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…Febraury 14 • 2019 51 jn MARGARET BERLIN, 72, of Farmington Hills, died Feb. 6, 2019. She is survived by her brothers, Arthur (Linda) Berlin and Gerald (Marie) Berlin; nephews and niec- es, Jeffrey and Allison Berlin, Jon and Leslie Berlin, Jimmy and Amy Berlin, Rachel and Rich Handloff, Deborah and Justin Kramer, Naomi and Michael Hoffman; great-nieces and great-neph- ews, Ari and Olivia Berlin, Annabel and Miles Berlin, Sam and E...…
…52 Febraury 14 • 2019 jn soul of blessed memory M any knew and respected Marvin Berman during his long, successful association with Farmer Jack supermarkets. He was always “Mr. Berman” at work, but at home with family — his No. 1 role — he adored being Marilou’ s husband, “Dad” to their four children and “Papa Marv” to the eventual 10 grandchildren. Marvin Berman, 86, of West Bloomfield, died Feb. 3, 2019, following a brief i...…
…Febraury 14 • 2019 53 jn soul of blessed memory Yael, works at the ICFJ as global exec- utive vice president. Despite the posthumous embrace, Eckstein had a thorny relationship with the Jewish establishment most everywhere he went. Critics consid- ered him a tacky manipulator of pub- lic opinion with a mercurial temper and an overgrown ego. Most recently, he clashed publicly with the Jewish Agency, to which his group had donated many ...…
…54 Febraury 14 • 2019 jn soul of blessed memory A ndrew Martin, 93, died Feb. 2, 2019. From humble beginnings, Andy left his home to learn a trade at the tender age of 16 as there were no schools and no future prospects in his hometown of Pavlovo, Czechoslovakia. By the time he was 18 and living in Budapest, Hungary, the Nazis had a hard grip on Europe. Andy went on to endure unimaginable hard- ships and horrors. As a Holoca...…
…Febraury 14 • 2019 55 jn Box 2030, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303, jewishdetroit.org; or to other charities. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. KENNETH KATZ, 84, of Novi, died Feb. 4, 2019. He is survived by his beloved wife, Phyllis Katz; daughter, Lori Tuchklaper; son and daughter-in-law, Steven and Jackie Katz; grandchildren, Allie (Joe) Asmann, Zachary Tuchklaper, Rachel, Dani, Kevin and Garrett Katz; great-grandchildren, Liana ...…
…56 Febraury 14 • 2019 jn continued from page 55 soul of blessed memory DOROTHY KLAUSNER, 76, of Southfield, died Feb. 5, 2019. She was active with Hadassah, ORT and AMIT. Mrs. Klausner is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Dr. Howard and Margery Klausner of Southfield, Dr. Mitchell and Rebecca Klausner, also of Southfield; brother and sister-in-law, Dr. Michael and Kathleen Sandler of West Bloomfield; grandchildren, Nathan,...…
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…inside Detroit Jewish News n 52 Feb. 7-13, 2019 2-8 Adar 5779 VOLUME CLV, ISSUE 1 VIEWS 5-10 JEWS IN THE D 12 Disparaging Dearborn? Mayor halts distribution of magazine with story on Henry Ford’ s anti-Semitism. 14 The Anti-Semitism of Henry Ford On the 100th anniversary of his purchase of the Dearborn Independent, Ford’ s legacy is examined by local journalist. 20 Here’s To 21 Missing Pup Strangers, po...…
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…February 7 • 2019 5 jn I hope you came away from last week’ s Polar Vortex (PV) unscathed. Polar Vortex — sounds like some- thing your chiropractor would work on. “Say, Bob, why are you walking bent over like that?” Replies Bob, “Well gee, Sally, I strained my darn Polar Vortex again. I keep forget- ting to bend my knees when lifting things. ” I don’ t want to diminish the severity of the arrival of last week’ s PV . It was bruta...…
…6 February 7 • 2019 jn U niversity leaders across the country must loudly condemn faculty who would implement an academic boycott of Israel that deprives students of educational oppor- tunities and academic rights in the name of personal politics. Opponents of an academic boycott of Israel owe John Cheney- Lippold and Daniel Segal a debt of gratitude. Cheney-Lippold is the University of Michigan professor who agreed to write a let...…
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…8 February 7 • 2019 jn E very year, extremism takes a deadly toll around the world. No region is immune — not the Middle East, not Europe and not the United States. In 2018, there were at least 50 Americans killed by extremists from different movements. Many of the victims were Jews. Eleven members of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh lost their lives in October at the hands of a vicious white supremacist convinced that ...…
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…12 February 7 • 2019 jn SHARI COHEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Mayor halts distribution of magazine with story on Henry Ford’ s anti-Semitism. A utomotive pioneer Henry Ford’ s anti-Semitism is well-document- ed. While he was an innovator in automotive manufacturing, he held some centuries-old myths about Jews as the controllers of banks and global finance. In 1919, he bought a weekly newspa- per, The Dearborn Independent, which was used t...…
…February 7 • 2019 13 jn On Thursday, Jan. 31, we at the Dearborn Historical Commission adopted a resolution objecting to Mayor O’ Reilly’ s refusal to allow the distribution of the new edition of The Dearborn Historian, an issue featuring an article by Bill McGraw entitled “Henry Ford and The International Jew. ” The issue was set to be released upon the 100th anniversary of Henry Ford’ s acquisition of the Dearborn Independent, a sad but ...…
…14 February 7 • 2019 jn MIKE SMITH DJN FOUNDATION ARCHIVIST On the 100th anniversary of his purchase of the Dearborn Independent, Ford’ s legacy is examined by local journalist. Y es, our community just celebrated JN colum- nist Danny Raskin’ s 100 birthday, but this year also marks another rather infamous 100th birthday. In January 1919, The Dearborn Independent, an 18-year-old newspaper, began publishing under the ownership of ...…
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…16 February 7 • 2019 jn continued from page 14 continued on page 18 jews d in the International Jew’ for the Dearborn Historian. McGraw explores the history of Ford and the Dearborn Independent with one overarching premise in mind — we cannot afford to forget our history, warts and all, if we are to learn from it and progress. McGraw wrote the piece while editor of the Dearborn Historian, a long-standing, regional historical j...…
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…February 7 • 2019 23 jn ORT Earns “Let Freedom Ring Award” ORT was presented with the prestigious “Let Freedom Ring Humanitarian Award” by the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and Citizenship Education Fund on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Jan. 21, at the Cobo Center in Detroit. ORT was recognized, in part, for its International Cooperation program, which was created in 1960 to assist newly emerging and developing nations, and has since im...…
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…28 February 7 • 2019 jn CIE Brings Israel’s Context to Camp T he Atlanta-based Center for Israel Education will convene its second Israel seminar this spring to deliver historical context and state-of-the-art educational and expe- riential methods to Jewish summer camp staffers. The program, with collaborative direction from the Foundation for Jewish Camp, is the core of an initiative CIE launched in 2018 with a three-year grant fr...…
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…32 February 7 • 2019 jn California Jewish Camp To Try Out All-Gender Cabins This Summer A fter attending a few LGBTQ family weekends at Camp Tawonga, Jonathan Brunn felt ready to attend sleepaway camp there. But Jonathan’ s mom, Nancy, was nervous. Jonathan, 10, has identified as nonbinary — a gender identity that falls somewhere outside the catego- ry of male or female — since age 3. Because of that, the San Francisco child has b...…
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