…28 | JULY 20 • 2023 OUR COMMUNITY J ewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit held its Annual Board of Directors Meeting at Harriett & Ben Teitel Apartments in Oak Park on Tuesday, June 27. Sixty-five guests attended, including the nonprofit organization’s officers, executives, staff members, award recipients, agency partners and community members. Jewish Senior Life (JSL) has six inclusive residential communities with a continu...…
…JULY 20 • 2023 | 29 JSL CEO Nancy Heinrich shared how serving older adults has given her purpose as has helping residents find and embrace their unique purpose within each community. She spoke about exciting updates at the various buildings, including current apartment renovations at the Fleischman and Meer Residences, expanding the patio and garden in the Meer courtyard, and the upcoming completion of the expanded Hechtman Reside...…
…JULY 20 • 2023 | 3 contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-9 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 10 ‘What’s Not to Like?’ The inspiring story of Nick Gilbert who lived every day of his 26 years to the fullest. 20 The Traveling Tallit Grandpa Aaron’s tallit has place of honor at grandchildren’s weddings. 24 Foodscape Hadassah welcomes Israeli food artists to July 25 event. 26 How We Met: ‘You Can’t Know Someone U...…
…30 | JULY 20 • 2023 The people served by JARC, a Bloomfield Township based nonprofit organization serving adults with developmental disabilities, enjoy a variety of life- enriching activities with each other and the larger community, and a recurring favorite activity that is always sure to bring smiles to their faces is playing Bingo. A recent lively, in-person Bingo event at Temple Beth El attracted 49 people JARC serves. The ...…
…JULY 20 • 2023 | 31 Jewish Senior Life recently hosted a free-to-the-community education- al event to help seniors and their families understand the choices available to them for retirement and what to consider as they begin planning for the future. Senior living experts Robin Heppler and Will Kieffer, both from Tandem Senior Living Advisors, discussed five common myths about retirement living options and answered questions from ...…
…32 | JULY 20 • 2023 M y brothers and I were raised as Reform Jews. We attended religious school through high school. Our education culminated with a six-week teen mission to Israel, an experi- ence of a lifetime. From what I understood as a kid, we were observing most of the important Jewish holidays. The High Holidays always dominated our fall schedules, complete with services, family gatherings, apples and honey. After Rosh Has...…
…JULY 20 • 2023 | 33 a plate with a bagel, already shmeared, and a round pastry or cookie. The same foods I’ve served to other mourners at shivahs over the years. Jewish culinary traditions connect sym- bolic dishes and customs to help us with our grief, whether it’s personal or public. Meals of condolence are served by others as part of the healing process, a custom that is centuries old. Tisha b’ Av is the scheduled yahrzeit for our ...…
…34 | JULY 20 • 2023 are still firm to the bite, between 5 and 7 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside, keeping the lentils in their cook- ing water. Heat the oil in a large frying pan or saucepan. Add the onions and remain- ing kosher salt. Cook the onions, stir- ring frequently, until all are thoroughly cooked and deep brown, between 20 and 30 minutes. Add the cumin and cook until fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the remaining 1½ cups ...…
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…A dd another Jewish ath- lete to Central Michigan University’s sports rosters. Lucas Hutten, captain of the Novi High School hockey team last season, has joined Central Michigan’s club hockey team, which has played in the American Collegiate Hockey Association national tournament five straight years. Central Michigan basketball recruit Noah Adamczyk, a 6-foot guard who is the all-time leading scorer in Bloomfield Hills High Schoo...…
…JULY 20 • 2023 | 37 Temple Israel, Shir Tikvah Lead the Way in Men’s Club Softball League With the playoffs looming next month, teams in the weekly Inter- Congregational Men’s Club Summer Softball League are battling for position in their division. Through games played July 9 in the league’s 28th season, Temple Israel No. 2 and Temple Israel No. 6 were neck-in-neck at the top of the six-team Greenberg Division. Temple Israel No. 2 ...…
…38 | JULY 20 • 2023 T he ornate Fisher Building has been called Detroit’s biggest art object. The 28-story Art Deco mas- terpiece exudes Detroit history — from the Fisher brothers who built it in 1928, to another Fisher — the late Max Fisher — who owned it and maintained his office there. And now to its new owner, Michigan State University’s $4 billion endowment. The Fisher, as the office building and theater are know...…
…JULY 20 • 2023 | 39 PHOTO BY NADIR ALI tion at Milwaukee Junction “is the birthplace of the U.S. auto industry where, in the early 20th century, manufac- turers sprang up around the Milwaukee and Grand Trunk railroad lines. ” Interim MSU President Teresa K. Woodruff said MSU has been working “for decades with partners in Detroit to sup- port economic development, advance the arts, transform schools, improve health and sustain th...…
…4 | JULY 20 • 2023 essay How a Christian Holocaust Scholar Became a Jew A fter a life spent studying and working with the Jews, Stephen Smith became one. You would think then that Smith, with his international reputation as a scholar and archivist of the Holocaust, would now be joining the chorus of voices warning us that antisemitism is an existential threat to American Jews. You would be wrong. Smith’s journey to Judais...…
