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…44 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 OUR COMMUNITY D an and Jennifer Gilbert, co-founders of the Gilbert Family Foundation, announced on Sept. 6 a historic partnership with Henry Ford Health and the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, to bring a 72-bed state-of-the-art physical medicine and rehabilitation facility to Detroit. The Gilbert Family Foundation also announced the creation of the Nick Gilbert Neurofibromatosis Research Institute in partnershi...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 45 continued on page 46 and unhealthy tissue. The nature of this technology will also allow for more personalized healthcare for Henry Ford Health and NF patients. This new institute will be housed within Henry Ford Health + Michigan State University’s new research building on Henry Ford Health’s east campus, which is set to open in 2027. The construction of this part of the overall new facility is expected to ...…
…46 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 hospital in the country for 33 consecutive years, will bring more than 70 years of leadership in rehabilitation care and science to the 72-bed, 125,000-square-foot facility, which will occupy three floors of the new Henry Ford Hospital patient tower planned for the corner of West Grand Boulevard and the John C. Lodge Freeway in Detroit. “Nearly every family will encounter unexpected health challenges at som...…
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…OUR COMMUNITY T he new Lahser Road Mikvah is now under construction. Members of Young Israel of Southfield (YIS), Chabad and Southfield officials celebrat- ed at a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, Aug, 16, at the new mikvah site in Southfield. The new structure is located at Bell and 11 Mile roads across the street from Congregation Shaarey Zedek. While the original plan was for a Lahser Road loca- tion — hence the name — this ...…
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…50 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 step was finding a site in the YIS neighbor- hood. Levi placed flyers in mailboxes in the area, hoping to identify an appropriate property for sale. In 2018, the group signed a purchase agreement for such a proper- ty, and after zoning and Southfield City Council approval, purchased it the follow- ing year. In 2021, the existing structure was demolished. But, in the meantime, rising inflation and its impact on...…
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…54 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 OUR COMMUNITY B ’nai Israel has been bringing people together for the last 90 years. Today a tight- knit community with some 30 regulars, they welcome visitors and out-of-towners, children and grandchildren, and celebrate life’s milestones in the framework of Jewish expression and tradition. It’s a synagogue that has been through many iterations, but it has always been known for its warmth and optimis...…
…SEPTEMBER 7 • 2023 | 55 poems and songs. Ninety years is significant, says Menczer, who herself is 85, adding that it’s important to have historical records of synagogues, especially as affiliation among the younger generation wanes. “I hope people have a sense of pleasure and being part of this story and part of this shul,” she says. “I also hope it’ll bring the congregation closer together, that people will talk to one another ...…
…56 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 in the broader community and takes pride in its volunteer efforts, including buying and delivering gifts to children in Southwest Detroit on Christmas Day with area nonprofit Jimmy’s Kids. “That’s always a very spiritual moment for all of us,” he says. Mechelle Bernard has been at B’nai Israel for about a decade and on B’nai Israel’s board for the past five years. “It’s a great community,” she says. “It...…
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…58 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 OUR COMMUNITY O n a semester abroad at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Natalie Louise Shribman was told by an Orthodox professor that she was not Jewish because she was the child of an interfaith marriage: a Christian mother and a Jewish father. So, she channeled this frustration about this professor into her senior college thesis on how Reform Jews and those of interfaith families are regarded in Is...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 59 TEMPLE BETH EL High Holiday services will be streaming live for the community - scan the code or log onto www.tbelive.org. Whether you connect with us in-person or virtually, we wish you a NEW YEAR filled with good health and joy! Shanah Tovah TOT & FAMILY SERVICES ARE OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY - NO TICKETS REQUIRED. For schedule & details visit www.tbeonline.org. BOARD OF TRUSTEES FROM TEMPLE BETH E...…
