…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 55 “I like to dress dancers individually. I like to respond to their bodies and make clothes that are beautiful on their bodies. That’s hard because sometimes you have substitutes. Sometimes it’s like a puzzle, but I love puzzles. “You work on a project like this for years. The request came in about 2018. You’re considering and thinking and going back and forth and talking. There’s a week when you are just doi...…
…56 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N A uthors of three nonfiction books about famous people are among the many presenters appearing Nov. 6-17 at this year’s Detroit Jewish Book Fair at The J. It is the 73rd season of the event. Eddie Shapiro, with a love for theater, chronicles conversa- tions with top women stars on Broadway in Here’s to the Ladies. His discussion, at 7 p.m. Nov. 6, will be followed by a live musical program recalling the...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 57 her activities made her seem like Robin Hood. She did not condone violence as her group of men and women stole from the rich and in ways benefitted the poor by resell- ing property at a deep discount. “Here we have a big, zaftig, immigrant Jewish mother of four who came here in steerage in 1850 with little more than the clothes on her back,” Fox said. “By the end of the 1860s, she had risen to become the head...…
…58 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N T hese refrigerator roll cookies are a breeze to make and irresistibly delicious. The rich, dense shortbread serves as the perfect base for any mix-ins you can dream up. Whether you get creative with your favorite flavors or follow this classic recipe for crispy chocolate chip cookies, you’ll love the result. The best part? They’re always ready to go — just grab, slice, bake and enjoy! My family loves having ...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 59 J N TOP JEWISH DRAMA AND A TOP JEWISH DOCUMENTARY A Real Pain, a very Jewish film, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last January and almost all reviews were stellar. It opens wide in theaters on Nov. 1. Owen Gliberman, 65, Variety’s top critic, loved the film and you can easily find and read the review online (free). Jesse Eisenberg, 41, wrote the film and direct- ed it. He has written plays, and he direc...…
…6 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N 1942 - 2024 Covering and Connecting Jewish Detroit Every Week To make a donation to the DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION go to the website www.thejewishnews.com 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: ...…
…60 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N FIREHOUSE MUSEUM ONGOING Firehouse Museum, 110 Cross St. Ypsilanti; 734-547-0663. Walking through the restored firehouse, visitors can view fire engine steamers replete with horses ready to go on their way to a fire. The large, modern addition offers 25 changing exhibits of antique fire trucks and early fire rigs, mul- tiple displays of historic artifacts including tools, equipment, mem- orabilia and the l...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 61 61 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 T he ram is an adult male sheep. Adult female sheep are called ewes, and baby sheep are called lambs. The ram is mostly noted for its huge, curled horns. The larger the horns, the more prestigious it is for the ram, since the horns serve as a symbol of status and are used as dangerous weapons when the ram battles rivals. While female sheep are generally timid and peaceful, rams usually ex...…
…62 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 JUST FOR FUN Find The Differences Find the five differences between this photo of attendees enjoying a drum circle at a men’s retreat in Israel. JAMIE GORDON PHOTOGRAPHY See next week’s issue for answers. For last week’s puzzle answers, see page 55. Jewish of theweek Joke The following sign was seen in a window The following sign was seen in a window of a business In Philadelphia: of a business In Ph...…
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…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 65 J N OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY NORMAN I. BROCK, 94, died suddenly Oct. 17, 2024. He was born in Cleveland to Sol and Leona Brock. An only child, Norman grew up in Detroit and lived much of his adult life there. He was a graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school. He spent his entire professional career as a trust officer — the first who was Jewish — at the National Bank of Detroit, where...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 66 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N JUDY “BUNGA” HOCHER, 84, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 19, 2024. She is survived by her children, Steven and Jennifer Gottlieb, Burton and Julie Gottlieb, Wendy and Danford Bickmore, Hyla Gottlieb Williams and Marc Bagley, Stephen and Linda Eichenhorn, Elysa and Michael Weil, and Joshua and Emily Eichenhorn; Robert Hocher’s children, Cynthia Godlewski, Catherine Clark, Ch...