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…JULY 8 • 2021 | 39 F ormer Oak Park Mayor Gerald E. “Jerry” Naftaly exhibited his skills in archiving memories and document- ing local history in his 2016 pictorial work titled Northland Mall. Now, he is releasing an expanded edition of his book that includes everything from the first edition, including the mall’s founding and a glimpse at what the future holds for this iconic property. I got a chance to ask Mayor Naftaly about th...…

…40 | JULY 8 • 2021 continued from page 39 will be returned to use as the Hudson City Market, a food and home furnishings marketplace filled with dining and entertain- ment options. Phase II located along Northwestern Highway and J.L. Hudson Drive will include townhomes. The landmark power plant will become a com- munity playhouse. Northland’s iconic water tower will remain in place.” Initial work, including dem- olition of JCPenne...…

…JULY 8 • 2021 | 41 SUPPORT GROUP 1:30-2:45 PM, JULY 8 JVS is holding a virtual care- giver support group for indi- viduals who are care partners for those living with cognitive changes, including various types of dementia. Contact Dorothy Moon, Brown Adult Day Program social work- er, for Zoom link and more information. 248-514-3627, dmoon@jvshumanservices. org. CONCERT 7-9 PM, JULY 9 Alexander Zonjic & Friends will headline a s...…

…B I R M I N G H A M 42 | JULY 8 • 2021 W hen Edward Rose, founder of national real estate development com- pany Edward Rose & Sons, immigrated to the United States in 1907 to live on a farm with his Uncle Streir, the young boy had virtually nothing to his name. Like so many immigrants who also left Poland for a better life in America, he had to some- how build a career from the ground up. Now, Edward Rose & Sons is celebrat...…

…JULY 8 • 2021 | 43 changed (including the econ- omy and market demands), Warren Rose says Edward Rose & Sons continues to adhere to his grandfather’s motto of getting the “most house for your money.” This has carried them through the decades, he believes. “It’s a thread of culture,” he says of the motto. “It’s a com- mon theme of the company and over Edward’s lifetime.” The Rose family is also heavily involved in Jewish philanthr...…

…44 | JULY 8 • 2021 S hortly before COVID- 19 hit, entrepreneur Steven Nelick, former vice president and general manager of Enterprise Holdings, retired from his role. At the time, Nelick relocated to Birmingham to be closer to his wife’s family, who originally hails from Metro Detroit. Though they were married at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills, they lived in many cities throughout the U.S. and Canada. “I wasn’t really...…

…JULY 8 • 2021 | 45 says of M3Linked’s capabilities. “Business owners and entrepreneurs don’t always have a lot of people when they’re at the top who can help them. When they get involved in a community like this, they have all the resources they need to move their business forward and get guidance.” The way M3Linked works, Nelick explains, is that it builds communities of entrepreneurs, business owners, attorneys, CEOs, investors, ce...…

…R obert C. Valade Park, a $4 million riverfront park named for the phil- anthropic, former leader of clothing manufacturer Carhartt, opened in October 2019 as a marvelous addition to the Detroit RiverWalk. The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy project reclaiming the river- front is gradually building toward its con- clusion east of the Belle Isle Bridge. Other parks dot the 5½-mile expanse starting at the Ambassador Bridge, but this stret...…

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…48 | JULY 8 • 2021 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY PROFESSOR STEVEN HORWITZ, 57, of Indianapolis, Ind., died June 27, 2021. He is survived by his beloved wife, Sarah Skwire; father, Ronald Horwitz; son, Andrew Horwitz; daughters, Rachel Horwitz, Abigail Waschow and Penelope Waschow; broth- ers and sisters-in-law, Michael (Laura Marchak) Horwitz, David and Laurie Horwitz, Robert and Dr. Amy Horwitz; many loving nieces, nephews,...…

…continued on page 51 JULY 8 • 2021 | 49 where his sons attended. He was the beloved husband for 66 years of Isa Medow; the loving father of Mitchell Medow and Janet Sobel-Medow, and David Medow and Barbara Bernstein; affectionate zaydie of Rachel and Justin Gilson, Joshua and Gina, Alex and Nathan; adoring great-grand- father of Sammy and Natalie Gilson; the dear brother and brother-in-law of Herman and Toni, and the late Lottie ...…

