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amy is, with one exception, a Jewish story about how faith and heritage can make navigating contemporary American life both humorous and hard. The exception is that Ramy — the 28-year-old comedian and the main character in his eponymous TV show — is Muslim.

Otherwise, though, Jewish. In the gendered expectations of first-generation Ben Falik American parents eager to become grandparents of third-generation Americans. In balancing the work ethic instilled upon us with creative pursuits and work-life balance. In the members of extended family (and “family�) whose outspoken worldviews, while based on their own lived experiences, perpetuate stereotypes of others and of their own community.

The first 10-episode season of Ramy, a Hulu original series, has afforded me three things. First, audible laughter (aka LOL IRL) sufficient to rouse Lola, my geriatric Newfoundland. Second, a new way to think about Jewish journeys of affiliation and assimilation.

Third, a safe space to explore my own ignorance and prejudice when it comes to Islam and its adherents.

Ramy is funny. And there’s no way better way to sap something of its humor than to try to explain how or why. Instead, here’s the show’s opening exchange, between Ramy and his doting, would-be-empty-nesting mother: — “I don’t understand. Why is he getting married before you? Maybe you can find a girl in there.â€? — “I’m not gonna flirt with girls at the mosque ‌ What am I supposed to say? Like, ‘Hey, can I get your father’s number?’â€? — “Yes, why not?â€?

Ramy’s belief in God is the source of “observance dissonance.� On the one hand, the deep interconnectedness he observes in his relationships and reflections point decisively toward the Divine. On the other, that same depth and dynamism make it impossible to observe all the rules of his religion.

“And, yeah, I have sex even though I’m not married and I’m probably gonna try mushrooms one day. So what? That means I’m not a good Muslim? ’Cause I don’t follow all the rules and the f***king judgments that are always just being put on us? ‌ And then I do the same thing. I put the same f***ing judgments on everyone around me. I’m just, like, trying to be ‌ good. Do you think God cares if I wash between my toes?â€?

The spirit or the letter of law? His own moral compass, the precepts of his faith or the norms of his community?

I have never had to negotiate dating apps or head coverings, let alone a combination of the two. Still, Judah is less than three years away from becoming bar mitzvah (and is named Judah) and yet I feel like I’m taking a pop quiz in my underwear when I try to help him sound out and translate Hebrew words.

Like Ramy says in this exchange with a friend’s cousin in town interviewing prospective husbands during Ramadan: — “I read the Qur’an in English.� — “I want my kids to read Arabic.� — “Totally, no, I think they should, I mean, I think that you could, you know, you gotta teach the kids Arabic, and I actually feel like when I have kids, I’ll just, I’ll take the class with them, so this way, it’s like a bonding thing, like me and them and then they’re like, ‘Wow, Dad’s still learning, too,’ I think is a valuable lesson.� — “The adult brain stops developing at 25, so it’s much harder to learn languages. It’ll never stick.�

Ramy Youssef was a 10-year-old child of Egyptian immigrants living in New Jersey on Sept. 11, 2001. I was a college sophomore in upper Manhattan.

Like you — the thoughtful readers of this column, who think critically, bring your own grocery bags to the store and floss regularly — I consider myself an open-minded and empa-

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thetic person.

But I have an implicit bias against Muslims in general and Arabs in particular and you probably do, too.

Planet of the Arabs is a short film made entirely of footage that creator Jaqueline Salloum describes as demonstrating “Hollywood’s relentless vilification and dehumanization of Arabs and Muslims.� It’s worth spending nine minutes to watch — and you don’t need a Hulu account. There’s also riztest.com. (Lighter online alternative: Peabody Award-winning Halal in the Family).

Ramy is one in a billion, in that he is exactly one Muslim person out of approximately two billion in the world. And Ramy is nearly as anomalous as a nuanced portrayal of Muslim characters for a secular audience.

Even — especially? — in a region that has an engaged, diverse Muslim and Middle-Eastern communities, Islamophobia is a sociological reality.

And there’s self-work for each of us to do. I, for one, had to look online to learn the meaning of “habibi� and then train my ear to hear it as a term of endearment and not some kind of ominous other.

Yes, it is purposeful and powerful for Jews and Muslims to volunteer together on Mitzvah Day and to advocate for Christians who would face religious persecution if deported to Iraq. More of that.

But just like we are more than our mitzvot, Ramy reminds us that there is honor — and humor — in hearing our neighbors’ stories and sharing our own. â–

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Legislative Leaders: It’s Time To Act on LGBT Protections

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t the time of its passage in 1976, the purpose of the Michigan Civil Rights Act (also known as the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act), was to give all Michigan citizens, primarily African Americans, recourse through the Michigan Department of Civil Rights Enforcement Division if they believed they had Mel Larsen been discriminated against. It was also equally important to develop educational programs to help citizens better understand acts of discrimination and how to avoid such acts.

Nowhere in the Michigan Civil Right Act does it say certain groups or individuals shall be excluded from protection against discrimination. The intent of the Michigan Civil Right Act is to include all citizens.

Article 5 section 29 of the Michigan Constitution of 1964 created an independent Civil Right Commission responsible for

oversight, enforcement and monitoring of civil rights in the state of Michigan. The majority of the current commissioners believes the Michigan Civil Rights Act includes all citizens and citizen groups, including the LGBT community.

They so stated by resolution this past year. The LGBT community has every right as citizens of the state of Michigan to be protected from discrimination under this act.

To include LGBT community in the Michigan Civil Rights Act, it must be amended by the legislature to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

For more than a decade, the majority leadership in both the Michigan House and Senate have refused to address the issue of sexual orientation and gender identity being added to the Michigan Civil Right Act. They have chosen to simply not put it on their agenda.

Recently, bills have been once again introduced in both the House and Senate to include sexual orientation and gender identity to the Michigan Civil Rights Act.

This is a public issue that needs to be addressed. It is time for the majority leadership in the legislature to stop saying no to this item and put the sexual orientation and gender identity bills on their agenda. Start scheduling public hearings across the state and let the public be heard. Be they individuals, corporations, religious leaders, the LGBT community, educators or special interest groups, bring them all to the table.

Recent polls indicate adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the Michigan Civil Right Act is supported by an overwhelming majority of Michigan citizens. Public hearings will prove or disprove this statement. ■ See related stories on pages 10 and 16.

Mel Larsen, a Republican representative, and Daisy Elliott, a Democratic representative, co-sponsored Michigan’s landmark Michigan Civil Rights Act, also known as the ElliottLarsen Civil Rights Act, in 1976. Larsen is also a former Michigan Republican Party chairman.

We at National Council of Jewish Women, Michigan (NCJW | MI), were thrilled to see your cover on the June 6 issue. Jackie Victor is a true gift to our community and, for her many contributions, she is being honored by NCJW | MI with the Woman of Vision Award at our annual Women of Vision Benefit Luncheon on Thursday, Oct. 24, at Adat Shalom Synagogue. We will also be honoring Lisa Lis with the Josephine S. Weiner Community Service Award. Our keynote speaker will be Dahlia Lithwick, contributing editor at Newsweek and editor at Slate.com. We are pleased to be able to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of these women.

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I read the recent letter in the Jewish News (May 30, page 5) and I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. It started out as a call for the Jewish people to unite together, as we should, in order to fight the evils that are against us around the world. But the call for unity gets ruined by the writer railing against Jewish groups that tend to be more progressive than he is.

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Bring Security Strategies From Israel to Wayne State

Not Now and I follow “Breaking the Silence” and “Cachol Levan” in Israel.

The people I have met from these groups love Israel with all their heart and are worried as Jews about the path that Israel is taking. We are not anti-Israel as the writer thinks just because we oppose the Israeli government.

I lived in Israel for 17 years and lost friends in the conflicts. It saddens me that Israel (where I visit every three years) is moving away from the Jewish principles that have governed us for more than 3,000 years.

Maybe instead of unity, we, as Jews, should look into our hearts and ask ourselves if the State of Israel is living up to the Jewish principles as we know them.

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ecently, I had the privilege of representing Wayne State University and the greater Midtown area as a member of the Law Enforcement/Federation Security Detroit delegation. Our group of six joined other delegations in Israel hailing from Cleveland, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.

Funded by the Israel Anthony Holt Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, the sevenday training regimen proved to be one of the most intense and eye-opening immersion activities that I have experienced during my 42-year law enforcement career.

The daily 10-hour training covered a wide swath of topics, including coping with terrorism threats, anti-Semitism as a global terror threat, connection between community and security/ emergency forces, terror in the State of Israel from the perspective of a senior commander in the field, Judaism in the diaspora, simulation exercises and numerous other critical points of discussion.

We participated in several facility tours, including the Police Control Center for Jerusalem (Old City) and a police security training center. I was particularly moved by briefings from a Pittsburgh Police Department SWAT commander and a Jewish Federation security director regarding the Tree of Life synagogue shooting.

There were numerous lessons learned and other takeaways that emerged from the training sessions.

Overall, I developed a deeper understanding of how to employ situational awareness — being aware of our surroundings throughout the day and watchful of any warning signs.

I am reminded of a particularly gruesome and heartbreaking story regarding a type of suicide bombing.

Terrorists have employed the horrific practice of strapping a bomb around a child in a stroller and then leaving the stroller unattended. Unsuspecting

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Deputy Chief Curt Lawson, West Bloomfield Police Department; Lt. Russ Yeiser, Oakland County Sheriff’s Department; Wayne State University Police Chief Anthony Holt; Steve Cooper, director, Oak Park Public Safety; Capt. Dan Edwards, Bloomfield Hills Township Police Department; Gary Sikorski, security director, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.

bystanders approach the child to offer assistance; then the bomb is detonated, killing the child and several onlookers.

Also included as part of the situational awareness training are the targets of opportunity, the destinations and venues that are popular for terrorists to practice their deadly maneuvers. In Israel, buses, light-rail stops and the entry gates to the Old City of Jerusalem are prime targets.

These locations have been singled out for knife attacks, vehicular attacks and the use of improvised explosives.

Israel’s leadership, military, law enforcement agencies and citizens represent an international model for preventing and battling the challenges of terrorism. Israel, as a nation, is top tier in terms of prevention and overall security. Other nations around the globe can learn from Israel’s law enforcement practices and overall preparedness of the citizens.

Poring over my notes on the long flight home, I was reminded of the importance of preparedness and situational awareness — not just in Israel, but also globally and locally.

At Wayne State University, the safety

of our students and staff has always been a priority, a charge that our police department (WSUPD) focuses on 24/7.

The reach of WSUPD includes not only the campus, but also the greater Midtown Detroit area — all neighbors and members of our community.

Our highly trained officers engage the community, patrol campus and surrounding areas, offer important safety resources and respond to emergencies. WSUPD plays a vital role in making Wayne State a welcoming home, school and workplace for thousands of people.

It is gratifying that Israel and the United States continue to share law enforcement strategies in the fight against terrorism. The cooperative spirit that we experienced as part of the Detroit delegation in Israel was outstanding.

I am grateful to all of the parties, in particular the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, for their efforts in making the training available. ■ Anthony Holt is the Wayne State University Chief of Police.

I was hopeful at first about Mr. Ginsburg’s “call for Jewish unity.” I thought he’d take to task the Jews who call other Jews “self-hating” just because they have a different opinion on Israeli politics.

Then I got to the part where he talks about “radical Muslim women.”

American citizens duly elected to the House of Representatives pose a greater threat to Jews than white supremacist militias shouting, “Jew will not replace us” and entering synagogues with military weaponry? Really?

But what really puzzles me is his claim that the Democratic Party can no longer be relied upon to support “Jewish causes.” When I think of “Jewish causes,” I think of clean air and water, feeding the poor, Social Security, Medicare, public education, literacy, Head Start, health care, equal rights, a living wage, FOIA, National Endowment for the Arts … and so many more.

And who is actively working to destroy these hard-won programs and values? It’s certainly not the Democratic Party. Saying “I love Israel” every five minutes does not make up for Republican attacks on the social values that have made the U.S. a safe home for Jews until recently.

Cynthia Brody Beverly Hills

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Eligible students should be exceptional leaders in academics, athletics, arts, community service or in the Jewish community. An anonymous committee will determine deserving students who will be offered $20,000 scholarships for each students’ tenure at FJA for a total of up to $80,000 per student. Current tuition is $25,000 per year.

