…20 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N I n September 2022, Jewish environmental organization Adamah launched the Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition — a network of Jewish com- munity organizations who recognize the existential threat and moral urgency of climate change and commit to take action. Adamah has facilitated the coalition for 18 months now and, since its founding, over 300 institutions across North America have signed the coa- lit...…
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…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 25 J N continued on page 26 COURTESY OF BARBARA LEWIS Joe and I thought it would be a good idea to go to Australia to visit his cousins and go to the wedding. But … about 25 years ago I accompanied Joe on a one- week business trip to Sydney. We had horrible jet lag the entire time, an experience we weren’t eager to recapture. Why not take a cruise from the U.S. to Sydney instead and make the 14-hour time change ...…
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…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 3 J N contents PURELY COMMENTARY 4-8 Essays and viewpoints. OUR COMMUNITY 10 A Trip Back in Time Jewish Historical Society presents ‘In the Neighborhood: Everyday Life on Hastings Street’ at the Detroit Historical Museum. 12 Community Vigil for the Fallen Local Yom HaZikaron event on May 12 will commemorate those who were lost on Oct. 7. 14 How We Met: ‘I Moved Her to the Top of the List!’ 16 Mega...…
…30 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N T he #EndJewHatred move- ment spearheaded a stu- dent empowerment rally at the University of Michigan in partnership with the Jewish Resource Center, Chabad, Hillel and Wolverines for Israel. Students rapidly mobilized, and approximately 300 students gathered at the Diag to bring critical attention to the current Israeli hostage crisis. As of now, 129 hostages currently remain in Hamas’ captivity. The hor-...…
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…36 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N W hether you’re bringing a hostess gift to your Passover seder or simply want to surround yourself with your love for Israel, we’ve found pieces that will illuminate your home while supporting our brothers and sisters. (Be sure to check shipping dates for items needed in time for Passover.) Complete your home — and seder table — with art and Judaica made in Israel. continued on page 38 LYNNE KONSTANTIN CON...…
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…4 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N a Passover message from Federation A Time for Hope and Gratitude T his week, families across Metro Detroit — and in Jewish communities throughout the world — are busy preparing for the festival of Passover, one of the oldest and most widely celebrated of our holidays. It’s no accident that Passover holds such importance in our lives. Enveloped in the familiar warmth of the seder table, the powerful ...…
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…44 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N O ver the last two weeks, we covered Passover appetizers, sides and mains, which means that this week, we will embark on the final frontier: desserts. I hope you’ve saved room! More than for any other holiday, I think having a Passover dessert that you can look forward to is critical because of all the other ways we feel deprived. The good news is that it is possible to make Passover desserts that...…
…Preparation Place the quinoa and water into a small saucepan and bring it to a boil over medium heat. Reduce the heat to low, cover the saucepan, and cook the quinoa for 15 minutes, or until all the liquid has been absorbed. The quinoa should be fully cooked at this point — taste a little to make sure it’s not crunchy (if it is, add a little more water to the pan and keep cooking until it’s softened — you really want to make s...…
…46 | APRIL 18 • 2024 plate to the freezer and chill uncovered until the balls are cold and no longer tacky to the touch (but not frozen solid), 15 to 20 minutes. Arrange an oven rack in the center position and preheat the oven to 325°F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside. Place ½ cup (55g) of the confectioners’ sugar in a small bowl. Remove the plate from the freezer and, working one piece at a time, ...…
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…48 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N N ext Year in Jerusalem” is this year in Israel for some Metro Detroiters eagerly awaiting the opportunity to spend Passover overseas with family and friends. They say that being there post-Oct. 7 takes on a much deeper meaning than pre- vious holidays spent in Israel. Before their travels, Barb Haddad, Jennie Levy and Aviv Vered shared some thoughts and feelings about their upcoming visits. All said they t...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 49 J N CLOCKWISE: Eli Levy and his Israeli cousins during Passover 2023. Eli and more Israeli cousins, Passover 2023. Eli enjoying baked unleavened bread. During the Levy’s seder, the kids wear plague masks. The Vered family: From left to right, Aviv, Neiv, behind her, son Noam, Dana, and daughter, Sivan. Simon and Eli Levy in Israel for Passover 2022. hostage topics everywhere. Maybe here we forgot, but over there, no, ...…
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…50 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N B eth Bitterman of West Bloomfield is getting ready for a seder with her family and friends. They use an addition to the Haggadah her husband, David Tushman, assembled years ago that he calls the Passover Chronicles. “It’s his own little concoction of Passover stories, ” she says. “There are also some seder jokes, an ultimate seder quiz, and Passover theater, kind of like a play. ” They have a seder welcom...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 51 J N continued on page 52 LEFT: Desmond Sternberg, 4, takes a bite of matzah. ABOVE: Daniel and Marissa Sternberg and their children Desmond, Jude and baby Eleanor. who might be nervous about standing out while eating differently during the week that they’re not alone. “With everything going on in Israel, the way we show our identity and religion will be a little different, ” says Jacob Friedman. “It’ll feel g...…
