…ETCETERA KIDDUSH CLUB Gary Graff: The Opining Sofer of Song Belts One Out with RT By Natalie Sugarman ary Graff has been coined the "Rabbi of Rock;' a music journalist with an uncanny ear for great music. Former critic for the Detroit Free Press, Graff is the man who refused to be heeled by the man, or cross the picket line during the newspaper's 1995 strike; he was summarily dismissed. Since then, Graff has juggled a variety of freelance ...…
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…It looks better than a slightly. hot stick in the eye By Jackie Headapohl or this year's crop of graduating college seniors, many of whom started their post-secondary ca- reers just as the real estate bubble began exceeding maximum capac- ity, there were at least a few years to mentally prepare for the job seeking slog that lied in wait. Now that D-day has arrived, those proud, freshly minted holders of a B.A. or B.S. can find solace in that...…
…How Families Are Made T he parade of pregnant bellies , marched past the front counter all day long — the air, filled with hope 1 , and anticipation, buzzed with the ____, excited chatter of moms-to-be. Emily Rosenberg, the owner of Bella Belli Maternity in Birmingham, watched and listened like an outsider looking in. Her customers, many of them random strangers, each had the one thing she wanted more than anything else in the world: a viab...…
…lub ClUb\ . BRUCE WEBERMAN'S CLUB ELITE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP PRESENTS Eitg The couple spoke with many agencies and selected Adoption Network Law Center, based in California. They were asked to decide what they would accept in terms of race, family health history and potential exposure by the birth mother to drugs and alcohol, etc. They completed the paperwork and began the process in June 2008. "Six weeks later came the call we were waiting f...…
…0 dox community a Woman — or women- who would push the envelOpe to even think about a woman `rabbi, much less actu- ally realize that goal. "My. image of Orthodox women was 'that they were, smart, - , well-educated members of their comnittnity, but they were content with their role. This new idea blew me away; and Sara Hurwitz, when I heard her, turned out to be a modest, well-spoken woman — not a wild-eyettbbundaries breaker," - Birnholtz ad...…
…„ It was all about that title ra bba. The expe- rience, Hurwitz says, taught her a great deal about the power of language, observing that the Orthodox community had a strong and negative reaction to any "`R-B-sounding' title." According to Rabbi Alon Tolwin, direc- tor of Aish Detroit, an outreach organization that brings religion to Judaisin's more secular corners, the concept of a female Orthodox rabbi does not exist. "Simply put, as there c...…
…O ETCETERA PAPARAZZI Stephen Gottlieb Music Festival Photography by Deanna Spivey Right: Rachel Kestenberg and Melissa Weiss of West Bloomfield Elissa and Chavivah Bluth of Southfield Stereo Sinai performing Adina Pergament, Jaymie Morton, Michael Benghiat, Elana Lofman, Benji Rosenzweig Arch designed by Edie Simons * I Josh Goldberg and Alyssa McMillan of West Bloomfield Jessica Curhan of West Bloomfield Harold and Sarah Gottlie...…
…ETCETERA 0 90 Years Young: Downtown Synagogue Photography by Kiya Gibbons Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue president Martin Herman, center, surrounded by the synagogue board and event coordinators — people who are helping the 90-year-old synagogue in downtown Detroit experience a renaissance. Noah Ovshinsky of Grosse Pointe Park served as master of ceremonites. Oren Goldenberg of Detroit and Rachel Schreiber of Ann Arbor Carole and Elliot...…
…ETCETERA NIGHT CAP Music Moves Me: The Original Remix A long-forgotten composer and the young man who brought him back. By Sam Zerin hen I left Detroit to spend a year in Israel, I only planned to improve my Hebrew. Instead, I returned with a business, a fiancee and clear-cut goals for my future. After graduating from the University of Michigan, where I majored in music history, I knew I wanted to spend more time in Israel. (Until the end...…
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…spiritu al i t >> torah portion Spring is Here! And we have the accessories for you. • • • • • It's A Sin To Exploit Others' Weaknesses Parshat Kedoshim: Leviticus 19:1-20:27; Amos 9:7-15. I magine this scene: a mother says to her daughter, "Have a good time playing outside, be a good girl, be honest, respect the people you meet and, by the way, if you see a blind person on the street, don't put something in his way so that he trips an...…
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…a rC A New Comedy On the Cutting Edge. fi Written by and Starring Yisrael Campbell fi Directed by Sam Gold ll 11, s lt Ei LIVE! ON STAGE! (THE PLAY NOT THE CIRCUMCISION!) 1' RI two Shows Saturday, May 7 • 9 p.m. Sunday, May 8 • 5 p.m. Performed in the JCC's Marion & David Handleman Hall His name is Yisrael Campbell, (the artist formerly known as Christopher), and this is his story - a spiritual journey stretching across four de...…
…arts & entertainment Patti Stanger: "You have the power to attract 'Mr. Right For You' at any moment," writes Stanger. Matchmaker, Matchmaker Patti Stanger, of the Bravo series The Millionaire Matchmaker, will offer her advice at CSZ Sisterhood's Woman's World. Suzanne Chessler Contributing Writer p atti Stanger, star and execu- tive producer of Bravo's The Millionaire Matchmaker, has dated a man from Bloomfield Hills. It didn't work out...…
