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October 2017 Tishrei/Cheshvan 5778 Volume XVII Number 2 FREE Chef Einat Admony to present at the Federation’s Main Event 25 Recipes from 25 refugees Ayelet Shapiro, special to the WJN Laurie Cohen, special to the WJN inat Admony has won Chopped! – at “a million venerable kitchens around the imum $100 pledge to the Jewish Federation’s Jewish Family Services has announced a new twice! city,” according to The New Yorker. 2018 Annual Campaign; students and young project — a refugee cookbook tentatively titled Ann Arborites will have an op- Chasnoff is a former IDF Food and Friendship: A Recipe for Humanity. E “The families that we resettle are proud and portunity to hear her stories and see her combat soldier and author prepare a Middle Eastern dessert delicacy at of the comedic memoir The brave people with stories to tell and wonder- the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor’s 188th Crybaby Brigade, ful food to share. We want to highlight them Main Event Monday, November 6, 6 p.m., at about his service in the Is- through this cookbook,” said Fran Martin, Washtenaw Community College, Towsley raeli Army. A Chicago native, committee chair and JFS board member. “Our Auditorium. Admony will join forces with he has performed on stage contributors are real people with real stories.” American-Israeli comedian Joel Chasnoff to and screen in nine countries. The full-color cookbook will feature 25 con- present Belly Laughs, an evening of comedy, Together, Chasnoff and tributors who have been resettled by JFS over stories, inspiration and delicious food. Admony wrote the award- the 25 years since the founding of the agency. The 2017 Main Event co-chairs are Lau- winning cookbook, Bala- Committee members are in the process of in- rie and Jayson Greenberg; and Eva and Ed boosta, featuring Admony’s terviewing a number of refugees from such Solomon. “The Main Event is one of the recipes and anecdotes about countries as Syria, Ethiopia, Iran, Kosovo, and few times a year when so many members of what it takes to make it as an Russia. Each contributor will offer a favorite our community gather together,” said Lau- Israeli chef in New York. Ad- and/or memorable family recipe. The cook- rie Greenberg. “Jayson and I are proud of mony sprinkles her Mizrachi book will also include a short biography for the opportunity to take part in planning this upbringing into many of each person, preparation tips, and recipes will wonderful night of entertainment, story-tell- her dishes at her restaurants be taste-tested in advance. The volunteer com- ing and tzedakah and are excited to see what and those included in Bala- mittee consists of area writers, cooks, editors, and photographers. Joel and Einat have in store for us.” boosta. The recipe included Chef Einat Admony In addition to her Chopped! achieve- at the end of this article fuses To help promote the refugee cookbook, ments, Admony is chef and owner of Bala- a traditional American fall harvest and Suk- adults under the age of 30 will be asked to there will be a series of parlor dinners at volun- boosta, Bar Bolonat and Taïm restaurants in kot favorite, Butternut squash soup, with her make a meaningful pledge to the 2018 An- teers’ homes, tasting dishes from the cookbook. New York City. She grew up outside Tel Aviv flavorful Middle Eastern roots. nual Campaign. A small fee will be charged to cover any costs. and reports having secured illicit rations for Entry to the Main Event is $50/person; To register for the Main Event, visit www. The cookbook will be unveiled at JFS’ 25th her kitchen as a cook in the Israeli Army. Af- entry is free for students and young adults jewishannarbor.org, or call Cindy Adams at Anniversary Gala on May 6, 2018, and will be ter leaving college and traipsing around Ger- under the age of 30. Participants will be (734) 677-0100, ext. 245. available on the JFS website as well as area book- many, she moved to New York and worked asked to support the community with a min- stores. Plans are also in the works to include the continued on page 15 cookbook as part of Jewish book festivals. Authors, artists, and more at 30th Annual Book Festival Karen Freedland, special to the WJN he Jewish Community Center of Great- of Jewish campus life at the time, as well as its re- Prior to the author talk, sponsors will gather for er Ann Arbor will present its annual lationship with the university’s leadership, and dinner with the author; a dessert reception and T “Arts Around Town: Jewish Book and its cultural and political constituencies. Most book signing for all attendees will follow the talk. Arts Festival,” which will bring a series of events of these activities occurred at a time when anti- The next evening, Tuesday, November 2, October 26–November 15 devoted to books, Semitism was rife in the United States, particu- at 7 p.m., Wendy Bice, director of the Jewish art, and aspects of culture on Jewish themes or larly in the larger Detroit area, home to Henry Historical Society of Michigan, will present, by Jewish presenters. Events take place both at Ford and Father Charles Edward Coughlin. A “The History of the Synagogues of Michigan,” the JCC’s building as well as at several venues dessert reception