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…24 | APRIL 2 • 2020 O n March 11, 46 Metro Detroiters geared up for a trip to Morocco with Temple Israel. The tour was scheduled for nine days, with an optional extension to visit Marrakech and the Atlas Mountains. At the same time, the novel coronavirus outbreak was spreading quickly, wreaking havoc on travel plans. The Temple Israel group, led by Rabbi Paul Yedwab, Rabbi Marla Hornsten and Cantor Michael Smolash, boarded the...…
… APRIL 2 • 2020 | 25 details. They continued to tour into Sunday, staying relatively close to the airport. Suddenly, the tour stopped short — the group was instruct- ed to board a bus headed straight for the Casablanca airport. They needed to leave immediately. According to AP News, Morocco placed a ban on international passenger flights and ships that same day. The country now is in full lockdown mode, shutting down hotels, resta...…
…26 | APRIL 2 • 2020 Next Year in Person; This Year on Zoom COVID-19 changes Passover plans for many families. JENNIFER LOVY CONTRIBUTING WRITER Passover F or sisters Elayne Moss and Terry Schwartz, Passover is a marathon event of cooking and entertaining. Together, they host an average of 35-40 people for each seder. Throughout the week, they pretty much have an open-door meal policy for family and friends. It’ s a tradition that...…
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…28 | APRIL 2 • 2020 Making Passover Personal Local families create their own Haggadot to celebrate the holiday. ESTHER ALLWEISS INGBER CONTRIBUTING WRITER Passover T he Haggadah, read at the Passover seder table to tell the story of the Jewish people’ s liberation from slavery in Egypt, describes, in order, each symbolic food placed on a seder plate and when to participate in the rituals of the holiday. It also features tradition...…
… APRIL 2 • 2020 | 29 TAKING PASSOVER ORDERS 28_DJN040220_PO Compiling Haggadah March 26.indd 29 28_DJN040220_PO Compiling Haggadah March 26.indd 29 3/30/20 1:46 PM 3/30/20 1:46 PM …
…30 | APRIL 2 • 2020 COURTESY OF COHEN FAMILY to adding more to this year’ s edition. “ After all, would it be so terrible if the Haggadah was 500 pages long? Not to me.” ADDING MEANING AND A MODERN FEEL After using the Maxwell House Haggadah growing up and then children’ s Haggadot when she and her husband, Howard, had their two children, Gail (Nachman) Greenberg of Oak Park was interested in searching for something more meani...…
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…Passover LYNNE KONSTANTIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER Get Craftyfor Passover Lots of time to pass these days? Fill them up with fun, enriching (and delicious) activities for the holiday. 32 | APRIL 2 • 2020 COURTESY OF WITH LOVE, IMA Re-enact the story of Passover with Passover Story Character Puppets. Visit Withloveima.com for free printables, have your kids color them in, cut them out and paste to a craft stick. If you’ re in the mood fo...…
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…34 | APRIL 2 • 2020 W e all know a matzah when we see one: a thin, flat, square cracker, punctuated with parallel rows of holes. We know how a matzah behaves, too. Stored properly, a matzah never gets stale, never gets moldy, never bends (but it does break). We know matzah; our tribe has eaten matzah since biblical times. So, it may seem odd to ask, “When did a matzah get that way?” Square: The matzah got square when Isaac ...…
… APRIL 2 • 2020 | 35 simple recipe. It has two ingredients: flour and water. Flour: Regular flour might not do for kosher- for-Passover matzah because it might have too much water added at the mill, rendering it chametz (leavened) and unfit for Passover. Matzah bakers use special flour, ground on purpose for matzah, so check your labels. Water: According to Rabbi Yehudah in the Talmud, we draw the water for matzah the day bef...…
…36 | APRIL 2 • 2020 T here’ s an old Israeli platitude: We’ ll take your donations; but until you make the sacrifice to live here, you have no say in our affairs. After moving to Israel from Birmingham 10 years ago, I now under- stand this is out of time with the actual influence diaspora Jews have on the Jewish state. In fact, when it comes to the fight for religious pluralism, North Americans are the vital backbone behind Is...…
… APRIL 2 • 2020 | 37 the answers will range from “ depends” to “ no. ” You will never find a definitive “yes” there. Yet the Video prevails. Its mere existence means queer people can feel safer. The Video is not completely alone: There are a few queer party lines that operate month- ly in several LGBT-friendly establishments, growing in number every year. There is the aforementioned café; and there is the Open House, Jerusalem’ s ...…
