…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 5 For 82 years, our commitment has been the same. To serve everyone in Michigan with better health. In every ZIP code, we provide access to high-quality care. Throughout communities large and small, we support local efforts to improve health for all. Wherever you call home, we will be by your side. Because we’re here for it all and always will be. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network are nonprofi t...…
…6 | JUNE 24 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY 1942 - 2021 Covering and Connecting Jewish Detroit Every Week To make a donation to the DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION go to the website www.djnfoundation.org The Detroit Jewish News (USPS 275-520) is published every Thursday at 32255 Northwestern Highway, #205, Farmington Hills, Michigan. Periodical postage paid at Southfield, Michigan, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: send ...…
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…8 | JUNE 24 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY S pies steal secrets. Sometimes, those secrets must be care- fully studied and analyzed by experts to turn them into prod- ucts useful to policymakers. The spies I’ll be talking about here worked for the Mossad. The expert who has painstakingly transformed the secrets they collected into actionable intelligence is David Albright. And the policymaker who should be revising his policies in...…
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…12 | JUNE 24 • 2021 continued from page 10 parties disagree. However, there is also some hope that the government will begin to heal some of the country’s intense polarization, starkly exhibited by the intercommunal violence this past month between very small segments of the Jewish and Arab citizens. NEW FACES The new government has a record nine women ministers; it includes an Arab Israeli Party in the ruling coalition, the ...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 13 Of the 2.5 percent of the world’s water that’s safe to drink, how do we keep it that way, seeing as it’s mostly underground? Thanks to the Weizmann Institute’s groundwater dynamics model, we can now pre- dict how contaminants will spread, so we can reach endangered parts of the water supply faster, and detoxify any polluted groundwater before it disperses. Every day, Weizmann Institute scientists in Israel work to pro...…
…14 | JUNE 24 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY “H atzalah. What’s your emergency?” Residents of Oak Park, Southfield and Huntington Woods have a trusted number to call in times of crisis — Hatzalah of Michigan, whose volunteers read- ily and willingly put their lives on pause to respond to emergency calls, often leaving their jobs, homes or child’s birthday party to provide lifesaving care to their neighbors. Hatzalah, which partners with the Oa...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 15 CLOCKWISE: Michael Feldman of Southfield, Captain Asher Sigler of Oak Park, Rabbi Bentzy Schechter of Oak Park, Mordy Kranczer of Oak Park and Sachee Allswang of Southfield pose in front of their office in Oak Park. Celia Smith of Southfield is on the dispatch radio. Cheryl Zuroff of Southfield talks with a group of dispatchers after a group meeting. Mordy Kranczer checks his medical sup- ply bag. …
…16 | JUNE 24 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY continued from page 15 spread around the world. Today, Hatzalah is the largest volunteer ambulance service in the United States, with more than 80 ambulances and almost 2,000 volunteer EMTs, as well as dozens of branches throughout the world. Hatzalah MI executive board member Nachy Soloff grew up in Monsey, N.Y., and was accus- tomed to the service. “It was sec- ond nature. You had a medical emer...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 17 continued on page 18 JN, “I’m so happy we took this on. I would do it all over again. It’s been tenfold what we origi- nally envisioned when we first started. “We envisioned a partner- ship that would help to serve our citizens better. There’s a lot of diversity in Southfield, and we get to learn a lot about the Jewish community from Hatzalah. It’s helped us up our game in the department. “What’s more is that Hat...…
…18 | JUNE 24 • 2021 ers. Hatzalah volunteers know that a Jew reluctant to violate Shabbat rules when receiving medical attention may be more at ease and easily convinced of the medical urgency when the emergency responder is a fellow Orthodox Jew. “Hatzalah helps us out a great deal with the Jewish community when there is some hesitancy or if there’s some misunder- standings about the medical treatment to be received, ” said Oak...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 19 edented scale and, despite that, they did what they were supposed to and didn’t fail.” CLOSE-KNIT COMMUNITY There’s more to being a member of Hatzalah than the willingness to respond to a call at a moment’s notice. Because many of the people they serve in Oak Park and Southfield are Orthodox Jews, Hatzalah volunteers are also trained in Halachah (Jewish law) so they can navigate lifesaving skills, such as the...…
