…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 17 Federation’s director, who said that if at least one per- son from Mariupol could get through to us, we could send a bus to pick that person up. Getting involved with this cause has allowed me to find strength in myself to help those who need it most. It’s not always possible to help everyone, but if you can help one person, I believe the world becomes a better place. HUMANITY AT ITS GREATEST It’s been two mont...…
…18 | JUNE 2 • 2022 E lyssa Schmier of Huntington Woods likes to be prepared. Ever since her son was born last August, she liked to have a small stock of formula on hand, at least six or seven cans. Her husband, Stephen, used to tease her, saying, “Do we really need so much?” Back then, Elyssa laughed it off. “ Anything could happen … I know it’s an irrational fear. ” But no one’s laughing now, and that irrational fear has become a ...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 19 The Nightmare Hunt for Baby Formula babies. Switching formulas abruptly can cause stomach bleeds or other health issues in some kids … It’s really very scary on the ground. Parents are coming out of NICUs without the specialized formulas their babies need. There are others who are in dire situations and have limited options, like if their kids have allergies. ” GLOBAL JEWISH COMMUNITY OFFERS ASSISTANCE Nechama S....…
…20 | JUNE 2 • 2022 “ At first, Chava didn’t like the Kate Farms, but I was insistent — there was no choice — and, thankfully, after a few days with a hungry belly, she started to drink it, ” Goldner said. Another concern is the financial aspect. Unfortunately, WIC has not been covering the Kate Farms for the Goldners (although they did pay for Chava’s previous formula) and their insurance company denied formula coverage. Goldner i...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 21 At Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, we’re here for you with access to care for both your physical and mental health wherever and whenever you need it. Including online visits from the privacy of your own home. Because we know that good health is whole health. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network are nonprofi t corporations and independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association...…
…22 | JUNE 2 • 2022 J udaism is active and thriving at Congregation of Moses (CoM) in Kalamazoo, the more than 130-year-old synagogue that’s occupied its current site on Stadium Drive since 1961. CoM, an egalitarian traditional synagogue, welcomes all interfaith families. According to CoM records, Articles of Incorporation were filed with the city of Kalamazoo in 1891 for the Congregation of the Children of the House of Moses. ...…
…joint programs per year with Kalamazoo’s Temple B’nai Israel (TBI) and Chabad of Kalamazoo with the help of the Jewish Federation of Kalamazoo and Southwest Michigan. CoM also does a lot of programming with TBI itself, bringing the two communities together. CoM makes up one half of the Marvin and Rosalie Okun Kalamazoo Community Jewish School operation, a joint endeavor with TBI launched in 2016 from a desire to have all Jewish ...…
…24 | JUNE 2 • 2022 T he Friendship Circle of Michigan nominated Henry Moses, 85, of West Bloomfield for recognition because of his dedication to their Lessons for Life program. Moses spends his time with the Lessons for Life Program at the organization’s cityscape known as Weinberg Village, where children with special needs come to experience life skills in a safe, controlled environment. “Various school groups from Southe...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 25 I n 2020, after the passing of Sheryl “Sheri” Schiff, one of Metropolitan Detroit’s extraordinary volunteers, it was obvious to the Jewish Community Relations Council/American Jewish Committee (JCRC/AJC) that the organiza- tion needed to honor their longtime board member in some way. Later that year, staff from JCRC/AJC joined with her family to create the Sheryl “Sheri” Terebelo Schiff Heart of Gold Award. This a...…
…26 | JUNE 2 • 2022 H ow unlikely is it to find three female cantors on the bimah of the prestigious Orthodox Hampton Synagogue in New York? Surprisingly, it was one of many distinguished appearanc- es for these three cantors — the Shul Sisters — who are coming to Congregation Shaarey Zedek on Thursday, June 9, at 7 p.m. The concert is free, but regis- tration is required. The Shul Sisters are three of the leading female cantors ...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 27 July 2022, she will become the senior cantor at Congregation Beth Yeshurun in Houston, Texas. As a concert soloist, Goldman has been heard in venues such as the Hollywood Ford Theatre, the Houston Hobby Center and the Hollywood Bowl, with ensembles such as the Houston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony. She was ordained at the Academy of Jewish Religion-California and ...…
