…38 | JULY 11 • 2024 J N L ike many young professionals who venture to Los Angeles to build a career, Orchard Lake native and Hillel Day School graduate Cory Charlupski had a grand vision. After graduating from the University of Michigan in 2009 and later Loyola Law School in 2013, Charlupski, 37, pursued a lucrative career in real estate law, drafting real estate transactions totaling in the hundreds of millions. Still, something ...…
…S ince beginning her career in 1993, Meredith Colburn has successfully established herself as a go-to expert in the local market and is consistently rec- ognized as one of the top Realtors in the industry. Meredith treasures collaboration, partnership and legacy. Teamwork, with both her clients and colleagues, is a key aspect to her long-term success in the competitive real estate marketplace. 31 years ago, she joined her mother and ...…
…40 | JULY 11 • 2024 opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading brokers, including Fredrik Elkund of Million Dollar Listing New York and Mauricio Umansky of Buying Beverly Hills and Dancing with The Stars. However, it was a surprise opportunity that led Charlupski to once again eye Detroit and return home. BACK TO THE MOTOR CITY While giving a tour in Los Angeles to New York City-based Bruce Ehrmann of Douglas Elli...…
…JULY 11 • 2024 | 5 J N VOTE Aug 6th David Flaisher David Flaisher 36 year West Bloomfield resident and member of Adat Shalom Synagogue and The Shul For West Bloomfield Township Supervisor Initiated hazardous material collection days Ethics, integrity, transparency Protect woodlands & wetlands Repeal the "Recession Tax" Paid for by committee to elect David Flaisher for W. Bloomfield Twp Supervisor | Box 250182 W. Bloomfield, M...…
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…42 | JULY 11 • 2024 J N Y ou may have heard of “-core” trends that center around a specific niche, like cottagecore (accessorizing your home like a lake house) or balletcore (a style that emphasizes elegance, ballet flats and tulle). The latest “-core” trend sweeping the country is cafécore, the art of recreating the coffee shop vibe at home. Pinterest Predicts 2024 calls cafécore one of the hottest trends of the year. It’s abo...…
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…44 | JULY 11 • 2024 J N I t’s time to consider how you’ll use your outdoor spaces this year. Your backyard, patio, front lawn and garden aren’t just for outdoor activities. They are natural living areas that you can use to cook, eat, entertain and relax. Belgard wants to help you take your outdoor spaces to the next level. From eye-catching driveways to stunning patios and serene landscapes, the company offers an array of products ...…
…JULY 11 • 2024 | 45 J N withstand the elements and require minimal maintenance. Doing so ensures you can enjoy your outdoor living areas for a long time. 4. WATER FEATURES Create a visual focal point, add tranquility and mask noise pollution from nearby streets or neighbors in your outdoor spaces with water features. From elegant fountains to serene ponds, water features create a vibrant and dynamic outdoor ecosystem. Once you ...…
…46 | JULY 11 • 2024 J N H ow’s your office working for you? According to a recent survey from organizational solution brand Mind Reader, 86% of people see their workspace as having an impact on their happiness — which makes an organized office at home or at work essential to keeping a positive mood. If you’re setting up your workday in different spots at home throughout the day (18%), hunkering down at your dining table (17%)...…
…JULY 11 • 2024 | 47 www.liveatthenoble.com (947) 222-4952 thenoble@kmgprestige.com 3200 South Blvd, Bloomfield Hills Discover ease and peace of mind that renting at The Noble has to offer. Our brand new two and three bedroom homes in Bloomfield Hills combine classic style with modern upgrades to bring you a chic and sophisticated space to call your own. BRAND NEW LUXURY APARTMENTS Private Entrance Two-Stall Private Garages Valet Tras...…
…48 | JULY 11 • 2024 J N G reen is having its moment this year in bath and kitchen design and decor. Whether dark, light or somewhere in between, these luscious hues are on trend right now, but they evoke a deep sense of nostalgia, optimism, style and panache. Kohler knows a bit about that. The kitchen and bath fixture giant was the first to bring bold, coordinated color into kitchens and bathrooms in the 1920s. In 1927, Kohler ...…
