…AUGUST 18 • 2022 | 33 school hours. “Children have to come away from their religious learning with some kind of a knowledge base, and that is very difficult to accomplish with the model of supplemen- tary education that exists now because of the busy schedule of families that have reduced the days and hours of religious instruction,” said Berg. “But families still need after- school care. So, in communi- ties that have high concent...…
…34 | AUGUST 18 • 2022 BACK TO SCHOOL I srael might be the size of New Jersey, but it claims a disproportionate amount of media attention. As teens scroll through Instagram, it’s hard to ignore some of the anti- Israel sentiments. Is Israel an apartheid state? Is it oppressing innocent Palestinians? Does it overreact to terrorist attacks with baseless violence? With all the noise out there, teens need facts to fight the misinform...…
…36 | AUGUST 18 • 2022 I recently went to Israel on a trip organized by MSU Hillel called Fact Finders where students of different backgrounds and identities traveled to Israel and the West Bank. The purpose was to increase our knowledge of the country, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and different perspectives among residents there. I went with an open mind to learn. I felt nervous and at times uncomfortable, but I embraced each...…
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…38 | AUGUST 18 • 2022 not feel from a textbook and was a feeling I had never experienced in the United States. Walking through the shuk, or market, in the Old City and talking with and bartering with the different vendors was very cool. I had never seen so many fences and walls dividing people as when we visited Israel’s border with Gaza. While I did not feel unsafe, it did feel like my heart stopped beating there. I could not believ...…
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…I n May, we had the great pleasure of going to Israel and the Palestinian Territories with a group of students from Wayne State University on Hillel of Metro Detroit’s Fact Finders Trip. It was nothing short of amazing. Going in, one of us was nervous, and the other did not have many expectations. Why was one of us nervous? Growing up Jewish, and having learned one perspective of the conflict, I never knew there could be another...…
…AUGUST 18 • 2022 | 41 O n Friday, Aug. 5, students from Hillel of Metro Detroit headed to Comerica Park to watch the Detroit Tigers take on the Tampa Bay Rays for “Shabbat with the Tigers.” They had fun at the game, even though the Tigers lost 5-3. They stayed to enjoy fireworks after the game. Go Tigers! Photos courtesy of Hillel of Metro Detroit Sarah Schiffer, Em Schiffer, Brendan Findley, George Timlin and Jacob Rosberg Sarah ...…
…I n my four years on the program staff of Hillel of Metro Detroit (HMD), I have seen and heard about an increase of antisemitic incidents on our six campuses. This is consistent with university communities across the country. Although antisemitism is a hard topic to approach, Hillel of Metro Detroit is fortunate to work with faculty and administration who are understanding, compassionate and listen to the needs of our cam...…
…AUGUST 18 • 2022 | 43 JCRC/AJC, we contacted Dr. Mert Aksu, dean of students at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry, and scheduled a meeting with the dental school administration. We are pleased to report that the meeting with Dr. Aksu and Dr. Juliette Daniels, associate dean of students, was overwhelmingly positive. The deans agreed to speak to the Office of Diversity and Inclusion about the repercussions...…
…44 | AUGUST 18 • 2022 P laying No. 1 singles on a high school tennis team is a tough job. It means facing the other team’s best singles player in every match. Lindsay Berke held that role in her four years on the North Farmington girls tennis team. Well, three years. Her sophomore season in 2020 was wiped out by the COVID-19 pandemic. Berke was 11-8 as a junior and 6-9 as a senior this past spring. Those numbers don’t tell the story...…
…AUGUST 18 • 2022 | 45 DIANNE SCAFONE “Lindsay wasn’t just a leader for our team on the court,” Dupret said. “She was a great role model who always made it a point to welcome new players to our program.” Berke said the welcoming happened to her when she was a freshman, so she felt it was important to return the favor. The team often did a couple minutes of meditation before practices during Berke’s junior season. The idea came from ...…
…46 | AUGUST 18 • 2022 continued from page 45 Imagine keeping track of 139 travel baseball teams in five age divisions on 23 fields stretching from Saline to Flint. That’s what Novi resident Matt Sandles, 31, and Josh Birnberg, 26, of West Bloomfield did over five days in July as they oversaw their second annual Motor City Classic. Birnberg worked remotely from Georgia, where he was coaching a travel baseball team in a national tourna...…
…AUGUST 18 • 2022 | 47 NEXT DOR Rabbi Jeff Stombaugh featured three scenes from the show for participants to analyze and discuss. O n Wednesday, July 27, 20 young adults gath- ered at Bamboo Royal Oak for The Well’s event “The Torah of Obi-Wan Kenobi.” Rabbi Jeff Stombaugh led the group discussion about the famous debates between Torah scholars Hillel and Shammai, who are not unlike the Light and Dark sides of the Star Wars univer...…
