…arts & life b oo k s FICTION continued from page 49 Max, adopted from two teenagers in Montana, in Don’t let My Baby Do Rodeo (Harper), by Boris Fishman. When teenaged Max becomes wild, the parents leave their suburban New Jersey lifestyle in search of his birth parents. ■ Fat Chance (Quid Pro Books) by Aviva Orenstein is a first novel by a writer who has had a successful career as a law professor who comes from a family of rabbis. Set in a...…
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…arts & life b oo k s FICTION continued from page 51 Death & Baseball The story of racist killers in mid-1930s Detroit told against the backdrop of our champion Tigers. David Sachs | Senior Copy Editor D etroit won the reputation as the legendary “City of Champions” in the mid-1930s when the Tigers, Lions and Red Wings rose to the top of their sports, and home- town boxer Joe Louis ruled the ring. But all was not w well in what was t the...…
…MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY ■ In the 1970s Florida suburbs, kids ran free, riding bikes and disappear- ing into the nearby woods for hours at a time. One morning in 1973, Jon Kushner biked through the forest to a local convenience story for candy and never came back. His younger brother, David Kushner, an award- winning contributor to Rolling Stone, the New Yorker, Vanity Fair and more, tells the story of his brother’s kidnap- ing, murder — and how a fam...…
…54 June 23 2016 MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY continued from page 53 arts & life books German plans. She began smuggling people out of the work camp, hiding Jews in the basement of a Nazi major s home and learned how to fight back. In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer (Ember), by Irene Gut Opdyke and Jennifer Armstrong, is powerful and life-affirming. Appropriate for readers age 14 and up. The November 1995 murder of Israeli...…
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…contents June 16-22, 2016 | 10-16 Sivan 5776 | Vol. CXLIX, No. 20 My Story SHABBAT LIGHTS Shabbat: Friday, June 17, 8:54 p.m. Shabbat Ends: Saturday, June 18, 10:07 p.m. Shabbat: Friday, June 24, 8:56 p.m. Shabbat Ends: Saturday, June 25, 10:08 p.m. Times according to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah calendar. Cover design: Michelle Sheridan The Detroit Jewish News (USPS 275-520) is published every Thursday at 29200 Northwestern Highway, #110, Sou...…
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…viewpoints » S end letters to: letters@thejewishnews.com jewfro Commencement Address To The Rainbow Room Rainbow Room teacher Adrienne Gersten with Phoebe and Ben By Ben Falik T o my knowledge, Temple Emanu- El in Oak Park and its sister schools do not have commence- ment speakers upon whom they bestow honorary pre-kindergarten degrees. But if they did, I’d like to think I would be on the short list, assuming Dora the Explorer or Mitch A...…
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