… DECEMBER 31 • 2020 | 29 KADIMA 15999 W. 12 Mile Road Southfield, MI 48067 (248) 559-8235 Kadimacenter.org Kadima provides comprehen- sive residential, therapeutic and social services to all peo- ple with mental health needs as they move forward in their lives. Inspired by Jewish val- ues, Kadima delivers these services while providing education and outreach to the broader community to ensure positive mental health outcomes for all. ...…
…30 | DECEMBER 31 • 2020 B’NAI ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE 5085 Walnut Lake Road West Bloomfield, MI 48323 (248) 432-2729 Fax: (248) 479-2572 info@bnaiisraelwb.org www.bnaiisraelwb.org Rabbi Mitch Parker. B’nai Israel Synagogue is an egal- itarian, lay-led Conservative congregation operating within the Temple Kol Ami building. We provide religious, educa- tional and social opportunities that reflect our commitment to Judaism, our members of all a...…
… DECEMBER 31 • 2020 | 31 P rayer in Judaism is an interesting concept. While there is nothing inherently wrong with one praying by oneself, there is certainly a pref- erence for com- munal prayer. Worshiping k’yachid, or indi- vidually, satisfies the Jewish obli- gation for daily prayer, but there are several sections of the prayer service that can only be done when a minyan (prayer quorum of 10 people) is constituted. During th...…
…32 | DECEMBER 31 • 2020 ARTS&LIFE FILM I n another life, I was a film critic. This was, of course, before movie theaters became an endangered species in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the movies still marched on in 2020, even though our ability to actually watch them outside of our homes became severely limited, and most of the big ones disappeared. (We’ll have to wait until December 2021 to see Steven Spielberg’s rem...…
… DECEMBER 31 • 2020 | 33 Talking Heads frontman, directed by Spike Lee, puts you in the audience for Byrne’s rol- licking live show (which I had the pleasure of seeing in-per- son in the Before Times). The impeccable musicianship of his backing band, the intricate choreography and the passion- ate calls to make a better world all survive intact on the screen. As does the genius of “Once in a Lifetime.” Where to watch: HBO Max. #6: N...…
…34 | DECEMBER 31 • 2020 J ewish screenwriter Robert Axelrod, who was born and raised in the Ann Arbor area, has been selected from nearly 1,000 entries as the grand prize winner for the 2020 ScreenCraft Stage Play Writing Competition. Written as a play, Axelrod’s winning script “Lifeline” fol- lows a mother beginning to work through her grief by vol- unteering at a suicide hotline after the death of her gay teen- age son. The insp...…
… DECEMBER 31 • 2020 | 35 L et us hope and pray for a 2021 that will help us smile again as we look upon some of the happenings of 2020. JANUARY … Dr. Joel Kahn and family cele- brate the fourth year of their GreenSpace Cafe in Ferndale … Former Detroiter brothers Derek and Greg Stevens to open the Circa Resort and Casino in Las Vegas … Big Tommy’s Parthenon has eighth anniversary … Station Square name in Troy is changed to ...…
…36 | DECEMBER 31 • 2020 Keto Cheesecake Tart, a Cafe offering and Vegan cookie dough bars. Michigan and Michigan State University … give much to tailgate dining delight by people like Kathy and Mark Morley of Pepino’s. OCTOBER … Wonder Bar is remembered … Bacco and Casa Pernoi birthdays are celebrated as one with differ- ent concepts but one owner, Luciano Del Signore … Bacco in Southfield and Casa Pernoi in Birmingham … Joe Vicar...…
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…40 | DECEMBER 31 • 2020 SOUL OF BLESSED MEMORY D r. Stanley Hurwick Levy, whose life was touched by a chance meeting with Albert Einstein, and who came to Detroit to practice at the then-new Sinai Hospital in the early 1950s, died at his Bloomfield Hills home Dec. 17, 2020, from natural causes. He was 94. Attorney Geoffrey Fieger, a longtime patient, said “doctors like him come along once in a lifetime. His inquisitive mind ...…
… DECEMBER 31 • 2020 | 41 continued on page 42 ELAINE BLUMA BAKER, 89, of Commerce Township, died Dec. 19, 2020, at West Hickory Haven Nursing Home from COVID-19. She was born May 1, 1931, to Isedor and Esther (Karsinovich) Chernoff. Elaine graduated from Central High School in Detroit, class of 1949. She worked at Henry Ford Hospital in Dietary Services. In 1949, she mar- ried Leonard Kahrnoff, who predeceased her in 1980. S...…
…42 | DECEMBER 31 • 2020 SOUL OF BLESSED MEMORY continued from page 41 48025. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. EDWIN BARRIS, 80, of Elk Grove, Calif., formerly of Detroit, died Dec. 9, 2020. He is survived by his wife of 19 years, Kelly Barris; daughter and son- in-law, Amy and Robert Rosender; grandchildren, Olivia Barris, Megan Rosender, Ethan Rosender and Elina Rosender; sister, Betsyrose Rudin. Mr. Barris was the cher- i...…
… DECEMBER 31 • 2020 | 43 continued on page 44 McCredie. Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to American Liver Foundation, 39 Broadway, Suite 2700, New York, NY 10006, liverfounda- tion.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. CLAIRE BRONSON, 89, of Highland Park, Ill., died Dec. 16, 2020. She is survived by her sons and daughters-in- law, Mike and Jane Bronson, and Dan and Honey Bronson; sister, ...…
…44 | DECEMBER 31 • 2020 SOUL OF BLESSED MEMORY continued from page 43 YEARA HOUVRAS (née Gorfinkel), 81, died on Dec. 10, 2020. She was born on Kibbutz Kinneret, on the shore of the Lake Kinneret on June 16, 1939. Yeara’s parents traveled to Israel in 1935 from Riga, Latvia, to participate in the second Maccabiah Games. Like other athletes in the Maccabiah II, they were escaping rising antisemitism in Europe and they made a p...…
… DECEMBER 31 • 2020 | 45 P hilip Kaplan, 95, of West Bloomfield, passed away Dec. 21, 2020, after a long and fulfilling life. He was born on July 5, 1925, the fifth-youngest child of Isaac and Fanny Kaplan. He grew up in Detroit and his older brothers and sister took great pride in their baby brother. He worked hard in his father’s fish market. On Aug 13, 1943, he and the love of his life, Diane Pritz, went out on their f...…
…46 | DECEMBER 31 • 2020 Looking Back A Master Architect B efore the year ends, there is one more anniversary to acknowledge. In 2020, Albert Kahn Associates Inc. has cel- ebrated its 125th year anniversary. Its name- sake, founder and Jewish Detroiter Albert Kahn, was an innovator and the world’s foremost industrial designer and architect of the 20th century. Kahn’s impact upon Detroit is visible and all around us. Drive around Det...…
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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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…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...…
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…30 | OCTOBER 31 • 2019 S ome have called Bruce Schwartz the man with the hat, but now he’ s known as Detroit Bruce. Since 2011, he’ s served as Rock Ventures’ Detroit Ambassador, showcasing Downtown Detroit and sharing the story of the city’ s resurgence. As an ambassador, he says his goal is to sup- port the Rock Family of Companies by keeping the great talent of our youth and young visionaries here in Detroit. Outside of being a...…
