…APRIL 22 • 2021 | 27 Amelia Jane Lippitt will chant from the Torah on the occa- sion of her bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Saturday, April 24, 2021. She will be joined in celebration by her proud par- ents, Denise and Ron Lippitt, and siblings Maureen and Caroline. She is the loving grandchild of Elaine and David Lippitt, Marjie and Steve Ziff, Linda and Ken Rudisel, and the late Don Messing. Amelia attends C...…
…28 | APRIL 22 • 2021 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 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.com B’nai...…
…APRIL 22 • 2021 | 29 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 Isr...…
…30 | APRIL 22 • 2021 H illary Levin was scared of bugs when she was a little girl. “I didn’t like being in nature. I didn’t play sports — I was not athletic, ” she says. “I liked being inside. ” And she liked doing art projects. Growing up in New Jersey, she liked watching a TV show that showed people drawing characters while telling stories about them. “I thought that was the coolest thing, ” Levin says. “I started doing the same t...…
…let. Her husband, Jordan, a fitness trainer and motivational speaker, owned CrossFit Bloomfield, and Levin soon found that it was her own golden ticket to overcoming her distaste for sweating and achieving mental and physical empowerment. She became a trainer at and co-owner of CrossFit as well as a yoga instructor. “I thought, ‘I’m a coach, this is what I am now, ’” Levin says. But she didn’t realize how much she missed her first pas...…
…32 | APRIL 22 • 2021 continued from page 31 creating a colorful, joyous frame to what has become her reading room, akin to a man cave. She next turned her eye to a wooden bannister, which now dances with lively details. “I’m inspired by a lot of things, ” Levin says. “It could be a person that I love, a color, a texture. A lot of my pieces have repetitive black and white checks and dots on them. Creating repetitive patterns is v...…
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…34 | APRIL 22 • 2021 G ardening enthusiasm is surging thanks to our increased time at home — whether on a small patio or in a larger backyard. In fact, people spent 42% more time gardening in 2020 than the year before, according to Axiom Marketing’s 2021 Gardening Insight Survey, and it is estimated the pandemic contributed to creating nearly 20 million new “gardeners.” Many experts agree the trend toward nurturing flowers, p...…
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…38 | APRIL 22 • 2021 ARTS&LIFE FILM T he Academy Awards will be pre- sented on ABC on Sunday, April 25 (8 p.m.). Again, this year there will be no host. There are fewer Jewish nom- inees than usual. The pandemic caused a reduction in the making and/or release of big-budget American films. Here are the verified Jewish nominees in all but the technical categories. BEST PICTURE/ACTORS The best picture award goes to the film’s principa...…
…APRIL 22 • 2021 | 39 original screenplay Oscar says: Screenplay by Will Berson and Shaka King [who also directed the film]; Story by Berson, King, Keith and Kenny Lucas. Berson, who has several minor writing credits, began “shopping” a script about the death of Hampton in 2014. The Lucas Brothers, identical African American twins, began shopping their own Hampton script around the same time and got Shaka King interested. In 2017, a b...…
…40 | APRIL 22 • 2021 J osh Young, a Tony Award nominee, often performs in cabaret style on pres- tigious stages. He sometimes appears in cabaret shows with his wife, Emily Padgett, also with Broadway credits, and he regularly teaches cabaret enter- tainment at Oakland University in Rochester. Although the couple’s live performances have been side- lined during the pandemic, Young and Padgett will be onstage at the Berman Center f...…
…APRIL 22 • 2021 | 41 T wo longtime artists and one emerg- ing artist are among those juried into this year’s digital “Our Town Art Show and Sale, ” the 36th, sponsored April 22-May 6 by the Community House of Birmingham. Their entries, introducing new individual directions, will be among 200 chosen with a goal of having a mixture of art forms. Steffanie Samuels, a nationally recognized ceramist for 20 years, has turned to oil pastels ...…
…42 | APRIL 22 • 2021 continued from page 41 Pieced Together 2 presents an encaustic print with texture and pattern providing an abstract- ed view of the human head. European Graffiti takes form as a painting using gouache and watercolor pencil to enhance an image originally captured in a photo. “Figurative and landscape sub- jects remain my primary interest since moving into encaustic tech- niques in 2009 after many years of worki...…
…APRIL 22 • 2021 | 43 DIA TOUR 1-3 PM, APRIL 22 The National Council of Jewish Women will host a free virtual interpretive tour of Diego Rivera murals, fea- turing Carlene VanVoorhies, DIA Interpretive Program vol- unteer. Visit ncjwmi.org. WAR WITH PLASTIC 7-9 PM, APRIL 22 NCJW|MI presents: “The Global War with Plastic,” a free Zoom webinar. Hear Laura Sullivan, investigative reporter for National Public Radio who created “Plastic ...…
