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…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 29 Navigating these times together 6445 W. Maple Road | West Bloomfield, MI 48322 | 248-661-1600 | wbhrc.com Choosing a skilled nursing facility for your loved one during these trying times can certainly seem daunting. Thankfully, impartial third-party experts are available to help distinguish the very best in the industry. We are honored that U.S. News & World Report has named West Bloomfield Health & Rehabilitation C...…

…30 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 J anuary and February are some of the toughest months for Michiganders. In previous years, an increase in mental health concerns during this time could be attributed in part to seasonal depression. Now, however, the ongoing COVID- 19 pandemic and surge of the Omicron variant are making this winter more challenging than ever for people in Metro Detroit. “There’s a feeling of hopelessness right now, ” says...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 31 very helpless and like they don’t have any control over the situation. ” Now, Michiganders are growing irritable. Schwartz is seeing a lot of “when is this going to be over?”-type thinking, with frustration mounting over rapidly changing guidance from the CDC. “The information changes every day, which seems to also create anxiety for people because nobody knows what the right answer is anymore, ” she says...…

…32 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 E ating disorders can be serious health problems but often are unrecog- nized or misunderstood. Dini Peterson, chief program offi- cer, Family and Community Services, Jewish Family Service (JFS) of Metropolitan Detroit, says that 9% of the American popu- lation is believed to have an eating disorder — two-thirds of them girls and women. Eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating are mo...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 33 D eborah Dash Moore has taught Jewish history surrounding the Holocaust for 30 years and is confi- dent there always is a lot more to be learned by students and teachers. Moore, the Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of history and professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan as well as editor-in-chief of the Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, applied that stance throughout the pande...…

…34 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 S ix million Jewish individuals were killed during the Holocaust, and many of the hundreds of European communities where they lived were essentially decimated. Afterward, beginning in the 1950s and continuing even today, some Jewish survivors of European villages, cities and regions began to publish books about their communities. They wanted to document the rich Jewish life of their hometowns, often dating ...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 35 moved to Farmington Hills), a library with archives was an important part of his plan. According to Weiss, “He wanted documentation.” Today the Zekelman memorial book collection is an important resource for Holocaust survivors and their children; individuals doing genealogy research; as well as students, researchers and authors. Cheri Eisenberg, a former Detroiter who now lives in Atlanta, explains that th...…

…36 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 ERETZ A lot of hopes are riding on the skates of Hailey Kops and Evgeni Krasnopolski. The figure-skating pair are among six athletes expected to represent Israel at the Beijing Olympics, Feb. 4–20. And Israel has never medaled at the Winter Games. “Yes, there’s a little pressure — but in the best way possible,” Kops tells ISRAEL21c. This will be the first Olympics for Kops, 19, and the third for Krasnopolski,...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 37 COMMUNITY but his Outstanding Athlete status allowed him to contin- ue training and competing. Relocating to New Jersey for intensive training, he returned to Israel every three months to put in his required time on base over the next five years. Hailey Kops first ventured onto the rink at 3 years old under the tutelage of her mother, Lisa, a U.S. Figure Skating Association gold medalist. Within a few years...…

…38 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 faces&places O n Jan. 19, close to 250 members of Temple Shir Shalom joined in-person and online for their annual “Tikkun Olam-a-thon” — a day of social action celebrating both Jewish values and the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. From toddlers to octogenarian participants, there were projects for every age benefitting 10 different local orga- nizations. Projects ranged from making peanut butter and jelly...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 39 T he JCC Maccabi Games are back. Or, perhaps more appropriately, starting again 40 years after they began. After an unprecedented two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Olympic-style sports, cultural and social event for Jewish teens ages 13-16 will return this summer in San Diego. It appears 22 Detroit athletes will attend, perhaps a few more, a steep drop in attendance from previous ...…

