…MAY 19 • 2022 | 101 W alking through the halls of my inclusive and diverse college campus, it is easy to feel a sense of belonging and acceptance no matter where you go. Students proudly express their own identities and individualism freely, knowing they are protected and safe to do so in a generation that is continuously pushing for tolerance. However, I began to realize that a part of my identity that I so confidently displayed ...…
…102 | MAY 19 • 2022 A fter a year of creative pro- gramming during lockdown, the opportunity to engage with Jewish students on campus was a thrill. This academic year, I served as president of Students for Israel at Wayne State. With the help of my vice president, Tania Miller, and Hillel of Metro Detroit’s Arad Kauf, we pulled off a year filled with amaz- ing programs. Our goal was to have an all-encompassing line of pro- grams,...…
…MAY 19 • 2022 | 103 ARTS&LIFE POETRY J anet Ruth Heller likes to joke that her first publisher was her first-grade teacher. It happened after the woman gave a poetry writing assignment to Heller’s entire Milwaukee class and learned of the many poems the youngster had written. The teacher especially liked a verse about the emerging poet’s flying a kite with her dad, mimeographed it and gave a copy to each of the other students. “...…
…ARTS&LIFE BOOK REVIEW C hana Blankshteyn had amassed a world of experience in the 1920s, when, in her 60s, she took up writing fiction in Yiddish. Born in Vilna around 1860, she had traveled to France and Germany as a young girl to further her education, had married and divorced and then married again, moved to Kiev with her second husband, and, after her second divorce, lived with a married daughter in St. Petersburg. Blanksht...…
…MAY 19 • 2022 | 105 in a laboratory. She is prepar- ing her first article for publi- cation in a scholarly journal. Her quiet life seems in order, until an intriguing stranger, an American engineer, takes a romantic interest in her. CONNECTION TO HISTORY The troubled political histo- ry of Eastern Europe figures in several of these stories, most sharply in the story that begins: “This morning, once again, control of the city again ...…
…106 | MAY 19 • 2022 DID HE DO IT? TWO SEPHARDI SERIES ON NETFLIX, THAT ’70S RE-BOOT The Staircase, an original eight-episode HBO Max series, premiered on May 5. Three episodes were released then; remaining episodes premiere on fol- lowing Thursdays. It’s based on a real case. In 2001, novelist Michael Peterson (played by Colin Firth) was accused of killing his wife. She was found dead at the bottom of a staircase. Peterson sa...…
…MAY 19 • 2022 | 107 THRILLING THURSDAY 10-11 AM, MAY 19 Children ages 0-4 and their favorite adults are invited to come play in person at Congregation Shaarey Zedek. Join Lindsay Mall for a Rhythm and Ruach class, with songs, gross motor activity and more. $5 donation per family per session suggested donation. For information, contact Ari Reis at areis@shaareyzedek. org. FAMILY FARM DAY 10 AM-NOON, MAY 22 At Oakland Avenue Urba...…
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…110 | MAY 19 • 2022 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY D r. Maurice Reizen, former director of the Michigan Department of Public Health, passed away at the age of 103. He left with a long list of degrees, honors, awards and achieve- ments that are his legacy. Maurie was born in Detroit in 1919 to Max and Minna Reizen. He attended Durfee intermediate school and graduated from Central High School. He spent his summers as a camp counselor a...…
…MAY 19 • 2022 | 111 continued on page 112 and faculty. She earned her undergraduate degree at University of Wisconsin in Madison and graduate stud- ies at UCLA and Harvard University. She and her husband, Allan David, lived abroad for many years and traveled the world extensively. Sandy was sent by the University of Wisconsin to establish language education and training programs on all four continents, including major projects ...…
…112 | MAY 19 • 2022 continued from page 111 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY grandchildren, Maxwell and Gavin Barry, and Cameron and Jeremy Kay; brothers and sisters-in-law, Michael and Cathy Barry, and Gordon Barry. Mr. Barry was the devoted son of the late Julius and the late Lillian Barry. Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Variety the Children’s Charity, 600 S. Adams, Suite 230, Birmingham, MI 4...…
…continued on page 114 MAY 19 • 2022 | 113 be made to Parkinson’s Foundation of Michigan, 30400 Telegraph Road, Suite 150, Bingham Farms, MI 48025, parkinsonsmi.org; Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323, temple-israel.org/ tributes; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. ROSE G. FREEDMAN, 101, of West Bloomfield, died May 10, 2022. She is survived by her son and daughter...…
…continued from page 113 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 114 | MAY 19 • 2022 Audrey Greenberg and Amiel Gross, and Marnie Greenberg; grandchildren, Sasha and Tyler Cambron, Shauna Ferguson, and Lauren, Jocelyn, and Jacob Gross; sister, Ruth Kadish; brother-in-law and sister-in- law, Mark and Jan Hauser. Dr. Greenberg was the devoted son of the late Joseph Greenberg and the late Goldie Greenberg Kramer; the dear brother-in- law of t...…
…MAY 19 • 2022 | 115 continued on page 116 Elliot’s early travels followed his pursuit of his Ph.D., lead- ing eventually to Atlanta, Ga., where he had a faculty position at Emory University and finally to Ann Arbor, where she supported him in his faculty and research position at the University of Michigan Medical School. In addition to her con- tinuing interest in science, which she discussed avidly with Elliot, she actively did m...…
…116 | MAY 19 • 2022 continued from page 115 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY in-law, William Nelkin, Eric and Sandy Nelkin. Mr. Kaminsky was the treasured son of the late Marion and the late Harry Kaminsky; dear son-in-law of the late Edna and the late Marvin Nelkin. Contributions may be made to Jewish Family Service, 6555 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322 or MORC, morcinc. org. A funeral service was held at Hebrew Memorial ...…
…MAY 19 • 2022 | 117 C omic artist Neal Adams, who died at age 80 in New York City on April 28, is best known for having revolutionized Batman and other iconic comic book characters for both the DC and Marvel brands. But Adams himself was also a fearless crusader: He battled comics publishers for the rights of artists and writers, rescued Superman’s Jewish cre- ators from abject poverty and campaigned for a Holocaust survivor to...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 118 | MAY 19 • 2022 ‘The UP’s Jewish Soul’ I recently wrote about Holocaust education in Michigan. While researching this topic in the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History, I ran across the name of a Holocaust educator that you may not know: William L. Cohodas, known to all as “Bill, ” did not...…
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…contents May 19-25, 2016 | 11-17 Iyar 5776 | Vol. CXLIX, No. 16 SHABBAT LIGHTS 24 My Story Shabbat: Friday, May 20, 8:35 p.m. Shabbat Ends: Saturday, May 21, 9:45 p.m.* Lag b’Omer: Thursday, May 26. Shabbat: Friday, May 27, 8:41 p.m. Shabbat Ends: Saturday, May 28, 9:52 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 ...…
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…metro » c alend ar continued from page 26 PRESENTS S U N D A Y, J U N E 5 YIOP DINNER MEETING 5 pm, June 5. Mark (Moshe) and Badonna Berman are honorees and Rabbi David Shapero will receive an award at synagogue’s annual meeting held on Yom Yerushalayim (Jerusalem Day). Topic for speak- er Diane Buffalin Ph.D is “Achieving Shalom Bayit.” At Young Israel of Oak Park. $150. RSVP by May 25: 248-967-3655. T U E S D A Y, J U N E 7 JEWS OF IT...…
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