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…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 3 contents Purely Commentary 4-10 On the Cover 12 Like Floating on a ‘Cloud’ With Detroit’s help, Israeli firm creates app to give your car a smoother, more efficient ride. Our Community 17 Aid for Women Is in the Works Women’s Foundation resumes grants with new director. 18 Moms Making Matches Jewish moms’ Facebook page dedicates a day to help singles find love. 20 ‘Scissorhands’ Th...…
…4 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 continued on page 6 PURELY COMMENTARY letters It Takes a Village My work in the Jewish commu- nal field began when I needed a summer job during college, and I was looking though the Detroit Jewish News help wanted section. I saw that Jewish Family Service (JFS) needed volunteer drivers to take older adults to doctor appointments. Thus began my career in the Jewish communal service field, and I never looked ...…
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…PURELY COMMENTARY 8 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 continued on page 10 guest column It’s Time to Reexamine Jewish Education U pon retiring from 48 years in Jewish educa- tion, I still find myself writing and learning about the field. I am working toward a doctorate in Jewish Studies from Chicago- based Spertus Institute of Jewish Learning & Leadership, and my disser- tation topic is “21st Century Non-Day School Jewish Education.” At my...…
…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 9 Answer the Call. Help us take care of those in need in our community. After an unexpected one-year hiatus, Super Sunday IS BACK! Once again, we will be making calls to secure donors to Federation’s 2021 Annual Campaign. Never has Federation’s work been more critical than right now. Every day, our partner agencies are handing out kosher meals to older adults, children and other vulnerable individuals. Providing em...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY 10 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 created the first national study of Jewish education. Looking for direction, educators decid- ed to find out how Judaism was lived by their families and what parents wanted children to gain from attending religious school. Two thousand religious school parents in 22 commu- nities were asked why they were sending their children to religious school and what they hoped the children would gain...…
…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 11 Click. Call. Give Now. www.hfldetroit.org • 248.723.8184 Hebrew Free Loan Detroit 6735 Telegraph Road, Suite 300 • Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48301 @HFLDetroit Marquette’s Temple Beth Sholom found itself in a quandary. “We had the opportunity to purchase a building that could house our congregation closer to our small Jewish community (which shifted geographically over the 50 years since we built our first Templ...…
…12 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 F or the past 16 months, 20 of the city of Detroit’s vehicles have been using Israeli software to automatically map hazards on the city’s roads. Tactile Processor, developed by Tactile Mobility of Haifa, Israel, gathers data from each car’s built-in sensors and sends it to the company’s Tactile Cloud. Then, the Cloud uses a mathematical model called SurfaceDNA to combine the crowd- sourced data into a map, ...…
…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 13 “It would sometimes take it a week or two to calibrate itself for the specific car and roadmap, but eventually it would be super-accurate, like nowhere else in the world,” Mizrachi said. About one year later, it was a Detroit company’s scout who challenged Mizrachi to create a cloud-based app that would control the car’s speed and gear-shifting according to where the car was heading. Mizrachi worked on the so...…
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…16 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 continued from page 14 Mobility’s engineering could give it the edge: “Many machine-learning companies try to get into vehicles, and usually they rely on super-heavy resources,” he said. “NVidia is trying to get its heavy processors into vehicles. If you count on a very heavy processor in the car, in terms of price, power draw, size, etc., the number of cars that you’ll get into is small. “However, if yo...…
…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 17 M ichigan’s Jewish Women’s Foundation is resuming its grant-making activities under the leadership of a new director, after temporarily halting activi- ties last spring due to COVID. Sigal Hemy started as director in September. She is the only paid staff of the organization, which is directed by a leader- ship committee of its trustees. The Jewish Women’s Foundation of Metropolitan Detroit (JWF) began in 199...…
…OUR COMMUNITY Y ou could feel the love in each and every post on the Jewish Moms of Metro Detroit Facebook page. One day only, Feb. 15, the day after Valentine’s Day, was dedicated solely to posts about Jewish singles of all ages looking for the right Jewish match. Using the hashtag for “it’s a shidduch” — #itsashidduchjmoms — dozens of the group’s 2,600 members posted about their brothers, sisters, best friends, mothers, fathers an...…
