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Jews in the D A Family Affair 14 Five generations have made Porter Bottle Co. a fixture in Detroit.

Shaken Not Stirred 18 The Well presents a Sukkot-inspired escape room.

Sukkah Sleeping 20 The tradition of dwelling in a sukkah for seven days can include overnight stays.

1 Day, 18 Games, 3 Playoff Champions 22 Inter-Congregational League results.

14 Shabbat & Holiday Lights

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Cover image: Shabbat starts: Courtesy Linda Friday, Oct. 11, 6:39 p.m. Solomon/The Queen Shabbat ends: Next Door Saturday, Oct. 12, 7:38 p.m. Cover design: Sukkot 1, Oct. 13, 6:36 p.m. Michelle Sheridan Sukkot 2, Oct. 14, 7:35 p.m.

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Softer Side of Fall 42 Fall is your friend when it comes to decorating.

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Days of Creation 44 Detroit native Lynn Rae Lowe reconnects with Beth El through her art installation.

The Spy 45 The real Eli Cohen behind Netflix’s new miniseries.

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he royal flush (10-JackQueen-King-Ace, same suit) is the best hand to hold in poker; it is unbeatable. Knowing that playing cards have a long history, I find it no wonder that the cards of this “famous” hand influence our everyday speech. If you have strong faith in a venture coming off very well or Sy Manello Editorial Assistant failing miserably, you might offer someone 10-to-1 odds on the outcome. A salesperson trying to make his pitch might assure you that his presentation will take “10 minutes tops.” Well, how gullible are you? Many offers should not be touched with a 10-foot pole. From your experience with

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Water for Flint The story “Israeli Technology is Answer to Flint Water Crisis,” Sept. 19, page 30, missed the point. Not that the technology won’t work, it just solves the wrong problem. The Flint problem is not an absence of clean safe water. The Great Lakes Water Authority is delivering to Flint’s reservoirs some of the highest-quality water available. Flint’s pumps deliver it to the water mains running down each street, and those mains have healed after adequate time with properly treated water. It’s been verified with testing.

cop shows, ws, you are familiar with the signoff i noff 10-4. It usually signifies understanding. Before you lose patience with someone, you should count to 10. If you have been working really hard, you may benefit if you take 10; if you are close to the beach when you decide to do this, get your surfboard and hang 10. Want to signify that someone does not know what he is talking about? Tell him he does not know jack. Before you can say Jack Robinson, he will have a smart retort for you. The list of specialty jobs these days shows us that rarely do we find someone who is a jack of all trades. Remember, however, that all work and no play make Jack a dull boy. A lovely lass may be a beauty queen; if she overdoes things, she may be a

Some homes in Flint test clear. Others don’t, and sometimes they are next-door neighbors. The problems are in the customers’ homes and property, the last few feet of pipe up to their tap. Copper pipes were soldered with lead. Faucets built before lead was banned are some of the worst offenders. Corrosion control fails in them because parts move and rub off the protective coating. Lead also may have deposited in formerly safe pipes and now is leaching. It’s senseless to provide alternative sources for homes that test clear, but not every home is being tested. Because the test costs less than a week’s supply of bottled water, it’s foolish to continue

drama queen; if she shows no emotion, she is deemed an ice queen. Have you had a day when everything went right? You felt like the king of the hill. Got money to spare? Then you may want to bet on the horse races, the sport of kings. Today it seems that cash is king. Having eaten sumptuously, you may declare you had a meal fit for a king. When making deals, it is advisable to keep an ace up your sleeve. If you are top dog, then you hold all the aces. The clincher is to play your ace, which will be your ace in the hole. Just remember that whatever you do, play/say your cards right.

supplying expensive alternative water, bottled or from some exotic device, without determining if it is necessary. If found necessary, the victims of this fiasco deserve help in fixing their plumbing rather than living with operating and maintaining their own mini water treatment plant. Can Grandma hobbling around on her walker manage this? The story didn’t mention what this contraption costs and what operating skill are required. More or less than new pipes and fixtures? Salesmen at exhibits always have the best idea since sliced bread. Perhaps it works well for a desert, but Flint is not a desert. — Dennis L. Green, PE Farmington Hills

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’m often asked what makes Detroit unique among North American Jewish communities. Yes, we are generous with our time and treasure. And we have a tradition of cultivating leaders and sharing them locally, nationally and internationally. However, our “special ingredient” is everyone Arthur Horwitz here knows each other or thinks they should! With a local Jewish population exceeding 70,000, we can’t know everyone. But our Federation’s demographic studies show most Detroiters have lived here their entire lives. We’ve shared neighborhoods, schools, camps, synagogues, youth groups, sororities and fraternities. We’ve summered on the same lakes and have patronized the same businesses. And for many who move away, staying in touch with “home” remains a lifelong priority. Providing and strengthening this thread of community connectedness — by writing

“Providing the thread of community connectedness is at the core of what the JN does.” credibly and engagingly about the people you know or think you should — is at the core of what the Jewish News does. In fact, more people today are connecting to the Detroit Jewish community and each other via the Jewish News than at any time in our 77-year history. Google analytics show thejewishnews.com is approaching 100,000 views per month. Nearly half of these users are under the age of 45 (approximately 20 percent of our under-45 users reside out of state). Meanwhile, Federation’s 2018 demographic study shows approximately half of our community over the age of 55 are reading the JN print edition. While the website and print edition each have exclusive stories and features, young and old — and in between — are being brought together by common content. The annual Cap &

Gown, 36 Under 36 and Rising Stars issues generate tremendous multi-generational interest and excitement. Last week’s feature on three generations of Blums — George, Robert and Natalie — in pediatric practice together was enjoyed by hundreds (more likely thousands) of current and former patients. Today’s edition features the Schwartz, Tepman and Grubner families, whose Detroit-based Porter Bottle Company spans five generations. The ability of the Jewish News to provide this thread of community connectedness is being fundamentally challenged by dramatic changes disrupting the media industry. As I’ve shared previously, our industry remains dependent on an old-school economic model that relies on declining volumes of print advertising to pay for most of what we do. And the vast majority — 87 percent — of all digital

Helene Goldberg: Trump is a terrible man. No one I know can stand him so I’m glad they’re going to try and impeach him. Johnny Ricks: It’s amazing to witness how divided Americans are on Trump. Mickey Levin: Trump is a “terrible man” is not grounds for impeachment. Check the Constitution. I know you wouldn’t want a Democrat being impeached one day for being a “terrible person.” I know a lot of people who can stand him and, more importantly, like the job he is doing.

Nancy Besser: Impeachment from a Congress with 14 percent approval rating is quite a joke here … Sure, impeach Trump because they cannot win against him with the 2020 freak show candidates running. Julie Geller Bussell: He (Trump) is no role model I would want any of my students or children to honor or show respect to. He’s a disgrace. Eric Weiss: They don’t have the votes, and Trump did nothing wrong … I know who I will not be voting for.

advertising goes to just two entities, Google and Facebook. It couldn’t come at a worse time. Today, we are surrounded by highly partisan media outlets and bombarded by myriad digital sources — including many emanating from enemies of our country or the Jewish community — whose intention is to pump out “fake news,” create “alternative facts” and advance conspiracy theories. The desire is to divide us. Fragment us. Cut our common thread of community connectedness. The Detroit Jewish News Foundation, a 501-c-3 nonprofit organization formed in 2011, will likely be playing a more significant role in supporting, strengthening and sharing independent, credible journalism for Detroit’s Jewish community. Community support — from readers like you — will be needed if the Jewish News is to continue to be our community’s trusted common thread that keeps us connected to our community, the world around us and each other during these turbulent times.

online comments The Jewish News welcomes feedback from readers, many of whom commented on the story “Michigan Representatives Call for Impeachment” on our Facebook page. Denise Bendori: The most ridiculous thing ever! Michigan is turning into California-lite with those people in office initiating policy that will destroy Michigan from within. Deborah Eber: Trump is a deceitful, ignorant and ill-tempered man. He has no understanding of law or governance. He campaigns instead of governing.

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Readers had this to say on Facebook after reading the online story “ADL Deems ‘OK’ Hand Gesture a Hate Symbol.” Frances Swoish: The people in this picture are turning this worldwide-known friendly hand gesture into a sign of hate … the letters WP. (White Power.) I have a hand gesture for them. Lawrence Rachleff: Oy vey, what’s next? The thumbs up or the smile?

