…SEPTEMBER 26 • 2024 | 93 J N from within: from within a culture, a tradition, a sensibility. They come from the syntax and semantics of the native language of the soul: “The word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.” The beauty of Jewish spirituality is precisely that in Judaism God is close. You do not need to climb a mountain or enter an ashram to find the Divine Presence. It is there around...…
…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 Blo...…
…REFORM Temple Beth El Bloomfield Township (248) 851-1100 tbeonline.org 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...…
…96 | SEPTEMBER 26 • 2024 J N ARTS&LIFE ART K eyon Lovett said he was 7 years old when sports stars inspired his artistic interests, and he worked at copying star images seen in magazines. He said it was much later in his life of 34 years that he launched observances of Judaism and placed rel- evant religious images and words in his paintings. Lovett’s projects can be viewed the weekend of Sept. 28-29 in the 50th year of Common Gro...…
…SEPTEMBER 26 • 2024 | 97 J N enhancement as he uses it to copy designs with small dimensions to a canvas with larger dimensions. “I’ll have up to 20 originals in the fair and then I have prints and one-offs that I do on canvas panels,” said Lovett, who is making his first appearance in the Birmingham event. “I don’t think I’ll have abstract pieces because of the time it takes to make abstract pieces. I’m also preparing for ArtPrize ...…
…98 | SEPTEMBER 26 • 2024 J N P iano music fills the home of Bill Charlap and wife Renee Rosnes, both concert instrumentalists. Each has a Steinway placed in the living room. Part of their dual performing talents moves into East Lansing on the evening of Oct. 4, when Charlap takes the stage with singer and actress Dee Dee Bridgewater. It will be one of their many shows together; both are Grammy Award winners. “Dee Dee and I have bee...…
…SEPTEMBER 26 • 2024 | 99 Visit the link below to start nominating your favorites: www.thejewishnews.com/site/forms/best_of_2024_nominations_ / Nominate Your Favorite Spots by October 11th, 2024 Email address is required Best of Jewish Detroit 2024 Nominations are NOW OPEN! …
…$200 Sept. 19-25, 2024 / 16-22 Elul, 5784 JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT thejewishnews.com ‘Professional Volunteer’ Beverly Liss named Jewish Detroit’s Butzel Award winner. See page 8 …
…10 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 The Liss family : Arthur, Beverly, Ilana Liss, Zachary Liss, Lindsey Liss and Jeremy Liss. In front are Lily, Ruby and Eden Liss. The Liss grandchildren: Micah, Jesse, Max, Levi, Lily, Tate, Georgia, Eden and Ruby with Arthur and Beverly. continued on page 12 OUR COMMUNITY COVER STORY Past winners have included Max Fisher, The Hon. Avern Cohn, Dulcie Rosenfeld, Jane Sherman, Penny Blumenstein and David Herm...…
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…12 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 Susie Feldman, Federation’s director of Philanthropic and Corporate Relations, says she and Liss sometimes call themselves sisters from another mother. “We met in 1987 on the first women’s Hadracha mission to Israel. We immediately clicked,” Feldman said. She describes Liss as “the consummate leader and volunteer” and “an incredible mentor.” “There isn’t anyone I can think of that is more deserving of...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 13 lives, and her tireless efforts have strengthened the Jewish future for us all,” said Steven Ingber, the Jewish Federation’s chief executive officer. “On a personal note, Beverly has played an important role in my own journey as a Jewish professional, and I am deeply grateful for her friendship and unwavering trust. She truly deserves to be counted among our community’s great leaders.” Larry Wolfe, a long...…
…14 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 J N Y ears before online dating was a thing, Temple Israel had what they fondly called the Beshert Connection. Singles would pay $36 to be part of this cutting-edge dating program of the time: a set of binders that contained lists of singles, categorized by age! Each single had two pages — front and back — filled with personal info. A person could come along during “open hours” and flip through the binders m...…
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…16 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 J N I t was a summer of great meaning at Tamarack Camps. The Elaine and Michael Serling Israeli Camper Program, now in its 22nd year, brought approximately 140 Israeli campers — almost twice as many as a typical summer — to Ortonville for a summer of respite. The extra campers were made up of two evacuated groups from Kibbutz Gevim and Kibbutz Be’eri. After Oct. 7, in partnership with the Jewish Agency fo...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 17 J N continued on page 18 PHOTOS COURTESY OF CAMP TAMARACK There were two boys that were going to go home within the first couple of days. They told Weinstock it wasn’t easy for them, and they needed to go back to Israel. Plans were being made for just that. But then, Tamarack magic happened. “On the first Shabbat, you saw something change in these campers,” Weinstock said. “You saw them accept our communit...…
