…38 | NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 B eginnings are definitive moments. They set the tone, the foundation for what follows. The begin- nings of the Jewish people are no exception. These portions of the Torah which we are reading at the moment, from the Book of Genesis, detail the origins of the Jewish nation, telling the events of our forefathers and fore- mothers — Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov; Sarah, Rivka, Rachel and Leah. These are ...…
…NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 | 39 Avot 1:2). These are the spir- itual pillars of the world. The Maharal of Prague explains that our forefathers, Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov, each embodied one of these pillars. Avraham is the icon of acts of kindness. He embodied compassion, giving and love for all people. Yitzchak is the icon of service of God. It was he who willingly submitted himself as a sacrifice to God, and embodied devout service and...…
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…NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 | 41 Shomrey Emunah Southfield (248) 559-1533 congregation-shomrey- emunah-105705.square.site The Shul-Chabad Lubavitch West Bloomfield (248) 788-4000 theshul.net Woodward Avenue Shul Royal Oak (248) 414-7485 thewas.net Yagdil Torah Southfield (248) 559-5905 Young Israel of Oak Park (248) 967-3655 yiop.org Young Israel of Southfield (248) 358-0154 yisouthfield.org RECONSTRUCTIONIST Congregation Kehillat I...…
…42 | NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 ASHLEY ZLATOPOLSKY CONTRIBUTING WRITER ARTS&LIFE THEATER B roadway songwriting duo John Kander and Fred Ebb are world-renowned for their stage musicals, which include the smash hits Chicago and Cabaret. Now, Ann Arbor’s residential performing arts group Theatre Nova is paying homage to that legacy with a performance dedicated to their music. The nonprofit theatre will present a limited engagement of Sing H...…
…NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 | 43 N ow past 80, Ed Codish continues to work on his poetry nearly every day, producing new and inventive works. Codish drew significant international notice with the publication of his sonnet sequence, Sailing to Gaza, some 40 years ago. Hailed as one of the finest poets working in English in Israel, he dismissed the praise as “the equiva- lent of being called one of the finest downhill skiers in all of Uganda. ” ...…
…44 | NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 MOVIE NEWS THE TREK STORY, HANKS’ ‘HUMAN’ ROBOT, COURIC’S NOT NEW “REVEAL ” On Nov. 5, The History Channel will premiere a 10-part docuseries called The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek. It’s directed by Brian Volk-Weiss, 45, the director/producer of The Movies That Made Us, a hit Netflix series. Each epi- sode focuses on different “chapters” of the Trek fran- chise: live-action TV series, animated seri...…
…NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 | 45 SELF ENRICHMENT 8:30 AM, NOV. 4 On Thursday mornings, The Well starts the day by nourishing bodies and souls. Join for mindful morning learning and music that will leave you energized, connected, and ready to start the day. Info: meetyouatthewell.org. PIANO CONCERT 8-9:30 PM, NOV. 5 The Chamber Music Society of Detroit will pres- ent Michelle Cann in her Detroit debut. At Schaver Music Recital Hall, 480 W. ...…
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…48 | NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 faces&places A few technical glitches couldn’t stop the Reach for Hope Benefit from being a huge success. On Oct. 21, A Single Soul, Black Family Development and L!FELeaders Inc. hosted the event, featuring a table reading of the play Right Before I Go, by Stan Zimmerman and starring Hill Harper. Detroit native Lily Tomlin sent a video message. The event, held at Cass Tech High School and emceed by Fox 2 ...…
…NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 | 49 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY continued on page 50 MARILYN DUBRINSKY, 81, of Oak Park, died Oct. 28, 2021. She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Alan and Lauren Dubrinsky, Jay and Karen Dubrinsky, and Brian and Ludy Dubrinsky; grandchildren, Hanna Dubrinsky, Ethan Misner, Max Dubrinsky, Arielle Dubrinsky, Emily Dubrinsky and Abraham Dubrinsky; sister and brother- in-law, Janice and David Israel...…
…50 | NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 He then founded Solvent Distillers Inc. and RTR Inc., using these materials to add to the fuel reuse programs. In all, he held 11 patents for these companies. Mr. Foster was heavily involved with his alma mater, Washington University in St. Louis, having served on many boards and programs, including as a member of the McKelvey School of Engineering National Council and founding chair of Washington Universi...…
…NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 | 51 B’nai Israel Cemetery in Novi. Contributions may be made to B’nai B’rith or a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. ROBERTA “BOBBIE” KAY, 92, of Farmington Hills, died Oct. 21, 2021. She is survived by her daugh- ter and son-in-law, Marsha and Dr. David Friedman of West Bloomfield; brother and sister- in-law, Leo and Sheila Ordin of Scottsdale, Ariz.; grandchildren, Aaron Friedman and Juli...…
…52 | NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 devoted friends. Mrs. Scapelliti was the daugh- ter of the late Larry Strager; sis- ter of the late Jonathan Strager. Donations may be made to the Loss ECC Programming Fund at Temple Israel. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. HOW ARD SCHW ARTZ, 83, passed away on Oct. 12, 2021, sur- rounded by his family in Scottsdale, Ariz. Howard was an active and vibrant man, who was stricken by the West Nile virus in lat...…
…NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 | 53 A llen Silbergleit, M.D., Ph.D., died Oct. 22, 2021. He was born March 8, 1928, in Springfield, Mass. Allen grew up a stel- lar student, drummer, violinist, whistler, fish-slicer and teenage grocery clerk. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts and his medical degree from the University of Cincinnati. He did his general surgery residency at University of Minnesota, his thoracic...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 54 | NOVEMBER 4 • 2021 A Book Fair to Be Proud Of O n Nov. 6-14, the 70th Jewish Book Fair will be held. The oldest and largest Jewish Book Fair in the nation is usually held at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Due to the lingering COVID pandemic, this year’s version will begin this month as an onlin...…
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…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 3 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-11 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 12 A Jewish Superhero Saves Gotham City!! Celebrating the Jewish heritage of comic books. 18 Memorial of Tears Monument honors Kay family and Wloszczowa Holocaust victims. 21 ‘70 Stories for 70 Years’ Detroit Jewish Book Fair’s yearlong festival gears up with November Festival Week. 22 Helping Afghan Refugees $500,000 allocated ...…
…4 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY essay What the Tree of Life Shooting Revealed about American Jewry A few years ago, a col- league called to inter- view me for a book he was writing about journalists who worked for Jewish publi- cations. I told him that it would be the first book in history whose readership would overlap 100% with the people being interviewed. That’s a little bit how I feel about books that look deeply ...…
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…8 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 I t may turn out that a lot of Americans are devoting more thought to the ques- tion of who will ultimately succeed the late Alex Trebek as the host of Jeopardy! than they do about far weightier issues. When Trebek, who had been the face of the venerable quiz show for 36 years, died last year at the age of 80, it set off a much-bally- hooed search for a successor. The competition was intense and ultimat...…
…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 9 don’t think she’s controversial are those without access to the internet. A search of her YouTube videos would show that she has expressed an opinion about just about every aspect of her life as a parent (about which she has also writ- ten two books), her divorce, open relationships, sexual harassment, holistic medicine, food (she is vegan) and her experiences as a sitcom actress. So, there’s plenty of ammuni...…
…10 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY essay To My Youngest Daughter Upon Her Joining the IDF D ear D., Last month, [undercover count- er-terrorism] Duvdevan commandos — a commander and his signal operator — were shot multiple times while chasing Hamas terror- ists. One bullet pierced one of the command- er’s grenades. Thanks to an Israeli techno- logical inno- vation, the grenade didn’t explode. A medic ran to them, defy- i...…
…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 11 my timeline, contrasting my perennial studenthood’s free- dom, comforts and indul- gences with your challenging, if hopefully fulfilling, road ahead. My head lists all the ways soldiering builds char- acter, but my heart hurts that we still need soldiers at all — let alone how desperately we need smart, effective, ide- alistic soldiers like you. And I, probably more than you, keenly feel your sacrifice in temp...…
…OUR COMMUNITY Jewish Jewish Jewish Jewish Superhero Superhero Saves Saves Saves Saves Gotham City!! Celebrating the Jewish heritage of comic books. 12 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 PIXIBAY Superman and Harley Quinn PIXIBAY Gotham City!! Superhero Superhero “T he comic book is a Jewish invention. The superhero genre is a Jewish invention. The comic con [convention] is a Jewish invention, ” writer Roy Schwartz explained during Mo...…
…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 13 signifiers, ” says the Israeli-born Schwartz. Schwartz has written for newspapers, magazines, toy companies, production studios and writes about pop culture for CNN.com. He has taught English and writing at the City University of New York. His new book, Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World’s Greatest Hero, is the product of six and a half years of work and started as his graduate...…
…14 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 names were Segalovich and Shusterowich, respectively. Prolific comic artist Gil Kane was Eli Katz. Batman co-creator Bob Kane was Robert Kahn. “It goes on and on and on, ” Schwartz says. JEWISH CHARACTERS In the earlier days, comic book characters did not state their religious or ethnic identities. That started to change in the 1970s, Lockhart says. “The very first ever explicitly Jewish comic was in 1948...…
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…16 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 continued from page 14 OUR COMMUNITY torically Jewish neighborhood that retains a strong sense of its Jewish heritage today. Lockhart spent a lot of time there growing up. “I felt this connection partly because I had studied and read about the history of the LES for another project and because I grew up going there, ” Lockhart said. “I felt this connection of my own family to the city, and our her- itage w...…