…38 | APRIL 2 • 2020 Kotel. But because women are still not allowed to use a Torah, they endure humiliating body searches by guards hired to pre- vent them from bringing in the spiritual contraband. THE INFLUENCE OF DIASPORA JEWS While WoW conducts its monthly Rosh Hodesh prayer service, ultra-Orthodox aggres- sors disturb their religious ser- vices and shove participants. At a recent talk, Anat Hoffman, a founding member of WoW an...…
… APRIL 2 • 2020 | 39 Spirit torah portion C an archaic, seemingly mundane verses regard- ing cleaning the Temple be relevant to us today? Yes, and they teach us a most profound lesson for these trying times. This week’ s portion begins with the first service performed each morning in the Temple: the removal of the ashes from the altar. Every evening, the remains of the previous day’ s offerings were put on the altar to be con- ...…
…40 | APRIL 2 • 2020 A total of nearly 4,500 Arizona middle school- ers of diverse heritages watched a dramatization of a Jewish middle schooler con- fronting the Holocaust, and they wanted to know more about the terrifying times. These students became the first out-of-state audiences to see performances of The Diary of Anne Frank as staged by Michigan’ s Jewish Ensemble Theatre (JET). In February, the Detroit troupe of 16 perfor...…
… APRIL 2 • 2020 | 41 Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix, she also enlisted help from the Jewish Federation of Greater Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center. “I want young people to understand this history before [those who hate] can get to them, ” said Ginn, who created committees to handle produc- tion-associated responsibilities, which included 50 Jewish and non-Jewish volunteers. One committee found prop...…
…42 | APRIL 2 • 2020 Arts&Life review B ritish philanthropist Leonard Montefiore, a founder of World Jewish Relief, took a special interest in youngsters who survived concen- tration camp experiences of star- vation, deprivation, forced labor and separation from loved ones. With liberation, he joined caring volunteers to help hun- dreds of these youths regain their abilities, trust in others and the future. The transition unfolded ...…
… APRIL 2 • 2020 | 43 STREAMING & NETWORKS Comedian Iliza Shlesinger, 37, has had four Netflix specials since 2013. They have all featured her doing a stand-up set. Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show, her fifth Netflix project, is something differ- ent. It is a six-episode, half-hour series with a supporting cast of comic actors. The official descrip- tion says: “From the mind of Iliza Shlesinger comes a secret world filled with absurd cha...…
…44 | APRIL 2 • 2020 “P roblems can be an opportunity, ” said Executive Chef Matt Prentice. He recently found an “ outrageous” way to maintain his Three Cats at Leon & Lulu during the coronavirus pan- demic. Three Cats in Clawson now offers upscale carryout dinners with optional delivery service. The noted veter- an chef is betting this is a niche he’ s uniquely suited to fill in Oakland County. On the day Michigan Gov. Gre...…
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… APRIL 2 • 2020 | 47 Soul of blessed memory A Pioneer In Healthcare Calvin J. Lippitt, 95, passed away March 21, 2020. He graduated from Central High School in Detroit in 1942. In 1949, he graduat- ed with a bachelor of science degree from University of Michigan. Mr. Lippitt was a corporal and weather specialist in the U.S. Airforce from 1943-1946. He then worked as a salesman for paper, coffee and finally health insurance, along wi...…
…48 | APRIL 2 • 2020 Jamie and Solomon Amster, Andrew Garon, Sarah and Bradley Garon, Harrison Brode and Rayanne Brode; great-grandchildren, Avery Trager, Scotland Trager, Paxton Amster, Ford Trager and Sloane Amster; many loving nieces and nephews, a world of friends; a treasured caregiver, Beba Mironovic. Mrs. Brode was the proud grandmother of the late Charles Brode; the loving sister of the late Gail Jacobs; the devoted dau...…
… APRIL 2 • 2020 | 49 continued on page 50 Extraordinarily well loved by all who knew him, Manny was full of laughter and jokes and was a pillar of strength throughout his life. He was smart and loving, creative and playful, a great friend to all and exception- ally loving to his family. He loved being a grandfather and took enormous pride and joy in his five grand- daughters. Dr. Frisch is sur- vived by his sister, Joan Bromberg ...…
…50 | APRIL 2 • 2020 continued from page 49 Soul of blessed memory and their spouses, Morey (Ina), Leo, Evelyn and Jane (Nathan) Sahn. Memorial contributions may be made to Retired Race Horse Project or American Cancer Society. LES LEIDER, 65, passed away March 20, 2020, in Palm Springs, Calif., after a 10-year battle with Multiple Myeloma. Les grew up in Oak Park. He then graduated from Michigan State University and received ...…
… APRIL 2 • 2020 | 51 continued on page 52 entertaining and giving dinner parties at home. Lillian was a professional gourmet cook and baker known for her delecta- ble dishes. She loved to garden and was very knowledgeable about many plants and trees. It wasn’ t unusual for a friend of hers to come home to a beau- tiful arrangement of colorful flowers and trailing vines by her front door. Lillian and Larry were very philanthropic an...…
