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January 31, 2019 (vol. , iss. 1) • Page Image 42

…42 January 31 • 2019 BOOKS LIBRARY BOOKSTORE Bought & Sold Open 7 Days M. Sempliner Books Bought In Your Home 248.545.4300 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER Temple Beth El (TBE) in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan is looking for an individual experienced in early childhood education to fill a full-time position as Assistant Director. This person will work directly with the ECC Director, teaching staff, children, and familie...…

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…44 January 31 • 2019 jn soul of blessed memory RUTH BLUMBERG, 94, of Phoenix, Ariz., for- merly of Michigan, died Jan. 22, 2019. She was a past president of Jewish Women International. Mrs. Blumberg is survived by her sons and daughter-in-law, Seth David Blumberg, Robin Jol and Linda Blumberg; brother and sisters-in-law, Herbert and Joyce Weberman, and Miriam Weberman; grandchildren, Jason Randolph and Dr. Michelle Blumberg, ...…

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…January 31 • 2019 45 jn married after their graduations in 1949. Allen worked for the Detroit Board of Education for 32 years, pri- marily as an elementary school princi- pal. They moved to Michigan’ s Upper Peninsula after retiring in 1981, where they lived until Rhoda’ s death in 1989. In 1990, Mr. Malinoff moved to Ann Arbor. In 1999, he married Ann Arbor native Carole McLean, who died on Jan. 7, 2019. He is survived by his son, He...…

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…46 January 31 • 2019 jn soul of blessed memory continued from page 45 NORMAN N. ROBBINS, 99, of West Bloomfield and Boca Raton, Fla., died Jan. 24, 2019. He was a practicing attorney for more than 50 years and was listed in the Best Lawyers in America and Who’ s Who in America. He served as a com- mander of the Jewish War Veterans, Silverman Post, Michigan, and was state board chairperson of the Michigan Veterans Trust Fund. M...…

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…January 31 • 2019 47 jn continued on page 48 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. There is no charge for a Holocaust survivor icon. The JN reserves the right to edit wording to conform to its style considerations. For information, have your funeral director call the JN or you may call Sy Manello, editorial assistant, at (248) 351-51...…

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…48 January 31 • 2019 jn soul of blessed memory (JTA) — Actress Carol Channing, who originated the starring role in Hello Dolly! on Broadway and won a Tony Award for her portrayal of the boisterous widow, died Jan. 15, 2019. She was 97. Channing was the daughter of a Jewish mother and a Christian father and identified as “part Jewish.” At 16, she learned that her father was multi-racial, with an African- American mother and a German...…

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…January 31 • 2019 49 jn Danny Raskin Senior Columnist raskin the best of everything The Sweet Life T here was a time when folks would be told about this restaurant but had difficulty finding it … However, most of the people were per- sistent enough to continue looking … And are happy they did … With the choice result being their making it a reg- ular must …and no problem finding it anymore. La Dolce Vita on Woodward, four blocks no...…

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…inside Detroit Jewish News n January 24 • 2019 3 jn 61 Jan. 24-30, 2019 18-24 Shevat 5779 VOLUME CLIV, ISSUE 25 VIEWS 5-8 JEWS IN THE D 10 Righting a Historic Wrong Group of lawyers helps survivors and their heirs recover artwork stolen by Nazis. 14 Fulfi lling a Wish Survivor gains Righteous Among the Nations status for three rescuing families. 16 A Community Conversation on Aging JN teams up with loca...…

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…4 January 24 • 2019 jn Come spend a winter Shabbat with Temple Israel clergy and friends from home! The service is complimentary, but we do ask that you RSVP with the number of people who will be attending. RSVP online at temple-israel.org/ShabbatFL For more information, contact Cassi Cohen at 248-661-5700 or ccohen@temple-israel.org. Please do not call the school for information about this event. All questions should be d...…

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…January 24 • 2019 5 jn W hat’ s the difference between a national park during the government shutdown and a dresser drawer filled with rows of meticulously roll-folded T-shirts? One is a picture of human fallibility, the precarious nature of our social contract, the conspicuous con- sumption of disposable goods and the nega- tive consequences of under-regulation and over-production. The other is probably out of toilet paper. The...…

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…6 January 24 • 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, responsiv...…