…48 | AUGUST 18 • 2022 I n central Israel, the distance from Kiryat Gat to Shaalvim is about 50 kilometers (a bit more than 30 miles). A greater socio-economic distance sepa- rates the national religious high schools in those two locations. Most of the students at ORT Gross, a high school for girls in Kiryat Gat, immigrated as chil- dren from Ethiopia. Their par- ents, for the most part, do man- ual labor or work as caretakers. The ...…
…AUGUST 18 • 2022 | 49 age who are religiously obser- vant, smart, ambitious and also fun. The students from more privileged backgrounds get to know students their own age whose life situation involves many more challeng- es. Because every society has forces pulling its constituent segments apart, and other forces bringing the segments together, Shelef aims to strengthen the forces pulling Israeli society together. Wassen, one of t...…
…50 | AUGUST 18 • 2022 MAZEL TOV! HOW TO SUBMIT ANNOUNCEMENTS Mazel Tov! announcements are welcomed for members of the Jewish community. Anniversaries, engagements and weddings with a photo (preferably color) can appear at a cost of $18 each. Births are $10. There is no charge for bar/bat mitzvahs or for special birthdays starting at the 90th. For information, contact Editorial Assistant Sy Manello at smanello@thejewishnews.com or (248)...…
…AUGUST 18 • 2022 | 51 A Sign of Compromise I n today’s world of red or blue states, far left or far right, compro- mise has become a dirty word. There is a prevail- ing sense in discourse that it must be all or nothing, black or white, right or wrong. Nuance, shades of meaning and willingness to meet in the middle, to compro- mise to create win-win situations has been lost. This was not always the case. The art of compromise was ...…
…SPIRIT I n the early 1990s, one of the great med- ical research exercises of modern times took place. It became known as the Nun Study. Some 700 American nuns, all mem- bers of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in the United States, agreed to allow their records to be accessed by a research team investigating the process of aging and Alzheimer’s disease. At the start of the study, the partic- ipants were aged between 75 and 102. Wha...…
…AUGUST 18 • 2022 | 53 God had promised it to their ancestors, and had taken them from slavery to free- dom, sustaining them during the 40 years in the wilderness. This was a revolutionary idea: that the nation’s history be engraved on people’s souls, that it was to be reen- acted in the annual cycle of festivals, and that the nation, as a nation, should never attribute its achievements to itself — “my power and the might of my own hand...…
…54 | AUGUST 18 • 2022 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 ...…
…AUGUST 18 • 2022 | 55 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...…
…ARTS&LIFE BOOK REVIEW A nyone who has read about or has listened to a survivor speak about the Holocaust realizes they possessed essential per- sonal attributes. They were bless- ed with physical and mental toughness; they also had to have some luck. Famous Jewish-Italian survivor Primo Levi, who wrote one of the early and best-known firsthand accounts of life in Auschwitz, If This Were a Man (English version, Survival in Au...…
…S teve Lincoln’s wife died of breast cancer a couple of years ago, and Lincoln, a retired building contractor, remains too depressed to resume many of his activities. He certain- ly has not started dating. His adult son and his rabbi cajole Lincoln into joining a workshop at the local Jewish Community Center (in suburban Detroit) for dealing with grief and loss. Nearly two years ago, a drunk driver killed Ayelet Weinberg’s husband...…
…58 | AUGUST 18 • 2022 INDUSTRY ON HBO, RENEWALS, GODFATHER ‘JEWISH’ STUFF The HBO series Industry recently made it on my radar. It premiered in 2020 during the apex of the pan- demic but was filmed before the pandemic hit. Almost all reviewers said the show was an unrealistic look at the lives of young people trying to move up the ladder at a large London financial ser- vices company. Many critics said you could overlook the un...…
…AUGUST 18 • 2022 | 59 BIKE & PRAY 8:45-NOON, AUG. 20 At Temple Israel. Choose your own adventure: 8:45 am — join us for bagels and lox and a family- friendly, mostly flat, 4-mile bike ride along the West Bloomfield Trail; or 10 am — meet at temple with your bikes, scooters, etc. Zhuzh up your gear, navigate our obstacle course and enjoy services with Rabbi Josh followed by a donut decorating oneg. Free. Helmets required. Info: ...…
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…LEONARD APPLEBAUM, 89, of Bloomfield Hills, died Aug. 6, 2022. He is survived by his beloved wife of 64 years, Beverly Applebaum; daugh- ters, Lorie Applebaum and Ronna Applebaum Earnest; son David Applebaum; grandchild, Jordan Applebaum Earnest; loving nieces, nephews, other family members and friends. Mr. Applebaum was the devoted brother of the late Eugene (the late Marcia) Applebaum; son of the late Joseph and the late Minn...…
…64 | AUGUST 18 • 2022 T he life of Ann (Hannah) Newman would make a fasci- nating historical novel, the story of a plucky heroine from a Polish shtetl who became a groundbreaking entrepreneur, an avid Zionist, a generous benefactor to Jewish causes local and worldwide, and the matriarch of a large and loving family. Ann Newman, who lived in Oak Park, passed away on July 31, 2022, at the age of 94. Ann was born in 1928 in a sma...…
