…continued on page 60 MARCH 17 • 2022 | 59 by his wife, Judy; daughter, Emily; many stepchildren and grandchildren; sister, Carol Irving (Kasmer); many nieces and nephews in Montana and Michigan. He was preceded in death by his parents, Eleanor Selik and Alex Kasmer; and his brother, Bob (Robert) Kasmer. Per his wishes, there will be no funeral services. JANET ROSENBERG LEINWAND, 85, of West Bloomfield, formerly of Tarrytown, ...…
…60 | MARCH 17 • 2022 continued from page 59 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY Interment was held at Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. JERRY ZABEL, a resident of West Bloomfield, died on March 9, 2022, at the age of 77. He is survived by his loving and devoted wife, Rochelle Zabel; daugh- ters and son-in-law, Marla (Jason) Golnick a...…
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…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 3 contents Mar. 10-16, 2022 / 30 Adar 7-13 Adar II 5782 | VOLUME CLXV, ISSUE 4 PURELY COMMENTARY 4-10 Essays and viewpoints OUR COMMUNITY 11 Stamp of Approval Farber Hebrew Day School earns accreditation. 12 Crisis in Ukraine Detroit Jewish community responds to Russian attack. 14 Let’s Talk About Ukraine 16 Trapped in Ukraine Pontiac business owner shares stories of employees trapped in Uk...…
…4 | MARCH 10 • 2022 essay “Our Beautiful City Is Being Destroyed” Stories from Kharkiv, Ukraine, in the midst of war. O n Feb. 24, we, like millions of others around the world, woke up to the horrible news that Russia had launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. As I turned on the TV , I saw the names of Ukrainian cities where our family originated from, now in the path of the Russian army, flash across the screen: Kyiv,...…
…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 5 costing the equivalent of $40. Electricity and internet go in and out, so communication is scattered at best. It’s unclear how long men who are between the ages of 18 and 60, including my cousin’s husband, will be available to help with these duties. Martial law prevents them from leaving the country. They can be called into battle at a moment’s notice. Most, if not all, have no proper military training or exp...…
…6 | MARCH 10 • 2022 1942 - 2022 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 changes to: Detr...…
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…8 | MARCH 10 • 2022 PURELY COMMENTARY opinion Ukraine’s Jewish History Is Filled with Trauma T he first time I recall hearing someone describe a relationship akin to that between Eastern European Jews and the former Pale of Settlement was when my late African American uncle spoke of Mississippi. Many immi- grant groups in America — including those with roots in Ireland, Japan and Mexico — take pride in the lands they or th...…
…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 9 Bandera, made every effort to collaborate with Germany in World War II, including the murder of Ukrainian Jews. Though the OUN did break with Germany, this was not due to any opposition to German antisemitism, but to the German refusal to permit an independent Ukrainian state. PAST IS PROLOGUE. IT’S NOT DESTINY. It is no surprise that many Jews’ first instincts toward Ukraine’s latest push for inde- pendence ...…
…10 | MARCH 10 • 2022 opinion If Putin Loses, History Wins T he conventional wisdom is that Vladimir Putin’s naked aggression toward Ukraine is taking us back to more primitive times. Indeed, for most of human history, it was raw power that ruled. If a tyrant wanted something, he just took it. The establishment of international norms and institutions in the wake of World War II was an attempt to regulate and minimize this ...…
…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 11 OUR COMMUNITY F arber Hebrew Day School (formerly Yeshivat Akiva) in Southfield, has been accred- ited for the first time by ISACS, the Independent School Association of the Central States. Farber provides general and Jewish instruction in a Modern Orthodox/Zionist context for 290 students from pre-kindergarten through high school. “This is a wonderful mile- stone in the history of Farber Hebrew Day School a...…
…T he Detroit Jewish community continues to watch in horror as Russian forces invade and attack Ukraine, and many people and organizations in the community are taking action and contributing in any way they can. Some members of the community have loved ones on the frontlines in Ukraine and are praying for their safety. It’s in these times the Jewish community becomes even closer and stronger than before. SOLIDARITY RALLY Noah Arbit,...…
