…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 27 a strong impression, and my dream became to improve the quality of student-faculty relationships. At the University of Chicago, the faculty cared about me as a person and chal- lenged my assumptions about building a meaningful life, inspiring me to dedicate my professional life to improving access to education. ” To achieve his revised career goals, Drimmer earned a mas- ter’s degree in business admin- istration ...…
…28 | JUNE 24 • 2021 L ira Bordoley, 18, didn’t always know she’d be drawn to powerlifting or that it would set the course for her college plans and career goals. The nationally ranked powerlifting athlete will attend the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology in the fall, with plans to become a strength and conditioning coach who can help athletes persevere. The recent Seaholm High School grad, who attends Temple Shir Shalom...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 29 He’s also been impressed by the focus it’s given her on her career path, he says. “She’s found a passion in coaching and being a strength athlete and someone who’s so in tune with their body, being able to help other people become more in tune with their bodies as well.” MUCH ENCOURAGEMENT Bordoley says she’s grateful for the support of her coach- es and her family, who have encouraged her in her efforts and ...…
…OUR COMMUNITY 30 | JUNE 24 • 2021 A manda Schlussel grew up in West Bloomfield, early on watching three older brothers and two cousins shooting baskets and playing catch. Her home, on occasion, seemed a bit of a sports center for the five, and she soon joined in. Schlussel enjoyed watching her stepbrother play hockey at the Jewish Community Center, and at 7 years old, she started playing roller hockey at the JCC. Two years ...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 31 faces&places PHOTOS COURTESY OF TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM T emple Shir Shalom’s Religious School’s mis- sion is to help kids love their Judaism. And, despite a pandemic, its teachers and leaders continued to fulfill that mission as the only local reli- gious school to meet weekly this year. Pre-K through sixth- grade programming took place using the shelters and fields of the Jewish Community Center while seventh-12t...…
…32 | JUNE 24 • 2021 faces&places JARC, a nonprofit agency serving individuals with developmental disabilities in 80 locations, includ- ing 24-hour care in group homes, independent living settings for adults, and respite services for children, teens and young adults, hosted its annual “Flower- a-Thon” volunteer event on Sunday, May 23. The event, which returned this year after a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, drew 74 voluntee...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 33 ERETZ J ust days after the rockets stopped flying over our brother and sisters in Israel, I received a call from the Israeli Consulate to the Midwest asking if I could possibly head to the Holy Land to show solidarity. The Israeli foreign minister had called the Consulate asking for as many leaders of Federations and JCRCs to show that the Jewish community in America has Israel’s back. After I got the thumbs u...…
…34 | JUNE 24 • 2021 15 Cities; 3 Days I went to 15 cities in three days: My quarantine day in Jerusalem; Netanya and Ramat Poleg; then Tel Aviv (meeting the mayor of Umm al-Fahm); Lod: where I saw a torn, scruffy city that has not given up the goal of the 70% Jews and 30% Arabs building a flourishing city together — with the help over the years of Detroit philanthropists; Kfar Kassim — a charming Arab town that tried to help me ...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 35 MAZEL TOV! AUG. 5, 2020 Wendy Frink and Steve Eder of New York City are excited to announce the birth of their daughter, Alexandra Mikey Eder. She was showered with affection by her brothers Hamilton and Rufus. Her doting grandpar- ents are Gayle and Howard Eder, formerly of West Bloomfield, and Sharon and Bill Frink of Fullerton, Calif. Alex is named in memory of her beloved uncle Michael Frink. Max Jacob Freed...…
…36 | JUNE 24 • 2021 O ur Torah portion this week tells the story of a Moabite king named Balak. He saw what the Israelites had done to the Amorites and how large the Israelite communi- ty had grown. Terrified of what may become of the Moabites, he hired Balaam, a seer, to curse the Israelites. But nothing went as planned as God intervenes, first obstructing Balaam’s donkey from moving and then speaking through the donkey, instr...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 37 Synagogue Directory CONSERVATIVE Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills (248) 851-5100 adatshalom.org Ahavas Israel Grand Rapids (616) 949-2840 ahavasisraelgr.org Congregation Beth Ahm West Bloomfield (248) 851-6880 cbahm.org Congregation Beth Israel Flint (810) 732-6310 cbiflint.org Congregation Beth Shalom Oak Park (248) 547-7970 congbethshalom.org Beth Tephilath Moses Mt. Clemens (586) 996-3138 bethtephilathmoses...…
