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…4 | MARCH 18 • 2021 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 5-12 PASSOVER 14 How will This Year’s Seder Be Different than Last Year’s? Many gear up to celebrate another virtual Passover, others plan small seders. 16 Rules of Engagement Party planners provide tips to keep your Zoom seder guests participating. 18 Celebrating Together Many synagogues and families will hold seders via Zoom. 19 Passover on Campus Hillels pla...…
…MARCH 18 • 2021 | 5 W hat’s most heart- breaking about reading the essays published in March 2020 was that they could have been writ- ten today. The tired joke is that this month is March, which is funny because last month was March, too. The reality is that half of the country is isolated, half is overwhelmed and half a million are dead. Those without children or family nearby are often bored and lonely. The less fortunate ar...…
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…10 | MARCH 18 • 2021 (and they do!) reduced the con- stant possibilities of prayer, study, book clubs and song sessions. Still, a steady stream remained — though lately they seem to be dropping off even more. I remain so hopeful that organiza- tions of all sorts will realize how they opened themselves up to so many new people this past year, and that they don’t have to lose those people when they’re ready to meet in person again. Th...…
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…PASSOVER L ast year, a headline in the Passover edition of the Jewish News optimisti- cally predicted, “Passover 2020: Next Year in Person; This Year on Zoom. ” Now, almost a year later, the number of COVID cases and deaths related to the virus is decreasing, and the number of vac- cines administered is slowly increasing. But we have a long way to go before putting this pandemic behind us. So, once again, for many, seders will remain...…
…MARCH 18 • 2021 | 15 everyone will have received their second dose of the vaccine at least two weeks before the start of Passover. RISK FACTORS For those who plan to gather in person, Dr. Carl Lauter, an infec- tious disease and allergy immu- nology physician at Beaumont Health and professor at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, offers some advice on how to approach Passover this year. “The biggest mistake peopl...…
…16 | MARCH 18 • 2021 A ll-in participation is the key to a successful Zoom seder, accord- ing to four local event planners whose clients have asked for help with Zoom weddings, Zoom bar and bat mitz- vahs, Zoom baby naming ceremonies and Zoom holiday parties during this past year of pandemic isolation. The idea is to have everyone sense togetherness at a singular event while keeping active, so they don’t feel that they are just look...…
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…18 | MARCH 18 • 2021 PASSOVER W hile the availability of COVID-19 vaccinations is encouraging, many people still haven’t been fully vaccinated. Reform temples and Conservative synagogues remain off-limits to normal group gatherings while some Orthodox synagogues permit small, socially distanced services only. As a result, many Reform congregations are planning seders on Zoom for one or both nights. Conservative synagogues ar...…
…MARCH 18 • 2021 | 19 H illel of Metro Detroit, University of Michigan Hillel and Michigan State University Hillel are all pre- paring for a second-year Passover under COVID restrictions, some in similar ways and some different from 2020. HILLEL OF METRO DETROIT (HMD) will be purchasing Friendseder kits from The Well for students free of charge. Additionally, prior to Passover, HMD will be hosting a virtual community “Chocolate Seder...…
…20 | MARCH 18 • 2021 U .S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence (MI-14) was appointed March 4 by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to serve on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Lawrence, founder and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations, will replace the council seat held by the late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis. The council was established by Congress in 1980 to lead the nation in remembering the Holocaust...…
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…22 | MARCH 18 • 2021 MAZEL TOV! FEB. 14, 2021 Christine and Adam Cohen of Baltimore, Md., are thrilled to introduce their daughter, Isadora “Izzy” Harriette Cohen. Elle and Lucy welcomed their baby sister home and greet- ed her with amazement in their eyes. Her name honors many family members and a friend. Proud grandparents are Richard and Kathy Krueger of Maryland, Michele Krueger of Maryland, and Phil and Karen Cohen of Bloomfiel...…