…6 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 1942 - 2023 Covering and Connecting Jewish Detroit Every Week To make a donation to the DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION go to the website www.djnfoundation.org The Detroit Jewish News (USPS 275-520) is published every Thursday at 32255 Northwestern Highway, #205, Farmington Hills, Michigan. Periodical postage paid at Southfield, Michigan, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: send changes to: ...…
…60 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 when I decided I wanted to have a bat mitzvah,” recalled Shribman. “It was at that point when I embarked on three years of studying with a rabbi in Pittsburgh and eventually became a bat mitzvah when I felt I had gained enough knowledge and understanding of Judaism to the point where I was comfortable to take it up on my own.” After that, Shribman said Judaism continued to shape her identity, joining her ...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 61 The clergy & staff at Temple Israel wish each of you a Happy, Healthy and Sweet New Year! 5725 WALNUT LAKE ROAD, WEST BLOOMFIELD MI 48323 | WWW.TEMPLE-ISRAEL.ORG …
…62 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 T here’s something gutsy about start- ing a new relationship … and some- thing even gutsier about rekindling a relationship that had fizzled. In June 1988, Wendy Cohen, then age 27, moved from Niagara Falls, New York, to Detroit and was eager to make new local friends. She heard about a singles mixer at the former Embassy Suites in Southfield and turned up, scouting the room for someone who would fit the bill...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 63 From all of us at the Jewish Federation, we wish you a year filled with sweetness and joy. SUPPORT JEWISH JOURNALISM The Detroit Jewish News has been telling and preserving our stories since 1942. Subscribe today so that we can continue telling them tomorrow. JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT SCAN TO DONATE OR SUBSCRIBE TODAY! …
…64 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 SPORTS J ason Brown got some advice from an expert before his fantasy football league draft. That expert was none other than Adam Schefter, ESPN’s senior NFL insider. The connection between the two men was made at the 32nd annual Hank Greenberg Memorial Golf, Tennis and Pickleball Invitational, held in June at Franklin Hills Country Club in Farmington Hills. Schefter, a 1989 University of Michigan gra...…
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…66 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 done with the calls by Aug. 15.” Besides receiving the Dick Schaap Memorial Award from fellow ESPN journalist Jeremy Schaap, Dick Schaap’s son, at the Greenberg Invitational, Schefter participated in a sports panel with seven- time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens and Jeremy Schaap, an 11-time Emmy Awards winner. Detroit radio and television personality Mike Stone was the sports panel moderator. Cle...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 67 SPOTLIGHT L’Shana Tova Find your Jewish center in the new year. With people across generations searching for more meaningful connections, we invite you to re-discover The J. Here, you’ll find countless opportunities to nurture your Jewish soul, build friendships, try new things, challenge yourself, share stories and learn how to be an even better human being. See how we can enrich your life. TheJ...…
…68 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 J ill Kasle, founder of sweets pop-up Bombshell Treat Bar, always had big dreams for her gourmet ice cream business that she runs alongside her husband, Matt Kasle. Dipped in a variety of flavors of Belgian chocolate and rolled in toppings like pretzels and Pop-Rocks, the over- the-top ice cream bars are now getting a permanent home. Construction has started on Bombshell Treat Bar’s first brick-and- mortar s...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 69 menu, which will rotate with the seasons. A fall opening has also inspired Kasle to offer “outrageous hot chocolate,” where customers can turn any of the premium- ingredient Belgian chocolate flavors into a steaming hot drink. “They’re really decadent and rich, and they’re going to be beautiful to the eye and delicious to the palette,” Kasle says of the hot chocolate creations. Kasle always likes to have...…
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…business SPOTlight brought to you in partnership with B I R M I N G H A M 70 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 F rom Gil Golan’s drive- way to GM’s Warren Technical Center, he has approximately 33 minutes in his Cadillac CT4 Blackwing as a man-on-a-mission to obsess about his company’s audacious agenda: zero crash- es, zero emissions and zero congestion. And by the time the sun began to glare beside GM’s headquarters on its iconic skysc...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 71 constantly reassessed. The new age of innovation has a strong focus on being the “first to know” when it comes to exter- nal innovations. “This is the pillar of looking outside to invest in companies. And we have partnered with our corporate development and M&A” , Golan noted. “We develop in-house, we invest in startup companies and entre- preneurs, we acquire whenever we find it appropriate for us to do s...…
