…THE BROKER OF CHOICE FOR THOSE IN THE KNOW. pamstoler@hallandhunter.com thejewishnews.com $200 June 13-19, 2019 / 10-16 Sivan 5779 See page 36 The Spy Behind Home Plate Former Detroit fi lmmaker Aviva Kempner tells the real story of Moe Berg, a Major- L eaguer turned spy. …
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…June 13 • 2019 3 jn inside June 13-19, 2019 10-16 Sivan 5779 VOLUME CLV, ISSUE 19 thejewishnews.com • Schmoozing with Matt Daniels of Nu Deli food truck • Flooding Hits Michigan Communities • Neo-Nazis Disr upt Motor City Pride Detroit Jewish News n VIEWS 5-8 JEWS IN THE D 10 ADL and Anti-Semitism: Two events shed light on the issue. 12 MSU’ s Rosman Golf Outing is Teed Up for 10th year. 14 Changing Agencies JCRC...…
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…June 13 • 2019 5 jn T hose in the news biz are required to have a “nose for news.” They must be alert to goings on so as to bring to the fore that which the public must know. As they nose around, we are brought up to snuff (oy!) and begin to sense that the facial protuberance has nosed its way into our talk. Some of us are so limited in our awareness that we can’ t see beyond the ends of our noses. Even then, we can be accused of...…
…6 June 13 • 2019 jn The Jewish News aspires to communicate news and opinion that’ s useful, engaging, enjoyable and unique. It strives to refl ect the full range of diverse viewpoints while also advocating positions that strengthen Jewish unity and continuity. We desire to create and maintain a challenging, caring, enjoyable work environment that encourages creativity and innovation. We acknowledge our role as a responsible, responsive m...…
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…8 June 13 • 2019 jn continued from page 5 online comments Rabbi Tamara Kolton’ s opinion piece (page 8, May 30) about the abortion issue prompted comments on the JN’ s Facebook page: Jim Van Eaton: “With today’ s emphasis on science, when are we going to start caring about the MOST vulnerable of us, the unborn children? Anyone who has seen an ultrasound knows there is a person in there. It’ s not just tissue. To equate pro-life w...…
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…10 June 13 • 2019 jn jews d in the U nderstanding and confronting the recent rise in anti-Semitism and other forms of hate was explored recently at Jewish Ferndale’ s bi-monthly discussion series. Rabbi Herschel Finman and his wife, Chana, hosted 35 guests May 16 at their Chabad center in Ferndale. Local journalist Julie Edgar moderated a conversation featuring Howard Lupovitch, histo- ry professor and director of the Cohn-Haddo...…
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…12 June 13 • 2019 jn Rosman Golf Outing Teed Up for 10th Year R yan Rosman’ s family has turned tragedy into a day that benefits thousands of Jewish students at Michigan State University. The 10th annual Ryan Scott Rosman Memorial MSU Hillel Golf Outing & Game Day will be Monday, June 17, at Tam-O-Shanter Country Club in West Bloomfield. Rosman died Nov. 5, 2009, at age 19 when he was a sophomore at MSU. He was injured by a bus...…
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…14 June 13 • 2019 jn Changing Agencies JCRC/AJC Chief David Kurzmann will move to Federation. J CRC/AJC Executive Director David Kurzmann is heading down one floor in the Max M. Fisher Federation Building in Bloomfield Township to a new position as senior director, community and donor relations, at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, reporting to Federation CEO Scott Kaufman. Kurzmann will be leaving JCRC/ AJC effective ...…
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…16 June 13 • 2019 jn * Picnic begins at 6 pm (Play & Pray picnic begins at 6:15 pm). Bring your own picnic dinner, or have a buffet picnic with us! Register online at temple-israel.org/shabbatpicnic. For more information, contact Sandi Stocker at sandi@temple-israel.org or 248-661-5700. Dinner cost: $15/adult, $7/child 4-12, under 4 are free. Services are held at our Harriett & Morton Freedman Outdoor Sanctuary. JUNE 21ST Kabbalat Sha...…
…June 13 • 2019 17 jn continued on page 18 LOUIS FINKELMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Two poems from May 1944 unite three generations of women. O n May 11, 1944, 75 years ago, Bertha Weinschenk celebrated her 75th birthday in Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp and ghetto. A group of her friends presented her with an original poem in German, specially composed in honor of her birthday, handwritten on a piece of cardboard. The poem ...…
