…JULY 29 • 2021 | 3 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-9 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 10 Building Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Summit connects young Detroiters with work opportunities. 11 On to Israel Two students awarded scholarships for gap year in Israel. 12 Come on Back Young Israel of Oak Park receives a grant to bring members together. 14 Helping People Get Work JVS provides janitorial trainings for those with disabili...…
…4 | JULY 29 • 2021 guest column Living Jewish Values at Haven Editor’s Note: Jessica Caminker was part of JFS’ 100 Mensches Essay Contest a year ago, won, and was given a stipend to par- ticipate on the Haven’s Youth Advisory Board. She has written the attached essay about her experience. A s a result of my par- ticipation in Jewish Family Service’s “100 Mensches” essay competition, I was offered the unique oppor- tunity to apply ...…
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…6 | JULY 29 • 2021 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 changes to: Detro...…
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…8 | JULY 29 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY O pen any American news source, and America’s “culture wars” dominate the headlines. With conservatives on one side and liberals on the other, we vilify each other as if in preparation for a civil war. However, not only does Judaism offer us guidance in addressing the culture wars of our day, but Judaism also demands that we engage each other especially when we disagree with each other....…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 9 that helps stock a [West Bank] supermarket with those prod- ucts susceptible to boycotts. Even the European Union doesn’t ban the sale of its prod- ucts to the settlements. ” Regardless of where one sits on the political spectrum, Ben & Jerry’s has crossed a line that repulses much of the main- stream Jewish community. PICKING ON ISRAEL The second way that line has been crossed is a familiar one — singling out the ...…
…10 | JULY 29 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY E very year, up to 300 Detroit youth ages 14-24 gather to discuss the state of Detroit and what the future of the city might hold. At the Detroit Youth Summit Conference, held by the youth leadership and career development program L!FE Leaders Inc., and various Detroit-based partners, young people meet and learn from experts, business professionals and community leaders about career opportunities...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 11 she has been thinking about how to provide youth with career mentorship. “I’m a real believer in the youth voice, ” she explains, “and being able to navigate your own destiny. ” She says youth can pave the way to a successful career path through learning practical skills and understanding how the world evolves as it pertains to current affairs. “There are a lot of barriers to career entry for a lot of people, ” ...…
…OUR COMMUNITY T he guideline wording was simple. Submit an entry of “any initiative, program or project which will re-engage community mem- bers in synagogue life.” Three-hundred submis- sion-reviews later, 35 congre- gations were sharing $100,000 in funding to implement their innovative ideas. Among them is one Michigan synagogue: Young Israel of Oak Park (YIOP). With the recent easing of COVID-19 restrictions, congregations worl...…
…14 | JULY 29 • 2021 A paid janitorial training program for Metro Detroiters with dis- abilities and other barriers to employment, operated by JVS Human Services, continues to provide local businesses with specialized cleaning skills essen- tial during the pandemic. At the same time, lives of participants in the eight-week program have been changed forever, with graduates gaining the ability to work part time or full time in a v...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 15 T ikkun olam means repair- ing the world, and Rabbi Marla Feldman calls for Jews and everyone who cares about the world to engage in social justice. Feldman is executive director of New York City-based Women of Reform Judaism. Look at the group’s website and see the God- embedded actions of tikkun olam — from American race relations to poverty to women’s repro- ductive rights and genocide and to the creation of...…
