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October 2020 Tishrei/Cheshvan 5781 Volume XX Number 2 FREE Shake Local By Rabbi Nate DeGroot and Hazon Detroit tic core, the particular species that are to be 50 metric tons of carbon pollution. Does that to Michigan’s local plant-life, while honoring ur rabbis say (Tosafot, Suk. 37b) shaken. That was a later rabbinic interpreta- add to the joy of the singing trees? Shaking a the Torah roots of the lulav instruction? that when we shake the lulav tion and discussion. So then, returning to our bundle of plant life where only one of the four On Sukkot, we shake the lulav to bring O and etrog on Sukkot, “the trees original question: What are the conditions species, willow, grows in Michigan — does down rain from the sky to water our crops of the forest sing with joy.” So that got us and give us new life come spring. Do we to wondering, what are the conditions that think we’ll be able to conjure more rain with might allow the trees around us to sing with plants that are foreign to this soil, or plants the greatest amount of joy during the holi- that were once rooted in this soil? We asked: day season? In a normal year on Sukkot, the How might using local lulavim impact our United States imports upwards of 500,000 ability to connect with the earth that sur- lulavim from Israel and Egypt so that we can rounds us and how might using local lulavim construct our traditional lulavim bundles us- impact the forest’s ability to “sing with joy”? ing the familiar palm fronds, willow, myrtle, With all of this in mind, last year Hazon and citron. This combination of species has Detroit supplied local lulavim and local lu- become so definitional that most of us prob- lav education to a variety of programs and ably don’t even consider that a lulav could organizations, from synagogues to a food be constructed any other way. But the origi- pantry, from a religious school to The Jew- nal text is not so clear. In Torah (Lev 23.40), ish Federation. And each time, we posed where we’re first told about the four species, these questions and gave folks an opportu- the text simply says: nity to make and shake their own local lulav On the first day you shall take the fruit bundles. This year we also supplied lulavim of beautiful trees, fronds of palm-shaped made of local plants. trees, branches of woven trees, and valley- that might allow the trees around us to sing that make for joyous tree singing? Or what Of course, this is just one example of willows, and you shall rejoice before YHVH with the greatest amount of joy? would it look like and feel like to harvest spe- what it might look like to continue to rei- your God for seven days. Importing 500,000 lulavim from over cies that grow nearby with our own hands, magine and reconstruct a Judaism that is re- 6,000 miles away could produce an estimated and assemble a lulav bundle that pays homage Nowhere does it determine, at its linguis- Continued on page 2 Power of the collective: A source of strength, resolve and renewal by Eileen Freed and Randy Milgrom

he new Jewish year of 5781 has begun. in innovative Jewish programming from On the other side of the Now comes Sukkot — a time to cel- around the world, and connect with family world, our partners at the Tebrate, but also to contemplate and and friends in new ways. Jewish Agency for Israel have experience the fragility of life, as represented Jewish Federations of North America made loans to devastated Jew- by the Sukkah. Who would have anticipated, (JFNA) leaders quickly assembled the national ish communities in Europe in the fall and winter of 5780, how imminently networks representing the core organizations and South America, and the fragile we are — that a global COVID-19 pan- of Jewish life, as well as leading philanthro- JDC has supported the strug- demic would bring such tremendous instabil- pists — and swung into action. Here in gling nonprofit sector in Israel ity and uncertainty, immediately changing the Washtenaw County, with JFNA’s guidance, the as well as the needy in other way we work, teach our children, care for one Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor (JF- countries. Our own 2020 another, and maintain our Jewish traditions. GAA) convened our local Jewish communal Annual Community Cam- Schools and businesses, closed. Millions of organizations and provided information and paign allocated funds to our jobs, gone. Cherished lives, lost. resources to successfully apply for Paycheck partners in Israel — such as Yet we’ve also seen remarkable resilience Protection Program loans that helped them Hand in Hand Schools and and leadership. Essential workers — those stay solvent while continuing to pay dedicated Youth Futures — to help them who care for the sick, keep us safe, and ensure employees even as they were forced to halt or continue to provide essential we have food on our tables — have inspired us adjust programming. Eileen Freed Randy Milgrom services in new ways as they with their courage and dedication. As our 2020 Annual Community Cam- $83,000 of their own — to support local or- likewise have adjusted to the Jewish congregations and organizations, paign was winding down, our new COVID ganizations, congregations, and individuals realities of physical distancing. both large and small, have deftly shifted pro- Emergency Fund was ramping up. From its facing pandemic-related financial crises. Fed- As long as this crisis persists, the Jewish gramming and operations to remote plat- reserves, the Jewish Federation seeded the erations across the country have collectively Federation of Greater Ann Arbor — along forms. Using Zoom, we’ve gathered to console fund with $75,000 — which generous com- raised $175 million in emergency funds to ad- mourners, provide crisis counseling, engage munity donors more than matched with dress the needs of their communities. Continued on page 10 IFrom the Editor

am still feeling the shock wave from the pers, physically held and read by members erev Rosh Hashanah death of Justice of a community. Last night I watched the IRuth Bader Ginsburg. While Justice 1999 documentary The Black Press: Sol- Stephen Breyer was reciting the mourn- diers without Swords, as a reminder of the ers kaddish during virtual livestreaming critical role of community newspapers, as 2935 Birch Hollow Drive services with Central Synagogue in New sources of advocacy, varied opinion, per- Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 York City, he got the call from U.S. Mar- sonal achievements and news of important (734) 395-4438 shalls about the Justice’s death. Soon, the current events. If you have a story you www.washtenawjewishnews.org entire Jewish world, and then the rest of the want to tell, news or an opinion you want [email protected] world would know. I am struck that because to share, send them to me. of the holiday and because so many of us The Washtenaw Jewish News is en- Editor and Publisher were using electronic communication to be tirely supported by advertising. Do you Clare Kinberg together, nearly the entire Jewish commu- have a service or business you’d like the nity experienced the sadness of the Justice’s entire Washtenaw Jewish community to Advertising Manager death together. And then thoughts of her know about? Contact me. And, please, let Gordon White optimism, her view of humankind’s ability advertisers know that you saw their ad in Design and Layout to move forward, one step at a time, also the WJN. Dennis Platte washed over us, together. All on the eve of a Chag sameach, find a Sukkah to enjoy, new, and fateful, year. Do yourself a favor: Clare Kinberg or as the article on page 4 suggests, step Staff Writers when you’re done reading this, watch the outside and appreciate the fall air! n Lonnie Sussman five minute video on YouTube “Ruth Bader I am an old-fashioned news junkie; I’m Ginsburg Tribute/Hallelujah, Central Syna- online all day reading news, and at the Contributing Writers gogue- Rosh Hashanah 5781.” same time, I’m still committed to newspa- Marianne Aaron, Yuni Aaron, Rabbi Jared Anstandig, Michael Appel, Leah Berger, Rabbi Robyn Frisch,, Rabbi Nate DeGroot, Eileen Freed, Stephanie Glass, Rabbi Aha- Shake local continued from page1 ron Goldstein, Emily Gordon, Joanne sponsive to the natural world around us, and forget the core intention of this heightened of environmental teshuva, as we create the B. Jarvi, Kelsey Robinette Keeves, Randy that is responsible to the global environment period of our communal calendar — tes- legacy by which future generations will re- Milgrom, David Nelson, Eileen Pollack, that we all share. How could this concept huva. Return, renewal, and repentance. This member us. n Ali Reingold, Danny Schwartz, Martin Stolzenberg, Jessica Weil extend to other Jewish rituals and celebra- year, 5781, let us deepen our continued in- Rabbi Nate DeGroot is Associate Director, tions? How might it apply to other consumer vestment in the natural world, the one in our Spiritual & Program Director, Hazon Detroit The Washtenaw Jewish News is published choices that we make in our day to day lives? own backyards. Let us deepen our continued monthly, with the exception of January and As we transition out of this High Holi- investment in ourselves and in each other. July by JCMWC, LLC. Opinions expressed day season, a season like no other, let us not And let us commit to making this be a year in this publication do not necessarily reflect those of its editors or staf ©2020 by the Washtenaw Jewish News. Letter to the Editor All rights reserved. No portion of the Washtenaw Dear Washtenaw Jewish News, * The late Ernst Zundel, a Holocaust explained, the group sympathizes with Nazi Jewish News may be ­reproduced without permission of the publisher. I fear that recent news reports on the denier and co-author of the book The Hit- Germany. court case involving picketers outside an ler We Loved and Why, was Germany’s * Larry Brayboy is a local political ac- Signed letters to the editor are welcome; they should not exceed 400 words. Letters can be emailed to the Ann Arbor synagogue tend to accept at face leading neo-Nazi and was imprisoned in tivist whom Herskovitz identified in a letter editor. Name will be withheld at the discretion of value the picketers’ self-image as benign Germany for inciting race hatred and de- to the Washtenaw Jewish News as a “close the editor. human rights advocates. nying the Holocaust. Not only did Her- friend” of the picketers. The picketers chose Circulation: 4,500 In fact, as public records show, the skovitz campaign tirelessly for Zundel’s Brayboy to represent their views in a pub- Subscriptions: leaders and many of the followers are release from prison, but Herskovitz flew lic debate in which he promised to prove Free inside Washtenaw County $18 first-class su­bscription hard-core antisemites and neo-Nazi sym- to Germany to meet Zundel in Mannheim that the Holocaust never happened and that pathizers. I have compiled the following prison, shake Zundel’s hand, and express Jews caused 9/11. Brayboy has sent end- The deadline for information, readily available from public warm admiration. When Jewish families less emails to public figures attacking “jew November 2020 sources, as part of my University of Mich- came to the Farmington Hills Holocaust n***s” and “jew f***ts” and explaining that issue of the WJN is igan research on American hate groups. Museum for a memorial service to honor it is “way past time to exterminate the 9/11 Thursday, October 8 * Standing outside the synagogue, their relatives who had been murdered by [hideous expletive] Jews of Israel.” Publication date: Sunday, November 1. Henry Herskovitz, the picketers’ lead- the Nazis, Herskovitz greeted them hold- * Paul Eisen, a Director of Deir Yassin Extra copies of the Washtenaw Jewish News er, stated his motivation in these exact ing a sign demanding Zundel’s release Remembered, appeared on the radio pro- are available at locations throughout words, which on his website he acknowl- from prison. gram of David Duke, America’s leading Washtenaw County. edged, uttering, “I hate Jews. Whatever * The Southern Poverty Law Center, a neo-Nazi. Said Eisen to Duke on the air, “I happened to them in World War II they leading civil rights organization, listed Deir never heard you, David, say anything that I brought on themselves. They deserved ev- Yassin Remembered, the group that initi- didn’t think was true.” erything they got.” ated the picket, on its National Register This is only the tip of the iceberg of the of Hate Groups. Why? Because, the SPLC picketers’ pervasive and incorrigibly anti- IIn this issue… semitic activities. Their leaders have seized upon the Mideast issue not because they know anything about Middle Eastern his- Advertisers...... 27 tory, but because they think the issue will attract new supporters while camouflaging Calendar...... 22 BRINGING their true motives. As a major community THE BEST OF organ, I hope that you will provide a full and Crossword Puzzle ...... 26 ZINGERMAN’S accurate account of their ideology that has now resulted in a federal court case. CATERING That Ann Arbor has done absolutely Kosher Cuisine...... 18 TO YOUR FRONT nothing to help the synagogue during an or- deal now in its 17th year, that community Obituary...... 25 DOOR WITH PER leaders have remained silent in the face of PERSON MEALS endless hate group provocation, is, in my opinion, a frightening reproduction of 1930s Rabbis’ Corner...... 24 pickuP Or loCal DEliveRy READY TO WARM cowardice, a mark of shame, a scarlet let- IN YOUR OVEN ter, that Ann Arbor will have great diffi- Simchas and Sorrows...... 27 10% seNior DiscOUnt culty removing. Victor Lieberman, Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished University Professor of His- ZCOB.ME/ATHOME • 734.663.3400 tory, University of Michigan

2 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2020 IOpinion THE ASSURANCE OF Militias then, militias now BUYING OR SELLING By Eileen Pollack moved from Boston to Ann Arbor in the of technological interconnection, and they wel- WITH THE BEST fall of 1994; not long afterward, Timo- comed anyone who would help them prepare for I thy McVeigh blew up the Murrah Federal such catastrophes. Some of the people who com- Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. plained about Blacks and Jews taking over their OUTCOME When McVeigh’s involvement with something country seemed to secretly crave the friendship, called the Michigan Militia came to light, I won- even love, of those same Blacks and Jews. But dered whether I had been crazy to leave the rela- I also knew that some truly dangerous crazies tive safety of the East Coast for a state in which were out there in the woods carrying out ma- right-wing extremists apparently were running neuvers with truly dangerous weapons, stoked around the woods with assault weapons, training by visions of conspiracies they had read about on for a day when Black people, Jews, homosexuals, the internet. The trouble was, most of us had no and East and West Coast liberals would try to way of knowing who was who. And the mutual take away their guns and lock them in concen- paranoia building between both groups seemed tration camps. as dangerous as any actual threat either group As a parent, I was frightened for my Jewish otherwise might pose to anyone. son. But as a writer, I was fascinated by the way My novel received some attention in the Michigan seemed to provide a home not only for national press, but Obama’s second term lulled all the lefties I had met in Ann Arbor and De- most of us into believing we all could get along. troit, but so many ultra-conservative Christian Every so often, the hatred and paranoia would fundamentalists. How could citizens with such flare into view, as when a group of revolutionary radically conflicting views coexist to form one Christian militants called the Hutaree got arrest- government? ed near Ann Arbor for planning to kill a police Then I met a couple who had migrated from officer and then bomb any government officials northern California to a small, idyllic town in who showed up for the funeral. Southeast Michigan, only to find that the min- At times like those, I would get interviewed ister of the local church was preaching virulently on the news or asked to write an Op-Ed piece in antisemitic sermons. When the husband, who the Times to testify that such groups actually did was Jewish, complained to the local newspaper, exist. (In the case of the Hutaree, the leader’s son the couple found themselves ostracized and turned out to have been my son’s classmate for their children harassed at school. Soon, their four years at Community High, a school whose house burned down. The fire marshal found faculty leaned so far to the left that the former evidence of what he believed to be arson, and my revolutionary Bill Ayers regularly came to lecture friends became convinced their neighbors had there and the students tried their best to carry on burned them out, while the fire marshal decided the traditions that had earned them the nickname my friends had burned down their own house “Commie High.”) For the most part, though, ev- to collect the insurance, which, he implied, was eryone ignored right-wing hate groups, and my what Jewish people did. novel sank out of sight on Amazon. Hearing this couple’s story, I knew I had a Now, with white supremacists marching book, and I spent the next few years finding out through Charlottesville chanting “Jews will not LET US TAKE THE HASSLE everything I could learn about right-wing terror replace us,” with the massacre of 11 Jews in a groups. I was wary of trying to infiltrate the lo- Pittsburgh synagogue, with thousands of mem- OUT OF REAL ESTATE cal unit of the militia, but I found I didn’t really bers of online hate groups promulgating age-old need to: the militias were holding meetings at theories of Jewish conspiracies to destroy the local restaurants, posting newsletters on pub- world, with armed extremists taking over the Our vast knowledge and up to the minute informa- lic websites, training in the nearby woods, and Michigan State House, with white suprema- holding their annual Tax Blast in a public park cists infiltrating police departments and gun- tion will provide you with a seamless moving expe- a few miles from Ann Arbor. (The group even ning down innocent Black people in their cars, rience. You can count on our expertise to guide you provided kosher hot dogs for any Jew who might their homes, their very beds, and with a teenage be interested in joining their cause.) vigilante in Kenosha murdering two protestors through every detail. We are proud to be the most I finished the novel. But when my agent sent (both of whom were vilified for their possibly the manuscript around New York, the editors, Jewish surnames on online hate sites), you might trusted resource in the Ann Arbor area for almost who didn’t see any white supremacists in their think I would take satisfaction in having been 2 decades. Call for unbeatable confidence in the neighborhoods, decided I must be making up proven correct. the characters I was describing. Not until 2008, Except, I wish I had been proven wrong. I success of your next move. when Barack Obama’s presidency incited right- never truly believed that the racists, the antisem- wing extremists to new spasms of hate and vit- ites, the conspiracy theorists, and the militia nuts riol, did Breaking and Entering find a publisher. would become so bold as to march into the very It became my fellow Michiganders’ turn to chambers of our government. I never believed ALEX MILSHTEYN, CRS, GRI, ABR express disbelief. Clearly, I had arrived from the they would find a leader in the Oval Office. I East Coast with a narrowminded view of all Mid- never believed they would be aided and abetted westerners as racist, Jew-hating right-wingers, by so many of their supposedly good-hearted Associate Broker then I had cherry-picked evidence to support white Christian neighbors. I always assumed that (734) 417-3560 this view. Where I saw white supremacists, my the far left and far right would maintain the un- fellow Michiganders saw salt-of-the-earth farm- easy peace that prevailed when I moved to Michi- [email protected] ers and mechanics, plumbers and electricians gan, that the differences between the two groups who might keep a few hunting rifles around the wouldn’t eventually tear the state — and the na- www.alexmi.com house and sound off about government inter- tion — in two. And I hope I am not being simi- ference in their lives, but who, as good-hearted larly optimistic in believing that we no longer will 2723 S. State St., Suite 130 Christians, would be the first to help out a neigh- ignore the ugliness this rift finally has exposed Ann Arbor, MI 48104 bor, be that neighbor Jewish, Black, Muslim, or and that we will take some very real and effective homosexual. steps to cure the infection and heal the wound. n In fact, I had been careful to show that, even Eileen Pollack’s most recent novel is The An exclusive affiliate of in rural towns, Michiganders came in all variet- Professor of Immortality; she is the former Coldwell Banker Previews ies. Some of the militia members I had gotten to director of the Helen Zell MFA Program International know feared an environmental crisis, another at- in Creative Writing at the University of tack like 9/11, or a breakdown of our fragile web Michigan.

