…JULY 6 • 2023 | 33 pop in a can or bottled water customers pulled from an ice-filled cooler. On the day I dined, the choices were Shawarma Sandwich, including a quar- ter-pound of chicken and medium fries; Shawarma Plate, with a half-pound of chicken and large fries; Kids Meal, a half pita with shawarma and small fries, and Sabich, an item not familiar to me. Sabich, a pita bread sandwich popular in Israel, is filled with fried eggplan...…
…34 | JULY 6 • 2023 BUSINESS J ewish social worker Karen Faith Gordon spent many years supporting Metro Detroit’s older adult population before launching her own endeavor, Karen Faith LLC, which celebrated its ribbon cutting for its West Bloomfield location June 21. With a long career in geriatrics, Gordon plans to use the space on 14 Mile and Middlebelt Road to provide mental health care for older adults, their families and ...…
…JULY 6 • 2023 | 35 That’s why Gordon chose to offer both telehealth and onsite mental health care services to make care more accessible. “I started to realize the value of people who wanted to come to an office to talk and have that privacy,” she says of deciding to operate a physical location. SUPPORTING THE AGING JOURNEY Gordon, a parent of four, works with all aspects of the aging journey. People come to her for support with...…
…HEALTH T rauma has a tremendous physical and/or emotional impact on vic- tims, but it’s important to remem- ber the effect it has on first responders like police and EMS as well. Ayelet Shmuel of The Resiliency Zone, an Israel-based mental health practice that specializes in healing trauma, works with organizations around the world on trauma training, including Jewish organi- zations in Metro Detroit. The reason being: society often “m...…
…JULY 6 • 2023 | 37 continued from page 36 won’t see any distress on, but that doesn’t mean these situa- tions don’t affect them.” A lot of times, Shmuel explains, it can seem like first responders handle a situation well, but the impact is often felt (and seen) when they end their shift or go home for the day. “You start seeing some symptoms; you start seeing the impact,” she says. “You need to know what to look for and you need to know...…
…38 | JULY 6 • 2023 A true story that took place in 1995: It con- cerns the legacy of an unusual man with an unusual name: Mr. Ernest Onians, a farmer in East Anglia, England, whose main business was as a supplier of pigswill. Known as an eccentric, his hobby was collecting paint- ings. He used to go around local auctions and whenever a painting came on sale, especially if it was old, he would make a bid for it. Eventually h...…
…JULY 6 • 2023 | 39 right time to present their request. They knew how to interpret Scripture, and they were perfectly virtuous. Even more consequentially, their love of the Land of Israel was in striking contrast to that of the men. The spies had come back with a negative report about the land, and the peo- ple had said, “Let us appoint a [new] leader and return to Egypt” (Num. 14:4). But Zelophehad’s daughters want- ed to have a ...…
…4 | JULY 6 • 2023 for openers Hyperbole In Action O verstatement is one way to get a point across. I have written about exaggeration before, but I was reminded by some readers that I left the field untilled. Therefore: When you make something seem much better than it is, you are trying to gild the lily or pull the wool over someone’s eyes. They may realize that you are trying to build castles in the air and calling you on ...…
…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 6 • 2023 | 41 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...…
…42 | JULY 6 • 2023 ARTS&LIFE BOOKS W hen Irving Fox graduated top of his class from Montreal’s McGill University Medical School in 1967, he looked forward to a smooth, successful future. Little did he know that within a few years he would be struck by a debilitating mysterious illness that would temporarily upend his promising plans. Now, more than 50 years later, Fox, who lived in Ann Arbor from 1976-1990, set out to revisit...…
…JULY 6 • 2023 | 43 to decrease disability progres- sion. In 1999, he began working at Millenium/Takeda, where he was a leader of the clinical team that in 2014 was able to achieve marketing autho- rization and patient access for Entyvio, a treatment of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. Although he retired in 2018, he began consulting for some companies, including Takeda. Shortly after moving to New England, he and Gloria b...…