…40 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 Antonio. In 2011, 31 Detroit teens went to Israel, 42 went to Philadelphia and 26 went to Springfield, Massachusetts. In the two years prior to Detroit being a Maccabi Games host in 2019, 59 Detroit teens went to Miami in 2017 and 58 went to Orange County (California) in 2018. About 70 to 75 Detroit athletes and artists were expected to participate in the 2020 Maccabi Games before they were canceled by the ...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 41 E very year I am amazed at the lessons in sensitivity that the Torah teaches us in this Torah portion. One would think that the Torah would begin its laws (mishpatim), given at Sinai, regarding the High Holidays or the service in the Tabernacle or the requirement to tithe, etc.; but it first chooses to discuss the unsavory person who is a thief and needs to be sold into servitude. The Torah is worried a...…

…42 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 W illiam Ury, found- er of the Harvard Program of Negotiation, tells a marvelous story in one of his books. A young American, living in Japan to study aikido, was sitting one afternoon in a train in the sub- urbs of Tokyo. The carriage was half empty. There were some moth- ers with children and elderly people going shopping. Then, at one of the stations, the doors opened, and a man staggered into the ca...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 43 there to offer help when others are suffering. And so it has proved to be. There were Jews helping Gandhi in his struggle for Indian independence; Martin Luther King in his efforts for civil rights for African Americans; Nelson Mandela in his campaign to end apartheid in South Africa. An Israeli medical team is usually one of the first to arrive whenever and wherever there is a natural disaster today. The ...…

…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 Congregation 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 Israel Sy...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 45 Shomrey Emunah Southfield (248) 559-1533 congregation-shomrey- emunah-105705.square.site The Shul-Chabad Lubavitch West Bloomfield (248) 788-4000 theshul.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 Israel Lansing (517) 882-0049 kehillatisrael.net Congrega...…

…46 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 46 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 ARTS&LIFE THEATER O n March 11, 2020, casting for the workshop reading of the musical An Officer and a Gentleman, The Musical was a go. And then Broadway shut down the next day. In April 2020, the first script reading of An Officer and a Gentleman was moved from in-person to Zoom. “ And then the world went silent,” said Dan Lipton, An Officer and a Gentleman music supervisor, arrang...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 47 Details: Performance times for An Officer and a Gentleman appearing Feb. 1-13, 2022, at the Fisher Theatre, located at 3011 W. Grand Blvd. in Detroit are Tuesday through Saturday evening performances at 8 p.m., Saturday & Sunday matinees at 2 p.m., Sunday evening performance at 7:30 p.m. and an open captioned performance on Sunday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $39 and include facility and park...…

…48 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 T he three members of the Corn Potato String Band began playing fun country music together in 2012, but it’s been almost three years since they’ve been able to appear in person as a trio. With entertainment venues opening again, they’re glad to resume taking their song styl- ings around Michigan with an appearance Thursday, Feb. 10, at The Ark in Ann Arbor. Sensing their energy geared up, the three dubbed...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 49 by the late famed fiddler Kenny Baker. McCaw does “Washington and Lee Swing,” a jazz version early on per- formed by Louis Armstrong. “We love to revel in the history and connection to the past, but we’re also very much about entertainment and humor,” explained Lewis, whose group has appeared in and out of the U.S. “It’s funny how we’ll find a song that’s been played by some kind of hillbilly string ...…

…50 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 ARTS&LIFE BOOK REVIEW Y udi Levine, a native Detroiter who now lives in Texas, has written a lively, funny, read- able, informative book about what could be a forbidding topic — legal thinking in the Talmud. This book is not for everyone, though. However, if you fit into the target audi- ence, you will certainly want to read his book, Are You Sure? (Volume 1) How Chazakahs Guide Us Through the Unknown (...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 51 thinking do not often con- sider what Kanye West did when presenting an award to Taylor Swift at the 2009 Video Music Awards — interrupting her presenta- tion to imply that Beyonce deserved the award. Levine judges Kanye West’s opinion correct — Beyonce deserved the award — but the action inappropriate. Levine uses this incident to illuminate the complex Talmudic discussion of a Kohen who seizes the agri- c...…