…44 | APRIL 22 • 2021 SPORTS Joe Bernstein says Isaac Mougoue is a perfect exam- ple of what high school sports are all about. “You can give something a try,” said Bernstein, the boys bowling coach at Frankel Jewish Academy. “And one of the great things about a small school like Frankel is Isaac was able to join our bowling team.” Mougoue, a freshman, started the late-starting and condensed season bowling in the 30s at FJA practi...…
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…APRIL 22 • 2021 | 47 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY LEONARD BAKST, 89, of West Bloomfield, died April 10, 2021. He is survived by his son and daughter-in- law, Marc and Wendy Bakst; daughters and sons-in-law, Susan and Jordy Sacksner, and Cindy and Mark Weingarten; grandchildren, Noah Bakst, Danny Bakst and Syd Hutnick, Chloe Bakst, Jamie, Evan, Marlee and Jillian Sacksner, and Erin, Merrick and Tori Weingarten; brother-in-law, ...…
…48 | APRIL 22 • 2021 the evening as an extra in the Detroit Metropolitan Opera productions. He loved reading American history, riding in his 1967 Corvette and watching Formula One racing. His loss will be felt by everyone whose life he touched but no one will miss him more than his family: his wife, Kay; son, Adam Harris (Julie Straus Harris); daughter, Molly Harris; grandchildren, Stephen and Ruth Harris; sister, Judy Rubin (Bo...…
…APRIL 22 • 2021 | 49 brother-in-law, Elyse and Darrell Silber; nieces, Jaimee and Alexis Silber; aunts, Mona Kaufman and Maxine Le Vine; his loving cousins, Ian and Kat Le Vine, Monica Le Vine, Robin Motisi, Peter Le Vine, and Kim Kaufman; an infinite group of lifelong friends who have been there for each other and supported each other at every turn. Mr. Le Vine was the devoted son of the late Ronald Le Vine; he was also precede...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 50 | APRIL 22 • 2021 (Jason) Strattard and Rachel McKenna; great-grandchil- dren, Penelope, Jordan, Eli, Isaac, Eden, Lily and Gibson; sister, Trudy Goldman. She is also survived by her devoted caregiver, Joanne Desmarais; and many other loving family members and friends. Mrs. Meyer was the beloved wife of the late Marvin Owen and the late Martin Meyer; the mother of the late Michael Owen; sister-in...…
…APRIL 22 • 2021 | 51 Jamsek-Rolnick; son, Aaron Rolnick, daughters and sons- in-law, Tina Tehlirian, Lisa and Darren Rogow, Susie and Jay Hite; sister and broth- er-in-law, Fran and Trevor Nightingale; grandchildren, Ruby, Basil, River and Zephir; his dear cousin, Jane Schatz; and many other loving family members and friends. Mr. Rolnick was the father of the late Stephan Rolnick. Contributions may be made to the American Heart As...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 52 | APRIL 22 • 2021 Gittleman; nephew, Scott (Sherry) Gittleman; nieces, Cindy (Bruce) Levine and Teri (Todd) Rosenzweig; She many other loving fam- ily members and very close friends. Mrs. Wolf was the beloved wife of the late Stanley Wolf; sister-in-law of the late Murray Gittleman. Interment took place at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Contributions may be made to the National Multiple Sclerosis...…
…APRIL 22 • 2021 | 53 RASKIN THE BEST OF EVERYTHING T hey had never been in business before … let alone at a delicates- sen-restaurant … Irving and Rose Guttman met after the World War II at a German dis- placed persons’ camp, took odd jobs and opened a little place in Hamtramck before one that was even- tually listed among Michigan’s best eateries as Irving’s Delicatessen on Greenfield north of 11 Mile in Southfield. Rose had ...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 54 | APRIL 22 • 2021 Churchill and Zionism L ast week, I wrote about Winston Churchill on the 75th anniversary of his famous “Iron Curtain” speech. I noted the abundance of pages in the William Davidson Digital Archive that refer to Churchill, his actions and ideas, as his career unfolded in the 20th century. It is ...…
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…APRIL 15 • 2021 | 3 20 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-11 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 12 Living Jewishly in the Heights Madison Heights Jews are not so isolated as one might think. 16 Art in a Box Preschool educator creates craft boxes to build skills for kids. 18 Faces & Places: From Our Day Schools 20 Hebrew Free Loan Partners with Black Leaders Detroit HFL helps new nonprofit get off the ground. 22 ‘Project ...…
…4 | APRIL 15 • 2021 essay The Working Definition of Antisemitism Needs No Rewrite S ince 2005, government and nonprofit profes- sionals tasked with combating antisemitism have championed the widespread recognition of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism. Prior to 2017, the IHRA Working Definition was largely uncontroversial in the United States except among pro-Palesti...…
