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… JULY 23 • 2020 | 23 Out of concer n f or t he healt h and saf et y of our communi t y , J ewi sh F ami ly Ser v i ce has made t he di f ficult deci si on t o cancel our 2020 Spot li ght Ev ent . Whi le we may not be able t o come t oget her t o shi ne a li ght on ment al healt h, we at J F S ar e st i ll pr ov i di ng v i t al ser v i ces t o t hose i n need, and t hat wo...…

…24 | JULY 23 • 2020 continued from page 22 Commerce Township, followed by a comedy performance by producer and “Rat Pack” revival star, Sandy Hackett, son of Buddy Hackett, at Big Tommy’ s Parthenon and Comedy Club in Novi. “He was funny — very Jewish — and took a lot of questions from the audi- ence about his dad, ” Lullove said. Ron Korman, Chai Rider for 10 years and motorcycle enthusiast for 60, said, “It was a great weekend. I ...…

… JULY 23 • 2020 | 25 Nearly $400,000 was raised at JARC’ s annual fundraising event to benefit individuals with developmental disabilities. The first-ever drive-in movie event for the organization had more than 75 families in attendance during the two feature films, Despicable Me and Groundhog Day, which ran from 3-10 p.m. Kids, teens, couples and parents at the event safely watched the movies in their vehicles during each showin...…

…Moments 26 | JULY 23 • 2020 JUNE 5, 2020 Ariana Orvell and Jeffrey Zeman are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter, Averie Gemma Zeman. Proud grandparents are Marci and Paul Zeman of West Bloomfield, and Gabriella Ibieta and Miles Orvell of Philadelphia. Averie is named in loving memory of her great-grandmothers Avis Wolfe and Gabriela de la Campa. She is also the great-granddaughter of the late Harold Wolfe, Maggie and Ro...…

… JULY 23 • 2020 | 27 Spirit torah portion T here is an inspirational account that, in one ver- sion or another, is often printed. The earliest known ver- sion of “Footprints” reads: An elderly man, who had lived his life and left this world to go and meet his Maker, asked the Lord a question. “ As I’ m looking down on the paths I’ ve trod, I see two sets of footprints on the easy paths. “But down the rocky roads I see only one set ...…

…28 | JULY 23 • 2020 Eretz I n the summer of 2010, native Israeli and Harvard grad Mishy Harman gathered his belongings and his dog and embarked on a 13,000-mile road trip across the United States. Just outside of Vicksburg, Mississippi, he said, his life tra- jectory changed. It was when Harman switched from listen- ing to books on tape and Bible Belt radio to an episode of This American Life. As he listened, Harman remembers b...…

… JULY 23 • 2020 | 29 viewed celebrities such as bas- ketball player Amar’ e Stoudemire and Arab-Israeli news anchor Lucy Aharish. Additionally, the Zoom festival featured a live concert, a cooking class and a self-portrait workshop. Inman said the event garnered huge support and attracted people from all over the world, includ- ing Americans, Australians and South Africans. “Everything came together in this very magical way, ” Inma...…

…30 | JULY 23 • 2020 L ike so many other musical stage entertainers sidelined by the pan- demic, Daniel Kahn has turned to YouTube. Kahn, who launched his career while growing up in Farmington Hills, has developed a video centered on the Yiddish song “Mentshn-Fresser” (“Devourer of Mankind”), written by Solomon Small (Smulewitz) in 1916 to communicate the brutal environment brought about by tuberculosis. Kahn has revived the song ...…

… JULY 23 • 2020 | 31 and drums) and his wife, Yeva Lapsker (videography), with Sveta Kundish (vocals) and Patrick Farrell (accordion and sound). After the initial film- ing, instrumental accompani- ment was added by Christian Dawid (tuba, saxophone, clarinet) and Vivien Zeller (violin). The setting for the video, a deserted farmhouse, was scouted by Lapsker, who built a dance career before working more closely with Kahn and his mu...…

…32 | JULY 23 • 2020 N ikolaus Leytner’ s The Tobacconist is marked by uneasy tensions. When a chance tragedy upends a Christian family’ s peaceful rural life, they send their only son Franz (Simon Morze) to pre-Reich Vienna to apprentice with family friend Otto Trsnjek, a one-legged tobacconist and Great War vet, as Nazism encroaches on the city. Johannes Krisch gives the title character a sparky warmth that’ s matched by his ...…

… JULY 23 • 2020 | 33 AN HBO FILM (WITH SURPRISE MICHIGAN CONNECTIONS) HBO will premiere the documen- tary The Weight of Gold on July 29. It explores the mental health challenges that Olympic athletes often face. Like millions of “ordi- nary” Americans, many Olympic athletes struggle to find necessary support and resources as they cope with mental health issues. The film seeks to inspire a general discussion of mental health issues, ...…

…34 | JULY 23 • 2020 STAYING CONNECTED At this time of social distancing, the Jewish News will try to bring awareness to events/learning situations offered online by synagogues, temples and community organizations. MUSEUM EXHIBIT AS OF JULY 22 Cranbrook Art Museum opened the new exhibition, Shapeshifters: Transformations in Contemporary Art. Featuring more than 70 works from 39 artists drawn from the museum’ s permanent collectio...…