…L ike many Ashkenazi Jews, author Ellen Gelerman grew up with superstitions passed from generation to gener- ation. One of the most prominent was that of the evil eye, kein ayin hara. Learning about the famous Jewish saying, which translates to “no evil eye, ” from her parents and grandparents, Gelerman, a Long Island native now residing in Milford, decided to base her second published novel on the long-standing superstition. Jewi...…
…JULY 6 • 2023 | 45 THE BEAR ROARS AGAIN; ROBBING BANKS CAN BE FUN; REMEMBER JONATHAN SILVERMAN? The Bear, an FX series that streams on Hulu, premiered a year ago. It got great critical reviews and, pretty soon, the reviews and word- of-mouth made it one of the most popular “scripted” streaming programs — on any channel. The first season was just eight episodes, and most of the episodes were only about 30 minutes. The entire 10...…
…46 | JULY 6 • 2023 TOTS & MINI-GOLF 10-11 AM, JULY 8 (Sat.) Organized by The Well. At the Cranbrook Art Museum, 39721 Woodward, Bloomfield Hills. Meet inside the museum for Tot Shabbat songs, stories and snacks. Afterwards, head outside to enjoy Cranbrook’s artist-designed mini-golf course. Admission to the Art Museum is also included with your mini-golf ticket. Tot Shabbats are geared toward kiddos ages 0-5(ish) and their gr...…
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…JULY 6 • 2023 | 49 c. 1943 BEATRICE “BEBE” ANCHILL, 101, of Southfield, died June 24, 2023. She is survived by her daughter and son-in- law, Beth and Richard Siegel; son and daughter-in-law, Neil and Jane Anchill; grandchil- dren, David (Julie) Siegel, Jamie (Chuck) Xenakis, Shira Anchill (Aaron Herskovic), and Benjamin (Hillary) Anchill; great-grandchildren, Aaron and Katie Siegel, Lila and Mia Xenakis, Olivia and Gideon He...…
…JULY 6 • 2023 | 5 Facebook and Instagram @CongregationBethAhm In-Person Daily Minyan Kaddish & Community Sunday 9:00am and 5:00pm M – F morning M – Th evening Friday evening Dow Gardens Day Trip with the Beth Ahm Sisterhood Sunday, July 16 Outside Kabbalat Shabbat followed by a light dinner July 21 at 6:00pm 248-851-6880 www.cbahm.org 7:00am 7:00pm 6:00pm If the outcome had gone a different way, how would things for Jews be dif...…
…50 | JULY 6 • 2023 48334, farmlib.org/about-us/ support. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. PAUL NORMAN ENGLER, 71, of Oak Park, died June 23, 2023. He is survived by his wife, Bertha “Beth” Engler; son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Anne Engler of Huntington Woods; daughter and son-in- law, Erica and Max Abelman; grandchildren, Cecilia, Isabella, Lottie. Mr. Engler was the dear brother of the late Phyllis Engler. Contribu...…
…JULY 6 • 2023 | 51 children, Marcos, Lucia, Asher, Livia, Alexandra, Josephine, Natalie, Tessa, Penelope, Fiona, James, Noah, Scott and Oliver. Mrs. Frank was predeceased by her cherished husband of 68 years, the late Robert “Bob” Frank; parents, the late Morris Ben Lewis and the late Ida F. Lewis.; son-in-law, the late Scott Watson. Contributions may be made to Yeshivah Beth Yehudah, Partners in Torah, P .O. Box 2044, Southfiel...…
…52 | JULY 6 • 2023 the late Rebecca Goldberg. Contributions may be made to Hillel Day School, 32200 Middlebelt Road, Farmington Hills, MI 4833; or Frankel Jewish Academy of Metro Detroit, 6600 W . Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322. A funeral service was held at Hebrew Memorial Chapel. Interment took place at Adat Shalom Memorial Park in Livonia. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. BARBARA J. GORDON- KLAVONS, 65, of Fa...…
…JULY 6 • 2023 | 53 Daniel Steinway, Steven and Debbie Steinway, David and Rowena Howard, Richard and Sherry Howard, and Donna Howard; many loving nieces, nephews, other family members and friends. Robert was the loving son of the late Marvin and Beatrice Howard. Interment was held at Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to JARC. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel. DOUGLAS L. MANN, 96, of Novi,...…
…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at www.djnfoundation.org 54 | JULY 6 • 2023 ‘Badge of Honor’ W e have no flag, and we need one. If we desire to lead many men, we must raise a symbol above their heads,” Theodor Herzl declared in 1896 in his landmark essay Der Judenstaat. He was referring to a flag as an emblem for a future State of Israel: “For we shall march into the Promise...…