…18 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 amazing memories and a renewed spirit. “This program demonstrates the power of our community to provide not only respite but also a sense of belonging and hope,” she added. Lee Trepeck, Tamarack Camps’ CEO, said, “We are so proud of this program and see its positive impact in our partnership region, around our community and, of course, throughout our campgrounds. This year, especially while in the midst of...…
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…20 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 J N T he often-heard saying — “Getting older is not for sissies” — may seem like a cliché but contains some truth. Aging is often accompanied by new physical and mental challenges, financial and legal issues, the loss of loved ones, and concerns about driving and housing safety. “Due to the aging of our community, crises are innumerable and are coming in a wave,” says Kari K. Provizer, LMSW, ACSW, who is...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 21 J N JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT Nominations for The Detroit Jewish News’ annual 36 under 36 are now open to recognize doers, activists, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, community organizers and other young Jewish professionals reshaping and broadening Metro Detroit’s Jewish community. Do you know someone making an impact in the community for this special honor? 36 UNDER 36 Nominations Now Open! A special group o...…
…22 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 J N T he ADL Michigan (Anti- Defamation League) annual Walk Against Hate will take place 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 29, at the Southfield City Centre (26000 Evergreen Road) and covers a dis- tance of nearly 2 miles. Registration opens at 9 a.m. The event aims to unite the com- munity in a stand against antisemi- tism, bigotry and bias, while raising dollars for ADL Michigan. Recent years have shown a disturb- ing r...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 23 ROSH HASHANAH GREETINGS Ad Deadline: September 19th, 2024 Continue an 80-year tradition! Wish your family and friends and the entire Jewish community a Happy New Year with an ad in The Detroit Jewish News. For information, call 248-351-5116 or email salessupport@thejewishnews.com STEP 1: Select Your Style STYLE #1 Rosh Hashanah May the New Year bring to all our friends and family health, joy, prosperity ...…
…24 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 J N It all takes place on Sunday, Sept. 22, 1-4 p.m. at the JCC in West Bloomfield. Shofar Factory Festival: Kindness Edition OUR COMMUNITY T he Sherrill Berman Shofar Factory Festival is back again, but with an important twist. “ As we conclude a particularly difficult year for the Jewish people, it seems only right to combat all the evil, hate and suffering we’ve seen and experienced with goodness...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 25 J N G et ready for a night of laughter, nostalgia and insider stories as Stan Zimmerman, the acclaimed writer and producer behind beloved series like The Golden Girls and The Gilmore Girls, makes his way back to Detroit. Stan Zimmerman will be discussing his eagerly anticipated new book, The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore, providing an insider’s look at the making of some of television’s most cherished ch...…
…W hat goes around, comes around. One Oak Park mom whose son was born 6.5 weeks premature regularly crochets preemie blankets and donates them to two NICUs in Detroit-area hospitals. Mindy Cohen, better known as “Morah Mindy” because she has a licensed preschool in her home, didn’t always know how to crochet. More than 10 years ago, Cohen volunteered in a nursing home in Baltimore, where she lived at the time, and a fellow volunt...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 27 whenever she felt well enough. Now Cohen brings a completed blanket or two along with her to doctor appointments to give to the nurses, who hand- deliver her blankets downstairs to the NICU. She also donates to the Children’s Hospital of Michigan and gifts a blanket to community members who have a baby in the NICU. “I want to pay the kindness I received forward,” said Cohen who has donated around 10 blan...…
