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For all the breaking news and ONLINE EXCLUSIVES • Maccabi Detroit Dance Team video and more exciting footage from the 2019 JCC Maccabi Games and ArtsFest
SPIRIT 24 Torah portion
ARTS&LIFE 26 Beauty from Nothing A local gardener created a peaceful haven surrounding his Bloomfield Hills home.
28 A Capital Time in Capitol Park Food tours let you eat your way through a revitalized Downtown.
28 VIEWS 5-12
JEWS IN THE D 14 Freedom to Discriminate? Poll shows some Americans believe small businesses can refuse services to Jews, minorities.
14 Welcome to Detroit! Four athletes find a home with Tessa Goldberg.
15 Night of Learning Diverse rabbis reinforce obligation to treat all strangers humanely.
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16 Going Big, Going Green Hazon’s annual Jewish Food Festival brings new pathways to learn about sustainability.
18 Ice Cream Law New kids’ book captures a child’s success at changing a law.
19 Love at Last
31 Homegrown Play Stan Zimmerman’s touching comedy is inspired by his mom and a former housekeeper.
32 Celebrity Jews
ON THE GO 33 Events/Editor’s Picks
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The Exchange Soul Raskin Looking Back
SHABBAT & HOLIDAY LIGHTS Shabbat starts: Friday, Aug. 9, 8:24 p.m. Shabbat ends: Saturday, Aug. 10, 9:28 p.m. Tisha b’Av starts: Saturday, Aug. 10, 8:41 p.m. Tisha b’Av ends: Sunday, Aug. 11, 9:27 p.m. * Times according to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah calendar.
Cover photo: Bruce Hoffman’s garden Cover photo by: Derrick Martinez Cover design: Kelly Kosek
At 70, high school friends tie the knot.
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In Conjunction with the Caring Community, Celebrating Our 22nd year
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August 17, 2019* 9:30 am•Pet Projects & Activities 10:30 am•Pet-Friendly Shabbat Service *weather permitting
Bring your furry (or scaly) friends to Temple as we celebrate Shabbat and our beloved companions! Assemble care packages for shelters in need, learn about animal safety, fostering and adoption from local organizations, and enjoy a special pet blessing during our Shabbat morning services.
Open to the community free of charge. Refreshments follow program. Reservations are not necessary, however, if you are bringing a large group, please call Kari K. Provizer, LMSW, ACSW at 248-661-5700 so that we can plan accordingly. Partially funded by the Caring Community, the David Arthur Stulberg Memorial Fund, the Harry & Phyllis Kellman Memorial Fund, the Bertha & Harry Kifferstein Senior Adult Programming Fund and the Iwrey Family Special Needs Fund.
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6:30 - 8:30 pm at Temple Israel Join Susan Shapiro, author of “The Byline Bible” and “Barbie: Sixty Years of Inspiration,” in conversation with her mentor Laura Berman of The Detroit News fame, now a writing coach with The Detroit Writing Room and board member of the Wayne State University Press. They’ll discuss the Jewish female pioneer who invented the world’s most famous doll, secrets of successful writing and publishing, southeastern Michigan girlhoods, and how any passion -- including your childhood Barbie collection -- can be an inspiration. Cost is $20.00 per person (includes dinner, wine & conversation). Register at temple-israel.org/barbie by August 14. Questions? Contact Miriam at 248-6615700 or miriam@temple-israel.org. *Books are available for pre-sale online at a discounted price ($150-Barbie: 60 Years of Inspiration; $15-The Byline Bible) by July 26th. Limited quantity available for purchase at the event. **Special dolls will be raffled off as door prizes from Mattel.
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ccording to poet Robert Frost, there are, “Miles to go before I sleep.” Those who are runners are familiar with many different mile-runs that can be found as challenges. Those of us not as athletically inclined will use the term “mile” often in our speech. There is something about that distance that makes it useful for exaggerSy Manello ation or just to help Editorial Assistant someone envision a great distance. Two actual mile measures are 1) the nautical mile, which is 2,025 yards measured at sea; and 2) the Royal Mile, which is found in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is the road that has Edinburgh Castle at one end and Holyrood Palace, the Queen’s residence, at the other. But let’s start talking common uses. If you are a dedicated worker, you may be described as willing to go that
extra mile to accomplish something. When presenting your findings, however, do not talk a mile a minute; you’ll lose your audience. You say the mistake was only a little one? Remember that a miss is as good as a mile. If you are way off the track, you may be said to have missed by a mile (Often it is said to be by a country mile.). You and an adversary may be miles apart in your thinking. Do you want to really understand someone? You are then advised to walk a mile in their shoes. (You literalists may keep your comments to yourselves.) If you want to encourage someone to begin something, but on a small scale, remind that person that, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Do not let anyone take advantage of you; be cautioned that if you give an inch, they’ll take a mile. In traveling, have you ever felt you were miles from anywhere? Yet you may spot your destination a mile off.
Get there before someone else and you have won by a mile. Here is a riddle in closing: What is the longest word in English? Answer: “smiles” because there is a mile between each “s.” ■
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s a liberal Manhattan writer and teacher, I applauded the House vote to condemn President Donald Trump’s comments that Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar should “go back” to where they came from. I was outraged by the nasty language Trump used to encourage a mostly white Susan Shapiro Republican crowd at a North Carolina campaign rally to chant “Send her back!” It seemed ignorant because three of the congresswomen were born in this country; Omar was a Somali refugee who became a U.S. citizen in 2000. The racist words sickened me, and Omar had my solidarity and sympathy. Until she reacted to the rare show of Democratic unity in repudiation of Trump by ramping up her own racism.
A day after supporters cheered her at her hometown airport in Minnesota, Omar told CBS’ Gayle King she had no regrets for her past anti-Semitic slurs. She’d tweeted that Israel “has hypnotized the world. May Allah awaken the People and help them see the evil doings of Israel,” and that congressional support for Israel being “all about the Benjamins, baby,” perpetuating stereotypes about Jews, money and influence. She stepped up her position, pushing a pro-Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions bill against Israel. A left-wing Jew, I know it’s possible to be pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian, for peace and a two-state solution, as I am. You can criticize Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s settlement policies and not hate everything Hebrew. I’ve denounced Trump’s slander against black, Latino, gay and trans people, immigrants and Islamic countries, and co-authored a book on the horrific Muslim genocide in Bosnia. Yet I’m stunned that blatant bigotry against
Jewish people somehow gets a pass. “The BDS movement is, at its heart, intent on the destruction of Israel,” said Deborah E. Lipstadt in her book, Antisemitism: Here and Now. Indeed, BDS co-founder Palestinian Omar Barghouti is opposed to recognizing Israel as a Jewish state. You can’t get more racist than saying an entire people should cease to exist. After I published an op-ed against NYU’s involvement with BDS, I received a threatening postcard in the mail at home. Someone had cut a picture of my head and pasted it onto a pro-Palestinian protester. The Anti-Defamation League was not surprised by the intimidation tactics, common for BDS. The United States and Europe have shut down 30 BDS accounts with links to terror groups. While I understand college students taken in by the underdog myth, older leftists seem indifferent to BDS propaganda that pretends to be about Israeli government. BDS masks the kind of continued on page 6
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hy is this summer different from all other summers? Because for the first time in my life, I’m spending more than two months of a summer in New York City. My wife and I have a brand-new granddaughter there, and we were asked if we’d be interested in helping out for a little while. It took my wife about five minutes to book an apartment on Mark Jacobs 66th and Broadway. So now I’m kind of living the life of a real New Yorker. I even carry a subway pass in my wallet, so I’m pretty sure that makes it official. I have been to New York many times, both for business and pleasure, but Comedian Jackie Mason and Jacobs
always for just a few days. But when you’re here for a few months, it’s an entirely different mindset. You don’t feel compelled to pack everything into a tight schedule. You can leisurely explore Central Park, stop and listen to street musicians, compare the best gelato street vendors (Lincoln Center, hands down), study the architecture and just get lost in the vibe of the city. In other words, you can experience a true New York state of mind. Of course, the city is crazy expensive. That’s hard to get used to. Going to the movies cost my wife and me almost $50. Lunch can easily cost close to $100. And a nice dinner … fuggedaboutit! Let’s put it this way, I’m done complaining about the price of things in Detroit. One thing this Detroiter could not get used to is celebrity spotting. I practically brushed into Sean Lennon and Liam Neeson. And then there’s the story of my close encounter with none other than Jackie Mason. I was sitting at a deli when suddenly in walks my alltime favorite comedian. He sits down next to me, and for a while I tried my best to act like it was no big deal (I am a New Yorker, after all). But the Oak Parker in me could no longer restrain himself and I just had to say hello. He was instantly friendly, funny and doing
Jacobs and his buddy Greg Bernhardt at the Celebrate Israel Parade down 5th Avenue
schtick for me. I was having a private audience to a Jackie Mason show! I told him his one-person Broadway show was hysterical and he immediately asked me if I ever saw it. “Well, not exactly,” I admitted. “But I saw it on YouTube.” “So I lost money on you!” He snapped back. He was in a talkative mood and I soaked up every moment of it. He loved all the accolades I was giving him, and he didn’t seem to be in a rush to end the conversation. He asked what I did for a living, and when I told him I was a lawyer he said “Oy, I’m sorry to hear that.” Just a normal day in NYC. New York is, of course, the largest
Jew-hatred that fueled Adolf Hitler’s murdering crusade — one reason we needed a safe Jewish haven to begin with. If you doubt BDS’ bias against Jews, consider why it denies the existence of the one Jewish state in the world while ignoring human rights violations in 50 Muslim-majority nations without challenging any Islamic country’s right to exist. I don’t see Omar boycotting Saudi Arabia’s honor killings, beheadings or the lashing of rape victims for adultery. Omar has denied being anti-Semitic, but her ongoing vendetta against Jews seems irrational. When I read Ayaan Hirsi Ali, another Muslim Somalian who was elected to Dutch Parliament, explain how she was raised in Somalia to be a virulent anti-Semite indoctrinated with anti-Zionism that she is only slowly learning to overcome, I wished Omar would follow suit. The answer to hatred and race baiting is not more hate and racial division. By pushing her intolerance and bias against Jews, Omar is alienating obvious allies and further splintering her own party. Paradoxically, she’s only helping bolster the real enemy against her: Trump’s white nationalism. ■ Originally from West Bloomfield, Susan Shapiro is a New School professor and co-author of The Bosnia List and author of The Byline Bible. She will be at Temple Israel Aug. 21 to talk about her new book, Barbie: 60 Years of Inspiration. This essay originally appeared in Newsday.
