…FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 | 55 ARTS&LIFE BOOK REVIEW I n Alice Cooper @ 75, Gary Graff cel- ebrates the career of the famed shock rock musician in a glossy, big-format, coffee table book with dozens of photos, packed into 75 short chapters, one for each year of Cooper’s life. The publisher, Motorbooks, began the series with David Bowie @ 75 and Elton John @ 75. Alice Cooper first showed up on the nation’s radar in the early 1970s, when th...…
…56 | FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 Meet Gary Graff JACKIE HEADAPOHL EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Gary Graff admits that he’s been a “geeky music fan” since he was very young and listened to his older brother’s albums at his childhood home in Pittsburgh. “Music became always on the side of whatever I was doing,” he said. He grew up at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, where 11 people were killed by an armed terrorist in 2018. Graff knew several o...…
…FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 | 57 album “Detroit Stories” in Royal Oak. Alice Cooper has acquired a surpris- ing collection of mentors, collaborators and admirers over the decades. Early in his career, he earned the approval of the members of the Friars Club, most of them elderly Jewish comedians. They “got” the ghoulish stage effects that so shocked others in their age cohort. George Burns recognized in-performance beheading as “shtick,” someth...…
…58 | FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 MARC MARON SPECIAL, EINSTEIN = ROYALTIES, AND TWO DISNEY SHOWS Marc Maron’s first HBO Original comedy special, Marc Maron: From Bleak to Dark, will debut on the network on Feb. 11 at 10 p.m. Maron previously had four hit stand-up specials on Epix and Netflix. Maron, of course, is not just a stand-up comedian, he is an actor (best known for the GLOW, a Netflix series) and the host of an incredibly succes...…
…FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 | 59 ON STAGE NOW-FEB. 18 An intriguing psychological thriller with an explosive ending is at the Farmington Players Barn in Farmington Hills. Wait Until Dark, Tickets are available now at farmingtonplayers. org or at the box office: 248-553-2955. The story focuses on Susie Hendrix, a blind housewife from Greenwich village, who lost her eyesight in a car crash. On a train back to New York, a stranger hides a ...…
…6 | FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 1942 - 2023 Covering and Connecting Jewish Detroit Every Week To make a donation to the DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION go to the website www.djnfoundation.org 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: De...…
…60 | FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 KIDS’ NIGHT OUT 5:30-8 PM, FEB. 11 At Adat Shalom Synagogue. Kids will enjoy hanging out with their friends, eating dinner, doing Havdalah with Hazzan Gross and having fun. Kindergarten to fourth-graders will enjoy watching magician Steve Zieman’s show and learning how to do magic tricks. Fourth- to seventh-graders will enjoy playing games at Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum. Fourth-graders can ch...…
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…FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 | 63 E Cycle Opportunities, an electronic recycling business operated by Gesher Human Services which provides jobs for people with barriers to employment, collected 23,612 pounds of electronics on Jan. 3 at its “Toss Your TV Tuesday” recycling event. During this special daylong event, the normal $25 fee for TV disposal for residents was waived and other electronics, including computers, monitors, printers, ph...…
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…FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 | 65 continued on page 66 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY DOREEN BILLET, 80, of West Bloomfield, died Jan. 28, 2023. She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Marvin Billet; daughter and son-in-law, Faye and Paul Blatt of Oak Park; son, Louis Billet of Plymouth; grandchildren, Spencer Blatt, Alana Blatt, Avery Billet; nieces and nephews, Donna Sacks, Mitchell and Cathy Merzin, Neil Merzin, Jeffrey and Jacq...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 66 | FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 (Pam) Feinstein, Adam (Jaimi) Brook, Amy (Ivan) Katz, Roberta (Terry) Bavin, David (Annu Matthew) Wells, Josh (Kelli) Wells; grandchildren, Rhand, Dean and Hannah Feinstein, Cody (Madison) Bonsignore, Molly (Morgan) Nye, Noah, Evan and Piper Brook, Samantha and Lindsey Katz, Derek Bavin, Elisa (Michael) Schick, SaraBeth (Victor Smith) Bavin, Rachel Wells and Adina Wells; g...…
…FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 | 67 ASPCA. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. DR. JO ISAACSON, 92, of Southfield, died Jan. 30, 2023. He is survived by his daughters and sons-in-law, Carol and Mark Barash, and Lizzy and Josh Cohen; sons and daughters-in-law, Bud and Kathy Isaacson, and Jim and Robyn Isaacson; grandchildren, Talia and Pat Camalo, Josh Barash, Ben and Liz Isaacson, Megan and Max Pinson, Lauren Isaacson, Aaron Isaacson, Abig...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 68 | FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 c. 2004 THOMAS LUGOSI, 87, of West Bloomfield, died Jan. 14, 2023. He is survived by his daugh- ters and sons- in-law, Susan and Matthew Burnstein, and Dianne and Dr. Stewart Baroff; grandchildren, Samantha Burnstein, Sydnie Burnstein, Dr. Brandon Baroff and Olivia Lehnertz, and Kaila and Blake Brueggemann; sister, Gabriella Karp; neph- ews and nieces, Gary Karp and Bren...…
…FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 | 69 Mrs. Sanfield was the beloved wife of the late Jerome Sanfield; mother of the late Sharon Sidder; sister of the late Teresa (the late Joseph) Mash and the late Clara (the late Sam) Gendleman; sister-in-law of the late Marvin (the late Sarah) Sanfield and the late Phillip (Sally) Sanfield. Interment was held at Beth Moses Cemetery in Roseville. Contributions may be made to Jewish Senior Life, to the Alzhe...…
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…70 | FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org The Loewenstein Legacy A chance encounter led to the topic for this Looking Back. Recently, I attended a meeting for the Jewish Federation of Metro Detroit’s 2023 Motor City Mission to Israel. At one point, a meeting leader said: “I’ d like you to introduce yourself to some- one you have never me...…
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…8 | FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 I t’s impossible to truly process what it means to visit a site of mass murder — especially when you’re traveling with a White House entourage. On his first visit to Poland, the country from which his family fled antisemitism more than a century ago, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff was flanked by members of the Secret Service and Polish security and trailed by a handful of traveling journalists and up to ...…
…FEBRUARY 9 • 2023 | 9 continued from page 8 Jonathan Ornstein, director of the Krakow JCC since 2008, told me that the Holocaust sur- vivors who belong to the JCC had asked that their dues be devoted to helping Ukrainian refugees. While visiting the Remah synagogue, a small ornate shul built in the 1600s, Emhoff spoke with a survivor who spent three years hiding in the Polish forests as a young boy. He told Emhoff that “the trau-...…
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