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Gabriel Mordoch: Irving M. Hermelin Curator of Judaica Kelsey Robinette Keeves, special to the WJN n May of 2019, the University of Michi- reer,” Mordoch commented. “I also must say Mordoch. “One of my favorite things about gan installed Gabriel Mordoch as the that interactions with librarians along my working in our library is the opportunity to I Irving M. Hermelin Curator of Judaica way as a student and the support I received interact with faculty members, students, li- for the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies. from them have had a very positive impact brary colleagues, and the general public, and Mordoch, who has served as a cataloger on my academic life. At some point, I real- collaborate with them on different kinds of for the U-M library in Judaica and West- ized I wanted to have a positive impact like projects.” ern European languages since 2017, came that on students’ academic journeys.” Mordoch initially became interested in to Michigan after receiving his Ph.D. at The Since becoming the Judaica curator, Mor- Sephardic studies because of his desire to Ohio State University’s program in studies of doch has worked to acquire helpful online re- research his own family history (one of his the Portuguese-speaking world. His disser- source subscriptions such as the film platform grandparents was born and raised in Sa- tation, “New Christian Discourse and Early JFLIX, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Jewish History lonika, Greece). This fall he will be teach- Modern Portuguese Oceanic Expansion: and Culture Online, A Companion to Medieval ing a Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) undergraduate The Cases of Garcia da Orta, Fernao Mendes and Early Modern Confraternities, the Kotar course. “Ladino is the distinctive Jewish Pinto, Ambrosio Fernandes Brandao, and Reference Library of Israeli publishers, and language of the Sephardic Jews, like Yid- Pedro de Leon Portocarrero,” studies literary Jewish-German scholar Victor Klemperer’s dish is to the Ashkenazic Jews,” explained texts written by Iberian New Christians in diaries. Additionally, Mordoch has worked Mordoch. “Besides familiarizing themselves the context of the early modern Portuguese to add Jewish language dictionaries, Jewish with the language, history, and culture of and Spanish oceanic expansion. cookbooks, and newspaper archives, and has the Sephardim, students will have the op- Mordoch’s library experience is exten- expanded the libraries’ renowned Irwin M. Al- portunity to learn what constitutes a Jewish sive: he has assisted in cataloging, digitizing, terman Haggadah collection. language. They will also realize that the for- and research and reference work at Hebrew “The U-M Library is one of the world’s mation of any language is a much more fluid University’s Oral History Division archives, largest academic research libraries. Like process than we usually conceive.” the National Library of Israel, and The Ohio other libraries, it is not just a repository of Mordoch is the second incumbent of the State University Libraries. Karla Goldman books, but also a physical and virtual space Irving M. Hermelin Curator position, replac- “This enriching work experience sparked Gabriel Mordoch that allows different kinds of interactions, ing Elliot Gertel, who retired in 2019 after 20 my desire to pursue an academic library ca- discoveries, and opportunities,” observed years at the University of Michigan. n Virtual community breakfast How to Celebrate Sukkot Without a Sukkah strengthens connection and community Rabbi Robyn Frisch, originally for 18doors.com, reprinted with permission Emily Gordon, special to the WJN ant to celebrate Sukkot without guests in their sukkahs. By volunteering at a a sukkah this year? You’re not food bank during Sukkot, we can carry on t the start of each fall semester, between members of the community that alone. this wonderful idea of making sure that the both Jewish and non-Jewish com- have emerged during the pandemic, and re- W Due to the coronavirus pandemic, some of less fortunate have food to eat. This year, with munity members look forward to flected on which aspects of the current situ- A us who might have been able to visit or even the number of unemployed, more people mixing and mingling at the annual Commu- ation might have staying power when the celebrate Sukkot with a meal in a sukkah in than ever are relying on food banks. Even if nity Welcome Breakfast hosted by students pandemic has passed. in the University of Michigan’s regular circumstances, may not be able to they aren’t having volunteers pack food be- School of Social Work’s Jew- this year. The central symbol of the holiday of cause of coronavirus, many food banks still ish Communal Leadership Sukkot is the sukkah, a temporary hut that is need volunteers to deliver food. Or you could Program (JCLP). This year, for built outside to remind us of the 40 years the make a donation to a local or national orga- the first time, due to the pan- Israelites spent wandering in the wilderness, nization that provides food for those in need. demic, the event’s venue on during which they dwelled in sukkahs. The sukkah, a temporary structure that August 28 was in cyberspace, So what can you do if you want to cele- isn’t nearly as sturdy as our homes, also re- and the coffee and noshes were brate the holiday of Sukkot but you don’t have minds us of how fortunate we are to have a bring-your-own. Thoughtful a sukkah to visit? place to live with a roof over our head. Un- conversation and meaningful Have a picnic—in your backyard. So you fortunately, not everyone is so lucky. Sukkot connection between partici- can’t have a meal in a sukkah. Your backyard is a great time to explain this to your kids and pants, however, was as strong (or deck or local park) is still a great place to to volunteer (again, options may be limited as ever. bring the family and enjoy a meal al fresco. due to coronavirus) and/or to give money to After welcomes from JCLP Yes, it’s a bummer not to be under the sukkah, a homeless shelter. director, Karla Goldman, and but isn’t a big part of the holiday cooking sea- Make an edible sukkah. If you can’t visit Lynn Videka, the dean of the sonal meals and enjoying them outside with the real thing, why not make a sukkah out School of Social Work, current loved ones? Even if all the people you’d like to of food? A gingerbread house-like activity is JCLP students and nine alumni invite to your picnic blanket can’t safely join popular with kids and adults alike of JCLP and its predecessor you, this is the time to love the ones you’re Harvest. Cook. Eat. In the Bible, Sukkot programs at U-M who had also with. And eating outside on a picnic blanket is one of three harvest festivals (along with joined the Zoom call intro- is fun for the kids, period. Passover and Shavuot) and it was originally duced themselves. Then it was Go stargazing. While Jewish law teaches considered a thanksgiving for the fall harvest. on to breakout rooms, where that the vegetation covering the top of the If you grow your own fruits and vegetables, sukkah needs to be thick enough so that the get picking and cooking, and if not you can go incoming and returning JCLP students, For the seven incoming JCLP students, shade inside the sukkah is greater than the to a farmer’s market or farm and buy or pick alumni, community leaders, and neighbors the event was an exciting first chance to con- sunlight, we also learn that ideally we should produce. Then use the local harvest to make introduced themselves, schmoozed, and tribute to dynamic conversations and forge be able to see the stars through the top of the ourself delicious meals during the holiday. posed complex questions relating to this new relationships. “The community break- y sukkah. Assuming the weather is cooperat- See some of our favorite recipes for inspira- year’s theme, reflecting on the impact CO- fast was a wonderful opportunity for me to ing, you still have access to gazing at the stars. tion. VID-19 on individuals, communal institu- engage with many members of the School of If you have kids, do this as a family. It can be One of the names of Sukkot is Zeman Sim- tions, and the Jewish community. Social Work, Ann Arbor, and Detroit’s Jew- as simple as going outside and looking up at chateinu or “season of our joy,” so whatever Local leaders from Ann Arbor and ish communities,” says incoming JCLP stu- the sky, and hopefully you’ll have the pleasure you do to celebrate the holiday, make sure to Metro Detroit discussed how their respec- dent Ezra Brown, whose MSW pathway is of seeing some stars. have fun! n tive organizations have responded to com- management and leadership. “Even though Help feed and shelter others. In the 19th munity needs during the pandemic, such as it was virtual, the morning was engaging and century the Chasidic Rabbi Hayyim Halbers- providing emergency funding and offering allowed me to better understand how broad tam of Sandz popularized the practice among creative programs. Participants discussed and diverse the Ann Arbor and Metro Detroit his followers of inviting poor people to be lessons drawn from seeing the disparities Jewish communities are.” n

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Herb Amster on his tenth yahrtzeit Joanne B. Jarvi, special to the WJN his October marks the 10-year an- creation, JFS had an annual budget was $1 mil- niversary of the death of a most gra- lion and reported a total of $1,139 in earned rev- 2021 APPLEBAUM AWARD Tcious and altruistic leader in the Ann enue. Nine years later, for the fiscal year 2019, Arbor Jewish community and beyond: Herb JFS programs produced a revenue of $262,936. Amster. The Amster Center Corporate Fee for Service Call for Submissions Jewish Family Services of Washtenaw Training clientele continues to grow and in- County was one of Herb’s passions. He served cludes Ann Arbor Public Schools, Washtenaw on the JFS board and in other capacities for County Government Employees and Entities, many years. He and a number of other com- Community Mental Health, Dykema, Michi- munity members were once involved in a JFS gan Works, Jiffy/Chelsea Milling Company, committee called the Cool New Things Com- Bank of Ann Arbor, and Menlo Innovations. mittee. The Cool, New Things Committee Our THRIVE Clinical Counseling program would sit around a table dreaming of what JFS has made a full transition from 100% grant one day might become, realizing that in order funded to 100% self-sustained through earned to make these dreams a reality, JFS had to learn revenue. Beyond the unrestricted revenue, the how to turn their wealth of expertise into real Center gives JFS the opportunity to employ and wealth for the organization. empower our clients toward brighter futures In honor of Herb, and with the help of Nor- through JFSMade, foreign-language interpreta- man Herbert, a distinguished advisory council, tion contracts, and transportation jobs. and generous donors and friends, JFS of Washt- The earned revenue and opportunities for Rabbi Emanuel Applebaum, circa 1948. (JHSM collections.) enaw County created the eponymous Herb Am- employment were Herb’s dream for the agency. ster Center, which serves as the agency’s social His adage, “Do good, but remember the bottom JHSM invites article submissions to Michigan Jewish History for consideration for enterprise arm. The purpose of the Herb Amster line so you can do more good,” is core to the the inaugural Rabbi Emanuel Applebaum Award. The award honors outstand- Center is to identify and create lines of business JFS value system and woven into every depart- ing original scholarship in the field of Michigan's Jewish history, broadly defined. that will generate revenue for the support and ment and service. furtherance of JFS’s overarching mission: to Herb was one of the founders of the Jew- Purpose and Process: This annual award is named for Rabbi Emanuel Ap- create solutions, promote dignity, and inspire ish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor, plebaum (1922-2001), a JHSM founding member and Michigan Jewish His- humanity. and along with his wife Carol received from tory’s first editor, serving from 1960 to 1963. All entries are reviewed and Carol Amster, Herb Amster’s wife, says, the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor its judged by MJH editors, the MJH advisory committee, and external referees. “We made JFS a place of permanent legacy prestigious Humanitarian Award. An advocate The winner receives publication in MJH, a cash prize of $2,000, $150 worth of JHSM books, special recognition at JHSM’s fall awards ceremony, and a for my husband Herb, of blessed memory. and mentor to many venture capitalists, en- complimentary JHSM annual membership. Finalists also may be invited to Everybody who knew Herb knew he loved trepreneurs, and innovators, Herb was named publish in MJH. to take care of people, to make sure everyone Michigan Industrialist of the Year in 1987. He was treated with dignity, and that he was com- was also the second-ever recipient of the Ted Eligibility: Graduate students, faculty members, public historians, and in- mitted to making the important mission of JFS Doan Award for Outstanding Leadership in dependent scholars are encouraged to submit manuscripts for the Applebaum sustainable. Fast forward 10 years, the Herb Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Uni- Award on any topic appropriate to the aims of MJH. Double-spaced manu- Amster Center created a culture within JFS of versity of Michigan. Herb supported and sat scripts should not exceed 10,000 words, excluding notes, tables, and figures. extending services to people, organizations, and on the boards of many of Washtenaw County’s Chicago-style notes should not exceed 5,000 words. corporations who can pay in order to provide progressive nonprofit organizations, including Submission: Please email a Word version of the complete manuscript to those same services triple-fold to people who (but not limited to) the University Musical So- Tracy Weissman, MJH managing editor: [email protected]. cannot. There were a lot of organizations who ciety, the Washtenaw Housing Alliance, Arbor Please write “Applebaum Award” in your email’s subject line. Submissions wanted me to allow them to use his name for Hospice, the NEW Center, and Corner Health received by close of business on November 30, 2020, will be considered for their endeavors, but I knew that JFS was very Center. the 2021 award cycle. close to his heart. And it is now a living memo- On this anniversary, and every day, we at rial to him.” JFS honor Herb Amster’s memory, his entre- About: Michigan Jewish History, a peer-reviewed academic journal, is pub- What has taken place within JFS — a non- preneurial spirit, and his dedication to helping lished annually by JHSM. profit social service agency — since the cre- those in need. ation of the Amster Center can be described as Our community is stronger, smarter, and nothing less than a massive culture shift. better off in so many ways because of him. n In 2010, at the time of the Amster Center’s

Michigan Jewish history journal wins state history award Special to the WJN he Historical Society of Michigan its founders pledged to “publish . . . periodicals return to those high-minded ideals. JHSM Pres- is stronger, more impactful scholarship. To en- (JHSM) announced its 2020 state for the purpose of recording and interpreting ident Risha B. Ring says, “We aim to produce courage submissions like these, we also have history award winners on Tuesday. the life of Michigan Jewry.” knowledge, share it with the created the Rabbi Emanuel Applebaum Award, T Michigan Jewish History Among the honorees is Jewish Historical So- MJH’s inaugural March world, and, through those ac- a $2000 best article prize.” Michigan Jewish History ciety of Michigan’s annual scholarly journal, 1960 issue was modest: 37 Special 60th-Anniversary Extended Issue tions, make a difference. In The new MJH also includes primary sourc- Michigan Jewish History (MJH), which won types pages, distributed to this issue, readers will learn es and lesson plans for history and religious in the Outstanding Printed Periodical category. fewer than 50 members. about Jewish cookbooks, educators. The 2020 issue features a unit on a It will be recognized along with the other win- (The 2020 issue, nearly five Detroit’s Industrial Removal controversy over Michigan’s first and forgotten ners at a virtual awards ceremony at 7 p.m. on times its length, has a print Office, and engineer Julius Jewish cemetery, located on what is now the Friday, October 2, as part of the HSM’s annual run of 1,000 and is a staple Kahn’s reinforced concrete Diag at the University of Michigan. Michigan History Conference. in libraries across the United technologies.” Cangany says, “MJH isn’t ‘history for his- Michigan Jewish History celebrates its 60th States and Israel.) Despite New for 2020, MJH arti- tory’s sake.’ Thinking critically about the past anniversary this year. In continuous publication the small circulation in 1960, cles are now subjected to peer helps us understand the present, so we can since 1960, it is among the oldest periodicals the journal’s aims were review, a process in which change the future — for ourselves and those devoted to American Jewish history. In honor monumental: to “advance leading academics appraise who come after us.” n of this milestone, JHSM’s editors and advi- a discipline [i.e., American manuscripts and offer sug- For more information, contact Catherine sory committee undertook sweeping changes Jewish history] whose cul- gestions for improvement. Cangany at ccangany@michjewishhistory. to make the journal more useful for scholars, tural value . . . is potentially JHSM Executive Director org or 248-915-1848 students, and the general public. incalculable.” and MJH editor Catherine Volume 59/60 | Summer 2020 | Tammuz 5780 When JHSM was established in June 1959, The 2020 issue marks a Cangany, notes, “The result

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Habonim Dror alumnae show up for this year’s “Tavor Musicale” Leah Berger, special to the WJN

Don’t you ask me/what I’m thinking/If I the past 65 years. Spanning generations make you happy/I will keep on singing/ and landscapes, the performance features for I sing when I can’t talk/and I dance 14 Tavor participants from coast to coast. when I can’t walk/and I’m going back to “If a person knew nothing about camp Splendor Bridge/gonna try to call it home. and saw people in their sixties and twen- — Sam Flesher, Splendor Bridge, 1961. ties singing the same song with the same passion, that’s pretty remarkable,” says hese were the opening lines of the Marc Morgan, video producer/editor. grand finale music video in an on- I’ve been wanderin’ 20 centuries or T line fundraiser for Habonim Dror more/ but I know where I am going to/ Camp Tavor, of Three Rivers, Michigan. and what I’m going for/I am walking Moderated by live emcees, the prere- down that track/evening sun is at my corded skits and musical numbers high- back . . . . lighted seven decades of Tavor’s historical A prolific bard with universal appeal, and cultural creativity in just under two Flesher penned hundreds of songs until hours. During the COVID-19 pandemic, his passing in 2010. with camp activities shifted to online pro- “Splendor Bridge is one of those gramming and an inevitable decrease in songs, like Blowing in the Wind, that funding looming, Tavor alum Michelle you can get behind,” says Detroit native Azar took it upon herself to organize David Tobocman, the video’s musical ar- the concert. She knew it was important ranger. “It’s simple in construction but to have a meaningful denouement to the deep in meaning, the perfect song for a show. camp that is much more than swimming “We all need to be moved, positively, and marshmallow roasts.” especially during these times,” says Azar, Since 1956, the unique combination of whose background includes 10 years as Jewish cultural experience, progressive the founder and producer of a theater Jewish values, and natural idealism of a company in Los Angeles. camp modeled after Israeli kibbutz life Written, arranged, and produced en- keeps campers returning year after year. tirely by Tavor alumni, the closing video I once had two loves/ deep within my bears testimony to the rich talent emerg- heart/Now I have but one love/we’re ten ing from the lush 62-acre property over thousand miles apart/And she’s beckon- ing to me/from far across the sea . . . . says Becky Gordon. “I visited two years Israeli pop songs or folk music from ago, and we had impromptu discussions the 1970s emanating from the loudspeak- with the kids about gender identity — it er before the morning wake up call, a was so fantastic.” counselor strumming lullabies on guitar And I’m going back to Splendor before sleep, Friday night quiet melodies Bridge/gonna try and call it home. on Shabbat Hill, and rousing late night While the song’s title is a clear trib- Israeli Folk Dancing — these are familiar ute to Kibbutz Gesher Haziv (Splendor Tavor scenes year after year. Bridge in Hebrew), the understanding giraffe Hebrew and English songs are taught of kibbutz life and the complexities of Join us on a virtual tour for the BRAG Ann Arbor Fall Showcase of Homes, daily, so that even if you are a new camp- the state of Israel are different now than October 16th -18th. Tour information can be found on BRAG website: er, you will know the traditional camp in 1961. Campers explore their connec- http://www.bragannarbor.net/showcase-of-new-and-remodeled-homes. songs by the end of the summer. tion to Israel in thoughtful ways, but it is “Tavor made singing in a group a big also clear that Tavor is its own “splendor Visit us online & follow us on Instagram for additional updates. @gira edesignbuild part of my life,” says Dana Zuckerman. bridge.” With images from more than 50 “Sitting next to others made me feel free years, the video pulls on the heartstrings to belt out songs with all I’ve got.” of those who have come to call Tavor How many times will the sun set/on home. the sea by Splendor Bridge, before we “To this day and every time I go and can share it from a window on the ridge/ visit, it is home,” says Morgan, emotion and I’ll count each lonely day/ until I’m reverberating through his words. on my way . . . . The song’s melancholy feel of longing Music is the nexus around which the and yearning is even more poignant than Tavor day spins. But the ruach — the ever. This year’s online campers hope to spirit of the songs — proves just as im- call Tavor home in the summers to come. portant. The video of Splendor Bridge with “Singing could be attached to social full Tavor Musicale can be found on the justice values, with labor, or antiwar Camp Tavor website at www.camptavor. songs,” says Ari Lutze-Jahriel, camp org. Fundraiser proceeds offset the sum- counselor 2017/2019. “As I came into my mer’s lost revenue and fund the camp’s own political experience, Tavor had a lot scholarship program, ensuring the future to do with it.” of Camp Tavor. A part of a largely youth-led movement, Camp Tavor welcomes kids entering Habonim Dror campers are empowered second through 12th grade with programs to express themselves. Music, dance, and from one week to a full summer. For more creativity infuse an environment in which information or to make a donation, go to campers feel safe to speak up. www.camptavor.org. n “How we celebrated Shabbat and Ti- sha b’Av was a different way of creating ritual and community that I did not have giraffedesignbuild.com [email protected] 734.489.1924 in the suburbs of Chicago growing up,”