…28 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 J N T he Detroit Jewish News Foundation has completed an important initiative with the National Library of Israel (NLI). It is a project that has a direct impact on Detroit’s Jewish community, and the results are that the essential history of Detroit’s Jewish community is now preserved at the NLI as well as in the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History. The Davidson Archive holds ...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 29 J N News. Adding these newspapers that cover the life of Jewish Detroit is truly an exciting feat, and I am sure that making these materials available to the public on our site will expose the rich history and life of the Jewish Detroit to many new people, in Israel and all over the world.” Indeed. This is a fine summary of our project with the NLI and why we at the Jewish News Foundation and the JN believe...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 3 J N contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-6 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 8 ‘Professional Volunteer’ Beverly Liss named Jewish Detroit’s Butzel Award winner. 14 How We Met Temple Israel’s Beshert Connection 16 A Summer of Respite The Elaine and Michael Serling Israeli Camper Program brought almost twice as many Israeli campers as a typical summer. 20 Navigating the Aging ...…
…30 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 J N faces&places N ew and continuing students in the University of Michigan School of Social Work Jewish Communal Leadership Program (JCLP) were welcomed by university and community leaders on the first day of the fall semester. Guests enjoyed a delicious breakfast spread catered by Amanda’s Kitchen and engaged in conversation at U-M Hillel on what is needed to meet this moment and shape the future. JCLP take...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 31 J N A lmost 900 school children in Metro Detroit, identified by local social service agencies, nonprofit organizations and schools, received new winter coats, clothing, socks, underwear, hats, mittens, school supplies, toothbrushes/ toothpaste and books in a first-time-ever hybrid model of the “Back 2 School Store” (B2SS). Two hundred pre-identified children had the opportunity to shop in person with their own...…
…32 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 J N I n last week’s issue, we covered appetizers and sides for Rosh Hashanah. This week, I’ll be focus- ing on main dishes. A challenge for Rosh Hashanah can be to balance the savory and the sweet. With our aspirations for a sweet new year, we incorporate many sweet flavors through- out the meal: apples and honey, pome- granates and dates, to name a few. But as they say, the sweet is never as sweet witho...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 33 J N 1 tsp. salt 1/8 tsp. cayenne pepper 2 large sweet onions, sliced Fresh mint leaves and pomegranate seeds (optional, for garnish) Directions Rinse the brisket and pat dry, then place in a ceramic or glass oven-safe roasting dish with fatty layer on the bottom. In a small mixing bowl, whisk pomegran- ate molasses, ¼ cup olive oil, minced garlic cloves, cinnamon, salt and cayenne pepper. Pour half of the ...…
…34 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 J N G lenn Bednarsh played basketball for Detroit in the inaugural JCC Maccabi Games, held in Memphis in 1982. His son Shay Bednarsh played on the Los Angeles 14U basketball team in the 2019 Maccabi Games, hosted by Detroit. Glenn was there as a fan. Neither father nor son won a medal when they played in the Maccabi Games as teenagers. And they didn’t win a medal in the Maccabi Games hosted by Detroit this...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 35 AVA ASHMANN Now that the Maccabi Games age limit has been increased from 16 to 17, all of our kids want to run it back in 2025. ” The Detroit 16U basketball team won just two of the seven games it played at The J, Bloomfield Hills High School and West Bloomfield High School — it lost to Israel by 13 points in its opener at Bloomfield Hills — but there were extenuating circumstances. “By the fifth game, we w...…
…36 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 J N Tia Kennedy Adelson, daughter of Kendra and Dr. Todd Adelson, will lead the congrega- tion in prayer as a bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024. She will be joined in celebration by her sister Peyton. Tia is the loving grandchild of Marsha and Sheldon Adelson, Kay Cullin and Kenneth Cullin. She is a student at Cranbrook Middle School in Bloomfield Hills. Tia’s m...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 37 DOG OF THE WEEK I am Savanah! I am 1-year-old, 4-pound female (spayed) Terrier mix. I was rescued from an overcrowded shelter down South. My foster home is a wonderful place. I’ve been playing with two bigger dogs and running around the backyard. I’m doing good going potty outside like a big girl! I am doing well on walks with the leash. I am also learning some basic commands. I like my foster mom and follow...…
