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…MARCH 31 • 2022 | 91 ARTS&LIFE BOOK REVIEW I n 2010, Krysztof Janus, an architectural engineer working on renovating some buildings in Lublin, Poland, found an unexpected treasure in the abandoned attic at 4 Rynek. There he discovered, buried under trash and dirt — actual soil — glass plates, photographic negatives on thin glass sheets, each a bit smaller than four by six inches. Digging further, the engineer found about 2,700 of ...…
…92 | MARCH 31 • 2022 Nazaruk, Newman and Lansky worked on this project for four years, and now White Goat Press of the Yiddish Book Center combines with Grodzka Gate to jointly publish The Glass Plates of Lublin: Found Photographs of a Lost Jewish World, displaying about 160 of the 2,700 photographs taken by Abram Zylberberg between 1913 and 1930. Many of the photographs show Jewish life in the bustling city, includ- ing sports cl...…
…MARCH 31 • 2022 | 93 to tell him, ““Oh, my God, I recognize this photo in the book. My whole life, that was on my mother’s bedside table. That was one of sev- eral women sitting together, and one of the women was my mother’s sister. One of the women in the photo is my aunt.” Her aunt that she had never met, of course; her mother had three sisters. She didn’t know which of the three is in the photo- graph. No one has identi- fied...…
…94 | MARCH 31 • 2022 ARTS&LIFE TV T he big reveal came for Sills’ character, French Chef Baudin, during the season finale on March 21, along with the bonus announcement that The Gilded Age has been picked up for a second season. Sills already has the first three scripts. “I’m looking forward to reading the upcoming episodes. Being in a Julian Fellowes’ production is kind of like being in a scavenger hunt — you don’t decide...…
…MARCH 31 • 2022 | 95 As Monsieur Baudin for the first eight episodes, Sills’ char- acter oversees the lavish menus of railroad tycoon George Russell (Morgan Spector) and his social-climbing wife, Bertha (Carrie Coon) in New York City, 1882. Filmed over nine months during the pandemic, and under strict safety protocols, The Gilded Age was shot on location around New York City, and Sills’ scenes in the servants’ kitchen were shot a...…
…T he Disney+ origi- nal film Better Nate Than Ever premieres on April 1. Nate, 13, is an unpopular Pittsburgh teen who fantasies that he will become a big Broadway star. His best friend, Libby, convinces him to go to New York and audition for a big Broadway musical. He lucks out when he runs into his Aunt Heidi (Lisa Kudrow, 58), a “showbiz smart” person who has long been estranged from Nate’s parents. April 4-5 most PBS sta- t...…
…MARCH 31 • 2022 | 97 ART SHOW & SALE APRIL 1-15 The 37th annual Our Town Art Show & Sale is hosted by the Community House in downtown Birmingham. This juried, all media art show provides a forum for Michigan artists to show- case and sell their work. Thirty-five percent of the proceeds from the art sales will be used to fund the Community House out- reach programs for adults and children. The virtual show goes live on April 1; a...…
…98 | MARCH 31 • 2022 Studies at the University of Michigan, will discuss “Recovering Stories of the Maccabean Matriarchs” in a free virtual lecture. The speaker, a professor of religious and theological studies at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, will explore the ways in which these women of antiquity impacted national and international affairs. To register for the pro- gram, sponsored by the Frankel Institute and SAJE...…
…MARCH 31 • 2022 | 99 continued on page 100 HEALTH & WELLNESS A Post-Pandemic World? ASHLEY ZLATOPOLSKY CONTRIBUTING WRITER T wo years after COVID- 19 was first declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization, medical experts are now hopeful the deadly virus will become endemic. “When something is endemic, it’s essentially part of the population on what is a small, but consistent basis,” explains Dr. Steve McGraw, EMS...…
…100 | MARCH 31 • 2022 continued from page 99 HEALTH & WELLNESS CURRENT HEALTH RECOMMENDATIONS If COVID-19 becomes endemic, McGraw says we may see seasonal transmis- sions between Thanksgiving and February, similar to influenza. “We’ll see a big surge right around Christmas and Chanukah,” he pre- dicts. “And that’s because it’s endemic.” McGraw estimates that COVID-19 vaccines could be combined with flu shots, which are reviewed ...…
…MARCH 31 • 2022 | 101 HEALTH & WELLNESS F or weeks after Gail T. of Oak Park gave birth to her first child, she experienced tremendous pain and discomfort. Veteran moms told her this was her official welcome to motherhood and that she would learn to live with it. Fortunately, her obstetrician suggest- ed physical therapy and that’s when Gail wound up in Rinku Singh’s office in Farmington Hills. “All that pain was normal- ized, and ...…
