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…$200 April 8-14, 2021 / 26 Nisan - 2 Iyar 5781 JEWISH NEWS JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT thejewishnews.com Inner Rabbi G.’s program brings power, peace and purpose to young Oak Parkers. See page 14 Power! Power! Power! Power! Power! Power! Inner Power! Inner Power! Inner Power! Inner …

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…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 3 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-12 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 14 Inner Power! Rabbi G.’s program brings power, peace and purpose to young Oak Parkers. 18 Archaeological Discoveries Oakland U. study abroad team anxiously anticipating a return to Israel. 20 A Cure within Reach Student, 22, seeks funds for bone marrow transplant. 21 Flour Power! Online baking class celebrates the mitzvah...…

…4 | APRIL 8 • 2021 for starters Not-So-Smooth Sailing “L et my container ship go!” What are the chances that during Passover another act of freedom would be celebrated? In a brilliant public relations move last week, God paid homage to Passover by letting that giant ship go forth from Egypt. The grounded vessel sat idle for six days in the Suez Canal like a beached whale, holding up hundreds of ships and billions of dol- lars’ w...…

…6 | APRIL 8 • 2021 guest column 3 Lessons to Strengthen Israel Education N ewsworthy stories unfold in Israel at breathtaking rates. Repeated elections, COVID- 19 responses, pathbreaking Supreme Court decisions, the Abraham Accords — all are worthy of community discussion and age-appropriate student explora- tion. Yet few Jewish students and their parents possess suf- ficient understanding or dis- cussion skills to explain them...…

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…8 | APRIL 8 • 2021 analysis Israel Still Can’t Make Up its Mind About Netanyahu W hen the first exit polls were pub- lished, it seemed as if the long stalemate had been ended. Within a couple of hours, howev- er, the polls had been revised, and by the end of a long night and morning of counting, it turned out that the deadlock between those who wish to keep Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister and those who want to get rid o...…

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…10 | APRIL 8 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY family, but of course, I could not allow panic to reign on the bridge of my ship — not on my watch! I got myself into this mess and I was going to seamlessly get myself out of it. “Full engines reverse!” I yelled in my inner sailor’s voice as I pro- ceeded to shift gears in an attempt to dislodge the boat from the large wooden restaurant sign holding us captive. The boat slowly struggled to mo...…

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…12 | APRIL 8 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY Talk of defectors from other parties is, as was the case last year, mooted by his supporters, but that seems even less likely this time around. Another possibility of a solution is both a laudable development as well as a potential case of staggering hypocrisy. When the four disparate Arab factions ran together as a single party last year, they won 15 seats as the Joint Arab List. When Blue ...…

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…14 | APRIL 8 • 2021 A merciful endeavor begun two decades ago by a Southfield rabbi to bring relief to young cancer patients has enlarged to offer encouragement and support to physically healthy, but under- privileged schoolkids in Oak Park. It’s been five years since 10-year-old cancer survivor Leah Vincenzetti became involved with Kids Kicking Cancer, the organization founded by Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg in 1999 that teaches self-...…

…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 15 PHOTOS COURTESY OF KEITH VARTANIAN AND THE HEROES CIRCLE What is a ‘Breath Brake?’ Keith Vartanian, a martial arts therapist with Kids Kicking Cancer’s Boston and New York chapters, takes us step-by-step on how to perform a Breath Brake, a core component of the Childhood Resilience Initiative curriculum. Vartanian hosts a weekly Facebook Live broadcast at 5 p.m. (EDT) every Wednesday on KKC’s Facebook page (facebook...…

…16 | APRIL 8 • 2021 School of Medicine. The program launched during the 2018-19 school year at Pepper Elementary School, and included both its second-, third- and fourth- grade classes. In order to prove its effectiveness, Pepper was randomly selected and another primary school in the district, Einstein Elementary School, served as a control group. Goldberg and KKC assembled an A-list roster of professionals across multiple disciplines...…

