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…20 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 OUR COMMUNITY T he 35th Annual Ann Arbor Jewish Book Festival is right around the corner. From Nov. 6-18, the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor will bring 31 authors, six in-person events, and 17 virtual events to the Ann Arbor community and beyond. From children’s books to memoirs to social science, there is something for everyone to enjoy at the festival. All events are free an...…
…A special group of seven volunteer judges will be reviewing submissions and choosing the 36 winners. Honorees will receive free three-year subscriptions to the JN and be featured in a February 2023 issue. GO ONLINE TO THEJEWISHNEWS.COM AND NOMINATE THEM BY DECEMBER 12, 2022 JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT Do you know someone who gives of themselves to the community in robust — and often thankless — ways? Someone you admire and aspire to...…
…22 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 OUR COMMUNITY A dat Shalom Synagogue is cel- ebrating two of its most important figures. The synagogue is having a b’nai mitzvah celebration on Nov. 6, recognizing Rabbi Aaron Bergman and Hazzan Daniel Gross’ 13 years at Adat Shalom. The special evening will fea- ture a rare stand- up comedy rou- tine by Bergman and a concert with Gross and The Cliff Monear Trio. Everyone is invited to a des- sert after...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 23 J ewish Family Service is holding its 26th Annual Fall Fix Up on Sunday, Nov. 6. Volunteers will help rake leaves and win- terize homes of older adults served by Jewish Family Service. While the event is large- ly similar each year, Alyah Al-Azem, JFS volunteer ser- vices coordinator, believes this year is a little different as there hasn’t been a full-fledged event since 2019. Volunteers will be gather-...…
…24 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 F ounded in 1896, Petoskey’s Temple B’nai Israel (TBI) began with local Jewish merchants who served the many tourists that flocked to the area in the summer months. TBI has maintained a small- town, tight-knit family feel ever since. The Reform congregation has been in its current location in down- town Petoskey since the 1930s and has worked to expand its northern Michigan campus, which includes two buildin...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 25 the school year. For now, TBI has contracted cantorial soloist Gabrielle Pescador. During the school year, TBI offers monthly Shabbat services and Torah study. TBI always has community events throughout the year, including a community breaking of the fast, com- munity seder and many events around the holidays. The Temple B’nai Israel Religious School meets on alternate Sundays during the regular school year. C...…
…26 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 A lana Knoppow, 36, of Ann Abor was nom- inated by Hospice of Michigan (HOM) for her dedicated service to the organi- zation as a volunteer program manager during and after her work hours. “ Alana has been an employ- ee and a volunteer with the Hospice of Michigan for almost 10 years now, ” said Alison Wagner, the statewide director of volunteer services and com- plementary therapies at Hospice of Michigan....…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 27 L ynn Darmon’s life’s work is to help people become more aware of the connection we have to spirit and our loved ones once they leave this phys- ical world. “They are here with us. They contin- ue to stand by our side, help us move forward, to let us know that they’re with us,” she said. “Energy doesn’t die. Consciousness does not die. It just goes to higher planes. They still have the abil- ity to connect with...…
…28 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 I t’s called the Inter- Congregational Men’s Club Summer Softball League. But that hasn’t stopped a few women from playing with the guys in the league through the years. Temple Shir Shalom No. 3 has had women on its roster all three years of the team’s exis- tence, fulfilling its mission, said player-manager Joe Lipman, to have a diverse team. Two women — Amy Benson and Jamie Elkins — played full-time this ...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 29 AARON BENSON — It beat a team from the Koufax Division, the next highest division in the three-division league, for the first time. In fact, Shir Shalom No. 3 went 3-2 against Koufax Division teams. — It beat a Temple Israel team for the first time. In the final week of the regular sea- son, Shir Shalom No. 3 beat Koufax Division team Temple Israel No. 3 12-8. “We would have lost that game by eight or nine r...…
…30 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 T ishrei is the first month of the calendar year, which coincides with the peak of Michigan’s agricultural harvest,” Alex Rosenberg says, standing in front of the small blue sign that marked the beginning of the year. Alex is the farm manager at the nearly 1-acre Farber Farm on the Tamarack Camps campus in Ortonville. We walk toward the next sign, while she tells me more about the farm’s Calendar Garden. ...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 31 THE BASIC QUICK PICKLE RECIPE Makes approximately 2 pints. Ingredients 1 lb. fresh vegetables, cleaned and trimmed 2 to 3 sprigs fresh herbs, such as dill, thyme or rosemary 1 to 2 tsps. of whole spices, such as corian- der, black peppercorns or mustard seeds 2 cloves of garlic, smashed or sliced 1 cup vinegar, such as white, red wine, cider or rice 1 cup water 1 Tbsp. kosher salt 1 Tbsp. sugar Directions 1. Wash t...…
