…34 | MARCH 25 • 2021 SPIRIT Cherishing Creation T he intricacies of Temple sacrifice, as described in Parshat Tzav, may seem otherworldly to us. Priests place on the altar particular items determined by a specific sacrifice. Then, over a wood fire, the items are cooked — or burnt. A portion is consumed by the priest and a portion, through the fire itself, is consumed by God. For the past 2,000 years or so, ever since the Tem...…
…MARCH 25 • 2021 | 35 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 ...…
…36 | MARCH 25 • 2021 Shomrey Emunah Southfield (248) 559-1533 congregation-shomrey- emunah-105705.square.site 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 Is...…
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…48 | MARCH 25 • 2021 A n art installation linking Passover with the environmental issue of single use plastics will be on display March 25-April 4 outside MOCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit). The piece, titled At Our Table, suggests that Jews give up more than unleavened bread for the eight days of the holiday. It asks that they suspend the use of plastic in the same time frame. Olivia Guterson, a Detroit artist who has been ac...…
…MARCH 25 • 2021 | 49 SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER For Passover, Reboot and Jimmy Kimmel Live! writ- er Jonathan Bines created Plastover, an initiative chal- lenging everyone to take the first step away from reliance on the plastic-driven economy by committing to eliminate the use of single-use plastic for the duration of the holiday, March 27-April 4. “Saving the world from the plague of plastic will take more than just el...…
…50 | MARCH 25 • 2021 L ast year at Passover, Udi Kapen was thinking about ideas for a script to be submitted in participation with a playwriting group he had joined. As the holiday also was on his mind, Kapen imagined a seder plotline. The sometime writer came up with a seriocomedy based on Elijah and what it would be like if Elijah introduced him- self at the family’s front door. Beyond the group, he shared his idea with member...…
…MARCH 25 • 2021 | 51 Created in Memory of Laela Miller Saulson E li Saulson never met his biological mother, Laela Miller Saulson, who passed away shortly after his birth at the age of 28. She possessed a caring nature and compassion for children facing challenges — and had an affinity for art. To honor her memo- ry, Saulson has funded a Soul Scholarship, enabling an artist to develop their creative talents in perpetuity at Frien...…
…52 | MARCH 25 • 2021 TRAUMA & MEMORY NOON-1 PM, MARCH 25 “Thinking from Somali Diasporic Contexts” is pre- sented by the U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies via Zoom. This workshop focuses on how geographies continue to limit our thinking. Advance registration required: https:// tinyurl.com/eyh7xady. FIRESIDE CHAT 8 PM, MARCH 25 Join The Well’s Rabbi Jeff and the Big Ten Network’s lead studio host Dave Revsine for a fireside chat...…
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…56 | MARCH 25 • 2021 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY A . Donald Slotkin, 84, of Jupiter, Fla., and Bloomfield Hills, died March 16, 2021. Don always looked for and found the bright side of life. It was everything from his mantra to the name of his pontoon boat at the family cottage in Michigan. He wore mostly yellow shirts and ate from mostly yellow plates because yellow is the color of the bright side. That’s the place Don call...…
…MARCH 25 • 2021 | 57 continued on page 58 JULIE BAKER, 43, of Bloomfield Hills, died March 14, 2021. She is survived by her beloved husband, James Baker; chil- dren, Dylan Baker, Jack Baker and Maryn Baker; she was the loving daughter of Toby and Michael Hyman; devot- ed sister of Cantor Bradley (Vicki) Hyman and Jason Hyman. She is also survived by many other loving family members and friends. Interment was held at Beth El Mem...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 58 | MARCH 25 • 2021 end activities was exploring local flea markets, yard sales and thrift shops, where he inevitably would find an unusual piece of music for himself or for others. For the last 17 years of his life, Dave worked as a senior copy editor at RAPP, an advertising agency. He was beloved by all his co-workers. Upon learning of his pass- ing, the Global CEO Marco Scognamiglio said, “He alw...…
…MARCH 25 • 2021 | 59 cherished brother and brother- in-law of the late Gerald and the late Rebecca Goldberg, the late Miriam and the late Bob Davenport. Contributions may be made to Frankel Jewish Academy, 6600 W . Maple, West Bloomfield, MI 48322. A fam- ily graveside service was held at Adat Shalom Memorial Park in Livonia. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. MELVIN “MEL ” HARRIS, of San Clemente, Calif., and West Bloomfi...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 60 | MARCH 25 • 2021 for 66 years of the late Dr. Louis Hoffman. She was predeceased by her brother, David. Funeral services and inter- ment were at Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham. Contributions may be made to the Jewish Family Service of Metro Detroit, jfsdetroit. org. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. LAURENCE E. PEVOS, 75, of Commerce Township, died March 14, 2021. He is survived ...…