…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 17 stress triggers and how to pos- itively deal with them, was put through a significant stress-test as districts nationwide were shuttering in March 2020. “With regard to COVID-19, if you're looking for a silver lin- ing, one of the things that made the transition a little smoother was having to flip a switch and learn how to educate kids in a different way overnight, espe- cially kids with so many of the challenges...…

…18 | APRIL 8 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY continued on page 20 O akland University’s Israel Study Abroad program had completed 11 consecutive trips to Israel since 2009 — until the pandemic put an end to that annual streak in 2020. Since its incep- tion, I, along with co-faculty members Dr. Richard Stamps and Dr. Jon Carroll, have planned these visits, and the program has been successful due in large part to the gen- erous support from the...…

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…20 | APRIL 8 • 2021 Herodium, Gamla, Akko, Tel Aviv, Megiddo and, of course, Jerusalem. Over the years, students experienced an in-depth visit to a Druze village for lunch and lecture, visited the home and orange groves of an Israeli farm- er, and enjoyed an overnight stay at a Bedouin tent. The exca- vation at Sha’arayim made world news when it was associated to the early kingdom of David, c. 1000 B.C.E. From 2014 to 2017, Oakla...…

…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 21 S everal times a month, Jewish women can tune into a new broad- cast that celebrates the art of making delicious challah bread. The traditional braided bread of Eastern European origin is at the center of Flour Power, a virtual challah baking class taught by master baker Pam Turkin. In these 90-min- ute Zoom sessions, partici- pants are shown how to create their own dough, how to braid it and learn about th...…

…22 | APRIL 8 • 2021 the Sunday class to make their dough alongside Turkin. An educator from Partners Detroit will also join the class to share details on the many positive influ- ences that challah can instill in a woman’s life. “Pam is an experienced baking teacher,” Fink says. “She has a successful busi- ness of teaching people to bake all kinds of things over Zoom, but challah is really her passion.” Fink and Turkin, who are ...…

…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 23 F lorine Mark, pio- neering Michigan businesswoman, civic volunteer and philanthropist, has sold the WW Group, her Weight Watchers franchise in Michigan and Ontario, to parent company WW International. Financial terms were not disclosed. Mark was the franchise founder and served as its president and chief executive officer at its Farmington Hills headquar- ters. “It was time,” she says of her decision, made w...…

…24 | APRIL 8 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY O ur beloved “Mr. Tiger, ” Al Kaline, died during the first week of the 2020 baseball season. In the year since, more than 100 former major leaguers, including Hall of Famers Hank Aaron, Whitey Ford, Tommy Lasorda and Tom Seaver, also died. None of the aforemen- tioned, though, impacted me as much as someone who joined Detroit in 1955, Kaline’s best sea- son with the Tigers. Those of us who were ...…

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…R osalie Schwartz, an 84-year-old retired psychotherapist, always wanted to write a book. It was only a matter of putting pen to paper. Her plan was to share her life’s lessons with the world and other tidbits of wisdom she had picked up along the way. When the pandemic hit last March, Schwartz realized it was the perfect opportunity to finally get started on the project she always had in the back of her mind. Over the course of...…

…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 27 A ndrea Sachs tried, but she just couldn’t stop being a journalist. Sachs, who grew up in Oak Park and received B.A. and J.D. degrees at University of Michigan, tried to go back to her first love, English literature, when she retired from Time magazine in 2014. She was working on her Ph.D. thesis (on the works of Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright) at Hunter College in New York when COVID hit. “From the begin...…

…28 | APRIL 8 • 2021 G rowing up, Jannie Teitelbaum had a love for chicken pot pies. Now, she’s transformed one of her favorite child- hood foods into a successful business headquartered in Clawson. Great Lakes Pot Pie, which opened last April during the pan- demic, serves up fresh pot pies in a variety of flavors. From classic chicken to meatball, each handmade pie is crafted with locally sourced ingredients. The pies even come in glute...…

…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 29 GROWING IN CLAWSON About two years ago, she found Great Lakes Pot Pie’s current location in Clawson and worked to secure the lease over the course of a year. Finally, by the time the pandemic hit, she was ready to open her business, named after her love for all things local. While many restaurant businesses struggled through- out this time, Teitelbaum found an unexpected silver lining: People were seeking out ...…

