…quick hits BY STEVE STEIN SEPTEMBER 16 • 2021 | 37 It was a familiar story this sum- mer in the weekly B’nai B’rith golf league. Gary Klinger and Dale Taub won the team championship for the second straight year and fourth time since 2016. Taub won his second indi- vidual championship. He previ- ously won the individual title in 2014, with Klinger finishing in second place. Last year, Klinger won the individual title for ...…
…38 | SEPTEMBER 16 • 2021 continued from page 36 sports HIGHlights The other playoff champions this year in the weekly league were Temple Israel No. 2 in the Greenberg Division and Congregation Shir Tikvah in the Rosen Division. Temple Israel No. 2 and Shir Tikvah each also won its division’s regular-sea- son title. Like the Koufax Division, the Greenberg and Rosen divisions also had five teams. This was the second Greenberg Division...…
…SEPTEMBER 16 • 2021 | 39 Senior Swimmer Adds 3 More Gold Medals to His Pool Haul Jim Berk could have taken the easy route to the 2022 National Senior Games. The 2021 National Senior Games were canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, so organizers are allowing anyone who competed in the 2019 National Senior Games to com- pete in 2022 without having to qualify at the state level. “I didn’t want to get to the nationals t...…
…ARTS&LIFE ART F ifty years ago. Ferdinand Hampson took a liking to glass art and opened a gallery dedicated to the medium. His space, moved around the metro area and now in Royal Oak, has become the largest and oldest art gallery dedicated to glass in the United States. Hampson, applying business skills stud- ied at Wayne State University, took on the name Habatat Galleries, giving an identi- fying spelling twist to the word describin...…
…SEPTEMBER 16 • 2021 | 41 because of what it can do with light.” Represented in the celebration show- case will be Alex Bernstein, Daniel Clayman, Laura Donefer, Joshua Hershman, Sidney Hutter, Steven Linn, Marvin Lipofsky and Toland Sand. A HISTORY OF JEWISH ARTISTS “The first Jewish artist whose work we exhibited would have been Steve Weinberg,” Hampson said. “He has retired, but he capitalized on architecture and making pieces with...…
…42 | SEPTEMBER 16 • 2021 Jewish Community Center panel discussion on the reasons. He learned about people losing their heirlooms when coming to the United States so collecting contem- porary art became a source for family heirlooms and traditions. “I’m very fortunate because my sons still seem to listen to me sometimes,” Hampson said. “We have a great rela- tionship as we did when we worked together at the gallery. It’s ...…
…SEPTEMBER 16 • 2021 | 43 DETAILS Shakespeare in Love runs approx- imately 2.5 hours with one 15- minute intermission. Show dates are Sept. 17, 18, 24, and 25 at 8 p.m. and Sept. 19 and 26 at 2 p.m. All audience members, whether vaccinated or unvaccinat- ed, must wear masks at all times while inside the Village Players’ building. Tickets are $20 (plus a $1 processing fee for each ticket order) and are available online at www.birmingh...…
…44 | SEPTEMBER 16 • 2021 JEWISH PERFORMERS Sussman, an architect, sits on the Village Players Safety Committee made up of Village Players members, including two physicians. They have worked tirelessly to implement safety measures such as requiring that the cast and crew are fully vacci- nated. In addition, the first row of seats has been removed in the auditorium to provide greater spacing and separation between the audience and o...…
…GALLERY OPENS 5-9 PM, SEPT. 17 Swords into Plowshares Peace Center & Gallery 33 E. Adams, just east of Woodward, Detroit. Featured: Detroit Fine Arts Breakfast Club - The Pandemic and Beyond. Opening held for two days: Friday, Sept. 17, and Saturday, Sept. 18, 3-7 pm. Virtual exhibit posted online at swordsintoplowsharesde- troit.org. For the opening, you are asked to contact Eventbrite to schedule your visit time for either date. Go ...…
…46 | SEPTEMBER 16 • 2021 continued from page 45 steel circle rising above Hart Plaza is all about? Join Michael Hodges for a tour of unique statues and other outdoor, interesting public art that grace our city that includes some of the stunning murals that have gone up in Eastern Market in recent years. Tuition: $40. JLearn.online or 248- 205-2557 to register and for complete catalog of classes. A PLAY IN THE PARK 7-9 PM, SEPT....…
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…48 | SEPTEMBER 16 • 2021 GLORIA COHEN, 100, of West Bloomfield, died Sept. 5, 2021. She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Barry and Sherry Cohen, Gary and Marcia Cohen, Steven Cohen (girlfriend, Suzanne Gross), Ronald and Jackie Cohen; grandchildren, Eden (Andrew) Floyd, Shauna (Mark) Kocsis, Robyn (Kirk) Gold and Brett (Michele) Cohen; great-grand- children, Austin, Savanna, Blake, Lexy, Alexander, Bradley...…
…SEPTEMBER 16 • 2021 | 49 48034. Services and interment were held at Eretz Hachaim in Israel. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. c. 1979 ROUAL “ROY” BERNARD FEINBERG, 91, West Bloomfield, died Sept. 1, 2021. He is sur- vived by his beloved wife, Barbara Feinberg; sons, Gary Feinberg, Daniel Feinberg; grandchildren, Josh (Jessica) Feinberg and Samantha (Matt) Abels; great-grand- children, Dylan and Ashton; many loving niec...…