…72 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 Much of this was implemented back in 2007 when Golan proved what some leaders in the industry have just picked up in recent years. The Herzliya-based team has focused on a range of technical needs for the automaker ranging from autonomous driving/ADAS solutions to cybersecurity innovations. “We saw that (need) and we took it into action,” Golan said. Golan earned his bachelor’s and master’s of science ...…
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…74 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 W ith new ownership and a new name, the Marvin & Betty Danto Family Health Care Center in West Bloomfield is expanding its services and enhancing the West Bloomfield facility to create a warm and welcoming environment that better serves residents and their families. The facility is now managed by Preferred Care Michigan, a local company owned by Yoni Klein, new owner of the Danto center. “ As a local ...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 75 This new year as we dip apples in honey, we reflect with hope for sweetness in the year to come. Your generosity sweetens the experience of Jewish students at MSU Hillel and the Hillel Campus Alliance of Michigan We wish our donors and friends a year of good health, happiness and peace. President Sandy Soifer, The Board of Directors, Staff and Students of MSU Hillel and the Hillel Campus Alliance of Michig...…
…76 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 L ike many 30-somethings, West Bloomfield native and current Tel Aviv resident Stephanie Horwitz was faced with a common, yet sel- dom talked about dilemma. What exactly was she doing with her life? The host of the podcast “What Should I Do With My Life?” — which explores this widespread issue — had majored in organization- al behavior studies at the University of Michigan. Initially, she wanted to com- pl...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 77 she go into sales like her good friend Ron Elkus, owner of the popular Shirt Box men’s clothing store? Should she talk to her father Arthur Horwitz, publisher emeritus of the Detroit Jewish News, a paper boy-turned-pub- lisher who built a vibrant career in journalism? Stephanie Horwitz was stumped. Finally, after speak- ing with her father, she decided to do what many did during COVID-19: Start a passion...…
…78 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 SPIRIT No Man Is an Island T he reading for Rosh Hashanah is puzzling. We could logically read the opening chapter of the Torah, the Creation Story, since Rosh Hashanah celebrates the birthday of the world; and the letters of the Torah’s first Hebrew word, Bereshit, can be rearranged to read aleph b’tishre, or “the first of Tishre, ” which is indeed the date of our Jewish new year. So, why do we read...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 79 Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit Honors the Memory of Honors the Memory of Ronald Charfoos 1935–2023 On Behalf of a Grateful Community On Behalf of a Grateful Community 23_EXE_JNAd_DeathNotice_Charfoos.indd 1 …
…8 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 exercise.) And this summer, ABC News reported an Oregon radio station became the first in the country to artificially generate a human host’s voice, with her consent, for an entire air shift. Remember the scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz? He didn’t need the “brain” (AI) given to him by the Almighty Wizard, after all. In the end, he finally realized he had the ability to think all along. My hope for the New...…
…80 | SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 T he year 2014 was the year when it became dangerous to be a Jew. Israel, subject to sustained missile attack, discovered how hard it is to fight an asymmetric war against a terrorist group ruthless enough to place rocket launchers beside schools, hospitals and mosques. It found itself condemned by large sections of the world for performing the first duty of any state, namely to protect its citize...…
…SEPTEMBER 14 • 2023 | 81 So in parts of the world are Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs and, for that matter, atheists. No historian looking back on our time will be tempted to call it the age of tolerance. HUMAN SOLIDARITY Which brings us back to the Yamim Noraim. There is a note of universality to the prayers on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur that we do not find on other festivals. On other festivals, the key section of the Amidah begins,...…
…Synagogue Directory METRO DETROIT CONSERVATIVE Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills (248) 851-5100 adatshalom.org Congregation Beth Ahm West Bloomfield (248) 851-6880 cbahm.org Congregation Beth Shalom Oak Park (248) 547-7970 congbethshalom.org Beth Tephilath Moses Mt. Clemens (586) 996-3138 bethtephilathmoses.com B’nai Israel Synagogue West Bloomfield (248) 432-2729 bnaiisraelwb.org Congregation B’nai Moshe West Blo...…
…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...…