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am a Holocaust survivor. I read in the paper and saw on the television that a congresswoman compared American detention centers at our Southern borders to the Nazi concentration camps. With all due respect, my question would be: Do you know what Michael Weiss happened in the Nazi concentration camps? The illegal immigrant in these Southern border detention centers has options. He can obtain legal status in this country or return to his own country. I, in the ghetto, in the concentration camps, had no choices. I was forced out of my home with my father and mother and my grandmother who was very old. She was blind in both eyes. That old lady, along with tens of thousands of Jewish grandmothers, was taken to Auschwitz, murdered by poison gas in
the gas chambers, taken to crematoria and burned to ashes. We were forced into an old brick factory in the city of Beregszasz, Hungary. We were treated inhumanely. We were legal citizens of Hungary who never committed a crime. Both my grandfathers fought in the Austro-Hungarian army. One was killed. I am shocked and dismayed that intelligent individuals in this country cannot distinguish between American detention centers and Nazi concentration camps. While conditions in these centers are maybe not ideal, I am sure no one is starving or beaten to death. No one is denied medical treatment. We, in the Nazi camps, were not temporarily detained immigrants who were trying to enter the country illegally. I only wish the Nazi government would have taken me and the Jewish people to an American detention center instead of the gates of Auschwitz. German soldiers packed us into the
box cars and took us to Auschwitz. We were away from our home in the ghetto for six weeks. In those six weeks, we did not sleep in a bed; we did not eat a hot meal; we did not have a shower or change of clothes. We had children and babies with us. If you could look in their faces — they were sleepy, hungry; their eyes cried out, depressed. In those days, we did not have disposable diapers, formulas, baby food jars. No cribs to sleep in. After the war, we found out that the Nazi governments of Europe murdered 6 million Jewish people, including 1.5 million children, the future of the Jewish people. Their future, born as a Jew in Europe, was cut short. Most of them were murdered in gas chambers then burned in crematoria. This is just a very small part of the Holocaust. The history of the Holocaust cannot be equated with the American detention centers at our Southern borders. ■ Michael Weiss is the author of Chimneys and Chambers: from Kaszony to Auschwitz to Detroit: the lingering smell of the Holocaust.
online comments In response to an online story about the delayed opening of a Burgerim restaurant in Dearborn due to local backlash because of the restaurant’s Israeli roots, readers wrote:
like a synagogue is opening in that area. Lots and lots of pure hate. More reason to go and support it. No matter how good or bad Burgerim is, just order fries and a pop.
Esther Allweiss Ingber: Southfield and Oak Park have franchises of Burgerim.
Alan Shiener: So much for peaceful co-existence and support. The Jewish community has been fully supportive of the Arab and Muslim communities in response to Trump’s vicious and racist attacks.
Vadim Brayman: Open up in West Bloomfield or Birmingham. I sure am hungry. Bella Oliwek: What is their nonsense reason why they are boycotting? Please come to the western suburbs. Diane Blossey: Come to Midland, Michigan. Marilyn Nelson Kirschner: There is one near me. It’s awful ... Diane Birnbaum Starr: Boycotts work both ways, but, better yet, these people need to be educated. Eric Weiss: Sounds like felony ethnic intimidation to me. Nathan Silverman: Dearborn shouldn’t get any restaurants! Not
Larry Gunsberg: Another childish and pathetic reaction from a group of reactionary Muslims. And Dearborn (eventually) became a nice place to live and all religions and cultures got along ... until now. Several people shared their reaction to “Protest at Detroit ICE,” which ran in the July 25 issue:
a person removable and what avenues of relief are available. Nancy Federman Kaplan: I am surprised there has not been a huge protest from Christian supporters of this administration! Barbara Hirschberg Mendelson: And yet the Iraqi community will vote for Trump as they previously did! Al Wright: So let me get this straight. They are not legal citizens and many of them have broken the law, yet they are allowed to stay in America because their own country doesn’t want them back. Yeah, kinda reminds me when Cuba emptied the prisons and sent everybody here to America.
Richard Weinstein: I wish people would care about vVeterans as much as we care about people who broke our laws!
There was strong reaction on Facebook to the cover of the July 25 Jewish News, which showed Bobbi Spiegler of Madison Heights holding a sign that read, “Never again means now. Close the camps.”
Ihsan Alkhatib: The Congress needs to change the law as to what makes
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Jewish community in the world outside of Israel. More than 1 million Jews call this place home, and while there are millions of others from multiple religions, the city has a distinctly Jewish flavor. There are lots of beautiful and historic synagogues scattered throughout the city. A few months ago, I attended my buddy’s son’s bar mitzvah at the Park East Synagogue, an 1888 jewel that looks like it’s straight out of Europe. At the bar mitzvah, the Secretary General of the U.N. spoke to the congregation about the Holocaust, with the U.S. Ambassador to Israel present. Only in New York! I also attended a musical Kabbalat Shabbat service (with wine and sushi, of course), and marched along with 100,000 others in the massive “Celebrate Israel Parade” — billed as “the world’s largest gathering in support of Israel” — led by Gov. Cuomo and shown on live TV. After the parade, thousands of participants headed to Central Park. The celebration of Israel continued with Israeli flags and banners everywhere and attached to anything, from bikes to strollers to boats. I’ve been in Israel twice in the past two years, and while New York isn’t exactly the Holy Land, it’s undeniably another quintessential Jewish experience. Contrary to popular myth, I believe that people in New York are actually nice — they’re just in a rush. Sure, there’s the occasional rude person, but I think that’s the exception rather than the rule. But when I tossed out that theory to a New York friend, he cracked up at what a naive Midwesterner I am. “You’re a sweet Michigan guy, and I love you for it, but you’re really just a nice bumpkin here.” I have been called a lot of things, many unprintable, but a “bumpkin”? Detroiters are savvy and sophisticated, right? New York City is crazy and crowded and pricey, but there’s an energy here unlike anyplace else. As Jay-Z says in “Empire State of Mind,” “These streets will make you feel brand-new. Big lights will inspire you.” I hear his lyrics in my mind as I walk the streets of this “concrete jungle where dreams are made of.” Not a bad place to spend the summer of 2019. ■ Mark Jacobs is the AIPAC Michigan chair for African American Outreach, a co-director of the Coalition for Black and Jewish Unity, a board member of the Jewish Community Relations Council-AJC and the director of Jewish Family Service’s Legal Referral Committee.