…continued on page 14 MARCH 10 • 2022 | 13 Committee of Michigan organized the rally. Arbit made and brought a sign which read “Jews Stand with Ukraine” in English and Hebrew. The sign gar- nered a passionate response. “People just kept coming up to me, giving me hugs and taking pictures with my sign and saying thank you for coming and show- ing support,” Arbit says. “It made me feel good as a Jew, and I didn’t expect it, so I was...…
…ON THE COVER TOP: People from all over Metro Detroit gathered Downtown to show solidarity with Ukraine. continued from page 13 CAMPAIGN FOR UKRAINE In response to the crisis, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, working with the Jewish Federation of North America and their inter- national partners, JDC, JAFI and World ORT, opened a Ukraine Emergency Fund campaign to provide rescue and relief for the 200,000 Jews in Ukrain...…
…Jewish community — includ- ing vulnerable individuals in Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union — for many decades, ” a Federation spokesman said. “While this situation is extremely urgent and dire, our response is consistent with the work we have always been doing and will continue to do on behalf of Jews everywhere. We are fortunate to live in such a generous community that can make a meaningful difference durin...…
…16 | MARCH 10 • 2022 A Pontiac business owner, originally from Kharkiv, Ukraine, is desperately trying to help his employees stuck in Ukraine. Vladimir Gendelman, 47, whose business Company Folders, Inc. has workers in his home country, is consulting with mil- itary personnel on the best ways to help them stay safe. They talked about “general terms of what happens during a war,” Gendeman explains. “What are the strategically good places...…
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…18 | MARCH 10 • 2022 continued from page 16 A third employee in Mykolaiv, another strategically poor area due to its proxim- ity to the Black Sea, rivers and bridges, was advised to leave, but couldn’t because of his elderly parents. “He stayed behind to take care of them, ” Gendelman says. For this employee, the situation is “loud.” Bombs, shots and other racket fill the area, but he’s still able to get outside for food and other su...…
…TOP: Demonstators in Detroit don the colors of the Ukrainian flag. continued from page 15 MARCH 10 • 2022 | 19 ment organizations, JFS will be working with other commu- nity organizations, churches and synagogues, donors and government organizations to support families escaping from Ukraine. Leonid Balabanov, JFS’ director of transportation and translation, is one of many with family members affected by the situation. Balabanov’s...…
…U krainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is drawing admiration from Jews who see him as a heroic figure. A few weeks ago, Jews outside of Ukraine knew Volodymyr Zelensky as the world leader on the other end of the “perfect phone call” that resulted in the impeachment of President Donald Trump. But now, after days of watch- ing Zelensky balance humor and gravitas while rallying his fellow Ukrainians to rebuff the Russian army invas...…
…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 21 One liberal Jewish activist suggested giving this shirt, produced by the rabbinic human rights group Truah, to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who favors T-shirts. continued on page 22 victims of the Nazi genocide, lacked the bravery needed to survive, or that a Jewish pres- ident should be remarkable in a country where, not so long ago, more than 1.5 million Jews flourished. Those embedded meanings...…
…ON THE COVER continued from page 21 22 | MARCH 10 • 2022 “If Zelensky has now become synonymous with the blue-and-yellow flag of his country, it might signal an unexpected outcome of this con- flict that has found Jews feeling finally, improba- bly, one with a land that has perpetually tried to spit them out, ” wrote Gal Beckerman, the author of a book about efforts to liberate Jews from oppression in the Soviet Union, in The Atlantic...…
…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 23 OUR COMMUNITY H e was, in the words of an admirer, “born to be on the bimah,” but Cantor Earl Berris is enjoying his retirement after 23 years at Congregation B’nai Moshe in West Bloomfield. The cantor attended Mumford High before his family moved to Farmington Hills. They were members of Adat Shalom Synagogue. After graduating from North Farmington High, Berris earned two degrees at Wayne State Universit...…