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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 32255 Northwestern Hwy. Suite 205, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 248-354-6060 thejewishnews.com JULY 6 • 2023 | 7 longtime associate of such odi- ous anti-Israel activists as Linda Sarsour, Lander is viewed with distaste by his home borough’s Orthodox communities and is notorious for ignoring events like a huge march of radically antisemitic Black Israelites not far from his own residence in Park Slope. He took the b...…
…8 | JULY 6 • 2023 interview The Roots of Jewish Sunday Schools A s a kid I went to Sunday school at our Reform synagogue. I didn’t hate it as much as my peers did, but let’s just say there were literally dozens of other things I would have preferred to do on a weekend morning. As a Jewish adult, I had a vague understanding that Sunday school was a post-World War II invention, part of the assimilation and suburbanization of ...…
…JULY 6 • 2023 | 9 Tuesday, July 11 7:00 PM Looking beyond well-intentioned statements and monuments, acclaimed scholar Andrew I. Port will discuss how the Holocaust shaped German responses to modern-day genocides in other countries after 1945. Through this discussion, he will also highlight how these foreign atrocities recast Germany’s understanding of its own horrific history. Register at HolocaustCenter.org/July I N - P E R S...…
…Michigan Israel Business Accelerator launches The Elevator — first landing zone for Israeli startups in the U.S. See page 10 ISRAELI- MICHIGAN ISRAELI- MICHIGAN PARTNERSHIPS UPLIFTING JEWISH NEWS THE DETROIT thejewishnews.com $200 June 29-July 5, 2023 / 10-16 Tammuz 5783 …
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…JUNE 29 • 2023 | 11 OUR COMMUNITY M ichigan Israel Business Accelerator (MIBA), an economic development organization, recently unveiled “The Elevator” as the first land- ing zone exclusively for Israeli startups in the U.S. This Israeli coworking community, located in Detroit’s Bricktown neighborhood in the Globe Building, is focused on forging connections between Israeli startups and companies and Michigan enterprises. The laun...…
…12 | JUNE 29 • 2023 Mark Davidoff, Matt Elliott and Quentin Messer Jr. unveil the chosen name “The Elevator.” According to Davidoff, The Elevator’s roots reach back to 2014, when, after returning from leading a mission to Israel, he wrote an essay for Crain’s com- paring Detroit to the Jordan River. “The Jordan River was going through a reclamation process, and my essay compared Detroit post-bankruptcy and the Jordan River in its ...…
…JUNE 29 • 2023 | 13 Metro Detroit. Membership at The Elevator grants complimentary access to an array of amenities, including dedicated and flexible office space, conference rooms, 360° video conferencing capabilities with an 86-inch display screen, high-speed internet connec- tivity, high-capacity printing, a convenient kitchenette and a U.S. mailing address with mail delivery service to an assigned locker. Moreover, The Elevator...…
…14 | JUNE 29 • 2023 be for the city of Detroit. ” Itai Biran, Consul for Political & Commercial Affairs at the Israel Consulate General to the Midwest, was there for The Elevator’s launch. “This space will undoubt- edly serve as a catalyst for Israeli companies, enabling them to rapidly accelerate their growth models in in the United States, ” he said. “The opening of this space represents a milestone in our efforts to strengthen tie...…
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…16 | JUNE 29 • 2023 O n Friday, June 16, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a 19-year-old Upper Peninsula man with East Lansing ties and charged him with trans- mitting a communication containing a threat to injure another. He is charged with making plans to kill people at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in East Lansing on the chosen date of March 15, 2024, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Federal officials arrest...…
…JUNE 29 • 2023 | 17 going through a relation- ship breakup, and others sympathizing with him about his breakup as well as the number of “kikes” who lived near them or attended their schools. To his online associates, the man, said: “I’m sure we’ll meet again in the next life. The world sucks. I won’t be taken alive and I will make sure of that. Remember: Heil Hitler.” He also ruminated about getting a camera to live- stream the ...…