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which are run pretty much the way they were under the previous administration — and Nazi concentration camps is, in a word, unhinged. I’m not sure what purpose is being served by trivializing the Holocaust. Beth Batya Snider: Whatever your politics, whatever your views on Holocaust comparisons, it is important to realize and object to humans being treated inhumanely by our government. People must not be locked up in conditions worse than dog pounds. Politicians must work together to alleviate this crisis. Maureen Lyn Bernard: The protesters are people who want to help people seeking asylum that are being held against their will in inhumane conditions. Daniel Kerin: This first-generation Jewish American of Holocaust survivors — and legal immigrants — PROUDLY supports President Trump! Eric Weiss: These are not Jews — they are Leftists. Al Wright: Here is the difference between a detention camp and any concentration camp: People are trying to get in America illegally and they claim political asylum when they get caught so they get put in a detention camp. They get free everything: food, electricity, everything they need to live, or they could go back home but they choose to stay there because it’s probably better than what they had at home. Now, in a concentration camp, people did not want to be there. They were rounded up; they were killed, gassed, executed, baked in ovens! Do you guys realize the difference???? Nancy Besser: Frightening how anyone can call Obama’s detention centers concentration camps. Any Jew that can even listen to this really needs to question their Judaism. They are detention centers because they are here illegally. Most of our parents or grandparents immigrated here, too, and went through legal channels and there were no issues. I am a child of Holocaust survivor
parents and to see this being compared to concentration camps where they gassed my father’s entire family and slaughtered them like animals is beyond sickening. I was always Democratic but now with this party, the way they are and the rabid anti-Semitism … How dare you speak ill of Trump? He has done more for Israel then any president in U.S. history. All of your candidates will throw Israel under the bus, and they surely have a hatred for Jews. It was the Jews that helped vote in Obama and look what he did with Israel. The left does away with religion and JCCs and surely does not know what Judaism even teaches. This is frightening. If Jews do not stand proud to be Jewish and stand for Israel, they are no different than any Islamic terrorist. How can any Jew even consider voting Democrat now with the rabid anti-Semitism or does it not matter? Readers also responded to the online story “House Overwhelmingly Condemns Israel Boycott Movement in Resolution Vote.” Nancy Federman Kaplan: As the vote showed, there is near-unanimity in the House against the BDS movement. The only reason for suggesting that “bipartisanship (on the subject of Israel and BDS) is fleeting” is that McConnell then attacked House Democrats for not passing a much harsher resolution, which does not have nearly ass much support in Congress (including ng among Republicans). A better headdline would have been “GOP Seeks to Destroy Bipartisan Unity on Capitol Hill.” Frances Swoish: Yet, “the squad” embraces BDS. Al Wright: I’m shocked, actually. The JN welcomes comments onlinee at thejewishnews.com or on its nt Facebook page. Letters can be sent to letters@renmedia.us.
Not a Question of Open or Closed Borders The problem with Jonathan Tobin’s weighing of open borders against Jewish values (July 25, page 10) is that border security is not simply a question of open or closed. By arguing against open borders, he, by inference, is endorsing closed borders by failing to propose another solution. He did devote at least one sentence to compassionate treatment of immigrants being consistent with Jewish values, but that’s the more important issue lost in the remaining page of prose. Between the blatant bigotry and cruelty of the Trump administration and the foolish response from the far left of open borders, open to who knows what, is a rational approach. Instead of remembering when we were strangers in a strange land, we are debating only two extreme choices. The issues we should be debating are the standards by which immigrants are allowed in and are granted citizenship. Comparison of deportation rates for Obama and Trump are half-truths. The issue is the justice in the decision over who stays and how they are treated while we decide. Asylum is for those fleeing persecution, not economic opportunists. “Who” matters more than “how many.” I consent neither to blind philanthropy with my money nor cruelty in my name. I choose none of the above.
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Racist Remarks Shouldn’t Be Tolerated Jews should find it chilling as Trump and some unconscionable Republicans justify racist remarks targeting four congresswomen as support for Israel and deriding anti-Semitism. NO! This is pure pandering to Jews and the message is wrong and immoral. Bigotry is NOT an either/ or proposition. We do not have to choose racism or anti-Semitism. We can and must choose that both are continued on page 12
Yiddish Limerick Tisha b’Av Dos is Tisha b’Av, un tzum shul gayt a Yid On the floor mir vel zitzn, Lamentations we’ll read. We lost undzer Bais HaMikdash, on this very day Mir fastn, we mourn, we lost undzer tzvay. It’s a solemn reminder, fargess nit my kid. Dos is - it is Un tzum shul - And to synagogue Gayt a Yid - a Jew goes Mir vel zitzn - we will sit Undzer Bais HaMikdash - our Temple Mir fastn - we fast Undzer tzvay - our two Fargess nit - don’t forget By Rachel Kapen
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Frankly, I didn’t need convincing that open borders are foolish. Equal justice for the stranger means both rights and obligations, such as not pillaging the host. I also draw a line at abject cruelty, especially against children, as a political policy to discourage opportunistic migrants. The end does not justify the means. On second thought, the comparisons to Obama are not all meaningless because his similarly high deportation rates prove the Trump tactics are unnecessary and, therefore, inexcusable. I now know what he’s against, but what is Tobin for? The status quo? A wall? The words of Ben Ferencz, the last living Nuremburg prosecutor, still resonate with me when he said that he hanged people for the same thing.
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early 20 percent of Americans believe small business owners can refuse service to Jews and other minorities based on religious freedom. Back in June, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported on a recent poll that found that roughly 1 in 5 Americans believe small business owners have the right to decline service to Jews and other minorities if it violates their religious values. Wayne State University legal and constitutional law professor Robert Sedler was not shocked by the data. “It should not be surprising that
people who are hostile to gays and lesbians, to minorities, would also be hostile to Jews,” Sedler says. “This should not surprise us. This has always been the case. Robert Sedler “It is not uncommon for businesses to use religious freedom as a means to defend their discrimination against a differing group,” he adds. One example, in 2014, was when Hobby Lobby was under scrutiny for disagreeing with the Affordable Care Act’s mandate to provide contracep-
tives to employees because of the family-owned business’ religious beliefs. “The Supreme Court ruled to uphold their claim of religious freedom because as an alternative, Congress simply has the employer notify the insurance company that they’re not covering this and the insurance company will then cover it,” Sedler says. “What you see here is religious groups now using freedom of religion to try to deny women access to contraception,” Sedler says. “You also saw this appear in the bakery case when the baker complained that their religious freedom granted them the right to deny baking a cake for a same-sex couple.” According to the Michigan Department of Civil Rights (MDCR) Director Agustin Arbulu, the MDCR has had 13 complaints since 2015 related to discrimination based on religion and, more specifically, against Jews. “Some of these complaints are still under Agustin Arbulu investigation and we cannot speak to the specifics of those cases. A number of complaints
have been closed for insufficient evidence,” Arbulu says. Resolution was reached in three complaints — one filed against J.P. Morgan Bank, which was resolved with a letter saying the claimant can do business at the location in question. Another complaint against Jewish Family Service was resolved with a settlement of $210. A third complaint filed against Dollar General Corporation was resolved with a welcome letter from the respondent to the complainant. “There is no religion that requires discrimination,” Sedler says. “These are people’s own religious views. If they are a business open to the public or if they’re an agency that contracts with the state, they should not be entitled to discriminate.” If you or anyone you know has experienced discrimination in any form, you are urged to report it to the MDCR. “Individuals should contact MDCR if they believe they have been subjected to unlawful discrimination. They have up to 180 days from the date of incident to file a complaint. To file a complaint online, go to michigan.gov/ mdcr and click on “File a Complaint” or call 1-800-482-3604,” Arbulu says. ■
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Welcome to Detroit! Four teen athletes find a home with Tessa Goldberg. JN STAFF
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hings got a little more crowded at the Farmington home of Tessa Goldberg, administrative manager of the Jewish News Foundation, on Sunday when she welcomed four Maccabi athletes for the duration of the JCC Maccabi Games. “Since I’m an empty nester and have a house, I thought it would be important to open my home to some athletes,” she said. “I signed up for two and they requested I take four because they were short on housing.” The JCC provided air mattresses for the extra guests. After the games, unused or returned air mattresses will be donated to a local homeless shelter, Goldberg said. Two of the boys she’s hosting are from Ann Arbor: Jonah Klein, a
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13-year-old tennis player, and Jesse Newpol, 14, who plays on the basketball team. They are looking forward to all the activities planned and to “winning!” they said. The other two boys, also members of the Ann Arbor delegation, are friends from Israel: swimmers Shahaf Sela, 14, and Gal Shumak, 13, both from Moshav Nahalal. All four of the boys will be competing in the Maccabi Games for the first time — and there are other firsts as well. Jonah and Jesse saw Little Ceasars Arena for the first time. “I was impressed by the size,” Jonah said. For Shahaf and Gal, it was their first time in the United States. The boys spent a few days in Ann Arbor
Shahaf Sela, Gal Shumak, Jesse Newpol and Jonah Klein — Tessa Goldberg’s “boys” for the Maccabi games.