…24 | MARCH 10 • 2022 and bring it into the future, ” which Berris did by welcoming women into the group, creating a new blended sound for “the singing congregation, ” he said. The choir was still going strong when he retired. Replacing Cantor Louis Klein, B’nai Moshe’s beloved long-time cantor, was a chal- lenge, but Berris already knew a lot of the congregants and immediately felt at home. He had a good working relation- ship wit...…
…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 25 F or 41 years, Alan Yost has been a building block of Adat Shalom Synagogue. The Farmington Hills’ synagogue’s long-time executive director, who is set to retire this month, has carried the con- gregation through equally successful and challenging times, laying the groundwork for future generations and Adat Shalom’s continued success. As of March 1, Michael Wolf is serv- ing as the synagogue’s new executive direc...…
…26 | MARCH 10 • 2022 Ukraine to meet with refuseniks, also attending a conference on Soviet Jewry in Brussels. “There was an incredible com- mitment on the part of this con- gregation to the Jewish people and to the State of Israel, ” Yost recalls of the mass exodus of Jews from the Soviet Union. Adat Shalom joined the move- ment in educating its members about the issues facing Soviet Jewry, initiating a “twinning” program where Metr...…
…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 27 A lisa Peskin-Shepherd has faced divorce issues within her own family, and they motivated a career interest in assisting others coping with marriage dissolution problems. In childhood, she was affected by divorce pro- ceedings entered into by her mother, a remarried widow. In adulthood, her professional goals transitioned from social work into family law. Gradually, after some 25 years in practice, Peskin- S...…
…business SPOTlight brought to you in partnership with B I R M I N G H A M H oward Ungerleider pursued a circuitous career path across the country and overseas on behalf of a single company, moving with his family nine times before becoming the president and chief financial officer of Midland-based Dow Inc. The journey resulted in an impressive resume and the qualifications for top-executive management. It also under- scored ...…
…We can’t help keep your car clean in winter. But we can help you save for a rainy day. B I R M I N G H A M Member FDIC MARCH 10 • 2022 | 29 commitments is his chair- manship of Business Leaders for Michigan, an economic leadership council consisting of CEOs and other top execu- tives of the state’s largest and most influential corporations. Business Leaders advocates for improving the state’s eco- nomic climate and prosperity by...…
…business SPOTlight here’s to 30 | MARCH 10 • 2022 DRIVING MICHIGAN’S ECONOMY FORWARD continued from page 29 gap with strong bipartisan measures to invest in degree and training programs with the goal of having 60% of the working population degreed or credentialed by 2030,” Ungerleider said. “(But) we must do more,” he said, “including removing barriers to work by invest- ing in childcare, broad- band access and affordable housin...…
…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 31 Life at headquar- ters proved to be even more exciting than the up-and-coming executive had imagined. Dow and DuPont had been longtime rivals in the chemical indus- try, giants whose leaders for years had toyed with the idea of merging in order to opti- mize their complementary strengths. The theoretical basis for joining forces was actualized in 2015 when the two companies proposed a highly unusual plan to me...…
…ERETZ A CHI, American Communities Helping Israel, was founded in 2004 during the Second Intifada to boost the econ- omy and morale in Israel. Most recently, it has created an online marketplace to help Israeli vendors impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Five women who went to high school together more than 50 years ago created a virtual market for Israeli vendors to sell their merchandise from afar. ACHI is an online market- plac...…
…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 33 Another part of the ACHI initiative is creating a KLEE in the form of a plate, bowl, or platter and filling it with Israeli goods. KLEE stands for “Klee L’ezrat Yisroel,” a vessel to help Israel. ACHI has declared 2022 the “Year of the Klee,” and plans to have a national KLEE Campaign to encourage people to have a dedicated vessel to be filled with prod- ucts from Israel. By using the hashtag #MyKlee, people ...…
…PURIM T he Metro Detroit Jewish com- munity has plenty of options for celebrating Purim this year. Here are the events we could find as of press time. Check https://jlive.app for events we may have missed. COSTUME TOT SHABBAT- PURIM FUN! 5 PM, MARCH 11 Celebrate Purim with Temple Emanu-El at Tot Shabbat. We will play Purim games, sing songs, and send you home with a pizza for dinner. 5 pm: Purim games and activities will begin. 5:...…
