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…DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 32255 Northwestern Hwy. Suite 205, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 248-354-6060 thejewishnews.com AUGUST 8 • 2024 | 7 J N Have You Heard the Latest? Let’s Catch Up Over Lunch! Have You Heard the Latest? Let’s Catch Up Over Lunch! Rose Senior Living is excited about our new senior living community coming to Farmington Hills, and we’re inviting you to lunch at Longacre House to give you the inside scoop! Join us for a del...…
…8 | AUGUST 8 • 2024 J N O n Sept. 5, the Jewish Fertility Foundation (JFF) will hold its official Detroit kickoff event. The national organization, which launched with Detroit as its eighth location in March, provides financial assistance, education and emotional sup- port to Jewish families facing fertility challenges. That means being able to award grants for constituents who are going through fertility treatments, says Detroi...…
…AUGUST 8 • 2024 | 9 J N That led to the exploratory committee, which was headed by Danielle Gordon, a local mental health therapist who works with those who have pregnancy and post- partum issues. Through parlor meetings, fundraising and crowdfund- ing, JFF advocates in Detroit raised the $150,000 necessary to bring JFF to town. As a therapist, Gordon says she works with moms all the time facing shame and stigma for infertility. “I...…
…$200 Aug. 1-7, 2024 / 26 Tammuz- 3 Av, 5784 THE DETROIT thejewishnews.com JEWISH NEWS JEWISH NEWS Coming to the -borhood David Silver teaches kids life lessons using horses. Now he’s building a “ranch” in the middle of Detroit. See page 8 …
…10 | AUGUST 1 • 2024 J N After stumbling on a horse stable at Yale University near where he lived, Horwitz says he was hooked and went regularly for years. Well-aware of the value of horses in terms of teaching responsibility, empathy and self-confidence, and impressed by Silver’s drive, passion, talent and commitment — not only to the project but also to Detroit’s kids — Horwitz says he has been compelled to help the entrepren...…
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…B BYO, the Jewish youth movement that currently reaches over 70,000 Jewish teens in 750+ chapters across 50 countries, is partnering with two local congregations — Temple Israel and Temple Beth El — to transition their youth groups to BBYO chapters. The youth groups will still be managed by the congregations, but this partner- ship will allow temple-affiliated youth to have access to all BBYO opportunities including regional and int...…
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…14 | AUGUST 1 • 2024 J N path and journey. “It’s part of the reason I wanted to be a rabbi and why I love youth work,” she said. Lader felt that connection was missing from her youth group. “It started with her saying, ‘I wish my teens were able to go to Kallah, one of BBYO’s summer programs,’” Vieder recalled. “That started this conversation of how do we find a way to give our teens more — YFTI and BETY teens having access to mor...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 15 J N gregation. “What we don’t want to happen is BBYO just absorbs all teen engagement for the community,” Vieder says. “It’s still important that teens feel connected to and maintain an identity with their congregation. So, as we’re building out these partnerships. That’s something we’re being thoughtful about. We’re not really touching the chapter. It’s staying the same. The regional and international connecti...…
…I n the 1930s, it was Northern High School. In the ’40s and early ’50s, it was Central. And in the 1950s and most of the ’60s, it was Mumford, that beautiful blue and burgun- dy building on Wyoming. Afterward, it would be Oak Park High, in southeast Michigan’s ver- sion of Levittown. We came from Hampton, MacDowell, Schultz, Vernor, Bagley, Post and Pasteur. We grew up in Palmer Woods, Sherwood Forest, Green Acres, the University Dist...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 17 J N Calling All Mumford High Grads from 1952-1970 Orthodox shuls. Shaarey Zedek had a school branch building on Seven Mile. We saw movies at the Royal, Mercury and Varsity. We ate ice cream at Brown’s Creamery, Wilson Dairy and especially Sanders. We got cured at Sinai, Mount Carmel and New Grace hospitals. Most prescriptions were filled at independent phar- macies. Don’s Drugs and Chippewa Drug were two that ...…
