…DECEMBER 30 • 2021 | 51 VIRTUAL SHABBAT 7-8 PM, DEC. 31 Celebrate a Champagne Shabbat with Temple Beth El online. Grab a glass of champagne or another fes- tive beverage and join us for virtual Shabbat services (tbelive.org or Facebook Live) with Temple Beth El’s clergy. STAND UP COMEDY 7 PM, JAN. 1 At the Garden Theater, 3929 Woodward, Detroit. Comedian Stavros Halkias. Cost $25. NIGHT OF WILD LIGHTS 7-10 PM, JAN. 4 NEXTGen...…
…52 | DECEMBER 30 • 2021 COMMUNITY DIRECTORY A JEWISH NEWS SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION ART PARK WEST GALLERY 29469 Northwestern Highway Southfield, MI 48034 www.parkwestgallery.com (248) 354-2343 Park West Gallery is the world’s largest art dealer, bringing the experience of collecting fine art to more than 3 million customers since 1969. Our Park West Museum is free to the public, open seven days a week. Come visit. ATTORNEYS COU...…
…DECEMBER 30 • 2021 | 53 HILLEL DAY SCHOOL 32200 Middlebelt Road Farmington Hills, MI 48334 (248) 851-3220 www.hillelday.org Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit delivers an outstanding general and Jewish education to Jewish children from preschool through eighth grade. We inspire a passion for learning responsibility to self and community and devotion to Jewish living in a warm innovative and engaging environment. At Hillel,...…
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…56 | DECEMBER 30 • 2021 for effective, compassionate physical therapy for the families in this community since 1995. KADIMA 15999 W. 12 Mile Road Southfield, MI 48067 (248) 559-8235 www.Kadimacenter.org Kadima provides comprehensive residential, therapeutic and social services to all people with mental health needs as they move forward in their lives. Inspired by Jewish values, Kadima delivers these services while providing edu...…
…DECEMBER 30 • 2021 | 57 advancing health equity and fighting antisemitism globally. JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE RESOURCE CENTER (248) 592-2313 resourcecenter@jfsdetroit.org www.jfsdetroit.org The heart of a stronger community, we provide older adult services such as case management; door- through-door transportation; Kosher Meals on Wheels and Holocaust survivor assistance; mental health and wellness services such as counseling, suicide...…
…58 | DECEMBER 30 • 2021 deliver meals to your home daily, Monday-Friday. Meals are for those homebound, 60 and older, who are unable to provide for themselves or who have no one to assist them with meal preparation on a temporary or ongoing basis. Meals are packaged and delivered from the kitchen at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield by volunteers of NCJW | MI. NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN, MICHIGAN (NCJW | MI...…
…DECEMBER 30 • 2021 | 59 KRAVINGS 25270 Greenfield Road Oak Park, MI 48237 (248) 967-1161 www.kravingsdetroit.com Our mission is to provide a quality and memorable experience for all of our customers and team members that raises the bar of service and food in the kosher dining and event industry. STAR DELI 24555 W. 12 Mile Road Southfield, MI 48034 (248) 352-7377 www.stardeli.net The Star Deli is a take-out- only restaurant that also ...…
…60 | DECEMBER 30 • 2021 ST. ANNE’S MEAD 16106 W. 12 Mile Southfield, MI 48076 (248) 557-1221 www.stannesmead.org With a 55-year legacy of offering the highest quality care, St. Anne’s Mead is a leader in senior living. From our award-winning kitchen to our professional and loving staff and life enrichment activities, St. Anne’s Mead remains steadfast in its mission: To provide quality care in assisted living, memory care and ext...…
…DECEMBER 30 • 2021 | 61 our services and numerous programs held throughout the year. CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK 27375 Bell Road Southfield, MI 48034-2079 (248) 357-5544 csz.info@shaareyzedek.org www.shaareyzedek.org Congregation Shaarey Zedek is a warm, welcoming, inclusive and egalitarian Conservative Jewish community. We provide innovative, stimulating and diverse spiritual and educational leadership and social opportunities th...…
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…64 | DECEMBER 30 • 2021 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY J udy Fertel Layne, 58, of West Bloomfield, died Nov. 7, 2021, surrounded by family. Her beloved husband of more than 26 years, Michael Layne, says, “Judy lived with ALS for nearly eight years with love, empathy for others, pur- pose and dignity. ” Born Jan. 14, 1963, Layne was the beloved daughter of Max and Elaine Fertel. She was the baby sister to Sandi, Howard and David an...…
…DECEMBER 30 • 2021 | 65 BETTY BRESOFF, 89, of Florida and Michigan, died Dec. 18, 2021. A graduate of Central High School, Mrs. Bresoff was active with Hadassah and had lived in Florida for approximately 30 years. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Cindy and Bill Turkish of Bloomfield Hills; grandchil- dren, Jessica Turkish and Jason Turkish; sisters-in-law and brother-in-law, Sally Becker, Harriett Freedman, and ...…
…continued from page 65 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 66 | DECEMBER 30 • 2021 Cannarsa, Ryan and Jennifer Stoller, Matthew and Ryan Conway, and Alexander Conway and Hugo Garcia; great-grandchildren, Sloane Cannarsa, Enzo Cannarsa, Harrison Stoller, Evie Stoller, Charlie Stoller and Lennox Conway; brother and sister- in-law, Sherwin and Elaine Conway. Mr. Conway was the beloved husband of the late Elaine Hechtman Conway. Interment...…