…32 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 T he Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity Foundation, led by Elisha and Marion Wiesel, will adopt a hybrid approach that will not only grant funds but also work with organizations directly as partners, offering access to innovative thinking partners and acting as an emblematic megaphone to champion their cause. The Foundation’s recalibrated grantmaking program will seek to fund organizations that embody...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 33 J ewish Federation’s NEXTGen Detroit hon- ored its Ben-Gurion Society (BGS) members with an evening cocktail party at FRAMEbar in Hazel Park on Sept. 22. “BGS locally and nationally recognizes young adults ages 21 to 45 who demonstrate commu- nity leadership and give a gift of $1,000 or more to their local Federation’s Annual Campaign, ” according to NEXTGen Detroit’s leaders. “BGS was founded on the prin...…
…34 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 NEXT DOR M oishe House of Royal Oak (MoHoRo) celebrated Rosh Hashanah with their community this year with a traditional tashlich ceremony at the Franklin Cider Mill in Bloomfield Hills, on Sept. 28. “ A group of us gathered together for a tashlich hangout where we talked about the meaning of tashlich and the 10-day period of teshuvah, ” Sophie Dwoksin, a resident at MoHoRo explains. “We also talked about ...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 35 A s we finish the last week in October, which is also National Dental Hygiene Month, Olivia Zabel, R.D.H, a hygienist from the Metro Detroit Jewish community, shares a few tips to help spread the impor- tance of oral health. “Electric toothbrush- es are key, ” Zabel said. “[But] I always tell my patients I don’t care what you use as long as you do something when it comes to flossing. ” For those who celebr...…
…36 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 HEALTH J Screen, a national nonprofit organization offering genetic testing and counseling, is partnering with actress and activist Fran Drescher, president of the Cancer Schmancer movement, to urge the public to learn about the power of proactive genetic screening for the prevention or early detection of breast cancer during October National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. “One in 12 adults has a ge...…
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…38 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 faces&places PHOTOGRAPHY BY RON LIEBERMAN, LIEBERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY INC. A t a time when antisemitism is rampant and support for Israel and the IDF is challenged, Friends of the IDF (FIDF), an orga- nization dedicated to the wellbeing of the soldiers of Israel, brought together members of the Michigan community in a strong show of solidarity for the brave young men and women of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)...…
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…40 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 C habad of Bingham Farms spent an evening preparing for the High Holidays with a pre-Rosh Hashanah Women’s Evening event on Sept. 19. Local Jewish women gathered for a cooking demo and some Rosh Hashansh inspiration on the theme “New year, new me? How will this Rosh Hashanah be different?” The Women’s Evening motto is “Pampering Body and Soul.” The events are inspirational, fun and enjoyable. Lauren Coh...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 41 On Sunday, Sept. 18, JARC host- ed its annual fundraising event, welcoming nearly 500 people to M1 Concourse’s state-of-the-art facility in Pontiac to raise funds for the nonprofit. JARC serves adults with developmental disabilities in Metro Detroit in 45 locations, including 24-hour care in group homes, independent living settings for adults, and respite services for children, teens and young adults. Atte...…
…42 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 faces&places Etta-ble Art is a monthly program for people who are served by JARC, a nonprofit organization serving adults with developmental disabilities. The classes, begun as virtual events in August 2020 during the pandemic to make edible art creations, are held monthly to allow for participation from as many JARC homes as possible. Creatively named Etta- ble Art, the popular class is led by Etta McD...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 43 Hillel Day School was excited to participate in Adat Shalom’s Fall Family Fun Fest in September. Dozens of kids got into the Rosh Hashanah spirit at the Hillel table by decorating miniature honey jars with holiday stickers, adding a honey bee charm and a honey dripper. Honey sticks were a sweet touch and fan favorite. “It was so much fun to be out in the community at Adat Shalom making holiday crafts a...…
