…4 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 VIEWS 6-15 16 The Docs of War Tales of the brave, young physicians who saved countless lives in Vietnam. 22 Federation’s Youth Mental Health Initiative Launches Survey 22 Feds Arrest Neo-Nazi Linked to Michigan Synagogue Graffiti 23 JCC Delays Reopening Its Indoor Pool and Track 24 Empowering Women Trade Secrets celebrates JVS’ Women to Work program. 25 36 Under 36 Nominations N...…
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…8 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 for openers Thank You, Jewish War Vets I ’ m writing this before the Nov. 3 elec- tion and have no idea who won argu- ably the biggest, most controversial election of our lifetime. Partisan politics aside, I intend to support whoever was selected to be my next Library Board Member in West Bloomfield Township. I’ m grateful beyond words that the remainder of this column will have noth- ing to do with politicians....…
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…10 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 I was so tired the other day, I slept right through my nap. ” — Benny Gurvitz I met Benny Gurvtiz in the locker room of the Jewish Community Center’ s Fitness Center in 2000. I was a then- 52-year old clinical psychol- ogist, and my brother Mike was a then-47-year-old furri- er. Benny was a 90-year-old retired pharmacist. Our lockers were next to each other. Benny was older than my dad, who died at the to...…
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…12 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 T his was definitely not the volunteer oppor- tunity that was adver- tised. As my alarm rang at 4:30 a.m. the day before Rosh Hashanah to pack food, my first thought was this is the craziest hour of the day. My second thought was I am excited to see and pack food with my “Shabbat Crew.” I have been an active volunteer in the Detroit Jewish community for several years. I have had the privilege of having ...…
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…14 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 VIEWS more chaotic because we packed meals for the whole weekend, including a Shabbat dinner with soup and dessert, a Saturday Shabbat lunch, and frozen meals for Saturday and Sunday. As it turns out, two of the things that I least expected and found most rewarding were making friends and being inspired. My “Shabbat Crew” arrives at 6 a.m. to pack and 5:15 on days when we are packing for extra days for a ...…
… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 15 came together at Wayne State to promote the messages to vote, ways to register and how to get involved in getting out the vote. • There was a drive-by voter registration rally in Campus Martius Park. • A Voter Town Hall in partnership with the Interfaith Intercampus Coalition, includ- ing HMD Rabbi Michele Faudem, the head of Ministry at Madonna. University, the head of the ministry of University of Detroit...…
…16 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 Tales of the brave, young physicians who saved countless lives in Vietnam. IN THE JEWS D ON THE COVER I ’ ve never really shared “my” Vietnam War memories with anybody. It took me years before I even knew how to process and comprehend the enormity of the war. And I never wore a uniform. I only observed the war from my family’ s dining room table — a 12-year-old in 1967, eating dinner while watching Walter...…
… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 17 passed away in 2015 and 2010, respectively. After fulfilling their two-year tours of duty, which typically included a year in Vietnam, both returned to Detroit to resume building their lives, families and careers. Irving Gold was a radiologist. Taylor was an orthopedic hand surgeon. PAUL ’S HEROIC SERVICE Paul Gold vividly remembers the day in June 1967 when his draft letter arrived from the 5th Army Head...…
…18 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 IN THE JEWS D ON THE COVER Armored Calvary Division had three physicians under his charge, and he was one of them. That commander was Col. George Smith Patton, son of the legendary WWII Gen. George S. Patton Jr. “I remembered he carried his dad’ s ivory-handled pistol, ” Gold said. As a captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corp, Gold spent the majority of his year in Vietnam in harm’ s way, typically posi- ti...…
… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 19 Blau’ s history, the other doctor I was able to interview from the 1990 JN article, there are two other Jewish Detroit physicians who served in Vietnam I came to learn played significant roles in Dr. Paul Gold’ s life. FAMILIAR FACES IN VIETNAM Gold was also the recipient of a Purple Heart. In March 1968 he was a victim of a rocket attack which left his abdomen splintered with shrapnel. He was helicopter...…
…20 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 father died in his son’ s arms at Grace Hospital in Detroit from congestive heart failure, hours after the family’ s Rosh Hashanah meal. After fulfilling his two-year Army commitment, Blau res- urrected his medical career in Detroit focusing on occupation- al trauma, eventually expanding his practice to include five clin- ics throughout the tri-county area. While in Vietnam, Blau, like the other doctors’ stor...…
… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 21 JVS Program to Provide Home Down Payment Assistance JVS Human Services announced the HarMoney Program, a new financial initiative to help low- to moderate-income families in Oakland County get their foot on the home ownership ladder. Through the HarMoney Program, qualified families can receive up to $1,000 down pay- ment assistance on a home or for repairing their financial credit to help them qualify fo...…