…50 | SEPTEMBER 16 • 2021 Milton Moss, the late Dian and the late Newton Karp, the late Joyce Wispe. Contributions may be made to Albert Einstein Center, 1935 Wright St., Sacramento, CA 95825; or Congregation Shaarey Zedek, 27375 Bell Road, Southfield, MI 48034. A graveside service was held at Beth Tefilo Emanuel Cemetery in Ferndale. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. PHILIP HOROWITZ, 82, of West Bloomfield, di...…
…SEPTEMBER 16 • 2021 | 51 grandchildren, Jonah Kelman, Elinor Kelman, Samantha and Jeff Friedman, Justin Kelman, and Jack Kelman; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, David and Bernie Ruskin, and Dr. Harvey and Laurie Ruskin; many loving nieces, neph- ews, cousins and friends. Mr. Kelman was the beloved husband for 62 years of the late Naomi Kelman; the cherished father of the late Jay Robert Kelman; the loving brother of the late...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 52 | SEPTEMBER 16 • 2021 in the Detroit area, where he established his career as a renowned psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He did his analytic training at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and was recognized as an analyst by the American Psychoanalytic Society. He served as president of MPI from 1999-2002 and was a longtime asso- ciate professor at Wayne State Medical School. Dr. Ruzumn...…
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…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org Let’s Eat! T his column might be a bit late for Rosh Hashanah, but hopefully, you will still find it useful. I hadn’t planned on writing about this topic, but longtime JN food writer Annabel Cohen’s recent article about great apple-related recipes for Rosh Hashanah, “Sweet Dreams are Made of These, ” inspired me (and ...…
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…SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 | 3 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-10 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 12 Delivered with Kindness With homemade soup and a cake, Sweet & Savory delivers care packages to doorsteps. 14 9-11: 20 Years Later Metro Detroiters who were in Israel on that fateful day share their memories. 20 An Evening of Hope & Renewal The Yeshiva Beth Yehudah’s annual dinner, Oct. 24, will honor GM’s Mary Bar...…
…4 | SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 for openers All Hail Taylor North! H uge sports news! Michigan beats an Ohio team! Enjoy that head- line now because that’s the last time you’ll see that sports headline for the remainder of the year. Ooh, admittedly with the college football sea- son now upon us, that was a really cheap shot from this Spartan alum at Wolverine faithful. Yes, Michigan did defeat Ohio, but it was on the famed Little League b...…
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…8 | SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY continued from page 6 extensive connections with Iran’s regional proxies, like Hezbollah in Lebanon. THE TALIBAN AND IRAN In the past, many analysts have scorned the contention that there could be a strategic connection between the austere Sunni Islam adhered to by the Taliban and the Shi’ite millenarian Islam that defines the Tehran regime. It is also true that the Taliban and the Irani...…
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…10 | SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY guest column A Special (and Much Needed) Summer Israel Experience H aving only been to Israel once in my life as a baby, I was thrilled to receive the oppor- tunity to return 17 years later. The anticipation leading up to my summer CTeen trip was high, having joined numer- ous Zoom sessions to learn more about Israel, its history and culture. I felt a strong sense of excitement, pas...…
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…12 | SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 W ith Sweet & Savory, Metro Detroit’s Jewish community can send food packages to loved ones. Whether to celebrate a joyous occasion or to simply show some love in a time of need, one of the newest programs from Partners Detroit aims to provide home-cooked meals on delivery. Launched in May of this year, Sweet & Savory is a volunteer-based kindness program where local Jewish community members can donate thei...…
…SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 | 13 A delivery of homemade soup is welcomed for any occasion. delivered the following morning, it was still sent to her husband’s doorstep — a source of bright light in a time of grief. “Her husband was coming home from the hospital and was really very broken from having lost his wife of many years,” Fink recalls. “He came home and found the package there. It was so meaningful to him to have come home in such...…
…OUR COMMUNITY Metro Detroiters who were in Israel on that fateful day share their memories. 9-11: 20 Years Later JACKIE HEADAPOHL DIRECTOR OF EDITORIAL 14 | SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 …
…SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 | 15 M ost adults can tell you exactly where they were and what they were doing when they first learned about the terror attacks that sunny Tuesday morning on Sept. 11, 2001. For 81 Metro Detroiters, that memory includes a stop for ice cream in a mall at Alonim Junction in the Jezreel Valley, en route to Migdal HaEmek in the Detroit Partnership region. They were there as part of a national United Jewish Commun...…
