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…inside Detroit Jewish News n January 24 • 2019 3 jn 61 Jan. 24-30, 2019 18-24 Shevat 5779 VOLUME CLIV, ISSUE 25 VIEWS 5-8 JEWS IN THE D 10 Righting a Historic Wrong Group of lawyers helps survivors and their heirs recover artwork stolen by Nazis. 14 Fulfi lling a Wish Survivor gains Righteous Among the Nations status for three rescuing families. 16 A Community Conversation on Aging JN teams up with loca...…
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…January 24 • 2019 5 jn W hat’ s the difference between a national park during the government shutdown and a dresser drawer filled with rows of meticulously roll-folded T-shirts? One is a picture of human fallibility, the precarious nature of our social contract, the conspicuous con- sumption of disposable goods and the nega- tive consequences of under-regulation and over-production. The other is probably out of toilet paper. The...…
…6 January 24 • 2019 jn The Jewish News aspires to communicate news and opinion that’ s useful, engaging, enjoyable and unique. It strives to refl ect the full range of diverse viewpoints while also advocating positions that strengthen Jewish unity and continuity. We desire to create and maintain a challenging, caring, enjoyable work environment that encourages creativity and innovation. We acknowledge our role as a responsible, responsiv...…
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…8 January 24 • 2019 jn I t was inspiring. The Zionist Organization of America’ s (ZOA) 120th Brandeis Award national dinner in NYC treated 1,200 attend- ees to speeches by honorees National Security Adviser John Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, TV and radio host Mark Levin and ZOA President Morton Klein, who received ZOA ’ s Theodore Herzl award for 25 years of stellar leadership. Also speaking or intro- ducing ho...…
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…10 January 24 • 2019 jn J onathan H. Schwartz is leading a local effort by the Jewish Bar Association (JBAM) to right a his- toric wrong that’ s existed for more than 70 years as, he says, “part of the Nazis’ attempt to wipe out our Jewish identity. ” JBAM, co-founded in 2014 by Schwartz, a part- ner at Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss P .C. in Southfield, recently launched the Holocaust Art Recovery Initiative, a partner- ship with the ...…
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…12 January 24 • 2019 jn real-life Holocaust survivor Maria Altmann, who sets in motion a long legal challenge to recover her family’ s cher- ished Gustav Klimt painting, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I — also known as The Woman in Gold — from the Austrian government. “This artwork, some of it by famous Jewish artists, is part of our Jewish iden- tity, as much as Jewish humor, literature and food. Denying the return of iden- tified Jewi...…
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…14 January 24 • 2019 jn LOUIS FINKELMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER E rwin and Esther Posner traveled to the Netherlands in 1976 to visit Enschede, the village where Christian families had hidden Esther (then called Marianne Rose) and her family during the Nazi occupation. There they met the heroic police officer Dick Mos, who, while officially serving the Nazi regime, secretly cooperated with local Dutch Reformed Minister Leendert Overdui...…
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…January 24 • 2019 17 jn NOW ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS Dr. Tassia Samona, a Henry Ford West Bloomfield physician, will be located at the practice of Lisa Elconin, M.D., Amy Goldfaden, M.D., Laurie Katz, M.D., William Jason Sulaka, M.D., and Maribeth Knight, D.O. who are on staff at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital. These physicians specialize in Internal Medicine with the goal of preventing and managing chronic diseases. Cal l 2...…
…18 January 24 • 2019 jn Pillars of Vibrancy The Community House to honor those who impact the community at annual Bates Street Society Dinner. T he Community House (TCH) — a nonprofit resource and destination for personal, professional, recreational and phil- anthropic pursuits — will hold its fourth annual Bates Street Society Dinner, hosted by the Community House and the Community House Foundation Boards of Directors, on Saturday...…
…Congratulations to this year’ s Hazon Seal of Sustainability recipients! The following institutions have begun taking steps to improve their sustainability-related education, action, and advocacy work in the Detroit Jewish community. These are the projects they have been working on this year. Adat Shalom Synagogue – Lighting and recycling policies, garden education Congregation B’ nai Moshe – Greener kiddush, recycling, and compost pra...…
