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…JBAM Honors Legal Achievers PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMIE FELDMAN Among the JBAM board members and officers attending are Vice President of Communications David Sachs, Frank Mamat, Past President Ellie Mosko, Joseph Phillips, President Nargiz Nesimova, Michael Feldman and Executive Vice President Jordan Zuppke. The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Champion of Justice Award winner Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Lorie Savin: “My place in this community is ...…

…M ore than 100 people, including judges, attorneys and legal professionals, dined together and feted a select group of their own at the Jewish Bar Association of Michigan (JBAM) Awards Dinner held May 23 at the Somerset Inn in Troy. Every year, JBAM honors two Jewish judges who have made a lasting impact on the community. The recipient of JBAM’s 2024 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Champion of Justice Award was Judge Lorie Savin of the O...…

…38 | JUNE 20 • 2024 Award was JBAM executive vice president, Royal Oak attorney Jordan Zuppke. Law students Amanda Igra of Michigan State University and Hannah Passer of University of Detroit Mercy received JBAM’s Charles J. Cohen Esq. Scholarship grants. This year, JBAM is celebrating its 10th anniversary of providing social, educational and charitable activities for attorneys, judges, law students and others in the legal co...…

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…4 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N opinion It’s Our Responsibility to Rescue the Hostages P resident Ronald Reagan hosted Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at a White House state dinner on Sept. 9, 1981. The custom at state dinners is for both the host and the honored guest to offer a toast. In his toast, Begin spoke about Zionism’s goal of taking responsibility for our own security: “For us, security is not a word; it’s not even ...…

…40 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N I f you think anti-immi- gration and antisemitic sentiments are running high now, look back to exactly a century ago, a year when one young and little-known Detroit lawyer named Theodore Levin stood against the nativist tide. Thousands of Ku Klux Klan mem- bers paraded through the streets of many cities, includ- ing Kalamazoo and Jackson. The Klan controlled the government of Indiana and ruined that y...…

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…42 | JUNE 20 • 2024 degrees — bachelors of law — in 1920 and began practicing law together, specializing more and more in immigration. The JD (juris doctor) degree was neither required nor widely in use in 1924, and Ted was just finishing his master of laws (LL.M) degree that spring. Though he hadn’t been practicing long, Ted Levin had already won the friendship and mentoring of legal giants, including Fred Butzel and Charles Si...…

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…44 | JUNE 20 • 2024 federal judges, two from the U.S. Court of Appeals, unanimously ruled in Arrowsmith v. Voorheis that the law “is unconstitutional and invalid.” There was some talk of an appeal, but nothing ever came of it, and the next year, another panel of federal judges reaffirmed its unconstitutionality and forbid its enforcement forever. Theodore Levin’s reputation had been made. He went on to become a major leader in...…

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…Legal Guide LISTINGS ABRAHAMS LAW 31550 Northwestern Highway, Suite 110 Farmington Hills, MI 48334 (248) 538-2900 www.abrahamslaw.com jda@abrahamslaw.com Jonathan Abrahams, founder of Abrahams Law, is a lifelong Detroit guy with a passion for helping others. For over 30 years he has been a part of countless auto accident injury cases, fighting for his clients to get all of the assistance and benefits they are entitled ...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 51 LEADING LAWYERS A Division of Law Bulletin Media leadinglawyers.com The distinction of being a Leading Lawyer cannot be bought. This is earned by being among those lawyers most often recommended by their peers. For a full description of our research process, a complete list of all Leading Lawyers, and to view the profiles of the lawyers, visit our website at www.LeadingLawyers.com. Find a bett...…

