… JANUARY 30 • 2020 | 51 continued on page 52 DR. BERNARD LEON TOFT, 84, of West Bloomfield, died Jan. 18, 2020. Born Dec. 21, 1935, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Bernie grew up in a very large fam- ily in Vancouver, British Columbia. After high school, Bernie worked summers as a carhop to put himself through medical school. He graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1962 and came to the United States to complete a pediat- r...…
…52 | JANUARY 30 • 2020 Soul of blessed memory continued from page 51 ARNOLD WAXMAN, 84 of West Bloomfield, died Jan. 23, 2020. He is survived by his beloved wife, Betty Waxman; daughter and son-in-law, Sue and Dr. Erik Zuckerberg; son, Michael Waxman; grandchildren, Max Zuckerberg and Rachel Zuckerberg; many loving nieces, nephews, other family members and friends. Interment took place at Hebrew Memorial Park Cemetery in Cl...…
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… JANUARY 23 • 2020 | 5 Views for starters Jewish Food F ood is integral to Jewish culture; everything revolves around eating. All our major holidays are food-centric. I mean, what’ s Chanukah without latkes? Purim without hamentashen? Passover without gefilte fish? Rosh Hashanah without almond boneless chicken and Gai Kow? I have met more Jews at Chinese restaurants on the Breaking of the Fast than at Kol Nidre (Counting th...…
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… JANUARY 23 • 2020 | 11 The Hazon Detroit invites the community to a Tu B’ Shvat seder. H azon Detroit will convene more than 17 organizations for a celebration of Tu B’ Shvat from 6-8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 9, in the JCC’ s Handelman Hall. Using the mystical Tu B’ Shvat seder structure as a guide, the theme of the evening will focus on trees, climate and the role we play in healing our planet and will feature speakers and experts ...…
…12 | JANUARY 23 • 2020 Farber teens relish studying Talmud; three attended fi rst women’ s Siyum HaShas in Jerusalem. CORRIE COLF STAFF WRITER Jews in the D A t the beginning of January, Jews around the world marked the com- pletion of a cycle of Daf Yomi, the page-a-day study of the 2,711 pages of the Talmud, with a Siyum HaShas, a celebration held at the end of each 7-year-5-month cycle. This year’ s completion had special si...…
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…14 | JANUARY 23 • 2020 grow our education. ” Klausner said, “The trip gave us time to learn with other girls in the seminaries. It was interesting to see how they spend hours every day learning Gemara — and it gets us excited to be able to partic- ipate in that as well. ” Although Schon did not attend the siyum in Jerusalem, she was able to teach a shiur (Talmudic study session) here to 25 adult attendees and share her learning of ...…
… JANUARY 23 • 2020 | 15 Jewish life to every student. ” Although Rabbi Stein has met people who have opposed his ideology, he has never let that get in the way of his goals of providing girls with equal opportunity to learn Gemara. “I have three daughters (including Sima) who are old enough now to learn Gemara and I couldn’ t imagine not wanting to share this experience with them, ” Rabbi Stein said. Amy Stein, wife of Rabbi Stein,...…
…Seven-Year Court Case Ends Government elects not to intervene in whistleblower lawsuit against Chabad’ s Michigan Jewish Institute. JN STAFF Jews in the D N early seven years after a whis- tleblower filed suit against the Michigan Jewish Institute (MJI), the U.S. government has elected not to intervene. The whistleblower, Dawn Klobuchar of Waterford, who worked at MJI as an IT manager, filed the sealed claim in October 2013, under ...…
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…Jews in the D 18 | JANUARY 23 • 2020 Girls Scouts will explore different religions at the DIA. STACY GITTLEMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER H undreds of Girl Scouts from across Metro Detroit will embark on an interfaith scavenger hunt Jan. 26 at the Detroit Institute of the Arts as they recognize symbols and stories of the world’ s five major faiths. The hunt is one compo- nent of a day-long program, part of a long-standing peace initiat...…
