…Hatzalah MI’s Road to the Future Volunteer EMS service aims to grow its services in the years ahead. See page 14 JEWISH NEWS $200 March 16-22, 2023 / 23-29 Adar 5783 THE DETROIT thejewishnews.com jewishnews …
…10 | MARCH 16 • 2023 PURELY COMMENTARY guest column A Rabbi’s Guide to Extreme Metal I know the title of this article is kind of surprising, and if you don’t know me, sounds like the beginning of a joke. Even if you do know me, it might sound funny. I am a middle- aged rabbi who teaches meditation, does yoga and is, on the exterior at least, pretty calm, if not placid. I have the range of facial expressions of a cat, which...…
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…12 | MARCH 16 • 2023 emotional way. I recently listened to an album by a band called Scarcity. It caught my attention because it was called Aveilut, the Hebrew word for morning. The lead musician is a Jewish person from West Virginia. I emailed him about how much it meant to me during my own periods of mourning. He responded in a very kind way, which I found to be the norm with most of the extreme metal musicians I reached ou...…
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…OUR COMMUNITY Volunteer EMS service aims to grow its services in the years ahead. Hatzalah MI’s Road to the Future JACKIE HEADAPOHL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR PHOTOGRAPHY BY JERRY ZOLYNSKY 14 | MARCH 16 • 2023 ON THE COVER Asher Sigler of Southfield, Moshe Davis of Southfield and Chaim Cohen of Oak Park. …
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 15 H atzalah MI has come a long way in the five years since it’s been in operation, and its leaders expect to even go further in the years ahead. Hatzalah is a team of state-certified Emergency Medical Services (EMS) volunteer responders in the Orthodox community who stand at the ready 24-7 to respond to local emergencies in Oak Park, Southfield and Huntington Woods. It partners with the Oakland County Medical Contr...…
…OUR COMMUNITY “WE ALL HAVE OUR REGULAR LIVES — OUR JOBS, OUR FAMILIES, OUR SHULS — BUT WHEN THAT RADIO GOES OFF, THAT ALL GOES TO THE SIDE.” — MOSHE DAVIS continued from page 15 16 | MARCH 16 • 2023 ON THE COVER Oak Park has turned to Hatzalah for help on several occasions, often for a piece of equipment called a Lucas device, which does manual compressions during cardiac arrest. In the beginning, Oak Park would call Hatzalah t...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 17 OUR COMMUNITY so expensive because they’re essentially mini-hospitals on wheels,” Soloff said. For the second ambulance, Soloff is hoping the commu- nity will pitch in. “Hatzalah is moving forward now, and I want people to understand they can be a part of it,” he said. The goal is to start trans- porting patients to the hospi- tal in November, and Hatzalah will have the two-ambulance minimum it needs to make tha...…
…OUR COMMUNITY continued from page 17 18 | MARCH 16 • 2023 ON THE COVER They both provide life-sav- ing care to patients at the scene of an emergency and during transportation in an ambulance. EMTs are quali- fied to assess critical illnesses and injuries, provide first- aid treatment and perform basic life-saving health care. Paramedics are more highly trained EMTs capable of more advanced medical procedures, such as providing or...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 19 Commemorate and Celebrate Israel on its 75th Anniversary Holocaust Remembrance Day Community Commemoration Sunday, April 23, 2:30 pm Zekelman Holocaust Center, Farmington Hills jlive.app/events/4242 Israel’s Memorial Day Community Ceremony Monday, April 24, 7:30 pm The Berman Center for the Performing Arts, West Bloomfield jlive.app/events/4202 Israel’s Independence Day Israel@75 Community-Wide Celebration wit...…
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…20 | MARCH 16 • 2023 I really didn’t know what to expect when I made my way to the inaugural annual B’teavon Jewish Food Retreat at Ramah Darom in Clayton, Georgia, Feb. 17-20; but I knew I was excited to attend, and I anticipated eating some delicious food. The long weekend was conceived as a celebration of all things Jewish food through a collaboration between Ramah Darom, a camp and retreat center affiliated with Conserva...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 21 chef throughout the weekend. I was assigned to assist Susan Barocas in three sessions — Marvelous Mezze, Converso Cooking and Sephardic Sweet Tooth. Susan’s sessions were ambitious and, across the three, participants made six savory dishes and two sweet ones, including eggplants stuffed with a mix of savory and sweet flavors (mushrooms, pears and apples), chickpeas, salads, marochinos (almond cookies), and b...…
