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September 03, 2020 (vol. , iss. 1) • Page Image 25

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…Jews in the D 26 | SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 W hen Dr. Aaron Milstone, origi- nally of Lathrup Village, started to see COVID-19 cases rise in his current home of Tennessee back in March, he knew the state’ s government would have to act fast to contain an outbreak. Milstone, a pulmonary critical care physician based in Franklin, and another Nashville-area doctor felt a stay-at-home order would help the state keep the virus at bay. But Te...…

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… SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 | 27 I t might be easy to shop with just a single click on Amazon, but why not help Michigan’ s economy as much as possible by shopping locally instead? When that’ s the united call of many customers, then the impact can be huge. That’ s what’ s behind the #MichiganStrong masks you might be seeing on people around town. The Suit Depot in Oak Park is behind the masks. But according to owner Mordy Babayov, it’ ...…

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…T his summer, just like in years past, celebrants of the Kids Kicking Cancer’ s (KKC) belting cere- mony were treated to dinner, laughter and special gifts. Unlike in year’ s past, the July 22 honorees enjoyed the revamped aspects of the annual event from inside their vehicles at a stop-and-go pace, pausing at various outdoor stations. More than 100 children and their parents were greeted by waves, cheers, horn blasts and the pr...…

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…ROSH HASHANAH GREETINGS Ad Deadline: Sept. 10, 2020 Continue a 78-year tradition! Wish your family and friends and the entire Jewish community a Happy New Year! For information, call 248-351-5116 or email salessupport@renmedia.us GO TO: thejewishnews.com/rosh-hashanah-greeting to reserve your space today or call us at 248.351.5116 STEP 1: Select Your Style STYLE #1 Rosh Hashanah 2020/5781 May the New Year bring to all our friend...…

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…30 | SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 power, but (the kids) are not just powerful martial artists,” said Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg, the founder and global direc- tor of KKC known to kids as “Rabbi G” . “They are breathing in light, pushing out darkness. So that’ s peace. And what’ s purpose? Ask any kid here and they’ ll tell you: to teach you to teach the world.” The international nonprofit KKC, serves more than 7,000 children, some as young ...…

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… SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 | 31 Iconic Museum Asks for Public Help Marvin’ s Marvelous Mechanical Museum opens GoFundMe page to help with expenses. MAYA GOLDMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER M arvin’ s Marvelous Mechanical Museum has opened a GoFundMe page to help cover expenses incurred while the arcade has remained closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The GoFundMe was start- ed by Jeremy Yagoda, current “Ringmaster, Grand Poobah & Self-Designa...…

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…T he founder of an interna- tional babysitting busi- ness began her love of watching children during her Junior Congregation days at Congregation Shaarey Zedek. “I’ m a part of a big intergen- erational (CSZ) family,” said Rachel Charlupski, founder of The Babysitting Company. “I remem- ber when my big cousins would watch me and my friends at Junior Congregation. When I was older, I did the same for other little chil- dren. Then I s...…

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… SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 | 33 Moments AUG. 17, 2020 Erica and Yaron Jacobovits of Boca Raton, Fla., are thrilled to share the arrival of their baby girl, Lillian Rosa (Tziporah Chaya). Lilian Rosa was welcomed home by her excited big broth- er Abraham. Delighted grandparents are Eva and Sheldon Hamburger of Raleigh, N.C., Eli and Sherry Jacobovits of Coral Springs, Fla., Stuart and Terry Jankelovitz of West Bloomfield; beaming great-grandmo...…

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…34 | SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 O ne of my favorite tales centers around Rabbi Chaim of Brisk who was traveling on a train, sharing a compartment with a group of stylishly dressed people. The rabbi was dressed modestly. Throughout the trip the passengers made disparaging comments to one another about the rabbi, never attempting to talk to him. They only talked about him, rudely whispering back and forth. Once the train arrived, the...…

