…THE DETROIT $200 Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 2024 / 29 Tishrei -5 Cheshvan 5785 thejewishnews.com JEWISH NEWS Detroiter Jeff Dwoskin’s successful podcast show will satiate your hunger for pop culture and nostalgia. See page 48 …
…10 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 rather than vote for Biden. However, it’s not the first time a Democratic presidential contender has faced animosity from North Carolina voters: In 2012, 21% voted “no preference” rather than vote for Barack Obama when he ran for reelection. But this time, the “no preference” movement is seen as a protest of Biden’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza. And while Robinson has trum- peted support for Israel — des...…
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…12 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N T his is a moment in time the likes of which we’ve never seen as a Jewish people,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director of the Anti- Defamation League (ADL) at a presentation titled “Antisemitism in America: Never Again is Now.” More than 800 audience members at Temple Israel listened raptly as Greenblatt described the rising threat to Jews in this country and what can be done to combat ...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 13 for those who are suffering, Oct. 7 was an inexcusable, unprovoked, despicable, sadistic act of terror. Anti-Zionism is antisemitism. Period. End of story.” Greenblatt feels strongly that the unprecedented levels of antisemitism threatening our country today require different approaches than those previously used. To meet the moment, the ADL has developed new strategies that are more proactive than those use...…
…14 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N O n Nov. 13, Temple Kol Ami will host the second of a two-part event called “End of Life Choices: The Jewish Perspective.” It’s a difficult subject, but one event organizer Lee Schottenfels, a congregation and board member at Temple Kol Ami, says is important for the entire community. Temple Kol Ami’s Rabbi Natalie Shribman and Rabbi Joseph Krakoff of Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network will share the histor...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 15 J N T he late Dr. Don Spivak, a highly regarded child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst and psychiatrist for 40 years, will be honored at a benefit for the Michigan Psychoanalytic Foundation on Sunday, Nov. 10. Dr. Spivak served on the faculty of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute in Farmington Hills and was a founding co-director of the Walnut Lake Preschool for children with emotional problems. He...…
…16 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N I sraeli trauma specialist Renana Danon is leading a U.S. speaking tour that includes a stop in Metro Detroit at the Jewish Federation of Detroit’s free lunch-and-learn event on Sunday, Nov. 3. Held at Congregation B’nai Moshe in West Bloomfield, “Overcoming Trauma: Israeli Youth Mental Health Post 10/7” is open to the community and anyone interested in learning more about how the ongoing crisis is im...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 17 J N Danon says. “We will be discussing the mental health state of teens in Israel and how this national trauma affects youth. We will also be talking about the strategies we use to aid and protect youth in trauma situations.” There will also be a Q&A session so guests can learn more about the many invisible scars that Israeli youth impacted by the war are shouldering. “In this past year, since the national ...…
…18 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N S TORIED, ” the popular cultural arts series, returns with a ret- rospective on the alternative rock genre known as Grunge. The all- new production uses story and song to explore the history and music of the era at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at The Berman Center for the Performing Arts. “STORIED. The Grunge Era” is hosted by Benji Rosenzweig, who cre- ated the series in cooperation with Eric Maher, senior di...…
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…20 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N O n Sunday, Sept. 22, JHSM honored the founders of the West Michigan Holocaust Memorial with the L’dor V’dor Award for their commitment to handing down the history of the Holocaust and the stories of survivors to this and future generations. Honorees Linda Pestka, Steven Pestka, Nicole D. Katzman, Peg Finkelstein and Rob Franciosi “have worked together to create an extraordinary set of teaching tools ...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 21 J N L ongtime Metro Detroiters Dr. Harry and Rachel (Ray) (z”l) Maisel met and married in South Africa more than 75 years ago. When Ray, Harry’s beloved wife, passed away in 2014, Harry protected her interesting collection of textiles from the ancient Jewish city of Bukhara (in present-day Uzbekistan), where Ray’s family, including prominent local rabbis, called home. Ray’s family journeyed from Bukhara to...…
…22 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 Leigh D. Moss Moss Law PLC Bloomfield Hills 248.847.3555 Closely/Privately Held Business; Commercial Litigation; Creditor Rights/Commercial Collections Linda G. Burwell National Investigation Counsel PLLC Pleasant Ridge 248.730.5583 Employment: Management; ADR: Employment; Labor: Management Deborah L. Brouwer Nemeth Bonnette Brouwer PC Detroit 313.567.5921 Employment: Management Patricia M. Nemeth Nemeth Bonn...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 23 Leigh D. Moss Moss Law PLC Bloomfield Hills 248.847.3555 Closely/Privately Held Business; Commercial Litigation; Creditor Rights/Commercial Collections Linda G. Burwell National Investigation Counsel PLLC Pleasant Ridge 248.730.5583 Employment: Management; ADR: Employment; Labor: Management Deborah L. Brouwer Nemeth Bonnette Brouwer PC Detroit 313.567.5921 Employment: Management Patricia M. Nemeth Nemeth Bonne...…