…20 | JUNE 24 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY J ewish leaders around the world have rallied in support of a third day of Holocaust remembrance, which helped create the inaugural Holocaust Survivor Day. This day of remembrance commem- orating the Jews who survived the horrors of the Nazi regime will be celebrated for the first time on Thursday, June 24. Though the day is brand new, the goal is to spark a worldwide annual event that keeps t...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 21 another for shelter. Though she was young, Cohen learned the story of her family’s survival through their stories and their photographs. Her dad’s skills as a great outdoorsman and her moth- er’s perfect German helped the Schechter family survive. With the help of friends, they were able to escape the ghetto in which they lived and hid in different properties. To make hiding easier, Cohen’s parents decided to s...…
…OUR COMMUNITY 22 | JUNE 24 • 2021 W hen a small group of older adults walked through the doors of the Dorothy and Peter Brown Jewish Community Adult Day Program in early June, their first time back in 15 months, they were greeted by welcome- back banners, bouquets of paper flowers, hand-decorated cards, posters and, of course, plenty of big smiles. The artwork was created by students at West Maple Elementary School in Bloomf...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 23 in January (with most being prior participants before the pandemic), they are fully immunized against COVID- 19, they come from a fully immunized household, and they are physically able to wear a mask. As community infection levels drop, more people will be accepted, and restrictions may be removed. Banooni shared that at least one former participant was unable to return because her family knew wearing a mask ...…
…24 | JUNE 24 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY T he Jewish Federation reported results from its 2021 Annual Campaign, completed May 31. The Annual Campaign is Federation’s central fundraising vehicle, and it provides for the majority of resources Federation dis- tributes to its partner agen- cies across the local and international Jewish community. The 2021 Annual Campaign raised a total of $34.2 million, meeting the goal estab- lished at...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 25 OUR COMMUNITY I n an effort to spread aware- ness to help free detained journalist Danny Fenster, a professionally designed web- site at bringdannyhome.com is offering $20 T-shirts with pro- ceeds going to a charity of Fenster’s choice after he gets home. Fenster, man- aging editor for Frontier Myanmar, was detained on May 24 at Yangon International Airport shortly before boarding a flight on his way home to ...…
…OUR COMMUNITY 26 | JUNE 24 • 2021 A pproaches to higher education alterna- tives as affected by COVID-19 confront Alan Drimmer as he moves into the presidency of Cleary University July 1. Cleary is a nonprofit Michigan school established in 1883. Drimmer, whose career has placed him in Midwest educa- tional posts after Mideast diplo- matic assignments, is thinking through plans to accelerate programming that realistically prepar...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 27 a strong impression, and my dream became to improve the quality of student-faculty relationships. At the University of Chicago, the faculty cared about me as a person and chal- lenged my assumptions about building a meaningful life, inspiring me to dedicate my professional life to improving access to education. ” To achieve his revised career goals, Drimmer earned a mas- ter’s degree in business admin- istration ...…
…28 | JUNE 24 • 2021 L ira Bordoley, 18, didn’t always know she’d be drawn to powerlifting or that it would set the course for her college plans and career goals. The nationally ranked powerlifting athlete will attend the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology in the fall, with plans to become a strength and conditioning coach who can help athletes persevere. The recent Seaholm High School grad, who attends Temple Shir Shalom...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 29 He’s also been impressed by the focus it’s given her on her career path, he says. “She’s found a passion in coaching and being a strength athlete and someone who’s so in tune with their body, being able to help other people become more in tune with their bodies as well.” MUCH ENCOURAGEMENT Bordoley says she’s grateful for the support of her coach- es and her family, who have encouraged her in her efforts and ...…
