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…26 June 13 • 2019 jn The Detroit Tigers once again hosted Jewish Heritage Day at Comerica Park. On Sunday, May 19, hundreds of members of Detroit’ s Jewish community cheered on the Tigers and were treated to kippot featuring an Olde English D and a newly designed Tiger hat with the Hebrew letter Daled and an Israeli flag on each side. Prior to the first pitch, leaders of this summer’ s Maccabi Games were honored on the field and the Temp...…
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…30 June 13 • 2019 jn PHOTOS BY BRETT MOUNTAIN Jewish Senior Life held its 26th Annual Eight Over Eighty fundraiser May 19 honoring members of the Jewish community 80 years and older. More than 420 people attended at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills. Co-chairs Arlene Selik of Huntington Woods and Nancy Reed of Franklin called attention to the partnership of each honoree with a Frankel Jewish Academy student. Cheryl Chodun emceed...…
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…32 June 13 • 2019 jn moments Rebekah Elise Goodman, daughter of Jamie and Erik Goodman, will lead the congregation in prayer as she cele- brates her bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Friday, June 14, 2019. She will be joined in cele- bration by her siblings Cameron and Arabella and proud grandpar- ents Francine and Marc Wise, and Brenda and Jack Arnold. She is also the loving grandchild of the late Michael Goodma...…
…June 13 • 2019 33 jn S andi and Gary Faber will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on June 17. They met at Henry Ford High School in Detroit in 1964. They are the proud parents of Seth (Esti) and Lindsay (Jonathan) and the Nana and Papa of Gabriel, Benjamin and Lena. A trip to Alaska will follow a celebration with family. Faber 50th P amela and Kenneth Bloom of West Bloomfield, and Mary Machen and Elizabeth Lucker of Littl...…
…34 June 13 • 2019 jn T he old cliché says that Eskimos have 50 different words for snow because that’s their world. We Jews have 50 different words for guilt. And one for “God help us:” Oy. It’s like the story once shared with me of the four ladies playing bridge. As they start picking up their cards and looking at them, the first woman said, “Oy.” The second, she sees her cards and says, “Oy vey.” The third, “Oy vey iz mir.” T...…
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…36 June 13 • 2019 jn MICHAEL FOX SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS A Major League baseball player during the 1920s and ’ 30s, Moe Berg had a 15-year sports career that was unremarkable. It was what he did off the field that made him a true hero. Berg, a brilliant professional athlete who spoke seven languages, led a secret second life as a spy for the U.S. government. Former Detroiter Aviva Kempner, who hit a home run with her 1998 docume...…
…continued on page 38 Collector Bob Matthews Shares His Admiration for Mystery Moe CORRIE COLF STAFF WRITER The Matthews Sports Exhibit: Jewish Heroes & Other Legends, a gift to the com- munity from Dr. Robert “Bob” and Sandy Matthews at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield, is nothing short of a grand slam for local sports fans. It high- lights many outstanding athletes, but none compare to Moe Berg, who is highlighted ...…
…arts&life While his older brother Sam ful- filled Dad’ s wishes and went to med- ical school, Moe signed a contract to play pro ball. He acceded to his father’ s demands up to a point by attending Columbia Law School in the off seasons, earning his degree and passing the New York bar in 1929. It was a false bargain: Moe despised the idea of being a lawyer while Bernard Berg never accepted a base- ball career as a legitimate pursuit. I...…
…June 13 • 2019 39 jn SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER Drawn to Music Wilderness experience sparks Azzam’ s career. A solo teen wilderness experience motivated Nadim Azzam’ s musi- cal career. While outdoors, he found himself humming before grad- ually singing, and that became the first phase of an interest in contemporary composing. Now, at 23, he has a repertoire that can place him on stages as a soloist or with a live band an...…
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…42 June 13 • 2019 jn ROLLING THUNDER ROLLS AGAIN In 1974-75, Bob Dylan, now 78, toured the country with many other musicians. The Rolling Thunder Revue, as it was called, was heavily filmed because Dylan intended to use the footage in an upcoming fictional movie called Renaldo and Clara. The film (1978) got pretty bad reviews. However, the footage was invaluable to Martin Scorsese, who is the director of a new documen- tary (Roll...…