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…20 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY I f you watched the Super Bowl along with nearly 100 million Americans on the evening of Feb. 7, you may have seen a commercial in which a Jewish ex-Detroiter played an instrumental role. Laura Markofsky, who grew up in West Bloomfield, did the PR work to get TV and online media buzz for the Cadillac com- mercial that aired during the big game. “It’s been so exciting and truthfully a big honor...…
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…22 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 T amarack Camps is tirelessly working to reopen for the summer of 2021, and, at the same time, planting seeds for the future. As my ancestors planted for me, so too will I plant for my children. — Talmud Ta’anit 23a As represented in the fol- lowing parable: One day, Honi the Circle Maker was walking on the road and saw a man plant- ing a carob tree. Honi asked the man, “How long will it take for this tre...…
…COURTESY OF TAMARACK CAMPS COURTESY OF TAMARACK CAMPS CELEBRATE HILLEL DAY SCHOOL AT OUR DRIVE-IN GALA SUNDAY MAY 23, 2021 SHERI AND DAVID JAFFA DREAM MAKER HONOREES HONORING JESSICA ALTER (CLASS OF 1993) SENATOR JEREMY MOSS (CLASS OF 2000) DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI VISIT WWW.HILLELDAY.ORG/SHULMANJOURNAL TO PLACE A CONGRATULATORY AD FOR THE HONOREES, RECOGNIZE OUR STUDENTS AND/OR TEACHERS, OR TO PURCHASE TICKETS. IN THE TEMPLE ISR...…
…24 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 gift to support the scholarship match, the family wishes to encourage others to join by further matching gifts made in 2021 up to $100,000. Speaking for the family, Penny explained: “Camping creates a sense of community and strengthens Jewish identity more than any other Jewish experience. It’s not just a summer, it’s a lifetime!” TSS ’91 A group of Tamarack alumni that shared special years at the “Greate...…
…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 25 Our current office at 29200 Northwestern Hwy, Suite 110 Southfield MI 48034 will be closed on Friday February 26, 2021 in preparation for the move, there will be no papers in front of the suite that day. You may resume picking up papers out front if need be on Monday, March 1st at the new location. While you will be able to get the Jewish News outside the office door, our office will be closed to visitors. ...…
…26 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 MAZEL TOV! JAN. 29, 2021 Rebecca and Michael Segal are thrilled to announce the birth of their son, Benjamin Asher. Two-year-old sister, Madeline, happily welcomes her little brother as well. Overjoyed maternal grandparents are Jodi and Dr. Alan Klein (formerly of Pittsburgh, Pa.); paternal grandparents are Dr. Phyllis Segal and Richard Segal, all of West Bloomfield. Maternal great-grandparents are Jane and D...…
…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 27 I read a story about a Jewish immigrant from Europe who moved to the lower east side of New York in the early years of 20th century. To get a job, he changed his traditional clothes and worked on Shabbat and holidays. He needed to feed his family and felt he had no other choice. He often slept at work because of late hours at night and early hours in morning. He often seemed distant, depressed and lost....…
…28 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 F ibroid tumors — benign growths in the uterus and uterine walls — are com- mon, occurring in about 70 per- cent of women. These growths typically start small, and some individuals with fibroids have few or minor symptoms. However, fibroids often grow in size and number, and many women experience significant abdominal pain, pressure and heavy menstrual bleeding as a result. In addition, fibroids can make i...…
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…30 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 form of heat — to reduce the size of the tumor. “There are no incisions, and the ultrasound defines the safety zone where the heat will be used, ” Benjamin explains. General anesthetic is not required. Without abdomi- nal incisions, potential compli- cations are reduced. ‘AN IMPROVEMENT’ Julie McCarthy, 53, of Brighton, had pain from fibroids but didn’t want a hysterectomy. In November, she had the Sonata ...…
…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 31 A VIRTUAL PURIM FEB. 25-28 The holiday of Purim has often been called “the Jewish Carnavale,” with the joys of song, laughter and drama folded into one, The Yiddishkayt Initiative (“YI Love Jewish”) will be serving up at its first annual International virtual YI Love Yiddishfest — Purim Edition, online from Feb. 25-28. Virtual visitors will be able to step right up for a wide range of free performanc- es, ...…