…20 January 24 • 2019 jn jn Torah, Fun, Friends Aish Detroit launches new group for girls. S ometime all it takes is one con- versation to start a movement. It was a cozy fall Sunday after- noon. I had invited two of our Aish Sunday School assistants, Hannah Berger and Sophia Bernzweig, to my house to settle a debate over whether homemade sprinkle cookies could be made better than bakery sprinkle cookies. (Spoiler — yes, they can, an...…
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…22 January 24 • 2019 jn Legal Fight Pet owners fi ght to save fi nal resting place of their beloved pets. W hen Jill Lepler Daly’ s two beloved dogs died more than 15 years apart, she purchased each a coffin and head- stone and tucked special notes and pictures in with them when they were buried at Heavenly Acres Pet Cemetery in Genoa Township. “We want to know where they will always be buried permanently so we can visit and th...…
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…24 January 24 • 2019 jn Mitzvah Day volunteers prepared meals with Chef Matt Prentice at Cass Community Social Services. LEFT: Volunteers at Southwest Solutions Piquette Square Nearly 800 volunteers of all ages visited more than three dozen social services agencies during the 22nd Annual Mitzvah Day. Alongside friends from the Michigan Muslim Community Council, partici- pants, many of whom donned festive holiday sweaters and hats, ...…
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…26 January 24 • 2019 jn Peter Remington and Peggy Daitch of Birmingham, and Bloomfield Hills residents Jennifer and David Fischer of the Suburban Collection check out the Cadillac exhibit. Tavi Fulkerson of Bloomfield Hills enjoyed a mother-daughter night out with Georgia Hampton of Chicago. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JULIE SMITH YOLLES jews d in the | faces&places In an ironic twist, the final Charity Preview to be held in the winter escape...…
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…January 24 • 2019 29 jn Hillel Students Join Pistons on the Court H illel Day School students were on the court for the national anthem and played a scrim- mage basketball game at halftime of a Detroit Pistons game last month at Little Caesars Arena. It was the same day as a ticket deal offered by the Pistons and the Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation, with 10 percent of ticket sales donated to the Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame...…
…30 January 24 • 2019 jn MARISA MEYERSON SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Matchmaker, Matchmaker moments NJP (Nice Jewish Person) Melissa Mendelson Each month, The Well highlights an amazing (and eligible!) individual. The Well has agreed to share its Q & As with these amazing singles with the JN. This month, The Well has a conversation with NJP Melissa Mendelson. Q : How did you decide to make your adult life in Metro Detroit? MM: I...…
…January 24 • 2019 31 jn moments Kylie Grace Bell, for- merly of Farmington Hills, will chant from the Torah as she becomes a bat mitzvah on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019, at Temple Shalom in Naples, Fla. She will be joined in cel- ebration by her proud parents, Shelly and Jason Bell, brother Spencer, and loving grandparents Leslie and Mark Wasserman. She is also the grand- daughter of the late Linda and the late Stephen Bell. Kylie is a ...…
…32 January 24 • 2019 jn jews d in the section Rabbi Noam Gross We Have What It Takes T his week’ s portion describes the most significant event in human history: The Jewish people stood at Sinai and accepted the Torah. While the Torah certainly had an enormous impact on the Jewish nation, its imprint on the rest of the world can- not be understated. Both Christianity and Islam accept the Jewish covenant at Sinai to be historic...…
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…34 January 24 • 2019 jn Danny, Thank you for your continued support with small business owners like myself. You and the Jewish News have helped get the names of all my restaurants known within the Jewish Community. We appreciate all that you have done. Wishing you a happy 100th Birthday, Danny, from George Lucaj and family, and all of his partners. Looking forward to doing another 50 years of business with you! Ge o r g e L u c a j ...…
…100 100 Years of Years of Excellence Danny Raskin turns 100 this year and — oh, what a life he has had! Danny in his West Bloomfi eld home with portraits of Oscar-winning movie stars covering a wall …