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…38 | JULY 23 • 2020 Soul of blessed memory continued on page 42 GILDA BIRMINGHAM, 92, of Royal Oak, died July 11, 2020. She was a woman of culture who loved collecting glass art, volunteering for many years at the Detroit Institute of Arts and attending art exhibits. She was well read, extremely intellectual and had a great sense of humor. Gilda brought life and inter- est to any conversation. She was always fully engaged ...…

… JULY 23 • 2020 | 39 HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER • ZEKELMAN FAMILY CAMPUS 28123 Orchard Lake Rd. • Farmington Hills, MI 48334 www.holocaustcenter.org Helen Rosenzveig z”l In Memory of he Board of Directors and Staff of the Holocaust Memorial Center offer our heartfelt condolences to the Rosenzveig and Novogrodsky families. Together with her husband, Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig z”l, they were instrumental in the creation of the ...…

…40 | JULY 23 • 2020 Soul of blessed memory T homas I. Klein, 85, of Bloomfield Hills and Longboat Key, Fla., died July 3, 2020. Tom was a joy to everyone who knew him. He was tall, handsome, smart, sweet, kind, funny, loving and an all-around wonderful guy. He was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. At the age of 18, as a popular high school senior and an all-state athlete in basketball and football, he contracted polio. He was o...…

… JULY 23 • 2020 | 41 of almost 59 years, Linda Zuckerman Klein; three children, Katherine (Peter) Bresler, Elizabeth (Stephen) Brodsky and Jonathan (Gretchen Goldberg) Klein; six grandchildren, Alexander Bresler, Abigail Bresler, Joshua Brodsky, Matthew Brodsky, Nathan Klein and Charles Klein; two broth- ers, Dr. Richard (Muggsy) Klein and James (Heide) Klein; proud uncle of nieces and nephews, Dan (Robyn) Klein, Deborah Klein, ...…

…Soul of blessed memory 42 | JULY 23 • 2020 ied astronomy and worked at the family business as a bookkeeper. She had a very close relationship with her grandchildren, espe- cially her granddaughters Michelle and EllaRose. Ella regularly exercised with Polly long distance by tab- let, which became a high- light of Polly’ s day. Mrs. Kaatz was the beloved wife of the late Paul Kaatz; cherished mother of Lin Kaatz Chary, Stephen (Su...…

… JULY 23 • 2020 | 43 Mrs. Racey was the wife of the late Stanley Racey; sis- ter-in-law of the late Lincoln Racey. A private service was held in Palm Harbor, Fla. c. 2005 GLADYS SCHIFFMAN, 90, of West Bloomfield, died June 21, 2020. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Bonnie and Bruce Parker; son, Todd Schiffman; grand- children, Hillary (Noyes) and Erin and Ryan; brother, Morton Wallach; many lov- ing nieces, neph...…

…44 | JULY 23 • 2020 Soul of blessed memory he served on the board of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Northern California and helped to organize its annual fundraising dinner in support of scholarships for Jewish stu- dent-athletes. He was a loving and caring son, brother, husband, father, grandfather and friend; he will be deeply missed by his loved ones and the wider community. Mr. Sternberg is survived by his wife, Sandra; his...…

…Ansara family has a true immigrant success story. the best of everything Raskin From Big Boy to Red Robin S uccess stories that pertain to immigrants arriving in the United States to make a new life for themselves will never die. When they came to this country from Lebanon in 1951, brothers George and Andrew Ansara couldn’ t speak any English, which is an immediate shoulder-shrug- ger in itself … Especially when they wanted...…

…46 | JULY 23 • 2020 I read in the JN about Michael Jacobson passing away on June 14, 2020. Jacobson was a well- known Jewish musician and entertainer from Detroit, who spent the last 30 years of his career performing thousands of magic shows for a wide range of audiences, for children in particular. He is missed. Thinking about Jacobson the magician led to a question: Is there a historic connection between magicians and Detroit’ s...…

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… APRIL 23 • 2020 | 3 contents OUR JN MISSION: We aspire to communicate news and opinion that’ s trusted, valued, engaging and distinctive. We strive to reflect diverse community viewpoints while also advocating positions that strengthen Jewish unity and continuity. As an independent, responsible, responsive community member, we actively engage with individuals and organizations dedicated to enhancing the quality of life, and Jewish life, i...…

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…Each month, the JN will let you know the stories that were read most often online. If you missed any, go to the jewishnews.com and search for them by title. Here’ s what was most popular in March. ON THE WEB 1. Coronavirus: ‘ No Reason to Go to an Emergency Room,’ ER Doctor Advises 2. Gay and Jewish Jokes (from 2018) 3. Oakland County Creates Interactive Map of COVID-19 Cases by ZIP Code 4. Michigan’ s First Jewish COVID-19 Death 5. ...…