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or the first time in a while, I am cautiously hopeful that the Women’s March may be turning a corner. I am not talking about the dramatic changing of the guard, though it is certainly a big deal that three of the march’s four prominent co-chairs — Bob Bland, Tamika Emily Shire Mallory and Linda JTA Sarsour — have stepped down after the organization’s leadership was plagued with controversy, including praising notorious anti-Semites like Louis Farrakhan and allegations they pushed a Jewish woman out of leadership because of her religion. For me, the bigger news is that one of the 17 new board members has already been removed for rhetoric that many found to be anti-Semitic, including demonizing the AntiDefamation League, chastising Muslims who are willing to join interfaith efforts and calling Israel a “racist” state that

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“engages in terrorism.” Just days after Zahra Billoo was announced as part of the new board, the Women’s March took the outpouring of concern from Jewish organizations seriously and actually did something. The organization that in February 2018 took a staggering nine days just to say Louis Farrakhan did not “align” with its values managed to actually fire someone over anti-Semitism concerns. This is a marked difference, indeed, from where the organization began. In 2017, shortly after the first Women’s March rocked not only Washington, D.C., but the entire world as a unifying feminist storm, I found myself reluctantly questioning whether I was welcomed in this supposedly inclusive wave of feminist activism as a Jewish woman and a Zionist. I very much would have preferred to pull the pink pussy hat over my eyes and ignore the fact that there was a singular hostility toward Israel in the movement and then a growing tolerance for anti-Semitism. It felt whiny, Social Media Coordinator: Chelsie Dzbanski cdzbanski@renmedia.us Editorial Assistant: Sy Manello smanello@renmedia.us Senior Columnist: Danny Raskin dannyraskin2132@gmail.com Contributing Editor: Robert Sklar rsklar@renmedia.us Contributing Editor: David Sachs Contributing Arts Editor: Gail Zimmerman gzimmerman@renmedia.us Contributing Writers: Suzanne Chessler, Shari S. Cohen, Louis Finkelman, Lynne Konstantin, Jason Rubenfire, Mike Smith, Steve Stein, Julie Smith Yolles

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if not traitorous, to question and raise concerns when I was a proud feminist who agreed with so many of the overarching goals and objectives of the movement. I should take the good with the bad, I thought. But I couldn’t. It felt dishonest and hypocritical, especially in a movement that proclaimed to value intersectionality and encouraging people — especially women — to speak their truth and be the ones to name and call out discrimination and hate. I was prompted to write “Does feminism have room for Zionists?” after the International Women’s Strike — distinct from the Women’s March — presented a platform that singled out Israel as the only country other than the U.S. for condemnation, demanded the “decolonization of Palestine” and proudly touted Rasmea Odeh as an organizer. Odeh had been convicted for her involvement in a bombing that killed two Hebrew University students. The response I received from the most prominent and loudest voices of the modern feminist

and progressive movements was a resounding no — both implicitly in their hyper-hostility to anything that could be mistaken as acknowledging the legitimacy of Jewish statehood and explicitly from Sarsour. Anti-Zionism seemed like relatively small potatoes against my new looming question: “Does feminism have too much room for anti-Semitism?” It wasn’t just that Sarsour had said that “nothing is creepier than Zionism,” but that she had unabashedly and unapologetically minimized its harm, saying, “I want to make the distinction that while anti-Semitism is something that impacts Jewish Americans, it’s different from anti-black racism or Islamophobia because it’s not systemic.” But a year can make a difference. With fresh blood and a willingness to listen and take action, there is finally some hope that Jewish women’s concerns will be heard and taken seriously. This doesn’t mean that there isn’t more room for improvement. For one, it was disappointcontinued on page 12 | Detroit Jewish News

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a skewed view of the world and promote hate, the Department of Education’s letter has received scathing coverage. In the current divisive political atmosphere, anything that the Trump administration does — whether good, bad or indifferent — is always going to be shoehorned into a narrative in which its work is denounced as evidence of criminal behavior and/or authoritarianism by its liberal and Democratic critics. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been a particular target of scorn from the “resistance.� Kenneth Marcus, the head of the department’s civil-rights bureau, has gotten similar treatment. But the real problem is that the government’s action is based on the recognition that Middle East Studies in the United States has become a safe space for anti-Israel and anti-Semitic coursework and programming masquerading as scholarship. Within these departments, support for anti-Zionism and anti-Semitic BDS campaigns has become a form of orthodoxy that teachers and students dare not challenge. This was brilliantly exposed by Martin Kramer in his 2001 book Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle East Studies in America, and the situation has only grown worse since then. Yet is it the government’s business to police this lamentable situation? Small government conservatives, as well as libertarians continued on page 12

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and Jews there as illegitimate or to promote BDS and other forms of anti-Semitism. They have a choice. If they don’t want federal criticism, they can give up the money they get from the federal government or any other entity that seeks to uphold the standards of decency one would not think has to be imposed on such elite institutions. Indeed, plenty of Middle East governments, such as that of Qatar, are happy to dispense money to American institutions while promoting a different agenda than that of the administration. But if they do so, they can’t pretend they are responsible scholars or anything other than promoters of hate. What Trump’s DOE has done is neither Islamophobic nor an unconscionable interference in academia worthy of an authoritarian regime. It’s merely upholding the values and principles that liberal academics claim to support. Whatever you may think of Trump or DeVos, the Jewish community should be standing with the administration on this issue. The failure to do so is nothing short of a disgrace. Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS — Jewish News Syndicate.

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and liberals, might be inclined to answer “no.” Yet, if the DOE is dispensing money to schools throughout the country, why shouldn’t it monitor how funds are being spent? The federal government is quite vigilant about policing the use of grant money when it comes to possible discriminatory conduct or practices. The same is true for a host of other issues relating to federal preferences about a wide array of conduct and agendas. Why then would monitoring anti-Semitism be the one topic on which Washington should stay mum? The Obama administration ignored many anti-Semitic incidents on college campuses during its eight years in office and dismissed calls for it to use the threat of loss of federal funding to force those responsible to act. It was only after DeVos and Marcus were appointed to their posts by Trump that the DOE began to take an active interest in the way hatred of Jews has found a home on some campuses and especially within departments focused on the Middle East. These departments are free to go on teaching the history of the Middle East in a manner that treats the presence of Christians

ing that the Women’s March could not bring itself to use the word “anti-Semitism” when it announced the removal of Billoo, instead cloaking Billoo’s dismissal in politely vague claims that “some of her public statements [were] incompatible with the values and mission of the organization.” While I am thrilled to see there is Jewish leadership in the new board, is it too bold to say

I hope for the day that there can be loud, explicitly Zionist voices in the Women’s March to show the world of feminism that progressivism and Zionism can coexist? Is that too much to ask? Maybe it is today. But a small part of me cautiously believes that won’t always be the case. Emily Shire is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Daily Beast, WashingtonPost.com, Slate and Salon.

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A Family Affair Five generations have made Porter Bottle Co. a fixture in Detroit.

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hen Rena Tepman, son Larry and cousin Dan Grubner separately do their personal grocery shopping, they can spend as many as three hours in a supermarket. It’s not that they’re preoccupied with food; it’s that they’re preoccupied with containers. The three are among five generations of a family owning and/or working for Porter Bottle Company in Downtown Detroit, their base for distributing glass and plastic containers; and they want to keep up to the minute on trends and popular choices. “We don’t just pick our favorite brand of salad dressing,” co-owner Larry says to provide an example of what takes up their time. “We look at every single salad dressing bottle. Dan, our operations manager, has called me on the weekends from someplace, excited about a new bottling line he has noticed. “I think it’s in our blood.” Porter Bottle Company has offices on Fort Street and operates a nearby warehouse spanning 45,000 square feet and holding some 900 different containers among hundreds of thousands of total items. Their Detroit presence, since 1936, is maintained because it’s central to many continuing customers and holds easy access for Canadian businesses. The family, which continued operations after a devastating fire in 1977, is proud to service local individual customers who are starting out — and perhaps short of one bottle cap — as well as large North American manufacturers needing as many as 35,000 containers with as many caps.

