… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 25 PHOTOS BY ALEX SHERMAN ARTS&LIFE ON THE COVER What They Do in the Newlyweds Jonathan Barkan and Ariel Fisher put a Jewish lens on horror fi lms. GEORGE ELKIND CONTRIBUTING WRITER PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALEX SHERMAN M any couples have a meet-cute. Jonathan Barkan and Ariel Fisher’ s was a literal horror story. The Ann Arbor residents met by chance in 2018, when they were writers and horror film aficionados visit...…
…ARTS&LIFE group in Toronto. The funeral was the following morning, and the overnight shooting schedule wore on her. But surrounded by strangers, she didn’ t speak about it for most of the night. Barkan, noticing something was wrong, worked to create a friendly atmosphere on set. He played games between takes to pass the time and peppered Fisher with jokes over the shoot’ s long hours. “ Ariel realized that I wasn’ t exactly a cre...…
…continued on page 28 Fisher said. “My dad and my brother were watching Jaws, and I have vivid memories of doing this puzzle with my mom but hearing Quint getting eaten in the other room. ” Later, Jaws acquired a ritualistic signifi- cance. “I started watching it so much in my early teens that I would watch it to go to sleep, ” she said. “It’ s like my comfort movie. Somehow the screams of people being eaten by a giant great white shark...…
…28 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 ARTS&LIFE continued from page 27 another Jewish woman in the community. “Being a woman in this world is hard. It’ s not welcom- ing, it’ s highly judgmental, deeply competitive and laced with a lot of really problematic engagement, ” Fisher said. “I spent a lot of time when I was first starting out wrestling with the other men in the industry. ” Fisher also identifies as pansexual and says that, com- bined ...…
… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 29 H oward Schwartz enjoys the humor of political cartoons, has amassed a collection of original drawings to characterize presidential campaigns and decided to put them on view. Although he intended to display the draw- ings in a gallery at the time of a national election, the pandemic changed his plans. Like so many others with artistic interests, Schwartz has turned to a digital platform. The cartoons, kep...…
…30 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 ance of information is done in the viewer’ s mind, ” Schwartz explained about the focus on images. “The expression of the artist speaks to the feeling the viewer gets when appreciat- ing what the artist is trying to convey. Bush and Dukakis, for example, are shown in a pretty tough fight, and that conveys the spirit of the election. ” CLASSIC BATTLES Among the cartoons are those capturing Dwight Eisenhower ...…
…STREAMING CATCH-UP; JEWISH DOCTORS WHO ARE COVID-19 EXPERTS On the Rocks is a “drame- dy” which opened in a few theaters on Oct. 2 (to be Oscar-eligible) and began streaming on Apple TV Plus on Oct. 23. Reviews were mostly favorable, with a few raves. But there were some thumbs-down by respected critics. Rashida Jones, 44, co-stars as a wife who sus- pects her husband (Marlon Wayans) is cheating. Jones’ father (Bill Murray) insis...…
…32 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 VIRTUAL NIGHTNOTES 7 PM, OCT. 30 Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings will present trom- bonist David Jackson with David Ammer on trumpet and James Libbie on the organ. For virtual concert tickets and info: mohan@ art-ops.org or 248-559- 2095. FALL FAMILY OUTING 11 AM, NOV. 1 NEXTGen Detroit pres- ents this event at Franklin Community Park, 32301 Franklin Road, Franklin. Cost $5, register by Oct. 29; Mimi Marcus, ...…
… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 33 B y the time the COVID- 19 pandemic hit America in January, Kate Zenlea of Huntington Woods had been working for Henry Ford Health System’ s (HFHS) Global Health Initiative (GHI) for about three years. Now, she is the managing director of the hospital’ s Phase III clinical vaccine trial for the biotech company Moderna. Zenlea had never worked on a clinical trial before. “When I was selected to be the mana...…
…34 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 type of VIP list. We made sure we were prioritizing minorities who came from our community.” Black enrollment, especially, has been low in the COVID vaccine trials, because of the community’ s mistrust in the American health system after such racist medical incidents as the Tuskegee experiment. When the president of Dillard University, a historically Black college in New Orleans, sent out a letter urging th...…
