…OCTOBER 6 • 2022 | 39 Special Sukkot Monday Night Experience Temple Israel to host program for students. RACHEL SWEET ASSOCIATE EDITOR On Monday, Oct. 10, Temple Israel will host a Special Monday Night Sukkot Experience for all middle and high school students to learn about the importance of recycling plastic materials and to build a Sukkah out of recycled plastics. “We are using the idea of Sukkot to make an eco-friendly s...…
…40 | OCTOBER 6 • 2022 I srael, more than any other place in the world, holds a lot of meaning to a lot of people: the hope of 2,000 years, the first flowering of our redemption, the Startup Nation, the Homeland. This is, of course, part of what makes Israel special. Yet, in the mix of all that it represents, the actual state can sometimes get lost. “It’s one of the most fascinating places on the planet, ” says Rich Broder. “Whethe...…
…OCTOBER 6 • 2022 | 41 that year — we all flew out the same day. But we went back the following year. And we continue to go back. MAKING AN AUTHENTIC CONNECTION TO ISRAEL Rich: I think the only real way to understand Israel is to have relationships with real people on the ground. Having American Jews understand what the Israeli point of view is — not from the newspaper, not from CNN and not from politics — but in reality. What...…
…42 | OCTOBER 6 • 2022 and they stayed here before and after camp. SEEING CONNECTIONS AND DIFFERENCES Rich: We’re always shocked at how we’re very culturally different. Lisa: I’ll give you an instance with Yiftah [Leket, the current shaliach in Detroit]. I brought his kids Chanukah presents, and he was so confused. In Israel, it’s not a gift-giving holiday. And here, you have to work to be Jewish. That’s the biggest shock for...…
…OCTOBER 6 • 2022 | 43 HOW TO SUBMIT ANNOUNCEMENTS Mazel Tov! announcements are welcomed for members of the Jewish community. Anniversaries, engagements and weddings with a photo (preferably color) can appear at a cost of $18 each. Births are $10. There is no charge for bar/bat mitzvahs or for special birthdays starting at the 90th. For information, contact Editorial Assistant Sy Manello at smanello@thejewishnews.com or (248) 351-5147 for...…
…44 | OCTOBER 6 • 2022 SPIRIT The Lord Is Our Rock T his portion records the moment when Moses led the Israelites through the desert to the east- ern shores of the Jordan River. He then recites a long poem (“song”) as the con- clusion of his farewell address. It is his legacy to the children. In these prophet- ic warnings, Moses, through the inspiration of God, exhorts the people to walk with the Lord. If they do not, then these...…
…OCTOBER 6 • 2022 | 45 I n the glorious song with which Moses addresses the congregation, he invites the people to think of the Torah — their covenant with God — as if it were like the rain that waters the ground so that it brings forth its produce: “ Let My teaching drop as rain, My words descend like dew, Like showers on new grass, Like abundant rain on tender plants.” Deut. 32:2 God’s word is like rain in a dry l...…
…46 | OCTOBER 6 • 2022 NO TWO PEOPLE ARE ALIKE This is a point emphasized by Maimonides in Guide for the Perplexed: “Man is, as you know, the highest form in creation, and he, therefore, includes the largest number of constituent elements. This is why the human race contains so great a variety of individuals that we cannot discover two persons exactly alike in any moral quality or in external appearance… “This great variety and the...…
…Synagogue Directory METRO DETROIT CONSERVATIVE Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills (248) 851-5100 adatshalom.org Congregation Beth Ahm West Bloomfield (248) 851-6880 cbahm.org Congregation Beth Shalom Oak Park (248) 547-7970 congbethshalom.org Beth Tephilath Moses Mt. Clemens (586) 996-3138 bethtephilathmoses.com B’nai Israel Synagogue West Bloomfield (248) 432-2729 bnaiisraelwb.org Congregation B’nai Moshe West Blo...…
…OCTOBER 6 • 2022 | 48 Temple Emanu-El Oak Park (248) 967-4020 emanuel-mich.org Temple Israel West Bloomfield (248) 661-5700 temple-israel.org Temple Kol Ami West Bloomfield (248) 661-0040 tkolami.org Temple Shir Shalom West Bloomfield (248) 737-8700 shirshalom.org REFORM/RENEWAL Congregation Shir Tikvah Troy (248) 649-4418 shirtikvah.org SECULAR/HUMANISTIC Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Metro Detroit Farmington...…