…28 | JUNE 2 • 2022 J ournalist Stephen Henderson judges that “the political climate has worsened over the last decade or so.” Henderson, along with many other observers of American politics, finds it disturbing that “people have started to come apart” over their disagreements. Friends and relatives do not know how to talk with each other across their venomous partisan divisions. Activists and leaders routinely break the norm...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 29 R espectful treatment of the recently deceased and a prompt burial is one of the greatest, most selfless acts of the Jewish faith. On occasion, a member of the Jewish community will pass with no means or family to assist in covering these costs. The Windsor Jewish Federation & Community Centre, Chabad of Windsor, Congregation Beth El, Congregation Shaar Hashomayim and the Jewish National Fund of Windsor are ...…
…30 | JUNE 2 • 2022 W hile on vacation with his family in Florida, an almost 10-year- old Jordan Zuppke picked up his first skateboard. The “skateboarding lawyer, ” as he’s known today in the skate- boarding and legal worlds, borrowed a skateboard from his cousin and practiced on a little rail in the street. “I did not want to give back their skate- board, ” Zuppke, now 33, recalls. “I fell in love with it instantaneously. ” Instead, ...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 31 other creative projects around Metro Detroit, aside from the legal advice trailer. In 2020, he opened a mini-Blockbuster out- side of the Rust Belt Market in Ferndale after being inspired by a Blockbuster documentary he had recently watched. The “skateboarding lawyer, ” who grew up regularly visiting the former Blockbuster on Maple and Orchard Lake Road, wanted to bring that same sense of nos- talgia back to the c...…
…32 | JUNE 2 • 2022 B irthright trips to Israel have picked back up again since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. “ After a long hiatus, we are excited and honored to bring back so many participants from North America on these important and exciting tours to Israel, ” said Birthright Israel CEO Gidi Mark. About 2,000 Birthright Israel participants from 45 states and provinces in North America have made their way to Israel t...…
…Dr. Julian Levinson is the current Samuel Shetzer Professor of American Jewish Studies at University of Michigan. His publications include Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture (Indiana University Press; winner of the National Jewish Book Award for American Jewish Studies, 2008) and articles about topics such as Yiddish modernism, Holocaust representation, and Jewish storytelling. He has translated ...…
…34 | JUNE 2 • 2022 SPORTS Z achary Felsenfeld went to Babson College to study business and finance. The West Bloomfield resident left the private business school in Wellesley, Massachusetts, last month with a bachelor’s degree in finance and entrepreneurship, a job in New York City, and a national championship in college club hockey. Felsenfeld was a member of the Babson club hockey team that won the 32-team College Hockey Federat...…
…JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT 80 80th th Anniversary Anniversary For those without computer access, please mail the following to 32255 NORTHWESTERN HWY, SUITE 205 FARMINGTON HILLS, MI 48334: • Who is Turning 80? [first/last] • What Day is their Birthday? • Personalized Message and Signature • A picture of the birthday person (if you would like the picture returned, please include a stamped return envelope.) • A check Celebrate the...…
…36 | JUNE 2 • 2022 Lake Perch Dinner FOOD FROM THE HOME KITCHEN OF CHEF AARON L ake Perch is a delight enjoyed by Michiganders across both peninsulas; prepared simply and served with a classic remoulade, they can be found on many a restaurant’s menu. This method of cooking — floured, then sauteed hot and fast in a well-oiled/buttered pan — works well for all sorts of thin fish, including rainbow trout, smaller whitefish and t...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 37 REMOULADE Yield: 3 cups Remoulade is one of those quick-and-dirty sauces that many people will buy rather than make. Admittedly, there’s a couple more specific ingredients, but fresh herbs can find their way into many dishes and capers are an excellent thing to have on hand for their briny punch in chicken dishes, fish dishes and salads. They’re, of course, also excellent with gravlax. Ingredients 1½ cup mayo...…
…38 | JUNE 2 • 2022 MAZEL TOV! Matthew Harrison Ben, son of Jaime and Michael Ben, will become a bar mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Friday, June 3, 2022. He will be joined in celebra- tion by his sisters Caryn and Hannah. Matthew is the loving grandchild of Barbara and Allan Ben, Sherry Cantor and the late George Cantor. He is the loving great-grandchild of Evelyn Cantor. Matthew is a student at West Hills M...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 39 CAP & GOWN HIGH SCHOOL GRADS ASHLEIGH ADELSON Frankel Jewish Academy Varsity Soccer, Volleyball, Tennis, National Honor Society, Started her own baking busi- ness and donated proceeds to Feed America. MAX GORMAN Walled Lake Western High School Varsity Hockey, Active volunteer. Bowling Green State University ROBERT LAYNE WEIN Bloomfield Hills High School Summa cum laude, Vice President BBYO Michigan Region, Student Am...…
