…Celebrate SHAVUOT It’s that time of year to celebrate with family and friends. And Kroger is wishing you the happiest of holidays. Be sure to stop in for all your favorite tastes that help make every celebration great. © 2016 The Kroger Co. theJEWISHNEWS . com Brett Mountain $2.00 J UNE 2-8, 2016 / 25 I YAR -2 S IVAN 5776 DETROIT JEWISH NEWS » Eyewitness: » Inspiring Teens: » Feel Cozy: » Case Over: Film tells Tuskegee airman’s sto...…
…contents June 2-8, 2016 | 25 Iyar-2 Sivan 5776 | Vol. CXLIX, No. 18 My Story SHABBAT, HOLIDAY LIGHTS Lag b’Omer: Thursday, June 2. Shabbat: Friday, June 3, 8:47 p.m. Shabbat Ends: Saturday, June 4, 9:59 p.m.* Shabbat: Friday, June 10, 8:51 p.m. Shavuot 1: Saturday, June 11, 10:03 p.m. Shavuot 2: Sunday, June 12, 10:04 p.m. Holiday Ends: Monday, June 13, 10:05 p.m. Times according to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah calendar. Cover design: Michelle...…
…Strictly Business is a fundraising event for Jewish Vocational Service honoring extraordinary accomplishments. NETWORKING & AWARDS LUNCHEON 2016 Awards Business Leadership: Thursday, June 23, 2016 Honorary Chair & Keynote Speaker: Reception at 11:30 a.m. | Luncheon at 12:30 p.m. John Rakolta Jr. Chairman & CEO, Walbridge NEW LOCATION Detroit Labs Paul Glomski, Co-Founder & CEO Rising Entrepreneur: Zack Sklar MGM Grand Detroit Ch...…
…viewpoints » S end letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com How About Dad? for starters Alan Muskovitz is a writer, voice-over/acting tal- ent, speaker, emcee and a regular guest host on the Mitch Albom Show on WJR AM 760. Visit his website at laughwithbigal.com and “Like” Al on Facebook. commentary Israeli Lives Matter, Too I n March, within hours after the terrorist attacks in Brussels, landmarks around the globe — including the Eiffel ...…
…viewpoints » S end letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com DETROIT JEWISH NEWS theJEWISHNEWS.com essay Arthur M. Horwitz Publisher / Executive Editor ahorwitz@renmedia.us Paris Summit Without Israel Spurs Questions F. Kevin Browett Chief Operating Officer kbrowett@renmedia.us I sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin edly would welcome Israel and the Netanyahu opposes a gathering P.A., presents “real opportunity” of foreign ministers in Paris to ...…
…Securing Our Future A Passion for Serving Others: Barbara and Irving Nusbaum Continue Their Legacy Through a Gift to the Centennial Fund I f you happened to be at the home of Barbara and gift to the Centennial Fund, Barbara and Irving continue Irving Nusbaum for their annual Yom Kippur Break their remarkable legacy of commitment and generosity. Fast, you would meet the many Soviet refugees who were also their guests. Irving was a found...…
…viewpoints » S end letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com guest column letters Battling the Hydra-Headed BDS Beast M y first anti-BDS battle took place at the 2007 annual meet- ing of the Modern Language Association (MLA), the 35,000-member organization for literature and foreign language teachers. There already had been anti-Israel divestment resolutions at Berkeley, Harvard, MIT and a few other schools, but this was the first major drive...…
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…metro » High-Flying Hero Tuskegee Airman recounts chilling Holocaust story in The Luft Gangster documentary. Robin Schwartz Special to the Jewish News Photos by Russell Levine H is voice still quivers when he speaks about the fateful morning of April 29, 1945. Even now, 71 years later, Tuskegee fighter pilot Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson remembers the sights, the sounds and the gut-wrenching emo- tions of that day like it was yesterday. J...…
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…arts & life exh i b i t on t h e cover LEFT, TOP AND BOTTOM: Between Listening and Telling: Last Witnesses, Auschwitz, video, 2005. BOTTOM, LEFT: The Open Page: Fragments of the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, 2009, shows a “living archive” — a page from a 17th-century English botanical guide. BOTTOM, CENTER: Potential Trust, animated neon, 2012. BOTTOM, RIGHT: Inseparable Angels: An Imaginary House for Walter Benjamin; the clock...…
…arts & life e xh i b i t continued from page 29 spectives outside of Judaism. Potential Trust is a neon expression of universal sensitivity. “Visitors see hammers pounding a nail into a central wall,” explains the multi-media artist, 67, whose work is in permanent col- lections and shown internationally. “When the nail is in place, there are hammers on the other side that un-nail the nail. “When we have an idea, there also is doubt. There a...…
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…A Mother’s Story Alice Burdick Schweiger | Special to the Jewish News C Daveed Diggs (far left) and Lin-Manuel Miranda (far right) in Hamilton between love and the glamorous world of Hollywood. A Cirque du Soleil theatrical, it has a cast of 38 and stars Jeremy Kushnier. At the Lyric Theatre. (800) 982-2787. The Humans takes place dur- ing a family Thanksgiving dinner. The father is a janitor living in Scranton, Pa., and his family cele- b...…
…arts & life f i lm Weiner Anthony Weiner in a still from the film The media takes a match to the combustible politician in a new documentary. Michael Fox Special to the Jewish News 34 June 2 • 2016 C ongressman Anthony Weiner, for those who don’t remember or have a talent for tuning out the wave- length or bandwidth by which scandals are disseminated, rep- resented Brooklyn and Queens for seven terms before resigning in 2011 follow...…
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…arts & life th e b e s t o f eve r y t h i n g The Man Behind The Deli Legend Meet Sy Ginsberg, who built a much-revered corned beef and deli empire. A question posed recently to the column, asking if there is really a Sy Ginsberg of Sy Ginsberg Corned Beef and United Meat & Deli, may have opened the gate to tell of his much- revered American success story that began here in the Detroit area. The question was answered by me, hav- ing been...…
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