…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 Israel Lansing (517) 882-0049 kehillatisrael.net Congregation T’chiyah Ferndale (248) 823-7115 tchiyah.org Reco...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 39 W hile most of Deborah Hochberg’s profes- sional hours have been spent as a nurse practitioner helping patients overcome insomnia, many of her waking hours away from work have been given to the satisfaction of writing poet- ry to express deep feelings. It started years ago after observing the way her late father, Israel Hochberg, wrote verse in English and Hebrew. Gradually, they wrote together. “We would talk...…
…40 | JUNE 24 • 2021 I n one approach to Jewish customs, scholars investigate the back story of current Jewish practices. They trace the source of a behavior back to a verse in the Torah or to a com- ment in the Talmud to the rec- ommendations of the rabbinic leaders of a specific community. Excellent scholarship in this approach appears in Minhagei Yisrael (Customs of Israel), an ongoing series published by Rabbi Daniel Sperber, h...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 41 SEA MONSTER TEENS AND A DATING COMEDY Luca, a Disney/Pixar animat- ed fantasy film, was released for streaming on Disney+ June 18. The film is set in the 1950’s Italian Riviera. Luca Paguro, 13, the star charac- ter, is a sea monster curious about the world above the sea. Despite warnings that the human world is danger- ous, he decides to explore a nearby Italian port with his best friend, Alberto. Alberto and L...…
…42 | JUNE 24 • 2021 MUSIC EVENT 8 pm, June 24 The Ark in Ann Arbor will present a virtual concert from Connie Kaldor, who uses a mix of song and humor. Show is free and streamed to The Ark’ s Facebook page. Donations to the “virtual tip jar” during shows support both The Ark and the participating artists. Visit theark.org. PIRKEI AVOT STUDY 11 am, June 25 Adat Shalom Synagogue invites adults of all ages to join Rabbi Aaron ...…
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…46 | JUNE 24 • 2021 L ast May, Amy Regal, longtime makeup artist and owner of Glamour Puss and Party Girls in Franklin, closed Party Girls — and her legions of fans were in mourning. The boutique was created to be a fun and comfortable space just for girls, like their bedroom at home, where they could try on dresses for each other for proms, homecomings, bar and bat mitzvahs and other special occasions. That’s when Kimberly “Kimi” ...…
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…48 | JUNE 24 • 2021 of fashion, working part-time at Sundance Shoes (now in Birmingham) and other proj- ects. Now that her twins are out of college, and her youngest daughter is 12, it seemed the perfect time to get back to her love. She opened her own version of Regal’s boutique, now called Party Girls Mitzvahs, in a private room in her Huntington Woods home last July. “Fashion is my passion, ” Rott says. “ At one time, I thought ab...…
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…50 | JUNE 24 • 2021 P rofessional party planners are emerging from an unplanned hibernation and scheduling celebra- tions, many of which had been canceled or delayed, for weddings, bar/bat mitzvahs and other special occasions. Star Trax Events, based in Ferndale, pro- vides individual services, such as parking and DJs, for 500 events a year. The company provided full-service planning for 42 events in 2019 and had 47 events planned fo...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 51 school, which felt it exposed students to too much risk. Wedding receptions are being resched- uled as many as five times, and usually to smaller events. But parties for bar/bat mitz- vahs and special birthdays or anniversaries are more often just canceled. Hoffman was able to pull off three events in 2020, including an outdoor family event and an outdoor bar mitzvah party. She has coordinated one outdoor wedding so ...…
…52 | JUNE 24 • 2021 G race Van’t Hof and Aaron Jonah Lewis wanted a big, but casual wedding, ideally in an outdoor camp-like setting where all their friends and family members could celebrate with lots of old-time music and dance. Both American- roots musicians, they wanted participants to be able to jam away on their banjos, fiddles, guitars and mandolins. Van’t Hof, 35, and Lewis, 39, caught each other’s eyes at the Knoxville Sto...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 53 Their rabbi, Arianna Silverman of Detroit’s Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, convinced them to do some of the Jewish ceremony now as well, including the sign- ing of the ketubah (marriage contract) and the exchange of rings. Van’t Hof is wearing a simple gold diamond engage- ment ring and wedding band that belonged to her maternal grandmother, Myra Zwiep, who died a few months ago. One of Ms. Zwiep’s scarves wa...…