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…104 | MARCH 31 • 2022 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY M adeleine Albright was the quintessen- tial late 20th-century Jewish diplomat, haunted by the Holocaust and determined to use what tools her adopted country had to crush inhu- manity when it arose. Except she didn’t know she was Jewish until she was in her 50s, or so she claimed, a revelation that led some Jews to embrace her and others to question whether, like so many others,...…
…MARCH 31 • 2022 | 105 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY continued on page 106 ANNE COLMAN died March 24, 2022. She is sur- vived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Cindy and Fred Leff, and Brenda and Jim Herman; son and daugh- ter-in-law, Dr. Douglas and Judy Colman; grandchildren, Brian and Aimee Leff, Randy and Carrie Leff, Jordan and Caroline Leff, Michael Colman, Sara and Adam Herbert, Dana and Michael Gutman, Alex Herman, Joey ...…
…continued from page 105 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 106 | MARCH 31 • 2022 active in DeMolay. He attended Monteith College, part of WSU. He was a Measures and Weights Inspector for the Michigan Department of Agriculture. Larry maintained a life- long love of classical music, listening to and reading scores, especially of Wagner. He was an avid reader. Larry was predeceased by his parents, Jack Goldin and Shirley Goldin, and by hi...…
…MARCH 31 • 2022 | 107 F rank Peter Kaszynski, 80, of Detroit, was born on March 23, 1942. He passed away peace- fully and was surrounded by his loving family and dearest friends on March 17, 2022. Frank was Head of the X-ray Technology Department at Alexander Blaine Memorial Hospital. After retirement, he pursued his love for architecture, design, history and antiq- uities. His passions led him to create Edmund Frank & Associat...…
…JEROME LEADERMAN, 82, of Oak Park, died March 21, 2022. He is survived by his daugh- ter, Rachel Leaderman of Waterford; sister, Rochelle Koppele; many dear nieces, nephews, cousins, other rela- tives and friends. Mr. Leaderman was the beloved husband of the late Carol Leaderman. Contributions may be made to Macomb Oakland Regional Center, morcinc. org; or Michigan Humane Society, 30300 Telegraph Road, #220, Bingham Farms, MI 4...…
…N ancy Ellen Siegel, 72, (née Mitchnick), beloved wife, moth- er, sister, aunt, niece, cousin and friend, passed March 19, 2022. A Detroit native, she graduated with distinction from Mumford High School and Wayne State University’s Monteith College and commenced a lifelong career of service to oth- ers. Her ability to gain people’s trust and understand their needs and dreams propelled her through posi- tions in the arbitrat...…
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…MARCH 24 • 2022 | 3 contents contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-11 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 12 Return to the Promised Land Federation’s 2023 Motor City Mission marks the first community-wide mission since 2008. 16 An Interfaith Celebration of Peace and Hope on March 27 18 The Dean of Super Bowls Catching up with legendary sportswriter Jerry Green. 22 SHARE Ukraine SHARE Detroit launches a way ...…
…4 | MARCH 24 • 2022 L ast month in the JN I shared similarities between myself and quarterback Tom Brady, one of which was we both knew when it was the right time to retire from football. Tom called it quits after an illus- trious 22-year NFL career that included seven Super Bowl wins, while I hung up my athletic cup after only a few weeks of getting my tuchus kicked unmercifully as a member of Southfield’s Mary Thompson ...…
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…6 | MARCH 24 • 2022 column Poland Equals Solidarity S ome 1.5 million refugees — more than five times the population of Haifa — have reached Poland over the last two weeks via its border with war- torn Ukraine. Ukrainians, Israelis, Indians, Americans, Nigerians and nationals of more than 160 other countries have crossed the border to Poland and been told, “You’re safe now.” Since the start of the Russian invasion on Feb. ...…
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…8 | MARCH 24 • 2022 opinion Ukraine, Russia and the Unbearable Lightness of ‘Never Again’ A fter decades of fearing that we would forget the horrors of our recent past, I am starting to fear the opposite possibility: that we Jews remember our history all too well but feel pow- erless to act on its lessons. The Russian invasion of Ukraine invites analogies to our traumatic past. History begs us to learn from what came before. ...…
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…10 | MARCH 24 • 2022 opinion Biden Prepares to Sign a Terrible Deal with a Terror Regime I ’ve long felt that Joe Biden passed the “kishkes” test when it came to his sup- port for Israel. Since meeting Golda Meir as a junior senator in 1973, the man has met every Israeli prime minister. Like many oth- ers in our com- munity, I took for granted that he’d always have Israel’s back, in a world obsessed with maligning the world’s ...…