before coming to Detroit for the opening ceremonies. Both said they liked it very much. Shahaf is hoping he gets to go to a mall while he’s in town. Gal is most looking forward to “meeting people.” Goldberg is responsible for feeding the boys breakfast and dropping them off at the JCC before 8 a.m. and making sure they’re where they need to be. On Monday, Goldberg said when she dropped them off, the two Israeli boys joined a rabbi at the JCC and
prayed with tefillin in front of a replica of the Western Wall. “They are not religious kids … they don’t keep kosher … but praying with tefillin was important to them,” she said. “I think that’s the Israeli mindset.” Goldberg said the boys are busy until 9 p.m. every day except Wednesday, when they get out at 3 p.m. to spend the rest of the day with their host families. Goldberg plans on taking them to the mall and then perhaps to a planned event at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield. ■
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any Americans are saddened and angered by the videos, photos and firsthand accounts of immigrant families separated at the southern U.S. border and often sent to over-crowded, inadequate detention facilities. As the flow of refugees fleeing violence and poverty increases, U.S. government officials, human rights activists, immigration advocates and American citizens dispute how these would-be immigrants should be treated. A group of 17 local rabbis from five streams of Judaism, as well as representatives from several Jewish nonprofit agencies, presented a unified view of the obligation of Jews to welcome strangers. They spoke at an educational program titled “Strangers in our Midst — Texts for Jewish learning about the crisis on our southern border� presented Aug. 1 by the Anti-Defamation League Michigan Region and the Jewish Community Relations Council/AJC at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township. The program idea came from a recent event hosted by U.S. Congressman Andy Levin that reported on his trip to the border with religious leaders. Rabbi Josh Whinston of Temple Beth Emeth in Ann Arbor spoke as a “personal witness� who has visited immigrant detention centers and helped a mother “whose children were torn from her.� “She lived in a town controlled by a gang and knew when her son reached a certain age he would face the choice of joining the gang or being killed,� Whinston said. Nonetheless, she told him if she knew her children would be separated from her in the U.S., she
would have remained and faced the threats of violence in her hometown. Speakers discussed biblical sources, commentary from the Midrash and the perspective of rabbis from the 19th to and 21st centuries. Citing Deuteronomy, Rabbi Asher Lopatin of Kehillat Etz Chayim in Oak Park said we are told to welcome and bring in strangers. “If we turn them away, we are doing desecration of our country, of being Jewish,� he said. “You learn the Torah so you can do — to bring us to action.� Speakers reminded the audience of the Jewish history of slavery in Egypt and the Jewish belief that all people are created in the image of God. However, the Jewish people were not exempt from “baseless hatred� — their “xenophobia� resulted in the destruction of the Second Temple. Rabbi Jennifer Lader of Temple Israel in West Bloomfield gave a chronology of recent immigration events in the U.S. “When we said, ‘Never again,’ we meant never again. If I am only for myself, who am I?� she asked. Rabbi Ariana Silverman of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in Detroit cited 36 times that the Bible commands that strangers be welcomed and treated humanely — evidence this is important and difficult to accomplish. Program attendees were urged to get involved in the immigration issue by immigration lawyer Ruby Robinson, vice president of JCRC/AJC. He recommended talking to elected officials about immigration and supporting efforts to welcome immigrants. ■For local and national resources for action, go to jcrcajc.org/take-action.
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Going Big, Going Green Hazon’s annual Jewish Food Festival brings new pathways to learn about sustainability.
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f you think you know what to expect from Hazon’s Michigan Jewish Food Festival, think again. For the festival’s fourth year, Hazon, a Jewish organization dedicated to sustainability and education, decided to go big. With approximately 47 vendors, 15 food trucks and caterers, and 64 Jewish organizations participating, director Marla Schloss expects this year’s festival to be spectacular. The event is from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, at Eastern Market, Shed 5, in Detroit. “This is bigger and better than previous years,” she said. “We’ve added so much, and we are so excited.” The goal of the festival is to educate people on sustainability practices they can incorporate into their daily lives. The event itself is almost entirely waste-free, with no bottled water, cans or Styrofoam plates allowed. Even the signage and balloons will be made with recycled items and be completely biodegradable. What little waste the festival will produce will be sorted by a company called Zero Waste Productions into recyclables and compostable items, eliminating any waste. Attendees of the festival can expect to experience hands-on activities and lots of food, as well as live music. Activities outside Shed 5 will be covered by a canopy, keeping patrons safe no matter what the weather.
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This year, Hazon is including a section called ArtSpace featuring artists who use sustainable practices. Here, attendees will also be able to make decorative pins out of DIA art slides rendered obsolete by the internet. This “upcycling” of the slides into wearable art prevents them from ending up in landfills. Another activity allows visitors to watch a craftsman from Pingree Detroit make a pair of leather shoes. The company was created by war veterans who recycle leather scraps from automotive companies and use them to make shoes, wallets and backpacks and more — a prime example of a sustainable business. Also new this year is the Family Pavilion, a rest area for families with small children complete with blankets, pillows and quiet activities such a games and books, all geared toward furthering children’s education and understanding of environmentalism. Of course, a food festival wouldn’t be complete without lots of food. Hazon supports local farmers who want to do things sustainably, and many will provide samples of their produce. Detroit Hives, a company that creates urban bee farms, will exhibit one of its farms. Festival goers will be able to see what happens in a beehive and what goes into creating and harvesting honey. Farber Farm, part of Tamarack
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Hazon Detroit board member and food festival committee member Carol Trowell with Marla Schloss, festival director
Camps in associate with Hazon Detroit, will provide cuca-melons, a mini hybrid cucumber melon, for people to sample, and will offer information about Michigan crops. Tolgate Farms from Michigan State University will bring along some fuzzy friends including a goat, lamb and chicken. Patrons will be able to spin their own wool and make bracelets from the yarn. Hazon’s trademark Topsy-Turvy Bus, a vehicle that runs on vegetable oil and solar power, is an education tool as well as a crowd favorite, Schloss said. “Education is so important to us,” Schloss said. “If we are able to move someone one degree toward change, that’s one step in the right direction. If we all think a little bit and everyone takes just one step, think of the difference it could make.” ■ For details or to volunteer, contact marla. schloss@hazon.org or visit hazon.org/miff.
TIME for Holocaust Survivors Act Introduced in Congress U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) on July 30 introduced the Trauma-Informed Modernization of Eldercare (TIME) for Holocaust Survivors Act legislation that would help ensure the roughly 80,000 Holocaust survivors now living in the United States can get access to the specialized care and services tailored to their unique health needs. “Holocaust survivors have endured the worst of human atrocities and deserve special care for the duration of their remaining years,” said Wasserman Schultz. “The TIME for Holocaust Survivors Act can tend to that unique pain in this closing chapter of their lives and allow them to live out their remaining years with dignity.” The TIME for Holocaust Survivors Act designates survivors as a group with a significant social need within the Older Americans Act and creates a portfolio within the Administration on Community Living to take responsibility for Holocaust-related issues. The legislation also promotes technical assistance and training for nonprofits that serve older adults still experiencing the longterm consequences of this historic trauma. In addition, TIME ensures that nutrition services through the Older Americans Act meet the special dietary needs of Holocaust survivors and others.