…40 | JUNE 2 • 2022 T his week’s parshah starts Bamidbar, the fourth of the five books of the Torah. As its name indicates — Bamidbar means “in the des- ert” — this book describes the lives of the Jewish people during their 40 years in the desert. The Jews at this point had received the Torah but had yet to reach the Land of Israel, and they already had strict instructions for how they were meant to behave. This week’s portio...…
…inspiration may fluctuate, but the time and order of our prayers do not. As a result, we can take comfort in our siddur the way we take comfort in a loyal companion who sticks with us when times are good and steadies us when times get bad. This sense of order helps guide us in all of our endeav- ors. If we applied ourselves to our marriages or jobs or friendships only when we felt like it, we would surely struggle to maintain the...…
…42 | JUNE 2 • 2022 Synagogue Directory METRO DETROIT CONSERVATIVE Adat Shalom Synagogue Farmington Hills (248) 851-5100 adatshalom.org Congregation Beth Ahm West Bloomfield (248) 851-6880 cbahm.org Congregation Beth Shalom Oak Park (248) 547-7970 congbethshalom.org Beth Tephilath Moses Mt. Clemens (586) 996-3138 bethtephilathmoses.com B’nai Israel Synagogue West Bloomfield (248) 432-2729 bnaiisraelwb.org Congregation B’nai Moshe Wes...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 43 Temple Emanu-El Oak Park (248) 967-4020 emanuel-mich.org Temple Israel West Bloomfield (248) 661-5700 temple-israel.org Temple Kol Ami West Bloomfield (248) 661-0040 tkolami.org Temple Shir Shalom West Bloomfield (248) 737-8700 shirshalom.org REFORM/RENEWAL Congregation Shir Tikvah Troy (248) 649-4418 shirtikvah.org SECULAR/HUMANISTIC Congregation for Humanistic Judaism of Metro Detroit Farmington Hi...…
…44 | JUNE 2 • 2022 ARTS&LIFE VIDEO REVIEW I make a point of listening to archived Livestream or YouTube Festival services from some of my favorite congregations around the country. Particularly moving and relevant to world affairs is the recording of the Eighth Day of Passover Hallel (the Psalms 113-118 recited on festivals) from Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. With impeccable taste and winsome vocal talent, Hazzan D...…
…Propis’s introduction, at the 3:08 point in the Hallel video, to Hashem Zechoronu (“God has been mindful of us and will bless us,” Psalm 115:12-18), is a rousing 19th-century composition with a deep Ukraine connection. That composition, which ends with a stirring “Hallelujah,” was the work of David Nowakowsky (1848-1921). UKRAINIAN BACKGROUND Born in Kiev, Nowakowsky became choir director of the Brody Synagogue in Odessa, Ukraine, i...…
…46 | JUNE 2 • 2022 ARTS&LIFE FILM A t the age of 12, Jewish filmmaker Michael Chait, who grew up in the West Bloomfield and Bloomfield Hills area, wanted to be an actor. Other days, he wanted to be a pilot like his father. “I grew up with movies and I always liked aviation, ” Chait, 37, says. Yet everything changed when Chait saw The Rock, a 1996 film directed by Michael Bay. “Something just snapped in my head, ” recalls Chait, wh...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 47 about having a prominent Jewish-American hero at the center of the movie because, to me, it’s like David and Goliath. ” Filmed over the course of two years, Chait shot several scenes at Yankee Air Museum in the same B-17 bomber that inspired it all. He also shot scenes at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, using real World War II aircraft. OVERCOMING CHALLENGES Working with such old planes was a de...…
…48 | JUNE 2 • 2022 ARTS&LIFE BOOK REVIEW E rnest Hemingway claimed that “a writer’s job is to tell the truth. ” The thought goes back a long way. About 25 centuries earlier, Confucius wrote that “Wisdom depends on calling things by their proper names. ” That sounds easy, but somehow, peo- ple get distracted. We do not see an event that happens in front of our eyes until a sharp-eyed writer names it truly. A sharp-eyed writer me...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 49 America, families then told their children the soothing falsehood that their names were inadvertently changed at Ellis Island. Horn records, though, that Ellis Island had a staff of multilingual experts who checked travelers’ names against the names on ships’ manifests. Names did not get changed at Ellis Island. The soothing story preserves America’s good name as a haven for Jewish immigrants and covers the shame o...…
