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…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 19 and he is proud of the work they do, not just for the Jewish community, but for the greater community. “We’re involved in all kinds of pursuits. We have this amazing food bank that was started at Temple Emanuel when some of the first Soviet Jews began emigrating to America,” Schadick said. “Some of our members decided they would really step forward and collect food. We’re serving about 50 fam- ilies every sing...…

…OUR COMMUNITY H illel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit nominat- ed Lisa Keller of Farmington Hills to be our Volunteer of the Week because of her dedication to the school’s PTO volunteer organization. “Lisa Keller is holiday chair and plans all of the students’ holiday treats from PTO, chairs the Fun Run, and helped plan and execute Teacher Appreciation Week,” said Amy Sapeika, communications coordinator at Hillel. As an alumna ...…

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…22 | JUNE 23 • 2022 C harting hit records played on the radio was a preteen hobby that developed into an award-win- ning career direction for Barry Mardit, a Huntington Woods resident who has divided his professional com- mitments among hosting programs, administering pro- grams and serving as a consul- tant for programs. The next award will be pre- sented June 30 in Nashville, where Mardit will be among six other broadcast personali...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 23 Boys, Randy Travis and Charlie Daniels. Mardit was especially impressed by an experience with Loretta Lynn. “I found country stars to be warm and family-oriented, and I met Loretta Lynn in Pittsburgh at a sad time in our family, ” he explained. “During a conversation Loretta and I had, I mentioned that my mom was having health issues. “Loretta was very sympathetic and asked for my mom’s phone number. Soon, I got a...…

…OUR COMMUNITY 24 | JUNE 23 • 2022 F urthering the legacy of their father, Fred “Ziggy” Findling (1930-2019), Darren Findling of Huntington Woods and his sister and brother-in-law, Debbie Findling and Steven Moss of San Francisco, are working with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to fund the construction of “Ziggy’s Playground.” The play area will be part of a new Rwandan affordable housing development ...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 25 raised for the $60,000 project, and additional sponsorship donor opportunities are avail- able. For more information or to donate, contact Steven Moss, See Far’s board chair, at steven@moss.net. ZIGGY’S STORY Fred “Ziggy” Findling was born in 1930 as Siegfrieg Findling in Cologne, Germany. During WWII, he and five of his siblings survived the war by being placed in orphan- ages and convents throughout Belgium,...…

…26 | JUNE 23 • 2022 L auren Rose brings star power into a Bard College class she teaches to link mathematics and fun puzzles — her 19-year-old son. Daniel Rose-Levine, an international Rubik’s Cube champion lauded for solving the puzzles in record times using his feet instead of his hands, has been featured on the national TV shows CBS Sunday Morning and To Tell the Truth and is profiled in A.J. Jacobs’ popular book The Puzzl...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 27 calculus and all the things that have already been figured out for hundreds of years. If you keep going in math, at some point you start doing your own research and contributing, but you wouldn’t be able to get there if you had tried to figure out everything on your own.” While Rose-Levine believes it’s fun to try to figure things out on your own, he also believes that if you learn from others first, it pro...…

…OUR COMMUNITY H illel Day School has begun an “Open Space, Open Minds” ath- letic capital campaign to help fund the expansion and enhancement of Hillel’s outdoor athletic facilities. Currently, Hillel lacks a quality field that students can use year-round and after inclement weather, said Amy Schlussel, Hillel’s Director of Advancement-Admission & Giving. The current field is also uneven, and Hillel students need a safe playing sur...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 29 S hoah Ambassadors, the Holocaust documentary film directed and pro- duced by Keith Famie, won three Michigan Emmys at the award ceremony at the MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit on June 11. Famie won an award for his directing of the film; his Visionalist Entertainment Production crew members Brendan Martin and J.R. Grant won for editing; and Martin won for lighting. The film itself was also nominated for a...…

