…FEBRUARY 24 • 2022 | 49 I n the World War II romance and musical I’ll Find You, love conquers all. Set for theatrical release on Feb. 25, the 1-hour and 56-minute film — inspired by the true stories of musicians in 1930s and 1940s Poland — offers a heartwarm- ing twist on the classic Romeo and Juliet story, this time set in the midst of war-torn Europe. Since childhood, Catholic opera singer Robert Pulaski (Leo Suter) and Jewish viol...…
…50 | FEBRUARY 24 • 2022 escape from Poland, Rubin realizes Pulaski is right and that in fact, she’s in love with him, not Rosenfeld. But the Germans aren’t far off, and Rubin’s family finally comes to a decision to leave for Zurich, while Pulaski’s family aims to escape to Paris. The Rubins plan to leave the following morning, but a German air raid overnight changes their plans. Jews are rounded up; and in the midst of the chaos, th...…
…FEBRUARY 24 • 2022 | 51 LAW AND ORDER (THE ORIGINAL!) RETURNS, THE SAG AWARDS The original Law and Order series ran from 1990-2010 and spanned several “spin-offs,” including Law and Order; SVU. A “reboot” of the original series premieres on NBC on Feb. 24 (8 p.m.). Sam Waterston is returning as Jack McCoy, Manhattan’s (head) District Attorney. He played that role for the last three seasons of the original. Before his promotion...…
…52 | FEBRUARY 24 • 2022 CAREGIVER SUPPORT 1:30-2:30 PM, FEB. 24 Virtual Caregiver Support Groups are offered for individuals who are care partners for those living with cognitive changes including various types of dementia. Please contact Dorothy Moon, Brown Adult Day Program social worker, for Zoom link and more information: 248- 233-4392, dmoon@jvshumanservices. org. EDUCATIONAL EVENT 6:30-8 PM, FEB 24 The Isaac Agree Downtown...…
…FEBRUARY 24 • 2022 | 53 exercises and meditation, Sleepy Time Yoga will com- bine fun and friendship over Zoom. Be sure to bring a yoga mat or chair to what should be an evening of gentle exercise to aid in a good night’s sleep. Register by Feb. 28: hadassahmid- west.org/GDWW2022. Event fee: $10. SLICE OF SERVICE 7-8:30 PM, FEB. 28 Join The Well, Repair the World Detroit and Keep Growing Detroit to learn about local gardening and ...…
…FOOD W ith the fluctuating weath- er and the turning of the year, we once again find ourselves huddling in the kitchen for warmth, taking advan- tage of a hot stove to keep our bodies and our houses braced against the encroaching chill of winter. Soups, filling and hearty, are always my go-to during this season. Served with crusty bread, they’re a good dish on their own, and they always are able to slide into another meal as an ...…
…FEBRUARY 24 • 2022 | 55 Shoestring potato fries for garnish Directions 1. Mise en place! Dice your potatoes and onion, mince the garlic and open the containers of stock. Heat a large pot over medi- um-high heat and melt the butter; add a little neutral cooking oil to the pot as well to help prevent burn- ing. 2. Once the butter has foamed and melted, add the onions, season with a good pinch of salt and cook over medium-high to ...…
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…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY continued on page 58 FEBRUARY 24 • 2022 | 57 CAROL AMSTER, 86, of Ann Arbor, died Feb. 12, 2022. She is sur- vived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Aaron and Susan Amster, and Barry and Jaye Amster; daughter and son-in-law, Lisa and Doug Schoenberg; grandchildren, Lauren Amster and Angus Abrams, Joshua and Jenna Amster, Michael Amster, Zachary Amster, Adam Schoenberg, and Allison Schoenberg; sis-...…
…continued from page 57 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 58 | FEBRUARY 24 • 2022 Robert Sakat; grandchil- dren, Nicole and Markus Talaga, Kyle and Serena Baskin, Alyssa and Brent Erickson, Joshua Berman, Henry Baskin, Miles Baskin, Julia Baskin, James and Jenny Chesney, Chris and Amy Chesney, and Alexus and Bryan Rouhan; great-grandchildren, Mackenzie Erickson, Faith Rouhan, Colin, Brennan and Nicholas Chesney; nephews and niece, S...…
…continued on page 60 FEBRUARY 24 • 2022 | 59 and adored everything about him; Hershey, his beloved dog and best friend. Interment took place at Beth El Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to the Hermelin Brain Tumor Center, the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation or a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. DONNA DZODIN, 75, of West Bloomfield, died Feb. 14, 2022. She is survived by her d...…