and book signing will follow a visual history of Jewish Michigan, focusing around the area. Markovits’ presentation. on the establishment of synagogues in com- The festival will begin October 26, at 7 p.m. The JCC will host Howard Markel, M.D., munities large and small. Entrance for this with a presentation by Andrei Markovits on his Ph.D., Wednesday, November 1, at 7 p.m. His presentation is $5 per person; refreshments book Hillel At Michigan, 1926/27-1945: Strug- book, The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of will be served. Andrei Maekov gles Of Jewish Identity In A Pivotal Era, which Battle Creek, tells the sweeping saga of two ex- Sunday, November 5, there will be a full day makes the very first in-depth analysis of the founded in 1926 as the fourth campus chapter traordinary men whose lifelong competition of events for audiences of a wide age range. At 10 founding decades of a major Hillel: The Foun- in the United States. Markovits looks at its inter- and enmity toward one another changed Amer- a.m., Linda Grekin will lead children in an ad- dation for Jewish Campus Life chapter in the actions with the then powerful Jewish fraterni- ica’s notion of health and wellness from the venture through nature, including reading na- United States. University of Michigan Hillel was ties and sororities that provided the main locus mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. continued on page 2 ICommunity

JCC Book Festival, continued from page 1 ture stories and engaging in hand-on projects expertise to co-create Zingerman’s Bakehouse: 2935 Birch Hollow Drive to take home. This event is free of charge but The Cookbook. A nut free, dairy lunch will be Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 families are requested to register in advance catered by Zingerman’s and will be available voice: 734/971-1800 to ensure enough materials are available. At 1 by advance purchase e-mail: [email protected] p.m., the festival will host Noam Zion, an au- only for $10/lunch. www.washtenawjewishnews.org thor and longtime Shalom Hartman Institute The Literati Book- research fellow from Jerusalem, Israel, who store is the newest Editor and Publisher will lead the community in a thoughtful and partner, and is co- Susan Kravitz Ayer reflective conversation about the similarities, presenting author Calendar Editor difference, challenges, and legacies of Jewish Nathan Englander at Claire Sandler communities in both North American and Zingerman’s Greyline Advertising Manager

Israel. This special cultural conversation is (100 N. Ashley St.) MEIER JOSHUA CREDIT: PHOTO presented as part of the virtual “Israel Center on Monday, Novem- Gordon White at the J,” funded in part by an Impact Grant, ber 13, at 8:30 p.m., Design and Layout a grant program of the Jewish Federation of where he will discuss Nathan Englander Dennis Platte Greater Ann Arbor. At 3 p.m., photographer his new novel Din- George Levy will present his work during the ner at the Center of the Earth. This compelling Staff Writers opening reception for his exhibition in the political thriller weaves an international cast Lisa Carolin, Emily Slomovits, and Amster Gallery. of characters through the intractable Israeli- Lonnie Sussman In partnership with the Ann Arbor District Palestinian conflict and challenges the notions Contributing Writers Library, the festival will present Alexandra of who is prisoner and who is guard, who is Barb Banet, Laurie Cohen, Rabbi Robert Dobrusin, Zapruder, speaking about her book Twenty- right, and who is wrong. This is a ticketed Eileen Freed, Karen Freedland, Trina Fuller, special Six Seconds, on Tuesday, November 7, at 7 event, and tickets can be purchased by visiting Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, Hugh Goodman, Mimi p.m. at the downtown library branch. The literatibookstore.com/event. Marcus, Carol Milstein, SooJi Min, Jayanthi Reddy, book illuminates the story of her grandfather, The final festival event will be in partner- Kelsey Robinette, Jennifer Rosenberg, Ayelet Shapiro, Abraham Zapruder, a Russian Jewish immi- ship with the Eastern Michigan University Clara Silver, Elliot Sorkin, Paige Walker grant whose footage depicting the JFK assas- Center for Jewish Studies, and will present The Washtenaw Jewish News is published sination is now iconic and forever embedded Rabbi Cappers Funnye Jr. on Wednesday, No- monthly, with the exception of January and in American culture. The first major instance vember 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the EMU Student July. It is registered as a Non-profit Michigan of citizen journalism, his amateur film forced Center auditorium. Rabbi Funnye, who leads Corporation. Opinions expressed in this pub- Zapruder to face unprecedented dilemmas: the largest African American Jewish congrega- lication do not necessarily reflect those of its How to handle his unexpected ownership of tion in the U.S., will present, “The History of editors or staff a vitally important yet unspeakably terrible Black Jews in America.” This event is free of piece of American history? How to aid the U.S. charge. ©2017 by the Washtenaw Jewish News. government and, at the same time, fend off Arts Around Town: Jewish Book and Arts All rights reserved. No