…50 | JUNE 2 • 2022 SANDLER HUSTLES, HIRSCH STAYS IN THE GAME, E.T.’S 40TH ANNIVERSARY Adam Sandler, 56, stars in the original Netflix film Hustle. It begins streaming on June 8. Sandler, a real- life basketball super fan, plays Stanley Sugarman, a much-travelled basket- ball coach for the (NBA) Philadelphia ’76ers. He dreams of being a basket- ball coach, but he is stuck on the road, year-after-year, looking for an undiscovered ...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 51 ALS AUCTION 8 AM-10 PM, THROUGH JUNE 17 ALS Auction Mania is an online auction where you can bid on over 125 items all from the comfort of home to support people in Michigan who have Lou Gehrig’s disease. Visit the auction site to view all the great items at great prices, including a luxurious Mexican vacation, golf packages, wine tastings, overnight stays, restaurant and entertainment certificates, collectib...…
…52 | JUNE 2 • 2022 and how Jewish sources guide us to healthier communities. Register at congbethshalom.org. SHUL SISTERS CONCERT 7 PM, JUNE 9 At Congregation Shaarey Zedek; free admission. The group is the brainchild of three nationally acclaimed cantors, Laurie Akers, Rachel Brook and Rachel Goldman. This special concert is sponsored by the Irving and Beverly Laker Concert Series. Patron seating with dessert reception $100...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 53 BUSINESS L ast month, the Michigan Israel Business Accelerator (MIBA) led a trade mission to Tel Aviv, Israel, to attend EcoMotion, the 10th annual conference dedicated to smart mobility and transportation high-tech. EcoMotion, a cooperative initiative of the Transportation Ministry and the Israel Innovation Authority, brings together startups, investors, government and academia to push forward Israeli smart ...…
…54 | JUNE 2 • 2022 LEFT: Elizabeth Mally, Rachel Lasser, Lauren Miller and Marianne Bloomberg. CENTER: Stacie Niskar. Right: L’chaim! T he Jewish Federation’s Young Women’s Philanthropy group gathered on the rooftop at Social in Birmingham May 11 for “Not Your Bubbie’s Manischewitz,” a mixology work- shop with a historic twist. The group, chaired by Stacey Goodman and Michele Rosenblum, was honored to partner with the Center for Mic...…
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…JOSEPH BITTKER, 90, of New York City and Del Mar, Calif., died on May 19, 2022, after a year-long illness. He was born in Ann Arbor May 10, 1932. He graduated from Detroit College of Law, but never practiced. Instead, he joined the family business and, with his brother, grew it into a multi-national corporation. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Joseph was a devoted family man. Joseph and Deanna traveled the wo...…
…58 | JUNE 2 • 2022 continued from page 57 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY MILLIE CHARMER, 105, of Bloomfield Hills, died May 22, 2022. She is survived by her son and daughter- in-law, Stephen and Nancy Solomon; daughter and son- in-law, Debbie and Dennis Silber; grandchildren, Sheri (David) Whiteman, Jodi (Kenneth) Korotkin, Tony (Kati) Silber; six adoring great-grandchildren, many loving nieces, nephews, other family members and...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 59 continued on page 60 She will be best remem- bered for her infectious laugh, determination, strength and her kind and caring heart. Mrs. Gans is survived by David Gans and his wife, Janet (Jonna) of Birmingham, Lisa Gans Goldberg of Bloomfield Hills; grandchildren, Jamie (Brandon Lefkowitz) Gans, Chad (Randell) Gans, Perry Goldberg, Ian Goldberg and Jolie Goldberg; sister- in-law, Gail Horwitz; niece, Julie Risd...…
…continued from page 59 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 60 | JUNE 2 • 2022 He was predeceased by his sister, Julie Gottlieb. A memorial service was held on May 15, 2022, and interment was at Temple Beth El Memorial Park in Hollywood, Fla. To honor Richard’s memory, contribu- tions may be made to afmda. org and sent to jill.horow- itzemail@gmail or adam@ jendetroit.com. DEBBY JILL HOCKING, 68, of West Bloomfield, died May 20, 2022. ...…
…JUNE 2 • 2022 | 61 Cemetery. Contributions may be made to a Jewish charity; the Salvation Army, 16310 Northland Drive, Southfield, MI 48075, salvationarmyusa. org; or Gleaners Community Food Bank, Oakland Distribution Center, P.O. Box 33321, Detroit, Michigan, MI 48232-5321, gcfb.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. ALVIN S. NODLER, 81, of Oak Park, died May 23, 2022. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Adele Nodler; ...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org The All-American Hot Dog I read about a new exhibit by a Jewish artist at the Museum at Eldridge Street in New York City: “Steve Marcus: Top Dog of Kosher Pop Art.” Its theme is Jewish connec- tions to that all-American food, the hot dog. I thought that the hot dog seemed liked a fine topic for a “Looking Back.” Kosher ...…
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