…32 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 ARTS&LIFE ART W hen the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center announced winners of its 2021 BBAC: Current Students Works Competition, it was refer- ring to projects completed by adult artists who value continu- ing education. Many had earlier works shown — and bought — in galleries and art fairs. Some of the competitive student works, on view at the BBAC through March 4, already have been sold. They are amon...…
…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 33 with leather, silver and crushed stone. Galperin always enjoyed art but built her career in busi- ness before entering serious metalsmithing studies. She has enrolled in about two BBAC classes at a time and soon will be posting her work on Instagram. Attention to Judaica has been strictly personal for Galperin, who has designed Star of David necklaces for her two sons and nephew. She calls the group “three-...…
…ARTS&LIFE TV & FILM T he Golden Globe awards, for excellence in TV and film, will be awarded on Sunday, Feb. 28, at 8 p.m. Due to the pandemic, the Globes will be a virtual event. Norman Lear, 98, the creator of many great TV shows, including All in the Family will receive the “Carol Burnett Award” for “outstanding contributions to television.” Unlike many years, there is no Jewish nominee in the film (drama) actor/actress categori...…
…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 35 Matthew Sklar; and Palm Springs, direct- ed by Max Barbakow, 35. There are no Jewish actresses nomi- nated for best lead in a TV series. The best lead actor category has one nominee, Josh O’Connor, with an unusual Jewish backstory. He’s nominated for playing Prince Charles in The Crow. His mater- nal great-grandmother was Jewish and although he is, in common terms, one- eighth Jewish, he is a “Halachic Jew.” I me...…
…36 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 CELEBRITY JEWS ARTS&LIFE PUNKY BREWSTER REBOOT; RASHIDA JONES A reboot of Punky Brewster, the popular ’80s sitcom, will begin streaming on the Peacock Channel Feb. 25. (All 10 episodes will be released at once.) In the original, Punky (Soleil Moon Frye) was a warm and funny 7-year-old who was abandoned by her parents. Luckily, she met a kind old man who eventually became her legal foster parent. In the ...…
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…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 39 ROSLYN FELD, 78, of West Bloomfield, died Feb. 16, 2021. She is survived by her beloved husband, Samuel Allen Feld; son and daughter-in- law, Jason and Franci Feld; daughter, Rochelle Feld; grandchildren, Chana Feld, Dani Silverman, Benjamin Feld, Shlomo Feld; many other loving family members and friends. Interment took place at Adat Shalom Memorial Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to Ba...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY W olf Gruca, 101, died Feb. 18, 2021. During his life, Wolf Gruca proudly carried many titles: son, brother, husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. The title he carried the longest, however, was that of survivor. When Germany entered Poland in 1939, Wolf Gruca was among the many Jews forced into the ghetto. A tool maker by training, he then served for several years as forced labor in ...…
…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 41 MICHAEL G. KOTZEN, 69, of West Bloomfield, died Feb. 1, 2021. He is survived by his sons and daughters-in-law, Adam Kotzen, Matthew (Julie) Kotzen, Bradley (Lisa) Kotzen; daughter and son-in-law, Heidi (Dan) Crane; grand- children, Andrew, Avery and Blake Kotzen, Jacob and Tristan Crane. He was also survived by his significant other, Sandra McCormick. Mr. Kotzen was the son of Selma Kotzen and the late ...…
…42 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 I rving Yale Strickstein, 93, of Detroit and Deerfield Beach, Fla., died Feb. 2, 2021. He was born Jan. 30, 1928, in Toledo, Ohio. A graduate of Central High School, 1946, Irv served his country in the U.S. Navy aboard the heavy cruisers USS Toledo and USS Oregon City. Following naval service, Irv entered the lumber industry as a yard man, unloading boxcars and driving a forklift, learning the construct...…
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…44 | FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 T he ever-growing fast- food luncheon has made another big impact on the home or office market for those with microwave ovens or regular stoves. They are the amazing leap of items like the constant jump of White Castle’s frozen Original Slider hamburgers … The family-run business so many remember as America’s first hamburger chain since 1921 has made leaps and bounds in such wonder. The 100 percent fr...…
…FEBRUARY 25 • 2021 | 45 Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org P urim begins tonight, Thursday, Feb. 25, the 14th day of Adar. This is the really fun holiday that celebrates the survival of the Jews after Queen Esther and Mordechai thwart- ed a plot by Haman, the royal vizier to the Persian King, to kill all the Jews in ancient Persia in the 4th century BC...…
…$200 Feb. 18-24, 2021 / 6-12 Adar 5781 JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT thejewishnews.com Young Detroiters serve in the IDF to “give back” to Israel. See page 12 Young Detroiters Duty Duty Sense of …