…OCTOBER 6 • 2022 | 49 F or those who aren’t in the know, it would be easy to drive past The Blue Bird Inn on Tireman on Detroit’s west side without giving it a second glance. The building, with an old beer and wine store on the left and a towing shop on the right, has boarded up windows and bars on the door. The sky- blue façade contains hints of the structure’s musical past, but you’ d have to look closely to notice the hand-p...…
…50 | OCTOBER 6 • 2022 continued from page 49 Legends like Miles Davis and John Coltrane once played there, but the club closed in the early 2000s due to neigh- borhood disinvestment. Now, Raduns-Silverstein and his team are leading the effort to restore The Blue Bird Inn and bring the abandoned gem back to life. In 2016, Detroit Sound Conservancy worked with Wayne State University and the previous owners to salvage the building...…
…OCTOBER 6 • 2022 | 51 BeepBeep. ” “I practice guitar daily, play- ing jazz standards, classical and American fingerstyle, ” he says. “I love digging for and sharing records. I DJ these records any chance I can. I try my best to honor and build in the spirit of Detroit music and specifically Detroit Techno through all of these musical endeavors. ” There’s also a family con- nection. His grandmother, Elaine Silverstein, was born in t...…
…52 | OCTOBER 6 • 2022 TV SHOWS (POLICE, GAME SHOW) AND THREE VERY DIFFERENT FILMS The CBS police show East New York premiered last Sunday. (New episodes air on Sundays at 9 p.m.). African American actress Amanda Ward stars as Regina Haywood, a police inspector who has just been promoted to lead a precinct in a historically poor Brooklyn neighborhood that is just starting to gentrify. Veteran character actor Richard Kind, 65, ...…
…OCTOBER 6 • 2022 | 53 BABIES & NOSH 10:30-11:30 AM, OCT. 7 Come grab a snack and meet some new friends. This free event, sponsored by JFamily Detroit, is geared toward families with babies ages 0-9 months. At Beverly Hills Village Park, 18801 Beverly Hills Road, Beverly Hills. AT THE ARK 8 PM, OCT. 7 Kiltro will perform at The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor. Tickets: $20. Conceived in the lively, bohemian port city of Valparais...…
…54 | OCTOBER 6 • 2022 SPOTLIGHT C habaD of Greater Downtown Detroit’s upcoming Sukkot event and its new, separate initiative are tied together by the ultimate game of strategy: chess. For Sukkot this year, ChabaD is holding a Black & White Sukkah Party, which will feature a chess theme. “We’ve had many friends and supporters who are into chess, ” said executive director Rabbi Yisrael Pinson. “We didn’t want to do it “too-chess...…
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…LAWRENCE E. BLASE, M.D., 61, of West Bloomfield, died Sept. 25, 2022. He is survived by his beloved wife, Dr. Barbara Blase; children, Dr. Bryan (Jessica) Blase, Shayna (Ginger) Blaze and Jessyca Blase; mother, Elizabeth (the late Bernard) Blase; grand- children, Devyn Bridgett Blase and Jordyn Bella Blase; siblings, Susan (Dr. Craig) Gordon, Dr. Norman (Rebecca) Blase and Alan Blasé; many loving nieces, nephews, other family ...…
…OCTOBER 6 • 2022 | 57 continued on page 58 Box 3673, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, plannedparenthood. org; or a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. LORETTA R. GOLDZWEIG, 91, of The Villages, Fla., died Sept. 18, 2022. She is survived by her daughter, Sharon Madison; grandchildren, Emily, Michael and Jeffrey; great-grandchildren, Austin and Milana. Loretta was the beloved wife of the late Leonard Goldzweig; mot...…
…58 | OCTOBER 6 • 2022 continued from page 57 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY in-law of the late Rosalyn Metz, the late Leonard and the late Lee Metz, the late Charlotte and the late Hyman Shebowich, the late David and the late Thelma Victor Metz. Contributions may be made to Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND), wand.org/donate; or to a charity of one’s choice. A funeral service was held at Hebrew Memorial Chapel. Interment...…
…OCTOBER 6 • 2022 | 59 continued on page 60 HAROLD “HAL” MIZNER, 84, of Keego Harbor, died Sept. 23, 2022. He was a proud Navy veteran, craft- er and friend to all. His favorite title was Grandpa. Family who will cherish his memory include his wife of almost 40 years, Yvette “Bunny” Mizner; sons and daughters-in- law, Richard and Lorrie Gaft, Jeffery and Darby Gaft, Mitchell Gaft, Howard and Amy Gaft, and Stuart and Donna Gaft; ...…