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Rep Andy Levin media briefing with J Street Michael Appel, special to the WJN n both Israel and the United States, politi- possible in the long term without it . . . and to be longstanding commitment to Israel’s existence Levin responded by agreeing that “no one’s hu- cal headlines throughout the past summer honest the reception at home in the Jewish com- as a Jewish and democratic state and to its se- man rights should be tethered to statehood,” but I vacillated between COVID-19, annexa- munity to this idea wasn’t that friendly.” curity needs. continued, ”I’m not ready to talk about Palestin- tion, and then recognition between Israel and In contrast, Levin described the Democratic The briefing then opened to questions. Ra- ian political rights outside of a state. We need the UAE. It appears now that in both countries a Palestinian state; they need one, they have a the governments’ responses to the pandemic right to one.” will have the most salient political impact. But A number of questions were asked of Levin for a number of weeks in mid-summer, political and Ben Ami about the importance of Demo- positioning over Israel’s apparent plan to imple- crats calling for restrictions to United States aid ment unilateral annexation of portions of the to Israel, specifically that none be used to sup- West Bank dominated the politics of Israel-US port or further annexation. “No country wants relations. to have any part of its activities and actions ac- These issues were the immediate context for tually scrutinized,” Ben Ami responded. “These a media briefing organized by J Street on Au- kinds of restrictions are a common tool. The gust 18 featuring a discussion between Repre- State of Israel is the sole recipient of assistance sentative Andy Levin (D-MI) and Jeremy Ben of this kind that doesn’t have any restrictions Ami, J Street’s President, about “The Demo- placed on them . . . and it’s really a proposal to crats’ Evolving Israel Politics and Policies.” J bring American assistance to Israel in line with Street emerged in 2008 using the catchphrase its assistance to the rest of the world.” “pro-Israel, pro-peace” to describe itself and Two final questions from Emily Tamkin of the its supporters, and has often been contrasted New Statesman, and Akbar Ahmed, of HuffPost with AIPAC in its willingness to advocate for asked the speakers to discuss the realities of de positions in opposition to those of the Israeli facto annexation, even as Israel announced a post- government. Andy Levin was elected in 2018 ponement of plans for de jure annexation just days to represent Michigan’s 9th Congressional before the briefing. Levin responded: “We’re on District. Levin’s stated positions regarding Is- 53 years here. And my kids are like, ‘occupation?’ rael and Palestine are consistent with JStreet’s, To them it’s forever. They are skeptical. A lot of which has endorsed him through JStreetPAC. Jeremy Ben Ami Andy Levin young people feel that an occupation that goes on In his introduction, Ben Ami pointed to the decade after decade after decade — at some point, increasing number of Democratic lawmakers caucus in Congress today as having overwhelm- chel Oswald, with the Congressional Quarterly, what’s the difference? And so I feel a tremendous who embrace JStreet’s vision for the United ing agreement on three things: support for Israel’s asked about the effect of changes in leadership sense of urgency. . . . It’s not just about stopping States to actively promote a two-state solution existence, support for Israel’s security, and sup- in the Democratic caucus, citing the departures annexation, it’s about creating a Palestinian state and to assure that United States financial aid to port for Palestinian political and human rights. of Eliot Engel and Nita Lowey in particular. that’s viable next to Israel.” Israel is not used to further annexation. Ben Ami Levin summed up his experience of this “Different voices are going to come to the fore,” As if to highlight the final questions in the pointed to the near unanimity among Democrat- shift. “I’m the same Jewish kid, I’m just now Levin responded. “Things will continue to move briefing, a J Street email appeal that went out ic candidates in support of these positions as “a in Congress. And I’ve got a lot of Christian and towards the center of gravity that we’re talking the next day, August 19, quoted Likud MK and changing of the guard over the last decade, and Muslim and Jewish colleagues in Congress in about on this call. I feel very clear about it.” current Minister of Health Yuli Edelstein’s re- no one represents this better than Andy Levin.” the Democratic party who feel just as I do.” Ishaan Tharoor, a Washington Post colum- sponse to the delayed annexation vote: “Soon Levin opened his remarks by referring back As further evidence of this shift, Levin and nist, then asked a question — echoing some the day will come when we will officially apply to an interfaith trip he took as a graduate student Ben Ami pointed to the 2020 Democratic plat- progressive voices within the Democratic Israeli law to Samaria. In the meantime, we are to Israel and Palestine in 1990. He came back form’s direct opposition to annexation and to party — about a growing tendency to separate applying sovereignty on the ground. . . . We will and said, “We need a two-state solution really settlement expansion (new to the platform from Palestinian civil rights from political rights and annex through deeds, not with words.” n fast, a Jewish and democratic Israel is really not 2016), along with a restatement of the party’s downplay the relevance of a two-state solution. Plaintiffs file appeal for reconsideration in Ann Arbor protester case Danny Schwartz, originally for the Detroit Jewish News, updated by WJN motion for a district judge to reconsider speech in public areas. The Constitution simply time, place and manner restrictions on the De- leader and founder of a group called Witness their ruling against Ann Arbor syna- fendants use of their for Peace, began protesting outside of the syna- Agogue congregants in a case involving anti-Israel and anti- gogue in 2003. The group has protested there anti-Israel synagogue protesters has been denied, Semitic speech in every Saturday morning since then, timed to the the plaintiffs’ counsel said. Plaintiffs’ counsel, proximity to their congregation’s Shabbat services. The protesters Marc Susselman, says an appeal has been filed. house of worship.” have held signs with messages including “Jew- The Court will be issuing a briefing schedule in Susselman is ish Power Corrupts” and “Resist Jewish Power.” the near future. Briefs will not be due until some- handling the case Some supporters have exhibited sympathies with time in November or December, 2020. After all along with The neo-Nazis and other antisemitic groups. briefs have been filed, the Court may schedule an Lawfare Project, a The December 2019 lawsuit was filed by oral argument, to take place sometime in Janu- New York-based Marvin Gerber, a Beth Israel member. Dr. Mir- ary or February, 2021. A decision from the 6th legal fund with a iam Brysk, a Holocaust survivor and member of Circuit Court of Appeals is not expected until late focus on Jewish and Pardes Hannah Congregation, which is located winter, or early spring, in 2021. pro-Israel cases. in an annex next to Beth Israel, is a part of the U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts dismissed “I expect [Judge lawsuit as a co-plaintiff. the lawsuit brought by a congregant against the Roberts] to deny The suit argued that the protesters violated protesters on Aug. 19, on the grounds that the [the motion], just several federal statutes which make it unlawful plaintiffs did not prove they suffered concrete One of the antisemitic signs used by a protester outside of Beth Isreal judging from her for private citizens to engage in conduct, includ- injury as a result of the protests. In response, the PHOTO CREDIT ALEX SHERMAN reasoning and her ing speech, which targets particular individuals plaintiff’s counsel filed a motion for reconsidera- attitude demon- based on their race or ethnicity. tion on Thursday, Aug. 27. does not tolerate such restraint,” the original strated in her order to dismiss the case,” Sussel- The suit separately alleges that the City of The motion stated that the court’s decision court decision reads. man predicted before the decision. “But she may Ann Arbor aided and abetted the protesters by “contains several palpable defects, including “By using the plural, ‘public areas,’ the state- be concerned about that, because I think we’ve failing to enforce the prohibitions in its sign or- errors of fact and law,” including one believed ment suggests that Plaintiffs were seeking to made very strong arguments that her decision is dinance. defect described as a mischaracterization of the bar the Defendants from engaging in their anti- contrary to so many precedents on so many lev- Herskovitz and his fellow protesters later filed equitable relief being sought by the plaintiffs. Israel and anti-Semitic speech in every possible els that she’s clearly risking it being overturned, a motion to dismiss the case, which led to the ini- “Plaintiffs … ask the Court to enjoin these public area,” the motion responded. “This is not and no judge wants to be overturned.” tial dismissal n Defendants from engaging in peaceful political true… Plaintiffs were only seeking reasonable Ann Arbor resident Henry Herskovitz, Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2020 7 IFeature

Looking for Rose: Muskogee, Oklahoma Clare Kinberg, 10th installment in a series his is a story about my aunt Rose and her many Blacks held firm to a perceived economic er, an enrolled Creek Freedman. Still, Rebecca ately arrested and taken to one of the many husband Zebedee Arnwine. Before they truth: land ownership held the key to success. was required to go in person and with a witness detention camps. Even then, airplanes were T met and before they moved together Moreover, they thought land ownership would before the Dawes Commission in Muskogee, circling overhead, dropping explosives upon to a rural town in Southwest Michigan, they’d lead inexorably to full citizenship. . . . In trick- Oklahoma, to enroll three-year-old Tamah into the buildings that had been looted, and big lived for more than 30 years in their separate les, then in torrents, Blacks streamed first into the tribe. A transcript of the Dawes commis- trucks were hauling all sorts of furniture communities — she in St Louis, Missouri, with Kansas, then increasingly into Oklahoma. This sion’s interview before a panel of white men is and household goods away. In these camps immigrant Jewish parents, and he in a fam- bold swim upstream by Black pioneers sparked preserved in the Oklahoma archives. Enroll- I saw pregnant women, and one was so ily of Black farmers in Muskogee, Oklahoma. controversy, then fear and resentment, among ing her young daughter into the tribe meant heavy that a doctor was called in to deliver Though I never met Aunt Rose, I knew five local whites. This decidedly mixed reception Tamah would be entitled to an allotment of her baby. Soon I was back upon the streets, of her siblings quite well, among them my fa- failed to stem the tide of migrants. The flood- land in the Muskogee area, in Indian Territory. but the building where I had my office was ther. Writing my aunt’s life is an inward-facing gates having parted, a cascade of newcomers There was oil and gas under that land. a smoldering ruin, and all my lawbooks process: though a generation distant, her back- spilled across the region. Oklahoma, some When Tamah was a teenager her land was and office fixtures had been consumed by ground is my own. I can hear her sisters’ voices, thought, would evolve into an all-Black state leased to an oil and gas company that sent her flames. I went to where my rooming house my father’s inflections. I listen for echoes with- captained by a Black governor. All-Black towns a monthly check. However, as was common at had stood a few short hours before, but it in to imagine Aunt Rose. and settlements in the windswept Oklahoma the time, a white “guardian” was established was in ashes, with all my clothes and the To write Mr. Arnwine’s life, I search direc- plains captured the collective imagination of an by the court. The Muskogee Cimiter, a local money to be used in moving my family. As tories, public legal documents and census re- Black newspaper, found far as one could see, not a Negro dwelling cords. These shards of his life have led me to more than 3,000 simi- house or place of business stood. buried scenes of Oklahoma history — Ameri- lar guardianship cases, can history. Though deep in the archives, this showing that $100 mil- Buck Franklin describes the trigger to the history that shaped the lives of my aunt and her lion had been stolen Tulsa massacre as an accusation against a teen- husband also shapes my own 21st Century life. from Native American age son of a well-known and respected Green- My 19-year-old daughter came into my bed- and Black families. In wood businessman. “The boy was on his job [as room two nights ago to tell me about a TikTok Tamah’s case, her ap- a shoe-shiner and janitor] and, boarding a very she’d just viewed of a white supremacist angrily pointed guardian was crowded elevator, he accidentally stepped on ranting about an all-Black town somewhere in evidently temporary, the lady’s foot. She became angry and slapped the South. “I want to go live there,” she said. and he spent a good him, and a fresh, cub newspaper reporter, with- She didn’t know I was writing, just then, about deal of court time in out any experience and no doubt anxious for all-Black towns in Oklahoma three generations an effort to become a a byline, gave out an erroneous report that a ago. permanent “guardian” Negro had assaulted a white girl.” My aunt’s husband, Zebedee Arnwine, was by proving Tamah’s in- This familiar yet false cross-racial accusa- born 100 years before my daughters, in 1902 competence to manage tion compounded generational trauma still felt in Cherokee County, East Texas. Soon after his her estate. These court in 2018 when Charles Blow, a New York Times birth, Zebedee’s parents moved their family 300 proceedings, too, are opinion writer, interviewed 103-year-old Ol- miles straight north to Indian Territory, to what preserved in the Okla- ivia J. Hooker, another eyewitness to the Tulsa would become, in 1907, the state of Oklahoma. homa Historical Li- massacre. Hooker’s father owned an upscale The Arnwine family’s move to the area brary. After three years department store in 1921, and the family lived near Muskogee, Oklahoma was part of a large of legal wrangling, Ta- in a comfortable five room home. “White men migration of Black farmers, a wave that came mah, when she turned broke into their house as Hooker and some of a generation after the Exodusters of 1877, yet 18, won the right to her siblings hid beneath an oak dining table, two decades before the Great Migration to the manage her own affairs. draped with a tablecloth. ‘They took a hatchet North. This relocation included thousands of Not long after, she mar- to my sisters’ piano. They poured oil all over my families who organized all-Black towns in a ried Zeb Arnwine, and grandmother’s bed. They stuffed the dresser part of the Indian Territory where some were in 1924 Tamah and Ze- with ammunition,’ Hooker told me. . . . They advocating for an all-Black state. They were bedee had a daughter broke the phonograph and the Enrico Caruso dreaming of a place where Black people could they named Rebecca. records her mother had received as a gift from live free from ever present degradations and It was during this a friend who had gone to study in Heidelberg, violence. marriage that the Black G e r m any.” At the same time that some were imagin- community of Green- I can only imagine the effects of this racist ing an all-Black state in the Indian Territory, entire people.” wood, not an hour away from Muskogee, was violence on young Zebedee Arnwine. I have the United States Federal Government ad- Zebedee Arnwine was perhaps five years attacked by a white mob, killing dozens if not been witness, though, to my daughters’ emerg- opted bureaucratic, legal mechanisms to allot old when the Indian and Oklahoma Territories hundreds, burning several square blocks, and ing identities as young Black women, their Native American tribal lands to individuals became the state of Oklahoma and adopted a leaving 10,000 Black people homeless. self-love and their self-doubts, their righteous who could be proven to be members of the Jim Crow constitution. The new state’s consti- Greenwood had been a prosperous Black anger, their rising independence, their bold Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee, Cherokee, or tution defined “White race” as everyone except city within the city of Tulsa with its own thriv- confrontations with risk, all of these develop- Seminole tribes. In 1887, the Dawes Act had anyone who was of African descent and then ing economy, professionals, shops, and banks. ing amid looping replays of white police beat- authorized the United States President to sub- went on to establish segregated schools and Tulsa was considered the oil capital of the ing, strangling, and shooting Black men and divide communal tribal lands into individual empowered the legislature to limit the voting world, and Greenwood the Black Wall Street. women. My daughters share with me their allotments. Nine years later, in 1898, the Cur- rights of Blacks. The first bill to come before the One eyewitness account of the coordinated feelings of anger and vulnerability; because I tis Amendment to the Dawes Act abolished new Oklahoma senate established into law the destruction of Greenwood was recorded by am white, I know I don’t fully feel what they are tribal governments and assigned the Dawes segregation of Blacks in public transportation the attorney Buck Colbert Franklin in his au- experiencing. Yet, when there was a shooting in Commission the responsibility of determining and public facilities. tobiography, edited by his son and grandson, a synagogue in Poway, California and when a each individual’s tribal membership. The racial Zebedee was working as a farmer with his the historians John Hope and John Whitting- rabbi’s houseguests were attacked with a ma- and economic struggles in the Indian Terri- father when on April 2, 1917, President Wood- ton Franklin. On the evening of May 31, 1921, chete in Monsey, New York, my daughters tory during those years were unique, in part row Wilson, declared the United States was Buck Franklin got wind of impending violence, were the first to check in with me. because the Black slaves of some of the tribes, sending troops to Europe to fight what would and because he knew so many of the city’s lead- Racial segregation and racially based freed by the Civil War, were also considered become World War I because “The world must ers, white and Black, he thought he could do injustice impact my integrated family’s life tribal members, and could be included in the be made safe for democracy.” About a year something to prevent it: every day. Our ears are attuned to danger; allotments. Known as the “Creek Freedmen” later, 16-year-old Zebedee, claiming he was 18, I tried to reach [the sheriff’s office] but was violence imprinted in our cells, accompany- the people enslaved by members of the Creek briefly married and registered for the draft. He unsuccessful, and I learned that the [phone] ing us, through the generations, on all our tribe, and their descendants, had complicated was one of the several hundred thousand Black wires were cut. At daybreak [June 1, 1921] I journeys. n relationships with African Americans arriving men who registered but were not called up. I went to my office still believing I could get to from other parts of the South. have found no record of the dissolution this the sheriff’s office. But I saw I was too late. In Acres of Aspiration: The All-Black Towns first early marriage. Hundreds of men with drawn guns were ap- of Oklahoma, Hannibal B. Johnson explains, Tamah, the woman who became Zebedee’s proaching from every direction. . . . I stood “Beyond the natural yearning for freedom, second wife, was born in 1901 to Rebecca Walk- at the steps to my office, and I was immedi- 8 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2020 ICommunity