portion of the Washtenaw Jewish News may be ­reproduced without th the swarm of reporters grasping to purchase Festival is now in its 30 year, and will again permission of the publisher. the film? How to make the best decisions to include a temporary book and gift store be- Signed letters to the editor are welcome; they should ensure the film was safeguarded—but never tween October 26, and December 15, in the not exceed 400 words. Letters can be emailed to the exploited? There is no charge to attend this atrium and Amster Gallery hallway of the editor at [email protected]. Name will be author talk. Ann Arbor JCC. Proceeds from the sale will withheld at the discretion of the editor. In partnership with the JCC’s monthly support cultural arts programming at the J. “Third Thursday” lunch and learn program, Sponsors of the festival receive passes based Circulation: 5,000 the festival will present Zingerman’s Bake- on giving levels which provide complimen- Subscriptions: house co-owner, Amy Emberling on Thurs- tary access to all events, as well as sponsor only $18 bulk rate inside Washtenaw County day, November 9, at noon. Beginning as a events. For more information or to become a baker, Emberling is now a managing partner at sponsor, visit book.jccannarbor.org or contact The deadline for the November Zingerman’s and has developed some of their Karen Freedland, director of Jewish cultural Washtenaw Jewish News. most loved sweets. She has over 20 years of ex- arts and education, at karenfreedland@jccan- is Friday, October 8, 2017 perience in the food world and has used that narbor.org or (734) 971-0990. n Publication date: October 30 Extra copies of the Washtenaw Jewish News are available at locations throughout Award-winning author Maggie Anton to speak at TBE Washtenaw County. Carol Milstein, special to the WJN Maggie Anton, Talmudic scholar, National Jewish Book Award finalist, and award-winning author of novels about Rashi’s daughters and other medieval women in Talmud, will be at Temple Beth Emeth the weekend of October ton will give a “lighthearted, in-depth tour 27–28. The weekend’s events are sponsored by of sexuality within the Talmud,” when she the TBE Library and Women of TBE group discusses her newest book 50 Shades of Tal- IIn this issue… On Friday evening, after the Shabbat mud. As described on her website, “Come Achat service and a dinner catered by Af- eavesdrop at the first rabbis’ locker-room Advertisers ...... 23 ternoon Delight, door as they discuss every aspect of sexual she will discuss relations—how, when, where, with whom— Calendar ...... 21 her passion for often in startlingly explicit fashion. Anton Talmudic studies reveals how Jewish tradition is more pro- Campus...... 9 and how she came gressive in many respects, and more bawdy, Congregations ...... 11 to write about than one might think.” This talk is co-spon- Rashi’s medi- sored by the TBE Library. Light refreshments Federation...... 6 eval world. More will be served. details and sign Because it will be Shabbat when Anton Kosher Cuisine ...... 20 up can be found is here, TBE will not be selling books or ac- at http://tbe- cepting checks for them, except before ser- Profile...... 6 sisterhood.org/ vices Friday night. However, books can be Rabbi's Corner...... 14 Maggie Anton whats-happening/ pre-purchased on the WTBE website listed programms/mag- above, or through Amazon and Barnes and Youth ...... 15 gie-anton-at-tbe-oct-2728-2017/. Reserva- Noble. She will personalize and sign the tions are required. books while here, both Friday night and Vitals...... 23 Saturday afternoon, at 1:30 p.m., An- Saturday. n

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Local Sanctuary movement update Jayanthi Reddy, special to the WJN n September 6, 2017, faith leaders and He went on to explain the importance of resis- immigrant rights advocates gathered tance, especially in response to unjust laws that O at the Church of the Good Shepherd are in conflict with the moral law. He continued, to announce congregations participating in the “From the time of Abraham to this very mo- sanctuary movement in Washtenaw County. ment, religious people have been at the forefront Washtenaw Congregational Sanctuary (WCS), of resistance movements. In the face of injustice, comprised of congregations and people of con- religious people have been willing to stand up science, has been organizing to build the Sanctu- and speak truth to power.” Rabbi Whinston’s re- ary movement in Washtenaw County in order marks speak to the tradition of people of faith speaking out and taking action against in- justice in their communities. Washtenaw Congregational Sanctu- ary is working in response to immigra- tion policies that are separating families through arrests, detention, and deporta- tion. Increased activity from Immigra- tion and Customs Enforcement targets immigrant members of Washtenaw County communities. The Trump ad- ministration’s recent decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals to resist and respond to increased targeting of (DACA) program may place more immigrants immigrants in our communities under the at risk of deportation by rescinding the pro- Trump administration. WCS announced that tections that the program provided DACA re- the