…OUR COMMUNITY 30 | JUNE 24 • 2021 A manda Schlussel grew up in West Bloomfield, early on watching three older brothers and two cousins shooting baskets and playing catch. Her home, on occasion, seemed a bit of a sports center for the five, and she soon joined in. Schlussel enjoyed watching her stepbrother play hockey at the Jewish Community Center, and at 7 years old, she started playing roller hockey at the JCC. Two years ...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 31 faces&places PHOTOS COURTESY OF TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM T emple Shir Shalom’s Religious School’s mis- sion is to help kids love their Judaism. And, despite a pandemic, its teachers and leaders continued to fulfill that mission as the only local reli- gious school to meet weekly this year. Pre-K through sixth- grade programming took place using the shelters and fields of the Jewish Community Center while seventh-12t...…
…32 | JUNE 24 • 2021 faces&places JARC, a nonprofit agency serving individuals with developmental disabilities in 80 locations, includ- ing 24-hour care in group homes, independent living settings for adults, and respite services for children, teens and young adults, hosted its annual “Flower- a-Thon” volunteer event on Sunday, May 23. The event, which returned this year after a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, drew 74 voluntee...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 33 ERETZ J ust days after the rockets stopped flying over our brother and sisters in Israel, I received a call from the Israeli Consulate to the Midwest asking if I could possibly head to the Holy Land to show solidarity. The Israeli foreign minister had called the Consulate asking for as many leaders of Federations and JCRCs to show that the Jewish community in America has Israel’s back. After I got the thumbs u...…
…34 | JUNE 24 • 2021 15 Cities; 3 Days I went to 15 cities in three days: My quarantine day in Jerusalem; Netanya and Ramat Poleg; then Tel Aviv (meeting the mayor of Umm al-Fahm); Lod: where I saw a torn, scruffy city that has not given up the goal of the 70% Jews and 30% Arabs building a flourishing city together — with the help over the years of Detroit philanthropists; Kfar Kassim — a charming Arab town that tried to help me ...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 35 MAZEL TOV! AUG. 5, 2020 Wendy Frink and Steve Eder of New York City are excited to announce the birth of their daughter, Alexandra Mikey Eder. She was showered with affection by her brothers Hamilton and Rufus. Her doting grandpar- ents are Gayle and Howard Eder, formerly of West Bloomfield, and Sharon and Bill Frink of Fullerton, Calif. Alex is named in memory of her beloved uncle Michael Frink. Max Jacob Freed...…
…36 | JUNE 24 • 2021 O ur Torah portion this week tells the story of a Moabite king named Balak. He saw what the Israelites had done to the Amorites and how large the Israelite communi- ty had grown. Terrified of what may become of the Moabites, he hired Balaam, a seer, to curse the Israelites. But nothing went as planned as God intervenes, first obstructing Balaam’s donkey from moving and then speaking through the donkey, instr...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 37 Synagogue Directory CONSERVATIVE Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills (248) 851-5100 adatshalom.org Ahavas Israel Grand Rapids (616) 949-2840 ahavasisraelgr.org Congregation Beth Ahm West Bloomfield (248) 851-6880 cbahm.org Congregation Beth Israel Flint (810) 732-6310 cbiflint.org Congregation Beth Shalom Oak Park (248) 547-7970 congbethshalom.org Beth Tephilath Moses Mt. Clemens (586) 996-3138 bethtephilathmoses...…
…The Shul-Chabad Lubavitch West Bloomfield (248) 788-4000 theshul.net Woodward Avenue Shul Royal Oak (248) 414-7485 thewas.net Yagdil Torah Southfield (248) 559-5905 Young Israel of Oak Park (248) 967-3655 yiop.org Young Israel of Southfield (248) 358-0154 yisouthfield.org RECONSTRUCTIONIST Congregation Kehillat Israel Lansing (517) 882-0049 kehillatisrael.net Congregation T’chiyah Ferndale (248) 823-7115 tchiyah.org Reco...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 39 W hile most of Deborah Hochberg’s profes- sional hours have been spent as a nurse practitioner helping patients overcome insomnia, many of her waking hours away from work have been given to the satisfaction of writing poet- ry to express deep feelings. It started years ago after observing the way her late father, Israel Hochberg, wrote verse in English and Hebrew. Gradually, they wrote together. “We would talk...…