…F ive members from Chabad of Troy flew to New York to participate in the Shabbat in the Heights Shabbaton earlier this spring. The Shabbaton was hosted by JLI (Jewish Learning Institute), a premier Jewish educational organization that provides different learning opportunities to Jews throughout the world. Most notably, they provide the curriculum for the classes that Chabad of Troy and hundreds of other Chabad houses teach throughout t...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 19 J N mony and program. The group heard from two brave medical students from Columbia University. One of them, Mendy, took a leave of absence from Columbia after Oct. 7, and flew to Israel to join his reserve unit in the IDF. The other, Erin, had to take a leave of absence from Columbia as well due to tre- mendous antisemitism that she was experi- encing. She is now suing the school for fail- ing to protect her. The...…
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…20 | AUGUST 1 • 2024 J N T he Lois and Milton Y. Zussman Center, designed for individuals with a serious mental health diagnosis, has moved to a new facility that is more than double the size of its original space and will host an open house on Thursday, Aug. 8, from 5-7 p.m. The open house will showcase the new facility, which was designed by and for individuals with mental health diagnoses who seek a welcoming and engaging comm...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 21 J N and Creative Expressions currently impact the lives of more than 120 individuals served through Gesher Human Services. This new space at the Zussman Center will allow for additional growth for the Clubhouse and provides a permanent art studio space for Creative Expressions. The buildout for the new space was partly funded by the Multicultural Integration Fund through the State of Michigan, along with addit...…
…22 | AUGUST 1 • 2024 J N A t the playground up the hill from the apartment building where I live, little children clamber around all sorts of play structures. The children, Black, white and shades of brown in between, play together. At the end of the school day, stu- dents swarm out of two schools, the boys’ school and the girls’ school; the students walk together. The neighborhood is thoroughly integrated. These children ...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 23 J N continued on page 24 the United States carried an advertisement signed by many of the leading Orthodox rab- bis in America congratulating Rabbi Rosner and urging American Jews to consider joining him. Jason Schwartz and his family did just that. They had already planned to move from America to Beit Shemesh. They just had to decide on a neighborhood. A just-completed townhouse on Rehov Hasitvanit seem...…
…24 | AUGUST 1 • 2024 Shemesh grew into a develop- ment town, still with a mixed population of about 25,000 by 1995. A native of Kiryat Gat, the future mayor grew up in a family that came from Morocco. When she married, she moved to Beit Shemesh — the first home for the young couple. Her husband is a medical doctor, whose father came from Germany, and whose mother is from a sixth-generation Jerusalem family. Beit Shemesh is a mi...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 25 people with different back- grounds. Among her other projects, Linda translates for other Anglo residents of Nofei Hashemesh who have not mastered Hebrew; some have lived here for decades, getting along on English and helpful neighbors. Eitan Tanny grew up in Rehovot, Israel. Before he was born, his parents came from Canada for his father’s post-doc in chemistry at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, and ...…
…L ike many Jewish Americans, Steve Linder experienced anguish in the wake of Oct. 7, helpless- ness over the Hamas massacre and outbreak of Jew hatred in the U.S., such as that of a pro- Hamas encampment he visited on the campus of Michigan State, his alma mater. He protested to MSU offi- cials, complaining that dem- onstrators were shouting “gas the Jews” and calling for geno- cide. He judged the reactions of university administ...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 27 Many diaspora Jews feel deep connection to the Jewish homeland. Some, like Linder, find their bonds to Judaism strengthened and energized once they witness firsthand Israel’s resilience, spirit and survival instincts. In his case, helping Israel to wage war is resonant of his ancestors’ flight from eastern Europe, those who managed to prosper in the U.S. — and those who were murdered in the Holocaust. “The w...…