…continued from page 59 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 60 | FEBRUARY 24 • 2022 of Vivian Jason Toohey, Ezekiel Jason Toohey, Penelope Jason Toohey, Asher Hudson Seid and Maya Arielle Seid; sister of the late Barry J. Lipson; sister-in- law of Debra Lipson, Kenneth (Nancy) Lipson, Jacquelyn Heller and Carole Kaplan; aunt of Mark, Kevin, Brian, Aaron and David Lipson; daughter of the late Honora and the late Alex Lipson; daughter-in-l...…
…I van Reitman, a Hollywood direc- tor and producer who was born in Czechoslovakia and went on to helm Ghostbusters and other beloved American blockbuster comedies, died Feb. 12, 2022, at 75. Reitman died in his sleep at his home in Montecito, California, according to the Associated Press. Reitman’s first major commercial success came in 1978 when he produced National Lampoon’s Animal House, but his most famous work was Ghostbusters, ...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 62 | FEBRUARY 24 • 2022 Ode to the Bagel R ecently, our new Associate Editor, Rachel Sweet, and I had a chat in the JN lunchroom. She was toasting a bagel and mentioned that Bagel Day was upcoming. I said I thought National Bagel Day was Jan. 15. Rachel was referring to National Bagel and Lox Day on Feb. 9. We were...…
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…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 3 PURELY COMMENTARY 4-12 Essays and viewpoints COMMUNITY 14 Heroes at Your Doorstep Hatzalah’s lifesaving volunteer EMTs can rush to help in less than 2 minutes. 20 A Third Day of Remembrance Honor Metro Detroit survivors on June 24, the inaugural Holocaust Survivors’ Day. 22 Welcome Back! Brown Program reopens with artwork and smiles. 24 Fundraising Success Federation’s Annual Campaign surpasses $34 m...…
…4 | JUNE 24 • 2021 M y sister Olivia Ross and I, as well as our families, look forward to spring each year and the arrival of my mom’s peonies. My mother, Rose Hack, loved to garden and had the most gorgeous peonies. After she died in 1984, we sisters transplanted the peony bushes to our gardens. Over the years, I have has taken peony cuttings to each of my children living in three different time zones: Jon in Redwood City, ...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 5 For 82 years, our commitment has been the same. To serve everyone in Michigan with better health. In every ZIP code, we provide access to high-quality care. Throughout communities large and small, we support local efforts to improve health for all. Wherever you call home, we will be by your side. Because we’re here for it all and always will be. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network are nonprofi t...…
…6 | JUNE 24 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY 1942 - 2021 Covering and Connecting Jewish Detroit Every Week To make a donation to the DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION go to the website www.djnfoundation.org The Detroit Jewish News (USPS 275-520) is published every Thursday at 32255 Northwestern Highway, #205, Farmington Hills, Michigan. Periodical postage paid at Southfield, Michigan, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: send ...…
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…12 | JUNE 24 • 2021 continued from page 10 parties disagree. However, there is also some hope that the government will begin to heal some of the country’s intense polarization, starkly exhibited by the intercommunal violence this past month between very small segments of the Jewish and Arab citizens. NEW FACES The new government has a record nine women ministers; it includes an Arab Israeli Party in the ruling coalition, the ...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 13 Of the 2.5 percent of the world’s water that’s safe to drink, how do we keep it that way, seeing as it’s mostly underground? Thanks to the Weizmann Institute’s groundwater dynamics model, we can now pre- dict how contaminants will spread, so we can reach endangered parts of the water supply faster, and detoxify any polluted groundwater before it disperses. Every day, Weizmann Institute scientists in Israel work to pro...…
…14 | JUNE 24 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY “H atzalah. What’s your emergency?” Residents of Oak Park, Southfield and Huntington Woods have a trusted number to call in times of crisis — Hatzalah of Michigan, whose volunteers read- ily and willingly put their lives on pause to respond to emergency calls, often leaving their jobs, homes or child’s birthday party to provide lifesaving care to their neighbors. Hatzalah, which partners with the Oa...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 15 CLOCKWISE: Michael Feldman of Southfield, Captain Asher Sigler of Oak Park, Rabbi Bentzy Schechter of Oak Park, Mordy Kranczer of Oak Park and Sachee Allswang of Southfield pose in front of their office in Oak Park. Celia Smith of Southfield is on the dispatch radio. Cheryl Zuroff of Southfield talks with a group of dispatchers after a group meeting. Mordy Kranczer checks his medical sup- ply bag. …