…44 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 MAZEL TOV! Lily Dayna Applebaum, daughter of Jennifer Kaplan and Ron Applebaum, will be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. She will be joined in celebration by her sister Allie. Lily is the loving grandchild of Susan and Danny Kaplan, and Lorraine and Howard Applebaum. She is a student at Norup International School in Berkley. Lily’s most meani...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 45 Living With Uncertainty T his week’s portion is one of the most iconic and well known of all the parshiyot in the entire Torah. Even the youngest of preschool children know the story of Noah, a “righ- teous man, blameless in his generation, who walked with God” (Genesis 6:9). Due to lawlessness, wrongdoing and rampant corruption among the people, God decided to destroy the Earth by flood; before doing...…
…46 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 K ing Solomon famously said: “There is a season for everything, and there is a time for everything under the heaven.” (Kohelet 3:1). Sometimes we need time to introspect, reflect and draw inner strength. And sometimes we need to go out and engage and make an impact on the world. This need to find a balance between our inward and outward selves is a lesson we can derive from this week’s Torah portion, the ...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 47 He says the Ark’s higher purpose was to create an environment pervaded with chessed, lovingkindness. Noah and his family spent virtually the entire duration of their time on the Ark looking after the animals, and so the entire focus of the Ark was chessed. The sheer scale of feeding and cleaning and caring is difficult to imagine. And there weren’t many people to share the load. Rav Gifter explains that contai...…
…Synagogue Directory METRO DETROIT CONSERVATIVE Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills (248) 851-5100 adatshalom.org Congregation Beth Ahm West Bloomfield (248) 851-6880 cbahm.org Congregation Beth Shalom Oak Park (248) 547-7970 congbethshalom.org Beth Tephilath Moses Mt. Clemens (586) 996-3138 bethtephilathmoses.com B’nai Israel Synagogue West Bloomfield (248) 432-2729 bnaiisraelwb.org Congregation B’nai Moshe West Blo...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 49 Temple Emanu-El Oak Park (248) 967-4020 emanuel-mich.org Temple Israel West Bloomfield (248) 661-5700 temple-israel.org Temple Kol Ami West Bloomfield (248) 661-0040 tkolami.org Temple Shir Shalom West Bloomfield (248) 737-8700 shirshalom.org REFORM/RENEWAL Congregation Shir Tikvah Troy (248) 649-4418 shirtikvah.org SECULAR/HUMANISTIC Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Metro Detroit Farmingto...…
…50 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 ARTS&LIFE JEWISH BOOK FAIR B roadway stars light up this year’s Detroit Jewish Book Fair, Nov. 1-13, hosted at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield, where some guest speakers will appear in person and others will make their presentations virtually. On Patron Night, Saturday, Nov. 5, actor-comedian Harvey Fierstein, will discuss his memoir, I Was Better Last Night, in a live virtual presentation...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 51 with Karen Gordon, who leads the Detroit JCC Maccabi Delegation. Book Club Night, starting at 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, offers dinner and an in-person presentation of The Matchmaker’s Gift by Lynda Cohen Loigman. Lunch with two speakers happens at noon Thursday, Nov. 10, as Amanda Elliot discusses Sadie on a Plate and Jen Maxfield summarizes reporting experiences in More After the Break: A Reporter Returns to...…
…52 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 ARTS&LIFE JEWISH BOOK FAIR M ark Eden Horowitz has worked at the Library of Congress for 31 years, going from a music specialist to a senior music specialist with a four-part job — acquiring collections, processing collections, handling references and taking on special projects. When Horowitz encountered the massive amount of letters held by famed lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, he knew there was something spe...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 53 I n 1970, when he was 20 years old, Howard Hertz hitchhiked from Detroit to New York. He bought a one-way ticket on a charter flight to London, where he bought a motorcycle. For the next six months, he traveled throughout Europe, North Africa and Israel — always with a harmonica in his pocket. To this day, Hertz never leaves home without his harmonica. Whether it’s in his car, briefcase or backpack, he’s a...…
