…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 83 Temple Emanu-El Oak Park (248) 967-4020 emanuel-mich.org Temple Israel West Bloomfield (248) 661-5700 temple-israel.org Temple Kol Ami West Bloomfield (248) 661-0040 tkolami.org Temple Shir Shalom West Bloomfield (248) 737-8700 shirshalom.org REFORM/RENEWAL Congregation Shir Tikvah Troy (248) 649-4418 shirtikvah.org SECULAR/HUMANISTIC Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Metro Detroit Farming...…
…84 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 A fter a distinguished 30-year journalism career as “Martin F. Kohn,” the former Detroit Free Press feature writer, editor and film critic has embraced a satisfying new identity. Just call him Marty the Musician. Playing acoustic guitar and singing, Marty performs around town as a solo act or duo with his wife, Laura Kohn. After releasing four solo CDs and one with Laura, a highlight for Marty in his second...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 85 to music. “Maggie, our older daughter, played violin, and Anna, our younger daughter, played cello,” Marty said. For work today, he said Maggie and her husband, Derrick George, practice law in Royal Oak. Anna works for the State Appellate Defender Office, helping indigent, formerly incarcerated people. Marty spent his last nine years at the Free Press as its theater critic. He and several other veteran jou...…
…ARTS&LIFE ART K atie Shulman, who grew up in Maryland, developed her interest in art as a student at the University of Michigan (U-M), where she earned a bachelor’s of fine arts degree. Although Shulman’s first interest was in printmaking, she moved into creating abstract designs through fiber while achieving her master’s degree 10 years later at Syracuse University. Last year, after moving to Detroit during the pandemic, Shulman w...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 87 Community Digitization Day Make History With Us. Thursday, October 12 3 – 7 PM Joan Meyers Jampel Center for Michigan Jewish Heritage (within Temple Beth El) Have family photos and documents you want to digitize but don’t know where to start? During a free one hour session, our archivists will help you scan your most important heritage items. You keep the original and the digital file, we just ask...…
…88 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 fiber-based work,” she said. “My color palette is an abstract articulation of a physical experience. I use color and form to ground me back in the body. Color helps me connect back to the thing that I’m exploring.” Although pieces were not juried into the show, they were curated by Melissa Webb, a Cranbrook alum, and Kip Parks, an artist in Hamtramck and Fibers Studio coordinator at the U-M Stamps School of Ar...…
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…90 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 NOT A NICE DAY IN THE PARK AND THE MAMA’S DAUGHTER Wilderness is an original Amazon Prime mystery-thrill- er series that will premiere Sept. 15. Oddly, the number of episodes isn’t stated anywhere. Amazon never “drops” a whole season when a show premieres. So, be ready to follow it for “about” 10 successive weeks. Here’s the basic plot: Wilderness revolves around a British couple Liv (Jenna Coleman) an...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 91 ART EXHIBIT NOW-SEPT. 24 The Stamelos Gallery Center, 4901 Evergreen, is proud to share the inaugural Michigan Watercolor Society Signature Exhibition, guest curated by Rocco Pisto. Forty-two artists qualified for their Signature status. There are 13 Great Lakes Fellows exhibiting. Info: umdearborn.edu/stamelos; 313-593-5007. DFT FILM 7 PM, SEPT. 14 (THURS) Simple As Water, Megan Mylan’s new document...…
…92 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 Bernie Jonas celebrated his 100th birthday on Aug. 7 at Soul Café with 170 family members and friends who traveled from across the United States and Canada to honor this humble centenari- an. Jonas, who lives at Jewish Senior Life’s Meer Apartments in West Bloomfield, is the patriarch of his family, which includes more than 100 children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. ...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 93 The annual Detroit White Summer Soiree took place at Chabad of Greater Downtown Detroit on Friday evening, July 28. More than 175 people celebrated Shabbat together in a lively and fun atmosphere. The pre-Shabbat festivities included live music and entertainment, with the men laying tefillin and the women lighting Shabbat candles. The menu was designed by the executive chef at The Morrie and cooked on p...…
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…96 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY I n the final days of her life, Barbara Nusbaum asked her grandson Zachary to grab a notebook so he could write down all the things she wanted him to know before she could no longer say them. “What she revealed to me is something that is obvious to all of us. She truly had a heart of gold, ” Zachary said at his grandmother’s funeral service. “She told me how sorry she feels ...…
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…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 98 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 continued from page 97 Arnfeld. Interment was at Adat Shalom Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Henry Ford Cancer Development Office, Dr. Shirish Gadgeel’s Lung Cancer Research at Henry Ford Health, (in memory of Joanne Barker), One Ford Place, 5A, Detroit, MI 48202, henryford. com/development/make-a- gift; please note: within the “Gift Information Section,” change ...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 99 Serving each family. Consoling each heart. For 105 years. 6555 W. Maple Road • West Bloomfield, MI 48322 • 248.592.2687 • www.jhcn.org NO JEW IS EVER ALONE Barbara Nusbaumz’l AUGUST 9, 1935 AUGUST 29, 2023 M A Y H E R M E M O R Y B E F O R A B L E S S I N G WE REMEMBER & MOURN OUR DEAR FRIEND BARBARA NUSBAUM Z’L Beloved matriarch of the Nusbaum family and cherished mother of JHCN Vice President Robert N...…
