…42 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019 continued from page 41 gift guide 2019 adults and the Russian- speaking community. Cash donations of any amount are welcome to help individuals and families who face challenging situations from inadequate income for basic needs to lack of trans- portation for an older adult’ s medical appointment. Contact Wendy Eisenshtadt at (248) 592-2339. Donated items might include gift cards for stores such as Target,...…
… DECEMBER 12 • 2019 | 43 | faces&places Jews in the D The Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation celebrated its 35th annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony in October. The evening brought together families and friends to celebrate the inductees. In the crowd were former Detroit Pistons Ben Wallace, Rip Hamilton, World Wide Wes and Earl Cureton, along with Steve Yzerman from the Detroit Red Wings. The family of JN Athlete of the Yea...…
…Moments 44 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019 Erin Rose Biederman (Shoshana Netanya) of Franklin will be called to the Torah as a bat mitzvah on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills. She will celebrate with her proud parents, Dr. Jason Biederman and Dr. Maria Pacis- Biederman, and siblings Ethan and Elyssa Biederman. She is the granddaughter of Dr. Michael and Mrs. Sheri Biederman of Farmington Hills, and ...…
… DECEMBER 12 • 2019 | 45 T homas K. Radford proposed to Lydia J. Paterni in the air on a flight to Florida for her cousin’ s bat mitzvah. Thomas is an airplane and powerplant certified mechanic at the IFL Group. Lydia teaches first grade in the Detroit Public Schools Community District. Delighted parents are Patrick and Flo (Robbins) Paterni of West Bloomfield, and Thomas and Sue Radford, also of West Bloomfield. The wedding is set...…
…46 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019 Spirit torah portion D id you know that the first Torah scholar mentioned in the Torah was also the first wrestler recorded in history? Yes, it’ s true. Our patriarch Jacob, whom the verse (Genesis 25, 27) describes as “an innocent man, dwell- ing in tents” [of Torah study, Rashi] is the very same fellow who, in this week’ s portion, wrestles with a man, who the Midrash tells us is the guardian ang...…
… DECEMBER 12 • 2019 | 47 Open Access Israel’ s National Library collaborates with Google to digitize 120,000 books. UNITED WITH ISRAEL STAFF Eretz I n a historic collaboration between the National Library of Israel (NLI) and Google, some 120,000 books will be digitized, the NLI announced. It will include all the library’ s collection of out-of- copyright works that have not yet been digitized as well as every book published du...…
…48 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019 Arts&Life at home Floyd co-founders Kyle Hoff and Alex O’ Dell BRETT MOUNTAIN …
… DECEMBER 12 • 2019 | 49 continued on page 50 I n 2013, the city of Detroit filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. It was the same week Kyle Hoff decided to move to the Motor City to launch a new business. After studying architecture and entre- preneurship at the University of Miami, Ohio, then earning a master’ s at the University of Michigan, he had been bid- ing his time at a low-rung position at an architectu...…
…Arts&Life at home continued from page 49 one brand. Six years later, Floyd has grown to a 30-person team with four core products for the home — the shelf, the sofa, the bed and the tables, all grown from the original product — the leg — plus hardware, accessories and lighting with plans for much more. “We like to go deep on one product per cat- egory,” Hoff says. “We’ ve grown every year on the initial product, and there’ s a ...…
…52 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019 F rom a furry friend to a fashion icon to a few bestsellers, here’ s a list of new books for everyone in the family. After you light the candles and spin the dreidel, the entire family can curl up with a good book. For children, Chanukah books reinforce the holiday while a book on self-esteem is always a boost. For busy parents, best-sellers are fast reads. For grandparents, a fashion icon coffee-table book,...…
… DECEMBER 12 • 2019 | 53 anything less from Michelle Obama’ s former head speech- writer. Hurwitz provides footnotes and an amazing appendix of books for explor- ing Judaism. GRANDPARENTS Ralph Lauren: In His Own Fashion By Alan Flusser, Abrams Books, $50 This stunning coffee-table book chroni- cles the rise of fashion icon Ralph Lauren with beautiful photographs of his collections for men and women. He was born Ralph Lifshitz ...…
…54 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019 Arts&Life celebrity jews STREAMING AND BROADCAST CHOICES, MOSTLY CATCH-UP Scarlett Johansson, 35, will be the host of Saturday Night Live on Dec. 14. I suspect she’ s hosting in order to get a plug in about Marriage Story, a Netflix film which began streaming last week and is a real Oscar con- tender. Last October, I reported that Tiffany Haddish, whose late father was an Eritrean Jew, had decided to emb...…
…On The Go people | places | events DECEMBER 12 • 2019 | 55 continued on page XX HOLIDAY STROLL Get into the holiday spirit at Zingerman’ s Cornman Farms (8540 Island Lake Road, Dexter) for the Holiday Stroll from 4-6 p.m. The property will be set aglow in holiday lights for a casual, family-friendly evening featuring holiday carols by University of Michigan’ s Dicks and Janes a cappella group, signature Cornman Farms’ sweet and sav...…
…On The Go people | places | events 56 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019 continued from page 55 WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18 MOVIE MATINEE 1 pm, Dec. 18. Sponsored by The Active Life at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Return To Me (1 hr. 56 min.). Free. DROP IN & LEARN 1 pm, Dec. 18. “Jewish Cinematheque: Back to the Fatherland and Fiddler — A Miracle of Miracles” at Congregation Beth Ahm. The group will videostream two episo...…
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…58 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019 business SPOTlight brought to you in partnership with B I R M I N G H A M Metro Detroit wealth management firm Bloom Asset Management recently celebrated its 35th anniversary with more than 400 clients at an event at the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills. Clients enjoyed special planetarium showings and private tours led by museum docents while having direct access to the firm’ s advise...…