…18 June 13 • 2019 jn continued from page 17 jews d in the One of Elsie’ s sons, Dan Simkovitz, recalls learning about the two poems. “I knew about the first poem from my youth. I learned about the second poem on a visit to Detroit late one Shabbat evening when my mom and I were up late reminiscing, going through old albums, and she showed me her birthday poem. “It dawned on me the next morning that my family had two poems com...…
…June 13 • 2019 19 jn Featuring Northwestern University Professor Cake and coffee Lecture followed by Q&A Unspoken Truths: The Holocaust through Women’ s Voices Most people know about the Holocaust through memoirs and movies about male survivors like Elie Wiesel and rescuers like Oskar Schindler. That is because men’s experiences were taken as the social and cultural norm. But our understanding of the Holocaust is incomplete without t...…
…20 June 13 • 2019 jn jews d in the The Jewish Federation of Metropol- itan Detroit named Esther Hauser the winner of the 11th annual David Hermelin Scholarship Award. The award is sponsored by Sam and Nancy Shamie and family. This is the first time a student from Yeshivas Darchei Torah received the award. The award provides one $12,000 tuition scholarship to a student who will be in the highest or next to highest grade in a Jewish...…
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…22 June 13 • 2019 jn jews d in the Lift Up Your Voice The Motor City UpBeats! The Motor City UpBeats!, a new choir for individuals with Parkinson disease, MS, stroke, epilepsy, COPD or other neurological or medical conditions and their caregivers, will be offering six-week sessions throughout the summer. The idea behind the choir was to give people with such conditions a forum in which to use their voices in a healthy manner and...…
…for college students by college students Annie Peurach } jewish@edu writer I was not raised Jewish. I was raised in a Catholic household in Ann Arbor. I only recently started learning about Israel and Judaism and have been quite taken with both. I have even started the process to convert. I am a senior at the University of Michigan at Dearborn majoring in international studies with a focus on French and art history. My ma...…
…24 June 13 • 2019 jn WSU Israel Peace Week’ s Goal was to Educate Students on Campus H illel of Metro Detroit’ s Students for Israel (SFI) at Wayne State University hosted a Peace Week on campus in February. By highlighting different Israeli nonprofit organizations, we hoped to educate students on campus about Israel’ s positive influence locally and worldwide. The first day, Niv Rabino spoke to students about IsraAid, an amazi...…
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…26 June 13 • 2019 jn The Detroit Tigers once again hosted Jewish Heritage Day at Comerica Park. On Sunday, May 19, hundreds of members of Detroit’ s Jewish community cheered on the Tigers and were treated to kippot featuring an Olde English D and a newly designed Tiger hat with the Hebrew letter Daled and an Israeli flag on each side. Prior to the first pitch, leaders of this summer’ s Maccabi Games were honored on the field and the Temp...…
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…28 June 13 • 2019 jn One of the Twins from France performing an amazing feat. A young boy gets a “horse” ride. A trio of Yeshivas Lubavitch students managed much of the grilling. jews d in the | faces&places Chabad of Michigan hosted two community Lag b’ Omer celebrations May 23, each drawing hundreds of participants. The 6th annual Great Jewish Family Festival was held at Heritage Park in Farmington Hills; the other event, arranged...…
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…30 June 13 • 2019 jn PHOTOS BY BRETT MOUNTAIN Jewish Senior Life held its 26th Annual Eight Over Eighty fundraiser May 19 honoring members of the Jewish community 80 years and older. More than 420 people attended at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills. Co-chairs Arlene Selik of Huntington Woods and Nancy Reed of Franklin called attention to the partnership of each honoree with a Frankel Jewish Academy student. Cheryl Chodun emceed...…
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…32 June 13 • 2019 jn moments Rebekah Elise Goodman, daughter of Jamie and Erik Goodman, will lead the congregation in prayer as she cele- brates her bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Friday, June 14, 2019. She will be joined in cele- bration by her siblings Cameron and Arabella and proud grandpar- ents Francine and Marc Wise, and Brenda and Jack Arnold. She is also the loving grandchild of the late Michael Goodma...…