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…20 | JANUARY 23 • 2020 Jews in the D ANDREY MARUSHCHAK A lex Goldis remembers going on field trips as a student in Zhitomir, Ukraine, where he was born. He didn’ t realize then that his grandparents, along with thousands of other Jews killed during the Holocaust, were buried just across the road. In December, Goldis, 69, of Bloomfield Hills traveled to Zhitomir for a religious cer- emony to unveil a memorial to those murdered J...…
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…24 | JANUARY 23 • 2020 Jews in the D Handwriting Analysis Local expert with longtime graphology experience shares his knowledge. ROCHEL BURSTYN CONTRIBUTING WRITER I f you write a letter to Rabbi Baruch Lazewnik, be warned: He can learn per- sonal things about your history, upbringing and personality just from looking at your hand- writing. Lazewnik’ s interest in gra- phology started when he was 19. He met Rabbi Chaim Lifshi...…
… JANUARY 23 • 2020 | 25 Jews in the D signatures. “Trump’ s is very angular; he doesn’ t back off from confron- tation; he probably even likes it. He’ s tough. ” Lazewnik has many unusu- al anecdotes. Once, some handwritten nasty graffiti was discovered in the bathroom stalls in a Jewish day school. Lazewnik was called in to find the culprit. “It’ s not always easy with little kids, but after carefully studying handwrit- ing sampl...…
…Jews in the D 26 | JANUARY 23 • 2020 NCJW The National Council of Jewish Women, Michigan’ s Fall Focus event “Freedom Denied,” focusing on labor trafficking, was attended by more than 70 people Nov. 12 at the Birmingham Temple in Farmington Hills. Left to right: Kelly Carter, Michigan Assistant Attorney General and Senior Attorney Specialist- Human Trafficking Unit; Cathy Cantor, co-chair of NCJW|MI’ s Human Trafficking Awareness...…
… JANUARY 23 • 2020 | 27 A Promise To Keep I n May 2019, Dr. Ethan Goldstein of West Bloomfield began riding his Peloton bike for 365 con- secutive days not just for him- self, but also for his late father. Goldstein’ s father, Dr. Mervin Goldstein, was a plastic surgeon in Newport Beach, Calif. He lived a nor- mal and healthy life until May 1, 1997, when he experi- enced his first stroke. “He suffered from a very unusual stroke tha...…
…28 | JANUARY 23 • 2020 Saving Lives Tukel brothers develop drone to deliver life-saving medications. CORRIE COLF STAFF WRITER Jews in the D M atthew and Connor Tukel have some big things in common: They happen to be brothers; they are both in medical school; they graduated from Hillel Day School and Frankel Jewish Academy; and, just recent- ly, they reinvented the way anti-overdose drugs such as nal- oxone are delivered to pa...…
… JANUARY 23 • 2020 | 29 Jews in the D Matthew and Connor Tukel’ s drone. PHOTOGRAPHY COURTESY OF MATTHEW TUKEL response data set from the Detroit city controller to help them gather the data points and distances they needed to test the drone for. Next, they conducted 50 flight trials with the drone across seven different straight- line distances. The data col- lected at the end of the trials proved that the drone travel times are f...…
…I n the earliest days of the modern state of Israel, Dov Noy and his students went into the field and recorded folktales recounted by local storytellers. Noy founded the Israel Folktale Archives in 1955 in Haifa; the collec- tion now contains more than 24,000 narratives in various languages, as told by storytellers of Jewish communities around the world, and of Israeli non-Jews, Muslim and Christian Arabs, Bedouins, Druze and Circassi...…
…Jews in the D JANUARY 23 • 2020 | 31 Nazi Salute Flint councilman under fi re for rude gesture. CORRIE COLF STAFF WRITER F lint Councilman Eric Mays is under fire for comparing Council President Monica Galloway to “Hitler” and performing a Nazi salute at the council’ s general meeting on Monday, Jan. 13. Mays directed the comment “you ain’ t got to be like Hitler,” toward Galloway and then proceeded to perform the Nazi salute an...…
…32 | JANUARY 23 • 2020 The Chicken Soup Cook Off is on Sunday, Jan. 26, at Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield, from 12:30-2 p.m. Five-hundred-plus happily hungry people will enjoy the talents of amateur, novice and professional chefs, who will present their special chicken soup recipes and samples. Through sponsorship and ticket sales, the event supports four deserving organizations: Gilda’ s Club, Young Adult Group of Templ...…
