…theJEWISHNEWS . com $2.00 J UNE 16-22, 2016 / 10-16 S IVAN 5776 DETROIT JEWISH NEWS » Digital Dad: » Name Game: » Pet Adoption: Tech gifts to please the man. See page 10. What you are called and why. See page 34. Saving a life and gaining a best friend. See page 38. » Community Mourns: Marjorie Fisher dies at age 92. See page 26. Getting Down To Business Young Jewish entrepreneurs contribute to startup growth in Detroit. See pag...…
…contents June 16-22, 2016 | 10-16 Sivan 5776 | Vol. CXLIX, No. 20 My Story SHABBAT LIGHTS Shabbat: Friday, June 17, 8:54 p.m. Shabbat Ends: Saturday, June 18, 10:07 p.m. Shabbat: Friday, June 24, 8:56 p.m. Shabbat Ends: Saturday, June 25, 10:08 p.m. Times according to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah calendar. Cover design: Michelle Sheridan The Detroit Jewish News (USPS 275-520) is published every Thursday at 29200 Northwestern Highway, #110, Sou...…
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…viewpoints » S end letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com jewfro Commencement Address To The Rainbow Room Rainbow Room teacher Adrienne Gersten with Phoebe and Ben By Ben Falik T o my knowledge, Temple Emanu- El in Oak Park and its sister schools do not have commence- ment speakers upon whom they bestow honorary pre-kindergarten degrees. But if they did, I’d like to think I would be on the short list, assuming Dora the Explorer or Mitch A...…
…viewpoints » S end letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com DETROIT JEWISH NEWS commentary theJEWISHNEWS.com J Street Goes Too Far Arthur M. Horwitz Publisher / Executive Editor ahorwitz@renmedia.us S o where did J Street get leaders and the kind of policies they the money to help finance want to support. its support of the U.S.- It is not up to J Streeters, living Iran nuclear deal? safely in the U.S. some 6,000 miles Part of the answer h...…
…Securing Our Future Centennial Fund Donors Barbara and Michael Horowitz Maintain Their Deep Bond with Jewish Detroit t was important to us that we create an endowment “I The Centennial Fund is the central endowment campaign for in Detroit. That’s where we made our living and ensuring the long-term security of Jewish Detroit. The raised our family. The Jewish community of Detroit and Horowitz’s have chosen to establish a PACE Fund (Perp...…
…viewpoints » S end letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com essay Saudi Peace Plan Worth Revisiting D on’t read too much into Israel’s beleaguered prime minister and controversial new defense minis- ter spouting support for selected planks in the platform of the dusty 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. In recent weeks, both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, both leaders in Israel’s right-leaning Likud party, ha...…
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…metro » jews in the digita l a ge Father’s Day Technology Gift Guide I n the Digital Age, there are two types of dads. The first is the dad who would love to get any technology-related gift on Father’s Day. The second dad doesn’t real- ize he would love to get anything techie, but when he does, he’s excited and eager to open the box to set it up. As Father’s Day 2016 approaches, the amount of eye-popping tech gadgets is overwhelming. This y...…
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…metro » o n the cover Getting Down To Business Young Jewish entrepreneurs contribute to startup growth in Detroit. Adam Finkel | Contributing Writer H ave you heard of Banza, Castle, M Vending or M Laundering? All four companies are founded or co-founded by young Jews who moved to Detroit during the last four years without having roots in Michigan. Their businesses — all established within the last three years and all headquartered in the...…
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…metro » continued from page 14 Milwaukee Junction neighborhood. It keeps them in Detroit’s New Center/North End area, which they’re quite fond of. “We’re thrilled by the enormous growth we’ve seen and flattered and grateful that our approach is resonating,” Nussenbaum said. The 10-member team plans to hire at least five more in Detroit by the end of the year and possibly more. “While we don’t have a ton of connec- tions to the Jewish communi...…
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…metro » Focus On Food Justice The annual Do It for Detroit micro-grant competition expands to include a farmers’ market and food justice fair. Becky Hurvitz | Special to the Jewish news W ho has access to fresh, healthy food? Who doesn’t? Where does our food come from? Who is growing it? Processing it? What’s in it? Why do some people have an abundance of food and others go hungry? These are just a few of the ques- tions that the food jus...…