…16 | JULY 29 • 2021 A n ice cream social event was held on the Jewish Senior Life campus in West Bloomfield, with residents of the Marvin & Betty Danto Health Care Center, Fleischman Residence and Hechtman and Meer Apartments attending with support from the Ella Baker Lecture and Music Series Fund. Ella Baker was a resident who spent many years at Hechtman, then Fleischman and finally at Danto. In her memory, Ella’s daughte...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 17 DANNY SCHWARTZ Fleischman Residence and the Brown Memory Care Pavilion at JSL, says that while music brings tons of joy to the residents, simply being together does the trick even more. “Throughout the past year and a half, we’ve had con- certs when residents have been in quarantine in their rooms with strolling musi- cians, but it doesn’t bring the same joy if they’re not able to enjoy it with their neighbor...…
…18 | JULY 29 • 2021 S he was just married and new to Detroit when Wisconsin native Debra Silver got a job at JVS Human Services back in 1982. She thought it would be for a couple of years. Instead, the social worker turned career counselor — who admits she knew nothing about career counseling when she first started — forged a 38-year career with the agency. During that time, she has guided the working lives of more than 1,000 l...…
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…20 | JULY 29 • 2021 JOIN program, an acronym for the Jeannette and Oscar Cook Jewish Occupational Intern Program. This unique opportunity provides paid summer internships for Jewish students to gain work experience, attend educational sem- inars and learn about the Jewish community, developing lifelong connections. JOIN began in 1973 and ran until 1980 when the recession in Detroit forced its suspension. In 1987, however, Silver and h...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 21 We at Jewish Family Service offer our heartfelt condolences for the loss of this giant in the Jewish community. His memory and legacy will live on through us all. jfsdetroit.org Graham A. Orley Graham A. Orley was a man who put family first. was a man who put family first. Including ours. Including ours. …
…22 | JULY 29 • 2021 M ike Rothenberg would love to add his name to a lengthy list that includes Hank Greenberg, Joe Ginsburg, Brad Ausmus, Gabe Kapler and Ian Kinsler. The list is Jewish ballplayers who played for the Detroit Tigers. Rothenberg took his first step toward joining the list July 13 when he was selected by the Tigers in the 12th round of the annu- al Major League Baseball Draft. The 345th pick overall, he was taken on t...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 23 in the past how he swings, ” Pleis said. “Both guys (Rothenberg and Crouch) are interesting. If they uptick a bit, they’ll turn themselves into good players. ” Rothenberg had a great career at Duke, where he appeared in 166 games in four seasons, start- ing 157. The Blue Devils achieved unprecedented success with him behind the plate, playing the NCAA tournament three straight times (2018, 2019 and 2021), makin...…
…24 | JULY 29 • 2021 ERETZ J eff Schreiber, 68, regales us with stories of his fierce Zionism and why Zeman’s seven-layer cake and seeing his son are the only things he misses about living in Detroit. Jeff and his wife, Faye, made aliyah 16 years ago and have never looked back. Jeff, an engineering technician, repairs special- ized computerized machinery. Q: Tell me how you got connected to Israel and became a Zionist. Jeff Schreib...…
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…26 | JULY 29 • 2021 MAZEL TOV! JUNE 28, 2021 Joshua and Michelle Pad of Berkley are thrilled to announce the birth of their son, Eli Raymond Pad. He is welcomed into the world by his grandparents Karen Pad, Robert Pad, and Alan and Judy Wormser. Great- grandparents are Barbara Becker, Helen Pad Urnovitz, Henry and Sandra Wormser, and Ellen Ziff. They honor Eli’s late great-grandfathers Raymond Becker, William Pad, Ernest Weiss and L...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 27 Meet Bernie Bernie is a Holocaust survivor whose children live out of state and hadn’t been able to visit since COVID. Once they felt comfortable traveling, they flew out to see him. And it became clear that their father’s needs had increased. Bernie had been relying on Jewish Family Service Jewish Family Service for transportation to his doctors’ appointments as well as for Kosher Meals on Wheels. But his kids notic...…