…54 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 continued from page 53 has included authors, musicians and record labels such as Elmore Leonard, Marilyn Manson, George Clinton, Insane Clown Posse, The Bass Brothers, Thornetta Davis, Marcus Belgrave, Atlantic Records, The Romantics and Eminem (aka Marshall Mathers). Hertz has been a board member of The Marshall Mathers Foundation for the past 20 years. The signed 8 Mile movie poster from Eminem in Hertz’s ...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 55 Howard’s involvement and contribution,” says music journalist and Detroit Music Awards Co-Founder Gary Graff. Hertz and Graff recently took home an Emmy Award for being executive producers of the 30th Anniversary Detroit Music Awards, held virtually last spring and available online at www. detroitmusicawards.net. The pair also worked on Nosh Gen, an event for the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan. Hel...…
…56 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 J ulie Smith Yolles can recall being a fifth-grader and taking religion class- es at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. For a dramatic program being planned by the synagogue, she wore her brother’s robe and stood on a desk to por- tray Moses. Smith Yolles loved the acting experience and, in the following years, went on to appear in professional and community the- aters while taking part in coaching sessi...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 57 Dearborn and in 2011 for the Two Muses Theatre in West Bloomfield. Smith Yolles, who lives in Bingham Farms, acted while attending Southfield-Lathrup High School but skipped theater as a student at the University of Michigan. With a full load of courses and job responsibilities, she had no time for the stage. After college, she found time for theater, and her roles have included Miep in The Diary of Anne Fra...…
…58 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 A “PRETTY” JEWISH MOVIE; MORE HALLOWEEN MOVIES AND A SWEET TREAT Armageddon Time was originally set to open in theaters on Oct. 22. This explains why the film’s stars, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, appeared last week on talk shows to promote the film. Well, it was “yanked” at the last minute and will open in “limited theaters” on the 28th and open wide on Nov. 4. The film was directed and written by J...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 59 CAREGIVER SUPPORT 1:30-2:30 PM, OCT. 27 Virtual caregiver support group for individuals who are care partners for those living with cognitive changes including various types of dementia. Contact Dorothy Moon, Brown Adult Day Program social worker, for Zoom link and more information: 248-233-4392, dmoon@geshermi.org. IN CONCERT 8-9:30 PM, OCT. 28 The Chamber Music Society of Detroit will present the Mer...…
…60 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 physical health. The nav- igators at Jewish Family Service will answer all your Affordable Care Act ques- tions and help you enroll, whether through the Healthcare Marketplace or through Medicaid. For insurance by Jan. 1, you must apply by Dec. 15. For information or to schedule an appointment, contact navigators at 248-592- 2662 or navigation@ jfsdetroit.org. KEYS TO WELLNESS 7 PM, NOV. 2 Hadassah Greater...…
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…I t is rare that one can say attending a funeral was an uplifting experience. Yet the funeral last month for Judah Samet — teacher of Torah at his Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, possessor of a unique and vigorous voice and sense of humor, veteran of the paratroop division of the Israeli army, lover of Golden Grahams, generous tipper and possessor of what he termed a “Bergen-Belsen stomach” — was exactly that, because remem...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 65 to hug their mothers. It was Judah’s 81st birthday when the president of the United States led both houses of Congress in singing to him at the State of the Union address, watched by mil- lions on national television. He was a guest of first lady Melania Trump; who knows how many Americans were educated about the Holocaust and antisemitism just by hearing a small snippet of the story of Judah’s life. Elizabe...…
…66 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY VLADIMIR DIAMAND, 78, of Farmington Hills, died Oct. 15, 2022. He is survived by his wife, Larisa Diamand; daughters and son-in-law, Lidia Diamand and Roman Kuchersky, Irina Diamand; sister and brother-in-law, Yelena Khaykin and Jacob Levinson; grandchil- dren, Andrian Kuchersky, Gabriel Kuchersky, Mikayla Kuchersky. Contributions may be made to Jewish Federation of Metro De...…
…OCTOBER 27 • 2022 | 67 continued on page 68 Harrison, Allison, and Annabel Green. Dear brother of Howard Green and his wife Paulene Reynolds, and Joan Green. Loving grandfather of Darryl (Staci) Goodwin and their children Noah and Brody; Justin (Jessica) Goodwin and their children Yona “Yoni”, Ari, and Talia; Zachary (Arielle) Goodwin and their children Gavriela “Gavi” and Natan; Alexander (Samantha) Prog and their child Eli; a...…
…continued from page 67 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 68 | OCTOBER 27 • 2022 parents, Sarah and William Rapaport. Interment was at Hebrew Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Angela Hospice, 14100 Newburgh Road, Livonia, MI 48154, ange- lahospice.org; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. DANIEL NEWMAN, 84, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 17, 2022. He was the beloved hus- band of the late Ela...…