THE COMPANY’S ROOTS Porter Bottle Company was started by Rena’s parents, Dave and Ida Schwartz. Among the diverse products, beyond foods and beverages, that eventually fill their in-stock containers are cosmetics, medicines and cleaning solvents. “My mom and dad started Porter Bottle right after they got married using the money they received as wedding gifts,” Rena says. “My dad had worked for my grandfather, Sam Schwartz, who washed and sold used bottles after coming to the United States from Hungary. “It was like recycling as my grandfather worked out of a backyard shed before selling the bottles back to the original factory or others. My grandfather was the bottle cleaner, and my dad was the salesman and the delivery guy. My grandmother, Sadie, handled the books.” Although Rena’s grandparents wanted her dad to join the established business and make it C.S. Schwartz & Son, Rena’s parents had a spinoff idea. “My grandparents said they needed to do their own thing,” Larry explains. “My great-grandfather stayed on the east side, and my grandparents purchased an existing business on Fourth and Porter — the Porter Bottle Exchange. They set up on the west side, eventually transitioning into handling only new glass bottles before adding plastics in the 1960s. “Eight years later, my great-grandfather closed his business and came to my grandfather asking to work with him. He was there from continued on page 16

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the early 1940s until he retired at the age of 89. He mostly monitored all the trucks that came and went.” Rena’s late husband, Jerry, who had worked in sales, joined the business in 1981 as Dave Schwartz was preparing to retire. Only one year later, as Jerry was immersed in learning warehouse operations, Schwartz suffered a debilitating heart attack and Jerry took charge, turning to his son to help with the transition. “When I was 7 years old, my grandfather started taking me to work and instilled this love for Porter Bottle in me,” recalls Larry, sometimes joined by sister Doreen. “He’d ask me to stand on pallets — what he called the stairway to heaven — to screw in light bulbs. “My grandfather made it a cool and fun experience. I had to pack and repack pallets exactly the way they were before, and I tooled around with my grandfather on a forklift. As I grew older, my grandfather had me writing up purchase orders.” When Larry was 12 and his dad was in charge, the two joined forces to redo the filing system. Larry filled in the information that Jerry had not yet experienced. As Jerry assumed leadership, Larry went

on to advance his education and establish his own career path, first as a database analyst and later with his own eBay business selling archival hobby supplies. THE NEWEST GENERATIONS After Jerry became ill and passed away in 2007, Larry closed his own business and took charge of Porter Bottle with the partnership of his mom, and the two upgraded the computer operations. “When my dad stopped working, we had a two-signature checkbook,” says Rena, whose responsibility at that point was handling payments beyond working days in a gift store office. “I would sign the checks remembering my dad had taught me to notice who would be getting the checks. He told me that the information would stick in my mind and I might need it someday. “Since Larry had been away, he didn’t know the places that sold to us, but I did. At that point, I became the bookkeeper and started going down to work twice a week.” The youngest Schwartz descendants — also having fun with family business experiences — have given their attention to inventory and packing pallets for specific orders. They

include Evie Dickman 18; Jillian Dickman, 11; and Jordyn Tepman, 8. Although functions, including warehouse operations, automated over the years, family values sustained. Members of Adat Shalom Synagogue, the family never opened on Shabbat and felt a kinship with Jewish customers developing kosher products, such as wine and traditional cuisine. When Porter greeting cards go out in December, they’re always about good wishes for the new year instead of religion. As downtown development has brought an enlarging Jewish presence, family members have met newcomers. Next door, a modern apartment building has housed Jewish tenants identified by their showcasing both lulav and etrog at Sukkot. Ultimately, the family gets the most direct satisfaction from helping people, especially the ones launching businesses (from tasty pickles to skin-soothing shea butter). It is understood that customers’ successes — with the use of Porter containers — also brings them success through return sales. Since the beginning, the official Porter acknowledgement for walk-ins has remained: “Welcome to Porter Bottle; we’re here to help you.”

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The Well presents a Sukkot-inspired escape room. During the holiday of Sukkot, the Jewish mystical tradition teaches that our sukkahs are visited by ushpizin (guests). In The Well’s Sukkotinspired escape room, a group of great Jewish luminaries have come to visit, and they’re here to see if you have what it takes to pass on the knowledge of Sukkot. In groups of up to eight people, you’ll work together to crack the code of Sukkot rituals, Jewish wisdom and history. If you can solve the puzzles and unlock the secrets of Sukkot before time runs out, you might have what it takes to become the next great lumi-

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he Torah tells us what to do with a sukkah: “In Sukkot you shall dwell for seven days; every citizen of Israel shall dwell in sukkot” (Leviticus 23:42). Dwelling, as the ancient rabbis understand the term, means treating the sukkah as one treats home the other weeks of the year: “One eats and drinks and walks around and sleeps in the sukkah” (Talmud Sukkot 28b). The Talmudic rabbi Rava also derives one related leniency from the word “dwell”: One does not stay in the sukkah if it feels uncomfortable, just as one would leave an uncomfortable house (Talmud Sukkah 26a). Feeling comfortable in the sukkah seems just right for this time of year in the land of Israel, with generally dry and temperate weather. Feeling comfortable in a sukkah seems less likely in cold, wet lands. Jews who want to use the sukkah do put up with a little discomfort. About 30 years ago, a young man from New York City came to visit his wife’s family in suburban Detroit. That first night on Sukkot, the family put on their overcoats and prepared to eat dinner in the sukkah. The visitor objected:

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“It is nearly freezing!” The host replied, “You can decide you feel uncomfortable in New York City when it is nearly freezing. If we used that standard here, we would hardly ever use our sukkah at all.” Few Detroiters tried to sleep in the sukkah back then. Sharon Krasner of Oak Park recalls that her late husband took all three children to sleep in the sukkah decades ago. The younger two came in at 3 a.m., complaining of the cold. Dad and the oldest child stuck it out until 6 a.m. Mom never tried. Over the decades, the climate in suburban Detroit has become more hospitable to sleeping in sukkah. People who do it now give some helpful hints. Larry Winer of Oak Park recommends having “a thin mattress or padding and sleeping bag. Pray it doesn’t rain or snow (actually fun when it does). Expect to wake up very early.” You can keep off the ground by using an air mattress. Caryn Finkelman (my daughter-inlaw) recommends putting a blanket between you and the air mattress, “otherwise you are just heating up the mattress.” I use a cot to keep me off the cold hard ground and a sleeping bag on top of the cot.

TOP: The Weingarden family sukkah. LEFT: Maya Weingarden slept in the sukkah last year.

As we enjoy the brisk fall weather in Michigan, we should remember that some places experience more intensive cold. Former Detroiter Claude Schochet, now in Israel, recalls that when he was growing up in Minnesota, they would leave the sukkah if ice formed on the surface of the soup. Rabbi Ari Ellis of Oak Park had lived in Winnipeg, where “the average nightly temperature for mid-October hovers just above freezing at 36 degrees. We’d bundle up. “A handful of members of our congregation had the right equipment (space heaters and outdoor gear) and did sleep in the sukkah. And while our night-time temperatures are a little more than 10 degrees warmer, it’s still quite cold. “If it was 45 or 50 degrees in our house (i.e. if the furnace was broken or there was a power outage), we would endeavor to find somewhere

else to stay,” Ellis said. Brooke Weingarden, who belongs to Southfield-based Congregation Shaarey Zedek, said she and her family set up camp last year and slept in their sukkah. “It’s a chilly but wonderful and fun family tradition. I am grateful that we have a strong sukkah to keep the wind out. It feels like we are camping in our driveway.” Over the centuries, some rabbis have issued — pardon me — blanket permission not to sleep in the sukkah. Most of these rabbis lived in cold parts of Europe. Sleeping in the sukkah feels like an adventure, camping out at home, getting to know your natural neighborhood intimately. It also amounts to a wholebody religious experience: feeling exposed to the elements and protected by the One who has protected our ancestors. When else can you do a mitzvah in your sleep?

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ixteen-year-old Emma Cherrin considers herself a feminist with a passion for empowering women. She attends Berkley High School, where she and a friend started a women’s club called Girl Up. “My friend Zoe Zaltz and I were interested in joining a feminist club at Berkley but when we got there in ninth grade, we realized there wasn’t one in place,” Cherrin said. “We ended up searching the web for a feminist club and we came across Girl Up.” She noticed there was nothing like this in her area and got more feedback on the organization. “Girl Up is the United Nations Adolescent Girl Campaign,” Cherrin said. “It advocates for global gender equality, provides education to girls in developing countries and provides the right resources for their health.” Not only does it impact girls

in developing countries, Girl Up also lends a helping hand to advocate for women’s rights here in our communities. With the help of Zaltz, Cherrin started Berkley’s Girl Up club. “It’s actually popular,” Cherrin said. “We have a lot of girls who are passionate about it. It is amazing to see our community come together to support one another.” Their Girl Up club organizes fundraisers at Berkley High. One of its most memorable fundraisers took place on International Women’s Day, where the group sold T-shirts that said, “empowered women, empower women.” Cherrin also had the opportunity to participate in a T-shirt design competition for a collaboration between Girl Up and Fabletics, a women’s sportswear company founded by Kate Hudson. “I was looking online for more opportunities to become continued on page 26

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During the holiday of Sukkot, the Jewish mystical tradition teaches that our Sukkahs are visited by Ushpizin (guests). In The Well’s Sukkot-Inspired Escape Room, a group of Great Jewish Luminaries have come to visit, and they’re here to see if you have what it takes to pass on the knowledge of Sukkot. In groups of up to 8 people, you’ll work together to crack the code of Sukkot rituals, Jewish wisdom, and history. If you can solve the puzzles and unlock the secrets of Sukkot before time runs out, you might have what it takes to become the Next Great Luminary! Details and tickets are available at tiny.cc/shakennotstirred

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involved with Girl Up and I came across the partnership with Fabletics,” Cherrin said. “The competition embraced the theme of ‘girl hero’ and asked you to design a T-shirt on however you interpreted that statement.” Cherrin immediately grabbed a Sharpie and began doodling T-shirt concepts, landing on a design that included the words, #Girl Hero in the center with hands holding different objects including a hammer, pencil and microphone. “The point I wanted to get across was that you can be a hero no matter what you’re doing. The hero really starts with you, and your passion can inspire others.” Cherrin was chosen as a finalist in the competition and went to Los Angeles in June to tour the Fabletics headquarters and meet the Fabletics design team. While she was there, she learned her T-shirt design was selected as the winner and would appear on Fabletics apparel to be sold at the Girl Up Leadership Summit July 15-17. “I was really happy that I won,” Cherrin said. “I worked hard on the design and spent so much time editing it. But overall, it was a great experience to engage with the Fabletics design team and meet other passionate girls from around the country.” Cherrin is a Hillel Day School

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The Dr. Gary Burnstein Community health Clinic, Michigan’s largest free clinic, recently hosted the Esteemed Women of Michigan event. Alicia Stillman was presented with the Woman of the Decade award for all her efforts on behalf of the Emily Stillman Foundation, which provides critical education on vaccines and advocacy for organ and tissue donation.