…40 | JULY 20 • 2023 M ichigan’s flag was held high and proudly at Israel’s largest smart mobility industry trade show on May 23 by bringing two dozen representa- tives from Michigan businesses, industry, research institutions and government agen- cies focused on the field. The “home team” and thousands of other participants were greeted by the enhanced Michigan Welcome Booth immediately upon entering the Tel Aviv Expo main pavilion...…
…JULY 20 • 2023 | 41 continued on page 42 situation leading to e-Car development. ” David Riemenschneider, a private equity automotive technology consultant from Europe, visited the Michigan booth hoping to help the effort. “ Among my jobs, I encourage overseas compa- nies to locate in Michigan by consulting on mergers and acquisitions, funding strategies and organization- al structure, ” he said. He worked at Ford Motor Company for ...…
…42 | JULY 20 • 2023 ERETZ front and dead center on the show floor, ” she said. “Given our focus, Israel’s Ecomotion Week is an important show for Lambert, my clients and my transportation-energy- focused team. ” ECOMOTION WEEK The Ecomotion pavilion was part of Ecomotion Week, which included 109 exhibit- ing startups from Israel and abroad, 75 sponsoring part- ner organizations, dozens of speakers and side events with 800 people...…
…JULY 20 • 2023 | 43 MAZEL TOV! May 21, 2023 Michelle and Eddie Rubin of West Bloomfield are proud to announce the birth of their son, Saul Benjamin Rubin, brother of Beatrice, 6, and Maeve, 1. Happy grandparents are Rick and Renee Unger, and Edie Rubin, also of West Bloomfield. Saul is named after his maternal great-grand- father Joseph Unger, maternal great-grandmother Sybil Einstandig, paternal grandfather Berry Rubin and paternal g...…
…44 | JULY 20 • 2023 I t was one of the great moments of per- sonal transformation, and it changed not only Moses but our very conception of leadership itself. By the end of the book of Bamidbar, Moses’ career as a leader would seem to be ending. He had appointed his succes- sor, Joshua, and it would be Joshua, not Moses, who would lead the people across the Jordan into the Promised Land. Moses seemed to have now achieved everything ...…
…JULY 20 • 2023 | 45 Talmud. Respect and rever- ence for your teacher should be greater even than respect and reverence for your parents, rules Rambam, because parents bring you into this world, while teachers give you entrance to the World to Come. When someone exercises power over us, they diminish us, but when someone teaches us, they help us grow. That is why Judaism, with its acute concern for human dignity, favors lead- ership...…
…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 West Blo...…
…JULY 20 • 2023 | 47 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 H...…
…48 | JULY 20 • 2023 ARTS&LIFE ART FAIRS B ruce and Christine Green met at an art fes- tival in Florida, got to know each other with particular attention to shared artistic interests, married and merged their talents. Now, they are mak- ing bright, colorful abstract images on aluminum. Their various work, spanning 47 years of marriage, has been offered and made available by order through outdoor art fairs presented around the country. T...…
…JULY 20 • 2023 | 49 THEATER R yan Bernier, who recently received his master’s degree in acting from Wayne State University, is portraying Dorothy in an all-male par- ody of the TV show The Golden Girls. This will be the second time Bernier, a current Detroiter, has taken a strong female role. The actor, who has been cast in parts reach- ing from Antony in Julius Caesar to Star Cat in Psycho Beach Party, portrayed the mother (E...…
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…Festival Aug. 5-6. “I’ve always been an artist, finishing studies as an art major at the University of California at Irvine, ” said Bruce, who cel- ebrates Judaism by sharing holidays with family. “I was a potter for 30 years, and my wife painted on the pottery. At a certain point, we did a lot of tiles and tile murals. “We discovered that by using the comput- er and the scanner, we could scan ceramic tiles. When you enlarge the tiles, ...…
…JULY 20 • 2023 | 51 F or Detroit Jewish News readers who have wondered about the back- ground of Yiddish limerick writer Rachel Kapen, her son Udi is about to reveal part of that background in an enhanced and enacted play that aligns with the development of Israel. Rachel’s Song, presented in a short play festival by the Village Players of Birmingham, can be seen July 28-30, at the company playhouse on Woodward. Kapen’s 30-minute d...…
…52 | JULY 20 • 2023 ALL OPPENHEIMER — WITH ALMOST ALL THE JEWISH ‘PLAYERS!’ Oppenheimer, which opens in theaters on July 21, is a $100 million budget, big-cast film about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-67). He was the head of the Manhattan Project, the code- name given to the successful American program to develop an atomic weapon during WWII. Oppenheimer was not the most brilliant theoretical physicist, but he was “very ...…
…JULY 20 • 2023 | 53 SUMMER ART FAIR 10 AM-9 PM, JULY 21 (FRI.) In downtown Ann Arbor, organized by the Guild of Artists & Artisans. A juried fine art event featuring 400 exhibiting artist booths, live entertainment, art activities; it is just one of the three art fairs happening simultane- ously to create the Ann Arbor Art Fair. BIM BOM BABY 10-11 AM, JULY 21 (FRI.) Bim Bom Baby is a Shabbat celebration for babies to 5 years old...…