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…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 62 | MARCH 25 • 2021 Ensuring All Have Food for Passover P assover will soon be here, and I thought I would dive into the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History to find holiday stories. Using the search term “Passover” showed a list of 20,245 pages with that word. That’s a lot of pages! So, I na...…
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…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 3 contents Purely Commentary 4-10 On the Cover 12 Like Floating on a ‘Cloud’ With Detroit’s help, Israeli firm creates app to give your car a smoother, more efficient ride. Our Community 17 Aid for Women Is in the Works Women’s Foundation resumes grants with new director. 18 Moms Making Matches Jewish moms’ Facebook page dedicates a day to help singles find love. 20 ‘Scissorhands’ Th...…
…4 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 continued on page 6 PURELY COMMENTARY letters It Takes a Village My work in the Jewish commu- nal field began when I needed a summer job during college, and I was looking though the Detroit Jewish News help wanted section. I saw that Jewish Family Service (JFS) needed volunteer drivers to take older adults to doctor appointments. Thus began my career in the Jewish communal service field, and I never looked ...…
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…PURELY COMMENTARY 8 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 continued on page 10 guest column It’s Time to Reexamine Jewish Education U pon retiring from 48 years in Jewish educa- tion, I still find myself writing and learning about the field. I am working toward a doctorate in Jewish Studies from Chicago- based Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning & Leadership, and my disser- tation topic is “21st Century Non-Day School Jewish Education.” At my...…
…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 9 Answer the Call. Help us take care of those in need in our community. After an unexpected one-year hiatus, Super Sunday IS BACK! Once again, we will be making calls to secure donors to Federation’s 2021 Annual Campaign. Never has Federation’s work been more critical than right now. Every day, our partner agencies are handing out kosher meals to older adults, children and other vulnerable individuals. Providing em...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY 10 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 created the first national study of Jewish education. Looking for direction, educators decid- ed to find out how Judaism was lived by their families and what parents wanted children to gain from attending religious school. Two thousand religious school parents in 22 commu- nities were asked why they were sending their children to religious school and what they hoped the children would gain...…
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…12 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 F or the past 16 months, 20 of the city of Detroit’s vehicles have been using Israeli software to automatically map hazards on the city’s roads. Tactile Processor, developed by Tactile Mobility of Haifa, Israel, gathers data from each car’s built-in sensors and sends it to the company’s Tactile Cloud. Then, the Cloud uses a mathematical model called SurfaceDNA to combine the crowd- sourced data into a map, ...…
…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 13 “It would sometimes take it a week or two to calibrate itself for the specific car and roadmap, but eventually it would be super-accurate, like nowhere else in the world,” Mizrachi said. About one year later, it was a Detroit company’s scout who challenged Mizrachi to create a cloud-based app that would control the car’s speed and gear-shifting according to where the car was heading. Mizrachi worked on the so...…
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…16 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 continued from page 14 Mobility’s engineering could give it the edge: “Many machine-learning companies try to get into vehicles, and usually they rely on super-heavy resources,” he said. “NVidia is trying to get its heavy processors into vehicles. If you count on a very heavy processor in the car, in terms of price, power draw, size, etc., the number of cars that you’ll get into is small. “However, if yo...…
…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 17 M ichigan’s Jewish Women’s Foundation is resuming its grant-making activities under the leadership of a new director, after temporarily halting activi- ties last spring due to COVID. Sigal Hemy started as director in September. She is the only paid staff of the organization, which is directed by a leader- ship committee of its trustees. The Jewish Women’s Foundation of Metropolitan Detroit (JWF) began in 199...…
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