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Hillel of Metro Detroit has received funding for four Applebaum Family Engagement Interns for the 2019/2020 school year. Each student intern works to connect Jewish students to Jewish life on campus and in the Detroit community. Rachel Peysakhova is a Wayne State University sophomore majoring in global studies. This summer, she participated in a Birthright Israel trip. Jeremy Rosenberg is in his third year at WSU. He is president of AEPi and, when he is not hanging out in Hillel of Metro Detroit’s lounge, you can probably find him on the field at Comerica Park, where he is a ball boy for the Detroit

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The Well welcomed Kohenet (Hebrew Priestess) Keshira haLev Fife of Pittsburgh to the Detroit Jewish community for a recent weekend of learning and Shabbat celebration that was kicked off with song and prayer at Samastah Yoga in Ferndale. A plant-based Shabbat dinner was catered by Nosh Pit Detroit. On Saturday morning, Fife joined The Well at Tot Shabbat:

Rosh Hashanah Edition, held at the Gerry Kulick Community Center in Ferndale. The weekend ended with an evening women’s program at the Repair the World Workshop, where Fife led Havdalah and a discussion about the themes of the month of Elul. Participants created Rosh Hashanah-themed scented candles.

Hadassah Greater Detroit held its Judi Schram Annual Meeting Sept. 10 to honor Phyllis Newman for her dedication to the organization and

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AUG. 22, 2019 Sara and Jordan Stav are delighted to announce the birth of their son, Liam Sawyer, brother of Ezra. He is the grandson of Wendi Zupmore of West Bloomfield, Marc Zupmore and Mark Johnson of Franklin, Sheri Stav and Lonnie Pukoff of Commerce, and Ron Stav of Ferndale. He is the great-grandson of Audrey Zupmore of Commerce, Lois and Cyril Levenson of West Bloomfield, and Haim Stav of Israel. Liam is named in loving memory of his paternal great-grandmother Sharon Stav.

Ellory Brooke Becker, daughter of Jodi and Adam Becker of Bloomfield Hills, will be called to the Torah on Saturday, Oct. 12. 2019, at Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township. She represents the sixth generation of her family’s membership with the congregation. She is the granddaughter of Arline Carris and the late Harry Carris, Ricki Becker and Joe Becker. Ellory is the sister of Eric and Ryan and the great-granddaughter of the late Hyman and Evelyn Sipher, and the late Dr. Sylvan and Norma Stillman. Ellory attends Cranbrook Kingswood Middle School for Girls in Bloomfield Hills. Among her many meaningful mitzvah projects, Ellory enjoys volunteering with Farmington Hills-based JARC. Abigail Faith Gelfand, daughter of Elina and Anatoly Gelfand, will chant from the Torah as she becomes a bat mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. She will be joined in celebration by her very special twin brothers Samuel and

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Jacob and proud grandparents Larisa and Zinovy Soybel. She is also the grandchild of the late Faina and Yakov Gelfand. Abigail is a student at Hillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington Hills. For her most meaningful mitzvah project, she raised more than $1,000 for the Fragile X Association of Michigan in honor of her brothers. Benjamin Rautbort Saperstein, son of Andrea and Drew Saperstein, will lead the congregation in prayer on the occasion of his bar mitzvah at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. He will be joined in celebration by his siblings Sarah, Jessica, Meyer, Elijah and Ryan and proud grandparents Leba and Sanford Rautbort, Diane and Stuart Mittenthal, and Melvyn and Linda Saperstein. Benjamin is a student at West Hills Middle School in Bloomfield Hills. For his most meaningful mitzvah project, he raised money for the West Bloomfield-based Friendship Circle by tutoring math and teaching how to solve a Rubik’s cube.

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‘The Queen Next Door’ Aretha’s private moments are captured in photojournalist and friend Linda Solomon’s new book.

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ive years ago, Linda Solomon received a Facebook friend request from Kay Cunningham. “Who?” Solomon pondered. Not knowing a Kay Cunningham, Solomon simply didn’t respond. A couple of days later, Solomon received another message. “Linda, you didn’t friend me back. It’s me, Aretha.” As in Franklin. So, of course, Solomon accepted Franklin’s friend request. Franklin had only 22

Facebook friends on her private page at the time of her death on Aug. 16, 2018. And Solomon was one of them. “I was so blessed to be able to get to know her all of these years. I will cherish those times,” says Solomon of the woman who gave her the ultimate career boost when she was starting out as a photojournalist in 1983. Solomon was 29 at the time and a columnist for the Detroit News. Franklin gave Solomon the go-ahead to shoot her performance on the local television show Kelly & Company. She next invited continued on page 40

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Dr. Seymour Ziegelman with Aretha’s brother, the late Rev. Cecil Franklin and his wife, Earline, backstage at the American Music Awards in 1986.

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Until Dr. Seymour Ziegelman retired in 2009, he was Aretha Franklin’s — and all “the Franklin girls’” — gynecologist for almost 40 years. In fact, it was Franklin who introduced Ziegelman to photojournalist Linda Solomon and he became her doctor as well. Linda and her husband, Barry, and Ziegelman and his wife, Loretta, were regular guests at Franklin’s festive parties. How was it treating the city’s most beloved icons? “It was really quite easy,” Ziegelman of West Bloomfield recalls. “I had this fabulous medical assistant for 35 years who was the intermediary when Aretha came into the office with six gigantic bodyguards. I found the reason why our relationship was so comfortable was because I treated her like any other patient I saw.” Including telling the 18-time Grammy Award winner to quit smoking. “Of course, she blamed me for gaining so much weight after she stopped. Here she had this zillion dollar voice and she’d be smoking — even in my office,” he says. Ziegelman said he was her “go-to person” for all things medical. He last talked to Franklin a month

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before she passed away to give input on her treatment. She called him. “This is a person who had more cell phone numbers in her lifetime than the Federal Treasury has gold coins,” Ziegelman laughs. Reflecting on what a special person Franklin was, Ziegelman recalls when Franklin was playing a concert in Austin, where Ziegelman’s daughter, Julie, lived. Franklin set aside six tickets for her and his granddaughters. At the end of her performance, Franklin announced “Julie Ziegelman” to the entire audience and brought her up on stage. It’s been well-documented that Franklin had a long-standing fear of flying dating back more than 30 years. About 15 years ago, Ziegelman says, Franklin was preparing to go out on tour and started taking flight phobia classes at Wayne County Airport. “Aretha would occasionally call me and ask, ‘Would you go to Japan with me?’ I would reply, ‘To do what?’ She’d say, ‘I’m going to do a tour.’ I’d say, ‘But, Aretha, you don’t fly.’ She’d respond, ‘Well, I’m working on it.’ And I’d say, ‘Well, when you’re ready, give me a call and I’ll go with you.’”