… DECEMBER 12 • 2019 | 59 reuse in unconventional ways. 3. When and how did you begin work- ing for NAI Farbman? Graduating with a finance degree, I immediately thought of moving to New York and working on Wall Street or moving to Chicago to work in banking or wealth management. I decided to get my real estate license during my last year at Michigan State University, just to have the license under my belt. After weighing out my optio...…
…60 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019 M ichigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced a six- month pilot program between the state and Israeli company Mobilieye on Nov. 21 during her trade mission to Israel. Mobileye, a leader in the development of vision technology for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving, owned by Intel, signed an agreement with the state of Michigan to pilot its retrofit technology on the state’ s...…
… DECEMBER 12 • 2019 | 61 here’s to Rachel Siporin, Walled Lake Northern junior, received an invitation to visit the House and Senate in Lansing by State Sen. Jim Runstad and State Rep. Kathy Crawford for being awarded a Michigan State Fair urban agriculture initiative scholarship. Siporin is affiliated with and volunteers at the MSU Tollgate Farm and Education Center in Novi. She was a 2019 sheep showman at the Oakland County Fa...…
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…64 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019 Milton Ring: An Unassuming Hero RONELLE GRIER CONTRIBUTING WRITER M Milton “Milt” H. Ring was a brave yet humble war hero, a savvy entrepreneur, an imag- inative inventor, a generous philanthropist, a nature lover and, above all, a devot- ed family man. This exceptional 94-year- old died Dec. 3, 2019, in his Franklin home, with his loving family by his side. The youngest of four children, Milt grew up in ...…
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…66 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019 HARRIET BERLIN, 88, of Huntington Woods, died Dec. 3, 2019. She was a great supporter of Public TV , the Stratford Festival in Canada and the Shaw Festival in Niagara on the Lake. Mrs. Berlin is survived by her daughter, Andrea Berlin of Medford, Mass.; son and daugh- ter-in-law, Howard and Julie Berlin of Huntington Woods; brother and sister-in-law, Lanny and Marlene Lahr of Arizona; grandchildren, Nat...…
… DECEMBER 12 • 2019 | 67 Steven Goldman and Lisa Freeman, Jeffrey Goldman, Sherri Goldman-Kim and John Kim, and Daniel and Susan Goldman; grandchildren, Nate Goldman, Zander Goldman, Lexi Goldman, Micah Kim and Jonathan Kim. Mrs. Goldman was the beloved wife of the late Robert B. Goldman; the devoted daughter of the late Louis and the late Jennie Madorsky; the dear sister of the late Melvin Madorsky. Interment was at Nusach Har...…
…68 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019 Pernick; many loving nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and grandnephews. Mrs. Riley was the beloved wife of the late Ray Riley; the loving sister of the late Larry Pernick; the devoted daughter of the late Nathaniel Pernick and the late Jeanette Pernick. Interment was at Oakland Hills Memorial Gardens. Contributions may be made to Jewish Senior Life-Hechtman Apts., 6700 W . Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 483...…
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…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 70 | DECEMBER 12 • 2019 The Sinai Legacy A s this calendar year nears its close, there is one more anniver- sary, out of many, that might be important to recognize. It has been 30 years since Sinai Hospital merged with Grace Hospital in Detroit. Sinai Hospital was a major achievement for Detroit’ s Jewish commun...…
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…6 | DECEMBER 5 • 2019 guest column Coming Home to Something New Views Kendra I knew I would return to Michigan at some point after college, though I did not expect it to happen so soon. During my junior year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, I participated in an alternative spring break trip with Repair the World in Brooklyn. As soon as I learned that Repair had a program in Detroit, I knew that this could be a ...…
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…10 | DECEMBER 5 • 2019 editorial Addressing Wayne State’s Board Dysfunction Views W ayne State University and the Detroit Jewish community have had a long and mutual- ly beneficial relationship. For Jewish immigrants, their chil- dren and grandchildren, Wayne was the affordable, high-qual- ity pathway to achieving the American Dream. Virtually every Detroit-area Jewish family included at least one member who earned a Wayne degre...…
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… DECEMBER 5 • 2019 | 15 CAIR relate to uniting to combat hate for and stereo- types of Jews and blacks. — Kerry Greenhut West Bloomfield Recognition Past Due Donald Trump’ s administra- tion’ s recognition, finally, as the impeachment hearings unfold, that international law does not require most of the Land of Israel to be kept judenrein, “rid of Jews, ” is long overdue. It’ s almost laughable. The provisions of the United Nations ...…
…JARC celebrates 50 years of ensuring quality of life for those with developmental disabilities. SHARI S. COHEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER W hen a group of Jewish parents of devel- opmentally disabled children met in 1969 to discuss their children’ s future, they didn’ t anticipate starting one of the Jewish com- munity’ s most cherished agencies. “None of us could have imagined what the orga- nization would become, ” says Sharon Alterman, who...…
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…18 | DECEMBER 5 • 2019 Jews in the D continued from page 16 their adult children when they were unable to do so. She was assigned to help a group of parents who formed the Parents Association for Jewish Residential Care in 1969. A few years later, the first JARC group home opened with six men and women residents, Alterman says. JVS and JFS were both involved with the home’ s residents and the program was a “col- laborative community...…
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