…continued from page 59 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 60 | OCTOBER 6 • 2022 State graduates by the Women of Wayne Alumni Association. Eva also enjoyed giving back, particularly to creating a better democracy. She spent more than 58 years volunteering at the League of Women Voters and earned the league’s prestigious Belle Brotherton Award. She also supported numerous causes, particularly involving voting and education, including act...…
…OCTOBER 6 • 2022 | 61 Sidney Blackman, Betsy and Dr. David Madorsky, Valerie and Tim Francis, Peter Rubin, Michael and Lori Rubin; grandchildren, Beth and Bruce Dincin, Erin Madorsky, Sam and Andrea Madorsky, Jordan and Rebecca Bolton, Ian and Sara Bolton, Ian and Rachel Francis, Elizabeth Francis, Dora Rubin, Lawrence Rubin; great-grandchildren, Jacob, Adam, Hannah, Ella, Macy, Lilah, Izabella, Isaac, Sophia, Jack, Lois; many o...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org Day of Atonement Y om Kippur 5783 was Wednesday, Oct. 5, marking the end of the Days of Awe beginning with Rosh Hashanah. It is a somber holiday of reflection and atonement. The William Davidson Digital Archive of Detroit Jewish History holds nearly 9,000 pages that mention Yom Kippur. Not a surprise considering that...…
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…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 3 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-11 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 12 A Jewish Superhero Saves Gotham City!! Celebrating the Jewish heritage of comic books. 18 Memorial of Tears Monument honors Kay family and Wloszczowa Holocaust victims. 21 ‘70 Stories for 70 Years’ Detroit Jewish Book Fair’s yearlong festival gears up with November Festival Week. 22 Helping Afghan Refugees $500,000 allocated ...…
…4 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY essay What the Tree of Life Shooting Revealed about American Jewry A few years ago, a col- league called to inter- view me for a book he was writing about journalists who worked for Jewish publi- cations. I told him that it would be the first book in history whose readership would overlap 100% with the people being interviewed. That’s a little bit how I feel about books that look deeply ...…
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…8 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 I t may turn out that a lot of Americans are devoting more thought to the ques- tion of who will ultimately succeed the late Alex Trebek as the host of Jeopardy! than they do about far weightier issues. When Trebek, who had been the face of the venerable quiz show for 36 years, died last year at the age of 80, it set off a much-bally- hooed search for a successor. The competition was intense and ultimat...…
…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 9 don’t think she’s controversial are those without access to the internet. A search of her YouTube videos would show that she has expressed an opinion about just about every aspect of her life as a parent (about which she has also writ- ten two books), her divorce, open relationships, sexual harassment, holistic medicine, food (she is vegan) and her experiences as a sitcom actress. So, there’s plenty of ammuni...…
…10 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY essay To My Youngest Daughter Upon Her Joining the IDF D ear D., Last month, [undercover count- er-terrorism] Duvdevan commandos — a commander and his signal operator — were shot multiple times while chasing Hamas terror- ists. One bullet pierced one of the command- er’s grenades. Thanks to an Israeli techno- logical inno- vation, the grenade didn’t explode. A medic ran to them, defy- i...…
…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 11 my timeline, contrasting my perennial studenthood’s free- dom, comforts and indul- gences with your challenging, if hopefully fulfilling, road ahead. My head lists all the ways soldiering builds char- acter, but my heart hurts that we still need soldiers at all — let alone how desperately we need smart, effective, ide- alistic soldiers like you. And I, probably more than you, keenly feel your sacrifice in temp...…