…54 | JUNE 24 • 2021 W hile many of us spent the past year decluttering our homes, some things were just too precious to part with. If you can’t bear to give away your late father’s tie collection, your mother’s colorful array of scarves or your daughter’s childhood dance costumes, Kiwykeepsakes will turn those cherished memories into col- orful throw pillows, striking wall hangings and other unique works of art. Kiwykeepsakes —...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 55 CELEBRATING ALL OUR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS for contributing their time to help those who are less fortunate! Berkley and Royal Oak High School Student — MLK Day Volunteers Wayne State University — Jewish Medical Student Association University of Detroit Mercy, Nursing Students Hillel of Metro Detroit Berkley High School, NHS Students Bais Yaacov Students Adat Shalom Teens Temple Beth El Teens Farber Hebrew Day School...…
…56 | JUNE 24 • 2021 F or Beth Rosenfeld, quilting is therapy. “It’s something I can do where I don’t have to think of anything else or everything else,” she says. “It’s a place where all my tension is released.” Now, that artistic “therapy” has grown into a business — Beth Anne Quilting. She sells her intricate, beautiful quilts at local art fairs. Next up is the Franklin’s Art in the Village on Labor Day, Sept. 6, and Arts & Apple...…
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…58 | JUNE 24 • 2021 H opefully, Zoom birthday celebrations, virtual seders and drive-thru sukkahs will soon be only memories. After a frightening spring COVID surge in Michigan, weekly average COVID cases have declined to 301 and the COVID positive test rate is now less than 2%, compared to dou- ble digits not long ago. Vaccinations are probably responsible for much of this progress, but not everyone has been vaccinated. COVID i...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 59 plans to have one server wear- ing gloves and a mask place individual servings on guests’ plates. Some items will be packaged separately in mason jars or as wrapped sandwiches. Guests will be able to choose a packaged ice cream from a cart. “I want to make sure that people are super comfortable, ” Shapiro says. During the pandemic she hosted several socially distanced parties and gatherings around fire pits o...…
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…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 69 SPORTS S asha Hartje loved playing tennis at Emory University. “It was amazing, ” the Detroit Country Day School graduate and 2017 Jewish News Female High School Athlete of the Year said about her four years at Emory, a private school in Atlanta. Hartje even has fond memories of the women’s tennis season this spring, when she played only one match for Emory because of COVID-19 quarantines and a positive test f...…
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…72 | JUNE 24 • 2021 D r. Stan Alfred, 85, died peacefully at his home in Los Angeles, Calif., on June 14, 2021. Dr. Alfred was born in Flint on Nov. 18, 1935. He lived with his parents, Fay and Clem Alfred, and his younger sister, Marlene. He loved his childhood in Flint, surrounded by his extended family, playing golf and basketball and visiting his family’s resort in South Haven in the summers. Above all else, Stan would pro...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 73 with her dad. Wife and mom Ruth is a retired Channel 4 news anchor (Ruth to the Rescue). The three of them were a grateful family, praying Jerry would win his war with CLL and Richter Transformation. It was waged during the pandemic at their winter home in Florida he had built on Longboat Key and at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa during an immunotherapy clinical trial. Jerry had genuine friends who miss him...…
…74 | JUNE 24 • 2021 family members and friends. Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County, ATTN: Scott Chaness Memorial Fund, 9901 Donna Klein Blvd., Boca Raton, FL 33428, jewishboca.org/scottchaness. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. EMIL THOMAS “TOMMY” CITRON, 74, of Southfield, died June 13, 2021. He is survived by his beloved wife of 44 years,...…
…JUNE 24 • 2021 | 75 puzzles and movies were among his favorite things. He was a topnotch bridge and backgammon player with a slew of friends who enjoyed his sense of humor and ability to have a good time. Moved by the beauty of life, it was unequivocally clear that Gary loved his family deeply and put them before all else. He would often say, “It doesn’t matter what you do every day as long as you get up and do something that you...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 76 | JUNE 24 • 2021 Mark Noah, Lisa and Bruce Gooel; grandchildren, Gabriel, Blake, Julia, Marlee, Benjamin, Lauren (Matthew), Stephanie (partner, Frankie), Jenna (fiancé, Jake) and Michelle; great-grandchildren, Michael, Joshua, Ella and Giovanni; brother-in-law, Jerry Lesson; many other loving family members and friends. Mrs. Simon was the beloved wife of the late Edward A. Simon; sister of the...…
