…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 55 J N How About A Favorite How About A Favorite Afikomen Story for Starters? Afikomen Story for Starters? A F I K O M E N Watch for it! The middle matzah on your seder table is going to be broken in two pieces toward the start of the seder. The larger part is called the afikomen. It gets wrapped and hidden — in some houses by the adults, in others, by the kids, and then bought back before the meal can be complete. ...…
…56 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N JUST FOR KIDS A Seder Seder PLATE PROJECT STEPS: 1. Glue the cupcake liners around the edge of the paper plate. 2. Label the liners with markers and decorate the plate. 3. Fill the plate with seder items, or draw the items and cut them out, placing each one in its holder. Reminder — the seder plate usually consists of: Happy Passover! • A roasted egg • Bitter herbs • Parsley • Charoset • S...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 57 J N Ethan Zane Bocknek, son of Erika and Andy Bocknek, will lead the congregation in prayer as a bar mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Saturday, April 20, 2024. He will be joined in celebration by his sisters, Lielle and Kefira. Ethan is the loving grandchild of Cheryl and Marc Bocknek, and Retta and Mark London. He is a student at Roeper Middle School in Birmingham. Deeply committed to his...…
…58 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N Visit to Israel was meaningful, informative and surreal. Normal, But Not Normal STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY DON COHEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER ERETZ This man sat down and played “Hatikvah” (“The Hope”), Israel’s national anthem on a piano in Hostage Square in front of the Tel Aviv Art Museum. Menashe Harush and Don Cohen in the Nova Festival Tent at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. The center picture on the right...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 59 J N continued on page 60 I n Israel, every day is still Oct. 7. It has been that way for me, too. That is why I had to go to Israel. Every morning, and countless times each day, I check the news from Israel. It is not enough, but in some ways, too much. So much tragedy. So much suffering. So many unknowns. On top of that, I find myself disgusted by the lies and extremism of those condemning Israel, frustrated...…
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…60 | APRIL 18 • 2024 My friend Hai, an Air Force veteran in his early 70s, came out of retirement and is in Tel Aviv or on a military base almost every day. As we walked the kibbutz, he told me, “It’s like a stone in my heart. It’s like our War of Independence. We got proof of what will happen if we lose. ” Then we turned a corner and he saw the wife of his cousin, the former hostage, being interviewed as she retold her story. Both ...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 61 the late 1970s and now has almost 30 direct descendants in Israel, told me, “We need to reaffirm the Jewish connection, both theologically and psychologically. ” He thinks the judicial reform protests made Israel look weak and vulnerable, and that unity is a must. His wife, Bracha, has come out of retirement to work with the Jewish Federations of North America to raise and distribute aid in Israel. She also ma...…
…62 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N T he sirens started blaring all over Israel just before 2 a.m. — in the south, in the north, near army bases around the country and, unusu- ally, in and around Jerusalem. The sirens are meant to stop Israelis in their tracks — or wake them from their slumber — and send them rushing to safe rooms when an air attack is detected. Not that many people were sleeping easily. The barrage came after days of increa...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 63 heavy, and I couldn’t help but tear up when a man sat down at a piano and played Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem. In the Nova Festival tent at the square, I spoke with Menashe, whose nephew Elkana Bohlbot, 34 and a new father, was last seen on a Hamas video taken into Gaza bloodied, shirtless and bound. Menashe has been in that tent at Hostage Square almost every day since the war began. “We have so many p...…
…64 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N J osh Nodler describes his five-year college hockey career as a winding path. The path has ended at the same place where it started, with the 22-year-old Oak Park resident hoping to play profes- sional hockey. Nodler is completing work this spring on a master’s degree in computer science at Bowling Green University, then he plans to explore pro- fessional hockey options this summer. He’d like to land in th...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 65 J N quick hits BY STEVE STEIN Ron Silberstein is commissioner of the baseball competition at this summer’s JCC Maccabi Games in Detroit. He needs at least three assistant commissioners and scorekeepers to keep things running smoothly. Sixteen baseball teams are expected to compete in two age divisions: 12-14 and 15-16. Games will be played July 29 through Aug. 1 at West Bloomfield High School, Bloomfield ...…