…52 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 MYSTERY IN 8 ACTS; BETTY CELEBRATED; GAME-CHANGING VACCINE? AT&T STAR UPDATE The Afterparty is an Apple+ series that premieres on Friday, Jan. 28. It centers on a murder mystery at a high school reunion. Each one of the series’ eight episodes features a retelling of the same night from a different character’s perspective. Each episode has its own unique visual style and film genre to match the teller’s ...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 53 SOULFUL YOGA 10 AM, JAN. 29 Adat Shalom Synagogue invites you to join Rabbi Aaron Bergman and yoga instructor Mindy Eisenberg. Connect body and soul as they apply the wisdom of Torah to the gentle practice of yoga. No yoga experience is necessary. There is no fee to participate. For questions, contact 248- 851-5100. SHALOM SHABBAT 10:30 AM, JAN. 29 Adat Shalom Synagogue invites you to join Hazzan Dan Gross...…

…54 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 A s we have found ourselves at home more and more, many of us have turned to cooking things for ourselves that we’ d usually buy without a second thought. For me, such an item has been yogurt; after making a batch, you suddenly realize that the process is so easy and so straightforward that you won’t need to shop for yogurt again. (You still will, but … you know.) The most important note is to keep...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 55 N early two full years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of Detroit-area Jewish families requiring food assistance is still near the highest it’s ever been — and, for the second year in a row, there’s a way you can help. Now through Jan. 31, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit’s Women’s Philanthropy Tikkun Olam Volunteers (TOV) are holding their “Winter Soup Drive” to benefit Yad Ezra. The volun...…

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…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 57 LENORE. N. BERON, 82, of West Bloomfield, died Jan. 13, 2022. She is sur- vived by her daughter, Rochelle Wetstein; son, Eric Wetstein; grandchildren, Angelo Colella, Hannah Colella, Isabelle Colella and Amanda Wetstein. Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. LOUIS BROWN, 79, of Royal Oak, died Jan. 12, 20...…

…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 58 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 continued on page 60 c. 1985 SUSAN QUINLAN FELDSTEIN, 77, of Bloomfield Hills, died Jan. 15, 2022. Susan was born in Chicago, Ill. She graduated from Shrine High School in 1962, Wayne State University in 1966 and Wayne State Law School (cum laude) in 1973. She was a brilliant attor- ney, a lifelong Detroiter, a feminist pioneer, a passion- ate lover of dogs and, most impo...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 59 Judaism embraces all facets of life . . . including death. Trust us to assist you with dignity and grace. Yeshiva Beth Yehudah eshiva Beth Yehudah expresses its heartfelt and deepest condolences to the family of expresses its heartfelt and deepest condolences to the family of Lois Shiffman Lois Shiffman a”h a”h The Yeshiva has dedicated the learning for this month by our students The Yeshiva has dedicated the lear...…

…60 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY continued from page 58 Dr. Michael Samson; sons and daughters-in-law, Rob and Julie Samson, and Danny and Tami Samson; grandchildren, Jordan, Charlie, Olivia, Abby, Josie, Leo and Henry Samson; sister and brother-in-law, Ruth and Lawrence Daniels; brother and sister-in-law, Dr. Mark Selitsky and Dr. Orit Szwarcman; sis- ter-in-law and brother-in-law, Barbara and Dr. Michael Sitr...…

…JANUARY 27 • 2022 | 61 D avid Kahan, 93, of Bloomfield Township and Highland Beach, Fla., beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grand- father, passed away on Jan. 8, 2022. He was born in Gheorgheni, Transylvania, one of six chil- dren born to Moshe Chaim and Raizel Toba. In the spring of 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz with his parents, younger brother, Hersch Leib, and sister, Chaya Sara. Only he survived the ...…

…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 62 | JANUARY 27 • 2022 An Odious UN Resolution L ast month, Dec. 16, 2021, marked the 30th anniversary of the revoking of the odious United Nations resolution 3379. Adopted by the UN’s general assem- bly on Nov. 10, 1975, the resolution “deter- mined” that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” Think...…

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