All new students who already have applied for the 2019-2020 school year will be considered for this pilot program. Eligible recipients can be from any grade level, Jewish background or any school — if they are new to FJA. “This is something we’ve been exploring for several years,” said FJA Head of School Rabbi Azaryah Cohen. “[The goal is] to make an FJA education affordable to mission-appropriate and highly capable students. Students who we believe will be leaders and who will demonstrate that an investment in Jewish education pays invaluable dividends for our local and global communities.”

Increasing enrollment also plays a role. For comparison, enrollment for the 2015-2016 school year was 220 students. This academic year, the school had 146 enrolled, with a senior class of 43. So far, enrollment for the incoming freshman class will be in the mid- to high-20s, about what it was last year, Cohen said.

Although neither Farber Hebrew Day School in Southfield nor Hillel Day School in Farmington Hills have

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merit-based scholarships, Cohen noted some day schools do in New Jersey, Connecticut, New York and California.

FJA leaders have been studying information and initiatives in a report issued several years ago by UJA Federation of Toronto, and have been following the San Diego Jewish Academy, which instituted a half-off tuition fee for children entering kindergarten and ninth grades, which are considered transitional grades.

“In thinking about the innumerable design options a program like this can take, we also took into consideration the success of other initiatives, factors that shape our market and the students who would thrive given an opportunity like this,” Cohen said, adding that merit scholars will participate in leadership training opportunities.

The merit program will not affect the school’s financial assistance program.

Shana Kantor, FJA director of advancement, said students receiving merit scholarships who still need help with the balance of the tuition can apply for financial aid.

How have parents of current students been responding to the new program?

“I have had nothing but positive responses from current parents in the school,” Cohen said. “I think people understand that a program like this will benefit everyone in the school and the greater community. Families who receive the scholarship and are fortunate to be able to afford tuition will, I believe, increase their contribution to Jewish education at FJA.” Application deadline to be considered for the scholarship is July 1. Frankel Merit Scholars will be announced July 15. To apply, go to frankelja.org/scholarship or contact Arielle Endelman at aendelman@ frankelja.org. ■

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n June 4, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, along with Sen. Jeremy Moss, D– Southfield, and other members of the Michigan Legislature’s LGBTQ Caucus, renewed the call to expand the ElliottLarsen Civil Rights Act by adding sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes.

The bills introduced by the legislators would protect LGBTQ individGov. Gretchen uals from discrimination Whitmer in employment, housing, public accommodations and more.

“It’s time to get Michigan on the right side of history. In the year 2019, nobody should be fired from State Sen. their job or evicted from Jeremy Moss their home based on who they love or how they identify,” Whitmer said. “If we’re going to attract the talented workforce our businesses need to create jobs and grow our economy, we need to continue to make Michigan a state where everyone can come to for opportunity.” She vowed to sign the legislation, if passed.

If enacted, Michigan would join 20 other states that protect individuals from discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.

“This month, LGBTQ Americans will mark 50 years since the Stonewall Uprising, and still the community here in Michigan doesn’t have the basic discrimination protection that pioneering activists fought for all those years ago,” Moss said. “Our community finally has representation in both chambers of the Michigan legislature and an advocate in the governor’s office committed to seeing this process through.”

Attorney General Dana Nessel issued a statement after the legislation

was introduced: “Every Michigander deserves equal protection under the law. For too long we’ve allowed discriminatory practices to be carried out against members of the LGBTQ community. Michigan law currently allows for LGBTQ people to be denied housing, a meal at a local restaurant, essential health care services and even a good-paying job.

“By expanding the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to irrefutably include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes, we are saying all people in our state deserve to be treated equally and fairly — the very intent of this law when it was established. This legislation is common sense and it’s the right thing to do. I look forward to working with our partners in the legislature to ensure Michigan finally provides adequate protections to the LGBTQ community.”

Attorney General A 2014 effort to expand Dana Nessel the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to cover the LGBTQ community ultimately failed despite support from business leaders and advocacy groups around the state.

Michigan residents who believe they’ve faced discrimination can file complaints with the Michigan Civil Rights Commission as of May 2018, but the legal grounds for such complaints remain uncertain without explicit changes. The governor has also issued an executive directive to extend discrimination protections for state employees and contractors, but there is nothing yet to protect individuals outside of that scope. ■ See an op-ed from Mel Larsen on page 6 and a story about neo-Nazis at the Motor City Pride Festival on page 16.

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wenty years ago, Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg, more affectionately known as Rabbi G, turned a personal tragedy of losing his 2-year-old daughter Sara to leukemia into something that has brought power, peace and purpose to children who have been diagnosed with cancer and other diseases.

Today, his organization Kids Kicking Cancer (KKC) has reached approximately 15,000 children around the world, from those who visit the dojo in Southfield to as far away as Israel and Italy.

“Our goal is to reach every child in the world,” said Rabbi G, who is founder and international director of KKC, as well as clinical assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit.

“Giving children the tools to breathe in the light and blow out the darkness gives

them a sense of power.”

Rabbi G and Ruthie, his wife of 40 years, experienced the heartbreak of losing their first child Sara in 1982. And while the death of any child presents a “significant challenge” to any marriage, according to Rabbi G, the experience brought the couple closer and launched the organization that is celebrating its anniversary in June.

“My inspiration was Sara,” Rabbi G said. “She was my first inspiration. I feel this ongoing connection with my daughter and her soul. My daughter continues to ‘travel’ with me.”

Kids Kicking Cancer plans an anniversary celebration later this summer and the renaming of its offices and dojo in Southfield to the Natalie and Manny Charach Global Kids Kicking Cancer Center, thanks to a $1.2 million donation by the couple.

Rabbi G said the donation will allow KKC to grow its global therapy by investing in sustainable program systems and computer-based platforms. KKC has created video training for its growing staff and volunteers and has invested in proving its cost-effective therapeutic program for children.

“Our goal is to use this funding to further integrate our care as a standard of pediatrics, using our simple but effective tools,” he said. “We have seen wonderful results that compare favorably with more difficult and costly interventions. In our brain scans, we have evidenced profound neurological benefits compared with mindfulness or distraction.”

KKC GOES GLOBAL Kids Kicking Cancer is now in 72 institutions globally. In addition to the program continuing its work in Michigan hospitals, it is in nine hospitals in Israel and 12 in South Africa. Rabbi G and his staff are now looking to bring the program to children in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique as well as Egypt and Jordan.

Rabbi G said the mission of the organization, which is to ease the pain of very sick children while empowering them to heal physically, spiritually and emotionally, transcends religions and is now ready to be taken “to the next level.”

“This is an important time in our progress,” he said. “By 2025, we have a goal of reaching 1 million children.”

KKC is doing that by building up its digital and electronic platforms so that program information can be viewed across the globe. The organization is also keeping activities local, including teaching children at Pepper Elementary School in Oak Park about the program, which includes recognizing pain but using breath, meditation and martial arts movements to get past it.

“We teach children to imagine the pain and break through it,” said Rabbi G. “We teach every child the power of martial arts and that it centers you in the soul.”

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CHILDREN AS TEACHERS Aletha McKay, mother of 12-yearold Grace, said her daughter and her siblings, Danielle, 13, and Faith, 5, have all benefitted from the program.

Grace was diagnosed with T cell lymphoblastic leukemia when she was 7. McKay said she was unprepared when she saw the X-ray that showed a mass so large on Grace’s left side that it was beginning to block her carotid artery.

“That was a huge blow,” said the Farmington resident. “Nothing prepares you to hear that news and to see that X-ray.”

McKay said her daughter at 7 was already involved in martial arts and was enthusiastic about her classes.

Though Grace was hesitant at first to get involved with Kids Kicking Cancer at Children’s Hospital of Michigan due to her depression over her illness, once she made friends, she wholeheartedly took to the program.

“One of the huge things that KKC focuses on is breathing and self-control,” McKay said. “Pain is a message you don’t have to listen to. Even getting chemotherapy port access was a big deal (for Grace). She learned how to breathe and to do a body scan. It was a much smoother visit to the clinic once Grace joined Kids Kicking Cancer.”

Today, Grace has no cancer present in her body, according to her medical scans.

And now that all three of her daughters are involved in KKC, McKay finds them reminding her to breathe during stressful times.

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“There are times that I will get frustrated by things and one of the kids will say, ‘Mom, are you doing your power breathing?’” she said with a laugh.

PAIN BECOMES INSPIRATION Michael Hunt, a martial arts therapist with Kids Kicking Cancer, says he has been involved with the program from almost day one. Hunt was 9 years old in 1997 when he was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a cancer that can affect soft tissue, such as muscle, connective tissue, such as tendons or cartilage, or bone. Hunt’s cancer manifested itself as a grapefruit-sized tumor on his left side.

Tumor removal required surgery that also removed four of his ribs.

Hunt also underwent chemotherapy and radiation. He is cancer-free today but still lives with residual side effects.

As a therapist, he teaches children who are now in the same place that he was in as a child. He adds that every needle stick he had to undergo and all the pain he felt were worth it if he can help alleviate another child’s fear, anxiety and pain.

“I see a little bit of myself in all of them,” he said. “I’m able to share my experience with them. It is my hope that we continue to expand and help more kids to ease their pain.” ■ To learn more about Kids Kicking Cancer or to make a donation, call (248) 864-8238.

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uring June 8-9, Detroit hosted community believed police officers its Motor City Pride Festival, were escorting NSM members through the largest pride event in the parade, but that was not the case. the state of Michigan. The festival is Detroit Police Chief James Craig said a place for the community to come their No. 1 goal was to maintain peace. together and celebrate gay pride, but “To any critics that thought we were members of the National Socialist escorting them, we were simply keepMovement (NSM) had other plans. ing the two groups separate,” Craig Media sources reported the neo-Na- said. zis were seen walking through the The police department was also parade wearing all-black uniforms informed through its intelligence unit flagged with swastikas, carrying weapons and demonstrating Nazi salutes.

According to the ADL, the NSM, headquartered in Detroit, is the largest neo-Nazi group in the U.S., though it only has a few hundred active members. It calls for a “greater America” that would deny citizenship to Jews, non-whites and members of the LGBTQ community.

At the Pride Festival, one white nationalist was photographed straddling and appearing to urinate on an Israeli flag lying on the ground.

Sam Dubin, founder of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Members of the National Socialist Movement disruptDetroit’s NEXTGen Detroit Pride, ed the Motor City Pride Festival parade. is no stranger to this type of that five members of the NSM were anti-Semitism and discrimination. carrying guns. The members were “As gays, Jews and gay Jews, we taking advantage of open carry with have historically been discriminated two of them holding long guns and the against,” he said. “I’m confident that other three carrying handguns. when we stick together and rise above Craig clarified that a member of the hatred, that’s when we have the the NSM did not actually urinate on most power to combat anti-Semitism the Israeli flag despite what images and homophobia.”

Carolyn Normandin, regional direc- may show. “We advised him that if he did urinate on the flag, he would be tor of Michigan’s ADL, doesn’t want this behavior to become normalized in arrested.”

However, members of the NSM our society. destroyed both the Israeli flag and “We will continue to make our rainbow pride flags. presence known that we fight this kind of hate in all forms,” Normandin “I applaud the men and women of said. “We will not give in to people Detroit Police Department,” Craig saif. who have these vile and disgusting “They showed dedication and profesthoughts.” sionalism in order to maintain The Detroit Police Department held peace.” ■ a press conference June 10 addressing See related stories on pages 6 and 10. the situation. Many people from the

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he vast majority of American Jews have their home on the political left, according to Amanda Berman, executive director and co-founder of the New York City-based Zioness Movement. She says American Jews generally believe in human rights, want to see widespread health insurance and laws to protect workers, to limit global warming and to protect minorities against discrimination.

However, according to Berman, though most want to take part in events in support of progressive causes, these events have often become unwelcoming as organizers more and more often include anti-Zionism among the causes.

During the 10th annual Nelson Legacy program at Congregation Beth Shalom (in conjunction with the Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies at Wayne State University), Berman spoke June 5 on “Defending Israel against Its Demonizers.” On June 6, she explored “Advancing Progressive Values — Remaining Committed Zionists. Can We Do Both?”

Berman answered her own question: “Of course, we can. Zionism is the national liberation movement of an oppressed minority, Jews. As progressives, we should stand for Israel.

Asking us to decide between progressive values and Zionism presents us with a false choice.”

But organizers do present that false choice. Organizers of the June 7 Washington, D.C., Dyke March banned the Jewish Pride flag, with a Star of David in rainbow colors.