…22 | MARCH 16 • 2023 OUR COMMUNITY I n mid-2019, Volunteer Ritual Chair Marc Sussman and Congregation B’nai Moshe leadership got together to reju- venate and create an alternative Shabbat morning experience, something different from the usual. Several ideas were brainstormed about what people would be interested in. What they ended up formulating was a Shabbat Experience unique to the con- gregation in more ways than one. T...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 23 OUR COMMUNITY G esher Human Services, one of the largest human service agen- cies in Metro Detroit, will be holding a hiring blitz for 50 direct-care workers providing support and training to individ- uals with disabilities in residen- tial group homes, the commu- nity and businesses. The nonprofit agency recently revamped its pay structure to pay new employees $15-$20 per hour with benefits based on work hist...…
…24 | MARCH 16 • 2023 OUR COMMUNITY I n honor of International Women’s Day, Masa Israel Journey is proud to recognize 12 remarkable Jewish women for their leadership and com- mitment to advancing a brighter future, including Detroit philanthropist Jane Sherman. Sherman is a longtime leader in Jewish philanthropy, acting in executive and board member roles for several essential community organizations, from Detroit to Israel. Jane ...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 25 F ollowing the devas- tating shooting attack at Michigan State University, Chabad was there to provide support to affected stu- dents and families by sharing a message of hope and kindness. In a collaborative effort, The Shul Chabad Lubavitch joined forces with Dakota and Chabad of MSU to deliver care packages to those impacted by the shoot- ing. The care packages were thoughtfully curated, including fresh chal...…
…26 | MARCH 16 • 2023 W hen 15-year-old Frankel Jewish Academy student Rena Kantor noticed a Keshet sticker on her parents’ door that said “LGBTQ Safe Space, ” she became curious about the orga- nization. Keshet, a Jewish initiative that aims to build equality for LGBTQ Jews, had a variety of programming for queer youth that Kantor quickly developed an interest in. In 2020, she attended her first online Keshet youth event for LG...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 27 C ouncil Re|Sale, one of the oldest resale stores in Metro Detroit, is ushering in spring fashion with its popular Spring Showcase on Sunday, March 26, from noon-4 p.m. Avid bargain-hunters can also sign up for a special early preview VIP event at the store (3297 W. 12. Mile Road, Berkley) from 10 a.m. to noon, at a cost of $25. End-of-season sales on winter clothing will be held prior to Spring Showcase: 75% ...…
…28 | MARCH 16 • 2023 C an reading teachers help prevent antisemitism? Two Detroit-area children’s book authors aim to help teachers do just that. Anita Fitch Pazner and Lisa Rose will speak at the Michigan Reading Association’s 67th annual conference, to be held March 17-20 in Grand Rapids, on combatting antisemitism using picture books for early readers and books aimed at middle-grade students and young adults. Their present...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 29 own fiction books, the authors recommend Ellen Leventhal’s A Flood of Kindness, The Prince of Steel Pier by Stacy Nockowitz and Turtle Boy by M. Evan Wolkenstein. Nonfiction suggestions include two books by Audrey Ades, The Rabbi and the Reverend, which shows how Rabbi Joachim Prinz, a refugee from Nazi Germany, stood beside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY 4-12 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 14 Hatzalah MI’s Road to the Future Volunteer EMS service aims to grow its services in the years ahead. 20 A Delicious Weekend A thought-provoking time at the B’teavon Jewish Food Retreat. 22 B’nai Moshe’s Best Kept Secret Congregation B’nai Moshe’s Shabbat Experience is a unique alternative to the usual. 23 Hiring Blitz Gesher Human Servic...…
…30 | MARCH 16 • 2023 I n their late 80s, Earl Remer and Janet Mazzara continue a mission that both have been working on for decades. Each week, they spend hours printing free braille books for blind and low-vision children, and even adults, in a small room at Temple Beth El. The Temple Beth El Braille Bindery was first organized in 1959 at the temple’s former location on Gladstone and Woodward in Detroit, and now operates out o...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 31 continued on page 32 the morning to prepare books for binding, process them and mail them out across the entire United States — much of the work continues throughout the week. Remer typically comes in on Mondays to print books and make sure everything is ready for the Tuesday group, while Mazzara spends countless hours at home transcribing children’s books into braille and updating existing book data files. ...…