Silver linings in the time of COVID-19 Ali Reingold, special to the WJN agnetic nametags affixed to mitment to navigating this new path would lockers line the hallways where help them overcome the challenges of their M colorful billboards display charge and emerge with a plan. smiling photographs of Hebrew Day School In July, a 12-page roadmap to reopen- teachers. Meticulously placed desks with ing was sent to parents and staff. With fresh folders, writing journals, math manip- that document’s release, HDS moved into ulatives, and art supplies occupy classroom a new phase — implementation. Teachers spaces. The walls are supplemental teach- revised lesson plans to stay true to both the ers, displaying signs explaining the HDS school’s educational philosophy and social Mensch code of conduct and distancing protocols. Indoor the proper method for wash- classrooms were completely ing hands. redesigned while outdoor And the sounds of laugh- classrooms were created ing, happy, mask-wearing from scratch. Everything children fill the air. was rethought, and health On August 31, Hebrew and wellness became the Day School of Ann Arbor theme for the year. Teachers opened for in-person in- were now tasked with not struction for the 2020-2021 only teaching math and Eng- school year, bringing with it lish and science and Hebrew all that families have come and Judaic Studies, but also to expect from this school in a typical year how to wear a mask properly, how to transi- — a deep commitment to providing excel- tion between activities safely with appropri- lent academic instruction in general studies, ate distance, and how to teach their students Judaic studies, and Hebrew; a warm and to take care of themselves and each other. welcoming environment; a community; a An already agile group of professionals, the family. teachers learned that their flexibility seemed However, this year is, and the road to re- to know no bounds. opening was, anything but typical. But there were still questions. How It started with a task force would the students feel about the new pro- Led by Head of School Jennifer Rosen- tocols? Would they accept the new norms? berg and composed of teachers and adminis- Would they have the stamina to make it trators, the HDS Safe Reopening Task Force through a full day masked? Would they long began its journey in June. Meeting frequent- for the days before COVID-19 and be dis- ly throughout the summer, the group’s data- tracted by the protocols now required? driven, safety-first approach left no stone The teachers learned one more important unturned. Incorporating guidance from the lesson state of Michigan and the CDC in consulta- The power of adaptability. The kids tion with myriad local experts in the fields came back to school. Smiling with their of medicine, public health, and psychology, eyes, these masked, joyful children fol- the educators became the students, expand- lowed the rules and learned to accept the ing their vocabulary to include terms such new norms. They washed their hands and as “risk mitigation” and “viral load.” They stayed at a safe distance. They learned math learned to ask new questions and to integrate and English and science and Hebrew and their own expertise — the education of chil- Judaic Studies, and they returned, in person, dren — with their newly acquired knowl- to their home away from home — Hebrew edge. They learned that the task before them Day School of Ann Arbor. n was daunting, the data and protocols at times For more information about HDS, please overwhelming, and the territory uncharted. contact Ali Reingold, director of admissions, at NATURAL FOODS MARKET & DELI And they learned that their passion for their [email protected]. profession, their dedication to the students and families who hoped to walk through the school’s doors in the fall, and their com-

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JYP welcomes new board with community celebration Jessica Weil, special to the WJN n August 30, Jewish Young Profes- Emeth, and Repair the World Detroit. By Evan Frenklak, Member at Large nity and leadership that is both empowered sionals of Ann Arbor hosted a cel- working with different organizations in Liana Grey, Interest Groups Co-Chair and empowering.” Her knowledge and ex- Oebration of all the achievements of Ann Arbor and Detroit, JYP has been able Rob Stern, Member at Large perience of leading young adults excited the the past year, honoring the 2020-2021 board, to create new experiences for JYP members. audience about JYP this coming year. and previewing what’s to come. Whether the partnerships involved religious Following the installation, incoming The event concluded with a champagne This past year, JYP had many accomplish- educators, social workers, or graduate stu- President Joelle Abramowitz spoke to partic- toast, desserts and socializing. JYP is looking ments. JYP had over 130 young adults attend dents, the programs added significant value ipants about her Jewish journey to her new forward to the year ahead! over 30 programs. Members of JYP have to members. position in JYP. Building on her experiences Interested in getting involved with JYP? come from all over the country and world! At the event, the incoming board was for- to look ahead to the coming year, she said, “I Contact Jessica Weil at jessica@jewishan- When they come to the Ann Arbor area, mally installed. hope JYP can provide a place for our young narbor.org. To learn more, like Jewish Young

they are looking to find a sense of commu- adult community members to feel welcome Professionals of Ann Arbor on Facebook and nity. When someone new comes to an event, The 2020-2021 JYP Board of Directors are: and to thrive, whether it is an opportunity to follow us on Instagram or visit us at jewis- JYP members strive to make sure that person Joelle Abramowitz, President meet new people and make new friends, an hannarbor.org/jewish-young-professionals. feels like they belong. Reva Berman Pozolo, Campaign Chair opportunity to learn or try something new, n For its programs, JYP partnered with Julie Cohen, Programming Team Co-Chair or empowering our community members to a number of community organizations, Sheira Cohen, Communications Chair create the sorts of programs and community including jUnion, Chabad, Michigan Hil- Rachel Dawson-Baglien, Programming that they want to see. I look forward this lel, Beth Israel Congregation, Temple Beth Team Co-Chair coming year to promoting Jewish commu-

Continued from page 1, Power of the collective: A source of strength, resolve and renewal with JFNA and all other Federations — stands and safety in a manner recommended by the munity members quality content, include an uncertain world. In the coming months we ready to continue to address the needs of our Secure Communities Network and local law people in our meetings and discussions who will be exploring this process to address near- community. enforcement. cannot be physically present, and gather glob- and longer-term communal needs while we It will take all of us to continue to work to- ally in powerful ways. also begin an all-encompassing visioning and Supporting health and safety gether to develop new ways to support our com- There have been many creative outreach planning process to set the direction — as a Our local organizations and congregations munity as we plan to send our children back to efforts these past few months, including Fed- community — for a vibrant, welcoming, car- continue to be thoughtful, creative, and diligent school and to restore the essential elements of eration’s Annual Meeting by Zoom, with a ing, inclusive, secure, and sustainable Jewish in determining when and how to safely open — Jewish life. keynote address by Eric Fingerhut, president community in Washtenaw County. or to offer programming in new and innovative and CEO of JFNA; a Giving Tuesday celebra- “COVID-19 is a new challenge,” wrote ways. Jewish Community Center staff worked Addressing increased need tion of unity highlighting the work of our JFNA Board of Trustees Chair Mark Wilf and tirelessly to develop and implement COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has caused sig- local organizations and congregations; ongo- Eric Fingerhut in a July Jerusalem Post article, safety guidelines, policies and procedures, and nificant economic distress, and we are facing ing Zoom calls with members of our Israeli “and it continues to unfold in unexpected — with money from the COVID Emergency the possibility of a serious and prolonged eco- partner community in Nahalal on a range of ways. But it is the values we have carried with Fund — necessary infrastructure improve- nomic downturn. Tremendous demands have topics; a presentation on the tax ramifications us for generations that enable us to respond ments. The JCC was thus able to open the Early been placed on our premier social service of the CARES Act by top planned giving ex- effectively: the power of collective action, the Childhood Center and Camp Raanana, provid- agency, Jewish Family Services (JFS), which perts; and a Donor Appreciation Event with necessity of collaboration, and the responsi- ing safe, supervised summer activities for chil- provides food, mental and physical health- Chef Michael Solomonov, a collaboration bility to care for the entire community. That’s dren and respite for working families. Resources care, and vocational support. Philanthropists with 32 other Federations. Our Jewish Young why we know that if we continue to act deci- from the COVID Emergency Fund have also and the government have helped, but real Professionals have continued to offer quality sively, we can move from a season of pain to a been used for technology and personal protec- needs continue to grow. programming online and in small groups held season of rebuilding and renewal.” tive equipment, enabling Hebrew Day School JFNA has recently partnered with major in accordance with state guidelines. We are As we sit in our sukkot — perhaps with to offer in-school instruction and our congrega- philanthropists to establish the Human Ser- committed to utilizing all available resources fewer in-person guests than in the past — tions to provide meaningful programming and vices Matching Fund to help Jewish Federa- to deepen our connections with one another we encourage you to consider all that you support to congregants. tions increase funding to support Jews in need and with the global Jewish community even value in our community, and how we might Although we have not had many oppor- through local human services agencies and pro- as we remain physically distant. work together to meet our challenges and to tunities to gather, we know that non-COVID- grams. Our community will be eligible for up to strengthen and sustain our vital Jewish infra- related safety risks continue to grow as well. The $60,000 in matching funds if we raise $120,000 Driving long-term planning structure for decades to come. Community Security Fund we initiated last year in new and increased donations for social ser- Community planning was a priority even Chag Sameach, from both of us. n has provided support for facility upgrades and vices provided by JFS and other programs pro- before the onset of COVID-19. This crisis has Randy Milgrom is the Board President, Jewish security guards at local Jewish facilities, and we viding care and support to our most vulnerable. brought into stark relief the necessity of de- Federation of Greater Ann Arbor. Eileen Freed secured U.S. Department of Homeland Security veloping a vision for our Jewish community is the Executive Director, Jewish Federation of Nonprofit Security Grants — a federal program Providing innovative — and for a strong, collaborative, and innova- Greater Ann Arbor. established with JFNA leadership — in excess engagement tive future. of $113,000. These funds will enable Chabad of We are all looking forward to the time JFNA is utilizing scenario planning to help Ann Arbor and Temple Beth Emeth to upgrade when we can gather safely. At the same time, Federations — including ours — to navigate their physical infrastructure to improve security we have learned that we can bring our com- the challenges and opportunities presented by

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Federation awards reopening grants Stephanie Glass, special to the WJN he Jewish Federation of Greater for the unique needs brought forth by resum- books,” says Nikki Feinberg, director of camp in reopening funds to ensuring students can Ann Arbor is pleased to announce ing aspects of in-person and virtual operations. and youth. safely return to the classroom and is also pro- T that four local organizations, the Organizations are able to apply for funding to Congregations are also preparing for when viding learning tools in case they need to stay Jewish Community Center, Hebrew Day help with a variety of reopening needs, includ- they can safely reopen for in-person services home. Chrome laptops will be available to School, Beth Israel Con- ing purchasing of PPE, and programming. Temple Beth Emeth col- those in need and students who cannot attend gregation, and Temple Beth cleaning services, and laborated with Jim Fuller, a member of the in-person will be able to learn alongside their Emeth have received grants technology for continu- congregation, to build two plexiglass stations teachers and classmates. Similarly to a major- of up to $15,000 to assist ing operations remotely. for its sanctuary, with the grant money going ity of congregations, Beth Israel is planning with reopening needs. The The Jewish Com- toward the shields along with PPE for staff and for virtual High Holidays through streaming Federation’s Community munity Center applied visitors. Melissa Sigmond, executive director of services. The congregation has directed some Emergency Fund provided its $15,000 in reopen- Temple Beth Emeth says that “while we do not of the awarded funding toward purchasing the funding. Established ing funds to prepare the have a set date for reopening in 2020, Temple digital machzors for congregants and high- in March and seeded with building for the opening Beth Emeth is focused on preparing our build- quality cameras to increase clarity and sound $75,000 in Federation re- of Camp Raanana and the ing, procuring necessary supplies, and other for services. serves, the Community Early Childhood Center related tasks so we are ready to pivot from our As 5781 approaches, the Federation is Emergency Fund is a proac- (EEC), which included virtual setting to in person.” proud to continue supporting the dedicated tive and ongoing response installing new exhaust Preparing and pivoting are common organizations that comprise greater Jewish to the COVID-19 pan- fans, purchasing clear themes of the past six months, with greater Ann Arbor and ensure they are able to contin- demic. To date, it has raised signage for inside and Jewish Ann Arbor discovering new ways to ue providing excellent services and program- $153,000 and provided over outside the building, and bring the community together through vir- ming to the community for years to come. n $80,000 to local organiza- increasing cleaning ser- tual programming and distanced gatherings. For more information about the Community tions and individuals. vices. Camp and the EEC While things are bound to look different for Emergency Fund and how you can contribute, In June, Washtenaw successfully operated the start of the school year and High Holidays, please visit www.jewishannarbor.org/ways-to- County moved into Phase throughout the summer, Hebrew Day School and Beth Israel are finding give/community-emergency-fund. 4 of the Michigan Safe Start allowing local families creative ways to gather for leaning and wor- Plan, which allowed busi- and kids the opportunity ship. Hebrew Day School utilized its $15,000 nesses, camps, and child care to reunite with friends, fa- centers to reopen under spe- vorite teachers, and more. cific new safety measures, “Through this funding, including providing personal protective equip- Camp Raanana was able to ensure our camp- New book from CCAR ment (PPE) to employees, increased clean- ers had a safe space both within and outside the ings, and adjustments to building layouts. In JCC building. With all that has happened these n a groundbreaking collaboration, CCAR our communities. This project will inspire and response to these and other requirements, Fed- past few months, it was wonderful to be able Press, a division of the Central Confer- encourage readers to find opportunities to de- eration established an ongoing grant to help to provide our campers with some normalcy Ience of American Rabbis, and the Brigham velop understanding through lived, sustained greater Ann Arbor’s Jewish institutions prepare and have another successful summer in the Young University Religious Studies Center are contact with other faith groups by examining honored to announce the publication of Un- historical, cultural, and theological narratives. derstanding Covenants and Communities: Diamond served as Executive Vice President Jews and Latter-day Saints in Dialogue. Edited of the Board of Rabbis of Southern California, by Rabbi Mark S. Diamond, senior lecturer in director of the Los Angeles region of the Ameri- Federation welcomes Rachel Wall Jewish Studies at Loyola Marymount University can Jewish Committee, and rabbi of congrega- Eileen Freed, special to the WJN and professor of practical rabbinics at the Acad- tions in the Philadelphia, Washington, DC, and emy for Jewish Religion California, and Dr. San Francisco metropolitan areas. Interfaith he Jewish Federation of Greater Andrew C. Reed, assistant professor of church dialogue and engagement are hallmarks of his Ann Arbor is delighted to welcome history at Brigham Young University, the book professional career. He is a past president of the T Rachel Wall to the team as commu- is the first joint project by Jewish and Latter-day Los Angeles Council of Religious Leaders and a nications and development manager. Saint publishers. cofounder of the Jewish–Latter-day Saint Aca- Rachel will support Federation’s philan- Understanding Covenants and Communi- demic Dialogue, with Reed. thropic efforts. She will work closely with the ties comes out of the Jewish–Latter-day Saint Reed teaches world religions and Latter-day executive director to implement the Annual Academic Dialogue Project, a pathbreaking in- Saint history at Brigham Young University. He Community Campaign, including support- terfaith encounter between these two religious studied Russian and European history at Arizo- ing volunteers and coordinating fundraising communities. The fruit of five conferences held na State University and holds master’s degrees events and programs. In addition, Rachel semiannually since 2016, the volume addresses from the University of Oxford and the Woolf will be Federation’s key communications such themes as theological foundations, sacred Institute at the University of Cambridge. He is professional charged with developing and scriptures, lived experience and worship, and a fellow of the Religious Outreach Council at implementing a comprehensive and cohe- culture and politics. Readers will emerge with a BYU. sive marketing communications strategy deeper understanding of the Jewish and Latter- “It has been an honor to collaborate with in support of Federation’s mission. This is a day Saint traditions and how the two faith com- Brigham Young University on this project,” new role for Federation — one designed to munities can engage in a meaningful dialogue. says Rabbi Hara Person, Chief Executive of the enhance all aspects of internal and external “It is long past time that the Jewish-Christian Central Conference of American Rabbis. “Just communications. dialogue be widened to include a Latter-day as Understanding Covenants and Communi- Rachel has been an active member of the Saint-Jewish encounter,” said Yossi Klein Halevi, ties will inspire deeper interfaith conversation, Ann Arbor Jewish community since mov- Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute we hope our partnership to produce this book ing to town in 2012. She was previously the in Jerusalem. “This brave and thoughtful collec- will serve as a model of cooperation between director of Federation’s Keshet Hebrew High tion brings together two faith communities that publishers of different faiths.” Rachel Wall School program, as well as the office manager have much in common but know too little about “This is a historic endeavor between repre- at Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor. In ad- “I’m excited to join the Federation team the other. In overcoming misunderstandings sentatives of two remarkable faiths,” said Scott dition to her Jewish communal work, Rachel and mistrust, we will learn to celebrate our dif- C. Esplin, publications director of the BYU Re- has worked to support adults with develop- and spend my time building and strength- ening the Ann Arbor Jewish community,” ferences as well as commonalities, and together ligious Studies Center. “We are grateful to part- mental disabilities. Rachel holds a bachelor’s sanctify God’s name in a secular age.” ner with the Central Conference of American degree from Northwestern University and a says Rachel. “There’s so much to love about Jewish Ann Arbor. It’s an honor to be part In this book, readers will encounter chapters Rabbis to further understanding and dialogue Master’s of Social Work from the University from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds between our communities.” n of Michigan, with a certificate in Jewish com- of an organization that makes so much of it possible.” — biblical studies, theology, women’s studies, munal leadership. A member of the Ann Ar- history, literature, and political science. Under- bor Orthodox Minyan, Rachel lives in Ann Rachel may be reached at rachel@jewish- federation.org or 734-773-3533. n standing Covenants and Communities speaks Arbor with her husband Logan and their to the possibilities of careful, thoughtful engage- eight-month-old daughter Abigail. ment engineered to foster interfaith progress in