…JULY 11 • 2024 | 49 J N gasp when it saw Kohler bathrooms in living color. It set the design world on fire, with this country’s elite clamoring for color, color, color in their kitchens and baths, culminating in an exhibit of a color- coordinated Kohler bathroom at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1929. Last year, Kohler celebrated its 150th anniversary with a limited-edition Heritage Colors collection, and this year, that collec...…
…CINDY KAHN & EMILY KAHN AT THE AGENCY HALL & HUNTER 442. S Old Woodward Birmingham MI 48009 O (248) 644-3500 C (248) 568-7309 cindy@cindykahn.com cindykahn.com As the Agency Hall & Hunters’ Top Producer from 2016- 2023 and among the Top 1% of Realtors nationwide, Cindy’s great sense of pride is in connecting clients with properties that complement their goals and aspirations. Emily shares in this dedication to client...…
…1942 - 2024 Covering and Connecting Jewish Detroit Every Week To make a donation to the DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOUNDATION go to the website www.thejewishnews.com 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 changes to: Detroit Jewish News, 322...…
…JULY 11 • 2024 | 51 NOSAN SIGNATURE HOMES 32000 Northwestern Highway, Suite 195 Farmington Hills, MI 48334 (248) 932-5444 nosansignaturehomes.com snbeer@nosan.net Nosan Signature Homes has grown from decades of experience building custom homes. NSH brings you together with top design professionals and the best subcontractors and suppliers, resulting in the highest quality construction. Their attention to design, cr...…
…52 | JULY 11 • 2024 J N A new art initiative for children has launched in Metro Detroit. Crayola Imagine Arts Academy, a franchise brought to Southeast Michigan by Sterling Heights-based Jewish husband-and- wife duo Dmitriy and Rita Feldman, has more than 50 art enrichment programs designed for kids ages 5 to 12. However, Crayola Imagine Arts Academy uses much more than just trademark Crayola Crayons, as the children’s bra...…
…JULY 11 • 2024 | 53 J N Member FDIC B I R M I N G H A M We can’t help you name your baby. But we can help you save for college. Ad Number: PP-BOAA-23248G Trim: 7.375" x 4.8" Perich Job No: 23248 Bleed: NA Colors: 4/C Live: NA Format: 1/2 Page Ad Version: 06.25.24 to even Artist’s Passport, a soon-to-come travel-themed concept. Its most popular offering so far, Rita Feldman explains, is the Wild World-themed classes. One Wild ...…
…54 | JULY 11 • 2024 J N Celebrating 40 years in business, the Celebrating 40 years in business, the custom framing and art gallery opens custom framing and art gallery opens second storefront in Crosswinds Mall. second storefront in Crosswinds Mall. ART + FRAME Expands to West Bloomfield ASHLEY ZLATOPOLSKY CONTRIBUTING WRITER A s the Bloomfield Hills business was ready to expand, Jewish-owned custom framing and art gallery ART ...…
…JULY 11 • 2024 | 55 what we do to your neighbor- hood dentist. You don’t go to a different dentist every time. You find someone you like, and you stick with them for a lifetime. ” These relationships, Gordon says, are critical when it comes to trusting a business with irre- placeable items like artwork and heirlooms. As ART + FRAME celebrates its 40th anniversary, Gordon believes it’s a key reason the business has thrived and surviv...…
…56 | JULY 11 • 2024 J N Kam-Giliardi D r. Eliyahou Kam and Mrs. Flora Kam of West Bloomfield are delighted to announce the engagement of their daughter Dr. Rebecca Kam to Payam Giliardi, the son of Mr. Parviz Giliardi and Mrs. Parivash Somikh of Great Neck, N.Y. Rebecca earned both her bachelor’s in science and doctor of dental surgery degrees from the University of Michigan. Payam earned a bachelor’s degree at Queens College ...…
…JULY 11 • 2024 | 57 J N Forgiving a Wrong W e spend a good deal of time focusing on repentance (teshuvah) as we come to the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. There’s good reason. Maimonides writes in the Mishneh Torah, “Even though repentance and calling out to God are desirable at all times, during the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, they are even more desirable …” This focus on repentance, howeve...…
…58 | JULY 11 • 2024 I t took me two years to recover from the death of my father, of blessed memory. To this day, almost 20 years later, I am not sure why. He did not die suddenly or young. He was well into his 80s. In his last years, he had to undergo five operations, each of which sapped his strength a little more. Besides which, as a rabbi, I had to officiate at funerals and comfort the bereaved. I knew what grief look...…