Tisha b’Av Observance Detroit’s Conservative community will observe Tisha b’Av at 10 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, with Ma’ariv and Eichah (Book of Lamentations) at Congregation B’nai Moshe in West Bloomfield. Tisha b’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, marks the destruction of the first and second Temples, as well as a variety of other tragedies throughout Jewish history. This special service is marked by somber melodies, the chanting of the Book of Lamentations and other liturgical poems.
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ed to tell Josh’s story because it is inspiring to kids,” Jacobs Lipshaw said. “As a teacher, I know kids need to feel empowered that they have the voice and the power to speak out, even for something as simple as ice cream.” The 32-page illustrated children’s book is published by Warren Publishing ($17.95 hardcover; $8.99 paperback) and available now. “This is, pun intended, a sweet story that kids will love, and parents will appreciate for the delicious and encouraging lesson it teaches their children,” said Mindy Kuhn, president of Warren Publishing. Jacobs Lipshaw’s goal for the book is to inspire and empower children. She believes Josh’s story is special because he saw something he felt was unfair and was determined to change it. The author’s advice to young people who want to be involved with community activism, but aren’t sure where to start: “Ask an adult for guidance. Don’t be afraid to take a small step, or even a big step.” A book release for I Campaigned for Ice Cream took place May 22 in the West Bloomfield Town Hall Boardroom. Jacobs Lipshaw was thrilled to host the launch there because it was the same room where Josh gave his speeches and was able to create change 18 years ago. “It was a great way to bring it full circle,” Jacobs Lipshaw said. Josh attended the book launch and signed books with his mother. ■
Readers shared on Facebook their favorite ice cream flavors and where they go to get them. Sharon Krasner, Oak Park: “My favorite place is definitely Clark’s Ice Cream & Yogurt in Berkley. My favorite flavor? Hmmm. Mint chocolate chip and lemon cheesecake with graham cracker crumbs.” Micki Grossman, West Bloomfield: “Guernsey Mackinac Island Fudge. By the quart, I can always buy it at Johnny Pomodoro’s, or I go to Guernsey Farms Dairy in Northville and eat it there!” Carla Schwartz, Juno Beach, Fla.: “I no longer live in Detroit, but I crave Ray’s Ice Cream [in Royal Oak]. Any flavor will do!” Melanie Betel, West Bloomfield: “Cake Batter at Cold Stone.” Arthur Siegal, Oak Park: “Blue Moon, Clark’s.” Annabel Cohen, Bloomfield Hills: “Believe it or not, I’m loving the acai bowls from Costco.” Leslie Spector, now in Washington, D.C.: “Summer Strawberry from Yoz!” Sheri Terebelo Schiff, Birmingham: “Peach ice cream from Ray’s or Guernsey Farms Dairy.” Alison Leigh Krass Blau, Royal Oak: “Superman ice cream at Ray’s.” K
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Friendship Circle Artist Completes Commissioned Artwork Josh Jacobs, a longtime Friendship Circle supporter, commissioned Robert Shaw, an artist at Friendship Circle’s Soul Studio, to create a painting for SINGH Development Company. Shaw created a painting of a lion, from SINGH Development Company’s symbol, with a Downtown Detroit landscape in the background. The piece took two months to complete. The painting hangs in SINGH Development Company’s lobby with a metal wall label featuring Shaw’s biography. “Singh is committed to supporting our community and partnering with local organizations such as Friendship Circle and Soul Center that provide essential services within our community. We appreciate the opportunity to support local artists and help them display their talents to the community,” said Saab Grewal of SINGH Development Company.
Anti-Smoking Program for Teens Nearly 5 million teens across the United States are vaping and using tobacco, with very few programs designed to help them quit. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is partnering with National Jewish Health and eight other states on a tobacco cessation program designed to help teens who want to stop using tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes and vapes. The new My Life, My Quit program includes educational materials designed for teens and created through focus groups with teens, subject matter experts and community stakeholders. Teens can text or call a toll-free number — 855-891-9989 — or they can visit MyLifeMyQuit.com for real-time coaching. Through the program, teens work with a coach who listens and understands their unique needs, provides personalized support and helps them build a quit plan to become free from nicotine. National Jewish Health currently operates the quitline for 16 states and numerous health plans. The program has helped thousands of adults quit using tobacco and has a nearly 40 percent participant quit rate for people who receive coaching and medications.
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moved his life to Seattle. To everyone hen Stuart Lester and who has asked why he would leave Marilyn Siskind-Meyer sunny San Diego for the gray, rainy double dated at Mumford weather of Seattle, Stuart simply High School’s senior prom in 1965, replies, “To be with Marilyn.” they never expected they would be Earlier this year, the couple received married to each other more than 50 an invitation to another high years later. Marilyn Meyer and school reunion and decided it Stuart and Marilyn were Stuart Lester were would be a great idea to officialgood friends in high school, married by Rabbi ly become married in front of but parted ways after gradDaniel Syme at all their Mumford high school uation. She attended the a Mumford High friends. Rabbi Emeritus Daniel University of Michigan School reunion this and eventually relocated to year, surrounded Syme of Temple Beth El officiated. Seattle, while he attended by friends. “Our friends thought it was Wayne State Law School wonderful,” Marilyn said. The before moving to San Diego. pair couldn’t agree more. For 50 years, they led separate lives, “We have very different interests, but each with their own marriage and, subsequently, divorce. In 2014, a Facebook that doesn’t really matter because our souls match,” Marilyn said. group was created in advance of their Despite their varied interests, or 50th class reunion with all the memperhaps because of them, Stuart and bers of the 1965 graduating class, so Marilyn and Stuart were able to recon- Marilyn have been the perfect complement to each other’s lives. nect. “Stuart says he thinks I’m more mel“I noticed that Stuart’s pictures on low now. I think it’s just knowing that Facebook always included his son, but it’s OK to be imperfect and that I will never had a woman in them,” Marilyn always have his unconditional love,” said with a laugh. Marilyn said. While neither of them attended Stuart has become Marilyn’s chief the 50th reunion in 2015, the pair barbeque expert, handyman, gardener, continued to communicate over Sudoku coach, best friend and now Facebook and text message until that husband, she writes in her short memThanksgiving when they were both oir. Between the two of them, they headed to Los Angeles to see family. have two sons and three daughters, “We met up in LA,” Stuart said. “At as well as one grandchild, whom they first, she really had no interest, but I both love and adore. kept visiting.” Not only does their story bring joy Stuart made four trips to Seattle to them and their families, but others before Marilyn realized there was who hear it can’t help but fall in love something special between them. with the couple as well. At Trader Joe’s, “I realized that at age 68, here was a potential life partner who met all of my the only place in Seattle Marilyn has found kosher meat, she told the story criteria plus some,” Marilyn wrote in to the cashier who excused himself and a short memoir detailing the couple’s brought her back a bouquet of flowers. story. “People love to hear our story,” In October 2016, Marilyn and Stuart Marilyn said. “Even at 70 you can find began dating. Stuart, a retired lawyer, a very sweet romance.” ■ dropped everything and immediately
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aya Belen of Birmingham will become a bat mitzvah in April next year, but her preparations started back in March when she decided she wanted to send a sick child to Disney World as her mitzvah project. Initially, Maya wanted to visit the pediatric cancer patients at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak but was told she was too young. So, she decided to take it one step further and raise the money to send one of these children on the trip to Disney World. The idea came to the Derby Middle School student upon talking to the founder and CEO of Born Yoga in Birmingham, Ashley Goldberg. When she was a teenager, Goldberg was diagnosed with cancer and was selected to participate in the Make-A-Wish Foundation’s programs. Goldberg told Maya about the organization, and Maya was inspired to make this her new project. At first, Maya’s friend participated in the project as well, but Maya since has taken over the fundraising efforts. In the five months since its
conception, Maya’s project has raised nearly $5,000 of the $8,000 necessary to fund a trip to Disney World for a sick child through Make-A-Wish. She has raised the money through a variety of baking and snack sales at her middle school and will be having another fundraiser during the Woodward Dream Cruise in August. Maya is hoping to reach her $8,000 goal by her bat mitzvah and is looking forward to seeing the result of her hard work. “I just want to meet the kid and get to see the enjoyment of them getting to go to Disney World,” she said. Maya’s mom, Andrea, has been supporting Maya throughout the process and feels it will be very rewarding for Maya to see a child get to have a great experience because of her efforts. If you would like to help Maya reach her goal, donate at https:// tinyurl.com/y3g7cph9. ■
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TOP TO BOTTOM: “A fire pit is in the middle of the gardens,” Bruce Hoffman says. “We make a fire, bring out a bottle of wine. We were toying with the idea of getting a place Up North. Our friends said, ‘Why? Your place is like a vacation.’” Hostas are to the left, then the middle is layered with purple astilbes and white Shasta daisies; A juicy purple calla lily and long-stem roses. “Calla lilies are super expensive — they’re not a perennial in Michigan,” Hoffman says. “Instead of buying new ones each year, I dig up the rhizomes, along with my dahlia tubers, store them in a paper bag in the cellar in my basement over the winter and replant in the spring.”; A pair of hybrid tea roses, also known as long-stem roses.