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…January 24 • 2019 7 jn JOIN US FOR A PARENT-LED TOUR AND Q&A WITH OUR DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS AND MEMBERS OF OUR ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM SCHEDULE YOUR WALK-THROUGH TODAY AND LEARN WHY FJA IS THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR YOUR FAMILY COME DISCOVER THE FRANKEL DIFFERENCE FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY CONTACT ARIELLE ENDELMAN, DIRECTOR OF ADMISSIONS, WITH ANY QUESTIONS AT AENDELMAN@FRANKELJA.ORG www.frankelja.org VISIT F R A N K E L JEWISH ACADEM...…

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…8 January 24 • 2019 jn I t was inspiring. The Zionist Organization of America’ s (ZOA) 120th Brandeis Award national dinner in NYC treated 1,200 attend- ees to speeches by honorees National Security Adviser John Bolton, U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, TV and radio host Mark Levin and ZOA President Morton Klein, who received ZOA ’ s Theodore Herzl award for 25 years of stellar leadership. Also speaking or intro- ducing ho...…

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…January 24 • 2019 9 jn We accept Visa, Master Card, Discover, American Express and EBT Cards 32906 Middlebelt Rd (at 14 Mile), Farmington Hills | 248-855-0007 Hours: Mon – Sat 8:30-8:30, Sun 8:30-7pm | www.JohnnyPomodoros.com TUESDAY’S SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT 10% (excludes beer, wine, Lotto, sale items, garden center and special orders) Swanky Frankie ¼ lb. Vienna all beef frank,stuffed with cheese and wrapped with bacon · 2 Lbs. of ...…

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…10 January 24 • 2019 jn J onathan H. Schwartz is leading a local effort by the Jewish Bar Association (JBAM) to right a his- toric wrong that’ s existed for more than 70 years as, he says, “part of the Nazis’ attempt to wipe out our Jewish identity. ” JBAM, co-founded in 2014 by Schwartz, a part- ner at Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss P .C. in Southfield, recently launched the Holocaust Art Recovery Initiative, a partner- ship with the ...…

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…12 January 24 • 2019 jn real-life Holocaust survivor Maria Altmann, who sets in motion a long legal challenge to recover her family’ s cher- ished Gustav Klimt painting, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I — also known as The Woman in Gold — from the Austrian government. “This artwork, some of it by famous Jewish artists, is part of our Jewish iden- tity, as much as Jewish humor, literature and food. Denying the return of iden- tified Jewi...…

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…14 January 24 • 2019 jn LOUIS FINKELMAN CONTRIBUTING WRITER E rwin and Esther Posner traveled to the Netherlands in 1976 to visit Enschede, the village where Christian families had hidden Esther (then called Marianne Rose) and her family during the Nazi occupation. There they met the heroic police officer Dick Mos, who, while officially serving the Nazi regime, secretly cooperated with local Dutch Reformed Minister Leendert Overdui...…

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…January 24 • 2019 15 jn Troy Gymnastics is a state-of-the-art facility-incorporating THREE buildings and FIVE gym areas! We have over 80,000 sq. ft. for activities for ALL AGES! Foam pits, trampolines, bounce houses, Ninja Room and more! Great for: Come party with us at T roy Gymnastics & our *NEW* INDOOR Ropes Course! IRC@TG3 Climb the largest indoor ropes course in the Midwest! 40 elements State-of-the-art high ropes...…

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…16 January 24 • 2019 jn continued from page 14 jews d in the they had six children, four of them boys who would retain their usual Dutch last name, the Tilsma family was hard to locate. Then she found an obituary of the father, which listed the address of one of the older boys, Meindert, in Barrie, Ontario. She remembered him well: “He and his brother, Adry, would come home from work and school every day. They would pick me up and...…

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…January 24 • 2019 17 jn NOW ACCEPTING NEW PATIENTS Dr. Tassia Samona, a Henry Ford West Bloomfield physician, will be located at the practice of Lisa Elconin, M.D., Amy Goldfaden, M.D., Laurie Katz, M.D., William Jason Sulaka, M.D., and Maribeth Knight, D.O. who are on staff at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital. These physicians specialize in Internal Medicine with the goal of preventing and managing chronic diseases. Cal l 2...…

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…18 January 24 • 2019 jn Pillars of Vibrancy The Community House to honor those who impact the community at annual Bates Street Society Dinner. T he Community House (TCH) — a nonprofit resource and destination for personal, professional, recreational and phil- anthropic pursuits — will hold its fourth annual Bates Street Society Dinner, hosted by the Community House and the Community House Foundation Boards of Directors, on Saturday...…