Church of the Good Shepherd has voted cipients. In light of current immigration policy to become a sanctuary congregation and open WCS is preparing to provide sanctuary to indi- their doors to provide physical sanctuary to in- viduals facing these threats. Places of worship dividuals facing detention or deportation, as the are avoided by ICE since they are considered to need arises. The First Congregational Church be “sensitive locations.” in Ypsilanti and the First United Methodist Sylvia Nolasco Rivers, owner of Pilar’s Ta- Church of Ann Arbor have also voted to offi- males, spoke about how her family lived in cially join the sanctuary movement. sanctuary as they fled violence in El Salvador in Faith leaders and immigrant rights advo- the 1980s. She said, “I have so much gratitude, I cates spoke on the need for sanctuary and the have a lot of joy in my heart, because what we’re importance of resisting unjust immigration doing here together in this community is the policy. Rabbi Josh Whinston of Temple Beth right thing to do.... I am so grateful to have the Emeth said, “For if Abraham could speak to God opportunity to be here alive, well, and to be able and demand that the judge of all the earth deal to do what we’re doing here, which is the right justly, how much the more so are we obligated thing, to save other families. To keep them here to demand justice from another human being.” in our communities.” n

Community Leadership Council aims to foster increased collaboration among communal organizations Eileen Freed, special to the WJN On September 7, leadership from the major- action and collaboration among our commu- ity of Ann Arbor’s Jewish congregations and nity’s organizations.” communal organizations met for the first The group brainstormed some ideas for time as part of the Community Leadership the community’s celebrations of Israel’s 70th Council (CLC) convened by the Jewish Fed- year as an independent state and will be con- eration of Greater Ann Arbor. The mission vening a taskforce to develop a full schedule of of the group will be to serve as a forum to events. They also discussed ways to cooperate discuss issues important to the community as a whole, ex- plore avenues for increased cooperation, to imagine and implement programs and initiatives to benefit the en- tire community. Jewish Federation Vice President and CLC around community security, and a sub-group Chair Stephen Aronson was delighted by the will meet to address improving communica- turnout and excited about the potential for in- tion and training as well as support for those creased communal cooperation and how it can in the community who have been the target of benefit the community. “The late Senator Paul anti-Semitic attacks. Wellstone said, ‘We all do better when we all do For more information about the CLC, con- better’,” stated Aronson. “I believe this is a great tact Eileen Freed, at eileenfreed@jeiwhannar- motto for our community and am so pleased bor.org or (734) 677-0100. n by what I believe is a new era of increased inter- Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2017 3 ICommunity

Ann Arbor picketers and the Charlottesville Nazis WJN staff writers I'm an anti-Semite. I hate Jews. Whatever hap- black. Hardly surprising since Jews, gays, and Herskovitz says is a “close friend” of the syna- advocates of goodwill and inclusion. In con- pened to them in World War Two they brought blacks were among the Nazis’ classic targets. gogue picketers and the man whom DYR demning racists both in Charlottesville and on themselves. They deserved everything they Consider, then, these obsessions that flow wants to represent its views in public debate. Ann Arbor, the Southern Poverty Law Center got.” — Picket leader speaking outside Beth Israel seamlessly and naturally from anti-Semitism: Here are some typical e-mails from Brayboy has provided some of the most inspired lead- Congregation, June 2012. — the picketers’ “close friend “ — denigrat- ership. And within Ann Arbor their approach “I never heard you, David, say anything that I ing his political foes (again, omnipresent ob- has been supported by Ann Arbor clergy of didn’t think was true.” — Director of the group scenities are deleted): all faiths, by the Ann Arbor City council, that sponsors the picket speaking on the radio • “Dem Howard Dean ANOTHER JEW the mayor of Ann Arbor. and the Interfaith show of David Duke, former Imperial Wizard NIGGER…” (April 11, 2017) Council for Peace and Justice. All have round- of the Ku Klux Klan and America’s leading neo- • “OBAMA [IS] A SLIMY … NIGGER WAR ly denounced DYR’s weekly picket of the Ann Nazi, August, 2013. CRIMINAL” (April 17, 2017) Arbor synagogue. “Jews won’t replace me. Jews won’t replace me.” • “CRACK WHORE MICHELLE [OBAMA DYR’s slogan, reminiscent of a certain pres- — Pro-Nazi demonstrators in Charlottesville, IS A] DIRTY …WAR CRIMINAL … idential campaign, is “America First. Not Isra- August 2017 NIGGER” (April 17, 2017) el.” Like the Ku Klux Klan and Charlottesville The violent Nazi-led demonstrations in • “MULTIPLE EXAMPLES OF JEW NIG- rioters, DYR picketers try to wrap themselves Charlottesville on August 12 of this year have GER MEDIA” (April 24, 2017) in American flags. But it’s hard to imagine a a chilling