…30 | JUNE 23 • 2022 BUSINESS N ews coverage of economic issues often concentrates on the immediate future: Experts try to tell us what factors will influence the bottom line in the next quarter. Sustained trends can make more difference in our lives, so we asked Michigan’s business leaders to tell us what they foresee about Michigan’s economy in the long run. STRENGTHS 1. Diversifying Economy Not long ago, people said “Detroit”...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 31 Chamber sponsors programs to assist underserved communities in K-12 schools, to help students achieve success in two-year and four-year degree programs and also to attract highly skilled workers to relocate to Michigan. Baruah notes that just over 40% of Michigan’s adult population hold college degrees, lagging behind the nearly 50% in other states. The Chamber sets 60% as a goal, and Baruah lauds Michigan Gov. ...…

…32 | JUNE 23 • 2022 W hen her younger sister, Amanda, was gearing up for her 21st birthday in November 2020, Claudia Halpern knew she had to do something special to help Amanda have a memorable celebration despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. “We couldn’t go to bars, ” Halpern, 27, of Farmington Hills, recalls. Instead, she brain- stormed with Amanda’s boyfriend on how to throw a party for her sister, despite the restrictions th...…

…from a hobby to a full-blown business. For Halpern, however, start- ing a business was a no-brain- er. Hailing from generations of entrepreneurs — a trait she says is in her blood — she manages Party Sistas along- side working at her day job at OneTable, a national nonprofit that helps make Shabbat din- ners accessible to the younger Jewish community. It’s not Halpern’s first foray into Jewish outreach. Since childhood, she’s been inv...…

…34 | JUNE 23 • 2022 T he Frankel Jewish Academy baseball team put an accomplishment on its resume this season that it hadn’t been able to do since 2005. The Jaguars won a Catholic League division championship. The Intersectional 2 division had just three teams in it and each of the teams played only four division games, but Frankel coach Joe Bernstein said that doesn’t take the luster off the Jaguars’ title. “No one can take ...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 35 said. “And he was our best hitter at the end of the season. He has the heart of a champion.” Senior Charlie Tobias was happy to play this season. He missed his sophomore season because the Michigan High School Athletic Association shut down spring sports after the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then he missed his junior season because of an elbow injury. “There was no way I was going to miss this season,”...…

…36 | JUNE 23 • 2022 Editor’s Note: The JN will begin a regular series of stories from Detroit’s Partnership2Gether region. Here is an overview of the program to get it started. S ince 1994, three Michigan communities: Metro Detroit, Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids, have partnered with three municipalities in Israel: Migdal HaEmek, Nof Hagalil (formerly Nazareth Illit) and the Jezreel Valley — a region referred to as the “Central ...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 37 continued on page 38 to people here, made it more tangible and started creating a broader spectrum of relationships between the communities here and there.” Another key initiative the partnership has invested in for many years is the support of English language instruction in the region. “English language in the periphery is often lacking, and it’s a really important part of success to Israelis,” Stillman sai...…

…38 | JUNE 23 • 2022 different tasks related to the partnership region. These items include the English language programs, teen leadership development (which includes the camper program, Birthright trips and Teen Mission), a program where young adults in Michigan are paired with young adults in the partnership region, helping launch a young adult initiative in the region similar to NEXTGen Detroit, and more. The ShinShinim pro...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 39 MAZEL TOV! Grossman-Dainas C heryl and Dennis Yashinsky are thrilled to announce the engagement of their daughter Rebecca Lindsay Grossman, to Adam Jacob Dainas, son of Tobey and Scott Dainas of Highland Park, Ill. Rebecca received her bachelor’s degree in biopsychology, cognition and neuroscience at the University of Michigan. She earned two master’s degrees in clinical psychology from Madonna University an...…

…40 | JUNE 23 • 2022 SPIRIT Controlling Anger A nd God said, “I pardon, as you have asked.” Though we are months from the High Holidays, these words bring to mind our prayers during the months of Elul and Tishrei. We confess our sin; we share our sorrow; we ask for forgiveness, and God grants us pardon. In this week’s portion, we find God offering pardon to the people who have cried out in fear and anger after hearing the ...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 41 I n March 2020, whilst launching a new book, I took part in a BBC radio program along with Mervyn King, who had been governor of the Bank of England at the time of the financial crash of 2008. He, together with the economist John Kay, had also brought out a new book, Radical Uncertainty: decision-making for an unknowable future. The coronavirus pandemic was just beginning to make itself felt in Britain, and ...…