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…Congratulations to this year’ s Hazon Seal of Sustainability recipients! The following institutions have begun taking steps to improve their sustainability-related education, action, and advocacy work in the Detroit Jewish community. These are the projects they have been working on this year. Adat Shalom Synagogue – Lighting and recycling policies, garden education Congregation B’ nai Moshe – Greener kiddush, recycling, and compost pra...…

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…20 January 24 • 2019 jn jn Torah, Fun, Friends Aish Detroit launches new group for girls. S ometime all it takes is one con- versation to start a movement. It was a cozy fall Sunday after- noon. I had invited two of our Aish Sunday School assistants, Hannah Berger and Sophia Bernzweig, to my house to settle a debate over whether homemade sprinkle cookies could be made better than bakery sprinkle cookies. (Spoiler — yes, they can, an...…

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…January 24 • 2019 21 jn 4130 Telegraph Rd. Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302 NOAH BISHOP COHEN The Next Generation of “SOLD” ns.cohen26@gmail.com MELANIE BISHOP “SOLD” is my middle name melaniesold@aol.com MelanieSold.com OVER $56 MILLION SOLD IN 2018 248.867.7800 ONE OF A KIND ON GREEN LAKE WEST BLOOMFIELD 3738 sq. ft. plus walk-out lower level, 5 bed, 4 baths, & full guest house $1,225,000 SERVING THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOR OVER 30 YEAR...…

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…22 January 24 • 2019 jn Legal Fight Pet owners fi ght to save fi nal resting place of their beloved pets. W hen Jill Lepler Daly’ s two beloved dogs died more than 15 years apart, she purchased each a coffin and head- stone and tucked special notes and pictures in with them when they were buried at Heavenly Acres Pet Cemetery in Genoa Township. “We want to know where they will always be buried permanently so we can visit and th...…

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…January 24 • 2019 23 jn $: New Price M: Money Back Guarantee N: New Listing H: Home Warranty Birmingham North 800 N. Old Woodward Ave, Ste 210 Birmingham, MI 48009 | 248-792-9055 Birmingham South 555 S. Old Woodward Ave, Ste 22-U Birmingham, MI 48009 | 248-283-8700 Franklin 32440 Franklin Rd Franklin, MI 48025 | 248-626-8700 Get the details: HowardHanna.com ADRIAN ANN ARBOR BIRMINGHAM NORTH BIRMINGHAM SOUTH CHELSEA FRANKLIN JACKSON MON...…

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…24 January 24 • 2019 jn Mitzvah Day volunteers prepared meals with Chef Matt Prentice at Cass Community Social Services. LEFT: Volunteers at Southwest Solutions Piquette Square Nearly 800 volunteers of all ages visited more than three dozen social services agencies during the 22nd Annual Mitzvah Day. Alongside friends from the Michigan Muslim Community Council, partici- pants, many of whom donned festive holiday sweaters and hats, ...…

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…January 24 • 2019 25 jn TOTOUSA.COM | 800-350-TOTO Things you use every day. Created for a new way of living. NX1 Toilet NEW SHOWROOM DETROIT 150 Parsons Street Detroit, MI 48201 313-831-7770 WALLED LAKE 1977 E. West Maple Rd. Walled Lake, MI 48390 248.669.7474 www.advanceplumbing.com 99 YEARS 1920 - 2019 *Fi r st - t i me vi si t o r s a nd l o ca l r e si de nt s o nl y. Ce r t a i n r e st r i ct i o ns a ppl y. $28 ...…

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…26 January 24 • 2019 jn Peter Remington and Peggy Daitch of Birmingham, and Bloomfield Hills residents Jennifer and David Fischer of the Suburban Collection check out the Cadillac exhibit. Tavi Fulkerson of Bloomfield Hills enjoyed a mother-daughter night out with Georgia Hampton of Chicago. PHOTOGRAPHY BY JULIE SMITH YOLLES jews d in the | faces&places In an ironic twist, the final Charity Preview to be held in the winter escape...…

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…E very action taken has two essential parts: a person and a situation. A person can exist in mul- tiple situations; multiple people can share one situation. For example, a person can be a cook in a restaurant, school or home. Conversely, all members of a team participate in a single game. Success occurs when these two elements interact effectively. People exist in multiple situ- ations, designated by their resi- dence, culture or lan...…