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 67 J N Pauline’s elegance, gracious hos- pitality, commitment to community, and unending devotion to friends and family is an enduring inspira- tion to all. Pauline survived her husbands, Leopold J. Snyder and Martin J. Kabcenell. She is survived by her children, Jeffrey (Rochelle), Janis, and Wendy Snyder; her Kabcenell stepchildren, Derry (Charlene), Andrea (the late John Kuder), and James (Rhonda); Kabcenell g...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 68 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N West Bloomfield, MI 48322, friend- shipcircle.org/soul. (Soul Center is a loving and inclusive environment that encourages artistic self-ex- pression, vocational training and employment opportunities to adults with special needs.); or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. ROBERTA MADORSKY, 83, of Bloomfield Hills, died Oct. 23, 2024. She is survive...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 69 OBITUARY CHARGES The processing fee for obituaries is: $125 for up to 100 words; $1 per word thereafter. A photo counts as 15 words. There is no charge for a Holocaust survivor icon. The JN reserves the right to edit wording to conform to its style considerations. For information, have your funeral director call the JN or you may call Sy Manello, editorial assistant, at (248) 351-5147 or email him at smanello@thej...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 7 J N feels like a minority. Freedom of speech and expression guaranteed for all but the Jews. Social justice for all but the Jews. Condemning rape and war crimes for everyone but the Jews. You matter, they say, unless you are a Jew. So here is my “call to action.” For anyone who made it this far down, to anyone who can still see my humanity, to anyone who can conceptualize that more than one thing can be true ...…
…70 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at thejewishnews.com An Annual Dinner to Remember Y eshiva Beth Yehudah will hold its annual dinner on Nov. 3 this year. The featured speaker will be former United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Prominent Jewish Detroiter Matt Lester, founder and CEO of Princeton Enterprises, will receive the Outstanding Lea...…
…JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT Nominations for The Detroit Jewish News’ annual 36 under 36 are now open to recognize doers, activists, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, community organizers and other young Jewish professionals reshaping and broadening Metro Detroit’s Jewish community. Do you know someone making an impact in the community for this special honor? 36 UNDER 36 Nominations Now Open! A special group of volunteer judges will be rev...…
…8 | OCTOBER 31 • 2024 J N A ntisemitism, Israel and Jewish candidates are front and center in many of the seven swing states where either candidate could prevail in the 2024 presidential election. Those states are Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. And while the percentage of Jewish voters is small compared to the overall electorate, the number of Jewish voters in many of these states ...…
…OCTOBER 31 • 2024 | 9 J N continued on page 10 MICHIGAN Michigan is home to about 100,000 Jews, comprising a little over 1% of the electorate, according to the American Jewish Population Project at Brandeis. More than 60% of Jews in Michigan are Democrats. But Michigan also has 200,000 Muslim voters, according to EmgageUSA, an organization dedicated to mobilizing Muslim American voters, as well as more than 160,000 residents of Ar...…
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… OCTOBER 31 • 2019 | 5 I n a burst of perhaps slightly misplaced opti- mism back in January, when my yearly mantra of “This will really be my year to get thin and be healthy” was still firm, I signed up to do the Detroit Free Press (Freep) international half marathon. I trained in total for about, oh, three weeks. Maybe four. And then, you know, life hap- pened. Valentine’ s Day choc- olates went on sale. Purim. Pesach. The summer...…
…6 | OCTOBER 31 • 2019 commentary Why America Can’t Escape the Middle East Views T he excuses President Donald Trump and his loyal fans continue to put forward for his disastrous decision to give Turkey a green light to invade Syria continue to be as foolish as they are disingenuous. Pretending that it’ s not really a betrayal to leave loyal Kurdish allies in the fight against ISIS to the tender mercies of an authoritarian and ...…
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…Views W hite suprema- cists continue to pose a seri- ous threat to Jews in the United States — as they do to African Americans, Muslim Americans, Latinx Americans, immigrants, LGBTQ Americans and other communities. In the year since the dead- ly rampage at Pittsburgh’ s Tree of Life synagogue, at least 12 white supremacists have been arrested for their alleged roles in terrorist plots, attacks or threats against the Jewish commu...…
