…24 | JUNE 11 • 2020 every protester wore a mask. - Andrew Lapin A WOODWARD CARAVAN Folks along Woodward Avenue saw a different kind of cruise on Sunday, June 7. No muscle cars or roadsters revving their engines — just Subarus, Toyotas and Nissans driven by mostly white suburbanites, sporting signs like “Black Lives Matter” and “We Will Not be Silent. ” The vehicles were part of the 250-car “Suburban Silence is Racist Violence Car...…
… JUNE 11 • 2020 | 25 O ren Goldenberg, local Jewish filmmaker and vice president of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in Detroit, was beaten and arrested for loitering by Detroit police officers on Tuesday, June 2, during a peaceful protest against the police killing of George Floyd and racial injustice. Goldenberg said he was one of several protesters injured and arrested by police in the streets that night. Detroit protests sinc...…
…I n late March, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit announced the development of its COVID-19 Emergency Campaign. The campaign has now hit its goal of $7.5 million. The campaign was instituted to secure funds to ensure JFMD’ s agencies and other organizations could continue to provide services to the community during the coro- navirus pandemic. At the same time, JFMD also started the COVID-19 Task Force, chaired by Matt Les...…
… JUNE 11 • 2020 | 27 KAREN BERGER KAREN GOLDBERG DRIGGS JERI FISHMAN DAVID GACH ALLAN GALE VERNE ROYAL Thank you to the board members who will be rolling off this year. We appreciate your time, talents and dedication in supporting the mission of Jewish Family Service. MICHAEL EIZELMAN MICKI GROSSMAN TODD SCHAFER NANCY SOLWAY Jewish Family Service is pleased to welcome incoming members of our Board of Directors Need Help With A...…
…28 | JUNE 11 • 2020 O ver the centuries Jews have been blamed for plagues, economic depressions and wars. Now the coronavirus is being connected to Jews by some conspiracy theorists and white suprema- cists on social media, includ- ing encrypt- ed online platforms as well as in tra- ditional media. In fact, the Leelenau Enterprise in Northern Michigan ran a letter to the edi- tor a few weeks back accusing COVID-19 of being a Je...…
… JUNE 11 • 2020 | 29 NCJW’ s May 5 webinar provided an update on white supremacy and national efforts to com- bat racism and anti-Semitism. Cathy Cantor, NCJW state policy advocate, spoke about Women Confronting Racism, a nonprofit organi- zation dedicated to helping white women examine their biases and privilege. The organization brought 5,000 women to Detroit in 2017 for a conference and holds ongoing lectures. “We want to edu...…
…D alia Michaelson, 18, and her family felt especially proud of her graduation from Berkley High School. “It’ s a big deal that I graduat- ed, ” she said. “There was a time last year where we thought that I was going to need to be sent away. We didn’ t think I would be able to finish junior year. ” Michaelson refused to go to school during her junior year. Most mornings she wouldn’ t get up. If she did make the drive to school, she...…
… JUNE 11 • 2020 | 31 continued on page 32 T he COVID-19 pan- demic has made us feel physically distant to each other. We cannot con- gregate at our synagogues, community cen- ters or summer camps. However, the Jewish com- munity has not shifted away from community during the quarantine. Rather, we have been brought together virtu- ally thanks to the Internet and streaming video conferencing. Three cutting-edge Jewish visionari...…
…32 | JUNE 11 • 2020 W ith schools closed, students of all ages have had to shift how they learn. Elementary students, especially, are struggling with productive engagement and the lack of the social connections. However, Bloomfield Hills High School students Noah Yaker, 15, and Noah Roslin, 16, devised a solution to help younger students and engage their peers in developing relationships. They call it Big Buddies of Bloomfiel...…
… JUNE 11 • 2020 | 33 Wilhelm 60th N ancy and Stuart Wilhelm of Farmington Hills celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on May 29, 2020. Their children, Heidi and Michael Kurtz, Marcia and Arthur Wilhelm; grandchildren, Marisa and Jake, Rebecca and Sam; and great-granddaugh- ters, Orly and Adina, wish them good health and much happi- ness. Margolin 90th A rlene Margolin celebrated her 90th birthday on May 29, 2020. She is the ...…
…34 | JUNE 11 • 2020 HENRY FREEMAN Bloomfield Hills High School National Honor Society, Student Team Manager Varsity Hockey, Owner of Hank’ s Detailing. Michigan State University SPENSER KEYS Berkley High School Magna cum laude, National Honor Society, National Technical Honor Society, Dean’ s list, Early college/dual enrollment at Oakland Community College begin- ning junior year, First Robotics, Certifications in Sol...…
… JUNE 11 • 2020 | 35 E very year I am surprised and amazed when some- thing from our tradition that we often overlook suddenly becomes incredibly important. This year, it was the role of Pesach Sheni (“second Passover”) from this week’ s portion described in Numbers 9:1-14. Pesach Sheni was created because of the distress of the Israelite popula- tion who were unable to perform and, therefore, celebrate the sacrifices associated...…
…36 | JUNE 11 • 2020 business SPOTlight brought to you in partnership with B I R M I N G H A M W hen corporate and business leaders gather in their c-suites these days, we remind our- selves of an adage as old as business: “A company is only as healthy as the com- munity it serves.” This ethic has never been truer than it is today — when the African American community has been inflicted with what my friend the Rev. Wendell Anthony ...…
… JUNE 11 • 2020 | 37 who have endured the pain and suffering of bigotry. As a company, and as citizens of our community, we unite together in rejecting all forms of bias, racism and violence in our workplace and in our communities. We will meet this challenge with more than words. We will accelerate our unconscious bias training throughout our company to ensure we all have the tools to identify and respond to injus- tice. TCF Ban...…
