…April 18 • 2019 5 jn T he number four plays an import- ant part in our sedarim. There are four questions, four sons, four cups of wine, etc. Here is some Passover humor that I found four-midable. (Now you know what’ s coming.) Children often hear things differently; take, for example, the young- ster who came home talking about unleaded bread. Then there was the angry uncle who fit right in at the table: He was a bitter Herb. Did...…
…I grew up in Cincinnati, born in 1962 at Jewish Hospital. I learned, indi- rectly, that Jews didn’ t have prob- lems. Jews didn’ t drink too much … No substance abuse. Jews didn’ t beat their partners … No domestic violence. Jews, of course, had the best jobs … No unemployment. And Jews provided for their families … Certainly no poverty! While people wanted to kill us Jews throughout history, in the 1960s and ’ 70s where I grew ...…
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…8 April 18 • 2019 jn views A fter the smoke clears from this contentious Israeli election, which amounted to a refer- endum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’ s tenure, it appears that Netanyahu will again be asked by Israeli President Rivlin to form the next government. How did he win again? As Israel’ s former U.S. Ambassador Michael Oren said, “Our econ- omy is excellent, our foreign relations were never better and we’ re ...…
…April 18 • 2019 9 jn Honorary Host Committee (in formation) Patrice Baker Carolyn and Jim Bellinson Linda and Michael Berke Michele and Mitchell Bleznak Penny and Harold Blumenstein Eileen and Gerald Borsand Rhonda and Jerry Byer Lynda and Ron Charfoos Lois and Hon. Avern Cohn Debbie and Andrew Colman Joanne Danto and Arnold Weingarden Linda Deutsch and Dennis Deutsch Anita and Clifford Devine Elaine C. and Eugene Driker Jacqui and Law...…
…10 April 18 • 2019 jn views accepting Putin’ s statement that Russia didn’ t interfere in the 2016 election, after having just been told by 17 American intelligence agencies that Russia did interfere … Dayenu — surely this should have been enough to show Trump’ s allegiance! His immigration numbers obsession and his despicable policy of separating children from their parents, many of whom will never be reunited...…
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…12 April 18 • 2019 jn SARA BERKOWITZ EAKER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Robots Are Coming Israeli teams will come to Detroit for an international competition. T he future is technology and that future will be well represented at the 2019 FIRST Championship April 24-27 at Cobo Center in Detroit, featuring a celebration of space, inno- vation and STEM — science, technolo- gy, engineering and math. This is the world’ s largest STEM jubile...…
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…36 April 18 • 2019 jn Tradition varies about Pesach rules. Strict or Not Strict? A dialogue overheard in more than one Jewish household goes like this: Husband: “I can’ t find my pen (or reading glasses or whatever). Have you seen it?” Wife: “Don’ t worry, it will show up before Passover.” “It will show up before Passover,” of course, because the family will clean every inch of the house before the holiday, making sure the ho...…
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…38 April 18 • 2019 jn continued on page 40 P assover lasts for a long time, especially when you’ re thinking about the food you’ ll eat. That’ s a lot of eating home-cooked fare and lots of matzah. Each year, I forget how much I like matzah brie … until Passover. Then I wonder why I don’ t make it all year long. I prepare it sweet for breakfast (soak matzah in a mixture of whisked eggs and milk — 1 egg and ½ cup of milk for every ma...…
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…42 April 18 • 2019 jn Matzah Madness W hether you’ re 9 years old or 90, you probably have a fond memory of the hiding of the afikomen during a Passover seder; whether you were the one charged with con- cealing it or if you’ re a kid who has enjoyed the reconnaissance mission in search of it. For our non-Jewish friends or the uniformed reader, afikoman is not the former Secretary General of the United Nations. That would be Kofi...…
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…44 April 18 • 2019 jn Matzah Madness continued from page 42 passover Passover Haggadot rewritten to incor- porate the hiding of the bitter herbs. I’ m looking forward to our family’ s two seders. And frankly, since I reg- ularly put my keys, glasses and cell phone somewhere where I can’ t find them; I will volunteer as the most qual- ified to hide the afikoman. As a matter of fact, I think I’ ll just hide my keys with the matzah and gi...…
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…I t is interesting that our portion for Shabbat of Passover, Exodus. 12:21-51, concludes with the making of matzah, and its Haftarah, from the Book of Joshua, concludes with eating it. The apparent progression — from making matzah to eating it — is linked through an upward trajectory. This sense of upward trajectory is also a leitmotif of the seder itself. The Mishnah offered an instruction for leading the seder. Mishnah Pesachi...…
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…48 April 18 • 2019 jn STACY GITTLEMAN JN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Israeli Election Netanyahu secures fi fth term as prime minister; Israelis offer reactions. I sraelis placed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party in the driver’ s seat April 9 to form Israel’ s next government. With more than 95 percent of votes tabulated, Former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz conced- ed the election when Likud and right-wing par- ties tha...…
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…50 April 18 • 2019 jn SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER A t the same time Simon Waranch is represented by two works as part of the Michigan Regional Glass Exhibition at the Janice Charach Gallery in West Bloomfield, he is exhibiting work to memorial- ize the Holocaust in a display at the Museum of Biblical Art in Dallas. Waranch, a full-scholar- ship student at the College for Creative Studies, is able to work as a full-time gla...…
…April 18 • 2019 51 jn continued on page 52 L arry Pazol, while establishing a law career, kept a workroom in his home to take care of house- hold tasks. Then one day, 30 years ago, he visited a Charlevoix art exhibit that showcased mobiles, decid- ed his fix-it skills could be a start toward devising three-dimensional art and soon adjusted his workroom to be a studio as well. Pazol’ s approach developed into shaping wood and metals to b...…
…52 April 18 • 2019 jn continued from page 51 arts&life for bringing their work to Michigan in a variety of shows, include Alex Gabriel Bernstein, who uses cast glass to make organic forms; Daniel Clayman, who creates sculptural forms from small to very large; Laura Donefer, who often combines glass with other materials; Irene Frolic, who showcases kiln cast glass; and Mira Maylor, who designs varied pieces with hot glass and cold g...…
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…54 April 18 • 2019 jn RON STANG CONTRIBUTING WRITER Films in Windsor Jewish Film Festival across the border offers winners. T he 17th annual Ruth and Bernard Friedman Windsor Jewish Film Festival features 10 films over four days from April 29-May 2, including the acclaimed new documentary Who Will Write Our History. The film is about a group of writers who kept a secret trove of documents chronicling their conditions in the Warsa...…