…28 | AUGUST 1 • 2024 J N M ax Sasson is one step away from joining the ever- growing list of Jewish hockey players in the NHL. The step is a big one, but the 23-year-old Birmingham native is ready for the climb. After joining the Abbotsford (British Columbia) Canucks as an undrafted free agent for 13 regular-season and playoff games late in the 2022-23 season, Sasson spent the entire 2023-24 season with Abbotsford, the Vancouve...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 29 J N champion Edmonton Oilers. “After they won the seventh game (against Nashville), you would have thought they won the Stanley Cup,” Sasson said. “The streets in Vancouver were flooded with people.” Sasson went to the Abbotsford Canucks after being a standout in junior hockey for three years and for the Western Michigan University hockey team for two years. He scored 15 goals and had 27 assists in 38 games ...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 3 J N contents Aug. 1-7, 2024 / 26 Tammuz - 3 Av 5784 | VOLUME CLXXV, ISSUE 25 PURELY COMMENTARY 4-6 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 8 Coming to the Neigh-borhood David Silver teaches kids life lessons using horses. Now he’s building a “ranch” in the middle of Detroit. 12 BBYO Partnering With Two Local Congregations BBYO is partnering with Temple Israel and Temple Beth El to transition...…
…D anny Wolf, a 7-foot junior for- ward, is ecstatic to be part of University of Michigan head men’s basketball coach Dusty May’s star-studded recruiting class. “Coach May has an infectious energy about him, and he was one of the first coaches to call me when I entered the transfer portal,” Wolf said. “Our relation- ship kicked off quickly. I like his style of play and his vision to enhance Michigan basketball.” Returning to the Midwes...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 31 J N Conflict Management M atot/Masei epitomiz- es Moses’ leadership though his conflict man- agement skills. As Moses prepares to cross the Jordan to the Promised Land, the tribes of Reuben and Gad ask to remain where they are. “Let this land be given to your servants as a heritage. ” Allowing two of the tribes to abandon the others would jeopardize the success of the other 10. In 1989, I co-authored a book...…
…D uring the three weeks between 17 Tammuz and Tisha b’Av, as we recall the destruction of the Temples, we read three of the most searing passages in the prophetic literature, the first two from the opening of the book of Jeremiah, the third, next week, from the first chapter of Isaiah. At perhaps no other time of the year are we so acutely aware of the enduring force of ancient Israel’s great visionaries. The prophets had ...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 33 all items of which nature is composed,” together with all the laws of physics and chemistry, then “nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present” before your eyes. Karl Marx applied this idea to society and history. It is known as historical inevitability, and when transferred to the affairs of humankind it amounts to a massive denial of personal freedom. Finally, there is tim...…
…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...…
…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 Hills (248) 477-1410 ...…
…ARTS&LIFE ART R obert Aronson served in executive positions with the Jewish Federation of Detroit for many years before moving into a desert area located in the western part of the United States. While he returns to Michigan quarterly, helping to manage part-time financial work for public and private clients and visiting with longtime friends, this summer has him at the center of a cultural event. Aronson will be introducing his new...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 37 J N my own life — my transition from Michigan to the desert and the change from the artistic medium I have been using for the last 55 years,” said Aronson, who will have about 30 pieces in the show to demonstrate the expansion of skills gained in the 1970s as he studied at and graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. “I’m primarily a printmaker with etchings and lithographs in black and white and...…
…38 | AUGUST 1 • 2024 J N ARTS&LIFE BOOKS A s conditions in Warsaw in 1939 became worse, people realized they needed to escape, if that was still possible. Rokhl Auerbach had begun preparing to move back to her native Lvov (now Lviv, Ukraine) when the historian Emanuel Ringelblum asked to her to meet him. Ringelblum challenged her to stay. If capable people all leave, he argued, who will take care of those who cannot? “We could n...…