…32 | MARCH 16 • 2023 J Learn, The J Detroit’s lifelong learning depart- ment, will offer a pop-up class on human rights next week as part of its JLearn Now series. “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor: A Story of Immigration” will be led by Rabbi Ari Witkin via Zoom on March 23 and March 30 at 7:30 p.m. Tuition is $36. Witkin will give his firsthand account of the U.S. southern border crisis, based on trip to El Paso, Texas, as part...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 33 U niversity of Michigan School of Social Work Jewish Communal Leadership Program presents Joyful Jewish Jams: A Communal Concert and Conversation on Monday, March 27, at The Ark (Doors at 6:30 p.m.; concert at 7 p.m.). The culminating event of the 20-month Jewish Communal Leadership Program is the annual Communal Conversation planned by the graduating class. This free-to-the-public event is a celebration of th...…
…34 | MARCH 16 • 2023 S ometimes when a Jewish mother wants her daughter to meet some nice Jewish boys, she’ll urge her to mingle with some big Jewish group. But all she really needs to meet is that one special person … Take Alison Wick. She’d attended an all-girls high school and was “in heaven” meeting “all those lovely boys” at the University of Sheffield in the UK when she enrolled in 1985. “I was having a great time!” the Lo...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 35 F ighting judgment and the stigma of weakness are two of the biggest issues when it comes to substance abuse disorder. “When somebody says that they’re sick, we always ask, ‘What’s wrong? What’s your method of treatment?’” Lisa Daniels-Goldman said. “But when they tell you that they’re sick with a substance use disorder, you know, the doors close and the response is often, ‘Well, just stop or you did this ...…
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…38 | MARCH 16 • 2023 faces&places Gen X congregants enjoyed an axe throwing and virtual golf event with Congregation Shaarey Zedek. Lessons were learned that night — like don’t try to catch the axe on the rebound. Congregation Shaarey Zedek’s Generation CSZX event was held the evening of Feb. 11 at On the Dunes Sports. If you aren’t familiar with axe throwing, it’s like darts, except small hand axes are thrown at a wooden bullseye...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 39 JCRC/AJC and the Coalition for Black and Jewish Unity celebrated Black History Month last month at the Detroit Historical Museum. Jamon Jordan, founder of the Black Scroll Network and recently designated official historian of the city of Detroit, took us on a tour as he chronicled the rich history that African Americans contributed to Detroit. We learned about the history of slavery in Detroit and how the ...…
…4 | MARCH 16 • 2023 PURELY COMMENTARY essay Remembering My Friend And Hero T hirty years ago this month, the State of Israel lost a hero — Yehoshua Friedberg, z”l. Yehoshua was an accomplished soldier and a learned yeshivah student. He was a devoted son and brother. For me, I will always cherish him as an amazing friend. I met Yehoshua when he was simply “Jason from Montreal,” during college while he and I spent our junior...…
…40 | MARCH 16 • 2023 BY STEVE STEIN quick hits Don Shane, a popular Detroit sportscaster who was inducted into the Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2008, died Feb. 25, 2023, at age 70. Shane worked at Channel 4 (WDIV) and Channel 7 (WXYZ). It was during his 23 years as the sports director at Channel 7 that he made his mark, especially with his “Dare Don” segments in the 1990s where he would tackle challenges proposed b...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 41 Rudick would love to add former New York Yankees star Derek Jeter to the list because of Jeter’s Michigan roots. Jeter moved to Kalamazoo when he was 4 and graduated from Kalamazoo Central High School, where he was a baseball standout. He received the Kalamazoo Area B’nai B’rith Scholar Athlete Award following his senior year. “Unfortunately, Derek’s appearance fee is too much,” Rudick said. Schefter, 56, who is...…
…42 | MARCH 16 • 2023 SPORTS BY STEVE STEIN quick hits Rosenblatt Named a Captain at Elon Call him captain. Ben Rosenblatt of Huntington Woods has been named one of the three captains of the Elon (N.C.) University soccer team for the fall 2023 season. “I’m excited,” Rosenblatt said. “After seeing what the previous captains did, my role will be to set a good example on and off the field and during games, make sure we’re playing to...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 43 NEXT DOR D etroit Jewish News 36 under 36 winner and attorney Jacob Gordon was inspired by his father, attorney Merrill Gordon, to go into the field of law. “I’ve always loved the idea of rules and how to find the most success while staying within them, ” says Gordon of Birmingham. Gordon, 27, who works for Honigman LLP , a business law firm, specializes in real estate law with a focus on commercial real estate...…