…24 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N I n 2006, Lisa Korotkin and Jared Rothberger both worked for JARC — starting employment there with- in one month of each other. Jared was doing direct care work and ran some of their social programs while Lisa worked in human resources. Lisa kept a little candy dish on the corner of her desk, which was a perfect excuse for Jared to visit. “That little candy dish was the start of something much bigger, ” J...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 25 J N J enny Bordelove and Alisa Berke were lifelong Wheel of Fortune fans, but the Jewish best friends never imagined they’d one day find themselves competing on the popular game show. On Oct. 10, their Wheel of Fortune epi- sode finally went live on the air. It was a big secret Bordelove and Berke kept since June; they couldn’t discuss their Wheel of Fortune experience and winnings until their episode finally ...…
…26 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N T he Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2024 is a special one. Not just because the five newest members joined luminaries like Hank Greenberg, Bill Davidson, Aaron Krickstein and Jackie Kallen when they were inducted Oct. 29 at the 37th annual Hall of Fame banquet at The J in West Bloomfield, where the Hall of Fame plaques are displayed. They were inducted the same year as the Michigan Jewish Spor...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 27 running,” she said. Asked for an example of where she fell short, she gave a quick response. “I never broke 12 seconds in the 100,” she said. “My best was 12.07 in my junior year at U-D Mercy.” Meisner launched her track career as a seventh-grader at Norup International School in Oak Park in 2004. In her first race, the 70, she ran so fast and was so far ahead of her competitors that she thought she ran too f...…
…A t 70 years old, Sylvia R. (patients’ names in this story have been changed for priva- cy) assumed leakage and multiple trips to the bathroom every day were an inevitable part of getting older. “I had a teacher’s bladder, ” she said. “When you can’t go whenever you need to, it ruins the muscles. ” Finally, her physician recommended pelvic floor therapy, and she decided to give it a try. By the sixth session, Sylvia was using the b...…
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…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 3 J N contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-7 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 8 The Jewish Vote How our demographic could swing the election in 7 key battleground states. 12 Update from the ADL ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt addresses crowd at Temple Israel. 14 Hospice and Judaism Free Temple Kol Ami event will highlight end-of-care options in Judaism. 15 Celebrating the Work o...…
…30 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 conditions that may be causing the symptoms. Then the doctor refers the patient to a pelvic floor physical therapist for an initial assessment that may include muscle strength testing and a review of lifestyle habits such as diet, exercise, fluid intake and bathroom routines. Some therapists ask patients to keep a “bladder diary” to identify behavioral issues such as holding urine too long or not drink- ing ...…
…Y our eyes are precious, and vital to your indepen- dence, and at Shanbom Eye Specialist, our doctors have the goal of providing eye care they’d give to their own family. That philosophy guides every deci- sion — starting with the exam, advice and individualized treatment plans for conditions such as dry eyes and cataracts. “Our tailored treatment plans mean that your plan is your own,” said Dr. Steven A. Shanbom, M.D., a board-cer...…
…32 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N W hen it comes to health, women’s intuition isn’t just a hunch — it’s practically a superpower. According to recent research from MD Live by Evernorth, more than two-thirds of women say they have a sixth sense when it comes to their health. This “ill-tuition” is the innate ability to sense when something may be wrong with your body — and 81% of women trust it. Yet, despite this trust, most women hold o...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 33 EXPERT CANCER CARE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD Experience top-tier cancer care at our expanded Farmington Hills campus, Karmanos Cancer Institute at the Lawrence and Idell Weisberg Cancer Center. Enjoy the same leading-edge services as Detroit’s flagship with enhanced comfort and community convenience. Discover cancer care close to home. karmanos.org/FH Michigan Donated Dental Services (DDS) Donated dental care avail...…
…34 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N L ocal back expert Dr. Sol Cogan recently had his own experience with excruciating back pain on a trip to Chile with his son. Now, during October’s Spine Health Awareness Month, Cogan wants to share his story about his personal healing journey using a unique-to-Michigan back strengthening machine called SpineForce, as well as offering Metro Detroiters the opportunity to benefit from the machine....…
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…36 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N C atchy melodies and uni- versal messages that are all part of the renowned Motown sound were the features in the latest summer night of fun for adults served by JARC at the annual Motown Summer Concert. The event was filled with Motown music performed by a duo from The Crasherz, a nation- al touring Motown music cover band. JARC’s Motown Summer Concert is a big hit among the people JARC serves and es...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 37 J N faces&places SPOTLIGHT JARC Cookout B owers Farm Activity Center in Bloomfield Hills was the site of this summer’s JARC Shabbat Cookout, an annual event sponsored by the Ethel Hyman and Rose Kaplan Foundation. More than 100 people, including adults served by JARC and JARC staff, attended the cookout, enjoying a dinner consisting of their choice of hamburgers, hot dogs, coleslaw, potato salad, watermelo...…
