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…24 June 20 • 2019 jn N ate Emery is a rock star. Or, more accurately, a rock-climbing star. At age 10. The Farmington Hills resident has competed indoors in six states and climbed recreationally outdoors in two states. He’ s one of the best in the country in his age group in two USA Climbing competitive disciplines — bouldering and sport climbing. Nate works hard so he can stay ahead of his competition. He spends 12-15 hours a we...…
…June 20 • 2019 25 jn sport climbing competitions and place third in regionals, earning a spot in the division competition. Nate will do some outdoor climbing for fun before he heads to Pennsylvania and the bouldering nationals. He’ ll return to the Red River Gorge in Slade, Ky., better known in the climbing world as “The Red. ” Nate’ s tallest climb there is 250 feet, which earned him the nickname “Ropegun, ” climbing slang for the best...…
…26 June 20 • 2019 jn moments Ethan Jonah Endelman (Shalom Yonah) will be called to the Torah as a bar mitzvah during morning services at the Kotel in Jerusalem on Thursday, June 20, 2019. He is the son of Eric and Alyssa Endelman of West Bloomfield, brother of Jordan and grandson of Linda Settler, Dr. Leonard and Deborah Dunn, and Earle and Sandra Endelman. Ethan is a student at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington ...…
…June 20 • 2019 27 jn T ammy and Bruce Gorosh of West Bloomfield are kvelling over the engagement of their daughter Hilary Lynne to Eli Saul Wald, son of Laura and Jack Wald of Chicago, Ill. Hilary graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor of arts in special education/learning disabilities and received a reading specialist mas- ter’ s degree from DePaul University. She works with middle school students as a learning s...…
…W hen we teach of Moses, we generally teach of a great leader: the man who led the Israelites from slavery to freedom and then guided them in the wilderness for 40 years. What we talk about less frequently is how challenging Moses often found his lead- ership role. How the Israelites constantly complained to him about everything. We also do not talk all that much about Moses as a brother. And yet, in this week’ s Torah portion w...…
…June 20 • 2019 29 jn eretz Ford Opens Innovation Center in Tel Aviv B ill Ford, executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, was in Tel Aviv June 12 to open the doors of its new Ford Research Center in the heart of the city’ s burgeoning technology community. The new center will serve as a research hub augmenting Ford’ s global Research and Advanced Engineering team. It will also support Ford’ s automotive and mobility busi- nesses b...…
…30 June 20 • 2019 jn SANDEE BRAWARSKY SUMMER READING books arts&life Our annual compilation of new books offers everything from page-turners to politics — all with a Jewish connection. THE GOSPEL ACCORDI NG TO LAZARUS RI CHARD ZI MLER G RI CHARD ZI MLER ‘ ‘ A brave and engaging novel . . . a page-turner’ Observer The Gospel According to Lazarus by Richard Zimler (Peter Owen Publishing/IPG) is an imaginative retelling of ho...…
…June 20 • 2019 31 jn lings — she is studying to be a surgeon and he is a physicist racing Einstein to prove relativity — face the tough decision as to whether to stay or leave, and how to protect each other and all they have learned. When he goes missing, his sister risks all to fight for him in this story of love, adventure and science. The Rabbi Finds Her Way by Robert Schoen with Catherine deCuir (Stone Bridge Press) is a career...…
…32 June 20 • 2019 jn books arts&life continued from page 31 A s a Pulitzer-Prize winning jour- nalist, biographer and observer of social history, David Maraniss says he has spent his career “trying to understand the forces that shape America and to measure individuals by the whole pattern of their lives.” He has usually focused his sharp reporting and research- ing skills on strangers. Now, he turns to his late father, trying to ...…
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…34 June 20 • 2019 jn SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER A dam Ben Ezra could be called a one-man jazz band. Although his main instru- ment is the double bass, he also reverts to piano, clarinet, flute, harmonica and synth. And he commissioned a five- string bass with a removable neck. Going beyond improvising with others’ music, he improvises with his original numbers. “My show is a solo act, ” says the Israeli-based entertainer, m...…
…June 20 • 2019 35 jn arts&life JESSIE COHEN JN INTERN One-of-a-Kind O ver the past 27 years, Judaica artist Orna Amrani has become a staple of Michigan summer art fairs. Amrani is originally from Haifa, Israel, and attended University of Haifa before serving in the Israeli Air Force. After having lived all over the world with her husband, Ami, the couple and their three chil- dren settled in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., where Amrani ...…