Yael Horowitz, a march organizer, explained on Facebook that the event would ban that flag along with all “nationalist symbols,” including those representing “nations that have specific oppressive tendencies.”

However, according to many sources, organizers would permit marchers to display the Palestinian flag. A march for lesbian rights in Chicago in 2017 made similar decisions, expelling three women for displaying the Star of David but permitting

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Palestinian symbols.

Berman considered how progressive Jews can respond to feeling unwelcome. In the easiest response, Jews just decide not to attend.

Berman maintains this path of least resistance fails for several reasons: “If we stay away, we fail to express our commitments to people who deserve our support. Also, if we do not stand up for other marginalized communities, they will not know to stand up for us.”

Furthermore, she said that “weaponizing anti-Zionism on the left amounts to a gift to the political right. It expels allies from progressive efforts, and it makes progressive causes safe for anti-Semitism.”

Instead, according to Berman, “American Jews must stand for marginalized groups, but we must not forget to stand up for ourselves.”

When Berman decided to take part in the Women’s March on the day after the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, she found that the organizers welcomed a wide swath continued on page 20

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ustomers will be pleased to know that the cuttingedge apparel, footwear and equipment, and topnotch service they’ve long enjoyed at The Tennis & Golf Company are continuing under new ownership.

For 42 years, including 20 in Royal Oak, founder David Schwartz “built a fine company with a reputation for quality and service that spread far beyond the local area,” said customer Steve Gold of Huntington Woods.

Schwartz sold his spacious 18,000-square-foot store to experienced sporting-goods retailers Steve Kopitz and Andy Schepper. The partners started on May 1, pledging to improve upon the best aspects of The Tennis & Golf Company.

“This location is the largest specialty tennis shop in the Midwest and one of the top five in the country,” Kopitz said. For 25 years he owned Summit Sports, with several area locations, including Don Thomas Sporthaus, in Birmingham.

Kopitz, after selling his company, retired in 2016 and was living part-time in Naples, Fla., when presented with the opportunity to purchase The Tennis & Golf Company.

“I wasn’t looking to get into another business, but I couldn’t see letting it go,” he said.

Schepper, the CEO of The Tennis & Golf Company, worked with Kopitz at Summit Sports for more than 20 years. Given his expertise in e-commerce, Schepper is building Tennis & Golf’s first internet business. The website tennisracquets.com will launch later this year.

Schepper is on premises at the store while Kopitz plans to work in more of a “strategic capacity.”

Red letters spell out the Tennis & Golf name on the building on the west side of Woodward between 12 and 13 Mile roads. The extra-large store features a “shop within a shop” feel with knowledgeable, experienced sales staff in every department.

A unique feature of the store is the 20’ x 70’ “hitting lane,” where a ball machine shoots tennis balls from the far wall. With “Demo Racquets” for virtually every model sold, customers can try out any racquet they like. “Why would you buy a racquet without trying it first?” Kopitz asked. “Your body will tell you which one is right.”

With the largest selection of tennis racquets in the Midwest, customers can choose from brands including Wilson, Head, Babolat and Volkl. Trained staff will fit

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Racquets are custom-strung the same day, and often while customers wait. This time of year, with 50-100 requests daily, “our five stringing machines go non-stop,” Kopitz said.

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Berman and a friend decided to attend and to display Jewish symbols.

When she shared that idea with another friend, a talented public relations expert, he said, “You can’t do it that way as two people. You need a social media presence, an Internet presence, a logo, a title, an organizational name. You need to show up in numbers.”

He came up with the name Zioness. “It feels exactly right to me,” Berman said.

He arranged this in a few days. “It turned out that a lot of people felt the way I did, feeling excluded from causes that matters to them because of anti-Semitism.”

Though Zioness began with activities, in August of 2017 it began to form chapters. “We quickly grew to 28 chapters,” she said. “We need more professional staff to keep track of all our activities.”

All sorts of progressive causes now are infected with anti-Semitism, according to Berman. When nonJews explain that they are anti-Zion-

ist, not anti-Semitic, we need to challenge their assumptions. No one has standing to tell black Americans what anti-Black rhetoric is legitimate; so, too, no one should have the standing to tell Jews what anti-Semitic rhetoric is legitimate. “We need to reclaim Zionism as a progressive value.”

Rabbi Emeritus David Nelson of Beth Shalom said, “Ms. Berman . . . is a visionary and an important new voice in our polarized U.S. world.”

Sheyna Wexelberg-Clouser of Oak Park said, “I found Amanda Berman to be an inspirational speaker. She starkly described how anti-Semitism has taken root in the political left.

She also spoke passionately about the need for pro-Israel Jews to be present and fight for our right to participate in the dialogue and not allow ourselves to be shut out.

“She made me aware that we cannot be passive and abandon the causes that we feel strongly about because those who are pro-Palestinian have so effectively changed the paradigm.” ■ For details on the Zioness Movement, go to zioness.org.

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Join the Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival, Haddassah Greater Detroit and Anti-Defamation League Michigan for a screening of the Academy Award-winning short film Skin beginning at 2 p.m.

Sunday, June 23, at the JCC in West Bloomfield.

In a small supermarket in a blue-collar town, a black man smiles at a 10-year-old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash. Note: This film includes violent content.

Central High School Shabbat at CSZ Graduates of Detroit’s Central High School from the years 1941-1955 are invited to the Central High School Shabbat at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield on June 22 at 9 a.m.

Shabbat morning services offer a participatory, clergy-led service, a triennial Torah reading, a sermon and songs of the Musaf service with keyboard accompaniment. Following services, everyone will join for a festive Shabbat lunch.

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While it can be scary for young ships and lifelong memories are campers, older campers may have created. But it can be frightening, an even harder time, according to leaving your home for weeks at a Jonah Wolf, 19, who will be going time; no one knows this better than into his third year as a staff memthe counselors. ber at Camp Ramah in Muskoka, Jessica Norris of West Bloomfield Ontario. never really experienced first-time “You have to break into the inevcamper jitters because she grew up itable cliques that form at Camp Tamakwa in Algonquin Provincial TOP: Jessica Norris with a at camp,� Wolf said. “My Park, Ontario. Norris’ camper at Camp Tamakwa advice to older campers who in Ontario. Norris says her are going into eighth grade father co-owns the counselors had a huge is don’t be nervous to meet camp, so she spent impact on her; she hopes to people. The quicker you get her earliest summers do the same as a first-time out of your comfort zone the in the camp nurscounselor this summer. better.� ery and eventually Wolf ’s best advice to new graduated to campcampers, both young and older, is to er. After spending nine years as a not be afraid to try new things. camper, this summer will be her Randi Traison of West Bloomfield first as a counselor. She is thrilled started attending Camp Ramah in to help campers have the same 2008 and was a camper for six years amazing experiences she has had at before going with the camp for a Tamakwa. summer in Israel. Traison is going “My counselors had a huge into her fourth year on Ramah’s impact on me growing up and I want to give that same experience to staff. “I would tell campers that it’s my campers,� Norris said. “My best OK to be homesick, but don’t miss advice to first-time campers is don’t out on an opportunity,� Traison be afraid to get out of your comfort zone and be silly, that’s what camp is said. “There are so many things to try and camp is a great place to do all about. Take advantage of everythings for the first time because thing camp has to offer.� everyone is so supportive.�

Jake Fishkind of West Bloomfield So, to all the new campers out was a camper at Camp Tamarack in there, heed this advice: Don’t be Ortonville for 10 years and a counselor for Tamarack’s youngest camp- afraid to step out of your comfort zone, try new things, be silly and ers in the summer of 2018. After make new lifelong friends. And, working with these young campers, Fishkind is well acquainted with the don’t worry, your counselors will be there for you every step of the nerves that can come with leaving way. ■home for the first time.

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10-year-old Nate Emery is one of the top rock climbers in the country in his age group STEVE STEIN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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ate Emery is a rock star.

Or, more accurately, a rock-climbing star. At

Nate Emery climbs a wall during a sport climbing competition last weekend in Bloomington, Minn.

TOP RIGHT: Nate Emery and his parents, Carolyn and Jerrold Emery.

age 10.

The Farmington Hills resident has competed indoors in six states and climbed recreationally outdoors in two states. He’s one of the best in the country in his age group in two USA Climbing competitive disciplines — bouldering and sport climbing.

Nate works hard so he can stay ahead of his competition. He spends 12-15 hours a week climbing and training. He’s been a member of the Madison Heights-based Planet Rock climbing team since 2016.

“I’m not nervous when I climb in competitions,” he said. “Climbing is too much fun.”

He climbs with a purpose and with special inspiration.

He wears a black-and-blue anklet when he competes to support law enforcement.

Before each competition, he listens to the sound of his own heart

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Drake Lubin made the most of his final two seasons of college baseball.

Playing at Maryville University outside St. Louis after transferring from Eastern Michigan University following his sophomore season, the outfielder started all 104 games while he was at Maryville and batted .315 with 134 hits, 18 doubles, five triples, three home runs and 58 RBI. He scored 106 runs, struck out only 35 times in 425 at-bats, drew 48 walks and stole 41 bases. He made

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just three errors in the field and had 11 assists and a .986 fielding percentage.

Lubin went to Eastern Michigan after an outstanding career at Walled Lake Northern High School. He decided to leave Eastern after two seasons because of a coaching change.

He transferred to Maryville primarily because he wouldn’t have to sit out a season under NCAA rules. Eastern is a Division I program and Maryville is a Division II program.

Maryville went 29-22 this season, the best in program history.

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on his late grandfather Dr. Allan Emery’s stethoscope.

“We tell him the heartbeat is the sound of papa cheering him on,” said Jerrold Emery, Nate’s father.

Nate is only 4-foot-7, but he’s going through a growth spurt, and he weighs 75 pounds. He’s all muscle. His body fat is 8 percent.

His signature long hair — he hasn’t had a haircut in three years — won’t be around for much longer. It’s going to be cut next month before he heads to Camp Tamarack.

About 9 inches of Nate’s locks will be trimmed off and donated to Children With Hair Loss, a not-forprofit organization based in South Rockwood that provides free hair replacement for children and young adults who have lost their hair because of an illness.

“It’s time to get my hair cut,” Nate said.

Why donate it?

Hockey player Josh Nodler verbally committed to Michigan State University two years ago when he was a sophomore at Berkley High School.

Nodler made his decision official in April, signing with MSU. The Oak Park resident played Coach Barry Brodsky’s Birmingham Marian High School girls soccer team was a win away from another state championship last week.

Marian defeated Flint Powers 3-1 on June 11 in a Division 2 semifinal game that pitted a pair of two-time defending state champions against each other.

“It’s a nice thing to do,” he said.

Nate will be a fifth-grader this fall at Hillside Elementary School in Farmington Hills, where he’s somewhat of a celebrity. He says he’s a good student, and he gives some credit to rock climbing.

“You have to map your route when you climb and solve problems. That’s just like school,” he said.

Nate’s latest accomplishment took place Sunday. He finished third in his age group in a two-day divisional sport climbing competition in Bloomington, Minn., and qualified for the nationals July 11-14 in Bridgeport, Pa. Twenty climbers from 12 states competed in the age group in Minnesota. Forty-eight climbers from across the country will compete in the age group at nationals.

“I climbed with all my heart,” Nate said.

Earlier this year, Nate finished 27th in his age group in the bouldering national championships in Redmond, Ore. The following week, he fractured a growth plate in his right arm and doctors told him not to have any physical activity for four weeks.

While Nate rested his arm, according to his father, he ate foods rich in vitamin D, drank lots of milk and ate plenty of salmon.

Seven weeks after the fracture, with little conditioning and limited strength, Nate won a sport climbing competition in Columbus, Ohio.

He went on to win three more

last season for the Fargo (N.D.) Force in the United States Hockey League, a top U.S. junior league.

The center had 17 goals and 25 assists in 54 games.

Nodler is eligible to be selected in this month’s NHL draft. He’s ranked the No. 75 North American skater by NHL Central Scouting.

How was that possible? Powers was moved up to Division 2 this season after winning the Division 3 state title the last two seasons.

Marian (17-1) met Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern for the state championship for the third straight time.

Elle Hartje had a near-perfect career with the Detroit Country Day School girls tennis team. She won four Division 3 state championships and her team won four state titles.