…30 | APRIL 8 • 2021 T he original intent of yoga, derived from ancient spiritual prac- tices in India, was training the body and mind to self-observe through a series of physical poses and breathing exercises. By this means, the body would be rejuvenated. Yoga therapy, however, expands the concept, bring- ing “the tools of yoga into the healthcare setting to give people accessible methods to improve their health and well-being, ”...…

…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 31 three well-attended conferences in Los Angeles. She also served two terms as vice president of Yoga Alliance (YA), the rep- resentational organization for yoga teachers. She was chair of yoga standards for YA, includ- ing Prenatal Yoga and Yoga for Children Standards. SPECIALISTS TEACH Zador’s accredited school includes certified yoga ther- apists as faculty, with M.Ds. and Ph.Ds. as adjunct faculty giving lectur...…

…32 | APRIL 8 • 2021 MAZEL TOV! Riley Madison Belkin and Joely Brooke Belkin will share the bimah as they lead the congregation in prayer on the occasion of their b’not mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Friday, April 9, 2021. They will be joined in celebration by their proud parents, Stacey and Martin Belkin. Joely and Riley are the loving grandchildren of Lynn and the late Kenneth Levine, and Elaine and Alan B...…

…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 33 When No Means No W hat a terrible tragedy. Nadav and Avihu, Aaron’s two sons, have just perished in the presence of their father, Aaron. At what should have been the high point of their careers, these two young men were killed by a heavenly flame as they brought an unsanctioned fire- pan of incense into the confines of the Tabernacle. Why did this ter- rible event happen? Some people say they were drunk, ...…

…34 | APRIL 8 • 2021 Synagogue Directory CONSERVATIVE Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills (248) 851-5100 adatshalom.org Ahavas Israel Grand Rapids (616) 949-2840 ahavasisraelgr.org Congregation Beth Ahm West Bloomfield (248) 851-6880 cbahm.org Beth Israel Flint (810) 732-6310 cbiflint.org Congregation Beth Shalom Oak Park (248) 547-7970 congbethshalom.org Beth Tephilath Moses Mt. Clemens (586) 996-3138 bethtephilathmoses.com B’nai ...…

…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 35 Shomrey Emunah Southfield (248) 559-1533 congregation-shomrey- emunah-105705.square.site The Shul-Chabad Lubavitch West Bloomfield (248) 788-4000 theshul.net Woodward Avenue Shul Royal Oak (248) 414-7485 thewas.net Yagdil Torah Southfield (248) 559-5905 Young Israel of Oak Park (248) 967-3655 yiop.org Young Israel of Southfield (248) 358-0154 yisouthfield.org RECONSTRUCTIONIST Congregation Kehillat Isra...…

…36 | APRIL 8 • 2021 business SPOTlight brought to you in partnership with B I R M I N G H A M G rowing up in Birmingham, Mat Ishbia made his mark as a standout on the Seaholm Maples high school basketball team from 1995 to 1998 — his scrappiness and grit more than compensating for his modest 5’9” height. As an athletic kid from the suburbs with dim prospects of winning a Big 10 athletic schol- arship, Ishbia was nevertheles...…

…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 37 F armington Hills native Eric Feldman has had a long and storied career in politics. As chief of staff for Congressman and, later, Sen. Gary Peters, Eric Feldman spent 12 years overseeing operations in Washington, D.C., and Michigan. “It was a really incredible opportunity,” Feldman, 40, says. Now based out of Chevy Chase, Md., he’s taking his career one step further in a new role with online rent- al marketp...…

…38 | APRIL 8 • 2021 BUSINESS MATT ISHBIA continued from page 36 out for the kids to eat during recruiting visits. ” STRONG WORK ETHIC With a degree from MSU’s busi- ness school, the overachieving third-string point guard mor- phed over two decades into a feisty 41-year-old chairman and chief executive. The Bloomberg news service estimates his per- sonal fortune at $9.42 billion, ranking him as the world’s 244th richest person. Yet ...…