…JULY 25 • 2024 | 39 THE FOLKLORIST The folklorist Shmuel Lehman traveled around Eastern Europe collecting enormous amounts of infor- mation about everyday life in different Jewish commu- nities. He learned about recipes and jokes, songs and religious observances, relations with non-Jews and their relations with Jews, the religious leaders and the apostates, the slang of the Jewish underworld and the gangsters’ system of justice...…
…4 | AUGUST 1 • 2024 J N essay My Second Bar Mitzvah Editor’s note: Rabbi Yoskowitz, 83, wrote this essay in anticipation of his second bar mitzvah held on July 27 at Adat Shalom Synagogue. A s a Jewish people, gratitude is our attitude. Tov l’hodot, LaShem. Psalm 92, the psalm designated to be said twice every Shabbat, begins with these words, which can be interpreted in two ways. The first interpretation is clear: “It is go...…
…40 | AUGUST 1 • 2024 on her shoulders.” Henie liked to take a little extra from the warehouse, but “I didn’t want to fire her because she was an efficient and fast worker, as well as a likeable and happy soul.” She liked jokes and pranks. Blond Henie “could have easily saved herself by going to a village and passing as a peasant girl. But they grabbed her at the very start.” A MUSICIAN AND A LIBRARIAN Josima Feldshuh, Auerbach’s co...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 41 J N ARTS&LIFE WEEKLY RECIPE H ot weather and sunshine call for grilling and eating outdoors! When the heat is high, I like to keep my kitchen cool and cook outside. Branzino, which is a firm and mild-flavored fish, cooks up fast on the grill. Add some asparagus and finish with juicy peaches topped with vanilla ice cream and dinner is ready in under 30 minutes. GRILLED BRANZINO Ingredients 4 1-pound whole B...…
…42 | AUGUST 1 • 2024 J N A FUNNY CRIME FILM, ELIZABETH TAYLOR SPEAKS CANDIDLY, NEWHART AND THE JEWS The Instigators opens in a few theaters on Aug. 2 and then begins streaming on Apple TV+ on Aug. 9. It’s a comedy crime heist flick. Premise: A botched rob- bery causes two thieves (Matt Damon and Casey Affleck) to go on the run, dragging along one of their therapists in the process. Michael Stuhlbarg, 55, and Ron Perlman, 74, ha...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 43 KABBALAT SHABBAT 7-8 PM, AUG. 2 (FRI.) At Temple Israel. An out- door service featuring the talents of Rick Recht, who will join our service with a full band to share his mel- odies, along with plenty of Temple Israel favorites. Info: jlive.app/events/8266. BASEBALL GAME AUG. 4 (SUN.) The Adat Shalom Men’s Club invites everyone to a day at the ballpark, an afternoon of fun, enter- tainment and baseball at Jimm...…
…JUST FOR FUN Find the five differences in these two photos of a participant enjoying a ride at JARC’s second annual sensory-friendly carnival (original is on the left.) JEFF AISEN Jewis of the Week Joke One Shabbat morning, the rabbi notices little 6-year-old David staring up at the large plaque hanging in the shul foyer. It was covered with names and small American flags. The rabbi said, “Good Shabbos, David.” David replies, “...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 45 The Nissan Foundation awarded a $25,000 grant to the The Zekelman Holocaust Center (The HC) to help fund Voices of the Holocaust: Exploring History, Literature and Social Justice in the Classroom, a program to enhance the teaching of Holocaust history through personal memoirs and his- torical context, emphasizing social justice. “Receiving the Nissan Foundation grant is an incredible honor for our center,” ...…
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…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 49 J N RITA ROSLYN ABRAMSON, 79, of North Las Vegas, Nev., passed away on July 17, 2024. She had just celebrated her 59th wedding anniversary. Rita was born in Detroit on Nov. 14, 1944, to Arthur and Murial Sofferin. She went to Mumford High School and Wayne State University. She married Kenneth Abramson on July 11, 1965. Rita worked in early childhood education for many years, first with Temple Israel in We...…
…AUGUST 1 • 2024 | 5 J N Please Support The Zekelman Holocaust Center and honor Marcie & Rob Orley Sunday, November 10, 2024 Huntington Place, Detroit The Zekelman Holocaust Center’s 40th Anniversary Benefit With your support, this year The Zekelman Holocaust Center will teach over 100,000 people about the Holocaust and the critical need to stand up to hatred and antisemitism. For tickets, sponsorships, or more information, visit Ho...…