…38 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 T he setting: Jerusalem some 20 centuries ago. The occa- sion: bringing first fruits to the Temple. Here is the scene as the Mishnah describes it: “Throughout Israel, villagers would gather in the nearest of 24 regional centers. There, overnight, they would sleep in the open air. The next morning, the leader would summon the people with words from the book of Jeremiah (31:5): ‘Arise and let us go up to...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 39 RENEWING OUR IDENTITY When we tell the story of our peo- ple’s past, we renew our identity. We have a context in which we can understand who we are in the pres- ent and what we must do to hand on our identity to the future. It is difficult to grasp how sig- nificant this was and is. Western modernity has been marked by two quite different attempts to escape from identity. The first, in the 18th century, was the...…
…PURELY COMMENTARY 4 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 J N opinion Why ‘Slichah’ — ‘Sorry’ — Has Become a Ubiquitous Catchword Among Anguished Israelis F or many Israelis and their sup- porters, “sorry” seems to be the right word for the hardest times. At a vigil in Jerusalem remembering Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg- Polin and five other Israel hostages whose bodies were recovered the day before, mourners wrote slichah — “sorry” in Hebrew —...…
…40 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 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 Congreg...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 41 REFORM Temple Beth El Bloomfield Township (248) 851-1100 tbeonline.org 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 SECULA...…
…42 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 J N A lthough the Hebrew- language film Kissufim was filmed before the attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, the streaming release on Netflix strikes a chord with viewers still feeling the impact of the terrible events that saw Israeli kibbutzim, including the real-life Kissufim, devastated by Hamas terrorists. Following the daily lives of a group of young soldiers and friends volunteering at Kissufim (in the northwes...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 43 J N A s the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue became immersed in renovations, members looked for ways to enhance the process. They found one way with the voluntary help of Melanie Baer Schwartz, who set up the synagogue’s first art exhibit and is planning others to be seen by the public, in part, through a large window. Schwartz is director of sales for Library Street Collective in Detroit, a gallery helping...…
…44 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 J N T he smell of apples, garlic and onions brings me right back to my grandma’s kitchen. She was a fabulous cook and my inspiration to attend cooking school. My grandma Fannie had magic hands that made everything look and taste wonderful. I can still see her standing over the kitchen sink plucking chicken feathers with her small paring knife. ROAST CHICKEN WITH APPLES, GARLIC AND ONIONS Serves 4-6 ...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 45 am very proud of being part of an arts initiative that celebrated the redesign of the Downtown Synagogue and has me planning upcoming exhibits.” Schwartz has been with Library Street Collective for about five years and in the arts community for about 13 years. Part of her work is establishing a collector base and matching art clients with work the clients will enjoy and keep in their collections. “My work f...…
…46 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 J N WOLFS, COMEDY/THRILLER; SUPER-REVIEWED FILM; SACKS, 2X; MORE Wolfs, a comedy-thriller, opens in theaters on Sept. 20. It starts streaming on Apple TV+ on Sept. 27. Here’s the premise: George Clooney and Brad Pitt play professional fixers who deal with dangerous and chaotic events that bother their wealthy clients. These guys don’t normally work together, but they were sent, by their respective employ...…
…SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 | 47 J N WALK FOR AUTISM 6 AM-NOON, SEPT. 21 (SAT.) The Detroit Zoo will have the Autism Hero Walk, sponsored by the Autism Alliance of Michigan. A minimum donation of just $10 per person (ages 2 and up) gets admission to the event and all-day access to the Zoo. AVIAN FRIENDS 7-9 PM, SEPT. 21 (SAT.) “Avian Encounters.” Presented by Nature’s Nursery of Whitehouse, Ohio. At the Creature Conservancy, 4940 Ann Ar...…
…48 | SEPTEMBER 19 • 2024 JUST FOR FUN Rosh Hashanah Words & Phrases Q. Are you Jewish? A: Yup Q: Do you know (any name)? A: Not all Jews know each other, you know. Q: So, you don’t know him? A: Yes, I do. He’s my cousin. Jewish of theJoke week How well do you know the special words and phrases used around the High Holidays? See next week’s issue for answers. For last week’s puzzle answers, see page 49. …