…18 | JUNE 29 • 2023 OUR COMMUNITY the many phone calls I had with Totten, and on my TV in the background, the news headlines from Pittsburgh were scrolling on the bot- tom of the screen,” recalled Bigman. “It was all so sur- real. But the congregation and I are very grateful to law enforcement, federal and state and local, for making sure that the gentleman who threatened us was arrested and will be charged.” Like the Tree of Li...…
…JUNE 29 • 2023 | 19 Tuesday, July 11 7:00 PM Looking beyond well-intentioned statements and monuments, acclaimed scholar Andrew I. Port will discuss how the Holocaust shaped German responses to modern-day genocides in other countries after 1945. Through this discussion, he will also highlight how these foreign atrocities recast Germany’s understanding of its own horrific history. Register at HolocaustCenter.org/July I N - P E R...…
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…20 | JUNE 29 • 2023 HER ES OUR COMMUNITY I n “Taking Time to Remember,” my cover story in the May 25 edition of the JN, I offered a reminder to try to set aside some time over the long Memorial Day weekend to honor the sacrifice made by our Jewish men and women veterans of blessed memory. More specifically, I invited our readers to join the Jewish War Veterans (JWV), Department of Michigan, at one of two ceremonies com- memorati...…
…JUNE 29 • 2023 | 21 Next generation steps up to honor our veterans. CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Herman “Abe” Lash stands by his Army truck. Abe on leave in 1944, sur- rounded by his young nephew Harvey and his brother in-law Herman Streit, father Irving, and grandfather Louis. Abe’s letter from the warfront. Abe training for the war. ABE’S LEGACY LIVES ON I phoned Steve’s siblings, Harvey Lash of Scottsdale, Arizona, Myles Lash of Beth...…
…22 | JUNE 29 • 2023 OUR COMMUNITY L. Stimson and Chief of Staff General George Marshall, who on behalf of the president extended their condolences and gratitude to the Lash family. Another display of Uncle Abe memora- bilia includes a Christmas greeting from Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, vintage war- time-themed post cards from the era, as well as a priceless collection of beautifully handwritten letters written by his uncle from the w...…
…JUNE 29 • 2023 | 23 Memorial Day Parade The Jewish War Veterans (JWV), Department of Michigan, were front and center, literally, at this year’s Royal Oak Memorial Day Parade. Members of the JWV, Ladies Auxiliary and JWV Color Guard were the first group to march down Main Street at 9 a.m. Just ahead of them was the incomparable Art Fishman, 96, JWV Post 510, and JWV Senior Vice Commander Emeritus, this year’s Grand Marshal, his sec...…
…24 | JUNE 29 • 2023 OUR COMMUNITY Commander of JWV Post 474, helped carry the organization’s banner and was proudly followed by his wife, Vicki, the Adlers’ two sons, Mark and David, and David’s 6-year- old son Oliver. Adler served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam era. Adler’s sons attended to honor both their father and their veteran grandfa- ther Louis, who was one of three brothers who served simultaneously durin...…
…JUNE 29 • 2023 | 25 A ccording to a survey by the Pew Research Center, only half of American Jews (52%) can read Hebrew. To fill this gap in Jewish education, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) has developed Read It in Hebrew, an innovative Hebrew reading course. With interactive flashcards and its own app for remote learning, Read It in Hebrew uses the latest technology to combine timeless learning methods with contempo...…
…26 | JUNE 29 • 2023 OUR COMMUNITY M ore than 400 people enjoyed an evening of live entertainment, a silent auction and raffle, and a strolling dinner at Hillel’s beautiful campus at Hillel Day School’s Annual Gala on May 21. The highlights of the evening included Paula and Louis Glazier receiving the 2023 Dream Maker Award, Todd Fink receiving the Rabbi Jacob E. Segal (z’’l) Award, and Greg Kaplan, a 2000 Hillel graduate, receiv-...…
…JUNE 29 • 2023 | 27 $13 million capital campaign that added 28,000 square feet to the school and created the middle school wing, media center, chapel, science wing and renovated administrative offices. He was also instru- mental in arranging for the installation of the traffic light in front of the school. Now, he and Paula are the lead gifters for the renovation of Hillel’s historic Little Red School House. Paula, recipient of ...…
