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…$200 June 20-26, 2024 / 14-20 Sivan, 5784 JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT thejewishnews.com See page 8 …

…continued from page 9 10 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N standing up in a way that the people of Nir Oz could not, announcing boldly and defiantly that Am Yisrael Chai, and we will stand vigil until the time when you can finally return home, and the healing process can begin. After several other difficult stops, including the Nova Festival site and a “car graveyard,” our day ended at an army base where 60 young women live, work and train tog...…

…ON BEHALF OF THE JEWISH FEDERATION, WE WANT TO THANK OUR SUPPORTERS FOR MAKING OUR 2024 ANNUAL CAMPAIGN A SUCCESS. Through your generous contributions, we are able to provide essential services, support those in need, and build a vibrant, connected community. Whether it’s helping families in need, supporting our fellow Jews in Israel, or funding educational and cultural programs, your generosity touches lives in profound ways. T...…

…12 | JUNE 20 • 2024 L ong before Oct. 7, I wanted to go on the 2024 Yeshivah Beth Yehudah’s Partners Detroit moms’ mission to Israel. After that tragic day, I was less certain. But by February, I felt it was imperative to go and do my small part to show support. As ner- vous as I was, the thing I was most afraid about was telling my 81-year- old mother — figuring her anxiety over my safety would keep me home. The words she said c...…

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…14 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N THIS PAGE: Mission participants visit with soldiers at an Israeli army base. OUR COMMUNITY ON THE COVER back to the hotel and curl up in the fetal position on my bed. But we had one final stop to make — a barbecue dinner that our mission sponsored on an all-female IDF base. I joined a group of young women at their dinner table, and it took a few minutes to figure out how to communicate. Once we got past the...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 15 J N rabbinate cares for hundreds of Torah scrolls. Some are more than 700 years old, many from villages destroyed during the Holocaust or from other places across the diaspora where Jews once lived. The work the IDF does at Shura is sacred. We met with one volunteer who is the leader of the IDF Chevra Kadisha (burial society). She’s part of a group of women who cared for the bodies of female victims. She spoke of ...…

…OUR COMMUNITY ON THE COVER 16 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N T hree weeks ago, I was one of 41 women who embarked on the Dembs Mission to Israel with Partners Detroit. In a time of global uncertainty for Jews, this mission had a profound impact that none of us could have anticipated. Any apprehension about traveling to Israel during wartime was overshadowed by the compelling need to be there with our people and share in the collective ...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 17 J N Volunteer Organizations Ryan Dembs was articulate, witty and brilliant, but what truly set him apart was his propensity for action. He walked through life constantly asking how he could help, and he always followed through. In his memory, Partners Detroit participants were able to ask the same question and, more importantly, take the next step toward action. Here are a few of the organizations they were able...…

…continued from page 16 OUR COMMUNITY ON THE COVER 18 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N Kibbutz Nir Oz, once a peaceful community, was now a haunting landscape of ruined homes, burned to force residents out of their safe rooms. On Oct. 7, one quarter of its residents were murdered and many were kidnapped when terrorists stormed the kibbutz. Our guide insisted that we enter each home and witness the aftermath of the tragedy firsthand. We stepp...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 19 • Brought Tesla Electric dealership to West Bloomfi eld • Multiple road and bridge improvements enhancing value • Continued the goal of making WB one of the safest communities in Michigan • Always making our seniors a priority by approving senior housing • Approved the multi-million-dollar downtown corridor with gorgeous entrance to the community • Helped to make West Bloomfi eld a welcoming community to all YOUR S...…