…16 | JUNE 24 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY continued from page 15 spread around the world. Today, Hatzalah is the largest volunteer ambulance service in the United States, with more than 80 ambulances and almost 2,000 volunteer EMTs, as well as dozens of branches throughout the world. Hatzalah MI executive board member Nachy Soloff grew up in Monsey, N.Y., and was accus- tomed to the service. “It was sec- ond nature. You had a medical emer...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 17 continued on page 18 JN, “I’m so happy we took this on. I would do it all over again. It’s been tenfold what we origi- nally envisioned when we first started. “We envisioned a partner- ship that would help to serve our citizens better. There’s a lot of diversity in Southfield, and we get to learn a lot about the Jewish community from Hatzalah. It’s helped us up our game in the department. “What’s more is that Hat...…
…18 | JUNE 24 • 2021 ers. Hatzalah volunteers know that a Jew reluctant to violate Shabbat rules when receiving medical attention may be more at ease and easily convinced of the medical urgency when the emergency responder is a fellow Orthodox Jew. “Hatzalah helps us out a great deal with the Jewish community when there is some hesitancy or if there’s some misunder- standings about the medical treatment to be received, ” said Oak...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 19 edented scale and, despite that, they did what they were supposed to and didn’t fail.” CLOSE-KNIT COMMUNITY There’s more to being a member of Hatzalah than the willingness to respond to a call at a moment’s notice. Because many of the people they serve in Oak Park and Southfield are Orthodox Jews, Hatzalah volunteers are also trained in Halachah (Jewish law) so they can navigate lifesaving skills, such as the...…
…20 | JUNE 24 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY J ewish leaders around the world have rallied in support of a third day of Holocaust remembrance, which helped create the inaugural Holocaust Survivor Day. This day of remembrance commem- orating the Jews who survived the horrors of the Nazi regime will be celebrated for the first time on Thursday, June 24. Though the day is brand new, the goal is to spark a worldwide annual event that keeps t...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 21 another for shelter. Though she was young, Cohen learned the story of her family’s survival through their stories and their photographs. Her dad’s skills as a great outdoorsman and her moth- er’s perfect German helped the Schechter family survive. With the help of friends, they were able to escape the ghetto in which they lived and hid in different properties. To make hiding easier, Cohen’s parents decided to s...…
…OUR COMMUNITY 22 | JUNE 24 • 2021 W hen a small group of older adults walked through the doors of the Dorothy and Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Program in early June, their first time back in 15 months, they were greeted by welcome- back banners, bouquets of paper flowers, hand-decorated cards, posters and, of course, plenty of big smiles. The artwork was created by students at West Maple Elementary School in Bloomf...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 23 in January (with most being prior participants before the pandemic), they are fully immunized against COVID- 19, they come from a fully immunized household, and they are physically able to wear a mask. As community infection levels drop, more people will be accepted, and restrictions may be removed. Banooni shared that at least one former participant was unable to return because her family knew wearing a mask ...…
…24 | JUNE 24 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY T he Jewish Federation reported results from its 2021 Annual Campaign, completed May 31. The Annual Campaign is Federation’s central fundraising vehicle, and it provides for the majority of resources Federation dis- tributes to its partner agen- cies across the local and international Jewish community. The 2021 Annual Campaign raised a total of $34.2 million, meeting the goal estab- lished at...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 25 OUR COMMUNITY I n an effort to spread aware- ness to help free detained journalist Danny Fenster, a professionally designed web- site at bringdannyhome.com is offering $20 T-shirts with pro- ceeds going to a charity of Fenster’s choice after he gets home. Fenster, man- aging editor for Frontier Myanmar, was detained on May 24 at Yangon International Airport shortly before boarding a flight on his way home to ...…