…52 | JUNE 20 • 2024 SETH L. GOLDNER, P.C. 7091 Orchard Lake Road, Suite 240 West Bloomfield, MI 48322 (248) 855-7070 info@goldlawpc.com goldlawpc.com Seth Goldner has been a member in good standing with the State Bar of Michigan since 1991 and is admitted to practice in both State and Federal Court. Mr. Goldner is a past-president and current board member of the Michigan Creditors Bar Asso- ciation and is a member of t...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 53 J N E lle Hartje is a professional hockey player. That title was added to her name June 10 when the 2019 Jewish News High School Athlete of the Year was selected by the New York team in the fifth round of the Professional Women’s Hockey League draft. The 23-year-old Bloomfield Hills native, Detroit Country Day School graduate and former Yale University women’s hockey star was the 25th of 42 players drafted i...…

…54 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N Stein 90th Michalopoulos-Podolsky Cooper 60th D onald Stein, a resi- dent of Rolling Hills Retirement Community in Commerce Township, turns 90 years old June 26, 2024, along with his twin brother, Melvin, who lives in New Jersey. Don will celebrate with his chil- dren and their spouses, Bob (Lynn), Laura (Barry), and Mark (Beth), and his grandchildren, Rachel, Dana, Zachary, Ashley, Bradley, Jason and Je...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 55 J N The Trumpet Call T he parshat opens with holiness, purity and brilliant light from the candelabra in the sanctuary. The portion ends not with Miriam’s nasty words about Moshe and his wife, but with the response of the Jewish people, the Israelites, to Miriam’s punishment: They do not move on — seemingly refusing to accept God’s authority The parshat wants to show us the morality of the Jewish people: ...…

…T here have been times when one passage in this week’s parshah was, for me, little less than lifesaving. No leadership position is easy. Leading Jews is harder still. And spiritual leadership can be hardest of them all. Leaders have a public face that is usually calm, upbeat, optimistic and relaxed. But behind the façade we can all experience storms of emotion as we realize how deep are the divisions between people, how in...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 57 change. That’s why Moses, David, Elijah and Jeremiah found life so hard. We can say precisely what brought Moses to despair. He had faced a similar challenge before. Back in the book of Exodus the people had made the same complaint: “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this desert to starve t...…

…58 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N ARTS&LIFE ART A work of art kept in the home of Bassie Shemtov is especially appreciated because it represents and showcases creativity by an artist who has taken part at the Soul Studio in West Bloomfield, which she directs as part of the Friendship Circle. The piece of art, “Sweet Hugs,” was done by Sam Morris, who works at the Dakota Bakery, also in West Bloomfield. It shows a hug shared by two ...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 59 Caitlin Cartwright, Soul Studio community projects coordinator, invites visitors to experience the completed displays. Some of the participants observe Judaism as practiced by the Friendship Circle administration, and others are observant of different faiths. Mack-o Matlen, 36, a Soul artist, does not have her name on a beach scene displayed in the current exhibit, but she did participate in developing an a...…

…6 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N PURELY COMMENTARY crime and a stain on the global community. Hamas’ evil is intensified by their refusal to allow the Red Cross to visit and treat the hostages. Jon Polin, the father of hostage Hersh Polin, explained the pain of the world’s decision to ignore his son and the other hostages’ pain. “The lack of response seemingly from the world is so immensely frustrating,” he said. “We speak to politicians,...…

…60 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N TWO NEW FILMS, DIANE VON FURSTENBERG BIO, OLYMPIC SWIMMER(?) Thelma opens in theaters on June 21. Here’s the plot: Thelma Post (June Squibb, 94!) gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson. She sets out on a dangerous quest to reclaim what was taken from her. Advance reviews (Sundance) are quite good. Thelma is the first feature film directed and written by Josh Margolis, 35. His film ...…

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 61 J N JGRAND DINNER 5:30-7 PM, JUNE 21 (FRI.) GRANDparents, GRANDfriends and GRANDchildren are invited to join JGrand for The GRAND Shabbat Dinner. Hands-on activities, a Shabbat sing-along featuring Rabbi Jeff of The Well and a dinner with dietary laws observed. This program is geared toward grandparents/ grandfriends and their grandchildren ages 2-10. The cost of this program has been generously subsidized...…