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round 2001, Bruce Hoffman decided he was sick and tired of seeing messy grounds surrounding his lovely Bloomfield Hills home, where he and his wife, Shelly, had lived since 1996. “It just hit me one day,” Hoffman says. “This is ugly, and I don’t want to look at this anymore. It was schmutz everywhere.” His experience was somewhat limited. His grandparents had a little strawberry patch in their yard in Detroit near Mumford High School, where Hoffman would pick berries. “My mom had a tiny plot — a couple of corn plants, tomato plants,” he says. “I’ve always been interested in gardening. I like watching things grow.” So, he brought in 20 yards of dirt and wood chips and got to work cleaning out grounds covered 100 percent with weeds and brush, beginning with the side of the house along the driveway. Ultimately, he tamed and nurtured his 5,000 square feet of grounds into five separate gardens — including the front and sides of the house and the walk-under to the basement
TOP TO BOTTOM: “We own the Road Show, a 9,000-square-foot store,” Hoffman says. “We go to Vegas often for buying trips and trade shows, and they have a garden section where I always shop for myself. That’s where the giraffe came from.”; An Asiatic lily; An Oriental lily; Hoffman added a Cape Cod-style walkway with slab steps up to the front door; Rows of astilbes and Shasta daisies. Hoffman’s tips: Start with good dirt and keep the weeds out, no matter how time-consuming (his wife, Shelly, helps with that tedious job).
— with hybrid tea roses, Asiatic and Oriental lilies, hostas, gladiolas, astilbes, 75 different kinds of calla lilies and more, bursting in joyous colors around meandering walking paths. “It took maybe five years from start to finish,” Hoffman says. “But I was always making improvements. After 10 years, I’m finally done. I was limited because it’s more of a shade garden — no areas of my property receive the minimum eight hours of sun to grow vegetables — so I had to concentrate on shade to part-sun flowers. “I’m not artistic at all,” Hoffman says. “I have a hard time drawing a circle. But this is my creativity. I enjoy getting my hands dirty — my wife, Shelly, is always telling me to go wash my fingernails.” To satisfy his desire for vegetables, Hoffman keeps a vegetable garden at his Roseville store, the Road Show (Hoffman previously owned the iconic Tobacco Road locations throughout the 1970s). “It’s been very gratifying to start from scratch, build it up and see beauty come to form,” Hoffman says. “I walk out here and think, ‘Oh my God, is this beautiful.’ I love seeing all my hard work and labor come to fruition. But mostly, I love the beauty, peace and tranquility the gardens bring.” ■
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Downtown Detroit tour with eating or eating with a Downtown Detroit tour? The first was more my impression when Linda Yellin, founder of Feet on the Street Tours, took a group of 18 to see everything happening in and around Capitol Park. Her strolling brunch, “Come Hungry, Leave Happy,” offered on select dates through Dec. 8, takes its name from Yellin’s popular eating tour in Detroit’s Eastern Market. Her decision to create a new tour was sparked by the recent transformation of Capitol Park, once a city transit hub. The triangular-shaped public park on Griswold Street is loosely bounded by State Street, Washington Boulevard and Grand River. It’s a block west of Woodward. Our morning started with handcrafted coffee at Dessert Oasis Coffee Roasters Detroit, a large, informal hangout space in the renovated Albert Building, constructed in 1929 by architect Albert Kahn. Most of the high-rise buildings here date from the 1900s-1920s. Their appearance today is a far cry from the not-so-distant past. During Detroit’s decline in population and abandonment
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“It’s exciting to see what’s happening of buildings, many homeless and menhere,” Yellin said. tally ill people congregated in Capitol It was a dry day for our 2½-hour Park. exploration of Capitol Park and envi“At one time, these buildings couldn’t rons. A now-cleaned-up statue of Gov. sell, but with the city’s redevelopment, Stephens T. Mason is a reminder that a bidding war broke out 10 years ago,” Capitol Park was the site of Michigan’s Yellin said. “Now this is one of the most first state capitol, relocated to Lansing in expensive places to live in Detroit, and 1847. A historic marker commemorates the prices just keep on going up.” Finney Barn, a stop on the Underground She noted monthly rents of $1,400 at Railroad for slaves fleeing to Canada. the Albert and up to $5,000 at the Stott, Downtown Detroit the luxurious redo Partnership provides (2018) of the 1929maintenance, security built David Stott art and programming deco skyscraper. for Capitol Park and Under auspices other spaces, including of Quicken Loans Campus Martius and CEO Dan Gilbert’s Grand Circus Park. real-estate firm Capitol Park’s pleasant Bedrock Detroit, environment includes Sachse Construction shade trees, benches, is renovating most moveable red tables and of the buildings on chairs, and even a small Woodward, turning TOP LEFT: The Mural at the Isaac Agree dog run. them into offices Downtown Synagogue. TOP RIGHT: The We noticed finishing and retail space. Shinola Hotel and its in-house restaurant touches being added Downtown apartare included on the tour. ABOVE: La Lanterna to the coming outdoor ments and lofts, can be found in the Albert Building. Capitol Café. The hotels, stores, bars and restaurants are being added at a fast owner is Eatori Market, an upscale specialty grocery store in the Malcomson clip.
Building. Coming in late summer will be Leila, a casual Lebanese restaurant in the long-vacant Farwell Building. Prime + Proper steakhouse, Griswold at State, is a notable restaurant in the Capitol Park Lofts building, built in 1912. Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, a Conservative Jewish congregation since 1921, resides in the former Fintex men’s clothing store on Griswold at Clifford. Behind the building, IADS administrative assistant Elizabeth Kannon pointed out features of the fanciful, folk art mural that Bunnie Reiss completed in 2018. Just beyond was a glimpse of Charlie McGee’s 11-story abstract mural in black and white, on a side of the 28Grand building. continued on page 30
FUTURE FOOD TOURS “Come Hungry, Leave Happy” in Capitol Park will run 10:30 a.m.1 p.m. Sundays, Sept. 15 and 22; Oct. 13; Nov. 10 and Dec. 8, and Wednesday, Sept. 11. Tickets are $31, and tours continue rain or shine. For information about public and private tours, visit enjoythed.org.
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Lunch was at La Lanterna, founded in 1956. It left Detroit decades ago but returned in 2017 to the Albert Building. We shared delightful antipasto plates of cured meats, olives, tomatoes, arugula, sundried tomatoes, Parmesan and Provolone cheeses with toasted French bread. Then came tasty thin-crust Margarita pizza from their brick oven.
Passing by two eateries on Grand River, we learned that Iggy’s Eggies serves hot breakfasts weekdays at a walk-up window; lunchtime is next door at Lovers Only, a hamburger restaurant. Crossing Woodward, Yellin spoke about the construction taking place on the site of the former Hudson’s department store. Bedrock is getting a five-story glass atrium with public access and a tower, standing taller than the Detroit Renaissance Center, for residences and businesses. “The plan is to build a tower so iconic, people will say: ‘This is Detroit,’” Yellin said. We entered Shinola, a boutique hotel on Woodward that includes Italian restaurant San Morello and Evening Bar. The comfortable lobby, called “The Living Room,” is open to the public for food, drinks and relaxing. Artist Nick Cave’s dramatic wall hanging is the room’s focal point. A fun stop was The Belt, an art-filled alley by the Z parking deck on Library Street.