…28 | JULY 29 • 2021 I t is one of the most important words in Judaism — and also one of the least understood. Its two most famous occurrences are in last week’s parshah and this week’s: “Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one,” and “It shall come to pass if you surely listen to My commandments which I am commanding you today, to love the Lord your God and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul” — the openi...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 29 word shema. This may seem like a small difference, but it is, in fact, a huge one. For the Greeks, the ideal form of knowledge involved detachment. There is the one who sees, the subject, and there is that which is seen, the object, and they belong to two different realms. A person who looks at a painting or a sculpture or a play in a theater or the Olympic Games is not himself part of the art or the drama or the...…
…30 | JULY 29 • 2021 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 bethtephilathmose...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 31 The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Lodz Ghetto is a special exhibit based on a diary discovered in Auschwitz-Birkenau after WWII. Created by the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, Poland. Open now through December. An Unearthed Diary. An Unforgettable Story. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER • ZEKELMAN FAMILY CAMPUS 248.553.2400 • www.holocaustcenter.org Supported through the generosity of The Jewish Fund a...…
…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 Israel Lansing (517) 88...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 33 L auren Landman grew up in Michigan surrounded by a three-generation family of theater fans and community theater performers. In Chicago, an aunt and uncle (Naomi Landman and Neil Tobin) could be seen on professional stages. What Landman enjoyed most at age 6 seemed to fit in with her heritage and sur- roundings without ever chang- ing. A role as an orphan in a community theater production of Annie cemented her ...…
…34 | JULY 29 • 2021 a hard song to sing since it’s almost a tongue twister. Because the show is ensem- ble-focused, we sing most of the songs together, but each character gets a song to detail reasons for wanting to win the bee. ” Landman built her musical theater experience by appearing in school productions, first in the Walled Lake system and then at Detroit Country Day School. Summers were divid- ed between Interlochen Arts C...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 35 P roduction on Keith Famie’s Shoah Ambassadors Holocaust docu- mentary film continued July 15 at Tempermill Studios in Ferndale, as the Detroit Children’s Choir took part in a filming session of what will serve as the vocal tracks for the film’s final scene. The film has been in production for more than 18 months and is focused on educating the youth about the horrors and atrocities of the Holocaust through ambas...…
…36 | JULY 29 • 2021 BACK TO THE PAST, AGAIN; MR. 4 BILLION VIEWS The 2019 film Framing DeLorean had a short the- ater run and then found a home (2020) on Netflix, where it is still streaming (also now on Hulu). The film had some documen- tary-style material mixed in with many dramatic reenact- ments of critical moments in DeLorean’s life. Alec Baldwin played DeLorean and Josh Charles, now 49, played Bill Collins, the engineer who ...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 37 SPECIAL EXHIBIT OPENS JULY 29 The Holocaust Memorial Center will display “The Girl in the Diary: Searching for Rywka from the Lodz Ghetto.” 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills. Info: holocaustcenter.org; 248-553-2400. GIRLS NIGHT OUT 7-9 PM, JULY 29 NEXTGen Detroit will host D-I-Wine & Cupcakes at Pinspiration Berkely, 2733 Coolidge. An evening of vino, cupcake decorating (and eating) and the chance to ...…
…38 | JULY 29 • 2021 Y akov Fleysher made his first soup when he was just 5 years old. The owner and executive chef of West Bloomfield’s Bistro Le Bliss, which fuses traditional Eastern European fare with French cuisine, boiled orange peels with different ingredients. The then-5-year-old, who grew up in the former Soviet Union in a small city 20 miles outside of Riga, Latvia, called Ogre, fed the soup to his father. “My dad ate ...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 39 and classically trained chef has taken bits and pieces of different life experiences to shape the dishes and cooking style that he’s known for today. “You have to study your peo- ple, your customers, ” Fleysher explains. “You have to know what they want and what they’re look- ing for. “Everyone has different habits and different ways about food, ” he continues. “People used to tell me, ‘Why are you opening a rest...…
