…MAZEL TOV! 88 | MAY 20 • 2021 Blanck 100th L orraine Blanck, owner of Wallside Windows, cele- brated her 100th birthday on May 13, 2021. Her family consists of sons and daugh- ters-in-law, Stuart Blanck, Stanford and Roz Blanck, Fred Blanck and Andree Joyaux; grandchildren, Lisa and Peter Ehrlich, Mia Eherlich, Lexi Ehrlich, Adam and Lauren Blanck, Jenna Blanck and fian- cé, Jake Gutner; great-grand- son, Jesse Blanck. CAP & GOWN...…
…MAY 20 • 2021 | 89 SPIRIT TORAH PORTION Recognizing The Individual I n Parshat Naso, the longest parshah in the entire Torah, we read about the dedication of the altar and the gifts and sac- rifices that each Nasi (prince of the tribe) brought. It goes on to detail the sacrifices of all 12 Nesiim, making it clear that they all brought precisely the same things. When reading this, we have the question of why does the Torah repea...…
…90 | MAY 20 • 2021 Synagogue Directory CONSERVATIVE Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills (248) 851-5100 adatshalom.org Ahavas Israel Grand Rapids (616) 949-2840 ahavasisraelgr.org Congregation Beth Ahm West Bloomfield (248) 851-6880 cbahm.org Beth Israel Flint (810) 732-6310 cbiflint.org Congregation Beth Shalom Oak Park (248) 547-7970 congbethshalom.org Beth Tephilath Moses Mt. Clemens (586) 996-3138 bethtephilathmoses.com B’nai I...…
…MAY 20 • 2021 | 91 The Shul-Chabad Lubavitch West Bloomfield (248) 788-4000 theshul.net Woodward Avenue Shul Royal Oak (248) 414-7485 thewas.net Yagdil Torah Southfield (248) 559-5905 Young Israel of Oak Park (248) 967-3655 yiop.org Young Israel of Southfield (248) 358-0154 yisouthfield.org RECONSTRUCTIONIST Congregation Kehillat Israel Lansing (517) 882-0049 kehillatisrael.net Congregation T’chiyah Oak Park (248) 823-711...…
…92 | MAY 20 • 2021 ERETZ M ost people know about the tragic accident that caused the deaths of 45 Orthodox individuals during the recent mass celebration of Lag b’Omer on Mount Meron in Israel. But do they know of the swift and effective response offered by so many? Unfortunately, Israelis have experienced many trage- dies and people really know what to do. By the next morning, countless individuals, companies and organizations had j...…
…MAY 20 • 2021 | 93 O ver five weeks, the Michigan-Central Galilee Partnership Region participated in an inspiring pilot program “Café Hafooch” (“Cappuccino”) — an intergenerational program that aims to create meaningful connections between Jewish community adults and Israeli high school students. In addi- tion to the connections, the Israelis work on advancing their English skills. The Detroit pilot (adopted from the Toronto pro...…
…94 | MAY 20 • 2021 ARTS&LIFE EVENTS W hen I was a child, one of the peak experiences of every summer was going to the home of Flory and Harry Jagoda to experience a musical festival of folk ballads from Bosnia. During WWII, Flory became a translator for the American Army in Bari, Italy. There, she fell in love with Sgt. Harry Jagoda and immigrated to America with him in 1946. In America, they married, settled in Virginia and...…
…MAY 20 • 2021 | 95 R etired attorney Mark Bello of West Bloomfield spent his career try- ing cases for social justice. Now in retirement, he has culled knowledge from those cases and from other social justice issues plucked from the headlines to pen and self-publish Betrayal, a series of legal thriller novels. His sixth book in the series, Supreme Betrayal is loosely based on the hearing and appointment of Brent Kavanaugh to the U.S...…
…96 | MAY 20 • 2021 T he 20th annual Ann Arbor Jewish Film Festival (AAJFF) begins this month with 22 films, including two short film programs. The festival starts May 22 and runs through Aug. 24. Noemi Herzig, director of Jewish Cultural Arts and Adult Education for the Ann Arbor JCC, believes the spread-out schedule allows time for moviegoers to take the movies in. “It’s such an eclectic festi- val this year, we have a littl...…
…MAY 20 • 2021 | 97 GENOCIDE TODAY? 7 pm May 20 The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus presents via Zoom “Preventing Cambodia’s Genocidal Past from Becoming Afghanistan’s Future,” featuring John D. Ciorciari, associate professor of public policy and direc- tor of the Gerald R. Ford School’s International Policy Center at the University of Michigan. To register, visit holocaustcenter.org/May. To submit a question in a...…
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