resonance in Ann Arbor. The orga- Along with the Charlottesville Nazis, Da- group more hostile than Deir Yassin Remem- nizers of the weekly picket outside Beth Israel Hatred of Gays. In a recent letter to the vid Duke, and Alt-Right organizers of “Free bered to the principles of inclusion and toler- Congregation share the worldview of the Char- Washtenaw Jewish News, Henry Herskovitz, or- Speech” rallies in Berkeley and elsewhere, the ance basic to American democracy. n lottseville rioters. And prominent sponsor of ganizer of the Beth Israel picket, proudly iden- Ann Arbor picketers try to deflect criticism the picket has publicly praised David Duke, the tified Larry Brayboy of Ann Arbor as “a close by framing their issue as one of free speech. most oft-cited defender of the Charlotesville friend” of the picketers and proposed a debate When asked by WUOM for his reaction to the For documentation of this article and demonstrators and America’s leading neo-Nazi. between Brayboy and a local Jew so that Bray- Southern Poverty Law Center’s listing DYR on further information, see the following: boy could “prove” there was no such event as The Nazi sympathies of the Ann Arbor its National Register of Hate-Groups, Henry • www.splcenter.org — go to Hate-Map the Holocaust. picket leaders have been known for some time Herskovitz invoked the First Amendment. “I (then search All Groups, Holocaust Who is Brayboy? He is a homophobe who through reports on WUOM and in local print feel very fortunate to live in America, where Denial) and Hate Watch media. Some highlights: regularly sends obscene e-mails with anti-gay free speech is protected. If I were in Germany • Picket leaders extoled, and campaigned comments to prominent figures across the US or France, I’d be in jail just for speaking my • Intelligence Report: The Year in Hate for the release from prison of Germany’s with such messages as that of April 14, 2017 mind. That’s not right to me.” and Extremism, SPLC, Spring 2017, leading neo-Nazi, the late Ernst Zundel, (obscenities deleted) “Exposing Bernie Sanders This strategy is doubly ironic. First, Her- issue 162 who co-authored The Hitler We Loved Neocon … Jew Faggot” and that of May 6, 2017 skovitz, DYR leaders, and their confreres use • Michigan Radio logged broadcast of Feb- and Why, published by White Power labelling Senator Lindsey Graham a “HiLLBIL- free speech to defend Hitler’s Germany, whose ruary28, 2017 Publications. LY FAGGOT.” practices were the antithesis of free speech. • Two leaders of the organization that spon- Most important in the context of Char- If one regards liberal values as sacred, one • The Hitler We Loved and Why, Christof sors the picket — Deir Yassin Remem- lotesville, Paul Eisen, a director of DYR, gave doesn’t endorse a regime which posed the Friedrich (pen-name for Ernst Kun- bered (DYR) — visited Zundel in prison a lengthy interview in May 2014 on the radio 20th-century’s most fundamental threat to zel) and Eric Thomson (Reedy, W. Va.: in Germany to express their admiration show of David Duke, the Louisiana racist and those same values. White Power Publications; rpt., York, and solidarity. former member of the American Nazi party. In Second, no one questions DYR’s First SC: Liberty Bell Publications, 2004) • The Executive Director of DYR wrote the the New York Times and other media, Duke is Amendment rights. The issue is not free • David Duke.com and “The David Duke Foreword to a book of Holocaust denial one of the most oft-quoted spokesmen for the speech at all, but the purposes to which Show 5/30/2014 -You Tube” by another neo-Nazi, Germar Rudolf, Charlottesville demonstrators. speech is directed. In both Charlottesville and also imprisoned in Germany for inciting Said Eisen to Duke on the air, “I never Ann Arbor you have worldviews in conflict. • blog.deiryassin.org, including Archives racial hatred. heard you, David, say anything that I didn’t On the one side are unapologetic purveyors • Wikipedia entries for Ernst Zundel, Ger- • The leader of the Ann Arbor picket has think was true.” And Duke’s view of Eisen’s of hate who use free speech to malign entire mar Rudolf, Paul Eisen, David Duke, explained to the Ann Arbor City Coun- interview: “an incredibly insightful and groups of people on the basis of religious, ra- Southern Poverty Law Center thoughtful presentation.” cil that the Holocaust is a fraud. This cial, or sexual identity, which are generally im- • David Duke — Wikiquote individual’s business card bears/bore the Given such claims to harmony, one can mutable characteristics. On the other side are slogan “Challenging Jewish Power since only conclude that Eisen accepts Duke’s con- 2003.” stantly stated view (expressed for example on • DYR leaders founded an organization “Jews DavidDuke.com Aug. 22, 2013) that Jews have for Justice for Germans,” which advocates masterminded the campaign to undermine Jewish reparations to Germany to atone Western society by promoting homosexual- for the suffering inflicted on that country ity. Jews have advanced the gay agenda in the by lying about the Holocaust. courts, forced the Boy Scouts to accept homo- After researching such activities, one of sexuals, spread pornography, and above all, America’s most respected civil rights