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…6 | APRIL 15 • 2021 N ot long after the grue- some reality of the Holocaust had burst onto the world’s consciousness, the philosopher and social theorist Theodor Adorno famous- ly observed in 1949 that writing poetry after Auschwitz was barbaric — “nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist bar- barisch. ” Less well known but equally insightful was Adorno’s sub- sequent conclusion, expressed in a 1966 radio address in Germa...…
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…8 | APRIL 15 • 2021 guest column Let’s Heal the Jewish- Arab Rift in Israel H ealing occurs only when we look at the other face-to-face. — The Zohar. Do we Jews in Israel truly wish for coexistence and mutual respect among all of Israel’s varied communities? If we do, we would do well to craft an appropriate response to MK Mansour Abbas’ groundbreaking April 1 speech. As head of the Islamic Movement’s Ra’am Party, Abbas reac...…
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…10 | APRIL 15 • 2021 PURELY COMMENTARY GIVING VOICE TO THE DEAD And yet, despite all these flashing yel- low lights, I, the son of two survivors of Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen who was born three years after the end of World War II in the displaced per- sons camp of Bergen-Belsen, long ago turned to expressing myself in poetry. Over the decades, I have tried to give voice to the dead in my poems, to com- fort ghosts and to provide a mem...…
…APRIL 15 • 2021 | 11 tackle today’s challenges. I believe that among both Jews and Arabs, “partners” do exist, people who believe that despite our differences and our disagreements we can forge a path to coexistence and mutual respect. But we need more such people, many more. Join us! Yakov Nagen is director of Ohr Torah Stone’s Blickle Institute for Interfaith Dialogue and the Beit Midrash for Judaism and Humanity. oppressors...…
…12 | APRIL 15 • 2021 I spent the week before Rosh Hashanah in a bit of a funk, ” says Madison Heights Mayor Roslyn Grafstein, who last August was appointed to the city’s top posi- tion. “I was missing my mom and my fami- ly a bit more than usual. ” Her non-Jewish neighbors didn’t have any firsthand knowledge of Rosh Hashanah. Yet, they figured out a way to help Grafstein celebrate her most memorable Jewish New Year. Before COVID,...…
…APRIL 15 • 2021 | 13 more than $30,000, and distributed roughly 25 tons of food, hygiene and cleaning items. Over the last year, Stein and a team of volunteers turned what was supposed to be a temporary endeavor into a permanent, nonprofit organization. Stein no longer serves as the executive director because of the time commitment but is still very involved. She also sits on the city’s Human Relations and Equity Commission, a newly ...…
…14 | APRIL 15 • 2021 OUR COMMUNITY When the Schechters were looking to buy a home three years ago, they searched in Oak Park, Farmington Hills and Birmingham. Madison Heights really wasn’t on their radar, but the young couple looked there anyway. They were swayed by Moses, their 60-plus pound red standard poodle. The dog went house hunting with them and loved the backyard. At first, his owners weren’t crazy about living further away...…
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…16 | APRIL 15 • 2021 W hile so many pan- demic educators turned to computer platforms, one early childhood specialist began thinking out- side the digital box and devel- oped learning experiences that fit inside a plastic box. Jamie Gans, who grew up in Michigan and taught pre- school classes in New York for 11 years, returned home to Franklin for isolation and came up with activities she packaged together according to different t...…
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…18 | APRIL 15 • 2021 faces&places Students at Metro Detroit Jewish day schools are keeping busy and doing all sorts of great things. Here’s just a sample. From Our Day Schools Chidon Ziyonut at Farber Farber Hebrew Day School students recent- ly enjoyed Chidon Ziyonut, a program run by the school’s Bnei Akiva Shlichim. Over the weeks leading up to Yom HaAtzmaut, Farber students have learned about the State of Israel by interactive a...…
…APRIL 15 • 2021 | 19 Hillel Day School’s Battle of the Books Fifth graders at Hillel competed in a digital “Battle of the Books” last month. Each team created a digital poster, a team motto in both English and Hebrew, and established team colors. Students had four weeks to collectively read 21 books. Several students read more than 10, some read 15 and some students even read all 21. COURTESY OF HILLEL Fifth-graders at Hillel particip...…
…20 | APRIL 15 • 2021 I n a showing of cross-community col- laboration, Hebrew Free Loan (HFL) is helping Black Leaders Detroit (BLD) create a no-interest loan program to help Detroit’s Black com- munity in ways it’s helped Detroit’s Jewish community for more than 100 years. David Contorer, executive director of HFL, and Dwan Dandridge, CEO of BLD, met each other in late 2019 at Durfee Innovation Society, a Detroit opportunity h...…