…66 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N I t remains one of the most counterintuitive passages in all of religious litera- ture. Moses is addressing the Israelites just days before their release. They have been exiles for 210 years. After an initial period of afflu- ence and ease, they have been oppressed, enslaved and their male children killed in an act of slow genocide. Now, after signs and wonders and a series of plagues that have brough...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 67 as humanity is presently con- stituted. The reaction, when it came, was fierce and disas- trous. The 19th century saw the return of the repressed. Identity came back with a vengeance, this time based not on religion but on one of three substitutes for it: the nation state, the (Aryan) race and the (working) class. In the 20th century, the nation state led to two world wars. Race led to the Holocaust. The class ...…
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…70 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N ARTS&LIFE NOSTALGIA T he Elmwood Casino, “Show Spot of Canada, ” opened May 8, 1946, and closed Dec. 21, 1974. The “unof- ficial” 50th anniversary of its closing will occur later this year. That somewhat special anniversary will probably come and go with- out any significant celebrations taking place to honor the memory of that once- notable nightclub. Even though most people in the Detroit- Windsor area wil...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 71 J N (Mendel Berlinger), Sophie Tucker (Sofia Kalish), Phil Foster (Fivel Feldman), Tiny Tim (Herbert Butros Khaury), Harry Richman (Henry Reichman Jr.), and many others, including my favorite, Buddy Baer (Jacob Henry Baer). Boxer and actor Buddy Baer was heavyweight boxing champion and uncle to Max Jr., who played Jethro on the Beverly Hillbillies, one of my favorite shows as a kid. During the late 1920s, Al...…
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…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 73 ARTS&LIFE NOSTALGIA Mad World. Most of the actors/ actresses in this movie per- formed at the Elmwood! One day I was watching an episode of Gilligan’s Island called “Producer. ” The episode fea- tures a character named Harold Hecuba who works with the castaways to produce a play. Hecuba ends up sneaking off the island without the others. Later, the castaways hear a news report on the radio, mentioning that Hecu...…
…74 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N SASQUATCH FEATURE FILM; STANGER’S MATCHING AGAIN; T.C. SOARS Sasquatch Sunset opens “wide” in theaters on April 19. It is a comedy with some poignant dramatic moments. It follows four members of a Sasquatch (aka Bigfoot) family during a difficult, year- long journey. All the actors wear heavy Sasquatch cos- tumes. Jesse Eisenberg, 40, and Riley Keough, 34, are the “main” family members (Keough’s father’...…
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…76 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N EXHIBIT OPENS APRIL 20 (SAT.)-JULY 14 “In the Neighborhood: Everyday Life on Hastings Street.” Hosted by Jewish Historical Society of Michigan at the Detroit Historical Museum, 5401 Woodward, Detroit. Take a walk back in time to Detroit’s first Jewish enclave, 1880- 1930, where tradition and innovation rubbed shoul- ders in surprising ways. Free with DHM admission. Questions? Call 248-915- 1826 or email ...…
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…Passover Research A group of leading medical researchers has published data indicating that seder participants should NOT partake of both chopped liver and charoses. It seems that this combination can lead to Charoses of the Liver. Who was the best businesswoman in the Bible? Pharaoh's daughter, she pulled a prophet out of the water. Passover Jokes JUST FOR FUN Look for answers in next week’s issue. For answers to last week’s pu...…
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…8 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N PURELY COMMENTARY essay My ‘Different’ Israeli Passover W hen I was a child, we joined the family seder at my father’s parents’ apartment in the Bronx. Grandpa led the ritual; Grandma produced feasts on successive nights for 12 or 15 people in that narrow kitchen. When Grandma died, the big family seder moved across the Bronx to my par- ents’ house, and my mother had responsibility for the feast; lat...…