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…commentary Jews Increasingly See Discrimination and Danger in U.S. Culture Views T here is an old expression to describe the Jewish love for debate that goes something like this: Where you have two Jews, you have three opinions. Yet when my organization, American Jewish Committee (AJC), undertook the largest and most comprehensive survey of American Jews ever on the topic of anti-Semitism in the United States, we dis- covered am...…
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…W hen Susan Hershberg Adelman was growing up in Rochester, N.Y., she felt she already had a larger purpose in life. “When I was a small child, it was my hope and belief that I would make great contributions to the world, ” she said. Now, as a 77-year-old woman living in Southfield, she has truly made her mark on the world. Adelman, who retired from pediatric surgery in 2002, was among the first female sur- geons in Metro Detroit....…
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…continued from page 14 16 | OCTOBER 31 • 2019 received a bachelor’ s of science degree at U-M in 1962. She then enrolled in the master’ s program in geology at Wayne State University. “My husband pushed me to think about medical school, ” she said. Following his advice, she received her medical degree from Wayne in 1967. “I went into surgery because I work with my hands, ” she said. “Surgery was an unusual choice for a woman at ...…
… OCTOBER 31 • 2019 | 17 iarity with Chaldean culture and family life that Adelman took notice of the terrorism being perpetrated by ISIS on Chaldean Christians in Northern Iraq. In her book, Adelman writes about the diaspora of the Christian community and links it to the reasons why Christianity is disap- pearing from Iraq and Syria, both Islamic countries. She says the diaspora has increased in the last 15 years due to the Ameri...…
…continued from page 17 18 | OCTOBER 31 • 2019 Jews in the D “pretty well” while her mother is fluent in it. Karen, however, cannot speak it though she understands the language. “We’ re pretty Americanized, ” she said. “I have friends who can speak it fluently. I wish I knew it more. The language could easily go away. ” Jalaba of Farmington Hills said her mother is very proud to have her story told in Adelman’ s book. The larger ...…
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…S ome Jewish communal agencies in Metro Detroit are holding their breath as Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Republican-led legisla- ture continue to hammer out state budget issues. The reason for their angst is an item in the Department of Health and Human Services’ (DHHS) budget for state funding of various human service agen- cies, like the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services, the Chaldean Community Fou...…
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…24 | OCTOBER 31 • 2019 Jews in the D continued from page 22 HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER FUNDING According to the gover- nor’ s office, the Republican budget tried to gut funding for discrimination inves- tigations by diverting $1.5 million of the Department of Civil Rights budget to three private museums: the Arab American Museum in Dearborn, the Wright Museum in Detroit and the Holocaust Memorial Center. Whitmer restored funding ...…
… OCTOBER 31 • 2019 | 25 A planned annual family photoshoot among the fall foliage of the West Bloomfield Linear Park Trail turned out to reveal the star- tling discovery of two swastikas spray-painted in the pedestrian tunnel that traverses under- neath Long Lake Road. According to West Bloomfield Police reports, Jennifer Arkin Camens of West Bloomfield on Wednesday, Oct. 23, walked with her children and entered the tunnel to ph...…
…H ave you ever been to Machpelah Cemetery and heard bells ring- ing or sensed a mysterious black mist in the air? Dined at the Whitney in Detroit and spied the visage of old Flora Whitney and could have sworn you saw the late wife of the lumber baron staring back at you in the reflec- tion of a mirror? Then you may want to pick up a copy of Michigan Haunts: Public Places, Eerie Spaces (2019, Arcadia Publishing), co-authored by...…
… OCTOBER 31 • 2019 | 27 A guide to the archival collections in the Detroit Jewish community. ROBBIE TERMAN AND LAURA WILLIAMS SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Jews in the D O ctober is American Archives Month and, as archivists, this cele- bration gives us the opportunity to talk about what we do. We’ ve realized that archives have a “speakeasy” feel — you only know they exist if you actually know they exist. So now we’ ll let you in o...…
…28 | OCTOBER 31 • 2019 mittees. Materials include print, photographs, audio/video tapes and digital holdings. For more information, contact Lauren Marcus Johnson at ljohnson@temple-israel.org or (248) 661-5700. COMMUNITY COLLECTIONS Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives (LNSJCA) of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit document the rich and varied history of Detroit’ s Jewish community. Its holdings include more th...…