On Shinola’s Farmer Street side, we took note of the Brakeman beer hall, and a fried chicken carryout, Penny Red’s Buckets and Biscuits. Intersecting Farmer on John R, the Element by Westin is a “green,” environmentally friendly hotel that opened in January. It required a $30-million renovation of the Metropolitan Building, a former jewelry emporium. At 40 years, the Metropolitan was the longest-vacant building in Detroit. The hotel’s Monarch Club, a chill craft cocktail lounge with a small plates menu, opened recently. Strong, Prohibition-style cocktails are a signature. Executive Chef Jared Bobkin was a finalist on Hell’s Kitchen, while Mike Eisenberg, food and beverage director, came from Gray Ghost in Detroit. The Monarch Club includes indoor and outdoor space, including three terraces, on the 13th floor. Only 150 may enter at a time to preserve intimacy. Dining in Capitol Park, our moderate-
ly spicy chicken satay came from Go! Sy Thai on Griswold. We then watched an outdoor yoga class. A spectacular finish to the day was sampling chocolate eclairs and soft-centered, almond croissants at Cannelle Coffee & Pastries on West Grand River. The French patisserie opened in February, and owner Matt Knio operates another in Birmingham. ■
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AT THE MOVIES Once Upon a Time in Hollywood opened on July 26 and is still playing in theaters â&#x20AC;&#x153;everywhere.â&#x20AC;? This big-budget comedy/drama was directed and written by Quentin Tarantino. I will avoid giving away the huge plot twists and â&#x20AC;&#x153;real history changes.â&#x20AC;? Suffice it to say, it takes place in Los Angeles in 1969 and Brad Pitt stars as a washedup actor who improbably Polanski gets drawn into contact with the notorious Manson family. There arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t any Jewish actors with a big part in the film. However, two real Jews figure prominently in the plot: film director Roman Polanski, now 85, and talent agent Marvin Schwartz (1927-1997). In 1969, Polanski was married to actress Sharon Elliot Tate, a target of the Manson family. Two other real Jewish celebs are portrayed in the film but are less important: actor/ director Sam Wanamaker (1919-1993) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mamaâ&#x20AC;? Cass Elliot (1941-1974), a member of the 1960s rock group The Mamas and the Papas. Polanski, by the way, has completed a new film Shatner titled An Officer and a Spy. It is about the infamous Dreyfus Affair. Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish army captain, was falsely accused (1894) of spying for the Germans. He was convicted and imprisoned only to be finally exonerated in 1906. The case divided France and stoked the fires of anti-Semitism.  Arquette HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS WITH CAPT. KIRK I recently came across William Shatnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newest memoir, Live Long and What I Learned Along the Way
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TUESDAY, AUG. 13 SENIOR DREAM CRUISE 9:45 am, Aug. 13. Hosted by Jewish Senior Life. Meet at Temple Israel and cruise together. Pre-registration required: Libby Lavine, llavine@jslmi.org or 248-592-5023. Free event.
SIMPLY DANCE 11 am, Aug. 13. At the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Led by Christine Stewart. No partner needed. Cost: $7. CAREGIVER SUPPORT 1:30-3:30 pm, Aug. 13. The Dorothy & Peter Brown Adult Day Program holds free monthly family caregiver support group meetings. Respite care may be available during the daytime meetings; if interested, inquire when you RSVP. At JVS, 29699 Southfield Road, Southfield. Meeting for family caregivers of older adults living with dementia. For information or to RSVP, contact Dorothy Moon 248-233-4392, dmoon@jvsdet.org.
BRIDGING WORK & HOME 6-8 pm, Aug. 13. At the Detroit Institute of Music Education Building, 1265 Griswold, Detroit. Women’s Philanthropy’s Jewish Working Women’s Network will welcome Jordana Strosberg, GM’s Global Advanced Technology & Mobility communications manager, for a networking and Q & A event. Guest moderator will be journalist and 25-year veteran of Channel 7 News, Cheryl Chodun. Light appetizers, wine and soft drinks will be served. $36 per person; valet parking included in event fee. Valet with Star Trax at 119 State St. (two blocks from the DIME building). Space is limited to 50 people, register online: jewishdetroit. org/event/jwwn-strosberg.
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 14 MOVIE MATINEE 1 pm, Aug. 14. At the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Labryrinth of Lies (2 hours). Free. MINORITIES IN ISRAEL 1 pm, Aug. 14. What Justice Demands: Minorities in Israel. Beth Ahm video- streams a panel discussion moderated by Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, originally presented at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Free and open to the community; no reservations required. At 5075 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield. Info: Nancy Kaplan, 248-737-1931 or nancyellen879@att.net. continued on page 34
AUG. 11 - SANTANA Rock and Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Carlos Santana will bring his Supernatural Now tour to DTE Energy Music Theatre on Sunday, Aug. 11 at 7 p.m. Santana, although not Jewish, has strong ties to Judaism. Renowned music promoter the late Bill Graham, who was brought to the U.S. as an 11-year-old Jewish refugee fleeing the Nazis, helped launch Santana’s career, getting him a booking at Woodstock. Santana’s nonprofit Milagro Foundation has also funded the nonprofit educational institution Hand in Hand, which established Arabic-Hebrew bilingual schools in Jerusalem and the Galilee. Santana will be joined on stage by classic rockers the Doobie Brothers. Tickets are $47 and up and available at TicketMaster.
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Fiddler: Miracle of Miracle Miracles hits movie theaters nationwide Aug. 9. Look for it soon at your local AMC Theatre. The documentary recounts the show’s origins in Sholem Aleichem’s Tevye tales and uses archival footage from its Broadway debut in 1964 and the movie version from 1971, as well as interviews to discuss how Fiddler is connected to our uneasy sociopolitical present. Valerie Thomas, who co-wrote and produced the film with director Max Lewkowicz, says the film touches on themes of “racism, female empowerment and the breaking of traditions on gender and a generational level.”
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FILM/DISCUSSION 7-9 pm, Aug. 15. Adat Shalom Synagogue is hosting a screening of a new film, Ring of Silence, about human trafficking based on stories happening in Michigan and the United States, followed by a panel discussion. Panelists: Rabbi Rachel Shere of Adat Shalom Synagogue, Edee Franklin, the founder of Sanctum House, a law enforcement representative and a survivor of human trafficking. No charge; recommended for 14 years and older. RSVP: adatshalom.org/ringofsilence. Community partners: Adat Shalom Synagogue, Hadassah Greater Detroit, Sanctum House, NCJW/MI, JFS. BREWS & BOARD GAMES 7 pm, Aug. 15. A meet-up for the early20s crowd at The Corner in Ferndale. No cost. An entire wall of board games, drinks and desserts, and a crowd of fellow young Jewish Detroiters who are living their best lives between the ages of 21 and 25. Info: Hannah, hgoodman@ jfmd.org; jewishdetroit.org/event/brews-and-board. Sy Manello/Editorial Assistant Send items at least 14 days in advance to calendar@thejewishnews.com.