…50 | JULY 8 • 2021 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY You can honor the memory of a loved one in a most meaningful way by sponsoring a day of Torah learning at Yeshiva Beth Yehudah. During the coming week, Kaddish will be said for these departed souls during the daily minyan at Yeshiva Beth Yehudah. Your support of the Torah learning of our children and our Kollel’s Torah Scholars brings immeasurable heavenly merit. Please call us at 248-557-...…

…JULY 8 • 2021 | 51 continued from page 49 For the peace you need . . . for the respect of the life you treasured. ed at the funeral. “She was a truly great and inspiring lady who was over- flowing with intelligence, with humor and with kind- ness,” he said. “Marcia was deeply intuitive and read people well,” Rabbi Krakoff added. “She was the embodiment of sincerity and authenticity and as such, she held tremendous respect for those ...…

…52 | JULY 8 • 2021 E leanor Korn, 92, of West Bloomfield, died June 26, 2021. She was born Sept. 8, 1928, and came home to Utica, Mich., where she spent her earliest years. Her family moved to Detroit when she was young. Eleanor graduated from Central High School in the class of 1946. She went on to the University of Michigan and then earned her bache- lor’s degree from Wayne State University in 1965. In 1948, Eleanor Karbal mar-...…

…JULY 8 • 2021 | 53 W hile the JN’s premier columnist, Danny Raskin, is speedily recovering from rib injuries suf- fered in a fall, we’ll be offering highlights of Danny’s columns until his return. If you’d like to send him greetings, email Danny at dannyraskin 2132@gmail.com or send mail to Danny Raskin c/o The Jewish News, 32255 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 205, Farmington Hills, MI 48334. Here are some of Danny’s classic “Qu...…

…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 54 | JULY 8 • 2021 45 Years Since Daring Raid A round 11:00 on the night of July 3, 1976, six airplanes carrying 100 commandos and medical equipment approached Entebbe, Uganda. Less than 90 minutes later, the aircraft were back in the air. Israeli special forces had just carried out one of the most spectacular rescu...…

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…JULY 1 • 2021 | 3 contents Purely Commentary 4-9 Essays and viewpoints Florida Disaster 10 Mom’s Instinct Saves Family 30 Searching for Victims Jewish community and Israel respond to condo collapse. Our Community 12 Fighting Antisemitism at U-M One-sided diatribes against Israel cross the line. 18 Thank You, Gilda! Gilda Jacobs reflects on four decades of public service. 20 Homecoming Rabbi Blair Nosanw...…

…4 | JULY 1 • 2021 for openers Internal Workings I f you can stomach it, I would like to get right to the heart of the matter: the bones and blood of what makes our conversations tick. Are you the person who is always a bundle of nerves? If so, you will get on people’s nerves. You would have to have a lot of nerve to ignore their reactions to you. Devotion to a cause means that you must give blood, sweat and tears. Such devo- ...…

…Sophia Lyn Aaron | Emily Sarah Abrams | Joshua Evan Bertman | Chason Alexander Brodsky | Natalie Jane Brooks | Andrew Eli Cohen Carly Sarah Cohen | Benjamin Max Cohon | Natalie Grace Cooper | Noah Benjamin Eaton | Zachary Harrison Eisman Logan Carly Forman | Isabelle Rose Freund | Shelby Faith Ginsburg | Samantha Ellie Green | Mia Olivia Hirsch | Miles Devin Hirsch Ethan Matthew Ingber | Ethan Alexander Johnson | Amelia Josephine Kaftan ...…

…6 | JULY 1 • 2021 essay Israeli Arabs, Jews Refuse to Be Enemies W alking under the silver-laced sky late at night on May 20, with our beloved dog Lucy, I look up at the moon, which is not new, in fact, it’s very old, much older and wiser than we all are, and I pray: Help me to help people understand. It’s a simple prayer, on the surface, for a writer who always uses words to explain life. But its complexity con- founds me, ...…

…JULY 1 • 2021 | 7 when the United Nations was voting on its resolution equat- ing Zionism with racism, and when anti-Israel and anti-Jew- ish slogans began to show up on buildings in some sections of Paris. And I wasn’t afraid when the Latin Quarter’s only Jewish student restaurant was bombed in 1979 — injuring 26 people — or in 1982 when attackers fired submachine guns and hurled grenades into Jo Goldenberg’s, a restaurant in the...…