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In Netflix’s ‘Away,’ Ato Essandoh is an African-British-Jewish astronaut. It’s not his first Jewish starring role. Gabe Friedman, originally for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency to Essandoh isn’t Jewish, or British, from New York without bringing New York ba- there’s a whole set of people who practice Juda- tive; it’s not just a token inclusion. Did playing or an astronaut — but he plays an gels, I will not be allowed to stay in the home. ism who don’t look this way. All protagonists of it make you rethink your own spirituality at all? A African-British-Jewish astronaut on My mom is trying to teach herself how to make movies have to be white men — no, look at Hill- I thought about it, but I thought about it in T V. bagels. This is 30 years of bagel expertise. We ary Swank, look what she’s doing [in “Away”]. the way that I have an admiration for people of In Netflix’s new hit drama “Away,” about an love bagels in our family. And what it does is give us a diversity of ideas, a faith. Faith is the belief in something with the international crew of astronauts who set out on And I think that was kind of a precursor, diversity of things that we can learn from each absence of evidence, so you’re looking into the a critical near-future mission to Mars, Essan- speaking of witchcraft, to my career as an ac- other and everybody belongs at this table and void and your faith tells you that there’s some- doh plays botanist Kwesi Weisberg-Annan, an tor, now playing twice a body or something there that will help you and orphan who is raised by a white Jewish mother Jewish character, which will guide you and has a plan — as opposed and an African Jewish father in England after I think is great. to somebody like me, who looks into the void his parents are killed in his native Africa. Kwesi So how prepared and goes, “All right, guys, I don’t know where prays in Hebrew when the going gets tough on were you this time? we’re going either, let’s all hold hands and try to the spacecraft — it happens often during the What kind of new things figure this out on the way.” And I think some- crew’s multi-year journey — and early on he did you have to learn for where in the middle is perhaps the reality of notes that he brought aboard a Torah. this specific character? the universe. Luckily for Essandoh, he already had the “Chicago Med” So it didn’t necessarily change my point of Jewish side of his role down, as he put it, since he prepped me for this. view, but it has sort of helped me navigate the had previously portrayed a Black Jewish char- [For that role] I spoke to things that I think are true and have empa- acter — Dr. Isidore Latham on “Chicago Med.” [Chicago Rabbi Capers thy for another person’s way of looking at the “The British part was the problem — I was Funnye] and what was universe. Because who says I’m the one who’s like, now I have to learn a dialect! But I said, nice about speaking to right? I don’t know. ‘OK, I have the Jewish thing down,’” he said him was that in our cul- While we’re seeing greater diversity on with a laugh on the phone from his home in ture, I guess writ large, a screen, it’s a tricky time to play a character with Brooklyn. nonwhite person who’s a traits that you as an actor don’t have. Do you He also had a head start on learning Jew- Jewish person is a rarity ever think about people calling you out for be- ish culture from his childhood in upstate New to most of us. So it feels like somebody is just nothing should be off the table because it can ing a non-Jewish actor playing Jewish charac- York, where he said he was surrounded by Jew- trying to make an interesting character for in- only make us stronger. That’s my feel-good mes- ters? And what do you think about the whole ish friends and brought up by parents who en- teresting character’s sake. When I spoke to the sage of the day. debate? couraged him to explore different histories and rabbi, he was like “Oh no, Black Jewish people President Obama used the Passover Seder Yeah, I think about it a lot with this role and belief systems — ranging from Norse mythol- and nonwhite-looking Jewish people are more to draw parallels between the African and Jew- my “Chicago Med” role, and a role I had just ogy to the New Testament to the fairy tale sto- than you think. They’re all over, even in Ghana.” ish quests for freedom over the millennia. In this past summer on Amazon’s “Tales From the ries of West Africa. And for an actor what that helps with is then “Away,” there’s a scene in which Kwesi’s adop- Loop” where I played a gay man. And it’s really The role of Kwesi is just the latest in a wide- I don’t feel like I’m sort of the sore thumb that tive father makes a similar kind of comparison tricky because you can argue that I’m not Jew- ranging career that kicked into high gear after somebody slapped together; there’s a real per- as he explains to young Kwesi why he adopted ish, but you can also argue that I’m not a bota- a supporting part as Natalie Portman’s adopted son here. Part of acting is just allowing yourself Judaism. Have these roles made you think more nist nor am I an astronaut nor am I a British brother in Zach Braff’s 2004 indie hit “Garden to believe you’re that person. about the similarities between African and Jew- citizen nor am I a Ghanaian citizen. State.” Essandoh, now 48, spoke with the Jewish So that helped me with this character [in ish culture? So I don’t understand the problem in a bi- Telegraphic Agency about Black-Jewish repre- “Away”] because i was like “Yeah, OK, Black It’s funny, having all the Jewish friends I’ve nary situation. I understand it if you’re doing sentation on screen, his favorite Jewish prayer Jewish guy, no problem.” had all throughout my life, I realize it was only “Raisin in the Sun” and you cast the family as and his family’s obsession with bagels. But then speaking Hebrew in an English last year — and I’m mad at all my Jewish friends white people. That is problematic because this This interview was edited and condensed for dialect was also sort of a mind-bending thing. at this point — when my agent invited me to a play is about being Black. There’s a difference clarity. Any words or phrases that you struggled Seder. I had never been to one before, which is between something that is tied to the identity of JTA: This isn’t giving much away for viewers, with? extraordinary for someone like me, and what I the piece that you’re doing and an actor playing but there is a virus plot in this show. I have to I have to give props to the coach that they absolutely loved — I’m not a very religious per- a role. And so I think it should be a much more know: Was the entire thing written and filmed got for me out in Vancouver, who I believe is son — but what I loved was the family sitting nuanced conversation than it is, and I do think before the COVID-19 crisis? Israeli — he made it very easy. I think I can still around, talking about this shared history, this about that all the time, I do anticipate people Essandoh: Yes. At Netflix they practice do the “Traveler’s Prayer,” let’s see: Y’hi ratzon shared story, and laughing and joking about un- saying, “If you’re not even Jewish, if you’re not witchcraft, so I think that’s what happened. milfanecha Adonai Eloheinu ve-lohei avoteinu cle so-and-so and auntie da-da-da, and there’s even somebody who says you believe in God, [laughs] she-tolichenu l’shalom v’tatz’idenu l’shalom … this sort of ritual which forces or which encour- why should you have the right to play a religious When you saw this role, did you say to your- I can’t even believe I can say that part, oh my ages the family to bond. Which is the same thing character, much less a Jewish character?” I don’t self: “Again with the Black-Jewish character?” God. I think I’m honorary at this point. [laughs] with my family. When I go to Ghana, since our know how to answer that question. Where I grew up, when we moved from What I love about that prayer, at least how I family’s now spread all over the world, my dad I love to act and I love to tell stories, but I Schenectady to New Rochelle in like sixth translate it, is that it’s about the journey. It’s al- has this thing that he calls the “family state of the also want to have respect for the stories I’m tell- grade, most of my friends were Jewish, so I got most about “appreciate the journey, appreciate union.” We all go around in circles and shake ing. If it’s a situation where it’s going to ruin the sort of a primer on a little bit of Hebrew, I got the the opportunity of being able to go to a differ- each others’ hands and then we just sit there and show or people aren’t going to watch it, then I’ll Yiddish curses. I tasted bagels for the first time. ent place than you were before.” And hopefully talk about the year — “How did the year go for step down — I mean not for this show, too late I have a funny story about that. We’re Afri- you learn something, hopefully you do not die you? Oh, this is what happened, this is what I’m now I guess — that’s something I have to take can kids living up in Schenectady, and my dad on the way, but learn and strengthen yourself worried about, this is the thing that I’m looking into consideration. Because I don’t want to of- would do business down in New York City through that travel, and that’s a lovely sort of forward to, I got this new television show, I can’t fend people. I wouldn’t want to offend everyone sometimes. One time he brought back bagels. way to look at life. wait for you guys to see.” I feel like there are a lot who’s a Jewish person who would look at that And we had never seen bagels, we were prob- The conversation about Jews of color has of those parallels. and go “Oh, my god, what is he doing!” If I’ve ably 7- and 8-year-old kids. We were like, “What really flourished and expanded in recent years. The thing my mom used to tell me all the done something wrong, I don’t want to be in the is that round bread with a whole in it?!” And Have you followed that thread at all, and have time growing up, because I’ve always been a boat of maligning a whole entire group of peo- my dad is like, “Trust us, eat it.” We’re kids, so any Jews of color reached out to you expressing person who’s stuck between multiple cultures ple. So it’s a really delicate situation. I hope I’ve we said, “No, we don’t know what it is!” Then appreciation or anything like that? — American and Ghanaian and Black and this brought some reality to it and I haven’t shined he pulled out cream cheese and he’s like, “You That I haven’t seen yet directly, but I think and that — my mom said you know having that the wrong kind of attention to it. spread this stuff on it.” And he’s coming back to that it is happening, and that brings up a broad- kind of diversity, see it this way, take the things So what if someone comes to you, let’s say a us like he’s discovered something from the new er point that you are making, which is that it’s that work from each culture and leave the other few roles from now, with another Black-Jewish world — and of course he’s Ghanaian, so he’s seeing all of the diversity of different people, stuff behind, make your own culture, make character. What’s your response? never seen this. especially right now … is something that is tan- your own identity. You get to pick and choose I guess I’d say I’ve been doing a pretty good I will tell you, when we put those bagels in tamount to our progress as a human species. because you have a diversity of choices, and job, that’s why you’re coming to me, I’m the our mouths and ate them, we became the ba- We have to learn the constructs that we have that’s something I’ve tried to uphold through- Black-Jewish expert at this point. I’ll stick it on gel family. To this day — since my parents have been under — like my construct that “all Jew- out my life. my resume — I’ll put the “Traveler’s Prayer” on moved back to Ghana — if I dare go to Ghana ish people look white, that’s what they are.” No, This character has a deep religious narra- my resume. n 14 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2020 Zemyck ZemycStonewarek StonewarePottery Pottery Pat CowanCowan

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Kids in the kitchen Lonnie Sussman, special to the WJN ’ve seen Facebook posts of amazing adven- column. Email me at [email protected] with to celebrate our family birthdays. The first des- he tried his hand at vegetable soup. It included tures in delicious cooking and baking. So the subject “another recipe.” Remember, a story sert is called Chocolate Wacky Cake or Depres- boiling water, adding cut up carrots, celery, on- I many of you are experimenting with your about the chef/baker would be appreciated. sion Cake. She found the recipe online from the ions, and whatever spices in the cabinet smelled own creations or being brave enough to try On Facebook I’ve seen incredible fancy website, spicysouthernkitchen.com, but that’s not good. He said, “It never turned out very good,” but making things you never thought you would. meals put together by some older teens. Jessie S. why she made it. As she told us, she was three he learned that sautéing the vegetables first, and Kudos and congratulations to all of you. made her family an amazing Indian feast with a when she read about Wacky Cake in an Amelia using butter, helped the flavor. Shortly thereafter, I have also tried my hand at food I haven’t number of dishes. Elijah M. made homemade Bedelia book. We had dinner together (outside his family ate some Asian takeout and he thought, made in years, as well as new recipes and, now, noodles with homemade sauces. Younger kids and socially distanced) and Sadie wanted to make Why spend so much time picking out the parts about a million different veggie burgers. Some like Sam and Anna S. helped in the kitchen with this cake for dessert. You can keep the cake vegan he liked? So he followed the recipe on the back of of those recipes are in last month’s WJN. It turns stirring (mac and cheese) and making pancakes by adding sprinkles or powdered sugar or add the eggroll wrappers and made his own version out that techina is a great addition for all those and waffles from mixes (with supervision for whipped cream. Later in the summer she tried a of the spring rolls. Sometimes he added the soy recipes as it helps bind the ingredients and adds the stove part). Nava and Ilan S. have special layered sorbet with different fruits and basil! Pu- sauce or the teriyaki sauce. Further into quaran- flavor, so try that. knives, sharp enough to cut up vegetables but ree each fruit separately and add sugar if needed. tine, he decided to start baking. The first bread Adults aren’t the only ones trying out new made for little hands. They cut up cucumbers Freeze. Serve in a fancy glass, with scoops of was a no knead bread, but he moved on to scones kitchen skills. When “summer vacation” began and put some dips out for them. Others, like each fruit separated from each other. She added (from the YouTube channel You Suck At Cook- — back in mid-March — a lot of younger people Alo S., help make cookies by mixing and roll- chopped up basil to the strawberry layer. ing), challah with chocolate chips and sprinkles, took up kitchen challenges. Since I have easy ac- ing the dough and putting them on the baking Matan is our oldest grandchild. He turned 16 marble cake, and babka from Yotam Ottolenghi’s cess to a few local kids, it is their recipes (or ones sheets. at the end of August. As a young child he was a book, Jerusalem. That recipe is two pages long they looked up online) that I’d like to feature. Our niece, Sadie, just started remote middle highly specialized (another way to say picky) eat- and took him two days. Now he’s learning how Yes, it’s nepotism, but if you have stories about school. She’s actually quite accomplished in er, favoring noodles, bread, and more bread. His to decorate cupcakes and cakes. He also learned your own children or grandchildren who have the kitchen and has helped her parents cook or tastes expanded at summer camp into scrambled to make salmon baked on cedar planks with Teri- learned new cooking skills, write to me about bake since she was very young. This summer she eggs, potatoes and, strangely, beet greens. But, just yaki sauce and slices of lemon. Who knows what them and I will include the recipes in the next added to her skills by choosing desserts to make as kids keep maturing, so did his taste buds. First, the future brings?

Chocolate Wacky Cake, also known and it was so good! You can also frost it. sticky. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it Not Matan’s Soup, also known as as Depression Cake Frosting rest at a warm room temperature (70 degrees) for Butternut Squash and Apple ¼ cup milk at least 12 hours (but 18 would be better). Look This cake was popular in the Depression be- for bubbles on the surface of the dough. Lightly Cider Soup cause it was cheap to make. It was also very ⅓ cup butter 3 tbs unsweetened cocoa powder flour a work surface area and place the dough popular during World War II due to the ration- This will be tastier than his first tries. 1 tsp vanilla extract on it. Sprinkle with a little more flour, and fold it ing of eggs, butter, and milk. I think Amelia Be- over on itself once or twice. Cover loosely with ¼ cup butter, olive oil or vegetable oil 2½ to 3 cups powdered sugar 1 large yellow onion, chopped delia knew how to bake with limited ingredients Sprinkles, optional the plastic wrap and let rest for about 15 minutes. and a budget. If you still have your books from Then, using just enough flour to keep the dough 4-6 apples, peeled and cubed Heat the milk, butter, and cocoa powder in this series, I recommend you read a few as you from sticking to your fingers or the work surface 5-6 cups butternut squash, peeled and cubed a small saucepan until it comes to a simmer. eat the cake. area, quickly but gently shape it into a ball. Gen- 1 quart vegetable stock Remove from heat and add the vanilla. Stir in 1½ cups all-purpose flour erously coat a cotton towel with flour, cornmeal, 2-3 cans full fat coconut milk the powdered sugar, one cup at a time, until 1 tsp baking soda or wheat bran, and place the dough seam side ½ cup apple cider (boil and reduced smooth. Pour the icing over the cake. ½ tsp salt down on the towel. Dust the top with more flour, apple cider) ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder cornmeal, or wheat bran, and cover with anoth- ¼-½ cup maple syrup or another sweetener 1 cup sugar er cotton towel. Let rise about two more hours. 2-3 tbs lemon juice 1 tbs cider vinegar No Knead Bread from the New York It should more than double in size and will not Salt and pepper to taste 1 tsp vanilla extract readily spring back when poked with a finger. Melt the butter or oil in saucepot over me- 5 tbs vegetable oil Times and Mark Bittman Preheat oven at least 30 minutes before baking dium heat. Add the onion and cook until it is 1 cup water translucent. Add the apples and cook for a few All you need, not knead, is time. Instead of to 450 degrees. Put a six- to eight-quart heavy Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl and minutes until they start to caramelize. Then add kneading the bread, you wait or return to your covered pot made of a materials like cast iron, then spread in an eight-by-eight ungreased the vegetable stock, squash, and coconut milk. Zoom class or meeting. enamel, Pyrex, or ceramic in the oven as it heats. baking pan. Form two small wells — one for the Bring to a boil and then simmer for about 20 3⅓ cups of all-purpose or bread flour After 30 minutes and when the dough is ready, vinegar, one for the vanilla extract — on either carefully slide a hand under the towel and turn minutes or until the squash and apple are ten- ¼ tsp instant yeast end of the pan, and one larger well in the middle the dough over into the pot, seam side up. It will der enough to puree. Add the sweetener and for the oil. Pour 1 cup of water over it all and 2 tsp kosher salt look messy, but don’t worry. Shake the pan a few salt and pepper. Remove a cup of the liquid be- mix everything together with a fork. Bake for Cornmeal or wheat bran, as needed fore puréeing in case you need to thin the soup times to evenly distribute the dough. Cover with n 30 minutes at 350 degrees or until a toothpick In a large bowl combine the flour, yeast, and salt. the lid and bake for 30 minutes. Then remove a little. Purée until silky smooth. inserted in the middle comes out clean. Add 1⅓ cups plus two tablespoons of water and the lid and bake another 15 to 30 minutes until We ate the cake with whipped cream on top, stir until blended. The dough will be shaggy and the loaf is beautifully browned. Cool on a rack. Artemisia Vocal Trio’s concert watch party Yuni Aaron, special to the WJN n Saturday, October 24, Women of of Corsica, to name a few. credits as an immense influence in her becom- Fund and assisted by Cantor Regina Lam- Temple Beth Emeth will host Arte- One of the members of Artemisia Trio, Di- ing a musician. Although she graduated from bert-Hayut, the trio will also provide virtual Omisia Vocal Trio’s Watch Party. Her- ana Lawrence, who grew up in Ann Arbor, may the University of Michigan’s School of Music, workshops to Kol Halev, the TBE choir. alding from Chicago where their performance be familiar to some through her annual per- Theater & Dance in voice and piano perfor- WTBE invites the community to view has been praised for “sincerity, wit and mind- formances at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival. mance, Lawrence has since added composition this unique performance at 7:30 p.m. blowing technique,” the trio will surely dazzle Lawrence comes from a very musical family. Her to her repertoire. on October 24. Purchase your tickets at with their unique sound and superb program- parents, Ted and Wendy Lawrence, sing with Artemisia Trio commissions and per- https://templebethemeth.org/women-of- ming. Kol Halev, the TBE choir. She and her brother, forms newly composed works by living tbe for $18/person. The concert watching Artemisia Vocal Trio members Kaitlin Fol- Cantor Rick Lawrence, have joined their par- female composers. Artemisia is a name of information will be emailed once the ticket ey, Diana Lawrence, and Alexandra Olsavsky ents, lending their beautiful voices as a quartet a great ancient female warrior, an Italian is purchased. There will be a live Q&A fol- formed the trio in 2014. Artemisia has a soft spot to TBE’s High Holiday services. Lawrence grew painter, and a Greek goddess of hunt. The lowing the concert. The recorded concert for American vernacular music (pop, jazz, folk, up singing in Temple Beth Emeth under Cantor trio does outreach to community and youth will remain online for one week following and soul) but doesn’t stop there. The repertoire Annie Rose (now emerita) who through youth ensembles, drawing from the strength of its the concert so it can be viewed multiple of vocal styles reaches near and far, from Appa- choir, encouraged young people to make music namesake in its message to the community, times for those who purchase the tickets. lachian folk tunes to Tushetian highlander cries, together and provided opportunity to perform infusing female empowerment through cul- Contact:[email protected]. n Cuban dance music, and music from the island in a supported environment, which Lawrence tural literacy. Cosponsored by TBE Music 18 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2020 I Community