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…| faces&places Jews in the D The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus hosted its 35th Anniversary Dinner at the Suburban Collection Showplace late last year. More than 1,500 guests made it a sold-out event. The annual fundraiser honored Nina and Bernie Kent for their significant work to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust empower people today. The keynote speaker was Dr. Ruth Westheimer, an orphan of the Holoc...…
…| faces&places Jews in the D 36 | JANUARY 23 • 2020 Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC Community Outreach Manager Sam Englender, Rabbi Asher Lopatin, Archbishop Allen Vigneron and Monsignor John Kasza The Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC (JCRC/AJC) recently hosted a luncheon for Archbishop Allen Vigneron of Detroit at the Max M. Fisher Federation Building. More than 25 local rabbis and professionals from Jewish communal...…
…Moments JANUARY 23 • 2020 | 37 Ethan Charles Roth (Eitan Barack), son of Matthew and Sarah Roth, will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2020. Sharing in this joy with Ethan and his parents will be his sister Anna, brother Owen, and grandparents Rena and Ronald Meyers, and Susan and Richard Roth. Ethan is a seventh-grader at Norup International in Oak Pa...…
…38 | JANUARY 23 • 2020 Spirit torah portion B y virtue of an acclaimed Broadway production of recent vintage, many have come to a renewed appreciation of the fascinating story of an American “Founding Father.” His roller-coaster life, punctuated by the key role he played in the shaping of the great experiment called American democracy , inspired the opening words of Hamilton: “How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore a...…
… JANUARY 23 • 2020 | 39 J oshua Bergasse won’ t be in town for the touring production of Roald Dahl’ s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, but his choreography will be. Bergasse, whose fascination with dance launched at his mom’ s Annette and Company School of Dance in Farmington Hills, planned the intricate footwork for the Broadway run and tweaked it a bit for the tour. “I was not available to get to the bulk of the rehearsals for...…
…40 | JANUARY 23 • 2020 “I had choreographic ideas and the designers had some new design ideas. The tour is probably one step better than the Broadway production.” — JOSHUA BERGASSE continued from page 39 taught at his mom’ s studio and now teaches at New York schools, including the Broadway Dance Center and Steps on Broadway. “Because of my choreography jobs, I call up different studios and say I’ m free on certain days and ask ...…
… JANUARY 23 • 2020 | 41 Good Will Local authors’ longtime adventure leads to a novel about Shakespeare. SHARI S. COHEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER S hakespeare isn’ t every- one’ s cup of tea but, for Barbara and Art Wiggins, the man and his work have fascinated them for decades. “How did a glover’ s son with a grammar school edu- cation become the world’ s greatest playwright?” they asked themselves 25 years ago. Since then, the Bloom...…
…42 | JANUARY 23 • 2020 Arts&Life celebrity jews NEW TV/STREAMING Outmatched, a Fox sit-com, starts on Thursday, Jan. 23, at 8:30 p.m. It’ s about a blue-collar couple (Jason Biggs and Maggie Lawson) who live in Atlantic City, N.J. They are trying to raise four kids — three of whom are certi- fied geniuses. Biggs, a real Jersey native, often proudly calls himself the “Jewiest-looking non-Jew.” He’ s played Jewish characters four ...…
…On The Go people | places | events JANUARY 23 • 2020 | 43 JAN. 27 HOLOCAUST EXHIBIT “The Holocaust Unfolds” is a new exhibit showcasing the coverage of WWII by the Detroit Jewish News and its prede- cessor, the Detroit Jewish Chronicle. It is on display on the second floor of the Mardigian Library at the University of Michigan Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn. Free and open to the public, 7-9 pm. Light refreshments will be ...…
…On The Go people | places | events 44 | JANUARY 23 • 2020 continued from page 43 JEWS IN ARAB LANDS 7-8:30 pm, Jan 28. “The Forgotten Jews of Arab Lands.” At the Max M. Fisher Federation Building. Prof. Howard Lupovitch will present the story of the Jews in Arab lands forming a major gap in most of the world’ s knowledge of the history of the Middle East. Learn about the history and culture of this important segment o...…