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… SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 | 35 continued on page 36 Arts&Life festivals Israeli artist to participate in this year’ s Arts, Beats & Eats festival. SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER I sraeli artist Yoram Gal is among some 20 artists participating onsite in this year’ s Arts, Beats & Eats, the annual festival currently diverging from its usual format because of COVID-19. The Labor Day Weekend — and extended — schedule has only limited in-...…

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…36 | SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 I n Václav Marhoul’ s new fairly literal and so “faithful” adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’ s influential, contro- versial novel The Painted Bird, things are mostly what they seem. An unnamed, orphaned refugee boy (Kosinski described him as a “ gypsy or Jewish stray ... olive- skinned, dark-haired and black- eyed”) trudges between brief, fragile harbors amid the remote villages and elder forests of Eastern ...…

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… SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 | 37 C haiFlicks, a new stream- ing service dedicated to Jewish and Israeli enter- tainment, has just launched and the timing is perfect. Created as a Jewish Netflix, ChaiFlicks has over 150 acclaimed movies, TV series, documentaries, short films and theater selections, including multiple award-winning and classic films, and it is available on every major streaming device. It’ s founded by Neil Friedman and He...…

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…38 | SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 N o topic seems as uninviting as Holocaust humor. How can you laugh at that? How dare you? And yet, before and during the Holocaust, people did tell jokes about Jews, Nazis and mass murder. Even now, decades afterwards, people still tell jokes. Who tells these jokes, about whom, to whom? Exactly who finds the jokes funny, and who finds them intolerable? Scholars examine who does Holocaust humor and why in...…

September 03, 2020 (vol. , iss. 1) • Page Image 39

… SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 | 39 that “delusionary.” “Ridicule didn’ t work when Hitler was alive and dangerous . . . Nor are gales of laughter likely to neutral- ize the enduring vestiges of neo-Nazism,” he writes. In Woody Allen’ s film Manhattan, a character sug- gests going to a neo-Nazi demonstration “with bricks and baseball bats and really … explain things to them.” Works crafted not to offend: The television series Hogan’ s Heroes ...…

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…40 | SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 MAGICAL TRAIL SEPT. 1-30 Winding through a half-mile of dark forest in Commerce Township, Glenlore Trails, put on by Bluewater Technologies Group, is a multi-sen- sory, interactive experience perfect for all ages. This family-friendly installation includes the use of lights, sensor-activated shows and more to create an otherworldly environment that makes for great photos. Tickets are available online and can...…

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… SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 | 41 cover story No Schmear Coincidence Nosh I f you bake it, they will come. And since its grand opening in February, they’ ve been coming out in droves to Bubbie’ s Bagels on Front Street in Traverse City. The bagel shop has been a success story, despite Michigan’ s COVID-19 lockdown halting the store’ s indoor traffic just weeks after opening. But these bagels have proven curb appeal, because curbside pick...…

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…continued from page 41 42 | SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 Sam has had Jewish vacationers and local residents visit the store. The presi- dent of Traverse City’ s Beth Shalom syna- gogue and a rabbi from Petoskey’ s Temple B’ nai Israel have been customers. As for shipping of Bubbie’ s Bagels for downstate Metro Detroiters to enjoy, “for now that is limited to what my parents are willing to shove into the backseat of their car,” Sam said with a...…

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…T he Aug. 28 grand opening of Tov Bagel’ s new downtown Detroit location proceeded as planned, despite disagreeable weather. The newest bagel shop on the block is selling its innovative flavors and large schmear selection out of the ASHE Supply Co. café at 1555 Broadway St., via an outdoor, socially distanced walk-up counter. Tov Bagel is the brainchild of Joe Penn, 23, from Boston; Devon Malloy, 23, from Lancaster, Pa.; and Dan...…

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…continued from page 43 44 | SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 “Bread has always been something that’ s interested me because there is so much science behind it. It involves the manipulation of time, temperature and humidity. I wanted to create my own bagel, not replicate a certain style,” Sam said, sounding like a scientist in his own bagel laboratory. To that end he began experimenting, formulating his own recipes by tinkering with ingredients ...…