Leading Jewish social justice organization launches racial justice guide ing data from Avodah and the broader Jewish While the guide was created after years of their culture and operations for a long-term in- vodah, the leading organization de- community, as well as interviews with staff, deep, inward-looking analysis, Cook notes that clusion plan. veloping the next generation of so- alumni of color, and other Jewish leaders of col- the work will — and should — be ongoing: “We The racial justice guide is available for orga- A cial justice leaders driven by Jewish or, the task force, with the help of a consultant, understand that becoming an antiracist and ful- nizations to download and use for free. Avodah values, launched a new Racial Justice Guide in identified a set of recommendations broken out ly inclusive Jewish organization takes time and intentionally made the guide open-ended, since September, as Jewish organizations reexamine into short-term steps that were easier to imple- resources. At Avodah, we’re continuing to do the work of racial justice is continually evolving their organizational culture in the wake of the ment and longer-term changes that would take the work and learning as we do it. We’re excited and improving, and will continue to update the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Mat- more time. to offer this guide to the Jewish community as guide on an ongoing basis. ter movement. After five years of self-reflection, Avodah is a step toward creating a more just and inclusive For assistance or questions about the guide, The guide is a resource for Jewish organiza- ready to share with the community what it has Jewish community.” organizations can contact Amanda Lindner tions and institutions to pursue internal change learned about racial diversity, inclusion, and The Racial Justice Guide breaks down or- at [email protected]. Founded in 1998, at all levels and create diverse, equitable, and equity in a way that reflects the political and ganizations’ antiracist work into three phases: Avodah develops lifelong social justice leaders inclusive cultures, especially for Jews of Color, pandemic-driven realities faced by Jewish or- Auditing, Education and Training, and Imple- whose work is informed by Jewish values and who are underrepresented in Jewish commu- ganizations. menting Changes. Organizations are encour- who inspire the Jewish community to work to- nity leadership. “Avodah works to create a more just world, aged to start with an audit in order to build a ward a more just and equitable world. To learn This guide was informed by the work of the informed by our Jewish values. Jewish organiza- baseline understanding of their diversity. In more about Avodah visit www.avodah.net and racial justice task force Avodah formed in 2016 tions have an opportunity and obligation to step the Education and Training section, Avodah follow on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and to help evaluate its own racial justice work, both up and address racial justice, especially within compiled a list of recommended JOC diver- YouTube. n internally and externally. The task force was our organizations,” says Cheryl Cook, CEO of sity experts and resources. In the Implement- composed of Avodah staff, alumni, and Board Avodah. “The Jewish community is stronger ing Changes section, Avodah details the tactical and Advisory Council members. After review- when there is space for everyone to thrive.” steps that organizations can incorporate into Local Jewish CSC seeks insights from Jews and non-Jews of Color By David Nelson s the Chair of the Community Se- seems to have worked out well: Until recently, hoc group composed of people from a various enaw County community. curity Committee of the Jewish there hadn’t been attack with casualties on an Jewish congregations and communal organiza- I would love to talk to Jewish and non- A Community of Greater Ann Arbor, American Jewish congregation in decades. tions, coming together to assist each other in Jewish people of color about their experiences, I’d like to hear from Jews and non-Jews of Today, a majority of Americans are finally improving safety and security at our events and thoughts, feelings, hopes, and concerns regard- color: How do the security measures you beginning to take a hard look at the effects com- in our spaces. Neither I nor the Ann Arbor area ing the security measures they see at Jewish or- see at synagogues, community centers, and munity safety and policing practices have had CSC set any binding policies. We are instead ganizations and events. community events make you feel? on people of color. This is good work, and long dedicated to ensuring that local Jewish orga- These conversations will be held in strictest American Jewish communities have a long overdue. As Jews, we recognize a fundamental nizations have all of the resources they need to confidence, and can even be totally anonymous and complicated relationship with government, obligation to seek justice and take action to re- make informed decision and take meaningful if you prefer. I want to do everything I can to law enforcement, and private security: Owing pair the world — not perpetuate its inequities. action. We want those decisions and actions to make sure that everyone who has found a spiri- to the persistence of violent anti-Jewish senti- If the safety measures we’ve embraced until now be fully informed — including understanding tual home in Judaism will find a physical home ment on the American fringe, most Jewish are inadvertently increasing inequity, we want the potential unintentional impacts security de- here. I can be reached at dave@davideriknelson. organizations have individually forged relation- to find new answers. cisions could have on historically underrepre- com. n ships with law enforcement or invested heavily Our local CSC, part of a nationwide Jew- sented, marginalized, and neglected members in private security measures (often both). This ish Community Security Network, is an ad of our Jewish community, and the larger Washt- Jackie Robinson and me By Martin Stolzenberg ince the killing of George Floyd, Blacks I’m thinking back to my childhood, and I read everything about the rookie sensation knew that the army, in 1944, forbade segrega- Lives Matter is constantly in the news. this brings me to thoughts of Jackie Robinson. I could find on the newsstands, and even bought tion on its bases, and that included this bus. The S Floyd’s death sparked protests all over I was growing up in Bensonhurst, a blue-collar the Jackie Robinson comic book about his life. driver threatened to make trouble when they the country, even the world, and it seems to me neighborhood with plenty of schoolyards and After the season, there was a biographical movie arrived at the final stop. that public opinion has mostly been favorable baseball fields. There were mostly Jews and Ital- starring Jackie that I went to see. The comic At the central bus depot, the argument grew to the cause. The protests that enveloped over ians there. I knew no people of color and had book and movie made me into an even stronger more heated, and Jackie was arrested, charged 2,500 U.S. towns and cities are different from no impressions of them, one way or the other. Jackie fan. I continued to follow and admire him with being disrespectful to the officer investi- the protests of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the The year 1947 changed all that. I was 11 years for his 10 years as a Brooklyn Dodger. gating the situation and other military person- Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Photos old. Jackie Robinson, the first African American Much later I realized how my childhood nel involved in the case. It turned out that the and newsreels of those marches, protests, and to break the color barrier of baseball, joined the knowledge of Jackie’s struggle with prejudice arresting personnel couldn’t abide that he was rallies 60 years ago almost always showed Black Brooklyn Dodgers that year. He was an imme- had a profound impact on me. He made me talking back to them as an equal and an army faces. The current movement is has energized diate sensation. I became enamored of him and realize how all people of color had to deal with officer. Ultimately, he was acquitted. everyone, particularly white people. the way he had fought the prejudice surround- unfair disadvantages, with two strikes against This incident was a good 11 years before But there are naysayers, those who rightly ing his entry into professional baseball. I listened them in much of this country. Largely because Rosa Parks and the famous Montgomery Ala- condemn the violence and looting but wrong- entranced to Red Barber doing the radio broad- of reading about him and his courage, I have bama bus ride. Jackie Robinson risked being fully blame BLM for orchestrating them. The casts. If it was a night game after my bedtime, I zero tolerance for racial bias. I wonder how dishonorably discharged and sent to jail be- critics do not hear that these acts took place at still had the game on softly in a darkened room, many other young people, or even adults, he af- cause he wouldn’t allow himself to be bullied in night, long after the BLM protests had ended. It listening in on my dome shaped radio. The next fected in the same way. a small town in segregated Texas. It’s no won- has been shown that any theft was the work of day I couldn’t wait to read the sports columns in What would he have thought of the BLM der that he could stand up to all the bigotry he organized criminals who took advantage of the the newspaper to see how the game and Jackie movement? I remembered reading a little- was exposed to when breaking the color barrier situation and used sophisticated techniques to were described. known story about him in a biography by Ar- in baseball. And this all happened before the loot targeted stores and escape. The way he played baseball was eye open- nold Rampersaud. Jackie was a newly minted world knew who Jackie Robinson was. I am one of the many who have not joined ing. He ran the bases relentlessly. He teased the second lieutenant, stationed in Fort Hood, near I think about Jackie Robinson and the cur- the protests, but are sympathetic to the cause. pitchers and stole bases easily. Then he would Belton, Texas, during World War II. Catching rent protests. What would he think of them? So, I wonder, what does a retired 84-year-old make pitchers balk because they were so ner- a ride one day to his camp on a military bus, This Brooklyn boy knows Jackie Robinson, white Jew from the streets of Brooklyn, living in vous when he was on base. When caught in a he sat next to a woman he knew, and was con- who pointed toward equality and fairness for retirement in lovely Ann Arbor, have in com- rundown he would elude being tagged out. He versing with her. The driver ordered Robinson many, including me as an 11-year-old, would mon with these protesting people? would even steal home. No one else did all that. to the back of the bus. Jackie refused to go. He have heartily approved. n

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Who is the man behind PJ Library and LIFE & LEGACY® Programs? Emily Benedeck, Originally for Tablet Magazine at tabletmag.com, reprinted with permission. Introduction by Margaret Schreiber, LIFE & LEGACY coordinator in Ann Arbor: y daughter Julia was born in 2005, who failed at many early ventures, a Jew who ing Jewish library in our home. And no one is graphic novels, fiction, biographies, and non- the same year that Harold Grinspoon doesn’t regularly attend shul, and a dyslexic asking me for money for it. It’s revolutionary. fiction until they are bar or bat mitzvah age. Mrolled out the PJ Library program. who runs the world’s largest Jewish book pro- Also, it’s nonjudgmental. You say you’re Jew- Most of the books come from commer- When Julia enrolled in a Jewish preschool two gram. cial publishers and aren’t necessarily ex- years later, it was such a thrill for her to receive “I chuckle about it all the time,” he told plicitly Jewish. PJ Library adds material on books in the mail from PJ Library. My entire Tablet recently in an email. “I was the kid who the flaps to draw out Jewish themes and to family loved reading these stories together! Julia struggled with reading and spelling, but I have direct families to additional resources and is now 15 years old, and we have since moved always loved stories. When I thought about activities. PJ Library also has its own im- to Ann Arbor. During that time, Harold Grin- the power of stories and conversation to pass print, which has produced 22 titles to date, spoon developed another amazing program, on the richness of Jewish life, and I discovered with 10 more planned for the coming year. called LIFE & LEGACY. Ann Arbor applied that there were beautiful Jewish children’s Providing these books constitutes outreach and was accepted into the LIFE & LEGACY books on the market, I saw an idea worth of the most subtle and profound kind: the program as part of the eighth cohort, and I was moving forward. If you are entrepreneurial, occasion for a parent to read and speak in- thrilled to begin my job as LIFE & LEGACY you find ways to reach your goals.” timately with her child during the few mo- coordinator this past January. Tammy Dollin, The signature initiative of Grinspoon’s ments of calm before sleep and dreams, to our LIFE & LEGACY consultant from the Har- Agawam, Massachusetts-based foundation, spark the child’s imagination with the spo- old Grinspoon Foundation (HGF), conducted PJ Library, sends more than 650,000 children’s ken word, and to encourage the child to ask a crucial training for 54 team members from books every month in seven languages to questions — the quintessence of Judaism. 11 participating organizations on September 1 families in 27 countries who are raising Jew- In distributing the same stories to all via Zoom. It was a very informative evening, ish children — from Venezuela to Ukraine to Jewish children, no matter where they live, and the program has now officially kicked-off! Australia and South Africa. Many of the fami- in hopes of establishing common bonds, Team participant Barb Banet from the Jewish lies may have only one Jewish parent. They the program buttresses Grinspoon’s abiding Cultural Society read the following article on may live in towns where there are no other hope: “That we can hold different perspec- Harold Grinspoon in Tablet says, “This was Jews. While some families are fully engaged tives and viewpoints, and we can engage “such an interesting article! I really enjoyed in Jewish life, a good number report that PJ with our Judaism differently, but yet re- reading it and learning about the challenges Library is their only Jewish resource. member that we are one people.” Harold Grinspoon faced. It makes participating Eric Robbins, CEO of the Jewish Federa- Born in 1929, Harold Grinspoon grew in one of his Foundation programs even more tion of Greater Atlanta, said: “PJ Library is one up in Auburndale, a village of Newton, meaningful.” I hope you find this piece as infor- of the most innovative and thoughtful ideas ish? Fine, that’s good enough for us.” Massachusetts. He received lessons in anti- mative and enjoyable as both Barb and I did! that the Jewish world has seen. Think of it: A In North America, books go to children semitism wherever he turned — from the Harold Grinspoon, who might just be the gift from the Jewish community is arriving ev- from birth through age eight. At nine years schoolyard bullies who called him a “Christ most important Jewish philanthropist you’ve ery month in my mailbox — with my child’s old, children can join PJ Our Way, where they killer” and “Jew boy,” to the Boy Scout leader never heard of, is a wealthy businessman name on it, a book that is adding to a grow- choose from a selection of chapter books, on whose door hung a sign reading: “No dogs

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20 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2020 or Jews.” His daughter-in-law Winnie Sandler There was one thing he knew: He wanted the books in the market were controversial for gifts today. Why? Because they were asked! Grinspoon said, “He wasn’t from a religious to give back to the Jewish people. one segment of the population or another. In People feel good about finding a place for family, but he knew life would be easier if he “One of the things that is striking about the end, we found an anthologized story that their wealth. That includes current giving as wasn’t a Jew — whatever that was.” Harold is his and the foundation’s abiding be- we turned into a separate picture book — The well as after-lifetime giving. We all appreciate Being Jewish wasn’t his only problem. “I lief that there is one Jewish people,” said Rabbi Missing Spice, about the specialness of Shab- knowing our legacy will live on long after we was a dysfunctional child,” he recalled in his Ethan Tucker, president and rosh yeshiva at bat — which left the door open for families are g on e .” laconic Boston accent in the video. “My poor the Hadar Institute. “And that in some basic to talk about what made Shabbat special for Grinspoon brought Litman over to HGF, mum. I can’t spell today and I never could sense everyone has to find a way to be con- them.” and in 2010, with her model, set up the new spell. So she took me to spelling lessons, nected to one another and to work together Sifriyat Pijama is also engaged in an effort national initiative that became LIFE & LEG- speech lessons, posture lessons. I still can’t toward a shared future. Look at PJ Library — to reissue classic children’s books written by ACY. Grinspoon only regrets he didn’t do spell. And I had psychological problems.” He the basic claim is that every household with a the country’s founding fathers and mothers. it earlier. He feels if he had established the had the distinction of being the only Jewish Jewish child should be engaging with a shared “One of the things that is fascinating about Is- program 20 to 30 years ago, “the Jewish day student in the vocational track at Newton canon. That is not only an ambition to scale a raeli children’s literature,” says Vromen, is that schools would be in a completely different po- High School. project, that is a statement of values.” “all the great writers wrote for children, too. sition because they would have wealth.” Jews “It all started because I was born a lefty,” he The idea for the books came to him in the It was part of the revitalization of the Hebrew have long left bequests to hospitals, universi- explained. “And in those days, as a Jewish kid, mid-2000s at the Seder table of his eldest son language. Walt Whitman never wrote for ties, and charities, in part because they have for some reason, you couldn’t be a lefty. So my and daughter-in-law, Winnie. When Win- children, but Leah Goldberg did, and David been aggressively courted. But Jewish insti- mother made me a righty.” This led to frustra- nie handed out books from the Israel Book Grossman does, and so do Edgar Keret and tutions haven’t been as well organized. Now, tion, anger, learning problems, and psycho- Store in Brookline, Massachusetts, as afiko- Meir Shalev. We see those stories as part of the Grinspoon’s LIFE & LEGACY offers training, logical issues. Pediatricians today discourage man prizes, Harold was struck by the enthusi- foundational stories of Israel. We talk about support, and monetary incentives to motivate changing the natural handedness of children; asm with which his grandchildren embraced Israeli Jewish cultural heritage.” HGF’s man- Jewish organizations to secure “after-lifetime research has also shown it can lead to learning them. Winnie remembers she bought her son date to create common ground also reaches to commitments.” LIFE & LEGACY has 63 part- and behavioral problems, and also permanent a book about the first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Israel’s Arab children; 20 books are common ner communities that work with a combined brain changes. His self-professed inferiority Ramon, and her daughter a book about a little to the Arab and Jewish programs. 700 organizations. In 10 years, it has secured complex was exacerbated by the fact his older girl who had immigrated to America. PJ Library expands its reach in the United $1 billion in legacy commitments, mostly brother Lester — who died last month at age Harold asked Winnie all kinds of ques- States through its partner organizations, like through small and medium-size donations. If 92 — was “a genius” who became a psychia- tions: “Do they like getting books? Are there JCCs and Jewish Federations, which sponsor people donate to their alma maters, why not to trist after attending Harvard Medical School. other Jewish books? Where do you get them?” over 3,000 PJ Library events in North America their beloved Jewish day camps? The only way Harold felt he could distin- A week or so later, Harold asked Winnie to every year, further engaging families in Jew- Still energetic — a tall, lanky man, he is an guish himself was by making money, a talent buy him $500 worth of similar volumes. “I ish life. And PJ Library now includes multiple active swimmer, hiker, and whitewater raf- that manifested itself when as a boy he suc- brought them over to their house,” says Win- book titles by Israeli authors so that American ter — Grinspoon took up sculpting six years cessfully sold vegetables and eggs for his fa- nie, “and he and Diane read them all.” children can read Israeli stories, too. ago. He searches out dead, leafless trunks of ther and aunt. At Marlboro College, which Around the same time, Harold happened “Books are the core of our universe,” says trees from the woods, quarters them, refin- he attended for a couple years, he bought an to hear about Dolly Parton’s Imagination Li- Winnie, but Harold also has other passions, ishes or paints the boughs, and reconstitutes old Maytag wringer washing machine and, he brary on NPR and became a local funding among them Jewish overnight camps and the large-scale structures in his own way. He said, “put a 25-cent coin slot onto it. I didn’t partner. In 2005, he created PJ Library, using public art. JCamp180 provides day-to-day then places the sculpture back on its feet in pay for the hot water, I didn’t pay for the elec- Parton’s partnering model. Today, PJ Library leadership to a select group of not-for-profit nature for a second life. One might say the tricity. I just got the quarters. And that was the in the U.S. has 200 local partners who help Jewish camps to help make them stronger, or- genius of his endeavors — the renovated beginning of my entrepreneurship.” the program reach families, pay for the books, ganizationally and financially. Approximately apartment complexes, the creation of a com- “Not having any money growing up,” he and provide additional programming. “We 60,000 children and young adults attend these mon library for unaffiliated Jewish families, said, “I had a respect for wealth.” His father like to say it costs a lot to be this free,” says camps during a regular summer. (HGF re- the development of permanent funding died at 51, leaving four children behind, in- Winnie, who serves as president of the HGF cently gave a $10 million emergency infusion mechanisms for institutions in need, the cluding 19-year-old Harold. After a variety and a member of the board. to aid JCamp 180 member camps affected by resurrected trees — has been to heal what of efforts, some successful, many not, at 30 PJ Library also has an Israeli arm, called COVID-19.) was once sundered — in himself as much as years old, he bought a multifamily house, Sifriyat Pijama, launched in 2009, which op- Grinspoon is also dedicated to helping among his people. fixed it up, and rented it. Then he bought erates in conjunction with the Israeli Ministry Jewish institutions shore up their financial As he reflects on his long journey in his another, and the company he created, Aspen of Education. In partnership with the Edu- health. He realized with distress that the video, Grinspoon smiles his boyish smile, Square, is now one of the top 50 privately cation Ministry and Price Philanthropies of American Jewish community was missing out eyes flashing: “I love being a philanthropist.” held property investment and management San Diego, HGF also runs a version for Arab on the largest transfer of wealth in history, a Emily Benedek has written for Rolling firms in the U.S. Basically, the company buys Israeli children called Maktabat al Fanoos treasure that Paul Schervish, director of the Stone, The New York Times, Newsweek, The derelict apartment complexes and rebuilds (Lantern Library), which is the largest Arabic Center for Wealth and Philanthropy at Bos- Washington Post, and Mosaic, among other them, turning them into attractive, well- book gifting program in the world. In Israel ton College, estimates to be at least $41 tril- publications. She is the author of five books. n built, successful properties. As he put it, and abroad, the books are given out in school, lion, which the Baby Boomers will pass on to “buying someone else’s mismanagement and and then later, taken home. their heirs and beneficiaries until 2052. At a repositioning them.” Last year, HGF distributed books to conference many years ago, Harold learned of After a bout with tongue cancer 25 years 400,000 Israeli children in Hebrew and an interesting program to encourage people ago, Grinspoon began to think about his 190,000 in Arabic. To date the two programs to make bequests to their favorite Jewish or- legacy: “I couldn’t just die as the guy mak- have given 23 million books to more than 1.25 ganizations. ing money. That was debasing, I thought.” million children. Just as the same Torah por- “The insight into a legacy giving cam- He planned to leave his fortune, estimated at tion is read every week in shuls around the paign,” Grinspoon explained to Tablet, $500 million, for others to manage as they world, so all of Israel’s Jewish children of the “came from two amazing women, Gail Lit- saw fit, but his third wife, Diane Troderman, same age group in public school receive the man [z”l] and Marjory Kaplan, who devel- friend Rabbi Yitz Greenberg, and business same books. Although the program is wildly oped a strategy for training and incentivizing partner Jeremy Pava encouraged him to lay successful, nothing in Israel is easy — when organizations to prioritize legacy conversa- the groundwork for his foundation and its choosing books, they must consider, are the tions in the San Diego Jewish community.” goals. He realized, “People with wealth have clothes in the illustrations modest enough for Grinspoon says it took him some time to to find a home for their wealth — where they a religious family? Will a secular family be put appreciate the plan’s power, but once he did, feel good about giving and what’s meaning- off by a religious theme? he was all in. “If we help organizations see ful to them.” Galina Vromen, head of HGF operations the merit of prioritizing endowments, and if And so he got to work, using his status as in Israel, said, “It took five years before we we use a gentle approach and some financial an outsider to ask questions, energizing the found a story on Shabbat that both conveyed incentives to get organizations to actually creativity of a natural lefty to think outside the the spirit of Shabbat and was suitable for the do the work of asking supporters for legacy box, all the while motivated by the childlike wide spectrum of families we serve. The most gifts to build endowments, we can help se- sense of wonder he still retains. And, crucial common theme of Shabbat books was ‘let cure a stronger future,” he explained. “And to his strengths, he is unafraid to abandon your parents sleep,’ which was not the mes- many people who are asked for a legacy gift what is unsuccessful. sage we wanted to convey. Most of the rest of not only say yes, but they also make cash Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2020 21 I Calendar