…8 | JULY 1 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY bor, has already advertised the T-shirts to our Kibbutz and everyone is asking for one. War or no war, we will be wearing these T-shirts on many occasions. No matter what gov- ernment is in power, and what terrorist organization it seems to be playing into the hands of, there are thousands and thousands of Jews and Arabs in Israel who are and will be work- ing together for peace in the Middle E...…

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…10 | JULY 1 • 2021 A survivor of the Miami-area build- ing collapse has described how the condo came down in three stages, giving him and his family time to escape the deadly disaster after their mother told them to run for their lives. Gavriel Nir said that the condo complex in the town of Surfside near Miami, fell to pieces over a period of a few minutes on June 24. The 12-story oceanfront Champlain Towers South pancaked in ...…

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…JULY 1 • 2021 | 13 F ollowing the May conflict between Hamas and Israel, University of Michigan students, parents and alumni were astonished at an onslaught of one-sided statements con- demning Israel from student organizations such as the U-M Central Student Government (CSG), the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA), an email sent by the Ross School of Business BBA Council to all its con- tacts, and dozens of othe...…

…OUR COMMUNITY continued from page 13 14 | JULY 1 • 2021 GEO member Amir Fleischmann said he was involved in penning the GEO statement to push the organization to “take a stronger position against Israeli apart- heid.” “I am proud to be Jewish and that my labor union is finally standing up for Palestinian human rights.” said Fleischmann, who is a graduate student and lecturer studying political theory. When asked how the one-si...…

…JULY 1 • 2021 | 15 OUR COMMUNITY continued on page 16 Executive Director Tilly Shemer stated that the widely distrib- uted, one-sided messages “made many Jewish students who are concerned about Israel in this moment feel upset, unseen and unrepre- sented … Jewish and non-Jew- ish students who have chosen to speak publicly about these statements or share their concern for Israel and how it is depicted or even just call for neut...…

…16 | JULY 1 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY continued from page 15 antisemitism. The best way to “move forward,” is to adapt the International Holocaust Remembrance Association’s (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism, which includes demonizing Israel, she said. In 2018, Smith sat through a mandatory guest lecture presentation that juxta- posed images of Benjamin Netanyahu and Adolf Hitler with the caption “genocide.” “When I was a ...…

…Awards NOMINATE YOUR HARDWORKING VOLUNTEERS Volunteering is an important part of Jewish tradition. The Metro Detroit Jewish Community is blessed with individuals, families and organizations who give their time and energy to make the world better. As such, the Detroit Jewish News is excited to announce our first annual We will honor a select number of members of our Metro Detroit Jewish community whose volunteer efforts have been instru...…

…18 | JULY 1 • 2021 T he Michigan League for Public Policy in Lansing announced that its president and CEO, Gilda Z. Jacobs, will retire at the end of the year after 11 years with the organization and four decades of public service. The League, founded in 1912, is a nonpartisan policy institute dedicated to economic opportu- nity for all. Jacobs’ lifelong love for public service is deeply rooted in her Jewish values. “Tikkun olam ha...…

…Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit will take place on Tuesday, October 5, 2021 7:30 p.m. The Berman Center for the Performing Arts West Bloomfield, MI 48322 Petition Candidates: Other persons may be nominated for membership on the Board of Governors by petition signed by not less than one hundred (100) members of the Jewish Federation and filed with the Chief Executive Offi...…

…20 | JULY 1 • 2021 BY JERRY ZOLYNSKY A fter serving several rabbinical intern posts in New York and Connecticut, trying her hand as one of the country’s few schochetet (a female ritual slaughterer) and teaching class- es that wove common threads between the transformative nature of studying Torah and pickling food, Rabbi Blair Nosanwisch returns to her Detroit roots. This April, she joined the cler- gy at Adat Shalom Synagogue...…

…JULY 1 • 2021 | 21 A cclaimed musician Mike Posner chose climbing Mount Everest in Nepal this year for his next physical challenge after touring part of the U.S. on foot two years ago. After months of preparation, the former Southfield resident and his crew reached the sum- mit of Everest on June 1. “It was humbling to be there, ” said Posner of Eagle County, Colo. A graduate of Birmingham Groves High School, as well as Duke Univ...…