…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 39 first official job in politics working for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He started off as a research analyst for the committee, then worked for the U.S. House of Representatives as a legislative correspondent and research assistant. “Breaking in [to the field] can be diffi- cult and takes a bit of luck,” Feldman says. “Once you break into the Hill, you have a lot of ability to succeed.” This...…

…40 | APRIL 8 • 2021 A 75-year debate that began in 1946 is the subject of a new documentary being produced by a West Bloomfield native. Filmmaker and producer Amy Krause, now based in Solana Beach, Calif., is in the midst of creating Latke vs. Hamantash, the movie. The longstanding interna- tional debate that originated at the University of Chicago exam- ines which is the more perfect Jewish food — the latke or the hamantash. It...…

…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 41 She was also drawn to the humor behind the subject, which includes clever takes on whether the latke or haman- tash is the more perfect Jewish food. “It was funny, ” Krause said. “I didn’t see a lot of funny films at Jewish film festivals, so the idea really intrigued me. ” Krause began to research the debate, which is academ- ic in nature, and connected with fellow debate enthusiast Benjamin Lorch, who now serv...…

…42 | APRIL 8 • 2021 ONLINE CONCERT 7:30 PM, APRIL 8 The Jewish Theological Seminary will present Cantor Gerald Cohen speaking about his com- position Playing for our Lives, written as a tribute to the music and musicians of the Terezin concentra- tion camp. The Cassatt String Quartet will perform. Register at jtsa.edu/playing- for-our-lives. RESEARCH CONFERENCE 9 AM-5 PM, APRIL 9 The Sterling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern...…

…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 43 SPOTLIGHT vative new solutions the Society for Advancement of Education is develop- ing to meet the academ- ic and social needs of teenagers from all seg- ments of Israeli society. Internationally renowned Israeli singer-songwriter Noa (Achinoam Nini) and Gil Dor will be performing. All registrants will receive a special access link. Ticket prices start at $18 and all participants at the Friends ($36) level or...…

…44 | APRIL 8 • 2021 ERETZ A n experimental program has made it possible for Detroit Jewish teens to personally share experiences with Ethiopian teens in Israel. The first par- ticipants in this new BBYO program report enormous success. NITZAN’S STORY I am always amazed by how quickly teens connect to each other and how they form these connections in their own unique ways and develop friendships that often last a lifetime. After C...…

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…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 47 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY FRANK AISHISKIN, 86, of Oak Park, died March 28, 2021. He is survived by many loving nieces, nephews, other relatives and good friends. Mr. Aishiskin was the dear brother and brother-in-law of the late Ann and the late Tobi Goldoftas, the late Miriam and the late Sidney Rosen. Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice. A graveside service was held at Machpelah Cem...…

…48 | APRIL 8 • 2021 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY Science and went on to earn his bachelor’s degree from the Baruch School of Business at the City College of New York in 1964. Throughout his life, Joe was a charming, hard-working, proud and very determined man, who was also a softy at heart and who loved to provide his caretaking abilities and a listening ear to his family and friends. His favorite hobby was to enjoy the sun and t...…

…APRIL 8 • 2021 | 49 Fabiola Berman; sisters-in- law, Julie Roncato, Holly (Carl) Geyer; numerous other family members and countless friends. Mr. Berman was son of the late John “Jimmy” Berman; brother-in-law of the late Marilyn Berman. Interment took place at Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham. Contributions may be made to the Gioblastoma Foundation, the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation or the Fanny Strong Foundation. Arrang...…

…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 50 | APRIL 8 • 2021 grandchildren, Craig Birk and Brandon Birk. Mrs. Birk was the daughter of the late Rose and the late Samuel Goldberg; and sister of the late Norbert Goldberg. RITA ELKEN, 97, of West Bloomfield, died March 17, 2021. She is survived by her sons and daughter- in-law, Irving Elken, and Stephen and Melissa Elken; grandchildren, Adam, Seth and Rachel Elken, Brett Elken, Lauren and ...…