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…18 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY Memorial of SHARI S. COHEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER GLENN TRIEST PHOTOGRAPHER Tears Stuart Kay of Franklin visits his family’s memorial. …
…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 19 Cemetery monument memorializes the Kay family and the graveless Holocaust victims of Wloszczowa, Poland. T he myriad of tombstones of Chesed Shel Emes Cemetery in Clinton Township are uniform in height and shape, lined up in even rows that mark the graves of hundreds of Jewish Detroiters. But Section 18 has one tombstone unlike any other with several com- ponents — a tall centerpiece with two carved dark stone...…
…20 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 was a frequent Kay family trip. Chesed Shel Emes has several memorial benches dedicated to the Jewish residents of commu- nities that were decimated by the Nazis. Kay wanted to install a bench, but cemetery rules permitted memorial benches only for entire Jewish commu- nities, not individual families. Undaunted, Kay designed an addition to the existing mon- ument — one that highlighted the 800 Jewish familie...…
…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 21 T he 70th anniversary of the JCC of Metro Detroit’s Jewish Book Fair kicks off in November with its biggest and most ambitious installment yet. The fair will be celebrating with programming the entire year: “70 stories for 70 years,” with the goal of holding 70 events in that time frame. “It’s going to be a lot of fun, a little crazy for us, but I think it’s going to be great,” said Jaemi Loeb, senior director...…
…OUR COMMUNITY T he state of Michigan has allocated $500,000 to help house about 1,300 Afghan refugees expected to arrive in the state, officials announced this month. As the Taliban continues to exert power over Afghanistan, resettlement agencies across the U.S. are preparing to support an influx of Afghan refugees fleeing the country. Jewish Family Services (JFS) of Washtenaw County is one of five resettlement groups the state...…
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…24 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 S ince the 1960s, Fiddler on the Roof has been a staple of Jewish community and culture. The classic film and Broadway production captures Jewish life in a shtetl in pre-revolutionary Russia, navigating the ups and downs of everyday matters. Now, Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield will bring the story to life once more with a musical revue of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, a Broadway Yiddish-language ad...…
…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 25 room for social distancing and will require all attendees to wear masks, regardless of vac- cination status. “Within the constraints of COVID-19, we’re opening the synagogue back up to the public, ” Propis says, “in a con- trolled environment. ” The synagogue is looking forward to what Hazzan Propis calls “a buzz in the air” and to bring live Jewish performance back to the com- munity. “It’s an intimate look ...…
…26 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 W hen Shari Finsilver was 19 years old, she was eating a holiday dinner with her family when her spoon flew out of her hand, landing across the room. Her mom was horrified. “She really thought I had Parkinson’s disease and rushed me to a neurologist,” explains Finsilver. As a young girl, Finsilver had become adept at hiding her Essential Tremor (ET), a condition which is believed to affect 5% of the populat...…
…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 27 Details This year’s Trade Secrets event will be in hybrid form, emceed by Fox 2’s Amy Lange, and offering options of a limited in-person evening dinner Nov. 11 at Detroit Marriott Troy starting at 6.30 p.m. with only six people per table, or an online streamed version of the event, starting at 7.30 p.m. Online attendees will receive a personalized box of snacks plus a small bot- tle of champagne and party ...…
…28 | OCTOBER 28 • 2021 she danced 13 styles of ballroom dance, including bolero, fox trot, rumba and salsa, in her first National Fred Astaire Competition in Orlando in 2019. After her life-changing surgery, Finsilver became determined to offer other sufferers the same support that she received from the Iowa farmer and started the first International Essential Tremor Foundation (IETF) support group for Michigan patients. “The...…
…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 29 A special group of seven volunteer judges will be reviewing submissions and choosing the 36 winners. Honorees will receive free three-year subscriptions to the JN and be featured in a February 2022 issue. GO ONLINE TO THEJEWISHNEWS.COM AND NOMINATE THEM BY NOVEMBER 18, 2021 JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT Do you know someone who gives of themselves to the community in robust — and often thankless — ways? Someone you admi...…
…Intergenerational Fun Natalie Scheyer of West Bloomfield had a lovely Fall gathering at her home this month consisting of mostly West Bloomfield Jewish octogenarians. Multi- generations were on hand. Her daughter, Marlowe Bechmann, and granddaughter Delia Bechmann entertained everyone with a group sing- along. Delia’s friend Charlotte DeGuire, an 8th-grader at Walnut Creek Middle School, catered the party with finger food ap...…
…OCTOBER 28 • 2021 | 31 MAZEL TOV! SEPT. 30, 2021 Jordan and Ryan Fishman of Orchard Lake are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter, Golda Sarina. Loving brothers are Ariel and Moishe. Proud grandparents are Ann and Marc Fishman of Bloomfield Hills, Stewart Shifman of Waterford. She is also the grandchild of the late Cindy Shifman. Golda is named for her great-grandmother, the late Jeanne Fishman (Golda Yenta); her uncle, t...…