…OUR COMMUNITY Jewish Jewish Jewish Jewish Superhero Superhero Saves Saves Saves Saves Gotham City!! Celebrating the Jewish heritage of comic books. 12 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 PIXIBAY Superman and Harley Quinn PIXIBAY Gotham City!! Superhero Superhero “T he comic book is a Jewish invention. The superhero genre is a Jewish invention. The comic con [convention] is a Jewish invention, ” writer Roy Schwartz explained during Mo...…
…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 13 signifiers, ” says the Israeli-born Schwartz. Schwartz has written for newspapers, magazines, toy companies, production studios and writes about pop culture for CNN.com. He has taught English and writing at the City University of New York. His new book, Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero, is the product of six and a half years of work and started as his graduate...…
…14 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 names were Segalovich and Shusterowich, respectively. Prolific comic artist Gil Kane was Eli Katz. Batman co-creator Bob Kane was Robert Kahn. “It goes on and on and on, ” Schwartz says. JEWISH CHARACTERS In the earlier days, comic book characters did not state their religious or ethnic identities. That started to change in the 1970s, Lockhart says. “The very first ever explicitly Jewish comic was in 1948...…
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…16 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 continued from page 14 OUR COMMUNITY torically Jewish neighborhood that retains a strong sense of its Jewish heritage today. Lockhart spent a lot of time there growing up. “I felt this connection partly because I had studied and read about the history of the LES for another project and because I grew up going there, ” Lockhart said. “I felt this connection of my own family to the city, and our her- itage w...…
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…18 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY Memorial of SHARI S. COHEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER GLENN TRIEST PHOTOGRAPHER Tears Stuart Kay of Franklin visits his family’s memorial. …
…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 19 Cemetery monument memorializes the Kay family and the graveless Holocaust victims of Wloszczowa, Poland. T he myriad of tombstones of Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery in Clinton Township are uniform in height and shape, lined up in even rows that mark the graves of hundreds of Jewish Detroiters. But Section 18 has one tombstone unlike any other with several com- ponents — a tall centerpiece with two carved dark stone...…
…20 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 was a frequent Kay family trip. Chesed Shel Emes has several memorial benches dedicated to the Jewish residents of commu- nities that were decimated by the Nazis. Kay wanted to install a bench, but cemetery rules permitted memorial benches only for entire Jewish commu- nities, not individual families. Undaunted, Kay designed an addition to the existing mon- ument — one that highlighted the 800 Jewish familie...…
…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 21 T he 70th anniversary of the JCC of Metro Detroit’s Jewish Book Fair kicks off in November with its biggest and most ambitious installment yet. The fair will be celebrating with programming the entire year: “70 stories for 70 years,” with the goal of holding 70 events in that time frame. “It’s going to be a lot of fun, a little crazy for us, but I think it’s going to be great,” said Jaemi Loeb, senior director...…
…OUR COMMUNITY T he state of Michigan has allocated $500,000 to help house about 1,300 Afghan refugees expected to arrive in the state, officials announced this month. As the Taliban continues to exert power over Afghanistan, resettlement agencies across the U.S. are preparing to support an influx of Afghan refugees fleeing the country. Jewish Family Services (JFS) of Washtenaw County is one of five resettlement groups the state...…
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…24 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 S ince the 1960s, Fiddler on the Roof has been a staple of Jewish community and culture. The classic film and Broadway production captures Jewish life in a shtetl in pre-revolutionary Russia, navigating the ups and downs of everyday matters. Now, Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield will bring the story to life once more with a musical revue of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, a Broadway Yiddish-language ad...…