“The book is really a tribute to Aretha and her devotion to her family and her love of Detroit. The photos in the book really capture the side of her she didn’t share with the public.” — LINDA SOLOMON

Solomon to meet and cover her family at a reception at the Manoogian Mansion in Detroit. “That was a life-changing photo assignment for me,” says Solomon, a member of the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame and founder of her nonprofit Pictures of Hope, which provides digital cameras and photography tutorials to children living in shelters in the United States. “Aretha really helped me with my career. She knew I was just starting out, and she gave me exclusive opportunities. Not only was she a civil rights activist, but she was a women’s activist. She really went out of her way to give me access and help me. She could see I was respectful of her and I would never be intrusive. I was there to capture the moments.” And that was the start of Solomon’s treasured 35-year friendship. “Everybody in Detroit has an Aretha story,” Solomon says. “She was art and she was ‘The Queen.’” “The Queen” is Solomon’s inspiration for her just-released book, The Queen Next Door: Aretha Franklin, an Intimate Portrait. Solomon’s sister, Jill

Rappaport, a well-known television journalist, came up with the book’s title, an homage to Franklin’s quote: “I am the lady next door when I am not on stage.” A foreword is written by composer Burt Bacharach; an afterword is by Aretha’s niece Sabrina Vonné Owens. “It’s very important for people to know that after Motown left Detroit in the late ’60s, Aretha singlehandedly brought music back to Detroit,” Solomon says. “The book features the part of Aretha’s life when she was giving back to the city in the most incredible way by hiring Detroit-based musicians, florists and caterers.” When the time came to publish the book, Solomon knew Franklin would have only wanted a local publisher, so she reached out to her friend, Mary Lou Zieve, former chairman of the board for the Wayne State University Press (WSUP). “I made a shidduch (match),” says Zieve of Bloomfield Hills about arranging the meeting between Solomon and WSUP. “Linda is a lovely friend and very talented photographer. It’s only natural she would use a Detroit printer.”

details The book was released last week by Wayne State University Press, which is housed in the building named for Zieve’s late father, Leonard N. Simons. Solomon credits her all-women editorial staff at Wayne State University Press for helping her put out the 244-page hardcover book filled with 140 images of Franklin’s most-private, candid moments and iconic career highlights. “I wanted it to be like a photo album that Aretha would have had on her coffee table,” says Solomon, who enlisted the help of her 91-year-old mother, Mona Rappaport, to help her sift through hundreds and hundreds of photos in Solomon’s Birmingham studio. “It’s really a tribute to Aretha and her devotion to her family and her love of Detroit. She was such a private person; I always respected her privacy. The photos in the book really capture the side of her she didn’t share with the public.” DOWN-HOME ARETHA Franklin’s birthday, Christmas and masquerade parties were legendary. Solomon saved all of Franklin’s person-

• Book signing: 2-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, ArtLoft, 4160 Cass Ave., Midtown Detroit. (313) 818-0023. Queen Edition shirts and totes by CFranks designer, Aretha’s niece, Cristal Franklin, available. A portion of the proceeds benefit the Aretha Franklin Fund for Neuroendocrine Cancer Research. • National book launch: 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Film Theatre. Panelists include former Michigan Gov. James Blanchard, former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer, Aretha’s nieces Sabrina Vonné Owens and Cristal Franklin, as well as Aretha’s cousin and backup vocalist Brenda Corbett and sister-in-law Earline Franklin. Aretha’s lifelong friends Beverly Bradley, Thelma Stubbs-Mitchell (sister of Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops) and Barbara Henderson (wife of Billy Henderson of the Spinners), among others, will join the discussion. Panelists will share intimate stories about Aretha. Also, a choir with a surprise guest vocalist will perform Aretha’s hit songs. Paying homage to Aretha’s love of pink Cadillacs, Cadillac is sponsoring the event and will provide a complimentary book to each attendee. This free event is open to the public, but space is limited. RSVP at bit.ly/2LK1Rbk. • Book signing, fashion show: 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 6, Saks Fifth Avenue Troy, sponsored by skinnytees, with all proceeds from book sales going to Solomon’s Pictures of Hope Foundation. Includes live music, fashion show and holiday pop-ups. To RSVP, email jeri_zink@s5a.com.

ally addressed invitations in metallic ink to “Linda and Barry,” Solomon’s husband. Sixty guests were invited to come in costume to Franklin’s Bloomfield Hills home on Scenic Court in 1988. The Queen of Soul herself came as Queen Nefertiti, and Solomon chose that favorite photo to be the cover of her book. “Her parties were the best. You never knew which famous entertainers would show up,” Solomon says. “You would drive up and find a 30-piece orchestra playing on her driveway. Fifteen minutes later, she’d have a mariachi band. Then Peabo Bryson singing in her living room followed by Sinbad the comic.” The parties would be for only about 40 of Franklin’s closest friends, including the Four Tops and the Spinners, family, “Linda and Barry” and Franklin’s longtime doctor, Dr. Seymour Ziegelman and his wife, Loretta. “This was when Aretha was in her 40s. She was having a blast and there’s no other way to describe it,” Solomon says. “She was there to enjoy it all. She was really happy to just sit on her couch

and listen to all of these great entertainers in her living room. She went all out, from the food to the flowers.” When she wasn’t hosting parties, you would find her limousine — “Yes, she owned her own limousines,” Solomon says — parked outside of Beans & Cornbread restaurant, Steve’s Deli, the former Big Boy next door to the Jewish Federation on Telegraph or even Kroger where she would do her own grocery shopping. “Aretha would call me, and we would gossip and chat as girlfriends. She was loads of fun,” says Solomon, who was the only photographer invited to cover the Franklin family private gathering prior to the memorial church service on Aug. 31, 2018. “I cherish our friendship. Her family was so incredibly fabulous and nice to me. They treated me like a member of the family. “And she was really ahead of her time in fashion. She was wearing animal prints, statement earrings and turquoise nail polish in the ’80s when no one else was doing it.” Pure Detroit. Pure Aretha. OCTOBER 10 • 2019

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dences expanded when Lowe returned to Detroit four years ago for her niece’s bat mitzvah and reconnected with Miller and an Temple Beth El, where she spent spe much of her childhood, singing in the choir at Beth sin El’s former Woodward and Gladstone building in Detroit. Gl Miller reconfirmed his M interest in commissioning a int work wo of art for the temple and began beeg planning for it. Beth El members Dr. Laurence and mee Maxine Baker of Ann Arbor Maa committed to funding the ccom m project. prro p Miller showed Lowe three M Detroit Native Lynn Rae Lowe potential spaces at Beth El for p reconnects with Beth El through an a art installation. One was a her art installation. large la white wall in the Maas Chapel, which she felt called C out for a multi-panel instalo SHARI SHAR SH ARII S S.. COH COHEN HEN CO CONT CONTRIBUTING NTRI RIBBUTING WRITER lation. Immediately, Lowe PHOTOS BY JERRY ZOLYNSKY thought of the seven days of Creation and she began her work. emple Beth El Rabbi Mark Then tragedy struck about a year Miller and artist Lynn Rae ago when Lowe’s son Bradley Swartz, Lowe agree it was bashert a Detroiter, was badly injured in a — meant to be — for her to return car accident. Lowe visited him often to her roots to create a seven-panel while working on the Beth El art art installation in the temple’s Maas project. “It helped me and provided a Chapel. space of hope,” she says. Lowe is an award-winning artist, Her work was completed this year. whose art pieces, often in metal, are Each panel is activated aluminum. enjoyed by individuals and museums Lowe used this process to prepare nationally. She is best known for the metal “to catch the dyes” that creJudaica, including her popular meno- ate the images. A hand-held device rahs, tzedakah boxes and mezuzot, grinds the base of the panel before and for more abstract visual art. the dyes are applied. Lowe uses stenMiller became familiar with Lowe’s cils, hand-painting and engraving to work through his mother, who create the images. A powder coating owned some of her pieces, and reccreates a sense of movement, she says ognized her work when he visited a The art installation, Seven Days Tucson art studio. It turned out to be of Creation, was dedicated Sept. 21. Lowe’s studio and he began collecting Miller read the biblical description of her work almost 20 years ago. Early each of the seven days of Creation as on, he thought about commissioning each unique panel was unveiled for artwork from her when he had a temple members. Lowe was pleased congregation of his own. viewers saw different symbols and Fast forward to when Miller images within each abstract panel. became senior rabbi at Beth El and “Each panel has a center of light. he was holding a pre-bar mitzvah We are the light of the world and it TOP TO BOTTOM: Rabbi Mark Miller congratulates artist meeting with bar mitzvah boy is our job to take care of it,” Lowe Lynn Rae Lowe on her Seven Days of Creation series in Max Morganroth in his study. Max says. She will return home to Tucson the Beth El chapel. Lowe discusses the central theme of noticed some of the artwork there for the High Holidays to sing in the light that each panel in the series shares. Benefactors and said it was created by his aunt choir at her temple — Congregation Dr. Laurence and Maxine Baker (third from left) with — Lynn Rae Lowe. The coinciOr (“light” in Hebrew) Chadesh. artist Lynn Rae Lowe and Rabbi Mark Miller.