…AUGUST 18 • 2022 | 65 Arranging a funeral is an emotional process. But choosing the right funeral home can help alleviate the stress. That’s why people turn to us. We understand the wants and needs of families from all walks of Judaism. Our fresh look and feel make everyone feel welcome. We’re centrally located, and our pricing is fair. Our care—and our caring—help ease the burden of a loss. Making a Dorfman difference everyone will ap...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 66 | AUGUST 18 • 2022 Sue (Susie) Melamed of Southfield; mother-in-law, Juanita Walker of Charlotte; sister, Sarah Melamed Theodoroff and her hus- band, Matt Theodoroff, of Portland, Ore.; brother, Marc Melamed and his wife, Rebecca, of West Bloomfield; aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends and col- leagues. Mr. Melamed was pre- ceded in death by his father, Frederick Melamed; and ...…
…AUGUST 18 • 2022 | 67 the last position she held for more than four decades was at Splane Printing in Detroit. The family will forever cher- ish memories of dear Rose. She is survived by her beloved husband, Alex Rabin; son and daughter-in-law, Jonathon and Amy Rabin; grandchildren, Rebecca and Michaela Rabin, Harry, Lila and Charlie Rabin. She is also survived by former daughter- in-law, Donna Rabin; and many other loving family ...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 68 | AUGUST 18 • 2022 Contributions may be made to a Jewish charity of one’s choice. A private family graveside service was held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. MILTON ZUSSMAN, 100, of Longboat Key, Fla., formerly of Bloomfield Hills, died Aug. 8, 2022. He was the beloved husband for 52 years of the late Lois Zussman; cherished father of Neil Zussman and Cathy Wh...…
…AUGUST 18 • 2022 | 69 O ne of the foremost authorities on the history of American cooking, Janice Bluestein Longone, died Aug. 3, 2022, at the age of 89. Her passion for collecting early cookbooks and her enthusiasm for sharing her knowledge anticipated the rise of culinary history. She became an essential resource for cook- book publishers, for restauran- teurs and academic historians. Janice Bluestein, middle child of a Jewish f...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 70 | AUGUST 18 • 2022 Time to Cruise T his weekend, the third Saturday of August, will mark the 27th annual Woodward Dream Cruise, or what is billed as “The World’s Biggest Cruise.” There will be plenty of antique cars, custom-built hot-rods and one-of- a-kind automobiles and trucks driving and burning rubber in the ...…
… Event Chairs Matt Lester and Ian Burnstein invite you to join us for this special evening Boneh Kehilah Award (Builder of Community) Honoring Mark Rubenfire and Mitch Albom The Acclaimed Play by Mitch Albom & Jeffrey Hatcher Thursday, September 15, 2022 at The Berman Featuring a live talkback with Mitch after the performance Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss Please reserve your seats as soon as possible as tickets are very limited...…
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…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 3 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-10 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 12 The Car Guy’s Car Guy Eddie Alterman has spent a career behind the wheel of the world’s snazziest autos. 18 Gift of a Torah Centenarian Sam Gotlib’s values and traditions live on. 20 Synagogue Spotlight Beth Israel Congregation, Ann Arbor 22 Shabbos Desserts for Chai Lifeline Danielle ‘DeeDee’ Lefkowitz ...…
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…6 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 viewpoint What If Iran — Not Israel — Launches a Preemptive Attack? A s Iran’s nuclear program continues apace, the debate in Israel and abroad has focused almost exclusively on the like- lihood of an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Little if anything has been said, at least in public, regarding the possibility that Iran might pre- empt a potential Israeli offensive. The absence of this scenar...…
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…8 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 opinion We Need to Agree to Disagree H ere’s a story I recently shared on Facebook: I was paddling my inflatable kayak on a lake in the Berkshires. Granted, it is not the sleekest or coolest-look- ing conveyance, but it gets the job done and it fits in the trunk of my car. At one point, I passed two guys in a very lovely canoe. One of the guys says to me, “That looks like fun!” And I say, “And you have a ...…
…AUGUST 11 • 2022 | 9 America has become obvi- ously a dividing line. And it doesn’t seem to have gotten any better.” Although few, if any, members of Gen Z were taking part in the convening, the group born after 1995 seemed to be on a lot of people’s minds. That’s partly because of Haidt’s framing of the issue; in his book, he dates strict campus speech codes and polarizing identity politics to the arrival of Gen Z on college cam...…
…10 | AUGUST 11 • 2022 essay The Power of Hello A friend once shared a story about a time that she took her grandchildren to the beach. She sat alone and noticed a group of women chatting nearby. She decided to approach them. Her “Hello” led to a shidduch (match) between her daughter and the son of one of the women. Her motto: “The Power of Hello!” I am an introvert by nature, often reticent to approach strangers. However...…