organiza- led the charge to legalize gay marriage. Duke, tions, the Southern Poverty Law Center, earlier Paul Eisen’s fellow spirit, concluded his on- this year listed DYR — along with the KKK, line posting with twelve pictures of what he homophobic and other neo-Nazi outfits — on termed “particularly repulsive specimens” of its National Register of Hate-Groups. DYR, the Jewish gays and lesbians. Center explained, denies the Holocaust and de- Hatred of Blacks. Duke, of course, is at fends Nazi Germany. least as well known for his hostility to blacks Anti-Semitism, then, is the picketers’ pri- as to Jews and gays. He and other demonstra- mary credo and their most obvious link to tors went to Charlottesville, he explained, in Charlottesville. But as was true of Hitler’s order to support “young white Americans” movement, hatred of Jews blends easily with against African-Americans and other racial disdain for other minorities deemed inferior minorities threatening to overwhelm white and outside the mainstream. It is unclear if America. Among the KKK Imperial Wizard’s every picketer shares all of these prejudices more notable racial observations is the fol- in detail. It’s worth noting that one African- lowing comment to The Sun newspaper of American periodically joins the picket. Wichita, Kansas: “White people don’t need a law against rape, but if you fill this room up What recent research has made absolutely Several thousand religious and lay leaders marched in Washington D.C., on August 28, in the clear, however, is that the leaders of DYR, with your normal black bucks, you would, be- Ministers March for Justice.The event was held on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have those who organize and direct the picket, cause niggers are basically primitive animals.” a Dream” speech in 1963. Participating from Ann Arbor were Temple Beth Emeth’s Rabbi Josh Whin- have close ties to people who are not only And consider these sweet recent e-mail ston, Cantor Emerita Annie Rose, and Rabbi Emeritus Robert Levy. anti-Semitic, but virulently anti-gay and anti- postings by Brayboy, who, remember, Henry

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& BOOK ARTS The Federation’s annual campaign: FESTIVAL 2017 fostering and sustaining Jewish communal life By Eileen Freed “Those who turn the many to tzedakah shall vices offering our senior citizens assistance shine like the stars.” — Daniel 12:3 enabling them to age in place or experience the comfort and familiarity of Jewish life in he Jewish Federation of Greater Ann new surroundings to the Joint Distribution Arbor 2018 Annual Campaign kicked Committee’s (JDC) Accessible Health Zone 10/26 • 7pm | Hillel at Michigan 1926/27—1945 by T off last month with an event to moti- in Israel providing people with disabilities Andy Markovits | Author talk @ the J | $5/person vate and support campaign volunteers as they access to tools and a support network to begin the New Year by offering their fellow help them live a healthy lifestyle, we en- 11/1 • 5:45pm | Dinner w/ Howard Markel @ the J Jews an opportunity sure that the most vulnerable among us Arts Around Town sponsors join the author for dinner. to do a mitzvah — live lives of meaning and dignity. And our to foster and sus- caring extends beyond the Jewish commu- 11/1 • 7pm | The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of tain Jewish life in nity through our support of, for example, Battle Creek by Howard Markel our community and JFS’s efforts to settle refugees in Ann Arbor Author talk @ the J | $5/person around the world and the Jewish Agency’s programs aimed at through a gift to the promoting equal rights and opportunities 11/2 • 7pm | “History of Synagogues in Michigan” Annual Campaign. for all of Israel’s citizens. An opportuni- presented by the Jewish Historical Society of The Federation Annual Campaign pro- ty? That may seem vides opportunities for our community Eileen Freed Michigan @ the J | $5/person like a funny way to to connect meaningfully with Israel. Our describe the request to give up one’s hard 11/5 • 10am | Nature Stories & Projects teens develop significant, life-long friends earned treasure. Maybe. However, what with their peers in Israel through the Part- A children’s event presented by Linda Grekin @ the J | free but if we shifted our thinking about what the nership2Gether Student Exchange with registration is required. Federation annual campaign means; not Moshav Nahalal. Because of the personal as an obligation to be met, sometimes be- connections, they develop the ability to 11/5 • 1pm | “Israel: Shared Challenges, Shared grudgingly, but as a chance to make a smart explore the complexities of Israeli society Legacy”* presented by Noam Zion, Shalom Hartman investment, one that has a real, tangible im- while maintaining a warm relationship Institute Research Fellow and author @ the J | free pact in our community here in Ann Arbor, with its people. Our Yom Ha’atzmaut (Is- in Israel and throughout the world? *This is the inaugural program of the virtual Israel Center @ the J, rael Independence Day) events and Israel- funded by a Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor Impact Grant. It related speakers offer people of all ages a A mutual fund for the Jewish