…June 13 • 2019 43 jn people | places | events on the go BALLAD OF THE LIGHTS Friendship Circle’ s Soul Studio unveils “Ballad of the Lights,” curated by artist Patrick Hill, its first guest-curated exhibition at the Farber Center. Hill has carefully selected artworks by 23 Soul Studio artists that represent fragility, power and con- trast. In addition, Hill will include a new artwork of his own inspired by his Dresner Foundation Soul St...…
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…June 13 • 2019 45 jn Rising to the Occasion After her husband’ s death, Gayle Goodman took over the helm of a roofi ng company and helped it grow. continued on page 46 I ndustry insiders and customers might have been worried that Michigan’ s American Standard Roofing (ASR) would be on shaky ground after the untimely death of its founder, Arnie Goodman, in 2017. But they were proven wrong. Just three weeks after Arnie’ s passin...…
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…June 13 • 2019 49 jn continued on page 50 soul of blessed memory SHELDON BASKIN, 64, of Novi, died June 6, 2019. He is survived by his wife of 26 years, Debbie Baskin; chil- dren, Danielle and Dr. Jason Tagai, Ian Malane and Shelby Mullins, Dr. Jill and Jorge Castro, and Jeffrey and Lauren Baskin; grandchildren, Brady, Jonah and Jayse Tagai, Neila Malane, Rafael Castro, and Noah and Talia Baskin; brother and sis- ter-in-law, Sco...…
…50 June 13 • 2019 jn continued from page 49 soul of blessed memory REGINA GOLDSTEIN, 89, of West Bloomfield, died June 2, 2019. She is survived by her sons and daugh- ters-in-law, Danny Goldstein and Karen Robinson, Albert and Shari Goldstein, Dr. Raphael and Carmen Goldstein; daughter, Dr. Alisa Goldstein; grandchildren, Dr. Michael (Sarah) Goldstein, Lauren, Andrea, Robert and Elan Goldstein; many other loving family members a...…
…June 13 • 2019 51 jn Nechama Rivlin Dead At 73 JTA- MARCY OSTER N echama Rivlin, 73, the wife of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, died on June 4, 2019, in Petah Tikvah, Israel. Rivlin, who had in recent years rarely been seen in public without being attached to a portable oxygen tank, suffered from pulmonary fibro- sis. The condition causes scar tissue to fill the lungs and makes it difficult to breathe. Her transplant surgery was ...…
…52 June 13 • 2019 jn soul of blessed memory A mosaic commemorating the late community leader Albert M. Colman was dedicated the weekend of May 10-11 at Temple Kol Ami in West Bloomfield. Colman, a longtime attorney, was president of Jewish Family Service in the late 1970s, served on the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit board and was involved in Jewish Community Center summer pro- gramming, and with the Jewish War Veterans...…
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…I have been the archivist for the Detroit Jewish News Foundation for nearly six years and I have enjoyed every minute of my work. While I will continue to be the archivist for the Foundation, from this point forward, I am pleased to let you know that I have a new title: I now hold the Alene and Graham Landau Archivist Chair. This is a great honor for me. The Alene and Graham Landau Archivist Chair is named in recognition of a generou...…
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…6 June 6 • 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 me...…
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…8 June 6 • 2019 jn T he shocking news that 57-year-old Dan Gilbert suf- fered a stroke on May 26 is a stark reminder of the impact one person with a vision — and the will to implement it — can have on a company, a city and a region’ s future. Gilbert moved Quicken and allied companies — approximately 1,700 employees — from Livonia to Detroit in 2010, despite a prolonged economic downturn and a city teetering on the edge of bankrupt...…
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…12 June 6 • 2019 jn ADAM FINKEL CONTRIBUTING WRITER Organic Growth R abbi Jonathan Sacks, formerly the chief rabbi of England and the author of 30 books, notes that the medieval scholar Maimonides held that the highest form of charity was job creation. Economic policy, Sacks further articulates, is not about abstractions like GDP but about people. Employment, he says, is a moral issue because dignity comes from what we do to enha...…
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