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…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY APRIL 18 • 2024 | 81 J N continued on page 82 ROBERT ALPINER, 77, of West Bloomfield, died April 6, 2024. He is survived by his wife, Dianne Alpiner; son, Mitchell Alpiner of Redmond, Wash.; brothers and sisters-in-law, Donald and Susan Alpiner of Upland, Calif., Joyce Alpiner, Nancy Miller; sister and brother-in-law, Linda and Robert Schwartz of Bloomfield Hills; brother-in-law and sister- in-law...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 82 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N and Gabrielle Anspach; son, Martin Bruck; grandchildren, David, Alex and Amelia Bruck; son, Andrew Bruck, and his spouse, Cynthia Kempf. She was the beloved wife of the late Morris Bruck, her husband of almost 70 years, who died in 2020; sister of the late Phillip Farber and the late Samuel Farber. Interment was held at Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contri...…
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…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 84 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N and daughters-in-law, Michael and Carol Havis of Southfield, Alan Havis and Alice McGinty of West Bloomfield; daughter, Dr. Sharon Havis of Farmington Hills; brother and sister- in-law, Charles and Ruthye Danto of Bloomfield Township; grandchildren, Benjamin Havis, Solomon Havis, Lilly Havis, Isabelle Havis. Florence was the beloved wife of the late Samuel Havis; loving dau...…
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…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at thejewishnews.com 86 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N Happy Passover! Let’s Eat! T he recent issues of the JN made me think about one of my favor- ite topics: holiday foods! (Well, I guess I really do not need a holiday to think about — or eat — tasty delights). Over the last few weeks, our new food writer, Joelle Abramowitz, provided some rec- ipes fo...…
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…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 9 J N TOP: A container of hummus with a prominent “Kosher for Passover” label. The label specifies “for those who eat kitnyot.” Most Michigan Jews come from Ashkenazic families, who, on Passover, traditionally avoid eating kitnyot products such as hummus, made from chickpeas. The majority of Israeli Jews, from Sephardic, Mizrahi or other backgrounds, generally would eat hummus on Passover. ABOVE: A container of ta...…
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…April 18 • 2019 5 jn T he number four plays an import- ant part in our sedarim. There are four questions, four sons, four cups of wine, etc. Here is some Passover humor that I found four-midable. (Now you know what’ s coming.) Children often hear things differently; take, for example, the young- ster who came home talking about unleaded bread. Then there was the angry uncle who fit right in at the table: He was a bitter Herb. Did...…
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…8 April 18 • 2019 jn views A fter the smoke clears from this contentious Israeli election, which amounted to a refer- endum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’ s tenure, it appears that Netanyahu will again be asked by Israeli President Rivlin to form the next government. How did he win again? As Israel’ s former U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren said, “Our econ- omy is excellent, our foreign relations were never better and we’ re ...…
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…10 April 18 • 2019 jn views accepting Putin’ s statement that Russia didn’ t interfere in the 2016 election, after having just been told by 17 American intelligence agencies that Russia did interfere … Dayenu — surely this should have been enough to show Trump’ s allegiance! His immigration numbers obsession and his despicable policy of separating children from their parents, many of whom will never be reunited...…
…April 18 • 2019 11 jn Friday, May 3, 2019 5:30 pm Temple Israel & PJ Library invite you to join us for Bring your children, parents, grandparents (or special friends) and celebrate with music and prayer as we share our family stories over a delicious Shabbat dinner. $15/adult, $7/child (ages 4-12) children under 4 are FREE. Reservations are requested by Monday, April 29. RSVP at temple-israel.org/grandparentshabbat This program is...…
…12 April 18 • 2019 jn SARA BERKOWITZ EAKER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Robots Are Coming Israeli teams will come to Detroit for an international competition. T he future is technology and that future will be well represented at the 2019 FIRST Championship April 24-27 at Cobo Center in Detroit, featuring a celebration of space, inno- vation and STEM — science, technolo- gy, engineering and math. This is the world’ s largest STEM jubile...…