…42 | JUNE 23 • 2022 Malbim explains the difference simply. Latur means to seek out the good. That is what tourists do. They go to the beautiful, the majestic, the inspiring. They don’t spend their time trying to find out what is bad. Lachpor and leragel are the opposite. They are about searching out a place’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities. That is what spying is about. The exclusive use of the verb latur in our parshah — repeated ...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 43 Synagogue Directory METRO DETROIT CONSERVATIVE Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills (248) 851-5100 adatshalom.org Congregation Beth Ahm West Bloomfield (248) 851-6880 cbahm.org Congregation Beth Shalom Oak Park (248) 547-7970 congbethshalom.org Beth Tephilath Moses Mt. Clemens (586) 996-3138 bethtephilathmoses.com B’nai Israel Synagogue West Bloomfield (248) 432-2729 bnaiisraelwb.org Congregation ...…

…44 | JUNE 23 • 2022 Temple Emanu-El Oak Park (248) 967-4020 emanuel-mich.org Temple Israel West Bloomfield (248) 661-5700 temple-israel.org Temple Kol Ami West Bloomfield (248) 661-0040 tkolami.org Temple Shir Shalom West Bloomfield (248) 737-8700 shirshalom.org REFORM/RENEWAL Congregation Shir Tikvah Troy (248) 649-4418 shirtikvah.org SECULAR/HUMANISTIC Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Metro Detroit Farmington ...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 45 A pril is the cruelest month,” T.S. Eliot famously wrote. The line came to me on a cold, rainy Friday when I walked the site where Ariel Schlesinger’s sculpture, Ways to Say Goodbye, is to be situated. The achingly slow Michigan spring presented a landscape that was muddy and colorless, which seemed appropriate to the disaster Ways to Say Goodbye would commemorate. These morose thoughts, however, soon yiel...…

…46 | JUNE 23 • 2022 fostering at the gardens? AS: I see a discussion as open-ended, a start of a journey really. I can say something about how it stands straight and tall but holds in its hands and fingers sharp shattered glass, memories and ideas that seem to reflect pain on it. Another person can respond with their interpretation. I can’t control what they see in it. I think that’s the beauty of it. But I might learn somethi...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 47 and then installing it back in the window, I photographed the window — but the focus was not on what the window showed, inside or outside, but on the glass. Then, when I printed the photograph, I framed it using the broken glass. Finally, you have the object, and you are viewing the documentation of the object through that object. This was also a reference to the Charlie Chaplin movie, The Kid, in which he t...…

…48 | JUNE 23 • 2022 RF: Your piece outside the Frankfurt museum is in a city where Jews are less than 1% of the population, much like Grand Rapids. Most who visit Meijer Gardens and see your piece will not be Jewish. What do you hope they take away from the encounter? AS: I hope they will see a work of art by the grandchild of a survivor and perhaps through accompanying text will see how that person experienced and translated ...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 49 C hildren’s author Danica Davidson had authored more than a dozen books when she experi- enced hatred as a journalist for a major cable media outlet in 2015 because she was Jewish. “I had an editor who lectured to me that it was no big deal to refer to Jewish people as Nazis, ” said Davidson, who lives in Kalamazoo. “I was told that, overall, the Jews didn’t have it that bad and only suffered a few bad years i...…

…50 | JUNE 23 • 2022 “She told me she wanted her story to be accessible to elementary school students but not to sugarcoat the facts, ” Davidson said. “Seeing how little facts adults have about the Holocaust, it is evident we are not doing enough for Holocaust education, and it must begin at a younger age than high school. “This book addresses that challenge because it’s accessible for upper elementary school and middle school,...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 51 A MYSTERY ON THE RESERVATION, CHARITY SAVES A RICH LADY, AN ARTY BIO-PIC Dark Winds is an eight-ep- isode psychological thriller that began streaming on AMC and AMC+ on June 12. It is based on a series of bestselling and critically acclaimed novels written by the late Tony Hillerman. The books, and the AMC series, center on two Native American reservation police officers. Noah Emmerich, 57, has a major suppo...…