…Jewish Joke of the Week JUST FOR FUN Yiddish Word Fun Each answer starts with the second letter of the previous answer (Consider No. 4 the previous answer to No. 1) Three older men, Max, Leon and Sam, were talking about what their grandchildren would be saying about them 50 years from now. “I would like my grandchildren to say, ‘He was successful in business,’” declared Max. “Fifty years from now,” said Leon, “I want them t...…

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…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 65 J N c. 2009 HARRIET M. DUNSKY, 85, of West Bloomfield, died June 10, 2024. She is survived by her husband of 64 years, Robert S. “Bob” Dunsky; sons and daughter- in-law, Drew Dunsky and Jodi Denenberg, and Dan Dunsky. She is also survived by Jodi’s children, Adam Denenberg and Alyssa Wolff, and Jamie Denenberg and Matthew Edelstein. Mrs. Dunsky was the devoted daughter of the late Dr. Maurice P . Meyers a...…

…66 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N OBITUARIES OF BLESSED MEMORY continued from page 65 Sidman; brother and sister-in- law, Howard and Beth Simon; brother-in-law and sister-in- law, James and Faye Friedman; many loving nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Mrs. Friedman was the loving sister of the late Judi Simon. Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Nicole Sidman’s Campaign for North Carolina State House, ...…

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…Looking Back From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History accessible at thejewishnews.com 70 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N The JN’s Resident Wordsmith I ’m writing a sequel to my last Looking Back, when I wrote about my good friend, Sharon Alterman, one of this year’s Jewish Senior Life’s (JSL) esteemed “8 over Eighty. ” At the JN, we work with another great “8”: Sy Manello. Sy is one of the good guys in this world an...…

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…OUR COMMUNITY ON THE COVER 8 | JUNE 20 • 2024 J N Forty-one women travel to Israel as part of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah’s Partners Detroit Dembs Mission. Faith Over Fear A shot-out window at Kibbutz Nir Oz PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRIAN SPECTOR …

…JUNE 20 • 2024 | 9 J N I recently returned from 10 days in Israel as a partic- ipant in the Yeshiva Beth Yehudah’s Partners Detroit Dembs Mission. Named for Ryan Dembs, a Detroit area businessman and philanthropist who passed away suddenly two years ago, and funded in part by his family, the Dembs Mission was composed of 41 exceptional women from across the Metro Detroit area who came together to volunteer, bear witness, co...…

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…10 | JUNE 13 • 2024 they give us a warm reception? This is a great thing.” Immediately upon arrival, the group went straight to the U.S. Capitol for a meeting with an ADL staffer and staffers of the co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Black-Jewish Relations. The Caucus was formally launched in 2019 (at a ceremony in which the Coalition participated) with a mission to fight white supremacy ideology by backing hate crime legisla...…

…JUNE 13 • 2024 | 11 the section on Anne Frank. “I’ve always been obsessed with her story,” she said, and later bought an “I Stand with Anne” bracelet at the gift shop. Many of the students were glued to the large nonstop video loop of Jewish survivors telling their heartbreaking stories in the “Testimonials” room. Each story was astonishing and heroic, but what particularly gripped the students, they later reported, was how ordinar...…

…12 | JUNE 13 • 2024 detail the largest forced migration in human history. There are constant sounds of narra- tors throughout the museum, sometimes from actual former slaves describing the cruelty of their day-to-day existence. Their descriptions are heart-wrenching. Hearing former slaves explain how an auctioneer would force them to display their teeth and gums to potential buyers gives a vivid glimpse into the unimag- inable dehuma...…

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…14 | JUNE 13 • 2024 J N T he Jewish Federation of Detroit has announced the integration of its partner agency, the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), into its Community Affairs Department. This strategic decision creates a more unified and powerful resource, marking a significant step forward for Jewish interests in Metro Detroit. For many years, the JCRC provided media relations, advocacy, interfaith and community r...…