…MARCH 24 • 2022 | 11 and the world through its support of proxy militias and employment of terror as statecraft,” with “activi- ties [that] span nearly every continent [as] they have left death and debris in their wake in countries such as Argentina, Lebanon, Turkey, Bulgaria and even in the U.S.” Biden’s own Central Command General Kenneth McKenzie has called Iran’s 3,000 ballistic missiles “the greatest threat to the region’s ...…
…Federation’s 2023 Motor City Mission marks the first community-wide mission since 2008. Promised Land DANNY SCHWARTZ STAFF WRITER 12 | MARCH 24 • 2022 F rom March 12-21, 2023, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit is sponsoring its first community-wide, adults-only mission to Israel since 2008: Motor City Mission. The team planning the trip is led by Federation chairs Diane and William Goldstein, and Lisa and Richard Brod...…
…MARCH 24 • 2022 | 13 FACING PAGE (TOP) Old City of Jerusalem with aerial view of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Israel. (BOTTOM) Direction and distance signpost at Mount Bental in the Golan Heights. THIS PAGE (TOP) Azrieli Center in Tel Aviv. (MIDDLE) Visitor at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. (BOTTOM) Israeli flag in the old city of Jerusalem. continued on page 14 the general community here in Michigan,” he said. Because the miss...…
…14 | MARCH 24 • 2022 Birthright trips and lived there for a year. She said Michigan’s Partnership2Gether region is a crown jewel. “You go there, and people will be walk- ing around with Tamarack shirts and Detroit Birthright sweatshirts, and it almost feels as if you’re home, but you’re in Israel,” Bean said. “The relationships we’ve created among the Americans and Israelis in these two communities are astonishing and really meaningf...…
…MARCH 24 • 2022 | 15 never seen places like Masada or Independence Hall will be able to do those things, ” Bill Goldstein said. Both Goldsteins have been on Grosfeld Missions, one of the several Federation mis- sion programs designed to strengthen the Detroit Jewish community and develop connections between young Detroiters and Israel. One of Diane Goldstein’s most mem- orable trips to Israel was on a Grosfeld Mission. “We starte...…
…home to us. Simply put, it has been way too long since our community has visited home, too long since we have been able to see old friends and make new ones,” Lester said. “We know that missions to Israel create special moments on all our personal Jewish journeys. There is something about Israel that touches your heart and soul every time you visit, and you come away invigorated with a deepened understanding of your Jewish identi...…
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…OUR COMMUNITY L egendary Detroit News columnist Jerry Green, 93, returned from Los Angeles last month having covered his 56th consecutive Super Bowl in person, the only daily sportswriter in history to attend every championship game. Actually, it’s a title Green has owned since his good friend, now retired Newark Star Ledger writer Jerry Izenberg, called Green three years ago to tell him he was ending his Super Bowl run at 53 games. ...…
…MARCH 24 • 2022 | 19 A month later, Green’s uncle took Jerry to the Polo Grounds to see the Giants ver- sus the Pittsburgh Pirates. “That was my first baseball game. I was awed, ” said Green. Later that year, his father treated him to a Yankees-Washington Senators double- header at the mecca of baseball — Yankee Stadium. It had a profound impact on his baseball allegiance. “I was immediately transformed to a Yankees fan. I deeply love...…
…20 | MARCH 24 • 2022 future generations to improve on their lot in life. Green served on active duty as a lieutenant junior grade and was later promoted to lieu- tenant. Upon reflecting on his service to his country he said: “I got more out of the Navy then the Navy got out of me. ” TOUR OF DUTY ENDS, CAREER BEGINS Upon returning from Japan in 1956 at the end of his three-year stint in the Navy, Green wasted no time in beginning his...…
…MARCH 24 • 2022 | 21 streak, Green is not awash in memorabilia ... He lives in a one-bedroom apartment in an independent living facility in Grosse Pointe.” There is a photo of Jerry with Joe Namath from Super Bowl III and a photo with legendary Detroit boxing great Joe Louis. “Other than that,” Newsweek reported, “there’s no clutter of artifacts from a career in which he cov- ered championships by all four Detroit teams.” What mi...…
…22 | MARCH 24 • 2022 OUR COMMUNITY S HARE Detroit has launched a donation portal dedicated to help- ing people of Ukraine, SHARE Ukraine, a one-stop-shop where those who wish to support Ukrainian citizens can find trusted ways to help. Sam Rozenberg, the co-founder of the Metro Detroit nonprofit platform, was born in Ukraine. He says he’s made it his mission to use his platform to help pro- vide humanitarian assistance and a space...…