…44 | MARCH 16 • 2023 Shaun Maxwell Linden, son of Dr. Carey Linden and Geoffrey Linden, will lead the congregation in prayer as he becomes a bar mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Saturday, March 18, 2023. He will be joined in celebration by his brother Cody and sister Jessa. Shaun is the loving grandchild of Terri and Marc Chicorel, and Karen and Sandy Linden. He is the adoring great- grandchild of Anne Kessler. Shau...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 45 W ith this week’s double par- shah, with its long account of the construction of the sanctuary — one of the longest narra- tives in the Torah, taking a full 13 chap- ters — comes to a magnificent climax: “Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the Sanctuary. Moses could not enter the Tent of Meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the Glory of the Lord filled the Sa...…
…46 | MARCH 16 • 2023 Clearly, the Torah wants us to connect the birth of the universe with the building of the Mishkan, but how and why? The numerical structure of the two pas- sages heightens the connection. We know that the key number of the creation narra- tive is seven. There are seven days, and the word “good” appears seven times. The first verse of the Torah contains seven Hebrew words, and the second, 14. The word eretz, “earth...…
…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...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 48 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 Farmington ...…
…Details Music of Resistance will be present- ed at 6 p.m. Saturday, March 18, at the Ukrainian American Archives & Museum, 9630 Joseph Campau St., Hamtramck. $25; free under 18. Tickets can be purchased at the door or by calling (313) 366-9764 or connecting to uaamdetroit@gmail.com. T hree musicians with family mem- bers who experienced oppressive governments will present a concert filled with music and stories of composers knowing ...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 5 CLASS OF 2022 JENAE LODEWYK CLASS OF 2022 NALANI RENTA-VILLANUEVA CLASS OF 2019 GUS NAVARRO CLASS OF 2021 SIMON MOURANI CLASS OF 2016 RAJ CHHAYA CLASS OF 2022 KIANNA MATEEN CLASS OF 2011 TERONTO ROBINSON, M.D. CLASS OF 2015 CHRISTINA GUSTIN W A R R I O R S T R O N G Every year, Wayne State University graduates start making an impact the moment they earn their diplomas. That’s because a Wayne State education combi...…
…50 | MARCH 16 • 2023 ARTS&LIFE MUSIC V iolinist and music director Daniel Hope expects this year, his 50th, to be the busiest as he tours the world amid responsibilities in writing and develop- ing radio, television and film programming. Usually numbering 120 guest concerts a year, he moves into 2023 with 180 scheduled events. One concert will be on the evening of March 17 in Ann Arbor under sponsorship of the University Musical So...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 51 Hope has taken on work asso- ciated with Holocaust survivors and Ukrainians. “On my mother’s side, her entire family was Jewish, and the feeling of the Jewish soul has always been incredibly important to our family, ” Hope said. “I live in Berlin, 10 min- utes away from where that family lived. Their house is still there. It’s a part of my heritage and a part of my lineage, which I’m incredibly proud of. “I’ve...…
…52 | MARCH 16 • 2023 CLIMATE CHANGE, CARTOON INDIANA JONES, LENO’S JEWISH DOCTOR, MORE Extrapolations is a six-part Apple TV+ series that pre- mieres on March 17. Here’s part of the official description: “Extrapolations is a bracing drama that introduces a near future where the chaotic effects of climate change have become embedded into our everyday lives. Eight interwoven stories about love, work, faith and family from across...…
…MARCH 16 • 2023 | 53 BIM BOM BABY 10-11 AM, MARCH 17 Bim Bom Baby is a Shabbat celebration for babies to 5-year-olds at Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield. Join with friends and make new ones as we welcome Shabbat with the rabbis and cantor, play, sing and braid challah to take home. There is no charge for this event. All are welcome. JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD 9:15 AM, MARCH 19 Politically and religiously, North American and Israeli...…
…54 | MARCH 16 • 2023 lasting memories. Cost: from $13. Info: friedmja@hotmail. com. ‘PASSOVER MIRACLE’ 7 PM, MARCH 21 NCJW|MI Human Trafficking Awareness Committee presents: “A Sweet Passover Miracle” on Zoom with labor trafficking survivor Remy Sweet, a human trafficking story from our own community. To learn more and to register, visit NCJWMI. org. RECYCLE ADVICE 11 AM, MARCH 23 Tikvah Hadassah presents “Why Can I Recycle ...…