Opening Function - Virtual Hugs: Women of Tem- Friday 16 Biblical Book Club: TBE. Cantor Hayut leads dis- October 2020 ple Beth Emeth Membership, 7:45 to 9:00p.m. cussion. 3 p.m. Talmud–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. 8 p.m.. Candle Lighting 6:30p.m. The Calendar has been updated to reflect Monday 26 Friday 9 Bereshit Lunch and Learn: TBE. Zoom. Rabbi events that are happening only online. Whinston meets on Fridays for an informal discus- Talmud Study with Rabbi Dobrusin. BIC. 3:30p.m. Always check websites or call for updates sion about religion. Noon–1 p.m. before planning to attend anything listed Sukkot, Candle Lighting 6:41p.m. Adult B’nai Mitzvah Class: TBE. 6 p.m. Lunch and Learn: TBE. Zoom. Rabbi Whinston Saturday 17 Women’s Torah Study: TBE. Zoom.. For questions, here. For prayer services, check congrega- meets on Fridays for an informal discussion tion websites. contact Cantor Regina Hayut at cantorhayut@ about religion. Noon–1 p.m. Havdallah 7:28p.m. templebethemeth.org. 7 p.m. Shemeni Atzeret dancing with Torah: Chabad. Af- Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. Weekly discussion of the Thursday 1 ter services. Torah portion led by Rabbi Whinston 8:50-9:50 Tuesday 27 a.m. Walking Club: WTBE. 9a.m. Saturday 10 Talmud Tuesdays w/ Rabbi Alter: TBE. 11a.m. and Biblical Book Club: TBE. Cantor Hayut leads dis- Sunday 18 8 p.m. cussion. 11 a.m. Havdallah 7:39p.m. Tea and Torah on Tuesday–for Women: Chabad. 8 Jewish Meditation: TBE. Zoom. 1 p.m. Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. Weekly discussion of the Rosh Hodesh Cheshvan p.m. Torah portion led by Rabbi Whinston 8:50-9:50 a.m. Pirke Avot with Rabbi Dobrusin: BIC. 5p.m. Rosh Hodesh Virtual Minyan: Pardes Hannah. Musical Simchat Torah: BIC. 7p.m. 10a.m. Put together a Lulav: Chabad. 6:30p.m. Wednesday 28 Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into the Talmud–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. 8 p.m.. Sunday 11 basic text of Chassidim and discover the beauty Together and Apart: The Future of Jewish People- Friday 2 and depth of Judaism. 11a.m.- noon. hood: TBE. Adult Education with Rabbi Whin- Simchat Torah Biblical Book Club: TBE. Cantor Hayut leads dis- ston .1 p.m. Biblical Book Club: TBE. Cantor Hayut leads dis- cussion. 3 p.m. Voices of Jewish Women with Professor Elisheva Erev Sukkot, Candle Lighting 6:53p.m. cussion. 3 p.m. Lunch and Learn: TBE. Zoom. Rabbi Whinston Rosh Hodesh Women’s Circle: Pardes Hannah. Carlebach: Frankel Center. In partnership with meets on Fridays for an informal discussion Monday 12 7p.m. the Posen Library. 4p.m. about religion. Noon–1 p.m. Monday 19 Meditation with Claire Weiner: TBE. 5 p.m. Saturday 3 Historical Novel Reading Group: WTBE. Geraldine Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. Weekly discussion of the Brooks, Caleb’s Crossing., Contact Molly Lind- Torah portion 7 p.m. ner, [email protected]. 12:30 p.m. Rosh Hodesh Cheshvan Theology Book Club: BIC. Online 8 p.m. Sukkot, Havdallah 7:51p.m. Talmud Study with Rabbi Dobrusin. BIC. 3:30p.m. Talmud Study with Rabbi Dobrusin. BIC. 3:30p.m. Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. Weekly discussion of the To- Adult B’nai Mitzvah Class: TBE. 6 p.m. Thursday 29 Adult B’nai Mitzvah Class: TBE. 6 p.m. rah portion led by Rabbi Whinston 8:50-9:50 a.m. Women’s Torah Study: TBE. Zoom.. For questions, Sunday 4 Fiber Arts: WTBE. 7 p.m. contact Cantor Regina Hayut at cantorhayut@ Biblical Book Club: TBE. Cantor Hayut leads dis- Women’s Torah Study: TBE. Zoom.. For questions, templebethemeth.org. 7 p.m. cussion. 11 a.m. contact Cantor Regina Hayut at cantorhayut@ Meditation with Linda Greene: TBE. Zoom. 1 p.m. Sukkot templebethemeth.org. 7 p.m. Tuesday 20 Zohar Study in a Virtual Sukkah: Pardes Hannah. Pirke Avot with Rabbi Dobrusin: BIC. 5p.m. 11a.m. Tuesday 13 Talmud Tuesdays w/ Rabbi Alter: TBE. 11a.m. and Arts Around Town: Art Talks with Wendy Evans: Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into the 8 p.m. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Women in Art JCC. 7p.m. basic text of Chassidim and discover the beauty Talmud Tuesdays w/ Rabbi Alter: TBE. 11a.m. and Translating the Sacred Word: Frankel Center. With and depth of Judaism. 11 a.m.- noon. 8 p.m. Aviya Kushner, Author and Language Columnist Talmud–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. 8 p.m.. AARC Book Club. 1946 book by Viktor Frankl, Free Seating: How an Overcrowded Detroit Syna- at The Forward. Go to lsa.umich.edu/judaic for Man’s Search for Meaning. Email Greg Saltzman, gogue Transformed American Judaism, A Lec- more information. 2p.m. Friday 30 [email protected] for info, 1-2:30p.m. ture by Dr. Jonathan Sarna: Jewish Historical So- Tea and Torah on Tuesday–for Women: Chabad. 8 Biblical Book Club: TBE. Cantor Hayut leads dis- ciety of Michigan. Via Zoom, JHSM members: p.m. Candle Lighting 6:09 p.m. Lech Lecha cussion. 3 p.m. $10, Non-members: $18, info@michjewishhis- Lunch and Learn: TBE. Zoom. Rabbi Whinston tory.org or call 248-915-1826 to register. 2p.m. Wednesday 21 meets on Fridays for an informal discussion Monday 5 Spirituality Book Club with Cantor Annie Rose: about religion. Noon–1 p.m. TBE. Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spiritu- Together and Apart: The Future of Jewish People- Sukkot ality, and a Deeper Connection to Life In Juda- hood: TBE. Adult Education with Rabbi Whin- Saturday 31 Talmud Study with Rabbi Dobrusin. BIC. 3:30p.m. ism by Sarah Hurwitz. 7:30p.m. ston .1 p.m. Adult B’nai Mitzvah Class: TBE. 6 p.m. Tea and Torah on Tuesday–for Women: Chabad. 8 Meditation with Claire Weiner: TBE. 5 p.m. p.m. See first Tuesday of month. Havdallah 7:09p.m. WTBE Fiber Arts. 7 p.m. Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. Weekly discussion of the Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. Weekly discussion of the Women’s Torah Study: TBE. Zoom.. For questions, Wednesday 14 Torah portion 7 p.m. Torah portion led by Rabbi Whinston 8:50-9:50 contact Cantor Regina Hayut at cantorhayut@ Theology Book Club: BIC. Online 8 p.m. a.m. templebethemeth.org. 7 p.m. Together and Apart: The Future of Jewish People- Thursday 22 Phone numbers, websites and addresses of orga- Tuesday 6 hood: TBE. Adult Education with Rabbi Whin- ston .1 p.m. nizations frequently listed in the calendar: Biblical Book Club: TBE. Cantor Hayut leads dis- Meditation with Claire Weiner: TBE. 5 p.m. Sukkot cussion. 11 a.m. Ann Arbor Orthodox Minyan (AAOM): 1429 Hill Talmud Tuesdays w/ Rabbi Alter: TBE. 11a.m. and Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. Weekly discussion of the Meditation with Linda Greene: TBE. Zoom. 1 p.m. Street, 248-408-3269, annarborminyan.org 8 p.m. Torah portion 7 p.m. Pirke Avot with Rabbi Dobrusin: BIC. 5p.m. Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Congrega- Tea and Torah on Tuesday–for Women: Chabad. 8 Theology Book Club: BIC. Online 8 p.m. Arts Around Town: Art Talks with Wendy Evans: tion (AARC): 2935 Birch Hollow Drive, p.m. Thursday 15 Musée de Louvre, Paris JCC. 7p.m. 734.445.1910, aarecon.org Wednesday 7 Talmud–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. 8 p.m.. Beth Israel Congregation (BIC): 2000 Washtenaw Meditation with Linda Greene: TBE. Zoom. 1 p.m. Friday 23 Ave, 734-665-9897, bethisrael-aa.org Sukkot Biblical Book Club: TBE. Cantor Hayut leads dis- Chabad House: 715 Hill Street, 734-995-3276, jew- A Taste of Age-ing to Sage-ing: Re-envisioning El- cussion. 11 a.m. mich.com derhood: Pardes Hannah. Noon to 1:30 p.m.. Spirituality Book Club with Cantor Annie Rose: Candle Lighting 6:19p.m. Noach Jewish Community Center (JCC): 2935 Birch Hol- Together and Apart: The Future of Jewish People- TBE. Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spiritu- Lunch and Learn: TBE. Zoom. Rabbi Whinston low Drive, 745-971-0990, jccannarbor.org hood: TBE. Adult Education with Rabbi Whin- ality, and a Deeper Connection to Life In Juda- meets on Fridays for an informal discussion ston .1 p.m. ism by Sarah Hurwitz. Noon. about religion. Noon–1 p.m. Jewish Cultural Society (JCS): 2935 Birch Hollow Meditation with Claire Weiner: TBE. 5 p.m. Between the World Wars: Great Creativity And Saturday 24 Drive, 734-975-9872, jewishculturalsociety.org Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. Weekly discussion of the Growing Crisis: Frankel Center. In partnership Jewish Family Services (JFS): 2245 South State Torah portion 7 p.m. with the Posen Library, Todd M. Endelman, Zvi Street, 734-769-0209, jfsannarbor.org Theology Book Club: BIC. Online. 8 p.m. Gitelman,aAnd Deborah Dash Moore will dis- Havdallah 7:18p.m. cuss their new book. 4p.m. Jewish Federation: 2939 Birch Hollow Drive, 734- Torah Study: TBE. Zoom. Weekly discussion of the 677-0100, jewishannarbor.org Thursday 8, Pirke Avot with Rabbi Dobrusin: BIC. 5p.m. Torah portion led by Rabbi Whinston 8:50-9:50 Pardes Hannah: 2010 Washtenaw Ave, 734-761- Arts Around Town: Art Talks with Wendy Evans: a.m. 5324, pardeshannah.org Sukkot JCC. How to Look at Art with the Eyes of an Art- Artemisia Vocal Trio Concert: WTBE. 7:30p.m. Biblical Book Club: TBE. Cantor Hayut leads dis- ist. 7p.m. Temple Beth Emeth (TBE): 2309 Packard Road, 734-665-4744, templebethemeth.org cussion. 11 a.m. Talmud–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. 8 p.m.. Sunday 25 Jewish Meditation with Linda Greene: TBE. Zoom. UM Hillel: 1429 Hill Street 734-769-0500, michi- 1 p.m. Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into the ganhillel.org Pirke Avot with Rabbi Dobrusin: BIC. 5p.m. basic text of Chassidim and discover the beauty and depth of Judaism. 11a.m.- noon. 22 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2020 I Community

October events with BIC Online Services at 9:30 a.m. Wednesdays at 8 p.m. Avot. While the title is usually translated as Everyone is welcome to join Beth Israel Congre- Join Beth Israel for the celebration of Sukkot. Beth Israel Congregation’s Theology Book “Teachings of the Sages,” a more interest- gation for services, classes, and events, all virtual. The lulav and etrog will be used during these Club welcomes you to join them to read to- ing translation is “Chapters of Fundamental Below is a list of the links to participate in servic- services. For more details about other events gether and discuss books on Jewish thought Principles.” Pirkei Avot consists of short rab- es at Beth Israel. Beth Israel is now livestream- on these holidays, please refer to the calendar and beliefs. The books are in English. Contact binic statements concerning ethics, faith, and ing services on the Beth Israel YouTube channel at www.bethisrael-aa.org. Paul Shifrin at 248-514-7276 for more infor- interpersonal relationships. Reading Pirkei mation. Avot helps us focus on the values and prin- (Beth Israel Congregation AA MI). All links Shemini Atzeret and Musical Simchat Torah ciples that guide our lives. We will study the will also be available on the Beth Israel homep- Saturday, October 10, at 9:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Talmud Study with Rabbi Dobrusin text in English, referring occasionally to the age (www.bethisrael-aa.org). Please note that Shemini Atzeret services will be held begin- Mondays at 3:30 p.m. Hebrew. The text can be found in the Shabbat passwords are used. Contact the office to get the ning at 9:30 a.m. At 7 p.m. Join Beth Israel for Rabbi Dobrusin will be facilitating a Talmud passwords at [email protected]. a musical Simchat Torah via Zoom. Watch for class online on Monday afternoons from morning Sim Shalom siddur. Evening Minyan more details soon. 3:30-4:30. While we will read the Hebrew/ Tot Shabbat with the Caine Family Aramaic text, translations are available and Sunday–Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 16 and 30, at 5:30 p.m. The Bible Players are Coming! all discussions will be in English. All are wel- Join Rav Nadav, Lynne, Merav, and Ziva for Friday Evening Servicesabbalat Watch for more details of a special children’s come to join regardless of the level of your Kabbalat Tot Shabbat by Zoom! Bring in Shabbat Service at 6 p.m. familiarity with Hebrew. event featuring The Bible Players. Shabbat with music, dancing, candle lighting, Shabbat Morning Services Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Pirke Avot: Teachings of the Sages and kiddush. Invite your friends! If you are Classes and Groups Thursdays at 5 p.m. new to the program and have not received Sukkot Services Theology Book Club Rabbi Dobrusin will facilitate Zoom discus- your special Tot Shabbat bag, contact Sam at Saturday, October 3, and Sunday, October 4, sions on the classic Rabbinic text: Pirkei [email protected]. n Jewish philanthropist Susan Sandler is

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Tishrei Exposed Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, special to the WJN n Friday night October 2, we start with awe, and the second half with joy. The while they were in the desert. This is really resented in this week of happiness. So if we the holiday of Sukkot. To have an truth is whatever we have done during Rosh what Sukkot is all about. In the sukkah, we are happy in these seven days, then we’ll be O appreciation of what Sukkot is all Hashanah and into Yom Kippur in awe is re- look up and the sechach is supposed to re- happy throughout the year on every day, as about, let’s look at the month of Tishrei (the vealed in the holiday of Sukkot in the form mind us of the way God sheltered and pro- a result of this complete week of happiness. first month of the Jewish calendar). We see that of happiness. More specifically, we see Rosh tected us in the desert when we left Egypt. So Meaning that the Sunday of Sukkot will give Tishrei is divided into two parts. The first part of Hashanah and the 10 days of Teshuva and here we see a direct connection of Yom Kip- happiness to all Sundays, etc. the month is Rosh Ha- Yom Kippur reflect in Sukkot. How does pur, burning the incense, creating the cloud So this is the connection of the holiday shanah, the beginning that work? in the Holy of Holies that represented God’s of the first half of Tishrei, Rosh Hashanah of the new year. Then Let’s look at Rosh Hashanah first. The protection. Symmetrically speaking, we have and Yom Kippur, to Sukkot: that whatever is we have Yom Kippur main mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah is the the 10 days of teshuva, 10 days of repentance done in the High Holy days of Rosh Hasha- 10 days later. These sounding of the shofar. How many “toots” that start out with two days of Rosh Hasha- nah and Yom Kippur is reflected in Sukkot, two holidays comprise do we have to sound? It has to be 100. The nah and end with one day of Yom Kippur. but in the form of Simcha — we add as joy roughly the first half of hundred is broken down into 60 tekiah, the So between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kip- that happens during the holiday of Sukkot. the month of Tishrei. plain sound; 20 sfarim, the broken sound; pur we have seven days — a complete week. Being happy on those seven days will help The main way we serve and 20 teruah toots. This fits right into Suk- The week repeats twice, the first in the way of throughout the year so we should be able to Hashem during this kot. Why? When you have a Sukkah, what is teshuva — that’s called 10 days of teshuva, of serve God with joy. This joy that we have dur- time is through awe. the main part of it? It is the covering called Repentance — with seven days of repentance ing Sukkot should not only be a spiritual joy, We ask for forgiveness sechach. In Judaism the letters of the aleph separate from Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kip- but should also be a physical joy. It should for our past misdeeds and make resolutions bet also have numerical values. So if we take pur. Then on Sukkot, we have a second week, permeate all the way down to physical en- for improvements in the future. This happens the numerical value of the word for the cov- with seven days of happiness during the holi- joyment. That’s why, according to Jewish law, through teshuva (repentance), in which we sub- ering, sechach, it adds up to 100 — the re- day. So, just as between Rosh Hashanah and on the holiday of Sukkot we have to express jugate ourselves to God. This is all done in the quired number of shofar sounds! Not only Yom Kippur we have a complete week of happiness in physical things. As the Rabbis first half of the month of Tishrei. are the shofar “toots” related to the Sukkot doing teshuva, this time we have a complete say, true happiness comes from eating meat The second half of the month is the op- roof covering numerically, but also symboli- week of being happy. That is the complete and drinking wine — or whatever physical posite; the emphasis is on happiness. The cally — as we shall see. That’s for Rosh Ha- week of Sukkot. form makes you happy. When we have this Torah tells us that during the time of Suk- shanah — let’s now look at Yom Kippur. Another thing about these days between happiness in the holiday of Sukkot, then this kot it has to be v’samachta, b’chagecha. We On Yom Kippur the main service in the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is that we happiness goes to our life throughout the en- should rejoice in our holidays and only be Holy Temple was the High Priest going into are supposed to spend a complete week to tire year, in which we should be fully happy happy. This includes the happiness of when the Holy of Holies and burning the incense. correct the past year. Sunday of that week — God willing, Amen! n they drew the water in Jerusalem and poured The teachings of Chassidus explain that the corrects all previous Sundays of that year, it on the holy altar, culminating in the hap- smoke of the incense went up to the ceiling etc. During the holiday of Sukkot, we have piness of Simchas Torah at the end of the of the inner chamber and covered it. Because the seven days of happiness, which are sup- month of Tishrei. So we notice the symme- of this, the Jewish people merited the clouds posed to give us and supply the year with try of the month, the first half serving God of glory surrounding and protecting them happiness that every day of the year is rep-