…36 June 20 • 2019 jn celebrity jews arts&life AT THE MOVIES The animated film Toy Story 4 opens June 21. Tom Hanks again voices Woody, the cowboy toy who is the star and hero of the whole series. Woody has many new adventures. They include going with the whole toy gang on a long family road trip. There’ s also a sweet side- story about Woody meeting up with his long-lost friend Bo Peep (a porcelain figurine). Rashida Jones, 43, ...…
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…soul of blessed memory 40 June 20 • 2019 jn c. 1980 ELAINE GLORIA BERNSTEIN, 79, of Huntington Woods, died June 8, 2019. She was the dear mother of Donna (Jeffrey) Cantor and Vicki McGaw; loving grandmother of Lauren, Haylee, Adam and Alexander; devoted sister of Norman Cohen and Ronald (the late Linda) Cohen; she is also survived by many other loving family members and friends. Mrs. Bernstein was the dearest sister of the la...…
…June 20 • 2019 41 jn soul of blessed memory MILFORD “MICKEY” NEMER, 90, of Franklin, died June 13, 2019. He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Ellen and David Maiseloff; son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Rosalind Nemer; grandchildren, Jennifer Maiseloff, Alyssa and Sam Yashinsky, Stephen Maiseloff and girlfriend Julie Tschirhart, Drew Nemer, Danny Nemer, Michael and Traci Baum, and Stuart Baum; great-grandchildren, ...…
…42 June 20 • 2019 jn soul of blessed memory continued from page 41 Interment took place at the Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Contributions may be a made to a charity of one’ s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. c. 1991 SHELDON PEVEN, 87, of Southfield, died June 14, 2019. He is survived by his beloved wife, Catherine Peven; daughter and her wife, Debra and Erin Peven; son and daughter-in- law, David and Julie Peven; ma...…
…June 20 • 2019 43 jn soul of blessed memory Corrections The notice for Beverly Keller (June 6) should have indicated that she is survived by daughter and son-in- law, Gayle (Josh Jackson) Keller of Jacksonville, Ore. Also, she was the loving daughter of the late Sophie and the late Al Moore. OBITUARY CHARGES The processing fee for obituaries is: $100 for up to 150 words; $200 for 151-300 words, etc. A photo counts as 30 words. The...…
…44 June 20 • 2019 jn soul of blessed memory Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi Dies According to State TV in Egypt, ousted president Mohamed Morsi died during a court hearing June 17, 2019. He was 67. Morsi, a member of the now-out- lawed Muslim Brotherhood, was elected president of Egypt in 2012 in the country’ s first free elections following the ouster the year before of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. He served as pre...…
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…46 June 20 • 2019 jn Looking Back From the DJN Foundation Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History COURTESY OF THE RABBI LEO M. FRANKLIN ARCHIVES OF TEMPLE BETH EL, BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MI. Temple Beth El Sisterhood members (1964): Maxine Spiegel, Catherine Rodecker, Dorothy Willis and Eleanor Ettlinger. I work with Tessa Goldberg at the Detroit Jewish News Foundation and she has an interesting accent. When I first met her, I ...…
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…June 13 • 2019 3 jn inside June 13-19, 2019 10-16 Sivan 5779 VOLUME CLV, ISSUE 19 thejewishnews.com • Schmoozing with Matt Daniels of Nu Deli food truck • Flooding Hits Michigan Communities • Neo-Nazis Disr upt Motor City Pride Detroit Jewish News n VIEWS 5-8 JEWS IN THE D 10 ADL and Anti-Semitism: Two events shed light on the issue. 12 MSU’ s Rosman Golf Outing is Teed Up for 10th year. 14 Changing Agencies JCRC...…
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…6 June 13 • 2019 jn The Jewish News aspires to communicate news and opinion that’ s useful, engaging, enjoyable and unique. It strives to refl ect the full range of diverse viewpoints while also advocating positions that strengthen Jewish unity and continuity. We desire to create and maintain a challenging, caring, enjoyable work environment that encourages creativity and innovation. We acknowledge our role as a responsible, responsive m...…
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…8 June 13 • 2019 jn continued from page 5 online comments Rabbi Tamara Kolton’ s opinion piece (page 8, May 30) about the abortion issue prompted comments on the JN’ s Facebook page: Jim Van Eaton: “With today’ s emphasis on science, when are we going to start caring about the MOST vulnerable of us, the unborn children? Anyone who has seen an ultrasound knows there is a person in there. It’ s not just tissue. To equate pro-life w...…