After winning the No. 1 doubles state championship twice (once with her sister Sasha), Hartje won at No. 3 singles as a junior and No. 2 singles this season. Her career record was 97-1.

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avid Vinsky. Professional baseball player.

Vinsky is still rubbing his eyes a bit to make sure it isn’t a dream. He is indeed a pro ball player, the 15th-round selection of the St. Louis Cardinals in this month’s Major League Baseball draft.

Just three years ago, coming out of Farmington Hills Harrison High School, Vinsky wasn’t exactly deluged by college offers. In fact, he had just two of them, from Northwood University and Saginaw Valley State University.

But after an unbelievable career at Northwood, he became the Midland school’s first MLB draftee in this century. Now that he’s signed with the Cardinals, he’s joined the work world.

“This is my first job. It’s the first time I’ve had to fill out a W-4 form,” Vinsky said by phone last week from Jupiter, Fla., the Cardinals’ spring training base.

The 20-year-old Novi resident was drafted June 5. He signed a minor-league contract June 12 with the Cardinals and he received a $100,000 signing bonus.

After a short but busy stay in Jupiter that included doing drills and taking batting practice, Vinsky

will be playing this summer with the Johnson City (Tenn.) Cardinals in the Rookie Appalachian League.

Vinsky is an outfielder. The 6-0, 195-pounder was a rightfielder at Northwood and he anticipates playing either leftfield or rightfield in the Cardinals’ organization.

“I’m taking things one step at a time,” he said. “My goal is to play Single-A ball next season. If it happens more quickly than that, great.”

Vinsky wasn’t surprised to be drafted by the Cardinals. He was one of about a dozen position-player prospects who worked out for Cardinals personnel at Busch Stadium in St. Louis about a week before the draft.

The Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays and Pittsburgh Pirates also showed an interest in him.

What did stun Vinsky was where he was picked in the draft, in the 15th round. He was the 455th overall selection.

“My agent told me he thought I would be drafted in the 25th round or later,” he said.

Vinsky’s batting statistics at Northwood are eye-popping. The right-handed hitter had a .411 average with 23 home runs and 160 RBI in his Northwood career.

In just three seasons, he became Northwood’s career leader in runs (189), hits (274), doubles (66), RBI and battling average.

“David loves to hit more than anything, and he’s hit at every level,” said Northwood coach Jake Sabol. “The ball always finds the barrel of his bat. His hitting is what’s gotten him this far.”

Vinsky said he’s confident he can continue to hit in the pros like he’s done his entire baseball career.

“I’ve never struggled hitting. Of course, now that I’m in the pros I need to refine my batting skills and really focus on looking for the right pitch to hit,” he said. “I also need to improve defensively, including building my arm strength.”

A lifelong Detroit Tigers fan, Vinsky began playing travel baseball when he was 8 in the North Farmington West Bloomfield organization, and he ended his travel career with the Novi-based Michigan Bulls.

His parents are Stuart and Caren.

He has twin sisters Marisa and Erin, 24. He’ll turn 21 on July 9.

He’s a year away from earning a marketing degree from Northwood but is not sure when he’ll complete the work. ■

Team standings through three weeks of the B’nai B’rith golf league season. Listed are points, and holes won, lost and tied.

Nine-hole matches are played weekly at the Links of Novi: 1. Gary Klinger/Dale Taub ..............................39 points (15-7-5) 2. Josh Baker/Josh Harvith ............................38 points (12-6-9) 3. Jeff Vieder/Mitch Cohen ............................38 points (13-8-6) 4. David Swimmer/Art Hurvitz .......................36 points (12-9-6) 5. Howard Genser/Lyle Schaefer ...................33 points (11-9-7) 6. Ryan Vieder/Adam Vieder ..........................32 points (13-10-4) 7. Mitch Lefton/Stu Zorn ................................29 points (12-12-3) 8. Larry Shapiro/Marc Ruskin .........................23 points (8-14-5) 9. Mike Klinger/Kerry Chaben .........................22 points (8-13-6)

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COURTESY OF NORTHWOOD UNIVERSITY

David Vinsky had a career .411 batting average in three seasons at Northwood University.

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COURTESY OF B’NAI B’RITH

sport climbing competitions and place third in regionals, earning a spot in the division competition.

Nate will do some outdoor climbing for fun before he heads to Pennsylvania and the bouldering nationals.

He’ll return to the Red River Gorge in Slade, Ky., better known in the climbing world as “The Red.” Nate’s tallest climb there is 250 feet, which earned him the nickname “Ropegun,” climbing slang for the best climber in the pack.

Corey Pere, a route setter at Planet Rock, is Nate’s private coach. Nate works with him one or two days a week and with the Planet Rock climbing team two or three days a week.

“I simply don’t have the words to accurately express how much of an impact Corey has had on Nate’s climbing journey,” said Jerrold Emery.

“Nate loves climbing. It’s a pure and remarkable type of passion not typically seen in 10-year-olds. To a large extent, it’s because of coaches like Corey that Nate loves the sport.”

Pere works with Nate on the technical aspects of climbing, even making sure his shoes are a perfect fit.

“To loosely quote Corey, ‘At Nate’s level of climbing, it’s the tiniest details that make all the difference,’” Jerrold Emery said.

Becca Saag, Nate’s coach with the Planet Rock team and a friend and mentor, said Nate is incredibly passionate about climbing “and you can see that every time he gets on the wall.”

“He wants to climb outside of practice and spend as much time at the gym as he can. Honestly, it’s hard to keep him off the walls.”

Nate’s mother is Carolyn Emery. The family attends Temple Israel in West Bloomfield.

Want to learn more about Nate and his rock climbing?

Check out his YouTube channel at youtube. com/ropegunnate and his Instagram account @nate.climbs. ■

Hitting Star David Vinsky Drafted by St. Louis Cardinals

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enna Kerner and Bert Barnes are engaged. Jenna is the daughter of Dr. Genise Kerner of Commerce Township and Dr. Nathan and Yelena Kerner of Bloomfield Hills. Bert is the son of Jeanie Barnes of Philadelphia and the late Robert Barnes.

Jenna and Bert met during undergraduate school at Cornell University. After working for Deloitte, Jenna went on to receive her M.B.A. from Wharton. Bert worked as a consultant in Philadelphia and went on to receive his master’s from the University of Pennsylvania.

The couple reside in Santa Monica, Calif., where Jenna is a cofounder of Harper Wilde, an ecommerce lingerie company, and Bert is a manager in sustainable energy at the Beauty Counter, also an ecommerce company.

An October wedding is planned in California.

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hen we teach of Moses, we prays to God to heal Miriam. God generally teach of a great insists that Miriam endure her punishleader: the man who led the ment for seven days.

Israelites from slavery to freedom and What exactly happened that caused then guided them in the wilderness for Miriam to suffer this punishment? Why 40 years. was she the only one to face such a What we talk about less consequence? frequently is how challenging We are sometimes led to believe, Moses often found his leadthrough Midrash and commenership role. How the Israelites tary, that though God may have constantly complained to him been most angry with Miriam and about everything. We also do Aaron for daring to compare themRabbi Ariana not talk all that much about selves with Moses, ultimately, she Gordon Moses as a brother. And yet, was punished for her first offense, in this week’s Torah portion criticizing Moses’ wife. Some sugParshat we see Moses as a troubled, gest that while both Aaron and Bachaaloteha: burdened leader and as a desMiriam complain about Moses’ Numbers perate brother concerned for prophetic status, only Miriam 8:1-12:16; his sister’s well-being. criticizes Moses’ wife, thus her Zechariah This is a very full Torah punishment is a result of this criti2:14-4:7. portion, filled with laws and cism. Some explanations associate rituals, challenges and conseher leprosy with her slander and quences. It is in the final section of this understand this text as a warning for portion that we see the family drama: us against lashon hara: We should learn Miriam and Aaron seemingly question- from Miriam’s mistakes and not speak ing Moses’ leadership. They say, “Has ill of those around us.

Adonai only spoken through Moses?

Others explain that Miriam’s punishSurely God has also spoken through us? ment indicates that she was the instiga(Numbers 12:2).” They challenge Moses’ tor in this challenge while Aaron was behaving as if God only speaks to him merely the bystander. and no one else, and noting they also We learn more about Miriam from are privileged to hear God’s words. this section than we do anywhere else in Theirs is not a civic or religious the Torah. Not only was she a woman rebellion but a claim to be as legitimate who dared to challenge authority, she prophets as Moses. They suggest they spoke up, demanding recognition for are as qualified to lead the Israelites as the gifts of leadership she brought to he. Perhaps they are wondering about the community. She was a beloved sistheir own places within the community ter, whose brothers worried about her and looking for reassurance they are welfare and prayed to God for her to still people of prominence among the be healed. And she was a critical part Israelites. Rather than receiving this of the Israelite community. Even in the acknowledgment, however, they are face of God’s anger and punishment, the rebuked and given a detailed explanaIsraelites do not abandon her, refusing tion of just why Moses is so extraordito march on until Miriam was healed nary and how God’s relationship with and readmitted to camp. him is so exceptional.

There is so much to learn from this God explains that Moses speaks story, often thought to be a simple leswith God peh el peh (Numbers 12:8). son about the dangers of gossip, and This mouth to mouth, or face to face, about the woman, the prophetess, who encounter that Moses has with God led the people of Israel in song and is unlike that of any other prophet. dance. ■ Furious with them, God departs, and Rabbi Arianna Gordon is the director of education Miriam is left suffering from leprosy. and lifelong learning at Temple Israel in West Aaron appeals to Moses, and Moses Bloomfield.

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ill Ford, executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, was in Tel Aviv June 12 to open the doors of its new Ford Research Center in the heart of the city’s burgeoning technology community.

The new center will serve as a research hub augmenting Ford’s global Research and Advanced Engineering team. It will also support Ford’s automotive and mobility businesses by identifying technologies and start-up companies in the fields of connectivity, sensors, automated-systems research, in-vehicle monitoring and cyber security. The center will include a vehicle lab to support proof of concept efforts and AI work.

“We recognize the importance of being in one of the world’s leading innovation communities and ecosystems,” Ford said. “This new center is not only an expansion of our existing research and innovation centers but provides an opportunity to join a growing innovation community in Israel.”

Ford has been working with local

companies and partners in Israel’s tech community for nearly a decade to identify innovative emerging technologies. The center in Tel Aviv will operate closely with Ford’s subsidiary, SAIPS, led by Udy Danino, founder and CEO, who has also been appointed as Israel technical director for the new center. SAIPS is an Israeli computer vision and machine learning company, which Ford acquired nearly three years ago.

“Expanding Ford’s presence in Israel with the new research center will allow us to engage with the best technology and leading companies a lot faster, and further support Ford’s goals of bringing together our vehicle and technology expertise to create new solutions to meet the mobility challenges of today and tomorrow,” Danino said.

The Ford Research Center, Israel, is located in the new Adgar360 building in Tel Aviv. The center joins Ford’s global network of research centers, including Aachen, Germany, Nanjing, China, and Dearborn, Mich. ■

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t Expand the Brown Program’s programmatic capacity and funding resources by assisting in writing grant applications, encouraging donations, and helping establish funds/endowments that ensure the Program’s long-term success.

t Attend open houses, trainings, forums, and networking events to build and increase public knowledge and presence of the Brown Program. t Recruit, orient, train. and evaluate designated staff. Complete written performance evaluations, as required.

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Our annual compilation of new books offers everything from page-turners to politics — all with a Jewish connection.

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‘‘A brave and engaging novel . . . a page-turner’ Observer

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The Gospel According to Lazarus

by Richard Zimler (Peter Owen Publishing/IPG) is an imaginative retelling of how Jesus brought his friend Lazarus back from the dead and then how Lazarus struggles to regain his previous identity, flashing back to the boyhood and close friendship of the two in Nazareth. The novel recounts the story of the last week of the life of Jesus, through the perspective of Lazarus. Zimler, who lives in Portugal and is the author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon and other novels, brings mysticism and historical research to his telling.

In celebration of the matriarch’s 70th birthday, the extended Feldman family take a cruise together in The Floating Feldmans by Elyssa Freidland (Berkley). Not exactly a celebration, the time sequestered together afloat on the Ocean Queen is filled with eating and feuding, as family secrets, rivalries and tensions surface. In alternating voices, the story unfolds with compassion and humor.