Unity on Sukkot

Rabbi Jared Anstandig, special to the WJN recent in origin. In fact, it is found nowhere Indeed, as the result of Rabbi Recanti’s but no taste, represents those who have good n Sukkot, which begins on the in the Torah and nowhere in the Talmud or its dream, Rabbi Karo rules that we ought to deeds, but no Torah study. And finally, the evening of October 2, we say that commentaries. Rabbi Karo dates the earliest combine all four species together to fulfil the arava, lacking both taste and smell, reflects O we shake the lulav, but that is not recording of this practice to the 13th century, mitzva of shaking the lulav. those who have neither Torah study nor good quite precise. After all, what we oftentimes quoting the following story told by Rabbi Me- What do we make of this dream? Is there deeds. When we take all four plants together, call the lulav is not nachem Recanti (13th century, Italy): a deeper significance to the comparison of it is equivalent to bringing these four types just a lula(a palm On the first night of Sukkot, I hosted an incomplete lulav bundle to an incom- of Jews together. This Midrash can illumi- frond) but a bundle a certain German guest named Rabbi plete name of God? The Midrash (Bemidbar nate the meaning of Recanti’s dream. When also containing ha- Yitzchak. In a dream that night, I saw this 30:12) suggests that the four species repre- we, as a people, are separated and unwill- das (myrtle) and guest writing the four-letter name of God, sent various types of Jews: The etrog, with ing to work together, God, as it were, is in- arava (willow). And, known as the Tetragrammaton. But, when a taste and smell, represents those who have complete. But, when we do come together, of course, we cannot he wrote the four letters, he spaced the final studied Torah and have performed many from the etrogim to the aravot among us, that forget the etrog (cit- letter far apart from the preceding letters. good deeds. The lulav has a taste but no brings unity to our people, and completion to ron) that is also held When I asked him why, he responded that smell, reflecting those who have Torah, but God. May this new year of 5781 be a year of n along with this lulav such was the practice in his hometown. I no good deeds. The hadas, having a smell togetherness and unity for us all. bundle. Part of the immediately erased and rewrote the name mitzva of lulav as we with the final letter closer to the rest. When know it today is that I awoke, I was confused by the meaning we take all four of these species, the three- of the dream until the next morning when part lulav bundle and the etrog, and we shake I saw this very same guest shaking the lu- them all together. lav but holding the etrog far apart from the This wasn’t always the case. Rabbi Yosef other three species. At this point I under- Karo (15th century, Israel) in his work Beit Yo- stood that just as God’s name must be writ- Wishing everyone health and sef (Orach Chaim 551:11) notes that this con- ten with all letters together, so too all the cept of shaking all four together is relatively species must be shaken together. safety in the new year THE DORFMAN CHAPEL Serving with Dignity, Sanctity, and Compassion Directors: Alan Dorfman & Jonathan Dorfman Ron & Lonnie Sussman Providing professional and personal Funeral arrangements to the Jewish Community Now serving Ann Arbor and the surrounding communities W. 12 Mile Rd. • Farmington Hills 248-406-6000 • www.thedorfmanchapel.com 24 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2020 I Obituary

The dean Of America’s intellectual pro-Israel defenders has died By Moshe Phillips Edward Alexander, the Jewish an author using the pseudonymous byline Alexander was unfazed by the enemies he During the Q&A, the chairman of the scholar and author who passed away August “Jeremiah.” Three young professors at the made while defending the Jewish state in pe- event invited Alexander, who was in the au- 22 at age 84, was called “Seattle’s Jeremiah” University of Washington took turns ghost- riodicals around the world, starting with the dience, to offer a brief comment. Alexander by his hometown newspaper. An Israeli pub- writing the weekly installments: Alexander, Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Com- later described what ensued: lication once hailed him as “Jewry’s premier historian Robert Loewenberg, and religious mittee (ADC). The ADC called Alexander “Even before I reached the floor micro- polemicist.” For more than half a century, studies professor Deborah Lipstadt. “the intellectual hit man for the Israeli right phone, Lerner began bellowing into his mi- Alexander fought for Israel and the Jewish An introductory note appended to the wing” after he wrote an essay in Commentary crophone that he wouldn’t stand for this, that people in the trenches of the battlefield of first From the Pit column explained the sig- in 1989 exposing the pro-terrorist positions it violated the ‘rules of the discussion.’ . . . Ev- ideas. nificance of the name: “Jeremiah, who proph- taken by Edward Said, who was then a rising ery time I tried, Lerner would raise his voice Alexander grew up in the heavily Jewish esied in the period immediately prior to the young star in the academic world. to interrupt. When I said that ‘it’s clear Mr. Brownsville section of Brooklyn. The “most destruction of the First Temple . . . sought ADC president Abdeen Jabara tried to or- Lerner hasn’t forgotten the tactics he learned vivid and satisfying memory” of his child- to impress upon the Jews that their neigh- chestrate a counterstrike against Alexander in the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley,’ all hood occurred in May 1948, when he was bors wished to destroy them,” the editors by mobilizing academics to write ostensibly hell broke loose. . . . Bedlam continued for 15 11 years old. It involved Brooklyn Dodgers explained. “His countrymen refused to act to independent letters to the editor of Commen- to 20 minutes.” When the next questioner crit- star Jackie Robinson, who he and his boy- stave off this danger. They chose, instead, to tary. Jabara sent a form letter to numerous icized Lerner, he “rose in a rage and stormed hood pals regarded as “the greatest man in silence Jeremiah by flinging him into a pit.” professors, alerting them about Alexander’s out of the hall.” the world, and David Ben-Gurion who was Alexander, Lipstadt, and Loewenberg took critique of Said and imploring them. “It is A new battle “a close second to Robinson in our esteem.” upon themselves the task of trying to awaken important that Commentary receive feedback A star in the field of English literature stud- “These two heroic figures came together their readers regarding the threats facing Jews in response to this unconscionable piece. . . . ies, Alexander was repeatedly invited to serve for me almost magically when I heard Rob- on campus, in the community, and beyond. The most effective response is to ensure that as a visiting professor at Hebrew University. inson address a block party to celebrate Is- Their hard-hitting columns make for espe- individuals with professional credentials such He and Leah lived in Jerusalem for a number rael’s independence,” Alexander recalled. cially fascinating reading today, because they as yours respond directly to the magazine.” of years, and their home became the center “I consider myself lucky,” he wrote, show how little has changed. Topics included Letters responding to Alexander’s article of a group of influential Zionist intellectuals. “never to have been disillusioned about what anti-Zionism on the University of Washing- filled twelve pages in a subsequent issue of Alexander was particularly close to Shmuel my parents taught me: that both men sym- ton campus, hostility toward Israel from the Commentary. Katz, the former member of the Irgun High bolized the belated righting of ancient his- political left, and attempts to enforce racial All hell broke loose Command and biographer of Revisionist Zi- torical wrongs, that Robinson was indeed a categories in Seattle’s public schools. Michael Lerner, editor of the left-wing onist leader Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky. uniquely courageous figure and that the birth Some readers appreciated Jeremiah’s magazine Tikkun, accused Alexander of “ver- Although Alexander’s literary scholar- of Israel just a few years after the destruction frankness. Others reacted more like the Jews bal violence” because Alexander uncovered a ship continued over the years, an increasingly of European Jewry was one of the greatest in the days of the original Jeremiah and put series of extreme statements that Lerner made large portion of his time was devoted to what affirmations of life ever made by a martyred pressure on the editors to cancel the column. in the 1960s. Among other things, Lerner had he termed “the Jewish wars.” people . . . “ Eventually, an installment that was going to written, “The Jewish community is racist, in- His books included The Jewish Idea and After earning his bachelor’s degree in strongly criticize the Vatican’s hostility to- ternally corrupt, and an apologist for the worst Its Enemies (1988), With Friends Like These: English literature at Columbia, Alexander ward Israel unnerved the editors so much that aspects of American capitalism and imperial- The Jewish Critics of Israel (1993), The Jew- completed his master’s and Ph.D. at the Uni- they discontinued From the Pit. ism,” and “The synagogue as currently estab- ish Wars: Reflections by One of the Bellig- versity of Minnesota. That was where he met For a time, Alexander, Lipstadt, and lished will have to be smashed.” erents (1996), and Jews Against Themselves his future wife, Leah. She, too, was a scholar Lowenberg continued working together as In response to Alexander’s article, Lerner (2015). Earlier this year, he stood for election of English literature, and her senior thesis on members of the Academic Advisory Com- said that he was sorry he had made those state- as candidate to be a delegate to the World Zi- Henry James was published as a book. Leah mittee of Americans for a Safe Israel (AFSI). ments, but they were part of his “adolescent onist Congress with Herut Zionists, the slate passed away in 2017. Then they went their separate ways. Lipstadt rebellion,” although he was 27 at the time. Le- associated with the activist Zionist ideology In 1960 the young couple settled in Se- launched a career in Holocaust studies, while rner announced he would sue any newspaper of Jabotinsky. It was the first time he was a attle, where Alexander became professor of Lowenberg created a think tank in Israel to that published Alexander’s article. The Jewish Zionist Congress candidate. English at the University of Washington and, promote free enterprise. At the time of his Voice and Opinion of New Jersey published it later, the first chairman of the school’s Jew- death Alexander was serving on AFSI’s five- Moshe Phillips is national director of Herut anyway. Lerner did not sue. ish Studies program. member Advisory Council. Alexander con- North America’s U.S. division; Herut is an Lerner’s anger at Alexander did not quick- Alexander’s academic career began in tinued to fight for Israel at the University of international movement for Zionist pride and ly subside. Three years later, Lerner and Al- conventional fashion, with him teaching Washington and beyond with his most power- education and is dedicated to the ideals of pre- exander were invited to participate in a panel a full load of courses and authoring books ful weapon: his pen. World War II Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky. discussion in New York City about the Israeli- that were well regarded in his field although Herut’s website is www.herutna.org. n Professor of terror Arab conflict. Lerner said he would not par- they did not attract the attention of the wider By the time the Jewish Transcript stopped ticipate if Alexander was included. Alexander public. publishing Alexander, his writings were al- was bumped. He wrote volumes about such noted 18th

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16 17 18 Excerpts from Letters to My Grandchildren: game we enjoyed playing was Choir. I would Childhood Stories, by Marianne Adler Aaron “sing” and Sam would conduct. One day my mother came running into the room because 19 20 21 Behold, I have lived with she heard me screaming at the top of my lungs. “What are you doing to her?” she demanded of 22 23 24 an entire book written within me. Sam. “I’m Mr. Sinzheimer (the choir conduc- Your very teaching is within tor) and she’s supposed to be the choir and I’m 25 26 27 28 the inmost parts of my being. (Psalm 40) telling her to sing louder!” That’s when Sam started his conducting career and I my singing 29 30 31 32 33 “Dear Grandchildren!” That is how every in choirs. chapter of this book originally started when Every Chanukah, my father set up our train 34 35 Marianne Adler Aaron set off to record stories set that went through much of the living room. of her youth through email letters to her six We loved playing with that, but I don’t remem- 36 37 38 39 40 41 grandchildren. Below is letter five, “Games we ber it being up at other times of the year. They played,” in honor of the joys of Sukkot. didn’t have too many children’s story books in 42 43 44 those days, but we did have many of the very Dear Grandchildren, same fairy tales you know today. I never got tired of hearing Snow White or Hansel and 45 46 47 48 I’ve tried very hard to think of the games that we played, but I remember very few. The Gretel. Besides reading these stories to us, my father was an incredible storyteller. He would 49 50 51 52 53 54 only board game I can think of was Mensch, Ärger Dich Nicht!” which literally means, either make up stories or tell us biblical leg- “Man, don’t get mad!” but it is called Sorry ends. We would ask for our favorites over and 55 56 57 here in America. I loved riding my bicycle, but over again. I once had a terrible accident making a U-turn I only remember going to the movies once. 58 59 60 on the street trying to keep up with the boys There was a sign on the movie theater that said, (my brother, his friends, and Karl Pintz, San- “Jews are not welcome,” so you took a chance 61 62 63 dro’s dad, who lived downstairs). There were going in. One day my father took me to see three floors in our building, with two apart- Shirley Temple, who was a big star in Holly- ments on each floor plus rooms on a fourth wood although she was my age. After we came floor for maid’s quarters where our Anna to the United States, when my father found out Across 63. Hatzolah letters lived). that he got the job in Worcester, he treated me 1. Former Concorde fleet Weather permitting, we spent time out- to another movie, and we went to see Shirley 5. Brother of Nadav Down side playing ball and hide and seek, and we Temple in Bluebird of Happiness. I was so sur- 10. Some kosher symbols 1. Mine roof support also went to the Louisenpark, which was just prised that she spoke English, too! (In Germa- around the corner. We weren’t allowed to go ny they had dubbed in the dialogue and I guess 13. Main character in “Groundhog Day” 2. Jewish measurement or class there alone, though, so we had to wait until I didn’t notice.) 14. 2022 World Cup host 3. “Mila 18” or “The Hope”, e.g. Anna or my mother took us. I liked to take my As long as I can remember, I loved to draw 15. HMO alternative 4. Hit with a heavy hammer scooter and Anna would buy us ice cream from and would spend all my spare time drawing 16. Shop follower 5. Al-___, building that stands where a vendor at the park. We also had a porch off pictures. My favorite thing was drawing girls 35-Across once did and dressing them up. I never cared too much 17. What those in the circled letters would the kitchen facing a small backyard that had a bring to the 35-Across, once 6. “Old MacDonald” sounds huge tree, and we would play out there. for dolls, although I once got a beauty for tak- ing my cod liver oil without fussing. I wish that 19. “Lang Syne” preceder 7. Chickenpox symptom In the house, our favorite pretend games were related to going to Temple services. We I had kept it, because it would be worth a lot of 20. Queens stadium name 8. Animal with one kosher sign had a bay window with long curtains in our money now. I guess I was around six when I 21. City across the continent from NY, NY 9. ___ L’Tzedek living room. We would open and close the cur- started piano lessons, but I never enjoyed it as 22. One of the Allman Brothers 10. Morphine and codeine, for two tains, making believe that we were opening and much as I liked singing. I would go along for rehearsals at an early age and I loved listening 24. Cats, south of the border 11. Scanned bar closing the Torah Ark. Then we would make Hakofot around the room (that is, we acted as if to the adult and children’s choirs singing. n 25. “ ___ I saw Elba 12. “___ child could do it” we were carrying the Torah around). The other 27. Many a Miller play 18. Prop in some football games 29. Ibn Shaprut of note 23. Tools for cheese 32. Common suffix on chemical elements 24. Cause of a limp 33. Red or White 26. “Old MacDonald” refrain 34. YU email ender 27. ___ in (score without shooting at basketball) I Advertisers 35. Destination for those in the circled letters during the Three Festivals, once 28. David or Asa, e.g. Alex Milshteyn, Real Estate Associates..... 3 Julie Bedore, Artist...... 15 36. ___ Torah 29. Bulls, rams and bucks 38. Biblical name suffix 30. Unisex Israeli name Ann Arbor District Library...... 27 Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus...... 12 39. Guitar star Paul 31. Yam follower Bank of Ann Arbor...... 27 Modern Mechanical...... 23 42. Ending for ranch or Canyon 37. Boating race Bivouac...... 9 Pam Sjo, The Reinhart Company...... 21 43. “Johnny ___” (children’s book set during 39. Original “SNL” cast member Newman the American Revolution) 40. Early bedtime, perhaps Cantor Samuel Greenbaum; mohel...... 23 People's Food Co-op...... 9 45. Slimy crawlers 41. Annoying bunkmates 48. 1961 British movie monster ala “Godzilla” Dorfman Funeral Home...... 24 Posen Labrary...... 23 44. “___ Flanders” (Defoe novel) 49. Disney lion queen 45. Alternatives to claps Ellanyze.com...... 27 Ron's Glass...... 15 50. Head the pack 46. Undefeated boxer Ali Girraffe Design Build...... 6 Temple Beth Emeth...... 16, 20 54. “If I Were King of the Forest” singer Bert 47. “Funny bone” nerve 55. “Say it ___ so, Joe” Hurwitz-Greene Real Estate Group...... 20 Tracy Van den Bergh,22nd Circuit Court.16 50. They’re needed for blowing shofar 56. One who would party hearty on Sukkot at the 35-Across 51. Uncle of Asher Janet Kelman, Art Glass...... 9 Women of TBE...... 13 52. Ben Canaan and Onassis 58. ___ypus (Aussie animal) Jewish Family Services...... 28 Yuni Aaron...... 16 59. They might be growing 53. Shortened name of one who survived the lion’s den Jewish Federation...... 17 Zemyck Pottery...... 15 60. D.C.-based radio network 57. Rechovot to Jerusalem dir. 61. A Netanyahu Jewish Historical Society of Michigan...... 5 Zingerman's At Home...... 2 62. Fishbein of “Kosher by Design”

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