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or Borat, his 2006 film, Sacha Baron Cohen went undercover as a made-up Kazakh journalist who travels America and gets unwitting targets to share his boorish and sometimes bigoted opinions. In Who Is America, he creates a variety of characters who manage to get prominent Americans to say shockingly offensive things. In The Spy, a Netflix six-part miniseries garnering much viewership, Cohen once again goes undercover, but in a very different way. The actor/filmmaker portrays the reallife Eli Cohen, a daring Israeli agent who embedded himself in the upper echelons of Syrian society in the 1960s and provided crucial intelligence to the Jewish state. According to My Jewish Learning, Eli Cohen was born in 1924 in a Jewish family in Alexandria, Egypt. Like many Jews in Arab countries, his family left Egypt when

A memorial for Eli Cohen in the Golan Heights

Israel was established, as they faced increased anti-Semitism. But Eli Cohen stayed behind to finish his degree in electronics. He also was active in Zionist activities in Egypt, for which he was at one point arrested, and took part in Israeli spy missions there. In 1956, he was expelled from his native country along with many other Jews. He then immigrated to Israel, where he joined military intelligence the following year. He attempted to join the Mossad but was initially rejected. He married Nadia Majald, an immigrant from Iraq, and settled in Bat Yam. In 1960, he was recruited to join the Mossad for a special mission in which he was to pretend to be a Syrian businessman returning to the country after having lived in Argentina. The goal was to gather intelligence from high-ranking Syrian politicians and military officials. Cohen wasn’t allowed to tell anyone of the plans and told his wife he was working abroad for Israel’s Defense Ministry. Ahead of the mission, Cohen learned to speak Arabic in a Syrian accent rather than his native Egyptian. He “became” Kamel Amin Thaabet and lived in Argentina for a some time to build a name for himself in the Syrian expat community. There he gained the trust of Amin al-Hafez, who would later become Syria’s president. In February 1962, Cohen moved to Damascus. He quickly infiltrated the highest levels of Syrian society. He would entertain high-ranking politicians and military officials at extravagant parties. The drunk guests

would often end up blabbering about their work to Cohen, who was sober but would pretend to be intoxicated. He made friends with many guests and ended up receiving classified military briefings and coming along to visit Syrian military sites. Cohen would send intelligence back to Israel using a hidden radio transmitter. He returned to his family only a few times during his mission. On his last visit, in 1964, he told intelligence officers he wanted to come in from the cold because he was concerned a new Syrian intelligence commander did not like him. But intelligence officers convinced him to go back one last time. The next year, Syria found out about Cohen by tracing his intelligence transmissions to Israel. He was convicted in a trial without a defense and sentenced to death. Israel desperately tried to commute his sentence and, despite requests from world leaders and Pope Paul VI for clemency, Cohen was hanged publicly that May. His remains have yet to be returned, despite pleas from his family. Reports earlier this year said a Russian delegation removed his remains from Syria in an attempt to bring them to Israel. Last year, Israel was able to retrieve Cohen’s wristwatch from Syria and return it to his family. Information provided by Cohen is thought to have been crucial to Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six-Day War. For example, on a trip to the Golan Heights, Cohen suggested to an army officer he should plant trees to provide shade for troops stationed there. Those trees helped Israel identify where Syrian troops were located. Levi Eshkol, the late Israeli prime minister, credited Cohen’s intelligence with saving countless Israeli lives and “having a great deal to do” with Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War. Cohen wasn’t the only Israeli who went on such a mission, though he’s perhaps the most well-known one. Israel “took a lot of ideas from the Soviet-style of playing the spy game,” in sending out citizens on long-term spy missions where they had to adopt false identities, said Dan Raviv, author of Spies Against Armageddon, a history of Israeli intelligence. OCTOBER 10 • 2019

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AT THE MOVIES: OPENING OCT. 11 The Addams Family is an animated film about the famous spooky (and funny) family. Nick Kroll, 41, voices Uncle Fester (Gomez Adams’ brother) and Bette Midler, 73, voices Grandmama, Gomez and Fester’s mother. Gemini Man is an action thriller starring Will Smith as an elite assassin who is being tailed by a young, very adept assassin. The film was co-written by Darren Lemke, David Benioff, 40 (Game of Thrones writer/producer) and Billy Ray, 48 (Hunger Games). The King is a Netflix film that stars Timothee Chalamet, 23, as Henry V of England (1386-1422). Henry was a reluctant heir, but when his tyrannical father dies, he learns how to manage palace politics and lead his army to victories. Opening Oct. 13 at the Maple Theater is Le Brio, a French comedy/drama about a professor who insults a Muslim student. He is punished by being assigned to tutor her. Le Brio was directed by and co-written by Yvan Attal, 54, a French Jew who was born in Israel to Algerian Jewish parents. Attal is a “biggie� in France. His life partner of 18 years is Charlotte Gainsbourg, 48, a well-known French actress. TV/STREAMING OFFERINGS: CATCH-UP AND LOOK AHEAD There is a shocker embedded in the new CW series Batwoman

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(started Oct. 6 at 8 p.m.). In recent comics about Batwoman, she is identified as Kat Kane, a cousin of Bruce Wayne (Batman) and she is a lesbian and she’s Jewish! Well, CW did the right thing and the TV Batwoman is Jewish and a lesbian. Batwoman is played by Australian actress Ruby Rose, who really is a lesbian, but she’s not Jewish. Humorist Andy Borowitz, 61, is the host of Retro Report on PBS. It will air on Mondays and Tuesdays, Oct. 7-29 at 9 p.m. The program will cover past events. Surprising historical roots will be uncovered and widely believed myths debunked. Paul Rudd, 50, stars in the Netflix series Living With Yourself (first season released on Oct. 16), as a man burnt out on life who undergoes a mysterious treatment only to find out that he’s been replaced by a man better than himself. Why We Hate is a six-part documentary series on the Discovery channel that begins on Oct. 13 at 10 p.m. Co-produced by Steven Spielberg, 72, and Oscar-winning documentary maker Alex Gibney, the series’ publicity describes its mission: “Why We Hate explores one of humanity’s most primal and destructive emotions — hate. At the heart of this timely series is the notion that if people begin to understand their own minds, they can find ways to work against hate and keep it from spreading.�

On The Go people | places | events

FRIDAY, OCT. 11 GENEALOGY WORKSHOP 11 am-12:15 pm, Oct. 11. A threeweek class sponsored by JLearn. Taught by Robbie Terman, director of the Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives. At Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Tuition: $35. Register at jlearn.online or call 248-205-2557.

GALLERY HOSTS ARTIST 12 pm, Oct. 11. Runs to Oct. 13 at 5 pm at Danielle Peleg Gallery, 3295 Orchard Lake Road, Keego Harbor. Ron Campbell, director of the 1960s Saturday Morning Beatles Cartoon series and one of the animators of the Beatles film Yellow Submarine will

make a personal appearance. He will showcase his original Beatles cartoon paintings. The exhibit is free, and all works are available for purchase.

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7:30-am-2 pm, Oct. 12. At Motor City Casino Hotel, 2901 Grand River, Detroit. Karmanos Cancer Institute will host the symposium on progress in cancer care, advocacy and survivorship. Free event.

10 am-2 pm, Oct. 13. Join the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue for food, drink and shaking the lulav at its Third Annual Motor City Sukkah Hop. They’ll begin at the synagogue sukkah with a family-friendly program to craft decorations. Next, they travel to Rabbi Silverman’s home, and then Repair The World’s workshop sukkah, as they learn about locally sourced lulav and etrogs (programming courtesy of Hazon Detroit and Temple Kol Ami). For more information, email Nicole at

COMMUNITY WELLNESS 3-5 pm, Oct. 12. Windsor’s Temple Beth El will host its first program as part of B’riot Ha’Kehilahl (Community Wellness). The focus will be on suicide — awareness, prevention, support and

programcoordinator@ downtownsynagogue.org.

LULAV WORKSHOP 1-3 pm, Oct. 13. Royal Oak Moishe House, Hazon Detroit, Temple Kol Ami, and B’nai Israel Synagogue are hosting a lulav workshop using native plants. At Temple Kol Ami, 5085 Walnut Lake Road, West Bloomfield.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16 MUSICAL INTERLUDE 1 pm, Oct. 16. Shaarey Zedek Seniors will host “The Best is Yet to Come,” an encore performance by Gary Sacco. At the synagogue. Refreshments will be served. Info: Janet Pont at 248-3575544 or jpont@shaareyzedek.org. Free.

OCT. 11-13 ROJO A young Argentine-Jewish filmmaker takes on his country’s authoritarian past in the movie Rojo (Spanish with English subtitles), playing this weekend at the Detroit Film Theatre. Directed by Benjamin Naishtat and set in the mid-’70s Argentina, the film is about Claudio (Darío Grandinetti), a well-heeled lawyer living with his wife and teenage daughter in a comfortable provincial suburb. But after an innocuous dinner date is interrupted by an altercation with a stranger, his placid lifestyle is disrupted and leads him on a path of no return. Researching Rojo was easy, Naishtat said, because many of the stories are from his family. His grandmother, a prominent union lawyer, disappeared into a secret prison and her house was torched. His father escaped and lived 10 years in exile. Showings at 8 p.m. Oct 11; 4 and 7 p.m. Oct 12; and 4:30 p.m. Oct 13. $7.50-$9.50.