way to celebrate and engage in a deeper way launches a series of six monthly community conversations culminating community with the Jewish state. with a presentation by Yehuda Kurtzer, President of the Shalom Just as a mutual fund provides investors You have an opportunity to be a part of Hartman Institute of North America. RSVP requested. the ability to diversify their investments for making all of this possible and so much more. maximum impact at minimum risk, par- 11/5 • 3pm | George Levy, Photographer ticipating in the Federation campaign en- What might we accomplish Artist Presentation and exhibition reception @ the J | free ables donors to participate in a communal And think about what we might do as effort aimed at maximizing the commu- a community if we were to grow our com- 11/7 • 7pm | Twenty Six Seconds by Alexandra nity’s strengths and ensuring that no Jew munal giving. Zapruder | Author talk cosponsored by the Ann Arbor District in distress falls through the cracks, no need More camp scholarships would enable Library @ AADL Downtown | free goes un- addressed, and no one is left out greater numbers of Jewish children to at- in the cold. tend Jewish summer camp, one of a very 11/9 • 12pm | Zingerman’s Bakehouse by Amy Emberling The Federation Annual Campaign few transformative experiences that have Lunch & Learn @ the J | Lunch (optional) catered by supports Jewish community engagement been demonstrated to influence future Zingerman’s | $10 prepayment required through rich educational programs for Jewish involvement. people of all ages, from tots in the Jew- More culture and arts events would pro- 11/13 • 7pm | Dinner at the Center of the Earth by ish Community Center’s of Greater Ann vide Jewish adults, many of whom do not Nathan Englander | Author talk presented in partnership Arbor Early Childhood Center to elemen- have extended family in the area, an outlet with Literati @ Zingerman’s Greyline tary school pupils in the joyful learning to gather with friends and share our rich community of Hebrew Day School; from cultural heritage. This is a ticketed event. Visit literatibookstore.com/event to purchase children in our community’s synagogue More community relations program- tickets (book included). religious schools whose teachers receive ming would enable us to engage with the creative professional development through important issues of the day and to connect 11/15 • 7:30pm | “The History of Black Jews in the Jewish Educator’s Council to adults with other groups in the broader Ann Ar- America” presented by Rabbi Capers C. Funnye Jr., co who participate in Chabad’s Jewish Learn- bor community. sponsored by the EMU Center for Jewish Studies @ EMU ing Institute. 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Third Thursday Important produce feeds minds at the J events at the J Clara Silver, special to the WJN mploying ideas from Discover home to eat. According to Discover CATCH As the outdoor garden season comes to Clara Silver, Special to the WJN CATCH (Coordinated Approach coordinator Nina Doigan, “We have found an end, teachers at the ECC will take time to n observance of National Breast Cancer E to Child Health) programs around that children are much more likely to eat reflect on the overall impact the Ann Arbor Awareness Month, the Jewish Communi- the country, the Jewish Community Cen- food that they had a hand in growing and JCC’s garden and the Discover CATCH pro- I ty Center of Greater Ann Arbor’s “Third ter of Greater Ann Arbor’s Early Child- Thursday at the J” speaker series will partner hood Center recently introduced the “VIP with Jewish Family Services of Metropoli- of the Month,” program, VIP meaning very tan Detroit to present a panel discussion on important produce. Each month a fruit or “What’s Jewish about vegetable is featured in classrooms and to Breast Cancer?” The families via pictures, flyers, snacks, and oth- talk will take place er activities, such as painting with broccoli. on Thursday, Oc- The VIP is chosen based on what foods are tober 19, at noon. in season, as well as any Jewish Holidays in JFS of Metropolitan that month. For example, September’s VIP Detroit is a Partner was apples, corresponding to both autumn in Excellence with and the traditional symbolic food eaten for Sharsheret, the pre- the Rosh Hashanah holiday. miere Jewish breast Expanding on the Discover CATCH gar- Olga Semenova cancer nonprofit or- dening and physical activity components, ganization with an and using its “GO Foods, WHOA Foods” active chapter in southeast Michigan. Shar- method to encourage positive food choices sharet provides a variety of resources to the by children, the ECC integrated year-round Jewish community including genetic testing outdoor physical activity through its ex- information, patient and caregiver support, panding food garden. Built into this expan- campus activism, and personal connections sion are concrete, hands-on experiences with for Jewish women diagnosed with breast and the Jewish concept of tzedakah, meaning ovarian cancers, and their information will be righteousness and charitable giving, via the available at this event. “Little Free Veggie Stand” inside the JCC’s The panel will include local breast can- building and donations of the harvest to