…D E T R O I T ’S R E S TA U R A N T N E T W O R K V I C A R I R E S TAU R A NT S .CO M “I have learned so much about the restaurant busi ness from Danny Raski n. Hi s knowledge and ki ndness have been i nvaluable. God bless you & keep i t goi ng, Danny! ” – Joe Vi cari , CEO, Vi cari Restaurant Group Vicari_JewishNews_Full_9.25x11_jan19.indd 1 1/21/19 12:08 PM …
…January 24 • 2019 37 jn Danny, you’ ve been writing your Jewish News column every week since you were a young adult. Tell me a story from even before that period. When I was born, we lived at Hastings and Brady in Detroit. Th en, we moved to Dover Court apartments near Pingree and 12th Street. We lived right behind the Cream of Michigan restaurant, where members of the Purple Gang hung out in the mid-’ 30s. Th e Purple boys I knew wh...…
…38 January 24 • 2019 jn continued from page 37 entrepreneur porter with the Lansing State Jour- nal and, later, the Detroit News. At the News, my editor said, “Danny, whatever you learned in college, forget it. Th is is the new school for you. ” He was right. It was like night and day. In 1942, I was 23 years old and working at the News midnight to eight in the morning. My beat was Downtown Detroit. Phil Slomovitz called me and sa...…
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…40 January 24 • 2019 jn continued from page 38 Siegel’ s old girlfriend. Carlos called me up and said something about making a record. I knew nothing about the business, but I went ahead and started a record company with my friend Al Marks. Our record labels were “Seville” and “Lorelei. ” Carlos cut his tune and I had him sing a Duke Ellington song on the reverse side. Th e local disc jockeys were playing it left and right. An ...…
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…42 January 24 • 2019 jn continued from page 40 I knew in the evening I’ d be going to a lot of restaurants. Some- times, I’ d go to three restaurants in one night. I didn’ t eat at all of the restaurants. At the beginning, I thought being a restaurant critic would be great. But, I remember one critic started out at 190 pounds and wound up more than 300. I made sure not to eat a lot. I learned to push away. People think I get all t...…
…44 January 24 • 2019 jn Danny Raskin Senior Columnist raskin the best of everything Big Difference at Village Palace! I t originally opened back in 1974 as another restaurant that served a purpose for fast breakfasts and lunches. Then restauranteur George Lukaj bought the little eatery about 10 years ago, changed the name from Village Place to Village Palace, added more breakfast and lunch items plus some dinners … and son Robert t...…
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…46 January 24 • 2019 jn JACKIE HEADAPOHL MANAGING EDITOR D etroit is known as Motown, but there’ s more to the city’ s musical histo- ry than the funky sounds coming out of Hitsville U.S.A. from the Supremes and Jackson Five. From the 1940s-1960s, there was a huge variety of ethnic music-making across Detroit’ s 139 square miles, writes ethnomusicol- ogist Mark Slobin in his new book, Motor City Music: A Detroiter Looks Back (Oxfor...…
…January 24 • 2019 47 jn Press, Slobin writes about the Jewish love affair (including his own) with the violin: “For the Jews, the violin lit- erally had a special resonance. It was the lead instrument in the traditional klezmer dance bands for weddings … It was not just an instrument, but a voice, a tool for meditation in the slow pieces played around the tables at a celebration. Then the fiddles kicked in and got people up and danc...…
…48 January 24 • 2019 jn B roadway producer Kevin McCollum believes everyone needs to indulge in captivating laughter as a distraction from stress, and he is confident about currently offering that opportunity to audiences around the country. The source of the diversion is the touring production of The Play That Goes Wrong, which has cheered New York playgoers for nearly two years. McCollum, whose late mother (nee Susan Goldberg)...…
…January 24 • 2019 49 jn “Jeffrey and I were business part- ners for 20 years,” McCollum says. “We have had companies together but have worked on shows inde- pendently.” McCollum, currently immersed in various projects through his own company Alchemation, is giving considerable time to the develop- ment of a musical stage version of the film Mrs. Doubtfire. “In my ethic of being Jewish, I want to contribute,” says McCollum, who starte...…
…50 January 24 • 2019 jn SORKIN ON BROADWAY I’ m not an unreserved fan of screen- writer/playwright Aaron Sorkin, 57. He certainly has had his hits (A Few Good Men, The Social Network, Moneyball and Molly’ s Game). But I didn’ t like his movie Steve Jobs or his TV shows Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Newsroom. I thought the always-reliable Jeff Daniels, a famous Michigander, was not well served by Newsroom scripts that often ...…