…52 | APRIL 18 • 2024 to theirs as they go. It’s a chance for everyone to get together, retell the story and remember where they came from, she says. This year that’s extra important as well, she says, given the current climate in Israel. “We fought and fought and fought, and we were free, ” she says. “The story of Passover is one of the significant stories we tell every single year, about getting out of Egypt. ” TRADITIONS OLD AND...…
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…“I THINK PASSOVER IS JUST REALLY FUN.” — EMMA GRANT Passover: Passover: PASS IT ON! KAREN SCHWARTZ CONTRIBUTING WRITER JUST FOR KIDS Y ou may have already seen it on grocery store shelves. Boxes of matzah, rows of ring gels and jars of gefilte fish are on display as Passover approaches. The holiday, which starts Monday, April 22, means many kids will be trading in the usual snacks and sandwich bread for crunchy sheets of matzah. ...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 55 J N How About A Favorite How About A Favorite Afikomen Story for Starters? Afikomen Story for Starters? A F I K O M E N Watch for it! The middle matzah on your seder table is going to be broken in two pieces toward the start of the seder. The larger part is called the afikomen. It gets wrapped and hidden — in some houses by the adults, in others, by the kids, and then bought back before the meal can be complete. ...…
…56 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N JUST FOR KIDS A Seder Seder PLATE PROJECT STEPS: 1. Glue the cupcake liners around the edge of the paper plate. 2. Label the liners with markers and decorate the plate. 3. Fill the plate with seder items, or draw the items and cut them out, placing each one in its holder. Reminder — the seder plate usually consists of: Happy Passover! • A roasted egg • Bitter herbs • Parsley • Charoset • S...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 57 J N Ethan Zane Bocknek, son of Erika and Andy Bocknek, will lead the congregation in prayer as a bar mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Saturday, April 20, 2024. He will be joined in celebration by his sisters, Lielle and Kefira. Ethan is the loving grandchild of Cheryl and Marc Bocknek, and Retta and Mark London. He is a student at Roeper Middle School in Birmingham. Deeply committed to his...…
…58 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N Visit to Israel was meaningful, informative and surreal. Normal, But Not Normal STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY DON COHEN CONTRIBUTING WRITER ERETZ This man sat down and played “Hatikvah” (“The Hope”), Israel’s national anthem on a piano in Hostage Square in front of the Tel Aviv Art Museum. Menashe Harush and Don Cohen in the Nova Festival Tent at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv. The center picture on the right...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 59 J N continued on page 60 I n Israel, every day is still Oct. 7. It has been that way for me, too. That is why I had to go to Israel. Every morning, and countless times each day, I check the news from Israel. It is not enough, but in some ways, too much. So much tragedy. So much suffering. So many unknowns. On top of that, I find myself disgusted by the lies and extremism of those condemning Israel, frustrated...…
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…60 | APRIL 18 • 2024 My friend Hai, an Air Force veteran in his early 70s, came out of retirement and is in Tel Aviv or on a military base almost every day. As we walked the kibbutz, he told me, “It’s like a stone in my heart. It’s like our War of Independence. We got proof of what will happen if we lose. ” Then we turned a corner and he saw the wife of his cousin, the former hostage, being interviewed as she retold her story. Both ...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 61 the late 1970s and now has almost 30 direct descendants in Israel, told me, “We need to reaffirm the Jewish connection, both theologically and psychologically. ” He thinks the judicial reform protests made Israel look weak and vulnerable, and that unity is a must. His wife, Bracha, has come out of retirement to work with the Jewish Federations of North America to raise and distribute aid in Israel. She also ma...…
…62 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N T he sirens started blaring all over Israel just before 2 a.m. — in the south, in the north, near army bases around the country and, unusu- ally, in and around Jerusalem. The sirens are meant to stop Israelis in their tracks — or wake them from their slumber — and send them rushing to safe rooms when an air attack is detected. Not that many people were sleeping easily. The barrage came after days of increa...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 63 heavy, and I couldn’t help but tear up when a man sat down at a piano and played Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem. In the Nova Festival tent at the square, I spoke with Menashe, whose nephew Elkana Bohlbot, 34 and a new father, was last seen on a Hamas video taken into Gaza bloodied, shirtless and bound. Menashe has been in that tent at Hostage Square almost every day since the war began. “We have so many p...…
…64 | APRIL 18 • 2024 J N J osh Nodler describes his five-year college hockey career as a winding path. The path has ended at the same place where it started, with the 22-year-old Oak Park resident hoping to play profes- sional hockey. Nodler is completing work this spring on a master’s degree in computer science at Bowling Green University, then he plans to explore pro- fessional hockey options this summer. He’d like to land in th...…
…APRIL 18 • 2024 | 65 J N quick hits BY STEVE STEIN Ron Silberstein is commissioner of the baseball competition at this summer’s JCC Maccabi Games in Detroit. He needs at least three assistant commissioners and scorekeepers to keep things running smoothly. Sixteen baseball teams are expected to compete in two age divisions: 12-14 and 15-16. Games will be played July 29 through Aug. 1 at West Bloomfield High School, Bloomfield ...…