…June 13 • 2019 33 jn S andi and Gary Faber will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on June 17. They met at Henry Ford High School in Detroit in 1964. They are the proud parents of Seth (Esti) and Lindsay (Jonathan) and the Nana and Papa of Gabriel, Benjamin and Lena. A trip to Alaska will follow a celebration with family. Faber 50th P amela and Kenneth Bloom of West Bloomfield, and Mary Machen and Elizabeth Lucker of Littl...…
…34 June 13 • 2019 jn T he old cliché says that Eskimos have 50 different words for snow because that’s their world. We Jews have 50 different words for guilt. And one for “God help us:” Oy. It’s like the story once shared with me of the four ladies playing bridge. As they start picking up their cards and looking at them, the first woman said, “Oy.” The second, she sees her cards and says, “Oy vey.” The third, “Oy vey iz mir.” T...…
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…36 June 13 • 2019 jn MICHAEL FOX SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS A Major League baseball player during the 1920s and ’ 30s, Moe Berg had a 15-year sports career that was unremarkable. It was what he did off the field that made him a true hero. Berg, a brilliant professional athlete who spoke seven languages, led a secret second life as a spy for the U.S. government. Former Detroiter Aviva Kempner, who hit a home run with her 1998 docume...…
…continued on page 38 Collector Bob Matthews Shares His Admiration for Mystery Moe CORRIE COLF STAFF WRITER The Matthews Sports Exhibit: Jewish Heroes & Other Legends, a gift to the com- munity from Dr. Robert “Bob” and Sandy Matthews at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield, is nothing short of a grand slam for local sports fans. It high- lights many outstanding athletes, but none compare to Moe Berg, who is highlighted ...…
…arts&life While his older brother Sam ful- filled Dad’ s wishes and went to med- ical school, Moe signed a contract to play pro ball. He acceded to his father’ s demands up to a point by attending Columbia Law School in the off seasons, earning his degree and passing the New York bar in 1929. It was a false bargain: Moe despised the idea of being a lawyer while Bernard Berg never accepted a base- ball career as a legitimate pursuit. I...…
…June 13 • 2019 39 jn SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER Drawn to Music Wilderness experience sparks Azzam’ s career. A solo teen wilderness experience motivated Nadim Azzam’ s musi- cal career. While outdoors, he found himself humming before grad- ually singing, and that became the first phase of an interest in contemporary composing. Now, at 23, he has a repertoire that can place him on stages as a soloist or with a live band an...…
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…42 June 13 • 2019 jn ROLLING THUNDER ROLLS AGAIN In 1974-75, Bob Dylan, now 78, toured the country with many other musicians. The Rolling Thunder Revue, as it was called, was heavily filmed because Dylan intended to use the footage in an upcoming fictional movie called Renaldo and Clara. The film (1978) got pretty bad reviews. However, the footage was invaluable to Martin Scorsese, who is the director of a new documen- tary (Roll...…
…June 13 • 2019 43 jn people | places | events on the go BALLAD OF THE LIGHTS Friendship Circle’ s Soul Studio unveils “Ballad of the Lights,” curated by artist Patrick Hill, its first guest-curated exhibition at the Farber Center. Hill has carefully selected artworks by 23 Soul Studio artists that represent fragility, power and con- trast. In addition, Hill will include a new artwork of his own inspired by his Dresner Foundation Soul St...…
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…June 13 • 2019 49 jn continued on page 50 soul of blessed memory SHELDON BASKIN, 64, of Novi, died June 6, 2019. He is survived by his wife of 26 years, Debbie Baskin; chil- dren, Danielle and Dr. Jason Tagai, Ian Malane and Shelby Mullins, Dr. Jill and Jorge Castro, and Jeffrey and Lauren Baskin; grandchildren, Brady, Jonah and Jayse Tagai, Neila Malane, Rafael Castro, and Noah and Talia Baskin; brother and sis- ter-in-law, Sco...…
…50 June 13 • 2019 jn continued from page 49 soul of blessed memory REGINA GOLDSTEIN, 89, of West Bloomfield, died June 2, 2019. She is survived by her sons and daugh- ters-in-law, Danny Goldstein and Karen Robinson, Albert and Shari Goldstein, Dr. Raphael and Carmen Goldstein; daughter, Dr. Alisa Goldstein; grandchildren, Dr. Michael (Sarah) Goldstein, Lauren, Andrea, Robert and Elan Goldstein; many other loving family members a...…
