…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY OCTOBER 7 • 2021 | 49 ESTHER APPLEBAUM, 74, of Southfield, passed away in her Southfield home on the evening of Sept. 26, 2021. Born in Detroit on July 7, 1924, to Sol and Rose Ryback, Esther was the only daughter and the first of their four children, fol- lowed by her three broth- ers Bernard, Gordon and Ralph. As a teenager, she worked with her parents in the family store while attending first ...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 50 | OCTOBER 7 • 2021 member of Israel chapter B’nai B’rith, which was char- tered on her birthday in 1948. She served as president several times as well as the Louis Marshall president, when the chapters eventually merged. She also served on the B’nai B’rith Council of Metropolitan Detroit. She loved meeting new people and giving of her time and energy for worthy causes. She had a knack for making ...…
…OCTOBER 7 • 2021 | 51 Contributions may be made to National Kidney Foundation, 30 E. 33rd St., New York, NY 10016, kidney. org/donation. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. BARBARA HUBERT, 83, of West Bloomfield, died Sept. 27, 2021. She was a pub- lic school educator for 40 years and a volunteer docent at the Holocaust Memorial Center. Mrs. Hubert is survived by her husband of 62 years, Leslie Edward Hubert; sons and daughter...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 52 | OCTOBER 7 • 2021 Phillip (Phyllis) Shusterman. Interment was held at Beth El Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association or the American Heart Association. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. SHELDON G. LEVIN, 81, of West Bloomfield, died Sept. 29, 2021. He is survived by his sister and brother-in- law, Susan and Gary Meklir of West Bloomfield; sis...…
…OCTOBER 7 • 2021 | 53 THEDA SCHEFMAN, 97, of Bloomfield Hills, died Sept. 28, 2021. She is survived by her sons and daughters- in-law, Leslie and Carol Schefman, Robert and Christine Schefman, and Bryan and Amy Schefman; grandchildren, Lauren and Scott Lichtenstein, Alyssa and J.P. Affeld, Jamie Schefman, Samantha Schefman, Nicolas Schefman, Jordan and Aaron Staenberg, Zachary and Jessica Schefman, Michael and Lauren Schefm...…
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… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 5 Dear Friends, It is with deep gratitude that I express how much it meant to me to see so many lovely friends from across the community, former students (and their children!) and extended family at the drive- by parade in my honor at Congregation Shaarey Zedek. You all warmed my heart so much, and this will remain a lovely, cherished memory. Warm thanks to the amazing women of Congregation Shaarey Zedek Sisterhood for ...…
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…16 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 W ith Election Day in a few days, Jewish college students across Michigan are still in the process of voting early or mak- ing their plans to vote Nov. 3. At the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, campus Hillels are helping those students in every way possible, acting as a source of informa- tion in an important time. Both U-M Hillel and MSU Hillel are putting their election efforts into...…
… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 17 T amarack Camps has announced that effective Nov. 1, Steve Engel, its executive director since 2010, will retire after a 40-year career. Lee Trepeck, for- merly director of Camp Maas (Tamarack’ s flagship camp in Ortonville), will become Tamarack’ s CEO, and Carly Weinstock will take over as the director of Camp Maas. “I want to acknowledge Steve Engel’ s exception- al passion, commitment and hard wo...…
…18 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 DANNY SCHWARTZ STAFF WRITER J ewish Michigan State Rep. Ryan Berman has rebuked backlash and a recent call from the Oakland County Democratic Party (OCDP) to “denounce his ties to militias, ” following the arrest of 13 men accused of plot- ting to “storm” the state capitol and kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The OCDP circulated two separate pho- tos of Berman pictured with armed individuals, one dated Sep...…
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… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 23 Howard-Katz D r. Arthur Howard and Linda Slifkin Katz, both formerly from N.J., were married recently in their Wellington, Fla., home. Rabbi Stephen Pinsky officiated. Their Paris honeymoon was canceled due to the COVID pandemic. Dr. Howard, son of the late Michael and Beatrice Howard, an OB/Gyn, had maintained a practice in both Essex and Morris Counties, N.J., for many years. Mrs. Howard, daughter of the ...…
…24 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 SPIRIT Of Influence and Power O ur portion opens with the first words of God to Abraham: “Leave your land, your birth- place and your father’ s house, and go to the land that I will show you. ” These words are the foundation upon which Abraham was to build our nation. Generally, people conform to their sur- roundings. They adopt the standards and absorb the culture of the time and place in which they li...…
… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 25 PHOTOS BY ALEX SHERMAN ARTS&LIFE ON THE COVER What They Do in the Newlyweds Jonathan Barkan and Ariel Fisher put a Jewish lens on horror fi lms. GEORGE ELKIND CONTRIBUTING WRITER PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALEX SHERMAN M any couples have a meet-cute. Jonathan Barkan and Ariel Fisher’ s was a literal horror story. The Ann Arbor residents met by chance in 2018, when they were writers and horror film aficionados visit...…
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…continued on page 28 Fisher said. “My dad and my brother were watching Jaws, and I have vivid memories of doing this puzzle with my mom but hearing Quint getting eaten in the other room. ” Later, Jaws acquired a ritualistic signifi- cance. “I started watching it so much in my early teens that I would watch it to go to sleep, ” she said. “It’ s like my comfort movie. Somehow the screams of people being eaten by a giant great white shark...…
…28 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 ARTS&LIFE continued from page 27 another Jewish woman in the community. “Being a woman in this world is hard. It’ s not welcom- ing, it’ s highly judgmental, deeply competitive and laced with a lot of really problematic engagement, ” Fisher said. “I spent a lot of time when I was first starting out wrestling with the other men in the industry. ” Fisher also identifies as pansexual and says that, com- bined ...…
… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 29 H oward Schwartz enjoys the humor of political cartoons, has amassed a collection of original drawings to characterize presidential campaigns and decided to put them on view. Although he intended to display the draw- ings in a gallery at the time of a national election, the pandemic changed his plans. Like so many others with artistic interests, Schwartz has turned to a digital platform. The cartoons, kep...…
…30 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 ance of information is done in the viewer’ s mind, ” Schwartz explained about the focus on images. “The expression of the artist speaks to the feeling the viewer gets when appreciat- ing what the artist is trying to convey. Bush and Dukakis, for example, are shown in a pretty tough fight, and that conveys the spirit of the election. ” CLASSIC BATTLES Among the cartoons are those capturing Dwight Eisenhower ...…
…STREAMING CATCH-UP; JEWISH DOCTORS WHO ARE COVID-19 EXPERTS On the Rocks is a “drame- dy” which opened in a few theaters on Oct. 2 (to be Oscar-eligible) and began streaming on Apple TV Plus on Oct. 23. Reviews were mostly favorable, with a few raves. But there were some thumbs-down by respected critics. Rashida Jones, 44, co-stars as a wife who sus- pects her husband (Marlon Wayans) is cheating. Jones’ father (Bill Murray) insis...…
…32 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 VIRTUAL NIGHTNOTES 7 PM, OCT. 30 Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings will present trom- bonist David Jackson with David Ammer on trumpet and James Libbie on the organ. For virtual concert tickets and info: mohan@ art-ops.org or 248-559- 2095. FALL FAMILY OUTING 11 AM, NOV. 1 NEXTGen Detroit pres- ents this event at Franklin Community Park, 32301 Franklin Road, Franklin. Cost $5, register by Oct. 29; Mimi Marcus, ...…
… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 33 B y the time the COVID- 19 pandemic hit America in January, Kate Zenlea of Huntington Woods had been working for Henry Ford Health System’ s (HFHS) Global Health Initiative (GHI) for about three years. Now, she is the managing director of the hospital’ s Phase III clinical vaccine trial for the biotech company Moderna. Zenlea had never worked on a clinical trial before. “When I was selected to be the mana...…
…34 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 type of VIP list. We made sure we were prioritizing minorities who came from our community.” Black enrollment, especially, has been low in the COVID vaccine trials, because of the community’ s mistrust in the American health system after such racist medical incidents as the Tuskegee experiment. When the president of Dillard University, a historically Black college in New Orleans, sent out a letter urging th...…
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…40 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 SOUL OF BLESSED MEMORY LARRY BERMAN, 74, of Southfield, died Oct. 17, 2020. He is survived by his wife, Mary Berman; his chil- dren, Andrea Berman and her partner, Christy Wegener, and Franklin Berman; sister-in-law, Marilyn Berman. Mr. Berman was the devoted son of the late Clara and the late Frank Berman; the loving brother of the late Jack Berman; and the special uncle of the late Stuart Berman. Inter...…
… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 41 continued on page 42 M AIDA SUE PORTNOY, 80, died on Oct. 19, 2020. Active for many years in Jewish communal affairs, Maida was the first female president of Junior Division of Federation and spent many years working for the Detroit Jewish Book Fair and the Detroit Jewish Music Festival. She also had a mid-life career as a journalist and wrote hundreds of arti- cles for the Oakland Press, Michigan Wo...…
…42 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 SOUL OF BLESSED MEMORY continued from page 41 STUART RICE, 78, of Farmington Hills, died Oct. 18, 2020. He is survived by his beloved wife, Laura Rice; son and daughter-in- law, David Rice and Noreen Bucknum; grandchild, Maggie Bucknum-Rice; sis- ter, Susan Rice; many loving cousins, nieces, nephews, other family members and friends. Mr. Rice was the brother of the late Stephen (late Ellen) Rice. Inte...…