…22 | JULY 1 • 2021 T he name Pat Blackwell brings to mind one thing in the Metro Detroit Jewish party-planning commu- nity: Indispensable. The founder and face of the Red Coat Ladies (named for their iconic, eponymous attire), Blackwell has been running the show for bar and bat mitzvahs and weddings for close to 25 years under the name Party Assurance. From wrangling in unruly tween guests to sewing brides into their dresses las...…

…JULY 1 • 2021 | 23 Orthodox wedding for my employees, ” Blackwell says. “That was fun. ” “Week after week, we at Party Assurance are training vendors to work with Jewish customs. After the ketubah signing, for example, we know that the rabbi is coming back to do the bedekken, but the photographer’s gone because they think they’re done so I’m running after the photographer to come back, ” Blackwell says. “The chuppah might be made...…

…OUR COMMUNITY 24 | JULY 1 • 2021 T wo years ago, Samantha Merecki, a student at L ’ Anse Creuse High School-North in Macomb Township, was scrolling through Instagram. Samantha, who is Jewish, stopped at a post about a synagogue being vandalized and realized antisemitism was still rampant, despite it being many decades since the Holocaust occurred. Then, she saw a post about a synagogue holding a drill to teach people what to do in...…

…JULY 1 • 2021 | 25 T he ongoing border clo- sure between the U.S. and Canada continues to impact Jewish communities in both countries. These effects are felt especially hard in Windsor and Detroit, where Jewish life is often intertwined with families living on both sides of the bor- der and Metro Detroit residents attending school in Windsor and vice-versa. Since March 2020, the border has been closed to nonessential travel due to...…

…26 | JULY 1 • 2021 P roduction on Keith Famie’s Shoah Ambassadors Holocaust documentary film continued on June 23, as high school students, guests and the two young Shoah Ambassadors themselves took part in a virtu- al Yad Vashem experience. At the Emagine Theatre in Novi, ambassadors Hailey Callahan, 23, and Curtis Bates, 20, sat in the theater with a camera crew filming their experience while designated hosts at Yad Vashem, t...…

…JULY 1 • 2021 | 27 resonate with the younger generation. “It’s a much better way, it might be the only way,” said Kevin Wang, a 16-year-old Novi High School student. “Especially Curtis, I loved his song and would definitely lis- ten to it outside of this event, at home while I’m studying or something. The way his lyrics are worded gives an accurate depiction of what actually happened, and it’s not just random words thrown togeth- ...…

…28 | JULY 1 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY A s Congregation Beth Ahm’s project chair Debra Darvick fit- tingly stated, this was a situa- tion where “too many cooks do not spoil the sauce.” The situation was an inspir- ing one — Metro Food Rescue, a local food rescue and redis- tribution organization, held a batch cooking event at Beth Ahm in West Bloomfield on June 22, before taking the cooked meals to City Covenant Church in the Brightmoor ...…

…JULY 1 • 2021 | 29 S hirley Benyas, 93, a resident of Jewish Senior Life’s Meer Apartments in West Bloomfield for the past six years, has been teaching a Yiddish class for other Meer residents for nearly two months. Benyas learned to read, write and speak Yiddish through an afterschool program from the time she was 8 years old until her first year in college. She was also a Detroit Public Schools teacher for nearly 40 years. The c...…

…30 | JULY 1 • 2021 W hile the wait con- tinues for word on those missing after Champlain Towers South, a condominium in the heavily Jewish area of Surfside, Fla., par- tially collapsed on June 24, area Jewish groups stepped in to offer support to the community and to family members who have arrived to the area seeking news. As of Monday morning, nine people had been confirmed dead, and the number of people unaccounted for had ris...…

…JULY 1 • 2021 | 31 Services of South Florida and Mishkan Miami: The Jewish Connection for Spiritual Support, are providing financial assistance, chaplaincy support, crisis counseling and social ser- vices to people impacted by the tragedy. They have established a fund to help with expenses, and Jewish federations elsewhere have been sharing that link with their members. The Young Israel of Bal Harbour and The Shul of Bal Harbour w...…

…32 | JULY 1 • 2021 T here will be a JCC Maccabi Games in 2021. It won’t look like a traditional Maccabi Games, and the event was organized far more quickly than normal. But nobody is complaining after the Maccabi Games were canceled in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it appeared the same thing would happen in 2021. Here’s the best news for local Jewish teens: Detroit athletes have been invited to participate in the 2...…