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stories, The Organs of Sense by Adam Ehrlich Sachs (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) explores science, politics and family dynamics, layered with philosophy, historical facts and humor. Here a blind astronomer using the longest telescope ever built, encounters the young math genius Gottfried Leibniz, just before the predicted time of a solar eclipse said to result in total darkness.

Death and Other Happy Endings (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking) is the fictional debut of 62-year-old author Melanie Cantor, who previously worked as a celebrity press agent before hosting a television series on home design in Great Britain. In this romantic comedy, a woman who is told she has a terminal illness with three months to live sets out to put her affairs in order with unusual candor through letters to her ex-husband, ex-boyfriend and difficult sister.

The Song of the Jade Lily by Australian writer Kirsty Manning (Morrow) is a historical novel that opens in Shanghai in 1944, flashes back to Vienna and Australia in 1938, and then ahead to London in 2016, and

then back to Australia and Shanghai as well. This is a story of refugees, friendship, hardship, love, loyalty and courage that recreates wartime Shanghai and its Jewish refugee community.

Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage is a collection of stories by rediscovered literary voice Bette Rowland (Public Space), who received many awards decades ago and then largely disappeared from public notice until the end of her life. Rowland, born in Chicago and championed by Saul Bellow, who was for a time a lover, observes life with empathy and humor, in the tradition of Grace Paley.

Set in a weight loss camp for adults in a Vermont mansion, Waisted by Randy Susan Meyers (Atria Books) tells of a group of women determined to lose extra pounds who agree to be filmed as they take part in a program promising dramatic results. This is a story of sisterhood and self-respect as the women conspire against those in charge.

Julie Zuckerman’s debut, The Book of Jeremiah (Press 53), a novel in

stories full of rich imagery, spans the life of a regular guy named Jeremiah — son of Jewish immigrants, professor of political science, husband, father — over eight decades, showing his determination, missteps and inspiring humanity.

A first novel set over three continents and spanning four generations, The Limits of the World by Jennifer Acker (Delphinium Books) is the story of an American family, emigrants from the Indian enclave in Nairobi. The family has many secrets when they are forced to return to Nairobi by an unforeseen accident. One of the secrets is that their son’s Jewish-American girlfriend, who is with them in Kenya, is already his wife. As she unfolds this family saga, Acker, founder and editorin-chief of The Common, considers family ties, cultural misunderstandings, immigration, empathy and love.

A first novel of historical fiction, A Bend in the Stars by Rachel Barenbaum (Grand Central Publishing) opens in 1914 Russia as war is in the air and life is increasingly difficult for Jews. A pair of sib-

lings — she is studying to be a surgeon and he is a physicist racing Einstein to prove relativity — face the tough decision as to whether to stay or leave, and how to protect each other and all they have learned. When he goes missing, his sister risks all to fight for him in this story of love, adventure and science.

The Rabbi Finds Her Way by Robert Schoen with Catherine deCuir (Stone Bridge Press) is a career coming-of-age story, as a young Reform rabbi joins a large California congregation as associate rabbi. The novel opens up the world of a female congregational rabbi, with some familiar scenes and unusual twists.

The sprawling Hotel Neversink is the crown jewel of the Catskills, founded in 1931 by a Jewish immigrant family who used every penny they could find to buy the grand mansion on top of a hill. Told through the voices of family members and others who have passed through the grand hotel, Adam O’Fallon Price’s The Hotel Neversink (Tin House) follows the family over a century, through ambitious undertakings, mysterious vanishings, family secrets, comedy, love stories and a younger generation’s desire to keep the place alive.

YOUNG READERS

The Volunteer: One Man. An Underground Army and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather (Custom House) is the nonfiction account of a Polish resistance fighter who infiltrated Auschwitz, organized a rebellion and assassinations of Nazi officers, smuggled out information and then managed to slip out of the camp to report on what was going on there. The author, who has been a war reporter for the Washington Post

Gittel’s Journey: An Ellis Island Story (Abrams Books) by Leslea Newman and illustrated by Amy June Bates is a heart-warming and heart-wrenching story about Gittel and her mother coming to America. It is based on Newman’s grandmother and a family friend, among many other children. The spare text works well as a read-aloud, and the book is beautifully designed and illustrated.

In Saving Hanno: The Story of a Refugee Dog (Holiday House Books), geared to readers ages 8-12, Miriam Halahmy tells the tale of 9-year-old Rudi, who escapes Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport to England. He wants to bring his dachshund, Hanno, but cannot, yet his family finds a way to smuggle Hanno to London. When the German invasion seems imminent and many British citizens start euthanizing their pets, Rudi and other kids are determined to save their furry friends.

Lucas Correa’s novel, The Daughter’s Tale (Atria), is set between New York City and Berlin, unfolding a story of family, love, sacrifice, survival against odds and reckoning with the past. The novel is inspired by the true story of a Holocaust survivor Correa met after the publication of his first novel, The German Girl, based on the true story of the S.S. St. Louis, a transatlantic liner offering Jews safe passage out of Germany.

An untold story of World War II, Scholars of Mayhem: My Father’s Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France by Daniel C. Guiet and Timothy K. Smith (Penguin Press) tells of Guiet’s father, who worked clandestinely behind German lines in France to coordinate aid for the French Resistance and also lead missions against German military efforts. Guiet learned that his father had been in the CIA, but only at the end of his life did his father, a native French speaker, begin to tell of his successful missions during World War II. Guiet was the only American involved in a unit of Britain’s Special Operations executive code-named Salesman. The unit parachuted into France the day after D-Day and organized an army of 10,000 Resistance fighters. Daniel Guiet and Smith, a reporter and editor, spent several years researching and documenting this story, including Guiet’s written account of his wartime experience.

When Charlie, 12, starts doing research on her namesake, Great-Aunt Lottie, a violin prodigy, she uncovers details that may conclude that maybe Lottie did not die in the Holocaust. In Searching for Lottie (Holiday House Books) by Susan L. Ross, for ages 8-12, pieces of the puzzle fall into place in this intriguing, intergenerational mystery.

Based on true events, Francesco Tirelli’s Ice-Cream Shop by Tamar Meir, beautifully illustrated by Yael Albert (Kar-Ben), is the story of a young boy who loved eating ice cream from his uncle’s cart and then opened his own shop years later in Budapest. During the war years, he closes the shop and hides Jews and others in danger, saving lives.

Kol Hakavod: Way to Go by Jamie Kiffel-Alcheh and illustrated by SarahJayne Mercer (Kar-Ben) provides appealing examples of respect and small kindnesses that can be shared.

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and other papers, explains that the story was erased from the historical record by Poland’s communist government and has remained unknown until now.

A debut novel by an American writer living in Israel, Make it Concrete by Miryam Sivan (Cuidono Press) is the story of a writer who ghostwrites the stories of Holocaust survivors, on tight schedules. Friends encourage the writer, an independent spirit, to do something different, as she is haunted by the ghosts of personal and communal history. The story she wants to tell most is that of her mother, also a survivor, whose own story is tightly held.

Julie Orringer’s anticipated novel The Flight Portfolio (Knopf) is based on the true story of Varian Fry, an American journalist who helped rescue thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II, including many artists and writers. Set in France and opening at the Chagalls’ home, the novel is filled with suspense, history, art and a love story.

Mistress of the Ritz (Delacorte) is a novel by Melanie Benjamin set during World War ll, inspired by the courageous story of Blanche Azuello, a Jewish-American woman who created a new identity for herself in Paris, where she worked undercover for the French Resistance and played hostess at the Ritz Hotel, serving Nazis.

Based on extensive research into true events — the massacre of a French village in June 1944 — Armando

Newcomers in an Ancient Land: Adventures, Love, and Seeking Myself in 1960s Israel by Paula Wagner (She Writes Press) is a coming-ofage story by a writer who travels to Israel with her twin sister at age 18 to learn more about their father’s Jewish background. She falls in love with the land and the language, and her life is transformed during a momentous era.

Chutzpah: Why Israel Is a Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Harper) by Inbal Arieli, a leader in Israeli high-tech and co-CEO of True Synthesis, is a leadership assessment and development company, connects the country’s economic success — with its high concentration of startups — to the way Israelis are raised in a culture of risk-taking, independence, creativity and resiliency.

Jerusalem: City of the Book

by Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint, with photography by Frederic Brenner (Yale University Press), explores the hidden libraries and archives of the city and the librarians who care for them, unfolding the history of the city through ideas developed there over centuries. The book opens with a quote from Jorge Luis Borges, “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

In his latest book, Defending Israel: The Story of my Relationship with my Most Challenging Client (All Points Books/St. Martin’s Publishing Group, out in September), high-profile lawyer and professor Alan Dershowitz recounts behind-the-scenes stories and incredible “mock trials” he has done in defending a land he learned to love at summer camp in 1948. An ardent supporter, he is not above harshly criticizing Israel when he disagrees with its actions. He also chronicles changing attitudes toward Israel and offers a new way of thinking and defending the Jewish homeland. continued on page 32

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in English. The foreword by Susannah Heschel and notes by scholar Helen Plotkin are particularly compelling.

Mah Jongg Mondays: A Memoir About Friendship, Love and Faith by Fern Bernstein (JAG Designer Services) is the true story of five suburban women coming together weekly to play an ancient Chinese game, forging deep friendship around the table and supporting the author through difficult times. Those who play the game, or remember their mothers playing, will be touched by this first book by Bernstein, who teaches in her synagogue’s religious school and teaches yoga in the preschool.

The Spiritual Gardener: Insights from the Jewish Tradition to Help Your Garden Grow, a first book by Andy Becker (Tree of the Field Publisher) includes gardening tips, stories from the author’s garden, quotations and teachings from Jewish texts and reflections on the bitterness of horseradish and sweetness of raspberry jam and more.

In Jerusalem on the Amstel: The Quest for Zion in the Dutch Republic, Lipika Pelham (Oxford) provides a portrait of 17th-century Amsterdam, with its prosperous Sephardi community during the Dutch Golden Age, when the seeds of Zion were nurtured. The author, a journalist and documentary maker for the BBC and other broadcasters, also sought out the descendants of this community in the present-day city.

In The Plateau, anthropologist and performer Maggie Paxson (Riverhead Books) probes ideas about human goodness, selflessness and sacrifice as she closely studies an area in south-central France, where villagers have a long tradition of providing refuge to strangers, particularly during World War II and continuing today.

On God’s Radar: My Walk Across America is Robert Schoen’s (Stone Bridge Press) account of his journey on his own across the country on foot, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, across more than 1,600 miles and 14 states. He sets out after the death of his 96-year-old father and makes connections in unusual places, finding generosity, compassion and some great stories. The book is in the form of a travel journal, highlighting his adventures and spiritual pathways.

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The detailed story surrounding an act of brutal international terrorism in 1985, An Innocent Bystander: The Killing of Leon Klinghoffer by Julie Salamon (Little, Brown) delves into the destinies of three families whose lives were upended by this event.

Klinghoffer had boarded a cruise ship with his wife to celebrate their anniversary and was shot and then thrown overboard in his wheelchair.

Researching the events, repercussions and the search for justice, Salamon interviews most of the participants who are still living, including one of the hijackers, and creates a powerful and provocative narrative.

Nancy Kalikow Maxwell’s Typically Jewish (Jewish Publication Society) provides an original, down-to-earth, earnest look at pressing questions about identity and culture faced by the Jewish community, looking at the way Jews live their lives.

In Edna’s Gift: How My Sister Taught Me to Be Whole (She Writes Press) Susan Rudnick, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, looks back at her family history and the experience of growing up with a younger sister with developmental challenges. Throughout their intertwined lives, Rudnick’s sister has taught her the most important life lessons.

In This Hour: Heschel’s Writings in Nazi Germany and London Exile by Abraham Joshua Heschel, foreword by Susannah Heschel (Jewish Publication Society) is a collection of early writings by the great rabbinic figure and important Jewish thinker, written before he found refuge in the United States. The pieces — about Jewish education, the rabbis of the Mishnaic period, a biography of a medieval Jewish scholar, reflections before the holiday and reflections on issues like prayer and suffering — haven’t been previously published

A Good American Family/ David Maraniss

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s a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, biographer and observer of social history, David Maraniss says he has spent his career “trying to understand the forces that shape America and to measure individuals by the whole pattern of their lives.”

He has usually focused his sharp reporting and researching skills on strangers.

Now, he turns to his late father, trying to understand what happened when his father was spied upon by the FBI while living in Detroit, called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), fired from his job at the Detroit Times, blacklisted for five years and later vindicated.