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…January 24 • 2019 29 jn Hillel Students Join Pistons on the Court H illel Day School students were on the court for the national anthem and played a scrim- mage basketball game at halftime of a Detroit Pistons game last month at Little Caesars Arena. It was the same day as a ticket deal offered by the Pistons and the Michigan Jewish Sports Foundation, with 10 percent of ticket sales donated to the Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame...…

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…30 January 24 • 2019 jn MARISA MEYERSON SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Matchmaker, Matchmaker moments NJP (Nice Jewish Person) Melissa Mendelson Each month, The Well highlights an amazing (and eligible!) individual. The Well has agreed to share its Q & As with these amazing singles with the JN. This month, The Well has a conversation with NJP Melissa Mendelson. Q : How did you decide to make your adult life in Metro Detroit? MM: I...…

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…January 24 • 2019 31 jn moments Kylie Grace Bell, for- merly of Farmington Hills, will chant from the Torah as she becomes a bat mitzvah on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2019, at Temple Shalom in Naples, Fla. She will be joined in cel- ebration by her proud parents, Shelly and Jason Bell, brother Spencer, and loving grandparents Leslie and Mark Wasserman. She is also the grand- daughter of the late Linda and the late Stephen Bell. Kylie is a ...…

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…32 January 24 • 2019 jn jews d in the section Rabbi Noam Gross We Have What It Takes T his week’ s portion describes the most significant event in human history: The Jewish people stood at Sinai and accepted the Torah. While the Torah certainly had an enormous impact on the Jewish nation, its imprint on the rest of the world can- not be understated. Both Christianity and Islam accept the Jewish covenant at Sinai to be historic...…

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…January 24 • 2019 33 jn Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is an effective therapy for adults suffering from treatment- resistant depression. NeuroStar TMS uses a precise non-invasive magnetic field similar to that of an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) to help stimulate the natural function of the brain’ s neurotransmitters that are underactive in depression. FIGHT DEPRESSION WITH ADVANCED THERAPEUTIC TREATMENT Contact us to sc...…

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…34 January 24 • 2019 jn Danny, Thank you for your continued support with small business owners like myself. You and the Jewish News have helped get the names of all my restaurants known within the Jewish Community. We appreciate all that you have done. Wishing you a happy 100th Birthday, Danny, from George Lucaj and family, and all of his partners. Looking forward to doing another 50 years of business with you! Ge o r g e L u c a j ...…

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…100 100 Years of Years of Excellence Danny Raskin turns 100 this year and — oh, what a life he has had! Danny in his West Bloomfi eld home with portraits of Oscar-winning movie stars covering a wall …

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…D E T R O I T ’S R E S TA U R A N T N E T W O R K V I C A R I R E S TAU R A NT S .CO M “I have learned so much about the restaurant busi ness from Danny Raski n. Hi s knowledge and ki ndness have been i nvaluable. God bless you & keep i t goi ng, Danny! ” – Joe Vi cari , CEO, Vi cari Restaurant Group Vicari_JewishNews_Full_9.25x11_jan19.indd 1 1/21/19 12:08 PM …

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…January 24 • 2019 37 jn Danny, you’ ve been writing your Jewish News column every week since you were a young adult. Tell me a story from even before that period. When I was born, we lived at Hastings and Brady in Detroit. Th en, we moved to Dover Court apartments near Pingree and 12th Street. We lived right behind the Cream of Michigan restaurant, where members of the Purple Gang hung out in the mid-’ 30s. Th e Purple boys I knew wh...…

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…38 January 24 • 2019 jn continued from page 37 entrepreneur porter with the Lansing State Jour- nal and, later, the Detroit News. At the News, my editor said, “Danny, whatever you learned in college, forget it. Th is is the new school for you. ” He was right. It was like night and day. In 1942, I was 23 years old and working at the News midnight to eight in the morning. My beat was Downtown Detroit. Phil Slomovitz called me and sa...…

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…January 24 • 2019 39 jn LOCATED IN Farmington Hills at Copper Creek Golf Course 27925 Golf Pointe Boulevard (12 Mile just west of Halsted) RESERVATIONS ACCEPTED For all your lunch, dinner, and party/banquet needs HOURS Mon Closed I Tues - Thurs: 11am - 10pm I Fri: 11am - 11pm I Sat: 4pm - 11pm I Sun: 4pm - 9pm No sharing (strictly enforced). Minimum purchase of an alcohol or nonalcoholic beverage. Dine-in or carry-out. Excludes Satur...…

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