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…26 | MARCH 18 • 2021 SPIRIT Hearing Our Calling Y ou may have noticed that the Book of Leviticus is a direct continuation from the Book of Exodus. In Hebrew we read Vayikra el Moshe … often translated as “The Lord called to Moses …” But the Hebrew verb vayikra doesn’t explicitly include “the Lord.” The English translation could read “and He called to Moses …” The verse will immediately contin- ue, “and the Eternal spok...…
…MARCH 18 • 2021 | 27 ARTS&LIFE BOOKS I n Lesléa Newman’s new children’s book, Welcoming Elijah: A Passover Tale with a Tail, the essence of hospitality extends beyond the holiday as expressed with poetic contrasts. Revered Passover traditions take place in a home setting at a time when pandemic iso- lation is not required and allow a new direct relationship to be established as shown through illustrations by Susan Gal. The book featu...…
…28 | MARCH 18 • 2021 P assover is a long holi- day. And it feels longer because the menu is so limited. Or is it? Don’t let food worries color your cooking creativity. These days there are other ingredients such as quinoa (not a grain at all, but seeds) and tapioca flour, for example to cook with. Growing up, my mother made matzah brei during Passover. It was a dish her Polish parents prepared for her family. It was almost ...…
…MARCH 18 • 2021 | 29 If you like fluffy matzah balls, this is not the recipe for you. This recipe makes a lot of matzah balls (they freeze well), but halve the recipe for fewer. Ingredients Pound of matzah (about 12 sheets), crumbled Water ½ cup melted chicken fat (schmaltz) or vegetable oil 1 cup chopped onion ½ cup chopped parsley 6 eggs ½ cup matzah meal Salt and pepper to taste Directions Place the crumbled matzah in a large...…
…30 | MARCH 18 • 2021 SHATNER TURNS 90; WOOD’S JEWISH STORY On March 22, William Shatner will turn 90. But his star still burns bright and his trek goes on. His latest film, Senior Moment, opens in theaters and on-demand March 26. Shatner stars as Victor, a retired NASA test pilot whose license gets taken away after he’s found speeding in his vintage Porsche convertible with his best friend (Christopher Lloyd of Back to the Fut...…
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…32 | MARCH 18 • 2021 GOVERNMENT INSIGHT 8:15 AM, MARCH 18 JCRC/AJC will highlight on Zoom legislators from different levels of govern- ment (U.S. Senate, U.S. House, State Legislature, Oakland County) to dis- cuss their 2021 priorities. Each session is 45-minutes long, open to the commu- nity and includes a Q&A period. There is no cost to attend. This week will feature Oakland County Treasurer-Elect Robert Wittenberg. Info: Lauren...…
…MARCH 18 • 2021 | 33 VIRTUAL TOWN HALL 7 PM, MARCH 21 Congregation B’nai Moshe of West Bloomfield will welcome Tanya Gersh to discuss how she and her family dealt with months of abusive antise- mitic messages from the publisher of a neo-Nazi website. A U.S. judge ruled that the publisher of a neo-Nazi website, who organized a “troll storm” to target Tanya Gersh and her family, should have to pay more than $14 million in damages...…
…34 | MARCH 18 • 2021 L et’s try this again. A year after having his first season as West Bloomfield High School baseball coach taken away from him when spring sports were canceled by the Michigan High School Athletic Association because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Josh Birnberg is gearing up again to guide the Lakers. “Last year, we had tryouts, I picked our team, and we were done. We never had a practice,” Birnberg said. “I was...…
…MARCH 18 • 2021 | 35 teams this season. “If I come back and bowl for LTU, I don’t care at what level it is,” Resnick said. Wemyss calls Resnick “a learner.” Resnick said she learned a lot at her only practice. “I used to throw a straight ball. Coach Wemyss taught me how to hook the ball in just that one practice,” she said. Wemyss said Resnick has potential. “I know Hannah is an ath- lete. She’s a volleyball player. I can work with ...…
…36 | MARCH 18 • 2021 ERETZ ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES Shayetet 13 troops training in 2017. Israeli Military Says It’s Reached Herd Immunity to COVID-19 The Israeli military declared that it has reached herd immunity to COVID-19 after 80% of its personnel had either been vacci- nated, had the disease or both. The announcement makes the Israel Defense Forces perhaps the first military in the world to achieve immunity to the disease. “Things ...…