A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father (Simon & Schuster) is a personal story and a portrait of the McCarthy era. The author’s father, Elliott Maraniss, was born in Boston, grew up in Brooklyn and left the East Coast to attend the University of Michigan, where he met his wife. (For their honeymoon in 1939, they hitchhiked from Ann Arbor to Madison to attend a convention of the American Student Union.) Elliott, known as Ace, commanded an all-black company in the Pacific during World War II, loved baseball and his favorite essayist was George Orwell. According to his son, he was “a newspaperman first and foremost” and an American optimist.

David Maraniss has said in a printed interview: “The story for the book has

Former Detroiter Maraniss Plumbs Family, “Red Scare”

been slowly building for years, but I knew that I would not write it while my parents were alive. I finally realized the scope of the book when I was at the National Archives and saw for the first time the original copy of the HUAC subpoena of my father and of the statement he wrote to the committee that he was not allowed to give unless he repented and named names.”

He explains that his father, who died in 2004, was not falsely accused of being a Communist, as he was one, for a time. Drawing on his father’s essays, letters and unclassified FBI files, Maraniss creates a compelling narrative going forward and back in time, and also presents the stories of George Crockett, his defense lawyer; playwright Arthur Miller; Charles Potter, an outspoken war veteran and anti-Communist; and informant Berenice Baldwin, a grandmother who was recruited to infiltrate the Michigan Communist Party.

Maraniss, an associate editor at the Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University, writes of his father with respect, admiration and empathy. In fact, he was inspired by his father to go into journalism. He reflects on what it means to be an American, as issues of race, democracy and freedom are as still timely as ever. This is his 12th book, after biographies of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, a trilogy about the 1960s and other titles.

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dam Ben Ezra could be called a who is self-taught on instruments.

“This path has changed. I started to one-man jazz band. focus more on instrumental music, Although his main instrument is the double bass, he also reverts but in the last couple of years, I found to piano, clarinet, flute, harmonica and the way to combine my singing, so, in a way, my early childhood dream has synth. And he commissioned a fivecome true. string bass with a removable neck.

“I started to play professionally when Going beyond improvising with I was 20, first in jazz cafes and clubs others’ music, he improvises with his in Tel Aviv and later as a side man for original numbers. many singers in Israel. At 27, I started “My show is a solo act,” says the to perform solo and upload videos to Israeli-based entertainer, making his YouTube, which pushed my career. debut appearance 5-7 p.m. Sunday, Today, I tour all over the world, and June 23, at Cliff Bell’s in Detroit. “I I’m really grateful for that.” move around the instruments, play Ben Ezra’s composing starts with and sing. I use all kinds of effects and improvisation as he looks for a spark different techniques on the bass so it can sound like drums and even electric of a musical idea. It can be a groove, melody or chord progression that feels guitar. powerful and memorable. He works at “In Detroit, I’m going to play songs developing that to tell a coherent story from my two previous albums (“Can’t using structures found in pop songs.

Stop Running” and “Pin Drop”) and “My upcoming album new songs from my TOP: Adam Ben Ezra in action on brings jazz, world music upcoming album. The the double bass. and lots of groove,” he music is very influenced says. “The texture is a by styles from all over mix of acoustic and elec— rock, Latin, flamenDetails tronic sounds delivered co, Middle Eastern and Adam Ben Ezra will in a very communicative many more. My show is perform 5-7 p.m. and emotional way. The sort of a journey around Sunday, June 23, at Cliff thing that attracts me the globe.”

Bell’s, 2030 Park Ave., most in jazz is the freeBen Ezra, who says Detroit. $10. (313) 961dom to tell a story with his music on YouTube 2543. cliffbells.com. music and improvise it has had millions of hits, on the spot.” started playing the vioBen Ezra, married and with an lin at 5, switched to guitar with cominfant son, participated in Arts posing at 9 and moved through other Midwest, a program that tours musical instruments to find his double bass acts from different cultures to towns calling while still in his teens. around the world.

He was fascinated by the bass’ role Although that project brought him in connecting melody, harmony and to Michigan, Detroit was not a destinarhythm. tion. Now planning for Motown, he is “I knew I wanted to become a aiming for a “great musical celebration musician, and my dream was to be a with lots of fun.” ■ singer-songwriter,” says Ben Ezra, 36,

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ver the past 27 years, Judaica artist Orna Amrani has become a staple of Michigan summer art fairs.

Amrani is originally from Haifa, Israel, and attended University of Haifa before serving in the Israeli Air Force.

After having lived all over the world with her husband, Ami, the couple and their three children settled in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., where Amrani first developed her unique artistic technique for preserving Jewish artifacts.

The technique was invented

by Amrani herself, and now, 30 years later, she is still the only one to use it. It involves mixing parchment and clay and then baking the piece at a very high temperature to preserve the document.

Because of the nature of her artwork, Amrani shows her pieces almost exclusively at art shows.

TOP LEFT: Orna Amrani. ABOVE: Amrani’s technique “All my pieces are handmade makes each piece unique. and unique; they cannot be mass-produced,� she said. “I community here is so supportive. have shown at galleries here and “The Michigan Jewish community there, but mostly art shows.� is amazing,� Amrani said. “And not Amrani has shown at fairs all just the Jewish community. I love over the country, including fairs the people here; they are so supin Chicago, Texas and Ohio, but is portive. My art is hanging in many starting to slow down and do less homes here.� traveling. However, she will conThis summer, Amrani will be tinue to make her yearly trips to showing at multiple art fairs in Michigan.

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HBO AND NETFLIX They include going with CATCH-UP the whole toy gang on The second season of the a long family road trip. mega-hit HBO series Big There’s also a sweet sideLittle Lies started June 9. story about Woody meeting The show centers on five up with his long-lost friend Monterey, Calif., women Bo Peep (a porcelain whose children all attend figurine). Rashida Jones, Jeff Garlin the same school (played 43, is billed above all but

by Nicole Kidman, Reese one of the movie’s eight Witherspoon, Laura Dern, credited writers. That Shailene Woodley and indicates she had a big Zoe Kravitz, 30.) Robin hand in writing this film.

Weigert, 49, returns to Randy Newman, 75, the show in a recurring wrote the musical score role as Dr. Reisman, a and songs. He has written therapist. You can also the music for all four Toy see her playing Calamity Story movies and he won Jane in the recent HBO an Oscar in 2011 for a Toy Deadwood movie.

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In the first season, it Mel Brooks The large voice cast was gradually revealed includes these Jewish that a murder or killing happened that involved thespians: Wallace the five women (I won’t Shawn, 75, as the voice say more if you plan to of Rex, a dinosaur. Shawn soon binge watch the first now has a regular role season). In the second on Young Sheldon as Dr. season, the mother of Sturgis; Estelle Harris, the murder victim, played 91, as Mrs. Potato Head’s

by Meryl Streep, arrives voice. She’s best known as determined to find out Mrs. Costanza in Seinfeld; how her child really died.

The late Don Rickles Carl Reiner The original Netflix film voices Mr. Potato Head. In Murder Mystery began his memoir, Rickles said streaming June 14. that his grandchildren, Adam Sandler, 54, plays Ethan and Harrison Mann, a police officer who takes were more impressed his wife (Jennifer Aniston) by his role as Mr. Potato on a European vacation.

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BIM BOM BABY ART 10 am June 21. At Temple Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield. Bim Bom Baby is for babies through 4-year-olds with a special adult.

Moms, dads, aunts, uncles, grandparents and nannies come to celebrate Shabbat with the rabbis, braid challah, sing songs with the cantor and make new friends. Free and open to the community. RSVP to Julie: julie@ shirshalom.org, 248-406-4255.

DIVE INTO TORAH 10-11 am, June 25. SAJE presents Rabbi Yoni Dahlen of Congregation Shaarey Zedek on “Role of Prayer in Israelite Rain Rituals.” At West Bloomfield JCC poolside. Free; refreshments served.

SHABBAT IN THE SUN 5:45 pm, June 21. Join Hazzan Dan, Rabbi Rachel and Dan Shere for a family-friendly outdoor Shabbat service with singing, dancing and a delicious picnic dinner on the Adat Shalom playground. Bring a blanket to sit on; after dinner, stay and play. Picnic dinner: $4/ child, $7/adult. RSVP: Debi Banooni at 248626-2153 or dbanooni@adatshalom.org.

TOT SHABBAT 5:45 pm, June 21. A child-friendly Shabbat experience at Temple Emanul-El in Oak Park with Rabbi Matt Zerwekh and guests followed by a complimentary meal. RSVP: 248-9674020 or TempleFamily@emanuel-mich.org.

GOSPEL MUSIC SHABBAT 7 pm, June 21. At Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park. Temple’s multi-generational choir and the Billy D. Brooks Memorial Lutheran Choir followed by a sisterhood-sponsored Oneg Shabbat. RSVP: 248-967-4020 or TempleFamily@emanuel-mich.org.

LIVE HEALTHIER 1 pm June 25. Personal Action Toward Health (PATH) is a fun and free interactive six-week workshop that helps people with chronic conditions to live a healthier life. Meets at JFS in West Bloomfield starting June 25 and runs through July 30. Participants are unable to join after the second week. Register: Lynn Breuer at 248-592-2333 or lbreuer@ jfsdetroit.org.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 MOVIE MATINEE 1 pm, June 26. At JCC West Bloomfield.

A Tale of Love and Darkness with Natalie Portman. RSVP: 248-432-5467 or rchessler@ jccdet.org. Free.

DROP IN & LEARN 1 pm, June 26. At Beth Ahm. YouTube videos of lectures by Prof. Henry Abramson of Turo College in Brooklyn. Includes brief, informal discussion. This week: “Who Was Donato Manduzio?” Free and open to the community.

SOUTHFIELD FAMILY FUN 5 pm, June 26. The Southfield Parks & Recreation Department will host Family Fun and Safety Night on the front lawn of the Southfield Municipal Campus, 26000 SUNDAY, JUNE 23 Evergreen Road. Find inflatables (all parKNITTING CIRCLE ticipants must wear socks), a rock-climb9:30 am, June 23. The Sisterhood of Adat ing wall, a ropes course and more. The Shalom invites you to join them as they conSouthfield Police Department and Southfield tinue to make scarves, hats and afghans for charity. At Adat Shalom. No experience neces- Fire Department will present informative demonstrations as well as tours of the Fire sary. Info: 248-851-5100.

Department’s Safety House. The evening will UNSPOKEN TRUTHS be topped off with a special family movie, 10:30 am, June 23. At the Holocaust Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (rated Memorial Center in Farmington Hills. A lecture PG-13), under the stars presented by Park*It with Prof. Phyllis Lassner of Northwestern Family Fun Nights. The movie will begin University. Topic: “Unspoken Truths: The around 7:30 pm and run until approximately Holocaust Through Women’s Voices.” Cost: 9:30 pm. Bring lawn chairs or blankets for tickets with museum admission; free to mem- seating. Refreshments will be available for bers. purchase. For more information, call the Southfield Parks & Recreation Department at MIRACLE AT ENTEBBE 7 pm, June 23. At Jewish Community Centre 248-796-4620. in Windsor, 1641 Ouellette Ave. Refreshments followed by a 7:30 presentation by Rami THURSDAY, JUNE 27 Sherman, officer commander of the IDF Elite POTTERY CLASS Unit. He will share accounts of Israel’s great11 am-1 pm, June 27. Adult class taught est hostage rescue. Cost: $10 online; $15 at

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JUNE 26 COLOR FEST TreeRunner West Bloomfield Adventure Park is hosting its annual Color Fest Event from 1-4 p.m. where participants can “paint the forest” so to speak! The park’s trails will be decorated with balloon arches and colorful displays, and playful music will set the tone. The event features professional face painters providing free face art, Zip Line painting that allows climbers to make their mark on canvases suspended from the trees and squirt paint from super soakers while zip lining and a huge paint-by-the-numbers canvas on display for all participants to help complete in the park. This event is popular, and tickets are by reservation only and can be reserved at TreeRunnerWestBloomfield.com.

JUNE 22-23 FINE ART FAIR Saturday 11-7 and Sunday noon-6, head to the Fine Art Fair at St. Mary’s Orchard Lake (3535 Commerce Road). See nearly 100 juried fine artists in a boutique-style art fair that includes painting, sculpture, metalworking, ceramics, woodworking, jewelry, fiber and more. The fair will have a fine wine tasting as well. Wine tasting tickets are limited and online pre-purchase is recommended. Acoustic music will also be featured throughout each day. Some of the featured musical acts are Matthew Ball (The Boogie Woogie Kid), Sheila Landis (Brazilian jazz vocalist), Escaping Pavement (singer/songwriter duo) and SQ3.

