spiritual care at Adat Shalom Synagogue. To register, visit NCJWMI.org. REPAIRING LOVE LIVES 7-8 PM, FEB 10 Ian Kerner will discuss online his new book, So Tell Me About the Last Time You Had Sex: Laying Bare and Learning to Repair Our Love Lives. Visit jlive.app/...…
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…64 | FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 may be made to Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Abe and Bea Katzman Camp Ramah Scholarship Fund, 27375 Bell Road, Southfield, MI 48034; Karmanos Cancer Institute, 4100 John R, Detroit, MI 48201; American Diabetes Association- Local Chapter, 20700 Civic Center, Southfield, MI 48076; Jewish Family Service, 6555 W . Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufma...…
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…OF BLESSED MEMORY 68 | FEBRUARY 10 • 2022 ments, Bruce was a mensch. Everyone who met him knew him to be warm, generous, soft-spoken, with a self-dep- recating sense of humor. But he also had a sense of integ- rity that was unshakeable, an instinct for doing right, a sharp and curious mind, and a deep sense of loyalty to all his communities. His friends from every phase of his life — his Detroit neighborhood, Central High, the Un...…
…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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…4 | JUNE 10 • 2021 for openers Drop and Switch G ames with words can be fun: Scrabble, Spill & Spell, Words With Friends. One that fascinates me involves changing/replacing one letter at a time to lead to a new word. Here is an extended exam- ple (several sequences): Try your hand with your own; even challenge someone to play with you. There is no need, however, to provide narration as I do here; it is only to tie my attem...…
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…6 | JUNE 10 • 2021 A s I started my day one Sunday morning, my first instinct was to look away when I drove toward an opossum and several babies that lay dead on my street cor- ner. Something made me slow down and take another look. I was shocked — the mother was clearly dead, but her stomach was moving up and down. I called my brother who trains and rescues wild ani- mals, and he reminded me that opossums are marsupials an...…
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…8 | JUNE 10 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY guest column A Letter to the Jewish Community I hope this letter finds you safe and healthy as we emerge from the shadows of the COVID-19 pandemic to the promise of a brighter day. Please know the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office and our local police agencies and public safety departments are working in concert to support your com- munity and faith. Tensions remain high amid ongoing threa...…
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…10 | JUNE 10 • 2021 guest column Left in Silence A s a progressive Jew growing up with an Israeli father, I’ve always had a complex relation- ship with Israel. There was a saying that my dad loved and that made an impression on me: “Don’t be so open-minded that you fail to choose your own side in a fight. ” So many years later, I feel this tongue-in-cheek truism has something important to teach progressives as we navigate th...…
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…OUR COMMUNITY I f you have supported Israel on your social media chan- nels by posting an Israeli flag in your profile picture only to receive a barrage of unsolic- ited hateful messages in your Facebook inbox or Twitter feed, or if you have been ousted or silenced in online professional forum groups after offering counterpoints to anti-Israel or antisemitic posts, you are not alone. Following the 11-day conflict between Israel a...…
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…16 | JUNE 10 • 2021 statement about the conflict that expressed complete solidarity with “indigenous” Palestinians, accused Israel of ethnic cleans- ing, and called for a divestment of all funding and academic col- laboration with Israel. Moss, a junior, said it “caught the Jewish student body completely by surprise. ” He and other Jewish students have created a petition to counter the statement and are asking the CSG for an apolog...…
…JUNE 10 • 2021 | 17 they were screen-capturing private conversations and shar- ing them externally on social media. Lograsso-Gaitens said the infographic does not repre- sent the views of MI Core and has since been removed. Nancy Harf, who has been a longtime volunteer and fund- raiser in the Jewish community, said she was troubled that many of the small businesses in Detroit she likes to patron- ize came out in support of Palestini...…
…18 | JUNE 10 • 2021 A bout 200 people united on a very hot Sunday afternoon to show solidarity against a rising tide of antisemitism. The rally took place on June 6 on the west side of Orchard Lake Road north of 14 Mile in West Bloomfield. Representatives of a broad spectrum of the Jewish community led a united front against anti-Jewish bigotry and violence that is on the rise as tensions increase in the Middle East. Groups partici...…