…arts & entertainment >> editor's picks CLASSICAL NOTES Gustav Mahler, the Austrian-Bohemian great-grandson of a Jewish slaughterer and son of one of the founders of a synagogue in his native Iglua, was circumcised accord- ing to Jewish law at his birth in 1860 but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1897 — an act of opportunism, some say, which resulted in his eventual appointment to the Vienna Court Opera. He died in 1911 at the age of 51. Hi...…
…Jewish Wry John Pollack: "Yiddish, like English, is rich in homophones that make for easy punning." Ann Arbor native and championship punster John Pollack writes about wordplay. mon to every major language family, not always humorous but defined by multi- plicity of meaning." Pollack, who graduated from Huron Ann Arbor High School and earned a degree in American studies from Stanford ohn Pollack always has shown University, worked in the ...…
…arts & entertainment Hitillen Jewish children at a Polish convent, 1943 Women Of Valor Polish wartime heroines get their close-up. Michael Fox Special to the Jewish News gling Jewish babies and adolescents from the ghetto with their parents' blessing. The women acclimated the kids to non-Jewish rena Sendler was a 29-year-old social homes before hiding them under Catholic worker when the Nazis walled the names in dozens of convents and pr...…
…For All Special Occasions! I =WV,/ r;IiMma, 11r:t '17 TI It TI TI TI TI Hours: Mon-Sat 7-9:30 Sun 7-8 TI puts a boy in an unforgiving spot. A scene fro m Winter in Wartime No Place For Children George Rob inson Special to th e Jewish News I n the 1960s there was a popular poster and bumper sticker that proclaimed, "War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things." Political repression isn't good for them either. Those are ...…
…arts & entertainment >> food Cookbook. -Corner Recipes from traditional Ashkenazi Jewish comfort food to more exotic Sephardi dishes honor Holocaust survivors. Gail Zimmerman Arts Editor 0 n May 1, just in time for Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will publish Recipes Remembered: A Celebration of Survival (Ruder Finn Press; $36), authored by June Feiss He...…
…ROMANIA/RUSSIA/ UKRAINE Berta Kiesler Vaisman's Barenikes — Pierogis Every culture has its version of a pierogi. The Eastern European variety is usually filled with a flavorful potato and onion mixture that wants to burst out of its sealed pocket and dive right into a bowl of cold sour cream. Yields: about 30 pierogi Start to finish: under 11/2 hours For the filling: 3 large Yukon gold potatoes, peeled and quartered 3 medium onions, chopped (a...…
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…>> the best of everything Musical Rose At 80, local lounge legend Billy Rose still going strong. p OTPOURRI Celebrating his 80th birthday recently in Las Vegas brought back memories to Billy Rose, one of this area's better known musical names, playing guitar and singing years back with Wayne Newton at the Fremont Hotel ... But not more than the recollections Billy has of playing here with his group at Grecian Gardens in Greektown, London C...…
…famil focus >> sponsored by best source credit union Arbeter Seder Workmen's Circle celebrates justice for workers, Jewish history, culture. T he Michigan Workmen's Circle/ Arbeter Ring is an organization that has long been dedicated to advocating for social justice and specifi- cally workers' rights. This fact is embedded in its name — arbeter means worker in Yiddish. The Jewish cultural organization held a Passover seder April 10 at the ...…
…life c Tcles 44 March 29 Jennifer Sofferin Togal and Seth Togal of San Tan Valley, Ariz., proudly announce the birth of their daughter, Adina Seren Togal. Togal Happy grandparents are Judy and Don Sofferin of Farmington Hills, Bonnie and Steven Growe of Chandler, Ariz., and Jeff Togal of Roseville. Elated great-grandparents are Brenda Vinton of Oak Park, Sam Gordon of Detroit, Beverly Togal of West Bloomfield, Saul Togal of West Bloomfield, ...…
…life c cies Banal Mitzvah from page 49 EMERY'S Joshua Max Kent, son of Linda and Dr. David Kent, will read from the Torah on the occasion of his bar mitzvah Friday, April 29, at Temple Israel in Kent West Bloomfield. He is the brother of Lisa and Sam. His proud grandpar- ents are Susie and Michael Kent and Virginia and Chester Tankiewicz. His late great-grandmother was Sylvia Thomas. Joshua is a student at Cranbrook/ Kingswood Boys Middle S...…
…k the Orthodontist Blaine Alexander Tikey will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah on Friday, April 29, at Temple Emanu El in Oak Park. He is the son of Linda Kretchmer- Tikey Tikey and Barry Tikey. Sharing in the joy of the occasion will be his grand- parents Claire and Arthur Kretchmer and older brother Ryan. He is also the great-grandson of the late Harry and the late Jewel Kretchmer. Blaine is a seventh-grade student at Emerson Middle...…
…life cycles INTRODUCING OUR NEWEST MC Kurland- Ungar M ichele Levin Kurland and Rabbi Michael Ungar were married recently in Columbus, Ohio. Rabbi Harold Berman and Cantor Jack Chomsky officiated. The best man was the groom's son, Rami. The maid of honor was the bride's daugh- ter, Rachel. Bridesmaids were the groom's daughters, Adi, Maya and Liat. Michele is the daughter of Nancy Stone Levin of Columbus. She received her bach- elor's degr...…
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