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…56 | JULY 20 • 2023 OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY W hen Burton Farbman founded Farbman Group in 1976, it could have been the culmination of a remarkable per- sonal and professional journey. A self-made man whose father died when he was just 11 years old, who started out with no money and was self-taught, Burt’s ascent was impressive and has defined his life from the start. It’s a testament to his entre- preneurial spirit and p...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY JULY 20 • 2023 | 57 VIVIAN BEST, 96, of Denver, Colo., died July 8, 2023. She was the wife of the late Albert Best; mother of Linda (Gary) Langlois, Neal (Debra) Best, Gail (David) Miller; grandmother of Jason (Sara) Gross, Mark (Jill) Gross, Lauren (Casey) Best, Danielle Lamberth, Tara (Brian) DeBoer, Alana (Chandler Romero) Miller and Zach Miller; great-grandmother of Alex Gross, Alyssa Moore, ...…
…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 58 | JULY 20 • 2023 was volunteering at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children with life-threat- ening diseases, where he met the great pitcher Sandy Koufax. Mr. Cohen is survived by his loving, devoted wife, Lynne; his children, Stephen (Lisa), Leslie Cohen (Elizabeth); stepson, David Kramer and wonderful daughter-in-law, Miyoko; grandchildren, Kai, Maya, Emi, Henry and Anika. Contributions may...…
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…OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY 60 | JULY 20 • 2023 Stebbins of Israel; grandchil- dren, Kyle and Dave Lerner, Jorie Kreitman, Doree and Jake Lapping, Josh Kreitman, Seth Kreitman, Sarah Kreitman, Carly Levine, Ava Levine, Ethan Levine; great-grandchildren, Poppy Lerner, Audrey Lerner, Isla Lapping. Mrs. Kreitman was the lov- ing mother of the late Kevan Kreitman. Contributions may be made to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, P.O. Box 2044, S...…
…JULY 20 • 2023 | 61 Miriam Nosanchuk. Interment took place at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Contributions may be made to Karmanos Cancer Institute, American Heart Association, Yad Ezra, Temple Emanu-El or a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. LISA JOY RATH, 67, of Pontiac, died July 6, 2023. She is survived by her sons and daughter-in- law, Charles and Fannet Nater, and Andrew Nater; grandchildren, Elliot...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 62 | JULY 20 • 2023 An Ode to Star Bakery I recently read that Star Bakery in Oak Park is closing, a century-old business that was founded in 1915. It might be said that Star was a Jewish landmark in our community. Many a Jewish Detroiter bought rye bread, challahs, hamantashen for Purim, rugelach, cakes and many oth...…
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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 32255 Northwestern Hwy. Suite 205, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 248-354-6060 thejewishnews.com JULY 20 • 2023 | 7 continued from page 6 “Scholar”continued from page 4 the highest level of tikkun olam? (By the way, I am told that some of my ongoing Jewish angst about home and office-related operations are “so last year” … I hope that is so!) With every new term, I was privileged to meet and work with smart and talen...…
…8 | JULY 20 • 2023 interview Rabbi David Wolpe Wants You to Stop Arguing and Start Listening D avid Wolpe has been called one of the most quoted rabbis in the United States. As senior rabbi at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, one of the largest and most visible Conservative pulpits in the country, the decisions he makes and things he says are often treated as bell- wethers of cen- trist American Jewry. Wolpe has led an unusu- ally...…
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…10 | JULY 13 • 2023 PURELY COMMENTARY guest column JSL and ‘The Power of Purpose’ W e named the theme for this year’s Jewish Senior Life (JSL) Annual Meeting The Power of Purpose. What do we mean by The Power of Purpose? At JSL, it’s when staff and residents are engaged in meaningful activities that allow our minds, bodies and souls to connect to each other and the world in really important ways. Everyone needs a reason ...…
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…OUR COMMUNITY MSU students make history as one of the first Jewish student groups to tour the country. ON THE COVER Spartans in Dubai t Riley Cook, Carter Smith, Matt Sturt, Jacob Wilson, Jared Pazner, Natalie Cripps, Jonah Lusky, Alex Mison, Jessie Goldberg and Cory Gluckman …
…JULY 13 • 2023 | 13 n Monday, May 29, Chabad on Campus International sent 149 Jewish students from universities all over the country to Dubai. Ten participants joined from Michigan State University’s Chabad House, run by Rabbi Benzion and Mrs. Simi Shemtov. The trip was an earned reward from JewishU in recognition of the students’ commitments to having engaged in formal Jewish educa- tion over the academic year. JewishU is an acad...…
…trip. We came back with some remarkable takeaways. JARED: EASING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UAW AND ISRAEL The relationship between UAE and Israel, prior to 2020, was the same as almost every other country in the region. The UAE did not recognize the state of Israel. When the UAE first gained independence in 1971, their first president, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, referred to Israel as “the enemy.” No Israeli citizens or ai...…