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… SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 | 45 D an Aronson has salsa in his blood. He was just a tod- dler when his parents, Jack and Annette, opened a restaurant, Clubhouse Bar-B-Q, in Ferndale. One of their customers was Jim Hiller, owner of Hiller’ s Markets, who loved the restaurant’ s salsa so much he asked if he could sell it in his stores. Garden Fresh Gourmet was born. Dan was 6. His earliest memories include working in the business next to h...…

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…48 | SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 A Life of Service JUDY GREENWALD CONTRIBUTING WRITER A dedicated military man, a proficient technical writer, married to his childhood sweetheart for 68 years, a proud father and grandfather, selfless, humble, with a love of country and family — these qualities only begin to describe Calvin Blum, who died Aug. 18, 2020, at age 92. The youngest of five sons of Abraham and Celia Blum, four of whom simulta...…

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… SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 | 49 continued on page 50 Eric Novetsky, Jessica and Steven Migliore, Dr. Daniel and Paula Fischer, Noah Collen, Zachary Collen; great-grandchildren, Lily Novetsky, Emma Novetsky, Alexis Migliore, Jacob Migliore, Dylan Migliore; many loving nieces, neph- ews and friends. She was the beloved wife of the late Seymour Collen; dear sister and sister-in-law of the late Norman and the late Florence Zacks. Contribut...…

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…50 | SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 Soul of blessed memory continued from page 49 SUSAN DUBIN, 74, of West Bloomfield, died Aug. 26, 2020. She is survived by her husband of 52 years, Dr. Howard Dubin; sons and daughter- in-law, Arthur Dubin, and Matthew and Debbie Dubin; grandchildren, Alivia Dubin, Marcus Dubin and Tessa Dubin; brother and sister-in- law, James and Nancy Jonas; best friend and caregiver canine, Wally; nieces and nephews...…

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… SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 | 51 continued on page 52 JOEL MATTHEW LEVISE, 52, of Southfield, died Aug. 24, 2020. He is survived by his parents, Susan Bilsky and William Levise; sister and brother-in- law, Dawn Levise and Mark Ellison of Milford; many other loving relatives and friends. Contributions may be made to Michigan Greyhound Connection, P.O. Box 725384, Berkley, MI 48072; or to a charity of one’ s choice. A graveside service w...…

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…52 | SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 Soul of blessed memory continued from page 51 OBITUARY CHARGES The processing fee for obituaries is: $125 for up to 100 words; $1 per word thereafter. A photo counts as 15 words. There is no charge for a Holocaust survivor icon. The JN reserves the right to edit wording to conform to its style considerations. For information, have your funeral director call the JN or you may call Sy Manello, editorial as...…

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… SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 | 53 A look back at Van Dyke Place. the best of everything Raskin L’Chaim Noshing Menu L ooking back to the future … With nothing more to prove in the restaurant world … having carved a solid niche as one of the nation’ s finest restaurants … Van Dyke Place added another gem to its trea- sured list of din- ing wonders. Traditional Jewish foods, even back in 1994, were being received with high popularity at...…

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…54 | SEPTEMBER 3 • 2020 Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 75th Anniversary of VJ Day T here is another important 75th anniversary this week. On Sept. 2, 1945, on the deck of the battle- ship U.S.S. Missouri, the Japanese Empire formally signed the papers of surrender to the Allies. World War II was officially over. The fighting in the Pacific Arena ha...…

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…SUCCESSFUL LEARNING CAMP Create your own group with children from families you know Create your own group with an adult and children you know Join a small group we create with one of our own educators FA L L 2 0 2 0 Keeping kids’ brains and bodies active for over 50 years If you are considering alternatives this Fall for school Franklin Athletic Club has a solution. We have over 50 years’ experience in educating and creating phy...…

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