…22 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 O n Oct. 29, state and federal authorities arrested the leader and an “associate” of a Michigan-based neo-Nazi group responsible for tar- geting an Upper Peninsula synagogue with antisemitic graffiti. A team of FBI agents arrested Justen Watkins, 25, of Bad Axe, self-proclaimed leader of The Base, and Alfred Gorman, 35, of Taylor, during a pair of raids. The Base says it seeks to impose a white ethno-st...…
… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 23 A fter the closing of its health club at the end of September, the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield announced it would reopen its indoor pool and track this month. But that estimate was revised due to the recent rise of COVID-19 cases in Oakland County, and now the reopening may be delayed. The JCC formed a commit- tee tasked with exploring new ways to offer fitness and well- ness programming at ...…
…24 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 S oon after she started working as the chief development officer for JVS Human Services three years ago, Sandy Schuster realized something about JVS’ Women to Work program was familiar. Her own mother, Anne, had used JVS’ services in the early 1980s, when she returned to the workforce after raising her children and going through a divorce. Now Schuster is preparing for a COVID-era version of Trade Secrets...…
… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 25 36 Under 36 Nominations Now Open T he Well — an organi- zation building inclu- sive Jewish communi- ty in Detroit for the under-40 crowd — and the Jewish News are once again partnering on “36 Under 36” to recog- nize doers, activists, entre- preneurs, philanthropists, community organizers and other awesome young Jewish professionals reshaping and broadening Metro Detroit’ s Jewish community. “This is an oppo...…
…26 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 I f JARC CEO Shaindle Braunstein were a baked good, she’ d be a French macaron: delicate, yet complicated. This is the answer the mother of four and grandmother of two gave during a 2018 interview with the casting producers for the Great American Baking Show as she was also going for rounds of interviews for JARC’ s top position. Braunstein made it through the final rounds of a rigorous casting proces...…
… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 27 not for the monetary gain of it but for the competition itself. I love the precise nature of baking. Follow a recipe exactly, and things turn out great. ” Months later, after applying and starting to interview, she realized the increasing chance she’ d need to take a month off from her previous job as chief operating officer at Jewish Family Service. Everyone there who had been on the receiving end of Brau...…
…28 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 S udan will become the third Arab country in the past two months to normalize relations with Israel, continuing the trend of Arab states’ willingness to advance ties even without a peace agreement with the Palestinians. President Donald Trump announced the agreement on Oct. 23. According to a joint statement by Israel, Sudan and the U.S., the two countries will “end the state of belligerence between thei...…
… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 29 MOMENTS MAZEL TOV! Lola Rose Abrams will chant from the Torah as she becomes a bat mitzvah on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. She will be joined in celebration by her proud parents, Jennifer and Daniel Abrams, and brother Jonah. Lola is the loving grandchild of the late Julia Abrams, Leonard Abrams, the late John Kachalla, Lynn Kachalla and Jerry Frabutt. She is a studen...…
…30 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 W hich of the two major protagonists of the akedah (bind- ing of Isaac) suffered the greater test: the father who had to sac- rifice of his son or the son who had to undergo the anguish of being laid out upon the altar? Abraham received the command directly from God, but Isaac is even more praiseworthy because he only heard the com- mand from his father yet was willing to submit to the sacrificial act. In...…
… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 31 M any people dream about making a movie or working in the movie business, but few fulfill their hopes in such a competitive field. One young Detroit native, David Devries, 31, has achieved a successful, expanding career in the rapidly evolving film industry. Los Angeles residents Devries and his wife, Nina Devries, also a Detroiter, spent much of the past summer vis- iting their parents in Oakland County wh...…
…32 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 ‘Never Normal’ SUZANNE CHESSLER CONTRIBUTING WRITER ARTS&LIFE ART Miasma Mirror, 2020 J acob Saphier and Ian Klipa reacted to the pandemic in the way they usually react to a known environment. They designed and fabricated a related three-di- mensional piece for an interior space. The Wasserman Projects in Detroit reacted to the piece in the way gallery administrators usually react to admired works, even ...…
… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 33 MAYBE ANOTHER LORRE CLASSIC; ROCK & ROLL HEBREWS; KID STUFF The comedy/drama series B Positive premieres on CBS Nov. 5 (8:30 p.m.). Drew (Thomas Middleditch) is a therapist and the newly divorced father of a 12-year- old daughter. He needs a kidney transplant, and he finds a match in Gina, a past acquaintance. Sara Rue, 41, co-stars as Julia, Drew’s ex-wife. You might remember Rue as the star of the sit- c...…
…34 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 HOLY LAND TOUR NOON-1 PM, NOV. 5 See the sights and meet the people in a virtual tour brought to you by Temple Shir Shalom. On this day, visit a Druz community. Register at shirshalom/org/ form/live-from-the-holy- land. Info: 248-737-8700. INSURANCE HELP ONGOING TO DEC. 15 Jewish Family Service will aid community members needing assistance with health insurance: signing up for first time, updating info or ge...…
… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 35 BELIN LECTURE 7 P.M., NOV. 10 U-M Frankel Center’s 30th David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs: “It Can Happen Here: Antisemitism, Gender and the American Past” by Pamela Nadell. With antisemitism rising today at home and abroad, American University Professor Pamela Nadell, author of the award-winning America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, discusses American Jewish ...…
…36 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 NOSH DINING AROUND THE D W hat a joy to dine again at Prime29 Steakhouse, a con- temporary restaurant that ages its beef an optimal 29 days. “Jet-fresh” seafood and handcrafted cocktails are other claims to fame since Prime29 brought fine dining with wine to West Bloomfield in 2012. The restaurant’ s reopening during the pandemic was on June 28. On a recent visit, my dining companion and I relaxed at a black le...…
… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 37 NOSH EATS | DRINKS | SWEETS T he recently opened Culinary Combo Bakery in Southfield not only puts the talents of a Metro area mother and daughter on display, but the business venture is also bringing healing to their family. Bakery partner Jodie Polk, 56, of Commerce Township formerly operated a catering company, Culinary Combo, with her late husband, Jim Polk. They met at the Oakland Community College Cu...…
…38 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 NOSH EATS | DRINKS | SWEETS A steady stream of cars — 189 in the first hour alone — passed through the Boardwalk shopping center parking lot for a drive-through open house in celebration of Friendship Circle’ s recent purchase of Dakota Bread Company. The organization recently pur- chased the bakery to train young adults with special needs by teaching life and job skills. By the time the three-hour eve...…
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… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 41 SOUL OF BLESSED MEMORY SANDRA SULLAWAY GIBBINGS, 70, of Livonia, died Oct. 26, 2020. She is sur- vived by her husband, James Robert Gibbings; sons and daughter-in-law, Jesse Gibbings and Fang Qi, and Colin Gibbings; sister and brother-in-law, Ellie and Thomas Hayes; brother and sister-in-law, Robert Sullaway and Gail Schulman. She is also lovingly remem- bered by Jim’ s family. Mrs. Gibbings was the d...…
…42 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 SOUL OF BLESSED MEMORY Gaspas; loving mother of the late Jared Goldenberg. Contributions may be made to a charity of one’ s choice. A family graveside service was held at Adat Shalom Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. JUDITH FINE HERMAN, 90, of Detroit, died Oct. 23, 2020. She is survived by her husband, Martin Herman; daughters, Ellen and Rebecca; grand- children, Hannah, Sarah ...…
… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 43 Interment took place at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Contributions may be made to St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. SHIRLEY RENNER (nee Salamon), 94, passed away peacefully on Oct. 24, 2020. She was born in Detroit on Nov. 10, 1925, and lived in Detroit, Oak Park, Birmingham and finally Arlington, Va. Shirley retired from Providence Hospital in Southfield as a medical t...…
…44 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 SOUL OF BLESSED MEMORY KENNETH SHULAK, 87, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 25, 2020. He is survived by his beloved wife, Eve Shulak; daughter and son-in-law, Cindy and Dan Shulak Rome; sons, Dr. Jeffrey Shulak, Dr. Barry Shulak and Alan Shulak; grandchildren, Elana (David) Rome Cutler, Ben Rome, Sam (Chelsey) Shulak and Will Shulak; great-grandchild, Gabriel; brothers, Fred Shulak, Carl Shulak; many lovi...…
… NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 | 45 A couple of guys had never been in the restaurant business together and were correct when they thought people would like their offerings … especially if they didn’ t give folks too big of a menu and the customers could have what they liked without searching for it … and finding out what came with it and the cost. The only reason they went there was because Hazel and Ted Moss and Morrie Gruskin wer...…
…46 | NOVEMBER 5 • 2020 T wenty-five years ago, on Nov. 4, 1995, Jews in Detroit experienced a huge shock. The prime minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, had been assassinat- ed. The death of Rabin at the hands of a deranged Israeli university student rever- berated around the world. Locally, the Jewish commu- nity had not witnessed such an outpouring of grief since the beloved Rabbi Morris Adler was gunned down on the bimah of Shaare...…
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…4 | OCTOBER 29 • 2020 contents OUR JN MISSION: We aspire to communicate news and opinion that’s trusted, valued, engaging and distinctive. We strive to reflect diverse community viewpoints while also advocating positions that strengthen Jewish unity and continuity. As an independent, responsible, responsive community member, we actively engage with individuals and organizations dedicated to enhancing the quality of life, and Jewish life, ...…
… OCTOBER 29 • 2020 | 5 Dear Friends, It is with deep gratitude that I express how much it meant to me to see so many lovely friends from across the community, former students (and their children!) and extended family at the drive- by parade in my honor at Congregation Shaarey Zedek. You all warmed my heart so much, and this will remain a lovely, cherished memory. Warm thanks to the amazing women of Congregation Shaarey Zedek Sisterhood for ...…