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REVA AXNER, 94, of Bloomfield Hills, died Aug. 2, 2019. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Dr. Michelle and Dr. Theodore Schreiber; grandchildren, Dr. Hilary Schreiber, and David and Helen Schreiber. She was the beloved wife of the late Harold Zivow and the late Abe Axner; the loving sister of the late Anne Mesnick and the late Al Auerbach. Interment was at Beth El Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323, templeisrael.org; or Michigan Humane Society, Development Dept., 30300 Telegraph Road, Suite 220, Bingham Farms, MI 48025-4507, michiganhumane.org/tributes. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. DIANE GOREN, 95, of Sunrise, Fla., died July 28, 2019. She is survived by her children, Steven and Barbara Weiner, Michael Weiner and Wendy Rothenberg, Donna and Jeffrey Lark, David and Joy Weiner, and Susan Jaffe; grandchildren, Cory and Kathy Smith, Lenny Weiner, Erin and Johnny Lewis, Ryan Weiner, Kyle Weiner, Lauren Lark, Miles Lark, Jorden and Ashley Weiner, Eli Weiner, Derek and Olivia Ohta, and Ilan, Tamar, Keren and No’a Jaffe; great-grandchildren, Alissa Smith, Tobias Lewis, Kylee and Hannah Weiner, and London and Ryder Ohta; brother, Larry Guss. She is also survived by husband Ralford’s children, Tom Goren and Laura Skinner, Neal Goren and Lewis Jacobson, and Saralee Goren; and Ralford’s grandchildren, Nira and Jacob Goren. Mrs. Goren was the beloved wife of the late Ralford Goren and the late Leonard Weiner; the
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loving sister of the late Lee Gass; the devoted daughter of the late Harry and the late Anna Guss. Interment was at Machpelah Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Hadassah-Greater Detroit Chapter, 5030 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48323, hadassah.org/detroit; or to a charity of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. STEVEN ROBERT LAZAR, 61, of Detroit, died July 31, 2019, after a long illness. He spent most of his life in Michigan and was in sales when his health permitted. He loved the outdoors and he loved dogs. He was a complicated man who lived simply. Mr. Lazar was the son of Elaine (Davis) and Reuben Lazar, known as Sam. He is survived by a brother, Eric; sister-in-law, Lorraine; nieces, Paige, Kimberly and Olivia; his former wife, Robin Allen; aunt, Sema Lazar; cousins, Howard, Jeffrey and Marlana Weiner; cousins, Jillian and Candice. He has several cousins from his two uncles Alton and Howard Lazar, who predeceased him. In his later years, he was cared for by Calmeta Strachan, who nursed him and was a compassionate companion. Contributions may be made to any humane society. Services and interment were held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. ALEXANDER SCHECHTER, 65, of Northville, died Aug. 4, 2019. He is survived by his wife of 36 years, Cathy Schechter; daughter and son-in-law, Julie and Dr. Eric Rosenbaum of Novi; son, Kevin Schechter; brothers and sisters-in-law, Nikola and Judith Shechter of Israel, Joseph and Tina Sechter of Toronto; grandchildren, Simon Rosenbaum, Pearl Rosenbaum; many loving nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, other relatives and
friends. Contributions may be made to Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334. Interment was held at Hebrew Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. LAWRENCE SCHWARTZ, 83, of Vero Beach, Fla., died Aug. 4, 2019. He is survived by his daughters and son-in-law, Cynthia and Michael Thomas, and Sharon Schwartz; son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Mark Schwartz and Dr. Rachel Kukes-Schwartz; grandchildren, Matthew Thomas, Ryan Thomas (fiancee, Sally Yung), Breanna Thomas, Benjamin Schwartz, Jonathan Schwartz and Julia Schwartz; brother and sister-in-law, Harold and Molly Schwartz; sister and brother-in-law, Eleanor and Mark Charus. Mr. Schwartz was the beloved husband of the late Esther Schwartz. Interment was at Adat Shalom Memorial Park. Contributions may be made to Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network, 6555 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, jewishhospice.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. DR. JOEL SILVER, 83, of Franklin, died Aug. 1, 2019. He is survived by his beloved wife, Josette Silver; sons and daughter-in-law, Eric and Jessica Silver, Chad Silver and companion, Emily Braver; daughter, Jill Schubiner; sister, Joyce Stuart; grandchildren, Ryan Schubiner, Samuel Silver, Ruthie Silver and Ella Atias; many loving cousins, nieces, nephews, other family members and friends. Dr. Silver was the brother-in-law of the late Hershel Stuart. Contributions may be made to the Robin L. & James E. Henderson Dental Center, c/o Saint Joseph Mercy Health System, Ann Arbor. Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.
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MITCHELL SLOTKIN, 79, formerly of Detroit and a longtime resident of Palm Beach, Fla., passed away July 29, 2019, in West Palm Beach, Fla., after a short battle with NonHodgkins Lymphoma. Known as Mickey, he worked for Hygrade Food Products, then the fifth-largest U.S. meat packing company, founded by his grandfather, Samuel Slotkin. While at Hygrade, Mitchell was deeply involved with the creation of the Ball Park Frank, which is today the No. 1 brand in the U.S. He stayed with Hygrade after the company was sold, working in the International Casing Division in London, England. He then moved to Palm Beach and became co-owner of K&K Provisions, a food service company. Mitchell was an avid sports fan, a former coach and a lifelong mentor to many young South Florida athletes. He was a steadfast and rabid fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Miami
Dolphins and Florida Gators. Mr. Slotkin is survived by his beloved wife of 45 years, Pamela B. Slotkin of West Palm Beach; sons, Daniel Alexis Slotkin (Lori) of Darien, Conn., and Hugh Trevor Slotkin of New Orleans, La.; brothers, Donald (Edie) Slotkin of Bloomfield Hills and Jupiter, Fla., Curtis (Carole) Slotkin of Bloomfield Hills and Todd (Judy) Slotkin of Darien, Conn.; grandsons, Harrison and Bennett Slotkin of Darien; many beloved nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews across the country. Mr. Slotkin was predeceased by his father, Hugo Slotkin, former chairman of the boards of Hygrade and the John Morrell Meat Packing Co.; and his mother, Babette Slotkin Okin (Walsey). Contributions may be made to the charity of one’s choice.
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VLADIMIR TANKILEVICH, 73, of Oak Park, died July 29, 2019. Originally from Russia, he first moved to Israel and then to Detroit to join the rest
of his family. The owner/operator of Novi Testing Company, Mr. Tankilevich taught commercial and domestic driving for all kinds of vehicles; also, he was a state examiner for driving licenses. He is survived by his sister, Esfir Nozhnik of Oak Park; nieces and nephews, Edward and Yulia Reznik, Irit and Felix Wasserstein, Sofiya Nozhnik and Michael Khrapko, Ilya Nozhnik (fiancee, Ania); great-nieces and great-nephews, Eva, Yonatan, Yaron, Nadine, Michelle, Aitan, Miriam; dear friend, Laura Trosch. Mr. Tankilevich was the dear brother and brother-in-law of the late Olga and the late Gregory
Reznik. Contributions may be made to Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, MI 48334; a humane society or a charity of one’s choice. Interment was held at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel.
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(JTA) Legendary Broadway producer and director Harold “Hal” Prince, who brought Fiddler on the Roof to the stage, died July 31 at the age of 91. Prince, whose credits also include West Side Story, Damn Yankees, The Phantom of the Opera, Cabaret, Company and Sweeney Todd, died after what his publicist called a brief illness, in Reykjavik, Iceland. Broadway theaters dimmed their lights for one minute that evening in tribute to Prince. He requested that there be no funeral, according to Playbill, and instead the theatrical community will later hold a celebration of his life. Prince received a record 21 Tony Awards, and was a recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor. Two of his Tonys were special awards. In 1972, he received a special Tony when Fiddler became the then-longest running musical, and, in 1974, he received one for the revival of Candide.
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Acclaimed Broadway director, producer Hal Prince dies at 91 His production of Phantom of the Opera currently is the longest-running musical. He collaborated with Broadway giants including George Abbott, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim in some of their greatest undertakings. Hal Prince Prince of Broadway, a musical retrospective of his career, made its Broadway debut in August 2017, after opening in Tokyo in 2015. Prince was born in New York City in 1928. In his 1974 memoir Contradictions, he described his parents as “privileged, upper-middle lower richclass” German Jews whose families had immigrated soon after the Civil War. In the same book, he wrote that “Saturday matinees were part of a New York Jewish child’s intellectual upbringing.” He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Judy Chaplin; a daughter, Daisy Prince; a son, Charles Prince; and three grandchildren. ■
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nother unknown to many, the Joe Vicari Restaurant Group operation is not only a restaurant … Celebrating its ninth season on Lake St. Clair, the site was the formerly owned Jack’s Waterfront that took a time-honored name in the leisure living world … Brownie’s On The Lake, 24214 Jefferson Ave., St. Clair Shores. It still has nightly live entertainment, and dancing in the moonlight is an evening thrill … Brownie’s may not be a full-fledged restaurant per se, but it does have good food, including signature items like lobster mac & cheese and the highly acclaimed Brownie Burger … These, along with surf and turf, cedar-planked white fish and pan-fried Great Lakes perch, make for delicious eating. Brownie’s On The Lake is a thrill with Detroit’s excellent lakeside views, both indoors and outdoors … along with three well-stocked bars … outside tiki, covered waterfront room and a main bar for joyful happy hours … Open-air seats include heaters, if necessary, on cool evenings. Located on Jefferson Avenue, Brownie’s entertainment now includes many favorite names and annual lineups of parties and contests, such as bikini contests and others … Its Happy Hour is held every Monday through Friday from 3-6 p.m. … with 30 percent off all drinks and appetizers. Many will remember when it was owned by Joe “Brownie” Engel and his wife, Maria … When Joe and Maria retired in 1970, Al Wagner took over and
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