…Views editor’ s note Introducing the Anti-Semitism Project T his week we observed Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. An odd time to mark this solemn anniversary. But in other ways, it’ s eerily fitting. We’ ve seen news stories in recent weeks about how Holocaust survivors around the world are responding to the COVID-19 outbreak: for many, it has meant the resurfacing of old traumas, as direct orders to stay inside o...…

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…A Showdown in Behind the new lawsuit challenging longtime synagogue protesters. MAYA GOLDMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER | PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALEX SHERMAN Jews in the D I t’ s a brutally cold Saturday morning in February, and Dearborn resident Chris Mark is one of only two people from a group called Witness for Peace standing outside Ann Arbor’ s Beth Israel Congregation. The group used to be bigger, but Mark said many members have passed away ...…

… APRIL 23 • 2020 | 11 APR APR APR APR PR PR R PR PR APR APR APR APR AP A IL IL L IL IL IL IL IL 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 23 2 • 2 • 2 • 2 • 2 • 2020 020 020 020 0 020 20 0 0 0 | 11 A Witness for Peace protester readies his signs for the weekly Shabbat protest that started in 2003 outside Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor. …

…continued from page 10 12 | APRIL 23 • 2020 The plaintiffs are asking that the court either stop the protest- ers altogether or place restrictions on their conduct. They’ re also seeking damages. Outside organizations have gotten involved on both sides. On Feb. 24, The Lawfare Project, a New York-based legal network that works to defend the Jewish and pro-Israel community, joined the lawsuit as a co-counsel and to provide financi...…

… APRIL 23 • 2020 | 13 continued on page 14 “It’s not really about Palestinian human rights. And I think that’s a shame.” — RABBI NADAV CAINE, BETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION human rights. And I think that’ s a shame, ” Caine said. “I wish it were… It is really about the fact that Israel and the Jews con- trol the world and it’ s all those anti-Semitic tropes about [how] we control the banking, we con- trol the American government, cont...…

…14 | APRIL 23 • 2020 “It makes it virtually impossible to do things like host homeless people or give sanctuary to ref- ugees, ” he said. “I just can’ t open the door and have people come in and out like they might do at a church, and those kinds of things do sadden me. ” He thinks it’ s possible the pro- tests have discouraged some peo- ple from coming to synagogue or joining the congregation. “I suspect that many people get used ...…

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…Lansing Demonstrators Protest Whitmer With Hitler Signs Organizers say the Nazi signs weren’ t theirs; ADL condemns comparison. CORRIE COLF STAFF WRITER Jews in the D T housands of demonstrators drove to Lansing on April 15 protest- ing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’ s extension of her “Stay Home, Stay Safe” order in response to the coronavirus out- break. Some protestors were seen waving Confederate flags and holding signs com- paring W...…

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…18 | APRIL 23 • 2020 C ollectively, we are a powerful force when we work together for those most vulnerable and frail, ” said Leslie Katz, director of FRIENDS of JSL, who is looking for volunteers to help Jewish Senior Life residents left alone in their apartments because of the COVID-19 crisis. Volunteers can choose from a myriad of opportunities to help. Many residents don’ t have the ability to shop for them- selves. JSL is ...…

… APRIL 23 • 2020 | 19 Jews in the D A s we endure the coronavirus pandemic, many individuals are homebound and healthy, feeling powerless to help those less fortunate. But six local women have found a safe way to raise funds to help local restaurants and hospital workers. Danielle (Dani) Gillman, 42, was texting with five friends about what they could do to help during the pandemic. They had read about a New Jersey group called Fr...…

…20 | APRIL 23 • 2020 W hen Groves High School closed in March because of the coronavirus epidemic, junior Isaiah Rubin had some time on his hands. “The school was having a hard time transitioning to online instruction,” said his mom Lindsay Hords of Birmingham. “We knew he had to do something, so our thoughts turned to how we could help the community.” Isaiah, who had his bar mitzvah at Temple Israel, said he and his friends...…

… APRIL 23 • 2020 | 21 H arvey Olson, 80, of Commerce Township is living proof that COVID- 19 can be beaten. His story is spreading hope among his friends and relatives across the globe. Both Harvey and his wife Doris, 74, are on the other side of a ferocious three-week-long battle with the novel coronavirus. Both believe they contracted the virus in mid-March after attending a wedding in Florida and flying back home to Metro Detr...…

…22 | APRIL 23 • 2020 L ocal food pantries are struggling to provide the necessary produce and food for those who need it most during the coronavirus outbreak. A new initiative from a local Jewish sustainability lab aims to change that. Hazon Detroit, a nonprofit that works with Jewish and non-Jewish organizations to help educate the community about creating healthier and more sustainable ways of life, started their Relief Garde...…

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…24 | APRIL 23 • 2020 For details and ticket information: 248.661.1900 Incitement Talkback with lead actor Yehuda Nahar Halevi and Marc Bernstein of Michigan State University’s Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel This psychological thriller follows the year leading up to the 1995 assassination of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from the activist into an extremist and murderer. Winner of the...…