…continued on page 68 DECEMBER 30 • 2021 | 67 Contributions may be made to the Dementia Society of America or the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of America. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. c. 1994 SUSAN HERKOWITZ, 93, of Birming- ham, died Dec. 20, 2021. She is survived by her grand- children, Seth and Laura Herkowitz, and Rachael Herkowitz and Michael O’Toole; great-grandchildren, Samarah Harlow Herkowitz, Schoen Har...…
…continued from page 67 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 68 | DECEMBER 30 • 2021 Contributions may be made in Madeline Jacobs’ name to the Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Metro Detroit and/or the National or Michigan Alzheimer’s Association. GERALD LAX, 84, of Hamtramck, died Dec. 14, 2021. He is survived by dear friends and relatives. Mr. Lax was the dear brother of the late Pamela Lax; beloved son of the late Andrew a...…
…erizing the checkout system at the library during the 1980s. Perhaps even more meaning- ful, she also passed her love of reading onto her children and grandchildren. “She read novels everything and just about anything that came into the library,” Lisa said. “One of the perks of the job was she got to read all the new books before they made their way to the shelves. She liked to know what the latest releases were and felt it was ...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 70 | DECEMBER 30 • 2021 A Holiday Tradition L ast weekend was the 25th Annual Mitzvah Day in Metro Detroit. Sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council/American Jewish Committee (JCRC/AJC), in partnership with the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, Mitzvah Day is usually held on Dec. 25. Because Chr...…
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…SEPTEMBER 30 • 2021 | 3 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-13 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 14 A Masterful Achievement! How Bob Naftaly, in the face of automaker bankruptcies, helped save health benefits for 872,000 UAW retirees. 18 ‘A Dynamic Leader’ For a lifetime of service, Larry Wolfe will receive Federation’s Butzel award. 20 Still No Charges Danny Fenster’s family, friends keep raising awareness of his plight. 21 ...…
…4 | SEPTEMBER 30 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY essay Abraham’s Tent is Staked in Detroit Mark Davidoff is General Chair of this year’s Yeshiva Beth Yehudah annual dinner. F or many years, Yeshiva Beth Yehudah has held an annual dinner to further the educational mission of this essential Detroit Torah institution. The dinner enables an introduction of the school to the broader community — highlighting the Yeshivah’s incredible...…
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…8 | SEPTEMBER 30 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY continued from page 7 “American-Israeli relations.” Why do Ann Arbor’s anti- Israel zealots find it most meaningful to express their “public discourse in public fora” on Saturday mornings between 9:30 and 11:30 adja- cent to a synagogue? Is this truly “public dis- course” on “matters of public concern?” Are those who gather for two hours on Saturday mornings really trying to persuade th...…
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…10 | SEPTEMBER 30 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY essay My Heartfelt Thanks to Rabbi Sasson H ow does a commu- nity say goodbye to a rabbi who single- handedly saved them from closing their synagogue’s doors? Rabbi Sasson Natan, whose Iraqi roots encouraged us to call him by his first name, came to Detroit in 1991 as an Israeli engineer- ing contractor with General Motors. Rabbi Sasson became the first chazan of our con- gregation, a...…
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…OUR COMMUNITY T he future of Detroit and the U.S.-based automakers during the summer of 2007 had never looked so dreadful. General Motors, negotiating with the United Auto Workers union toward a new labor contract, had lost more than $12 billion during the previous two years. Bankruptcies for one or more of the Big Three automakers were growing more likely. Desperate to stave off col- lapse, the Big Three proposed shrinking larg...…
…SEPTEMBER 30 • 2021 | 15 continued on page 16 him as chair of an earlier, much smaller VEBA trust that administered dental benefits to union retirees. AUTOMOBILE SLUMP IMPERILED RETIREES Health benefits — with the specter of bankruptcy loom- ing — was a whole different, larger and more complex undertaking. “The auto industry and the union had a common problem” in 2007, Naftaly recalled. “They were worried about who would pay for t...…
…direction: As a youngster, he’d never imagined such a life. At Central High, astonishing- ly, he had no inkling as to a future career. Fortuitously, a relative stepped in. “My Uncle Sam Geller encouraged me to become a certified public accountant,” he said. “He told me to take bookkeeping in high school and then come to work for his accounting firm while taking college courses at night and on the weekends.” Naftaly graduated from ...…