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…20 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N T he Jewish Federation of Detroit is thrilled to announce the successful conclusion of its 2024 Annual Campaign, raising an all-time high financial achievement from more than 10,000 donors. The Campaign ended on May 31, capping what has been a complex and difficult year in the wake of the Oct. 7 atrocity and Israel’s ensuing war with Hamas. Despite the challenges, the 2024 Annual Campaign raised a reco...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 21 J N Community Security Inc. (JCSI), a local organization tasked with protecting the Jewish community. SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL & JEWS AROUND THE WORLD Our community’s enduring connection with Israel remains central to our identity, and our support has never been more important than after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel. Beyond this, Federation’s support extends to the many vulnerable individuals in our glo...…

…22 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N W est Bloomfield’s B’nai Israel Synagogue is celebrating its 90th anniversary the weekend of June 28-30 with a series of special events. B’nai Israel will be hosting a visiting scholar-in- residence for the weekend, Rabbi Paul Plotkin. Rabbi Plotkin was an active pulpit rabbi for over 40 years, 33 of them at Temple Beth Am in South Florida. B’nai Israel will have their Friday night Kabbalat Shabbat...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 23 J N T amarack Camps will always hold a very special place in our hearts. We grew up at camp. Collectively, we spent 33 summers as campers and staff at Tamarack Camps. We formed friendships, celebrated birthdays, theme days, went on camping trips and competed in the Maccabiah Games. However, one event that was always a summer highlight was coming together as a camp community to sing, dance and watch ...…

…24 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N T he Children’s Hospital of Michigan has paid tribute to longtime volunteer and Jewish community member John G. Levy, who passed away in 2023 after 45 years of service. His wife, Nancy Levy, says John worked hard and volunteered up until the end of his life. Now, the Children’s Hospital system is celebrating his unwavering commitment and devotion with a new endowment and an interactive exhibit named in...…

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…26 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N F or Metro Detroit Jewish commu- nity member Benji Rosenzweig, grabbing a coffee at Starbucks is a normal, everyday occurrence — some- thing most people don’t think twice about. However, Rosenzweig was inspired to use this daily act for something much greater. As an Instagram follower of the @Bring.hersh.home account, which continues to raise awareness for Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was kidnap...…

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…28 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N D r. Marla Scafe of Metamora enjoys making big Shabbat dinners. It’s a tradition she started several years ago after taking part in a meal at the Chabad Jewish Center of Troy with co-directors Rabbi Menachem and Chana Caytak. She was also influenced by her cousin Shelley Eizelman of Oak Park, who has invited them to various Shabbat meals, she says. When Scafe hosts, they light candles, say Kiddush and eat c...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 29 J N N athan Weeden, 24, was sentenced to 26 months in prison and three subsequent months of supervised release on June 4 for conspiring to discriminate against Jews and Black people and for vandalizing a synagogue. The Houghton, Michigan, man, who is a member of the white supremacist gang The Base, did more than just destroy property, stated Larissa Knapp, executive assistant director of the FBI’s National ...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 3 J N PURELY COMMENTARY 4-6 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 8 Faith Over Fear 41 Detroit women experience Israel’s spirit and resolve. 20 That’s A Wrap The 2024 Annual Campaign finishes strong. 22 B’nai Israel Turns 90! Rabbi Paul Plotkin will be scholar-in- residence for the celebratory weekend. 23 Israeli Scouts Caravan Coming to Shaarey Zedek Don’t miss the chance to relive ...…

…30 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N O n May 29, The J - Detroit was one of three partners nationwide selected to host a premiere screening of Ezra, a Hollywood feature film released in theaters on May 31. Starring an all-star cast of Robert DeNiro, Whoopi Goldberg, Vera Farmiga and Bobby Cannavale, Ezra is a comedy-drama film about the struggles of co-parenting a son with autism. Its premiere screening, which was held at Emagine Palladium...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 31 J N a prestigious honor. In total, 110 people attended the Ezra premiere, with many staying after the film for a question-and- answer session with Elaine Hall, founder of the Miracle Project and star of Autism: The Musical. Hall also served as a casting consultant for the film. Hall, who has a longstanding friendship with Maiseloff, floated the idea for a premiere for Ezra in partnership with The J - Detroit ...…