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…10 June 13 • 2019 jn jews d in the U nderstanding and confronting the recent rise in anti-Semitism and other forms of hate was explored recently at Jewish Ferndale’ s bi-monthly discussion series. Rabbi Herschel Finman and his wife, Chana, hosted 35 guests May 16 at their Chabad center in Ferndale. Local journalist Julie Edgar moderated a conversation featuring Howard Lupovitch, histo- ry professor and director of the Cohn-Haddo...…
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…12 June 13 • 2019 jn Rosman Golf Outing Teed Up for 10th Year R yan Rosman’ s family has turned tragedy into a day that benefits thousands of Jewish students at Michigan State University. The 10th annual Ryan Scott Rosman Memorial MSU Hillel Golf Outing & Game Day will be Monday, June 17, at Tam-O-Shanter Country Club in West Bloomfield. Rosman died Nov. 5, 2009, at age 19 when he was a sophomore at MSU. He was injured by a bus...…
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…14 June 13 • 2019 jn Changing Agencies JCRC/AJC Chief David Kurzmann will move to Federation. J CRC/AJC Executive Director David Kurzmann is heading down one floor in the Max M. Fisher Federation Building in Bloomfield Township to a new position as senior director, community and donor relations, at the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, reporting to Federation CEO Scott Kaufman. Kurzmann will be leaving JCRC/ AJC effective ...…
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…16 June 13 • 2019 jn * Picnic begins at 6 pm (Play & Pray picnic begins at 6:15 pm). Bring your own picnic dinner, or have a buffet picnic with us! Register online at temple-israel.org/shabbatpicnic. For more information, contact Sandi Stocker at sandi@temple-israel.org or 248-661-5700. Dinner cost: $15/adult, $7/child 4-12, under 4 are free. Services are held at our Harriett & Morton Freedman Outdoor Sanctuary. JUNE 21ST Kabbalat Sha...…
…June 13 • 2019 17 jn continued on page 18 LOUIS FINKELMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Two poems from May 1944 unite three generations of women. O n May 11, 1944, 75 years ago, Bertha Weinschenk celebrated her 75th birthday in Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp and ghetto. A group of her friends presented her with an original poem in German, specially composed in honor of her birthday, handwritten on a piece of cardboard. The poem ...…
…18 June 13 • 2019 jn continued from page 17 jews d in the One of Elsie’ s sons, Dan Simkovitz, recalls learning about the two poems. “I knew about the first poem from my youth. I learned about the second poem on a visit to Detroit late one Shabbat evening when my mom and I were up late reminiscing, going through old albums, and she showed me her birthday poem. “It dawned on me the next morning that my family had two poems com...…
…June 13 • 2019 19 jn Featuring Northwestern University Professor Cake and coffee Lecture followed by Q&A Unspoken Truths: The Holocaust through Women’ s Voices Most people know about the Holocaust through memoirs and movies about male survivors like Elie Wiesel and rescuers like Oskar Schindler. That is because men’s experiences were taken as the social and cultural norm. But our understanding of the Holocaust is incomplete without t...…
…20 June 13 • 2019 jn jews d in the The Jewish Federation of Metropol- itan Detroit named Esther Hauser the winner of the 11th annual David Hermelin Scholarship Award. The award is sponsored by Sam and Nancy Shamie and family. This is the first time a student from Yeshivas Darchei Torah received the award. The award provides one $12,000 tuition scholarship to a student who will be in the highest or next to highest grade in a Jewish...…
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…for college students by college students Annie Peurach } jewish@edu writer I was not raised Jewish. I was raised in a Catholic household in Ann Arbor. I only recently started learning about Israel and Judaism and have been quite taken with both. I have even started the process to convert. I am a senior at the University of Michigan at Dearborn majoring in international studies with a focus on French and art history. My ma...…
…24 June 13 • 2019 jn WSU Israel Peace Week’ s Goal was to Educate Students on Campus H illel of Metro Detroit’ s Students for Israel (SFI) at Wayne State University hosted a Peace Week on campus in February. By highlighting different Israeli nonprofit organizations, we hoped to educate students on campus about Israel’ s positive influence locally and worldwide. The first day, Niv Rabino spoke to students about IsraAid, an amazi...…