…JULY 11 • 2024 | 59 plained about the lack of meat. But it makes no sense at all to do so when God has already told you, “Speak to the rock … It will pour forth its water, and you will bring water out of the rock for them, and so you will give the community and their livestock water to drink.” Moses had received the solution. Why then was he so agitated about the problem? Only after I lost my father did I understand the passage. ...…
…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 B’nai Moshe West Bloomfield (248) 78...…
…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 32255 Northwestern Hwy. Suite 205, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 248-354-6060 thejewishnews.com JULY 11 • 2024 | 7 J N although undoubtedly Jews in those areas will take advantage! — this new contract fulfills two imperatives for Gesher. First, our mission statement says that we “serve all Metro Detroiters while meeting the needs of the Jewish community. ” It also fulfills the imperative established by Rabbi Hillel...…
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…ARTS&LIFE THEATER W e’ve had enough” are the only three words anticipat- ed to be spoken by Jaden Kellman in the upcoming musical comedy production of Guys and Dolls, but he sings and dances a lot as part of the ensemble chosen by the Nicely Theatre Group, a professional, not-for-profit initiative. Also in his responsibilities with the show are chance involvements at any time when the actor portraying Guy Masterson (Patrick Lane...…
…JULY 11 • 2024 | 63 if something doesn’t happen somebody’s life is ruined. It’s super fun to imagine yourself in the world of this produc- tion, and I enjoy having fun with it.” Kellman, 21, has appeared in lots of education-spon- sored productions since starting out as a student at Clifford H. Smart Middle School in Commerce Township, where he audi- tioned for a stage production simply to be with friends. Initially, he had planned...…
…64 | JULY 11 • 2024 J N I n each of three generations from the Abrahamson fami- ly of Illinois, there is an artist working in a medium different from the other two, and the art- ist in the middle will be making his first visit to this summer’s Ann Arbor Art Fair. In between first helping his dad with the comple- tion of wood proj- ects and then later watching his son using sterling silver to express ideas in metal, David Abrahams...…
…JULY 11 • 2024 | 65 J N PUZZLE ANSWERS Solution to puzzle in 7/4/24 issue. years and decided I wanted to try something different, and I started painting. ” In moving on to a new approach to art, Abrahamson had to learn how to use some different tools and materials so he could represent his take on various environmental aspects that surrounded him. Abrahamson, 64, recalls how he enjoyed watching his father at work and then help- in...…
…66 | JULY 11 • 2024 J N FLY ME TO THE MOON (MOVIE & SONG); SAUSAGE PARTY SERIES Fly Me to the Moon is a romantic comedy that opens in theaters on July 12. It’s set in the late 1960s, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union race to land on the moon first. A relationship develops between the NASA director in charge of the Apollo 11 mission (Channing Tatum) and a marketing specialist (Scarlett Johansson, 39) brought in to fix NASA’s p...…
…JULY 11 • 2024 | 67 MUSICAL REVUE NOW-JULY 28 “It’s Only Life: A New Musical Revue” at the Inspired Acting Company, 1124 E. West Maple, Walled Lake. A powerful and uplifting musical about longing, fulfillment, loss, triumph and wisdom. Tickets $45; $40 for under 30/over 65. Info: (248) 863- 9953. VOICE SERIES 8 PM, JULY 12 (FRI.) “A Message From White Flowers” at The Ark, 316 S. Main, Ann Arbor. String ensemble out of Autophysio...…
…68 | JULY 11 • 2024 J N Summer Salads H i, Debra and Pam here and, as of today, we are going to be your new food friends for the Detroit Jewish News. A little bit about us, we are foodies, bakers and recipe devel- opers. Debra once had a gra- nola company, Max’s Granola, named after her son Max; and Pam was the owner of Just Baked! We love all things food and are looking for- ward to bringing you all kinds of recipes and ...…
…JULY 11 • 2024 | 69 JUST FOR FUN Summer Word Scramble Unscramble these words associated with summer. labl relofw soplicpe lelahess fnu futreltby dasnasl lopo icnpic srohts abhec hunnisse dans tho miwsmgni Miriam Cohen’s parents Miriam Cohen’s parents were in a car accident and taken were in a car accident and taken to the hospital. She rushes to to the hospital. She rushes to the hospital and asks the doctor, the hospital an...…