…40 | JULY 29 • 2021 clientele that includes some customers who sit down every week for a hot meal. Most popular on the menu are the West Bloomfield onion soup, whitefish meuniere and beef stroganoff, though a regularly rotating menu keeps things new. Yet for repeat cus- tomers, Fleysher has their favorite meals already simmering before they even take a seat. “You know who they are, what time they’re coming and what they’re going ...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 41 States in previous years. The family felt it was finally time to go, as the collapse of the Soviet Union left the repub- lics, including Latvia, in vari- ous states of chaos. “It was like hypothetically, if the United States collapsed into 50 different countries, ” Fleysher explains of the end of the Soviet era. “Everyone was grabbing whatever they could, because in the Soviet Union, everything belonged to the g...…
…DINING GUIDE EATS | DRINKS | SWEETS M etro Detroit is home to a variety of kosher-cer- tified eateries. From local pizza joints to upscale steakhouses, to even national breakfast chains, there’s something for nearly every tastebud when it comes to finding kosher-friendly meals in the area. With summer in full swing and many restaurants back open for in-person dining (or increased carryout options), these are the estab- lishments worth c...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 43 “OUR SESAME CHICKEN IS OUR MOST POPULAR ENTREE, WHICH IS CRISPY BATTERED CHICKEN TOSSED IN OUR HOUSE-MADE SWEET AND SAVORY SAUCE.” — CHEF CARI HERSKOVITZ continued on page 44 Jerusalem Pizza’s breadsticks and bagel trays, Jacobs adds, are also some of their biggest hits. WOK IN CARI OUT 15600 W 10 MILE ROAD, SOUTHFIELD As a clever play on owner and chef Cari Herskovitz’s name, Cantonese-American carryout r...…
…44 | JULY 29 • 2021 100% of dishes are made from scratch. “If I had to single out two dishes, I would say our ancient grain salad is a hot seller,” he explains. “It features a combination of savory and sweet and contains healthy ingredients while being glu- ten-free and vegan.” Another dish that guests enjoy, Shomer continues, is the cinnamon swirl French toast: “Our cinnamon swirl challah is made by our sis- ter company Dakota Br...…
…continued on page 46 CHAZZANO COFFEE ROASTERS 1737 E. NINE MILE ROAD, FERNDALE This Ferndale-based kosher coffee shop roasts 27 different specialty coffees every day. Owner Frank Lanzkron- Tamarazo says bestselling varieties include the choc- olate- and almond-fla- vored Mexico Chiapas, the blueberry- and cherry-infused Ethiopia Harrar (which also has notes of pipe tobacco and a red wine finish), and the pancake mix- and maple syr...…
…DINING GUIDE EATS | DRINKS | SWEETS continued from page 45 46 | JULY 29 • 2021 is serving up the popular Italian dessert Affogato, which includes two scoops of ice cream drowned with two shots of espresso. While it currently isn’t offering indoor dining, Chazzano has an outdoor space for people looking for al fresco dining. Lanzkron-Tamarazo suggests drinking their coffee black for maximum flavor. “We’re also known for encouragi...…
…48 | JULY 29 • 2021 DINING GUIDE LISTINGS ANTONIO’S CUCINA ITALIANA Canton: (734) 981-9800 Dearborn Heights: (313) 278-6000 Farmington Hills: (248) 994-4000 Dearborn: (313) 842-2100 Livonia: (734) 513-8000 (No Banquets) antoniosrestaurants.com Antonio’s Cucina Italiana, the Rugiero family and its staff have impressed their guests since 1964 with their traditional and authentic Italian cuisine. Signature dishes like Gnocchi Rita, Chicken...…
…JULY 29 • 2021 | 49 ROBERTS RESTAURANT GROUP Beverly Hills Grill | (248) 642-2355 Bill’s | (248) 646-9000 Cafe ML | (248) 642-4000 Roadside B&G | (248) 858-7270 Streetside Seafood | (248) 645-9123 www.RobertsRestaurantGroup.com Roberts Restaurant Group is a collection of five different restaurants, each with its own distinct personality, atmosphere and menu. Over 30 years, we’ve built a repu- tation for consistently delivering superior ...…
…50 | JULY 29 • 2021 W hen Yehuda Klein of Oak Park goes to a playground or library, strangers often take a second glance. The unspoken (and sometimes spoken) question is: What are those things on the side of his head? Many people have never seen cochlear implants before. According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), as of December 2019, there are only about 736,900 implanted coch...…
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…52 | JULY 29 • 2021 HEALTH radio frequency. Also for the rest of his life, there’s another special date on the calendar — the Klein family celebrates Yehuda’s “implant-versary” like a birthday because, for him, it was a whole new beginning. ATTENDING SCHOOL These days, Yehuda is enjoying a backyard day camp; he attends Yeshivas Darchei Torah in Southfield and will be starting first grade in the fall. Keren admits she worried ...…