…40 | JUNE 24 • 2021 I n one approach to Jewish customs, scholars investigate the back story of current Jewish practices. They trace the source of a behavior back to a verse in the Torah or to a com- ment in the Talmud to the rec- ommendations of the rabbinic leaders of a specific community. Excellent scholarship in this approach appears in Minhagei Yisrael (Customs of Israel), an ongoing series published by Rabbi Daniel Sperber, h...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 41 SEA MONSTER TEENS AND A DATING COMEDY Luca, a Disney/Pixar animat- ed fantasy film, was released for streaming on Disney+ June 18. The film is set in the 1950’s Italian Riviera. Luca Paguro, 13, the star charac- ter, is a sea monster curious about the world above the sea. Despite warnings that the human world is danger- ous, he decides to explore a nearby Italian port with his best friend, Alberto. Alberto and L...…
…42 | JUNE 24 • 2021 MUSIC EVENT 8 pm, June 24 The Ark in Ann Arbor will present a virtual concert from Connie Kaldor, who uses a mix of song and humor. Show is free and streamed to The Ark’ s Facebook page. Donations to the “virtual tip jar” during shows support both The Ark and the participating artists. Visit theark.org. PIRKEI AVOT STUDY 11 am, June 25 Adat Shalom Synagogue invites adults of all ages to join Rabbi Aaron ...…
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…46 | JUNE 24 • 2021 L ast May, Amy Regal, longtime makeup artist and owner of Glamour Puss and Party Girls in Franklin, closed Party Girls — and her legions of fans were in mourning. The boutique was created to be a fun and comfortable space just for girls, like their bedroom at home, where they could try on dresses for each other for proms, homecomings, bar and bat mitzvahs and other special occasions. That’s when Kimberly “Kimi” ...…
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…48 | JUNE 24 • 2021 of fashion, working part-time at Sundance Shoes (now in Birmingham) and other proj- ects. Now that her twins are out of college, and her youngest daughter is 12, it seemed the perfect time to get back to her love. She opened her own version of Regal’s boutique, now called Party Girls Mitzvahs, in a private room in her Huntington Woods home last July. “Fashion is my passion, ” Rott says. “ At one time, I thought ab...…
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…50 | JUNE 24 • 2021 P rofessional party planners are emerging from an unplanned hibernation and scheduling celebra- tions, many of which had been canceled or delayed, for weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs and other special occasions. Star Trax Events, based in Ferndale, pro- vides individual services, such as parking and DJs, for 500 events a year. The company provided full-service planning for 42 events in 2019 and had 47 events planned fo...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 51 school, which felt it exposed students to too much risk. Wedding receptions are being resched- uled as many as five times, and usually to smaller events. But parties for bar/bat mitz- vahs and special birthdays or anniversaries are more often just canceled. Hoffman was able to pull off three events in 2020, including an outdoor family event and an outdoor bar mitzvah party. She has coordinated one outdoor wedding so ...…
…52 | JUNE 24 • 2021 G race Van’t Hof and Aaron Jonah Lewis wanted a big, but casual wedding, ideally in an outdoor camp-like setting where all their friends and family members could celebrate with lots of old-time music and dance. Both American- roots musicians, they wanted participants to be able to jam away on their banjos, fiddles, guitars and mandolins. Van’t Hof, 35, and Lewis, 39, caught each other’s eyes at the Knoxville Sto...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 53 Their rabbi, Arianna Silverman of Detroit’s Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, convinced them to do some of the Jewish ceremony now as well, including the sign- ing of the ketubah (marriage contract) and the exchange of rings. Van’t Hof is wearing a simple gold diamond engage- ment ring and wedding band that belonged to her maternal grandmother, Myra Zwiep, who died a few months ago. One of Ms. Zwiep’s scarves wa...…
…54 | JUNE 24 • 2021 W hile many of us spent the past year decluttering our homes, some things were just too precious to part with. If you can’t bear to give away your late father’s tie collection, your mother’s colorful array of scarves or your daughter’s childhood dance costumes, Kiwykeepsakes will turn those cherished memories into col- orful throw pillows, striking wall hangings and other unique works of art. Kiwykeepsakes —...…