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…36 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 G rowing up in Farmington Hills, Benjamin Pinsky, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pathology and medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, as well as medical director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory for Stanford Health Care and Stanford Children’ s Health, didn’ t necessarily have an interest in studying the behavior of viruses. All he knew was that cell biology fascinated him. It was after h...…
… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 37 A ndy Langwald was in need of a kidney donor when he found an unexpected match on Facebook. The 53-year-old West Bloomfield man, who had devel- oped kidney failure at the age of 12 and received a kidney from his mother, Annette Langwald- Kozin, a perfect match, now had a blockage in his ureter that was causing health concerns. He was told by his doctors, after a round of unsuccessful procedures to fix the i...…
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…40 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 SOUL OF BLESSED MEMORY LARRY BERMAN, 74, of Southfield, died Oct. 17, 2020. He is survived by his wife, Mary Berman; his chil- dren, Andrea Berman and her partner, Christy Wegener, and Franklin Berman; sister-in-law, Marilyn Berman. Mr. Berman was the devoted son of the late Clara and the late Frank Berman; the loving brother of the late Jack Berman; and the special uncle of the late Stuart Berman. Inter...…
… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 41 continued on page 42 M AIDA SUE PORTNOY, 80, died on Oct. 19, 2020. Active for many years in Jewish communal affairs, Maida was the first female president of Junior Division of Federation and spent many years working for the Detroit Jewish Book Fair and the Detroit Jewish Music Festival. She also had a mid-life career as a journalist and wrote hundreds of arti- cles for the Oakland Press, Michigan Wo...…
…42 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 SOUL OF BLESSED MEMORY continued from page 41 STUART RICE, 78, of Farmington Hills, died Oct. 18, 2020. He is survived by his beloved wife, Laura Rice; son and daughter-in- law, David Rice and Noreen Bucknum; grandchild, Maggie Bucknum-Rice; sis- ter, Susan Rice; many loving cousins, nieces, nephews, other family members and friends. Mr. Rice was the brother of the late Stephen (late Ellen) Rice. Inte...…
… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 43 continued on page 44 brother, Martin Figlen. She is also survived by her devoted caregivers, Josephine and Lola, and the caring staff at Fleischman. Mrs. Shcolnek was the beloved wife of the late Saul Shcolnek; the devoted daugh- ter of the late Louis and the late Sarah Figlen; and the dear sister-in-law of the late Anita Figlen. Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Ame...…
…44 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 SOUL OF BLESSED MEMORY continued from page 43 Mr. Zucker was the beloved husband for 58 years of the late Geraldine Zucker; the loving brother of the late Lou (the late Diane and the late Marilyn) Zucker, the late Harry and the late Leah Zucker, the late Morrie Zucker, and the late Sylvia and the late David Cooperman; the dear brother-in-law of the late Donald Klein and the late James Sniderman. Interm...…
… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 45 T he walls were paneled in heavy wood … The chairs and bar stools comfortable … the steaks and chops generous. The crowds of people who came to Berman’ s Chop House were big- time athletes, newspaper men and women, vis- iting celebrities and many sales- men … A sort of New York’ s Toots Shor’ s. Through the years, Berman’ s had built a nation- al reputation on steaks and chops, which were about 85 percen...…
…46 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org A Tribute to the Peace Corps O ne of the most successful service programs in American history debuted 60 years ago on Oct. 14, 1960. Sen. John F. Kennedy, candidate for president of the United States, stood on the steps of the Michigan Union on the campus of the University of Michigan, Ann Arb...…
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…RELATIONSHIPS FORGED IN OUR COMMUNITY JULIA pulver,rn FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE LEARN MORE WWW.JULIAPULVER.COM \ @VOTEPULVER I am a fierce ally of the Jewish community and am honored to have the endorsement of the Jewish Democratic Caucus. I was raised as a Unitarian Universalist, where we believe in the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Through this, I’ve built many interfaith relationships and coalitions. Througho...…