…SEPTEMBER 30 • 2021 | 17 Jewish Federation’s board — who says, ‘I hear you’re a Jewish boy who knows something about nursing homes. We could use your help.’” Two nursing homes operated by Federation, Borman Hall in Detroit and Prentis Manor in Southfield, were “draining the Federation’s resources and also raising questions about the level of care” for the more than 300 elderly Jewish residents, Davidoff said. The two homes sto...…
…OUR COMMUNITY I n 1983, Jewish community leader and philanthropist Larry Wolfe experienced a major change in his outlook and attitude toward Jewish life. While on a mission to Israel with his wife, Andi, Larry, despite not wanting to go ini- tially, had a revelation as to what being Jewish truly meant. It was the mission leader, David Hermelin, and Larry’s father-in-law, D. Dan Kahn, both of blessed memory, who had encouraged him ...…
…Jewish affairs, largely inspired by his father-in-law and that Israel trip. In the late 1980s, Wolfe was introduced to the Jewish Community Center by his friend and mentor Jerry Sobel. Calling it a “natural fit, ” Wolfe became involved with the organization and worked his way up to eventually be elected president in 1997. There, he met various Jewish commu- nity leaders, including people involved with Federation. When asked to take...…
…20 | SEPTEMBER 30 • 2021 $20 million gift to expand the Michigan-Israel Partnership for Research and Education, which includes the University of Michigan, the Technion and the Weizmann Institute of Science. “My father-in-law taught me the importance of giving back to the community,” Wolfe says. He also holds board positions with the Jewish Fund, Kids Kicking Cancer, the Detroit Zoological Society, the Michigan Medicine Advisor...…
…SEPTEMBER 30 • 2021 | 21 WE VALUE DEEP THOUGHT AND DEEPER RELATIONSHIPS. FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OPEN HOUSE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2021 at 6:30pm Contact Arielle Endelman aendelman@frankelja.org | 248-671-3248 OUR COMMUNITY T hirty years after being ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), Rabbi Aaron Bergman of Adat Shalom Synagogue was presented with an honor- ary doctorate from JTS. “It was something I’ve actually...…
…SEPTEMBER 30 • 2021 | 21 WE VALUE DEEP THOUGHT AND DEEPER RELATIONSHIPS. FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OPEN HOUSE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2021 at 6:30pm Contact Arielle Endelman aendelman@frankelja.org | 248-671-3248 OUR COMMUNITY T hirty years after being ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS), Rabbi Aaron Bergman of Adat Shalom Synagogue was presented with an honor- ary doctorate from JTS. “It was something I’ve actually...…
…J ewish organizational administrators, faculty and Jewish student leaders agree that, though they are disturbed by a two antisemitic incidents that occurred on small online forums as well as an anti-Israel rhetoric sprayed on the “MSU Rock,” they are encouraged that the incidents were reported to campus law enforcement authorities by non-Jews. On Wednesday, Sept. 15, MSU’s Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies an...…
…SEPTEMBER 30 • 2021 | 23 is hosted by the institute in partnership with the Lester and Jewell Morris Hillel Jewish Student Center and other MSU academic departments. It will feature insights from leading experts from around the country as well as a recorded message from MSU President Samuel Stanley. For more information and to register, go to jsp.msu.edu. “I think the symposium is going to be a great service to the university i...…
…A recent court ruling on the eve of Yom Kippur has left staff and members at Ann Arbor’s Beth Israel Congregation upset and confused. Since 2003, the Conservative Jewish syna- gogue has been the target of weekly pro-Palestinian protests. Ann Arbor residents gather nearly every Saturday morning from 9:30-11:30 a.m. with upwards of 20 signs condemning Israel. Slogans like “Jewish Power Corrupts,” “Stop Funding Israel” and “End th...…
…SEPTEMBER 30 • 2021 | 25 Fall Fix Up is generously sponsored by: Join us November 7th! Fix Up this Fall! Invite your family, friends or community Invite your family, friends or community groups to this outdoor, family-friendly groups to this outdoor, family-friendly volunteer event. Help rake leaves and volunteer event. Help rake leaves and winterize homes (outdoor only) of older winterize homes (outdoor only) of older adults serve...…
…OUR COMMUNITY T he Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC) is holding a virtual event, “Stolen Voices with Zlata Filipovic,” at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3. Filipovic is the author of the international bestseller Zlata’s Diary, co-editor of Stolen Voices: Young People’s War Diaries from World War I to Iraq and a documentary filmmaker. She grew up under one of the longest sieges in modern-day history in her native city of Sarajevo, Bosnia-He...…
…SEPTEMBER 30 • 2021 | 27 Mazel Tov, Larry, on being honored with the Butzel Award! We are so grateful for our experience on the 2020 Andi & Larry Wolfe Gen X Mission as well as for everything you have done for our Jewish community. Lawrence A. Wolfe 2021 Fred M. Butzel Award Recipient 2020 Andi & Larry Wolfe Gen X Mission Participants Taal Ashmann Karen Beneson Donna Bolda-Moss Mikki Frank Brenda Harris Robyn Heicklen D...…