Admission to the art fair is $5 (kids 13 & under are free). Advance wine tasting tickets are available at a discount online at FineArtFineWineFair.com for $40 ($45 at the door, if not sold-out), which includes art fair admission.

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JUNE 20-23 ROCK ‘N’ RIDES Rock ‘n’ Rides Royal Oak runs June 20-23 in downtown Royal Oak. The festival focuses on bringing together charitable and community groups for a large, family-friendly gathering with the opportunity for partner organizations to raise funds.

The festival kicks off with Community Day presented by Cornerstone Community Financial Credit Union on Thursday, June 20, which offers 1,500 local kids and their families free carnival wristbands and parking for the first four hours of the festival.

Kids will enjoy live entertainers ranging from magicians and musicians to puppet shows and performances from local school and community groups. There will be hands-on arts and crafts experiences to engage youngsters, too. Meanwhile, downtown Royal Oak will transform 5th Avenue between Washington and Center streets into a party for the grown-ups. The Fifth Avenue Block Party has on tap some of the best craft beer in town from local breweries and will be home to the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort Music Stage, featuring the high-energy musical stylings of more than 20 bands throughout the weekend. Entry to the festival is $5.

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ELAINE GLORIA BERNSTEIN, 79, of Huntington Woods, died June 8, 2019.

She was the dear mother of Donna (Jeffrey) Cantor and c. 1980 Vicki McGaw; loving grandmother of Lauren, Haylee, Adam and Alexander; devoted sister of Norman Cohen and Ronald (the late Linda) Cohen; she is also survived by many other loving family members and friends.

Mrs. Bernstein was the dearest sister of the late Selma Cohen; the devoted daughter of the late Abe and the late Esther Cohen.

Contributions may be made to Jewish Hospice and Chaplaincy Network, 6555 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, MI 48322-4926; or Lewy Body Dementia Association, 912 Killian Road SW, Lilburn, GA 30047, (404) 935-6444.

Local arrangements by Dorfman Chapel MILDRED “MILLIE” COFFEY, 72, of Farmington, died June 10, 2019.

Born and raised in Detroit and a graduate of Mumford High School, Millie worked at Motown Records when she was 18 and then A & R Record Promotions. She went to Los Angeles and worked for every label while she was there.

A full-time working mother, upon returning to Detroit, she started with radio sales, including CKOW when it was the station setting the trends for the entire country. She also worked for other stations in Detroit and finally retired from 89X. As a founding member and creator of Motor City Music Awards (now called Detroit Music Awards), she was active with Adcraft Club and its bowling league.

Mrs. Coffey is survived by her husband, Dennis Coffey; daughter and son-in-law, Jillian and Anthony Frederick of Macomb; son, Jeffrey Felch of Macomb; grandson, Anthony Joseph ( “A.J.”) Frederick Jr.; brother and sisterin-law, Chuck and Sonia Smith. She is also survived by Dennis Coffey’s family, including Jordan Krista, Denise Coates, Dennis Michael Coffey, James Coffey, Andrew Coffey; many grandchildren

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and great-grandchildren.

She was the former wife of the late Paul Felch.

Contributions may be made to Alzheimer’s Association, 25200 Telegraph Road, #100, Southfield, MI 48033; or to a charity of one’s choice. Interment was held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

DR. KENNETH FINK, 72, of West Bloomfield, died June 9, 2019.

He is survived by his wife of 48 years, Carol Fink; brother and sister-in-law, Daniel and Andrea Fink; sister and brother-inlaw, Allyson and Alex Rockwell; nieces and nephews, Sarah and Stu Carlin, Leah Wiseman Fink Kutinsky and Johnny Kutinsky, Ari Fink, Lauren Levy Linkner and Adam Linkner, Natalie Levy, Zachary Rockwell, Nathan Fink and Michael Fink; many loving greatnieces and great-nephews.

Dr. Fink was the dear brother of the late Linda Fink Levy; the devoted son of the late Nathan and the late Harriet Fink.

Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Multiple Sclerosis Society of Michigan, 21311 Civic Center Drive, Southfield, MI 48076, nationalmssociety.org/mig; Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network, 6555 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, jewishhospice.org; American Foundation For Suicide Prevention, 120 Wall St., 29th Floor, New York, NY 10005, afsp.org; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

DAVID FISHMAN, 82, of Bloomfield Hills, died June 13, 2019.

Mr. Fishman is survived by his wife of 60 years, Deena Fishman; daughters and sons-inlaw, Amy and Craig Singer, Lisa and Gary Langnas, and Nancy and Howard Luckoff; grandchildren, Stephanie and Gabriel Edelson, Allison and Blaine Hirsch, Melissa Singer, Jessica and Gabriel Narrett, Emily Langnas, Natalie Langnas, Andrew Luckoff, Matthew Luckoff, Jason Luckoff and Kaitlyn Luckoff; great-grandchildren, Isla

Edelson, Milly Edelson, Graham Hirsch and Charles Narrett; brother and sisterin-law, Alvin and Carol Fishman.

Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Jewish Family Service, 6555 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, jfsdetroit.org; JARC, 6735 Telegraph, Suite 100, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301, jarc.org; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

LEV FRUMAN, 85, of Southfield, died June 3, 2019.

He is survived by his wife, Sofya Fruman; son, Michael Fruman of Israel; daughter and son-in-law, Marianna (Dmitriy Vinokurov) Fruman of West Bloomfield; grandchildren, Yuliya (Klass Willow) Fruman, Nickolas Vinokurov, Angela (Pavel), Sharona, Daniel, Leah; great-grandchildren, Yvann and Natasha; many loving nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Contributions may be made to Alzheimer’s Association, 25200 Telegraph Road, #100, Southfield, MI 48033. Interment was held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

MARSHALL DAVID KAPLAN, 81, of Bloomfield Hills, died June 10, 2019.

He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Robin and Kevin Keller; grandchildren, Robert Keller and Jack Kaplan.

Mr. Kaplan was the beloved husband of the late Joy Ann Kaplan; the cherished father of the late Neal Kaplan; the loving brother of the late Shirley Rose.

Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Humane Society of Michigan, 30300 Telegraph Road, Suite 220, Bingham Farms, MI 48025, michiganhumane. org; or to a charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

NANCY LEVIN, 66, of Birmingham, died June 10, 2019.

She is survived by her mother, Ruth Levin; sister, Idele Levin; many

other loving family members and a world of devoted friends.

Ms. Levin was the beloved daughter of the late Hy Levin.

Contributions may be made to any woman’s cancer charity or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

ARNOLD “AL” I. LUBIN, 99, of Oak Park, died June 11, 2019.

He held many pneumatic patents and worked as a mechanical engineer at the Tank c. 1980 Factory.

Initiated on Jan. 19, 1955, into the Perfection Lodge #486, he eventually became a grand master. He enjoyed golf and life.

Mr. Lubin is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Karen and Clayton Schroeder of Oak Park; grandchildren, great-grandchildren, a niece and several nephews. He was the beloved former husband of Annette, Ruby and Alice.

Mr. Lubin was the cherished brother of the late Sam Lubin and the late Anna Gross.

Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Services and interment were held at Oakview Cemetery in Royal Oak. Arrangements

by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.

JEROME “JERRY” MILLER, 85, passed away peacefully June 6, 2019, in Troy.

Jerry was born Nov. 11, 1933, in Detroit to Fay Cohen (Miller) and Harry Miller. He graduated from Detroit Central High School and joined the U. S. Army and left with an honorable discharge. Jerry joined the city of Detroit Police Department in 1959; he retired in 1994.

Jerry was an avid outdoorsman and enjoyed hunting and fishing.

Mr. Miller is survived by his three children, Brett Ronnie (Rose) Miller of Waterford, Lisa Jacqueline Miller of Auburn Hills, Gregg Esar Miller of Sterling Heights; brother, Ronald Miller of White Lake.

No funeral is planned at this time; a burial service will be at a future date in Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly.

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MILFORD “MICKEY” NEMER, 90, of Franklin, died June 13, 2019.

He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Ellen and David Maiseloff; son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Rosalind Nemer; grandchildren, Jennifer Maiseloff, Alyssa and Sam Yashinsky, Stephen Maiseloff and girlfriend Julie Tschirhart, Drew Nemer, Danny Nemer, Michael and Traci Baum, and Stuart Baum; great-grandchildren, Parker Baum and Rubin Yashinksky. He is also survived by Barbara’s children, Lori Weber, and Jonathan and Dayna Weber; their children, Sevillana, Jamiey, Dylan, Dustin and Rylee; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Deena Canvasser, Paul Canvasser and his partner, Jeffrey Slatkin, Jacqueline Lipshaw; many loving nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Mr. Nemer was pre-deceased by his former wife and mother of his children, Ilene Nemer. He was the beloved husband for 30 years of the late Barbara Nemer; the cherished father of the late Patti Nemer; devoted son of the late Morris and the late Anne Nemer; loving brother of the late Basil Nemer; the dear brother-in-law of the late Lenard Canvasser and the late Alfred Lipshaw.

Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Barbara and Mickey Nemer Library Fund, 27375 Bell Road, Southfield, MI 48034, shaareyzedek. org; or to a charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

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MANUEL PASTOR, 97, of Southfield, died June 10, 2019.

He is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Sheldon and Anita Pastor; daughter, Dr. Joan Pastor; grandchildren, Shawna (Brian) Apple, Richard (Majing) Pastor, Travis (Jennifer) Thompson, and Angela (Tony) Cox; greatgrandchildren, Noa, Talya, Mia, Ryan, Lauren, Conner, Sydney and Ava Rose.

Mr. Pastor was the father of the late Rebecca Pastor.

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SHELDON PEVEN, 87, of Southfield, died June 14, 2019.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Catherine Peven; daughter and c. 1991 her wife, Debra and Erin Peven; son and daughter-inlaw, David and Julie Peven; many loving nieces, nephews, other family members and friends. Mr. Peven was the brother of the late Soril (the late Albert) Globerman.

Interment took place at Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to the Cat Tails Acres or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

ABBA SHAPIRO, 90, of West Bloomfield, died June 15, 2019.

He is survived by his beloved wife, Regina Shapiro; daughters and son-in-law, Susan Conway, Debra and Howard Wander; grandchildren, Matthew (Stephanie) Conway, Kevin Conway, Kelli Conway, Erica Wander, Emilee Wander and Jacob Wander; sister, Fay Brickner; many loving nieces, nephews, other family members and friends.

Mr. Shapiro was the brother of the late Yetta (late Norman) Kagan, the late Bessie (the late Eddie) Wachlarz, the late Lilly (the late Jerry) Gordon; brother-in-law of the late Abraham Brickner. Interment took place at Temple Israel Gardens of Beth El Cemetery in Livonia. Contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

MARIAN (MARKS) SIEDHOFF, 89, died June 8, 2019, in Dallas, Texas.

She was born and raised in Detroit, as were her children. c. 1981 Her devoted children are daughter and son-inlaw, Susan and Larry Goldstein;

son and daughter-in-law, Dean and Jackie Fuller; son, Matthew Fuller of Dallas; son and daughter-in-law, Rabbi Gordon and Sharon Fuller of Columbia, Md., stepson and stepdaughter-in-law, Roy and Joanne Siedhoff of Florida. She also leaves four siblings, Shirley (Harold) Strom of Southfield, Ruth Ann Jordan of Maryland, Judith Gordon of Denver and Dr. Daniel (Judith) Marks of California; many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, many loving nieces, nephews and dear friends.

Mrs. Siedhoff was predeceased by her loving husband, John; sister, Shoshana Harris.

She died peacefully in hospice care at Medical City of Plano, Texas.

Memorial services are planned for the near future. Contributions may be made to GoodPeopleFund.org.

JANICE STERN, 78, of Las Vegas, passed away June 6, 2019.

She is survived by her sister, Brenda of Farmington Hills; her dearly devoted friends, Anna Petronella of Las Vegas, Suzanne Berman of Michigan; cousins, Leslie and Cora Leibowitz, Doris Morelli; other loving family and friends. Ms. Stern was pre-deceased by her parents, Albert and Rose Stern.