…32 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N I t has been 17 years since Rabbi Daniel Nevins served the congregation at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills, and he plans his next area visit to express contemporary subjects holding many of his thoughts, discussions and, most recently, writings in light of Jewish traditions. His new book, Torah and Technology: Circuits, Cells and the Sacred Path (Izzun Books), will be at the heart of his prese...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 33 members with hearing losses. “Our high school students at the academy are very interested in these issues of technology and religion, and several of our classes address topics that I address in the book, such as the kashrut of lab-grown meat and genetic engineering,” he said. “I’m planning on teaching a course for our high school students next year on the subject. “I think everything in life is going to chang...…

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…JBAM Honors Legal Achievers PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMIE FELDMAN Among the JBAM board members and officers attending are Vice President of Communications David Sachs, Frank Mamat, Past President Ellie Mosko, Joseph Phillips, President Nargiz Nesimova, Michael Feldman and Executive Vice President Jordan Zuppke. The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Champion of Justice Award winner Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Lorie Savin: “My place in this community is ...…

…M ore than 100 people, including judges, attorneys and legal professionals, dined together and feted a select group of their own at the Jewish Bar Association of Michigan (JBAM) Awards Dinner held May 23 at the Somerset Inn in Troy. Every year, JBAM honors two Jewish judges who have made a lasting impact on the community. The recipient of JBAM’s 2024 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Champion of Justice Award was Judge Lorie Savin of the O...…

…38 | JUNE 20 • 2024 Award was JBAM executive vice president, Royal Oak attorney Jordan Zuppke. Law students Amanda Igra of Michigan State University and Hannah Passer of University of Detroit Mercy received JBAM’s Charles J. Cohen Esq. Scholarship grants. This year, JBAM is celebrating its 10th anniversary of providing social, educational and charitable activities for attorneys, judges, law students and others in the legal co...…

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…4 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N opinion It’s Our Responsibility to Rescue the Hostages P resident Ronald Reagan hosted Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at a White House state dinner on Sept. 9, 1981. The custom at state dinners is for both the host and the honored guest to offer a toast. In his toast, Begin spoke about Zionism’s goal of taking responsibility for our own security: “For us, security is not a word; it’s not even ...…

…40 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N I f you think anti-immi- gration and antisemitic sentiments are running high now, look back to exactly a century ago, a year when one young and little-known Detroit lawyer named Theodore Levin stood against the nativist tide. Thousands of Ku Klux Klan mem- bers paraded through the streets of many cities, includ- ing Kalamazoo and Jackson. The Klan controlled the government of Indiana and ruined that y...…

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…44 | JUNE 20 • 2024 federal judges, two from the U.S. Court of Appeals, unanimously ruled in Arrowsmith v. Voorheis that the law “is unconstitutional and invalid.” There was some talk of an appeal, but nothing ever came of it, and the next year, another panel of federal judges reaffirmed its unconstitutionality and forbid its enforcement forever. Theodore Levin’s reputation had been made. He went on to become a major leader in...…

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…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 53 J N E lle Hartje is a professional hockey player. That title was added to her name June 10 when the 2019 Jewish News High School Athlete of the Year was selected by the New York team in the fifth round of the Professional Women’s Hockey League draft. The 23-year-old Bloomfield Hills native, Detroit Country Day School graduate and former Yale University women’s hockey star was the 25th of 42 players drafted i...…

…54 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N Stein 90th Michalopoulos-Podolsky Cooper 60th D onald Stein, a resi- dent of Rolling Hills Retirement Community in Commerce Township, turns 90 years old June 26, 2024, along with his twin brother, Melvin, who lives in New Jersey. Don will celebrate with his chil- dren and their spouses, Bob (Lynn), Laura (Barry), and Mark (Beth), and his grandchildren, Rachel, Dana, Zachary, Ashley, Bradley, Jason and Je...…