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Comedian/actor Nick Kroll (he went to a Solomon Schechter Day School) takes his MiddleAged Boy tour to the Royal Oak Music Theatre at 6 p.m. Kroll co-created, writes, produces and performs more than 30 voices on the hit Netflix animated series Big Mouth, which is based on his childhood. Nominated for a 2019 Emmy for “Outstanding Animated Program,” it has been heralded by the Hollywood Reporter as “sweet, progressive and breathtakingly filthy” and was recently picked up for three more seasons on Netflix. He also has his own critically acclaimed sketch show, Kroll Show on Comedy Central. Tickets are $29-$39 at royaloakmusictheatre.com.

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MOVIE MATINEE 1 pm, Oct. 16. At the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. The Imitation Game (1 hr. 54 min.) Free.

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DROP IN & LEARN 1 pm, Oct. 16. “From Family to Consumer: New Models for the Relationship Between Israel and World Jewry.” Beth Ahm’s video-streaming study group invites lifelong learners in the community to watch and discuss a lecture given by Rabbi Donniel Hartman, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. No charge; no reservations needed. 5075 W. Maple Road. Info: Nancy Kaplan (248) 737-1931 or email nancyellen879@att.net.

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SIMCHAT TORAH EVENT RSVP for Oct. 20. Join Temple Kol Ami at 7 pm for an exciting conclusion to the fall holiday season as they’re led in Israeli dancing by teens. The night will begin with a dinner at 6:15 pm. Adults $8; children $4; families $20. RSVP and payment for dinner no later than Oct. 16 to cspektor@tkolami.org or 248661-0040.

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10:30 am, Oct. 19. The Well invites young families with kids up to age 4 to gather at the Prentis Apartments in Oak Park for a Shabbat morning of singing and dancing, complete with snack time in the sukkah. Register in advance at meetyouatthewell.org/ calendar.

OPIOIDS IN AMERICA 6-9 pm, Oct. 17. At the Berman Center for Performing Arts in West Bloomfield. The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Federation’s Maimonides Society will present Dr. John Howard on the impact of the opioid crisis throughout the country. Cost: $50 dinner and lecture; $25 lecture only. The event is free for medical students and residents. Two CME credits available. Info: Britta Carlson, carlsonb@ karmanos.org or 313-576-8111.

THURSDAY, OCT. 17 POTTERY CLASS 11 am-1 pm, Oct. 17. Sponsored by the Active Life at the Jewish Community Center, West Bloomfield. Pottery classes for adults taught by Allison Berlin. All supplies included; class punch card available. Cost: $165 for 12 punches (one free class). RSVP: 248-432-5467 or rchessler@ jccdet.org.

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1-2:30 pm, Oct. 17. A five-week class at the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield sponsored by JLearn. The archaeology of religion and sacred sites of Jerusalem will be addressed by D. Michael Pytklik. Tuition: $90. Register at jlearn.online or call 248-205-2557.

EDEN GARDENS COMMUNITY EVENING 6 pm, Oct. 17. Join the Downtown Synagogue at Eden Gardens for a community-focused evening cleaning up the garden from the summer months, putting it to rest for the upcoming winter and enjoying a meal together in the garden. Dress for gardening and feel free to bring any personal gardening tools. All ages welcome. RSVP to Nicole at programcoordinator@ downtownsynagogue.org. Compiled by Sy Manello/Editorial Assistant Send items at least 14 days in advance to calendar@ thejewishnews.com.

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ulie Fershtman, former president of the State Bar of Michigan and equity shareholder and vice president at Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC, has been a trailblazer in law, particularly for the advancement of women. It’s been her personal mission to help women lawyers succeed, both in and out of the workplace.

“When my career began in the 1980s, there were promising signs of women’s advancement in the profession,” she says. She was a member of Emory Law School’s first-ever entering class with 50 percent women, most who received job offers. Despite this initial promise, she says progress for women in the law has surprisingly slowed over

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the years, despite the greater influx of female law school graduates. Fershtman works with a nationwide clientele on a broad range of legal matters, primarily business and insurance litigation. She’s written more than 400 articles and published three books, one by the American Bar Association

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(ABA), and a fourth, with a focus on horse-related law, to be published by the ABA later this year. She has spoken on legal issues in 29 states. Still, she is deeply committed to empowering other women in the profession. “In 2011, I was only the fifth woman in 77 years to be elected president of the 45,000-member

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FAMILY INSPIRATION Her career in law was inspired by her father, the late Sidney Fershtman, who became a lawyer after serving in World War II and later practiced in the Detroit and Downriver areas. “Watching him work as I grew up might have turned me away from becoming a lawyer; he sometimes worked very long hours,” Fershtman says. “But I couldn’t help but notice that people sought his advice at some of the most personal and important moments in their lives — a dying woman with months to live needing a will, people continued on page 52

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ois Haron has been providing interior design services to Michigan residents for 35 years. The JN caught up with her for a quick conversation. Lois Haron

How did you get started in interior design? When I was at Wayne State University, I took courses in interior design and found it interesting. Once I graduated, I didn’t really do anything with my degree because I had kids. But my friends kept saying, “I need something over here … what do you think?” When we moved into our current home, we decided we needed to do some things. My husband looked at me and said, “You can do it,” and well, I did it! I took more courses and became a member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). I continue to take courses to keep my accreditation. What made you want to start Lois Haron Designs? Right from the beginning, I wanted to have my own business rather than have partners

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State Bar of Michigan,” she says. “Although I’m an equity shareholder in my firm and managing shareholder of its southeastern Michigan office, the percentage of female equity shareholders in firms nationwide has stagnated for decades at about 20 percent.” She has mentored women lawyers and law students and strives to help women lawyers with the unique challenges they face balancing career with family. Recognizing that women tend to be caregivers for their children and aging relatives, she asked a State Bar committee during her presidency to study and report on workplace policies and best practices to facilitate alternative or flexible work schedules.

or belong to a firm. I wanted the flexibility of choosing the projects and products. What is your favorite thing about interior design? The fun of meeting new people, seeing what they want to do and solving their problems. I love every room I work on. I work from the floor to ceiling in kitchens, including cabinets, countertops, lighting, painting and window treatments — same with bathrooms and home offices. I often go to clients’ work offices and design these spaces and wind up helping some of their partners at the same time. Describe your style. I like contemporary-transitional style and mixing it with traditional.

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facing prison sentences, people locked out of their homes by angry spouses. His clients were from all backgrounds, religions and colors. “It didn’t take long for me to recognize the importance of a lawyer’s work, the compassion and empathy required to be an effective lawyer, and the ability to use the law to help others. This drew me to the profession.” She credits her husband’s support for her successful career in the law. “My husband has been extraordinarily supportive. He has never questioned or criticized my late hours, travel and meetings. Nothing I’ve accomplished would have been possible without him,” she says. In 1984, while she was in law school, her father was tragically killed in his office, a case that remains unsolved to this day. “What shook me to the core was that it happened and that a killer was never brought to justice for it,” she says. Although she says she’s not religious, Fershtman and her husband, Robert Bick, a corporate law practitioner in Birmingham, wanted their daughter, Katie, to learn about Judaism. They were members of Temple Israel, where

Katie became a bat mitzvah, for a few years. The family also joined a Federation family mission to Israel, where Katie read from the Torah in Jerusalem. WOMEN NETWORKING PROGRAM Fershtman co-launched a networking program at her firm for women in the law where women could share concerns, provide mutual support, and promote advancement in the legal profession and the firm through occasional firm-wide meetings and one-on-one mentoring. “Also, since women seemed under-represented in lawyer rating systems, such as Michigan Super Lawyers, I developed a program providing suggestions for women lawyers to improve their online business presence, which I presented around the state,” Fershtman says. Fershtman likes to use her influence in the industry to recognize and promote other women lawyers. At last month’s Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s “Women in the Law” awards luncheon, honoring lawyers and judges statewide, 10 percent of the award recipients were Fershtman’s nominees.