…38 | JUNE 11 • 2020 A fter Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’ s June 1 announcement allowing most businesses to reopen, small business owners need to ensure that they are compliant with the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that safe- guards the health of employees and customers. Many Jewish business own- ers are turning to Lindsay Sikora, owner and founder of Sikora Business Solutions, a consulting com...…
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…Arts&Life documentary 40 | JUNE 11 • 2020 Music Evokes Emotions from Armenian Genocide Album and documentary go digital. SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER P roducer-musician Ohad Wilner and film edi- tor Stewart Shevin grew up in Jewish families never forgetting the Holocaust, but they had no knowledge of the Armenian Genocide perpetrated years earlier by the Turkish Ottoman Empire. Their knowledge came as they worked on musical...…
… JUNE 11 • 2020 | 41 tions associated with the 100th anniversary of the start of the atrocities in 1915, and the resulting symphony, “ An Armenian Trilogy” as performed by the Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra in 2017, became the center of a new documentary with the same title. The film chronicles Yessian’ s journey from composing music for advertisements to writing his first classical composition in honor of the victims of the A...…
…42 | JUNE 11 • 2020 Arts&Life celebrity jews NEW OR NEWISH OFFERINGS AND MORE The High Note is a big-budget film about the music industry that was supposed to open in theaters but was diverted to rental streaming due to COVID-19. High Note centers on an aging superstar diva (Tracee Ellis Ross, 47) and her ambitious assistant (Dakota Johnson). The NY Times review said that the plot was implau- sible, and Johnson was bland. The T...…
… JUNE 11 • 2020 | 43 STAYING CONNECTED At this time of social distancing, the Jewish News will try to bring awareness to events/learning situations offered online by synagogues, temples and community organizations. FAMILY CONCERT 7:30 PM, JUNE 14 The Ark in Ann Artbor presents a family concert on its Facebook page; a Facebook account is not necessary to view. This night it is Drew Nelson, storyteller, songwriter and multi- instrum...…
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… JUNE 11 • 2020 | 45 IF IT’ S AN EMERGENCY, DON’ T WAIT. Beaumont continues to lead Michigan through the COVID-19 crisis, and we have taken extra steps to protect the safety of all our patients and caregivers. When you have life-threatening symptoms, it’ s important to seek care immediately. Call 911 or go to the emergency room if you experience: • wheezing, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing • chest pain • fainting or dizzin...…
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… JUNE 11 • 2020 | 47 NCJW Essay Contest Winners National Council of Jewish Women, Michigan Jewish Youth Awards is an annual scholarship program for high school seniors. Applicants are judged on a written essay, their leadership, and community service in the secu- lar and/or Jewish communities. This year’ s essay topic was “What experi- ence or person has had the greatest impact on your Jewish identity?” Eight finalists were awarded s...…
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… JUNE 11 • 2020 | 49 Soul of blessed memory BILL CITRON, 91, of Farmington Hills, died May 9, 2020. He is sur- vived by his wife of 58 years, Barbara Citron; son and daughter-in-law, Gregg and RuthAnn Citron; daughter, Leslie Citron; brother and sister-in-law, Henry and Janice Citron; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Sidney and Jackie Wineberg; many loving nieces, nephews and friends. Mr. Citron was the loving brother of the ...…
…50 | JUNE 11 • 2020 Soul of blessed memory continued from page 49 great-grandchildren, brothers, sisters-in-law, nieces and neph- ews; she delighted in visits and outings with them. Bea was a true devotee of the mah jong game and gin rummy. At 94, she was still mastering the games and getting together with her friends to play and socialize several days a week. Always loving and caring, Bea will be missed by her beloved family an...…
… JUNE 11 • 2020 | 51 continued on page 52 Maya. He was moved to write Maya’ s First Rose, a memoir. He and illustrator Howard Fridson published it to local kudos. The book hit No. 1 on the Free Press best seller list. Random House purchased the rights and released it under their Villard imprint. Martin appeared on many TV and radio shows, including Sally Jessy Raphael, a national talk show, and was featured in a People Magazine a...…
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…12 July 11 • 2019 jn STACY GITTLEMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER The local Jewish community is doing what it can to help. Crisis at the Border H earing accounts of the overcrowded, unsanitary detention centers where asylum-seeking migrants are being warehoused and separated from their children, who also are being held in similar conditions, can be over- whelming and frustrating. On July 4, some in the Jewish community joined a protest again...…
…July 11 • 2019 13 jn from family will have on these children — perhaps for the rest of their lives. “Loving care and being in a nurturing environment are not luxuries for young children and teenagers,” she stressed “The trauma of being separated from one’ s family and the harsh unsanitary conditions in these centers are caus- ing the kind of trauma in chil- dren where high levels of neurotoxins are being released into their bodi...…
…14 July 11 • 2019 jn ALLISON JACOBS JN DIGITAL EDITOR Schmoozing with Ryan Israel Attorney talks about immigration law — challenges and rewards. Q. What inspired you to become an immigration attorney? Before I applied to law school, I thought this was the type of law I wanted to practice because I wanted to help people from different countries — and I spoke different languages. I thought it was a good way to merge those two conc...…
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…July 11 • 2019 17 jn I magine sitting next to a loved one and realizing that you are no longer able to hear them clearly. Or, ordering your favorite coffee and not being able to decipher what the barista asked. As with many adults, the aging process can cause hearing loss. Naturally, when a person cannot hear, they begin to withdraw from conversation. They may even stop engaging in activities they once loved. For many, not being able...…