…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 35 Queen Esther saved the Jews. Support Yad Ezra by bringing an unopened box of pasta to shake as a grogger and donate it at the end of the shpiel. At 6:30, the Purim car- nival begins, with games, inflatables, DJ and dancing with Star Trax, and much more. Food is available for purchase: safely boxed meals may be purchased in advance when you RSVP. At 7, we’ll gath- er in the main sanctuary for services and a tradit...…
…36 | MARCH 10 • 2022 PURIM T hings don’t get much better for a chef than when your local Jewish News includes your voice as a culinary contributor. I’ve spent decades honing this craft, and it took just as long to muster enough cour- age to contact their editors. In my cover letter, I typed up my background, explain- ing how much it would mean to me to share cooking with our community. When I finished, I sat in front of my computer a...…
…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 37 cabins. You can book a seat with extra leg room enough for social distancing, at no extra cost. Limited space available. Visit www. ChabadBinghamFarms.com/ PurimAir to book your flight and join us for this unique Purim experience. Suggested donation: $18 per person or $50 per family. PURIM MASQUERADE 5:30 PM, MARCH 18 Put on your best costume and come join Temple Beth El for Purim songs, a deli- cious dinner an...…
…J ews who keep kosher do not cook meat with milk or eat meat cooked with milk or even make use of meat cooked with milk. Imagine how dis- turbing it feels for a kosher-keeping Jew to get served a piece of chicken swim- ming in what looks like milk! The trick that makes this possible: The chef uses almond milk. Chicken in almond milk was a delicacy and, centuries ago, often served on Purim. Rabbi Shelomo Luria (1510-1573) mentions th...…
…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 39 almond milk, called “Blank- Mang (White Food), also includes rice. Here is their recipe, with the spelling and a bit of the vocabulary mod- ernized: BLANK-MANG Take capons (chick- ens) and seethe (simmer) them, take them out (of the broth). Take blanched almonds, grind them and mix them with the same broth. Wash the rice and put it into a pot. Put the milk in and let it seethe. Then take the meat of the chick...…
…S ince childhood, Elizabeth Parker has always had a passion for writ- ing. “Growing up, I was interested in writing fiction,” the Clawson-based journalist and blog owner explains. Parker, 35, who works as a managing editor at Troy-based BNP Media and runs two blogs, Books I Think You Should Read and Yes/No Detroit, majored in creative writing at the University of Michigan. “I originally wanted to go into creative writing because I wa...…
…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 41 blog was originally called Yes/No Films, a platform where Parker would give movies a review of “yes,” “no” or “maybe” rather than a star-based review. In 2017, she rebranded the blog into Yes/No Detroit, covering everything from travel to food to, of course, movies. It’s “definitely a lot of local readers,” Parker says of the blog’s readership. Yet when she runs movie giveaways, she gets plenty of entries fr...…
…42 | MARCH 10 • 2022 On Jan. 26, more than 30 new-to- town and back-to-town NEXTGen Detroiters got together for a special edition of L’Chaim Detroit: Newish and Jewish at the Corner Grill, Bar + Game Room in Ferndale. The event was aimed at those who moved to town (or back to town) between March 2020 and present day and hadn’t gotten out much or experienced all the awesome peo- ple and exciting things Detroit and Jewish Detroit have...…
…MARCH 10 • 2022 | 43 Berman 91st E laine Berman celebrated her 91st birthday on Feb. 17, 2022, with four generations of her family, including her new great- granddaughter from Colorado. All gathered for good food, fond memories at her home in West Bloomfield. Her late husband of 71 years, Arnie, was with everyone in spirit. MAZEL TOV! Madison Avery Ben, daughter of Meredith and Joshua Ben, will be called to the Torah as ...…
…T here is a dramatic moment in this week’s Torah portion, Vayechi. Joseph’s brothers are distraught and fearful. Many years before, they had turned on Joseph and sold him into slavery in Egypt because of their fears and con- cerns at the time. This led to Joseph being separated from his father for more than 20 years, causing unspeakable anguish to both Jacob and Joseph. The brothers had come to truly regret and show deep rem...…