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BEVERLY WATERSTONE, 89, of Oak Park, died June 16, 2019.

She is survived by her sons, Gordon Waterstone of Lexington, Ky., and William Waterstone of Ferndale; sister, Florence Kranitz; nieces and nephews, Rachel and Tom McCarthy, Steven and Faye Adelson, and Lee and Debbie Adelson. She is also survived by her surrogate daughter, Nancy Grant; and many loving cousins.

Mrs. Waterstone was the beloved wife of the late Alvin Waterstone; the dear sister-in-law of the late Aaron Kranitz, the late Janet and the late Bernard Adelson, and the late Charlotte and the late Benjamin Rothstein.

Interment was at Machpelah Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Myasthenia Gravis Association Detroit Chapter, 1000 John R, Troy, MI 48083, mgakc.org; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

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Champion of Traditional Jewish Music Dies (JTA) — Musicologist and publisher Velvel Pasternak, who published more than 150 volumes of Jewish music, has died.

Pasternak, who also conducted and arranged music, died June 11, 2019, in New York City. He was 86.

He founded Tara Publications in 1971. The goal of the company was the publication, preservation and dissemination of the heritage of Jewish music, its website says.

The earliest publications were collections of Chasidic songs based on recordings arranged and conducted

by Pasternak. These were followed

by Israeli, Yiddish, klezmer, choral, cantorial and instrumental music collections. He published anthologies of Sephardic music, including Ladino, Spanish-Portuguese, and from Bosnia, Sarajevo and Calcutta. He also published a volume of Holocaust music.

Pasternak, a Toronto native, was the son of Polish immigrant parents.

He received a bachelor’s degree from

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Velvel Pasternak in the offices of his company Tara Publications, located in the basement of his Long Island, N.Y., home.

Yeshiva University and studied at the Juilliard School, and received a master’s in music education from Columbia.

He realized in the late 1960s that there was a need for books of Chasidic music with melody lines and chords after being contacted by the families of Orthodox Jewish brides-

to-be who found that the bands they wanted to hire to play at their weddings only knew one or two Jewish songs.

Over the years, he moved from printed books to e-books, and from cassettes and CDs to MP3s. He later added downloadable sheet music.

Last year, to mark 50 years since the publication of his first Jewish music book, he published The Jubilee Songbook, including 240 selections from his previously published music books, providing an overview of popular Jewish music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

In a blogpost to mark his 50 years in Jewish music publishing, his daughter Shira Pasternak Be’eri noted that his work was significant in “preserving an entire heritage that had never been documented by anyone else.”

He is survived by his wife, Goldie; five children and grandchildren.

Pasternak was buried in Israel. ■

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and friends I lost, kids killed by the Hungarian Nazi Arrow Cross,” Heller said. “Her story belonged to all of us.”

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On June 13, several hundred people gathered at a church in Frankfurt, the city of Anne Frank’s birth, on the occasion of the teenage diarist’s 90th birthday.

The event, organized at the iconic St. Paul’s Church by the municipality of the German city and the Basel-based Anne Frank Foundation, featured an address by philosopher Agnes Heller, a Hungarian-Jewish Holocaust survivor who was born one month before Frank.

After surviving the Nazi death machine, Heller was inspired as a young woman when she read Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl. The book chronicles Anne’s two-year stay at a secret annex in Nazioccupied Amsterdam with her family and several other Jews. The family was caught in 1944 and sent to death camps. Only Anne’s father, Otto, survived.

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Audrey Azoulay, the director-general of UNESCO, the United Nations agency for education and heritage, in her speech touched on an ongoing debate concerning Anne Frank’s legacy and whether it should be taught as a specifically Jewish story or a universal one.

The diary “is an intimate story of a teenager and that of the Shoah,” said Azoulay, who is Jewish, using the Hebrew-language word for the Holocaust.

Separately, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign minister criticized German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas for a statement on Anne Frank’s birthday that did not mention Jews. Her story, Maas said, is a “warning against discrimination, marginalization and persecution and as a symbol of humanity.”

Emmanuel Nahshon, the top spokesman of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, responded on Twitter.

“Anne Frank’s diary is NOT a warning about wishy-washy pseudo universal values!” he wrote.

“Anne Frank’s legacy is a warning against the hatred and persecution of JEWS. The attempt to ‘universalize the lessons of the Shoah’ is nothing less than a dishonest rewriting of history.” ■

Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi Dies According to State TV in Egypt, ousted president Mohamed Morsi died during a court hearing June 17, 2019. He was 67.

Morsi, a member of the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, was Mohamed Morsi elected president of Egypt in 2012 in the country’s first free elections following the ouster the year before of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak.

He served as president from June 2012 to July 2013, when the military removed him from office in a coup d’état after the June 2013 Egyptian protests.

Egyptian prosecutors charged him with various crimes and sought the death penalty. His death sentence was overturned in November 2016 and a retrial ordered.

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Rather than change title, the new owners preferred to keep the name and let their food and surroundings do the answering.

This year will be the second anniversary of Siegel’s Deli’s changeover of ownership … One that also exemplified ownership with immediacy in becoming known as a true family delicatessen with features of a New York-style Jewish deli … Like making its own desserts along with strudels, brownies, cookies, cakes, knishes, etc. … and best-sellers like the New York Reuben, Siegel’s Salad, Gantzah Magilla and others.

The modification from a quiet-like atmosphere has seemingly been changed into a more home-like feeling … Bigger windows, soft Frank Sinatra singing in the background and a much cleaner look that always brings a sight of welcome.

Another prime factor is the constant addition of new items to the menu … like the Reuben Egg Rolls or Chicken Hummus Pita, which immediately became big favorites that border on the true Jewish traditional delicatessen feeling.

But still, the new owners of Siegel’s Deli … brothers Edison and Elvis Vushaj, who, with their mother, Vicki Vushaj, bring the all-important feel of family dining … so needed for satisfaction … Slowly remodeling their delicatessen, which has hardly had any style of upgrade to the dining

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Taking over a previous eatery that was set in its own particular ways is rarely easy …The addition of needed qualities with desired family styles is priceless.

SOME PEOPLE MIGHT say that having two excellent executive chef owners at one restaurant is dangerous because of conflicting personalities, among other reasons … As might be by Bacco owner/chef Luciano DelSignore and former Tribute chef Takashi Yagihashi at their new Pernoi on East Maple in Birmingham.

But a great example of this being very false thinking is right here in Novi … It is at Diamond Jim Brady’s Bistro where its worth has been mightily proven by Mary Brady and managing partner Sharon Juergens, both also executive chefs … In so many ways a restaurant having two executive chefs is a huge asset … Like the case where Luciano and Takashi agree that they will always work together until everyone is fully trained and that Luciano will certainly not neglect his Bacco …

Remember, an executive chef ’s duties may also include much more than those of a regular chef or cook … And through the years, many restaurants have hired two executive chefs whose duties are separate … New York, Las Vegas and Chicago have

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OLDIE BUT GOODIE … She awakes during the night and finds her husband not in bed. She goes downstairs and sees him at the kitchen table in deep thought while drinking coffee. She watches as he wipes away a tear.

“What’s the matter, dear?” she asks.

The husband looks up from his coffee and solemnly asks, “Do you remember 20 years ago when we were dating, and you were only 16?”

“Yes, I do,” she replies.

The husband pauses. “Do you remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my car?” “Yes, I remember,” said the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him as the husband continued. “Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said, ‘Either you marry my daughter or I will send you to jail for 20 years?’”

“I remember that, too,” she replied softly.

He wiped another tear from his cheek and said, “I would have been out of jail today and a free man!”

CONGRATS … To Rosanne Liners on her birthday … To Ed Rapaport on his birthday … To Gladys Sabin on her birthday … To Irwin Dickstein on his birthday … To William “Bill” and Carol Nosanchuk on their 66th anniversary. ■ Email Danny at dannyraskin2132@gmail.com.

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work with Tessa Goldberg at the Detroit Jewish News Foundation and she has an interesting accent. When I first met her, I asked: “Are you Australian?” “No, no,” Tessa said, “I’m from South Africa.” Well, she is only the second South African I have ever met, the first being a woman who sat next to me for a few hours on a flight from Amsterdam to Warsaw.

Because Tessa and I have now worked together for several years, I’ve kept my eye on news from South Africa and discussed current events there with her. To say the least, that nation has had a complicated history. From British colonialism and the Boer War (18991902) to modernization and an apartheid state that imprisoned Nelson Mandela for 27 years to his release and the rise of the African National Congress to lead that nation, South Africa today has some enormous economic and political problems. But it still has a Jewish community of an estimated 75,000, many of whom can trace their roots to Lithuania, often via Israel.

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When using the search term — “South Africa” — one finds more than 4,000 citations in the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History. To say the least, South Africa, especially before apartheid collapsed, was a topic for many discussions. Were Jews threatened there? Should Israel have had, or continue to have, diplomatic relations with South Africa? Are there South African Jews in Metro Detroit?

While I am not in any way an expert on South African Jewish history, I know there are Jews from South Africa who settled in Metro Detroit. There is a very interesting article about these folks in the April 25, 1997, issue of the JN. You may know some of them. If not, stop by the Jewish News Foundation offices and Tessa will tell you all about migrating to Detroit from South Africa. You’ll like her — and her accent. ■ Want to learn more? Go to the DJN Foundation archives, available for free at www.djnfoundation.org.

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Beautiful One of a kind detached condo in the heart of West Bloomfield. Builders Model with lots of updates and custom features. First floor Master Bedroom suite with cathedral ceiling and his and her walk in closets- jetted tub, granite vanity counters and a bidet in Master bath. Hardwood floors in foyer and kitchen. Foyer has high ceilings, top to bottom windows and skylights that bring in lots of light.

Large island kitchen and dinette with bay windows. Living room with large deck overlooks wooded area with an up north feel. Large Den if front. 2 ensuite bedrooms on upper floor with attached bathrooms, Finished daylight basement with stunning bar and built in display, Kitchen, full bath, study and additional finished room with closet. Can be used as a bedroom. Plenty of space for entertaining! All appliances included. Newer energy efficient windows in kitchen and living room, newer hot water heater and A/C compressor. Come and see. This unit will not last long! 219040158 248-851-4100

This stately colonial is an ideal home for graceful living and entertaining while benefiting from the privacy of being on a cul-de-sac in a very beautiful subdivision. A tranquil backyard, with no house behind, provides a peaceful respite either from the expansive wood deck or brick patio. From the foyer there is a winding staircase with the LR & DR on either side ~ both with rich hardwood floors and crown molding.

The kitchen & family room enjoy bright light from 2 separate door walls accenting a vaulted ceiling and cozy fireplace. Dbl ovens and new SS refrig for cooking enjoyment. The MBR suite is an exceptional space with a pleasant reading area, vanity and large custom closet. The finished LL is a great area for social activities and also for storage needs. 2.5 car epoxy side entrance garage, huge 1st fl laundry/ mud room w/lav, wet bar, back up sump pump, newer roof, furnace, a/c, exterior paint. Convenient to shopping & dining.Birmingham Schools! Walk to West Maple Elementary. 219041166 248-851-4100

Outstanding 3,564 square foot contemporary home with 3-car garage in popular Village Square, a subdivision of quality built homes & sidewalks. All neutral with an open floor plan. High ceilings & hardwood floors in many rooms. Custom window treatments throughout. Recessed lights. An inviting 2-story foyer. The island kitchen features granite counter tops, white cabinetry, a large island & spacious breakfast area. Comfortable family room with natural fireplace. The dining room is open to the living room. Separate library/study with built-ins. 1st floor laundry. Huge master bedroom suite has 2 walk-in closets, make-up area & bathroom with jetted tub & and separate shower. 3 more large bedrooms & full bath with 2 sinks. The lower level features a media room,, full bath, rec & exercise rooms. 2 furnaces for zoned heating & a new hot water tank. Well maintained deck & BBQ grill in back. Subdivision park. Shopping & restaurants nearby. Move in ready. 219039438 248-851-4100

Fabulous open/bright updated home with almost 5,000 square feet of living space. Two story foyer, hardwood floors in foyer, kitchen, breakfast room and laundry room. Updated kitchen with new granite counters, back-splash and top-ofthe-line stainless steel appliances. New front loading washer and dryer, new carpeting, new Pella windows and new tearoff roof. Finished walk-out with guest room, bath, wet bar, and recreation room. Professionally finished English style brick paver garden patio. 219051131

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