…52 | APRIL 2 • 2020 Soul of blessed memory Levitt, the late Ida and the late Donald Wexler, the late Julius Stofer; cousin of the late Sheila Mudryk, the late Cindy Mudryk. Contributions may be made to a charity of one’ s choice. Services and interment were held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Park. DR. DAVID ZEFF, 90, of West Bloomfield, died on March 21, 2020. A graduate of the University of Michig...…
… APRIL 2 • 2020 | 53 the best of everything S he was a legend … One of a kind … Someone whose shoes cannot be filled … I’ m talking about Shirlee Bloom (Feroni), who recently passed away. She was a dreamer who eventually saw her vision come true with her own places where she could make the original kosher dishes of her late mother and father, Lil and Harry Bloom, whose Mayfair Kosher Catering in Detroit and then Lil’ s Koshe...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 54 | APRIL 2 • 2020 A lthough Joe Cornell was not Jewish, generations of people in Detroit’ s Jewish community have interacted with him. When news that Cornell died in California on March 18 reached Detroit, Facebook exploded with people sharing memories of him and his popular dance classes for preteen Jewish Det...…
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… MARCH 26 • 2020 | 3 contents 42 Views 5-10 Jews in the D One Day at a Time 12 Local families’ simchahs, Pesach plans are in flux during the pandemic. Coping with Coronavirus 18 From virtual dance classes to online prayer, families get creative amid crisis. History Repeats Itself 24 A look back at the Spanish Flu of 1918. Doing Virtually Anything 30 Our Jewish community may be distanced, but we’ re never apart. New Leadership a...…
…VIRTUAL Maintain your spiritual connection with us! Whether from the bimah or from our living room, we are here to guide and support you through this challenging moment. Our community is so special – and that doesn’ t change, despite our building being closed. We have created a virtual community to keep you engaged and connected to your Temple family. From Mi Shebeirach Mondays to our virtual musical Kabbalat Shabbat service, we ha...…
… MARCH 26 • 2020 | 5 Views for starters Marooned with Tons of TP guest column Snowbirds Count in Michigan W hen someone asks you, “What three items would you want with you if you were stranded on a desert island?” what do you usually answer? Typical answers are a Kindle (all that time to read), a phone (so you can call for help), chocolate (essen- tial survival food). But did toilet paper ever make it high on your list? Pres...…
…Views 6 | MARCH 26 • 2020 for starters Rethinking ‘Normal’ B ’ nai mitzvahs live- streamed. Weddings canceled. Seders shrunk. Funerals and shivahs restricted. There is no denying that Jewish life, and every other facet of modern life, has had to change drastically since the outbreak of COVID-19. Social distancing has become an imperative, which means that for the time being, we can no longer gather in public as we once did. ...…
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…10 | MARCH 26 • 2020 continued from page 8 Woody Allen in Annie Hall tells us that life is sep- arated between the “hor- rible” and the “miserable.” The horrible are the blind and deaf people and those with terrible diseases. The miserable are the rest of us, so we should be thankful if we’ re only miserable. It’ s a crazy and outrageous com- mentary about human life, yet it’ s become a popular half-funny/half-serious way some Je...…
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…14 | MARCH 26 • 2020 continued from page 12 continued on page 16 family turned their phones back on, they were flooded with messages of support and congratulations from friends and family who had watched the livestream. “It was a very happy, proud, emotional moment when it was all over with, ” she said. “I said, ‘ Brooke, this will go down in history. ’ ” The family plans to throw a party for Brooke on either June 12 or Sept. 25, d...…
… MARCH 26 • 2020 | 15 JEFF BUDAJ The name Adat Shalom means The Congregation of peace. We ar e a commu nit y w ho believ es t hat ev en in t he mos t difficu lt and u nlikely cir cu ms t ances w e can find w ay s t o br ing w holenes s , hope, healing and peace int o ou r liv es and int o t he w or ld. Ou r s hu l began in 1943, du r ing t he w or s t moment s in t he his t or y of ou r people and of t he w or ld. Ant is em...…
…16 | MARCH 26 • 2020 continued from page 14 for 11 canceled events were instead delivered to people in the community. “Paul Wertz [caterer at Dish Kosher Cuisine] had a kitch- en full of food, ” said David Goodman, Beth Ahm’ s execu- tive director. “What we decid- ed to do as a congregation was to purchase that and distribute it throughout the community as a way to help him, and as a way to help those folks who are either food-ins...…