…38 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N A cross a picnic table on an alpaca farm in Southern Israel sat two Jewish men in their early 20s in deep conversation. One was dressed in formal Chasidic garb, complete with long side curls and big yarmulke, and the other, a motivational speaker who survived the horrific Nova massacre, was clean shaven and casually dressed. As Mordechai Wiener, 39, watched the two men connect with each other despite t...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 39 in Israel for English-speaking men, the first of its kind. They rented the alpaca farm, a beautiful property surrounded by the Israeli Negev mountains and vast desert landscapes. “It was so perfect for what we envisioned; we rented it before anyone signed up,” Weiner said. Ultimately, more than 50 men joined together in the desert. The retreat took place in March, six months after the war started, when most ...…
…4 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N PURELY COMMENTARY essay United in Grief, Strong in Hope A s we reflect on the Oct. 27 sixth anniversary of the Tree of Life mass shooting that left 11 Jewish worshipers, most of them elderly, dead, we again find ourselves in a new and painful chapter in Jewish history. The recent horrors in Israel and across the Diaspora cast an even darker shadow on this commemoration. Out of such devastation com...…
…40 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N O ak Park-based entrepreneur Sruli (Michael) Klein, 28, founder and CEO of Capital Landscapes, is no stranger to launching and expanding companies. The Farber Hebrew Day School graduate launched his first landscape compa- ny “Mow on the Go” at age 14. “I knew nothing about mowing lawns, ” he recalls. “But I had a push mower, and I would just figure it out. ” By the time he was 17, he had three landscaping tr...…
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…42 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N MAZEL TOV! SPOTLIGHT Olivia Hannah Blumberg, daughter of Dr. Michele and Jason Blumberg, will lead the congregation in prayer as a bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. She will be joined in celebration by her sister, Ella. Olivia is the loving grandchild of Linda and Robin Blumberg, Debbie and Darryl Zanardo, Tom Head, the late Danny Bailey, and the late Cindy Franz. ...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 43 Re-Discovering Hope A t a time of endless adversity and anxiety about the future, it is helpful to reflect on the thread of hope that has pervaded the Jewish Weltanschauung (worldview) since its inception millennia ago. Noting the maxim schver tzu zein a yid / it is hard to be a Jew, one finds an ever-present current of hope that tenaciously refuses to succumb to the challenges of being Jewish. Simply put,...…
…44 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 A re we naturally good or naturally bad? On this, great minds have argued for a very long time indeed. Hobbes believed that we have naturally “a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in Death.” We are bad, but governments and police can help limit the harm we do. Rousseau, to the contrary, believed that naturally we are good. It is society and its institutions that make ...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 45 of God. Genesis 9 tells me that “You,” my potential victim, are in the image of God. Genesis 1 tells us about human power. We are able, says the Torah, to “rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air.” Genesis 9 tells us about the moral limits of power. We can kill but we may not. We have the power, but not the permission. Reading the story closely, it seems that God created humans in the faith tha...…
…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...…
…REFORM Temple Beth El Bloomfield Township (248) 851-1100 tbeonline.org 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...…
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…J eff Dwoskin of West Bloomfield is the host of Classic Conversations, a podcast show he created during the COVID pandemic to satisfy his insatiable appetite for pop culture, TV and movie stars, writers and comedians. It leans on a heavy dose of the good old days in show biz. It’s not his day job, just a side dream job, that now finds him in the top 1.5% of listened-to podcasts. In the “real” world, Dwoskin has spent more than 30 yea...…
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…50 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N comedian Kathleen Madigan, on her own, no stranger to sold-out audiences when visiting Detroit. AND THE WINNER IS ... Despite the pressure of appearing before the likes of Allen and Madigan, our Purtan Protege finalists were more than up to the task. To a person, their material rocked. It was a very difficult decision for the judges, but the choice was unanimous. Jeff Dwoskin was crowned Purtan Protege! Jeff ...…
…“To get to the point where it feels like two friends are talking, they need to believe I’m a friend. When two lifelong friends talk, they know everything about each other and that sense of comfort opens up new avenues of conversation. ” HELLO, LOU! Tune into Classic Conversations # 56 and you’ll hear a unique side to Ed Asner that takes you way beyond his role as Lou Grant, news director and boss to Mary Richards on the iconic Mary Ty...…
…found the space to escape and express his imagination, often enlisting neigh- borhood kids to act in his childhood plays. Before getting to hear his captivating behind-the-scenes stories of working in Hollywood, Zimmerman first relives the memories of Sunday dinner visits to Wing Hong Chinese restaurant at 10 Mile Road in Southfield, his atten- dance in Southfield Public Schools, the Cranbrook Theater School and Camp Tamarack. “If th...…
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…54 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N ARTS&LIFE DESIGN I n the development of his var- ied entertainment career, Isaac Mizrahi collected records with music by Burt Bacharach, sang Bacharach-composed songs in performance, communicated with Bacharach and designed costumes for a Bacharach-centered dance show, The Look of Love, coming to Michigan. The Mark Morris Dance Group will perform in Mizrahi-designed costumes, and the choreography will b...…