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…Photos by John Hardwick camp » Beyond Fresh Air Sunshine & Tamarack Museum opens June 19. Vivian Henoch | Special to the Jewish News W hat keeps Tamarack campers coming back, summer after summer, generation after gen- eration? Perhaps there’s something in that fresh air. From its humble origins serving indigent children in its earliest days as the Fresh Air Society, Tamarack Camps has grown into a multi-faceted agency with assets far mor...…
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…family focus » What’s In A (Jewish) Name? What we call our children ... and why. Shelli Liebman Dorfman | Contributing Writer Tovah Berger with her sisters, Nili, 3, Avital, 7, and Eliana, 5½, before they left on their first trip to Israel in October 2016 N ames like Sylvia, Arnold, Oscar and Lillian that 20 years ago belonged to grandparents and great-aunts and uncles, have reappeared on backpacks, nursery-school walls and the newest me...…
…s same kind of work ethic and takes pride in her family. Her middle name, Ann, is a family name. All of the women in my wife’s family have the middle name Ann.” A NAME FOR A NAME Sticking with the originals, 21-month- old Solomon Arnold Ostreicher’s par- ents Susan and former Detroiter David Ostreicher, now of Cincinnati, named him in memory of his great-great- grandfather Solomon Burg, and great- grandfather Arnold Edwards. “We wanted to na...…
…family focus » dear debra On Marriage & Mothers-in-Law S Debra Darvick DEAR DEBRA, My future mother-in-law has never been particularly welcoming. I’ve tried every way I know to connect with her. Nothing works. I invited her along when my mother and I go mother-of-the-bride dress shopping. That’s when she said her own wedding dress still fit and that’s what she’ll be wearing. Yes, her own wedding dress! I am beside myself. I don’t know if t...…
…The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit Honors the Memory of Marjorie Switow Fisher 1923 - 2016 Marjorie Fisher made an indelible mark on our Jewish community. Like her husband of 52 years, Max M. Fisher, she was a leader and philanthropist who leaves behind an extraordinary legacy of commitment and generosity to social, cultural and humanitarian causes locally, in Israel and around the world. June 16 • 2016 37 …
…pet corner » Pet Adoption Save a life and gain an affectionate best friend. S andy Sherman has had a dog in her life since she was a child. When her beagle, Ruby, died in 2013, she had a tough time without her longtime com- panion. When her grief lessened, she began saving up to recue another dog that would fill her heart again. “I felt lonelier without Ruby,” says Sherman, 60, who is on a fixed income. “I knew I couldn’t get another dog u...…
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…» to rah por tion Finding Deeper Meaning Parshat Naso: Numbers 4:21-7:89; Judges 13:2-13:25. W hen you’re walking down- than relevant. Though gender equality town and see a person is rare in the Torah, the concept appears who appears to be home- before our eyes in parshat Naso. less, your likely instinct is to ignore the Not only are men and women treated person and quickly walk by. But from equally here, but the Hebrew words for time to ...…
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…arts & life exhibits Torn Orange was Mitchnick’s first large-scale painting. Homecoming Elyse Foltyn | Special to the Jewish News Artist Nancy Mitchnick celebrates Detroit with an exhibit at MOCAD. L ike a salmon swimming upstream from the ocean to its spawning spot in the river where it was born, artist and Detroit native Nancy Mitchnick has returned to her hometown more powerful than ever. After taking a less charted course while ...…
…Portraits of George Eliot and Frida Kahlo Nancy Mitchnick ‘ E S J O personality, the scale of her paintings also expanded dramatically over time. Describing the creation of a painting that recently won a prestigious award from New York’s American Academy of Arts and Letters, Mitchnick says, “I was making small paintings, and I did not like them very much. Somebody renting my studio had a 51-by-99-inch stretcher, so I tried that. I don’t k...…
…arts & life e x h i b i t “I began to see a camera not as something that produced a finished product, but something that allowed me to grab visual bits from the environment and later synthesize together these bits to create a new picture.” — Ken Axelrad Ancient Evenings Life, Synthesized Artist Ken Axelrad layers his experiences into his work. details Ken Axelrad’s work will be on view for a pop- up exhibit at the Janice Charach Gall...…
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…arts & life dining in Celebrate Father’s Day by heating up the grill — and plenty of other treats, too. Annabel Cohen Food Columnist I t used to be that Father’s Day was the biggest day of the year for making collect calls to Dad. Today, that seems quaint — and replaced by feeding him to honor him. But just try making a dinner reservation for Sunday, June 19. Though this holiday is fairly new (it wasn’t until 1966 that President Johnson a...…
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