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…T he camera gave me a bigger purpose than just myself, ” said for- mer Detroiter Joan Roth in the opening scene of a documentary telling about her adventurous, five-decade career as a noted photojournalist and activist. In addition to her freelance work, some might know Roth as the longtime staff photographer of Lilith. The Jewish women’s feminist magazine, under edi- tor-in-chief Susan Weidman Schneider, is published in Roth’s a...…
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…DOREEN S. BERG (Lipsitz/ Lipson), of Detroit, sweetest, loved Mom, bubbie, cousin, sister, daughter and true friend, passed away on June 14, 2024. She shared love with everyone and found ways to lift spirits wherever she was. Doreen’s smile lit up even the darkest room. She is now an angel, dancing among the stars with a poem of the heart and a song of the soul. The family feels her with them always. She is survived by her dau...…
…74 | JULY 11 • 2024 J N Emory LaPointe; many other loving family mem- bers and friends. Daniel was the beloved husband of the late Leonore Braude and the late Nori Braude; devoted brother of the late Faye (the late Jack) Lasine and the late Abraham (the late Marilyn) Braude; father-in-law of the late Candyce Cottier and the late Karen Boegehold. Interment was held at Nusach Hari Cemetery in Ferndale. Contributions can be made ...…
…JULY 11 • 2024 | 75 J N Debbie Glazer, and Josh Glazer; loving grandchil- dren, Abby, Carly, Levi and Henry Glazer; sisters-in-law, Ronni (George) Turney, Patti Hurwitz; many loving cous- ins, nieces, nephews other family members and friends. Paula was the beloved wife of the late Robert Glazer; sis- ter of the late Alan Hurwitz. Interment was held at Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham. Contributions may be made to the America...…
…utions may be made in his memory to Temple Jacob, P.O. Box 273, Hancock, MI 49930. KENNETH A. LAWTON, 83, of West Bloomfield, died June 27, 2024. He is sur- vived by his beloved wife, Risa Lawton; children, Jeff (Theresa) Lawton, Julie (Doug) Johnston and Jared Lawton; grandchildren, Jason Lawton, Sarah Lawton, Emma Johnston and Alex Johnston; brother and sister-in-law, Barry and Deanna Lawton; many other loving family member...…
…ing uncle of the late Dani Brenner; the devoted son of the late John and the late Florence Mintz. Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association- Greater Michigan Chapter, 25200 Telegraph Road, Suite 100, Southfield, MI 48033, alz. org/gmc. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. EDWIN “BILL” L. PERLMUTTER, 97, of West Bloomfield, died July 3, 2024. He is survived by his wife of 6...…
…78 | JULY 11 • 2024 J N Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at thejewishnews.com Revisiting Temple Jacob T hree weeks ago, the JN ran a story about a 24-year-old member of a neo-Nazi white supremacist gang who had been convicted of defacing the historic Temple Jacob in Hancock, Michigan, in January 2019. He is finally going to jail for his crime of anti-Jewish, racist vandalism...…
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…JULY 11 • 2024 | 9 J N friend. “Pamela is something like another daughter to me, ” Roth said. “It’s so meaningful, so extraordinary, that my family did this for me, ” said Roth, who participated in a Q&A following the presen- tation. A NOTEWORTHY CAREER Gorelick, a New Jersey resident, spent the COVID quarantine living with Roth. Their proximity spurred the daughter’s interest to organize hundreds of exhibit-level photos she found l...…
…10 | JULY 11 • 2024 J N work Roth already knew and admired, became her mentor and a lifelong friend. From her, Roth learned street photogra- phy principles, shooting in low light without flash, and using black-and-white film instead of color. Another great friend, Sid Kaplan, has printed all of her photos for more than 30 years. Giving Roth wings was her businessman second husband, Leonard Sanders. They were married from 1988 unti...…
…$200 July 4-10, 2024 / 28 Sivan- 4 Tamuz 5784 JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT thejewishnews.com The Frankel Jewish Academy baseball team wins its third straight Catholic League Intersectional 2 Division championship. See page 28 3-Peat! …