…OUR COMMUNITY continued from page 15 16 | SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 Lines were overloaded. When we heard about the Pentagon attack, the bus pulled off the road. As far as we knew, the entire country was under attack. People were anxious and con- cerned. ” Some people wanted to end the mission, turn the bus around and go home, but Jackier insisted they continue on to be with “their family in the region. ” Jackier said, “ After the initia...…
…SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 | 17 continued on page 18 changed the agenda. “It was no longer celebratory; it was more somber.” After the event, the Detroiters headed to the Renaissance Hotel in Nazareth, an Arab-run hotel that had been shuttered but was opened just for the mis- sion-goers. “We walked into the lobby and saw they had wheeled out large-screen TVs. Many of us had not seen one image the entire day, ” Davidoff said. “ As we watc...…
…OUR COMMUNITY 9-11: 20 YEARS LATER continued from page 17 18 | SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 the TV screen and nearly 11 hours after the first plane hit, we finally saw what the entire world had already known and seen time and time again, all while we were just a few miles away from where it all happened. ” IN HIS OWN WORDS Yoav said: “ After that, everything changed. I kept a copy of the NY Times that was placed outside the door the follo...…
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…Y eshiva Beth Yehudah’s annual dinner, this year themed “An Evening of Hope & Renewal,” takes place 4:30 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center. The dinner, an annual Detroit event, is attended by thousands and graced by famous local, national and international leaders in poli- tics, business and philanthro- py. In 2020, the COVID pan- demic halted the in-person annual dinner, which for the first time was held vir...…
…SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 | 21 and speakers at the Annual Dinner will be General Motors Chair and CEO Mary Barra, who is this year’s recipient of the Outstanding Leadership Award, the Yeshiva’s highest honor. Barra began her career with GM in 1980 as a General Motors Institute (Kettering University) co-op student at the Pontiac Motor Division. She was named CEO in 2014. Under her leadership, GM envisions a world with zero crashes, ...…
…22 | SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY T his September marks the 32nd National Recovery Month, an annual obser- vance to recognize and educate the American public on addic- tion and/or men- tal health and to promote recovery. This year’s theme is Recovery is For Everyone: Every Person, Every Family, Every Community. And it reminds people in recovery and those who support them that no one should ever feel alone in the journey. ...…
…OUR COMMUNITY 24 | SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 T his October, a trial will begin in Charlottesville, Va., to seek accountability for the leaders of white supremacist and other extremist organizations responsible for a weekend of frightening rallies and violence in Charlottesville in 2017. The images were startling — organized marches of tiki- torch carrying men with shields and clubs, shouting racist and antisemitic slogans, some of whom a...…
…SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 | 25 T he family of journalist and Huntington Woods native Danny Fenster marked 100 days since he was taken prisoner by the Myanmar mili- tary junta with an Aug. 31 press conference expressing gratitude for the support received from friends, community and government officials as well as their continued determi- nation to assure his release. Fenster is the managing editor of Frontier Myanmar. On May 24, 2021, he wa...…
…26 | SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY F or the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned, it is the season of the harvest. ” The old Chasidic saying applies to everyone moving through life. Learning how to prepare for old age will surely turn those later years golden. Taking the education chal- lenge to heart are five members of Congregation T’ chiyah, a Reconstructionist synagogue in Ferndale. Working togeth- er, they host a ...…
…SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 | 27 FROM TOP: James Pentis, Stanley Wolf and Jacob Barron, IN members at an outing at Marvelous Marvin’s in Farmington Hills. • James Pentis and Jacob Barron behind Community Builder Tonja Shellman. They are walking home from their social outing at Buffalo Wild Wings. • IN member Spencer Cohn stands behind parents, Melanie and Harry Cohn. Melanie is the president of the board and has taken on the hard work of making t...…
…28 | SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 Mackenzie was pretty isolated, ” Terry says, adding her daughter previously lived at a different complex where these opportu- nities weren’t possible. Access became even more restricted throughout the pandemic when Mackenzie moved back home for a few months during the height of the crisis. Terry wants more families who have adults with special needs to be able to learn about opportunities such as Integrated...…
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…30 | SEPTEMBER 9 • 2021 SPORTS B enji Jacobson is the old- est player on the Tulane University men’s tennis team and the team’s lone senior. But the 21-year-old from Bloomfield Hills has three years of athletic eligibility remaining. Welcome to college sports, COVID-19 style. Jacobson, named a 2018 Jewish News High School Athlete of the Year follow- ing an outstanding tennis career at Bloomfield Hills Cranbrook- Kingswood, has b...…