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…OF BLESSED MEMORY MARCH 18 • 2021 | 39 continued on page 41 IRVING COHEN, 93, of West Bloomfield, died March 6, 2021. He is survived by his sons and daughters-in-law, Dr. Randy and Dr. Alice Cohen, Howard and Susan Cohen; daughters, Ronna Sabbota and Pamela Siegel; grandchildren, Leah and Benjamin, Samantha and Michelle, Zachary and Kaylee; many other loving family members and friends. Mr. Cohen was the beloved husband of ...…
…40 | MARCH 18 • 2021 O n March 6, 2021, my aunt, Flo Rappaport, died in Las Vegas, Nev. She was the coolest — the person who inspired me to have jazz on the stereo before breakfast. Flo Rappaport was an iconoclast. An entrepreneur in the 1960s, she launched Ferguson’s, the famed cloth- ing boutique on Livernois, Detroit’s Avenue of Fashion. Her shop became the “go- to” for what she coined as “sportswear.” Women from everywhere ...…
…MARCH 18 • 2021 | 41 continued on page 42 Sarah Forst of Israel; daughters and son-in-law, Linda Forst and Stuart Kiken of Chicago, Ellen Saadia of Israel; brother and sis- ter-in-law, David and Lorraine Forst; grandchildren, Erica, Bobby, Keith, Michael, Ilana, Daniel, Adina, Ariel, Yael, Rose, Nina, Eitan, Ilan, Yamit. Mr. Forst was the beloved husband of the late Pearl Forst. Contributions may be made to Chass Clinic Detroit, 56...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 42 | MARCH 18 • 2021 March 9, 2021. He is survived by his wife of 24 years, Alisa Grossman; mother, Misha Nem; sons and daughter-in-law, Max and Anya Khutoryan, Joshua Grossman; daughter and son-in-law, Alexandra and Yechezkel Ahaaronov of West Bloomfield; a loving uncle and aunt, Genadi and Inna Bilvon; other loving family and friends. Mr. Grossman was the loving son and son-in-law of the late Maya...…
…MARCH 18 • 2021 | 43 continued on page 44 Stephanie Polukoff of Park City, Utah, and Beth and Steve Omans, of Chicago; five grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband, Leonard, in 2010, and son, Robert, in 2012. RON ROGERS, 86, a prominent figure in Detroit’s music business, died peacefully on Monday, March 1, 2021, of complications from the coronavirus; his adoring daugh- ters were at his side. The third of four children...…
…OBITUARIES 44 | MARCH 18 • 2021 Mich., Nancy and Izhak Shapiro- Pikelny of Skokie, Ill.; grandchil- dren, Motti and Rachel Pikelny, Noam and Kaitlin Pikelny, Erin and Ed Podgorski, Zachary and Debora Shapiro, Emily and Jason Vandervoort; great-grand- children, Nathan Pikelny, Lyla Pikelny, Arthur Pikelny, Noah Podgorski, Leonel Shapiro; many other loving relatives and friends. Mrs. Shapiro was the beloved wife for 50 years of the l...…
…MARCH 18 • 2021 | 45 T hat a Detroit dining favorite, Café Cortina in Farmington Hills, should become one of the nation’s true Italian old-world restaurants is a huge dedication to its goodness and honorable existence. Celebrating another anniver- sary this past December since opening in 1976, it has received untold amounts of accolades for being among those dining oper- ations to serve Italian dishes very rarely seen in other...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org Detroit Took Center Stage in 1980 I usually find my topics for “Looking Back” columns during my cruises in the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History. Whenever I enter the Archive to do research for one subject, I usually find interesting stories or reports on another subject about Jewish Detroit. ...…
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…FEBRUARY 18 • 2021 | 3 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 6-10 OUR COMMUNITY 12 Sense of Duty Young Detroiters serve in IDF to “give back” to Israel. 15 Advocacy Always, Inclusion Indubitably How JCC Detroit is honoring Jewish Disability Advocacy and Inclusion Month all year. 17 A Safe Purim Orthodox organizations issue guidelines for Purim. 18 You Have a Pandemic Story. We Want It. Instead of letting future ...…
…4 | FEBRUARY 18 • 2021 for openers The Places I Call Home T he New Yorker’s Erin Overbey wrote a col- umn “The Meaning of Home.” It was about jour- nalist and screenwriter Nora Ephron and her love affair with the Apthorp, a Beaux-Arts building on the Upper West Side of New York where she lived for more than 20 years. For her, it was what happened under that roof. It made me think of what home means to me. It made me realize ...…