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What does your business stand for? I have always said that it doesn’t have to cost a fortune, only look like it, and I truly believe that. I can find things in all price ranges. How are you different from other interior designers? I am one of the few interior designers who designs and has things made exactly the way I want. That’s how I started out

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late Lois Posner; the cherished father of the late Debbie Belian; the loving brother of the late Sam and the late Libby Posner, and the late Dr. Irwin Posner; the dear brother-inlaw of the late Bill Schwartz. Interment was at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Scleroderma Foundation, 23999 Telegraph Road, Southfield, MI 48033, scleroderma.org; Jewish Hospice & Chaplaincy Network, 6555 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, jewishhospice.org; Hospice of Michigan-Oakland County, 43097 Woodward Ave., Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302, hom.org/donations; or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. LEAH PUKOFF, 81, of Walled Lake, died Sept. 26, 2019. She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Bryon and Kathy Pukoff, and Lonnie Pukoff and Sheri Stav; daughter, Edie Schwartz; grandchildren, Stephen and Leeah Roberts, Nicole Pukoff and Justin Bates, Jordan and Sara Stav, Brett Stav, Ethan Stav and Harrison Schwartz; great-grandchildren, Olivia Bates, Hudson Bates, Ezra Stav and Liam Stav. Mrs. Pukoff was the beloved wife of the late Harold Pukoff; the devoted daughter of the late Louis and the late Susie Please; the loving sister of the late Joseph David Please, and the late Beverly and the late David Stern. Interment was at Machpelah Cemetery. Contributions may be made to the American

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children, Ruby and Basil Rogow, and Lilly and Lilah Shalal; brothers and sisters, Bob Solomon, Margie Gold, Ernie Solomon and Marilyn Ehrlich; many loving nieces and nephews. Mrs. Rogow was the beloved wife of the late Bernard “Sonny” Rogow; the loving sister of the late Eadie Albion; the dear sister-in-law of the late Gloria Solomon, the late Marilyn Solomon, the late Oscar Gold, the late Howard Ehrlich, the late Ira Albion, the late Joyce and the late Marvin Kolb, the late Roy and the late Sally Rogow, and the late Rachel Solomon. Interment was at Machpelah Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Jewish Hospice &

Chaplaincy Network, 6555 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, jewishhospice. org; or B’nai B’rith, Great Lakes Region, 5600 W. Maple Road, Suite A-100, West Bloomfield, MI 48322, bnaibrith.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. IRENE ROSEN, 86, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 2, 2019. She had been an active member of Hadassah. Mrs. Rosen is survived by her husband of 61 years, Nathan Rosen; daughter and son-in-law, Michele and Henry Scharg of Farmington Hills; sons and daughtersin-law, Keith and Erin

Rosen of Greensboro, N.C., Peter and Michelle Rosen of White Lake; grandchildren, Samantha SchargKetchel and Daniel Ketchel, Brad Scharg, Andy Rosen, Hannah Rosen, Zoe Rosen, Kayla Rosen, Jacob Rosen, Emma Weintraub and Matt Weintraub. She was the dear sister of the late Donald Zimmerman. Contributions may be made to JARC, 6735 Telegraph Road, Suite 100, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301; or to a charity of one’s choice. Services and interment were held at Hebrew Memorial Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. continued on page 60

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WERNER SEIFERHELD, 87, of Commerce Township, died Oct. 1, 2019. He is survived by his wife, Pauline Seiferheld; son and daughter-in-law, Kevin and Robyn Seiferheld of Bloomfield Hills; daughter and son-in-law, Sharyl and Steven Woronoff of West Bloomfield; grandchildren, Ilana Woronoff, Zachary Seiferheld, Zoe Seiferheld; many nieces and nephews. Mr. Seiferheld was the dear brother and brother-in-law of the late Heinz and the late Vivian Seiferheld, the late Tilla and the late David Freedman, the late Hyman and the late Rose Weiner, the late Clara Gold, the late Merle and the late Louis Leserman. Contributions may be made to Yad Ezra, 2850 W. 11 Mile

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Road, Berkley, MI 48072; or to a charity of one’s choice. Services and interment were held at Machpelah Cemetery in Ferndale. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. THEODORE STERN, 65, of Farmington Hills, died Sept. 26, 2019. He is survived by his sisters and brother-in-law, Andrea Stern, and Laurie and Paul Singer; nephew, Drew Singer; loving guardian, Christopher Radloff. He is also survived by Team Farmington and his Special Olympics community. Mr. Stern was the devoted son of the late Abe and the late Shirley Stern. Private graveside services were held. Contributions may be made to the Special

Olympics-Team Farmington, 19410 Goldwyn, Southfield, MI 48075. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. LESTER WEINER, 91, of West Bloomfield, died Oct. 2, 2019. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Marcia Weiner; sons and daughters-in-law, Yale and Sheri Weiner, Mitchell and Judy Weiner, and David and Christiana Weiner; grandchildren, Jason Weiner, Megan and Greg Rosenson, Lauren and Jason Touleyrou, Andrew Weiner, Mallory Weiner, Elizabeth and Random Ward, Emily Weiner, Erica Weiner and Esther Weiner; great-grandson, William Ward.

Mr. Weiner was the loving brother of the late Zelda Bean, the late Rae Watnick, the late Norma Grosser and the late Elaine Lowenthal. Interment was at Oakview Cemetery. Contributions may be made to American Cancer Society, 20450 Civic Center Drive, Southfield, MI 48076, cancer.org. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

OBITUARY CHARGES The processing fee for obituaries is: $100 for up to 150 words; $200 for 151-300 words, etc. A photo counts as 30 words. There is no charge for a Holocaust survivor icon. The JN reserves the right to edit wording to conform to its style considerations. For information, have your funeral director call the JN or you may call Sy Manello, editorial assistant, at (248) 351-5147 or email him at smanello@renmedia.us.

A Name to Live Up To Morrie would be proud of his grandson’s restaurant.

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COURTESY OF THE MORRIE/TERENCE WARDE

Raskin the best of everything

aming a restaurant after someone is rarely easy … especially when it is that of a relative … The Morrie, named after the late Morrie Fenkell and celebrating its third anniversary, is more than just the name of someone’s grandfather. Morrie passed on in 2007 and is remembered as “one of the boys” … He led a life that included being a medic during World War II and chairman of the board of Liberty State Bank & Trust in Hamtramck. Located on North Woodward, north of Maple, Birmingham, The Morrie is much like a roadside-styled eatery with cuisine that includes Nashville hot chicken sandwich, roadside ribs, smoked fried chicken wings, the Morrie burger, etc. … It is also known for its décor styling that includes a bar surrounding a large, elevated stage for

musical performances. Entrees that go over in a big way include steak frites with parmesan fries, freshly caught seafood, roasted half-chicken, etc. There is seating for 214 with a bar that includes 33 stools … It does much of its own baking … fresh bread, sandwich buns, desserts like a banana bread pudding and other dishes. The Morrie in Birmingham is open Monday-Wednesday 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Thursday, 11 a.m.-midnight, Friday, 11 a.m.- 2 a.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 a.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. The Morrie also has a private dining room that accommodates 36 guests with noise control and fabric ceiling … A raised stage can be seen from anywhere in the restaurant, with five 80-inch screens … much wanted for viewing games, events, etc. If Morrie were alive today, he’d be proud to have his name associated with grandson Andrew Belen’s fine eatery. A BIG REQUEST at many restaurants, mostly delicatessens, years ago … mainly at lunchtime but also enjoyed by evening palates … was for a hot beef sandwich … And that is what the customer received … A delicious prime or top-choice beef brisket with wholesome gravy and usually potatoes …. on choices of bread, white

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and sometimes rye or challah … Not so today at numerous delis … many hot beef sandwiches are now distant shadows of the one-time real thing … Especially take-outs with the meat many times clinging to the paper on the bottom of a Styrofoam container, and served with thinly sliced meat instead of the better brisket grades … In some delis where the skimpy “hot beef sandwich” is served, much of the slices are thin pieces and perhaps hidden shavings from the meat slicer. OLDIE BUT GOODIE … A few days after seeing him, the doctor saw his elderly patient walking down the street with a gorgeous young lady … The doctor bumped into him the next day and said, “You’re really doing great, aren’t you?” The aged gent replied, “Just doing what you said, Doc, ‘Get a hot mamma and be cheerful.’” The doctor said, “I didn’t say that. I said, ‘You’ve got a heart murmur. Be careful.’” CONGRATS … To Karrie Slominski on her birthday… To Pamela Smith on her birthday … To Robert Soper on his 80th birthday … To Jon and Lorrie Isenberg on their 34th anniversary. Email Danny at dannyraskin2132@gmail.com.

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wrote about Rosh Hashanah two weeks ago, as the High Holidays were about to begin. Afterward, Keri Guten Cohen, story development editor for the JN, asked me to see what I could find in the William Davidson Mike Smith Digital Archive Alene and Graham Landau of Jewish Archivist Chair Detroit History about Sukkot. (It seems that during this holiday Keri and her husband, Don, are quite fond of sitting with friends and family in the sukkah on her deck). Well, I found a wealth of articles and information regarding both Sukkot and sukkahs. There are 2,428 citations for Sukkot in the Archive, and 1,323 for sukkahs. Sukkot in Hebrew means “booths” or “tabernacles.” Sukkot is also known as the “Festival of the Ingathering of Crops.” It occurs two weeks after Rosh Hashanah, five days after Yom Kippur and six months after Passover — beginning this year at sundown Sunday, Oct. 13. The first entries for Sukkot in the Archive date from the 1920s. For one example, see the story on the front page

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