…OUR COMMUNITY 26 | JUNE 24 • 2021 A pproaches to higher education alterna- tives as affected by COVID-19 confront Alan Drimmer as he moves into the presidency of Cleary University July 1. Cleary is a nonprofit Michigan school established in 1883. Drimmer, whose career has placed him in Midwest educa- tional posts after Mideast diplo- matic assignments, is thinking through plans to accelerate programming that realistically prepar...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 27 a strong impression, and my dream became to improve the quality of student-faculty relationships. At the University of Chicago, the faculty cared about me as a person and chal- lenged my assumptions about building a meaningful life, inspiring me to dedicate my professional life to improving access to education. ” To achieve his revised career goals, Drimmer earned a mas- ter’s degree in business admin- istration ...…
…28 | JUNE 24 • 2021 L ira Bordoley, 18, didn’t always know she’d be drawn to powerlifting or that it would set the course for her college plans and career goals. The nationally ranked powerlifting athlete will attend the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology in the fall, with plans to become a strength and conditioning coach who can help athletes persevere. The recent Seaholm High School grad, who attends Temple Shir Shalom...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 29 He’s also been impressed by the focus it’s given her on her career path, he says. “She’s found a passion in coaching and being a strength athlete and someone who’s so in tune with their body, being able to help other people become more in tune with their bodies as well.” MUCH ENCOURAGEMENT Bordoley says she’s grateful for the support of her coach- es and her family, who have encouraged her in her efforts and ...…
…OUR COMMUNITY 30 | JUNE 24 • 2021 A manda Schlussel grew up in West Bloomfield, early on watching three older brothers and two cousins shooting baskets and playing catch. Her home, on occasion, seemed a bit of a sports center for the five, and she soon joined in. Schlussel enjoyed watching her stepbrother play hockey at the Jewish Community Center, and at 7 years old, she started playing roller hockey at the JCC. Two years ...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 31 faces&places PHOTOS COURTESY OF TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM T emple Shir Shalom’s Religious School’s mis- sion is to help kids love their Judaism. And, despite a pandemic, its teachers and leaders continued to fulfill that mission as the only local reli- gious school to meet weekly this year. Pre-K through sixth- grade programming took place using the shelters and fields of the Jewish Community Center while seventh-12t...…
…32 | JUNE 24 • 2021 faces&places JARC, a nonprofit agency serving individuals with developmental disabilities in 80 locations, includ- ing 24-hour care in group homes, independent living settings for adults, and respite services for children, teens and young adults, hosted its annual “Flower- a-Thon” volunteer event on Sunday, May 23. The event, which returned this year after a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, drew 74 voluntee...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 33 ERETZ J ust days after the rockets stopped flying over our brother and sisters in Israel, I received a call from the Israeli Consulate to the Midwest asking if I could possibly head to the Holy Land to show solidarity. The Israeli foreign minister had called the Consulate asking for as many leaders of Federations and JCRCs to show that the Jewish community in America has Israel’s back. After I got the thumbs u...…
…34 | JUNE 24 • 2021 15 Cities; 3 Days I went to 15 cities in three days: My quarantine day in Jerusalem; Netanya and Ramat Poleg; then Tel Aviv (meeting the mayor of Umm al-Fahm); Lod: where I saw a torn, scruffy city that has not given up the goal of the 70% Jews and 30% Arabs building a flourishing city together — with the help over the years of Detroit philanthropists; Kfar Kassim — a charming Arab town that tried to help me ...…
