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…50 | MARCH 7 • 2024 J N ALL ABOUT PHIL AND COCO CHANEL STINKS Somebody Feed Phil, a Netflix documentary series, began its seventh season on March 1. The host is Phil Rosenthal, 64. He’s best known as the creator of the big hit series Everybody Loves Raymond (1996- 2005). Rosenthal oversaw the production of the show and often wrote, or co-wrote, the show’s scripts. He won three Emmys for his scripts alone. In the new season’s ei...…
…DOG OF THE WEEK Ollie! A Letter from D ear Readers, I’m Ollie. I am a very sweet, loving, calm and obedient dog! I do not chew on anything. I love going on long walks. And I adore nuzzling my head on my human’s lap to get petted. I am a bit timid around male people and I get startled very easily. Maybe I will relax over time. The only thing wrong with me is I have heartworm disease. This is usually very successful to treat. Almost H...…
…52 | MARCH 7 • 2024 J N VILLAGE PLAYERS NOW-MARCH 24 The Cemetery Club. At Birmingham Village Players, 34660 Woodward Ave., Birmingham. This touching, humorous play tells the story of three Jewish widows who accompany one another once a month to a local cemetery in Forest Hills, Queens, where their husbands are buried. When the ladies run into Sam, a butcher visiting his wife’s grave at the same cemetery, a romance is in th...…
…MARCH 7 • 2024 | 53 Xiao-Lin Rigelhaupt is a writer, consultant, actress, speaker, and advocate for disability and autism representation in the entertainment industry. PURIM MITZVAH PROJECT 2-3:30 PM, MARCH 10 (SUN.) Hosted by The J’s JFamily/ JGrand and Tamarack Camps for grandparents and grandchildren. Prepare for Purim by packing, decorating and delivering mishloach manot (Purim gift packages) to our friends at Jewish Sen...…
…P arlez vous Francais? Hablas Espanol? Du redst Yiddish? Your answer to any of the above is proba- bly “no” or per- haps “a bissel.” Actually, you do know more than you think since so many English words have come to us from other languages and are now in common parlance. Yiddish is a prime example, especially since the forms of the words have not been changed since they were “adopted.” Let’s examine some. If you invested in so...…
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…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY DONNA M. BARNETT, beloved for 93 years, died Feb. 26, 2024, sur- rounded by her family. She was born Jan. 31, 1931, in Detroit to Louis and Viola Weiss, and moved to California as a young child following the tragic auto- mobile accident death of her father. Not one to have the dust settle under her, Donna married Robert Barnett and graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit after spending a ...…
…MARCH 7 • 2024 | 57 J N son, Robert Forrest; daugh- ter and son-in-law, Denise Forrest and James Robillard; grandchildren, Amanda Forrest, Noah Ramos-Forrest, Jessica Robillard, Lindsay Robillard and Ian Gleespen, and Jaclyn and Luke Miller; great-grandchildren, Ted Gleespen, and Jude and Vera Miller; loving companion, Dorothy Harwood. He was the beloved hus- band of the late Sylvia Forrest, the loving brother of the late Dr. Mar...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 58 | MARCH 7 • 2024 J N Contributions may be direct- ed to Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network, 6555 W . Maple, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, jhcn.org/donate/ tribute or a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. ELAINE PLOTKIN, 93, of Huntington Woods, died Feb. 25, 2024. Mrs. Plotkin is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Madelyne and Dr. Norman Markowitz; sons and daughter...…
…MARCH 7 • 2024 | 59 J N Chapel at Machpelah Cemetery. Interment took place at Machpelah Cemetery. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. DR. DONALD F. SILVER, 92, of Bingham Farms, died Feb. 25, 2024. Dr. Silver is sur- vived by his wife of 32 years, Kay Campbell; chil- dren, Steven Silver, Kenneth and Liz Silver, Charles and Jenny Silver, David and Melissa Silver, Jonathan and Kate Silver, Curt Campbell, Ken and Debbie Campbe...…
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…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 60 | MARCH 7 • 2024 J N MARVIN L. STARMAN, MD, 87, of Ann Arbor, died Feb. 22, 2024. He is sur- vived by his adoring family: wife, Lynne Starman; children, Lori and Doug Weissman, Wendy and Larry Papier, Jeff and Helen Starman; and grandchildren, Alec and Sloane Weissman, Sarah Starman, Jacob Starman, Carli Starman, Evan Papier and Max Papier. He is also survived by his mother-in-law, Justine Wexn...…
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…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at thejewishnews.com 62 | MARCH 7 • 2024 J N A Premier Mall B efore we all shopped online, from our couches and easy chairs, the ultimate American shopping experience was the “shopping mall.” In essence, a mall is a convenient concentration of stores, to say nothing of restaurants, kiosks with a variety of trinkets, hot pretzel stands and, o...…
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…8 | MARCH 7 • 2024 J N PURELY COMMENTARY essay The Crazy, Delusional, Surreal State of Being Israelis in the Aftermath of Oct. 7 T here is no exact equivalent word in English to describe the Hebrew word hazui. A combination of crazy, surreal and delusional is the closest to convey the feeling of its meaning. This word was used in almost every conversation I have had with family, friends and other people I met in Israel rec...…
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