…52 | JUNE 23 • 2022 BIM BOM BABY 10-11 AM, JUNE 24 Bim Bom Baby is a Shabbat celebration at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills for babies to 4-year- olds. Join Rabbis Michael Moskowitz and Daniel Schwartz in singing with Cantor Penny Steyer, braid- ing challah, playing and making new friends. There is no charge. This will take place in person at the Learning Center Preschool at Adat Shalom. ONE-ACT FESTIVAL JUNE 24-26 ...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 53 Lupovitch as he shares stories and perspectives on infamous Jewish spies from the 20th century. June 28: Jew, American, Athlete, Spy — The Many Sides of Moe Berg; July 5: Soviet Spies in the Shadow of McCarthyism — Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; July 12: Our Man in Damascus — Eli Cohen and the Mystique of the Mossad; July 19: The Controversial Career and Capture of Jonathan Pollard. Register: cbahm.org/event/ s...…

…54 | JUNE 23 • 2022 The community came out for a fun night celebrating cheese for Shavuot, our dairy- themed holiday, on Saturday, June 4, at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township. The night started with a private cheese tasting with Mongers’ Provisions, followed by a delicious strolling cheese-themed din- ner with Temple Beth El’s caterer, Platinum Dish Catering. A special shout out to TBE’s Sisterhood and event organizers, Judy Rob...…

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…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 57 SALLY ANN BERGMAN, 81, of West Bloomfield, died June 16, 2022. She is survived by her sons and daughter-in- law, Rabbi Aaron and Ruth Bergman, and Laurence Bergman; grandchildren, Rina Bergman and Peter Traunmuller, Shira Bergman and her fiancé, Nathan Shi, Ariel Bergman and Rikki Bergman; brother and sister-in-law, Yehuda and Shulamith Berman; sister- in-law, Janet Berman; nieces, nephews and friends. Mrs....…

…58 | JUNE 23 • 2022 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY sister of the late Barbara Benjamin. Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to American Cancer Society, 20450 Civic Center Drive, Southfield, MI 48076, cancer. org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. RICHARD FRANK, 61, died on May 30, 2022, in Los Angeles, Calif., but always had a special place in his heart for his native Detroit. Through Kol Ami a...…

…JUNE 23 • 2022 | 59 the community and donating to those in need. In addition to being extremely generous, Marty was honest in his work as an accountant. He was always enthusiastic about going to work and refused to retire. He worked all the way up to two days before he passed away. Along with his passion for his work, Marty enjoyed traveling the world with his wife, Lois. Together, they visited all seven continents and more tha...…

…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 60 | JUNE 23 • 2022 law, Steven and Leah Rocklin; many other loving family members and friends. Mr. Rocklin was the brother of the late Arvin Rocklin. Interment took place at Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice, Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. LISA RENEE SHAPIRO, 59, of Farmington Hills, died peacefully in her home on June 14, 2022...…

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…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 62 | JUNE 23 • 2022 M y brother gave me some inside information a few months ago. He’s an executive vice president at Paramount Films, and he said: “Top Gun: Maverick [the sequel to Top Gun] is going to be a major box-office hit. It’s the first old-fashioned, got-to-see-it-at-the-theater production released by Holl...…

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…JUNE 16 • 2022 | 3 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-11 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 12 Hands in the Dirt … Heart with Nature Oak Park herbalist’s Sunny Squirrel Farm is a healing and sharing place. 18 A Fixture in Kalamazoo Temple B’nai Israel still going strong after 150 years. 20 Years of Dedication Meet Janis Shulman, a lifelong JARC volunteer. 22 Carl Levin Remembered Friends, family and colleagues of the late sen...…

…4 | JUNE 16 • 2022 for openers My Life as the Queen M azel tov, Queen Elizabeth! Our friends from across the pond pulled out all the stops June 2-5 to celebrate Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The four-day celebration commemorated Elizabeth’s 70th year on the throne and, not once in all those years, my sources tell me, have her legs fallen asleep. It is the longest reign for any British monarch, just don’t bring that ...…