lo- JCC garden in spring cer survivors, and will be moderated by Olga cal food pantries. The Garden Committee, Semenova, Health and Wellness coordinator made up of ECC families, harvests the garden making rather than vegetables that are just gram have had on students, families, and the for Jewish Family Services of Metropolitan produce in partnership with their children, put on a plate in front of them. The children Greater Ann Arbor community, and assist Detroit. Rachael Hoffenblum, adult pro- and divides the harvest between donations, love planting and harvesting and take pride them in developing and expanding this im- gram coordinator and operations manager the Little Free Veggie Stand, and taking some in showing how many GO foods they have pact moving forward. For more information for the JCC, notes that, “Not everyone knows in their lunches or snacks. During Septem- about the ECC or Discover CATCH, contact that breast cancer risk is proven to be higher ber’s pizza lunch, a few classes used veggies Peretz Hirshbein, director of child and fam- in Jewish women of Eastern European de- from our garden as a “veggie bar” so students ily services, at peretzhirshbein@jccannarbor. cent than the general population, even when could add things to their cheese pizza!” org or (734) 971-0990. n there may not be a family history of cancer. Since bringing the Jewish Community Awareness is an important factor in help- Center Association of America’s Discover ing women and this is an opportunity to CATCH curriculum to the JCC in 2016, the bring the conversation to our community.” ECC teachers have utilized the four main Attendees are encouraged to wear pink, the Discover CATCH components; nutrition, color associated with breast cancer solidar- gardening, parent tips, and moderate to ity. Those attending are welcome to bring vigorous physical activity; as the founda- their own dairy, nut-free lunch. Anyone tion to develop long-term child wellness who would like to purchase a lunch catered by integrating healthy habits into the daily by Karen Balmer is asked to call the JCC at routines of toddlers, preschoolers, and their (734) 971-0990 and reserve lunch by Mon- families. “When we brought this program day, October 17. Anyone can register for this back from the introductory conference in free event by visiting jccannarbor.org. Toronto last year, we had absolutely no The November “Third Thursday at the J” idea the impact it would have on not only event will be a presentation by Amy Emberling, our children but our community-at-large. managing partner of Zingerman’s Bakehouse We are thankful to be in a position of em- and co-author of Zingerman’s Bakehouse: The powerment in regards to our students and Cookbook on Thursday, November 9, at noon, our own health and wellness,” says Michelle in partnership with the Ann Arbor JCC’s “Arts Grace in the garden Paris, lead teacher at the ECC. Vegie stand before and after Around Town: Jewish Book and Arts Festival.” Emberling has been with Zingerman’s since they opened their doors and has developed some of their most beloved treats. The No- Walk/Run a 5K with Jewish Women Doing Stuff vember 9 lunch café offering will be catered Ayelet Shapiro, special to the WJN by Zingerman’s and will cost $10 per lunch. The full lunch menu is available at jccannar- n honor of Breast Cancer Awareness tober. JWDS member, Emily Vercammen, to register for the national virtual run and bor.org. As with all “Third Thursday” events, Month, the Jewish Federation of Greater reflected on the upcoming event: “We know purchase a bib and medal can visit http:// this presentation is free of charge and open to I Ann Arbor’s Jewish Women Doing Stuff that the risk of breast cancer is higher in Jew- bit.ly/2eFUEYl; enter promo code ATEAM the public, but advance registration is appre- (JWDS) has announced the Breast n’ Bagels ish women of Eastern European descent. As for 15 percent off. It is not necessary to reg- ciated by visiting jccannarbor.org or calling 5K Walk/Run Sunday, October 29 at 8 am. someone who has been touched by the ex- ister for the virtual run to participate in the (734) 971-0990. [email protected] or The group will meet at County Farm Park periences of a friend who went through the local event. (734) 971-0990. n (2230 Platt Rd.) for the walk/run, to be fol- physical and emotional trauma of breast JWDS is a forum for local Jewish women lowed by a bagel brunch at a member’s home. cancer, I am so pleased that JWDS is sup- in their 20s and 30s who want to socialize, To learn more about “Third Thursday at the J” Breast n’ Bagels is run in conjunction with porting this important effort.” network, and enjoy one another’s company and the weekly Tuesday/Thursday lunch café, a national virtual run organized by Support To register for the October 9 Breast n’ while engaging in fun and meaningful activ- contact Rachael Hoffenblum, adult program Our Girls: Knock Out Breast Cancer project Bagels 5K walk, email Ayelet Shapiro, out- ities. For more information, contact Ayelet coordinator, at rachaelhoffenblum@jccannar- in which thousands of participants around reach and program coordinator, at ayelet@ Shapiro, at [email protected] or bor.org or (734) 971-0990. the country will participate throughout Oc- jewishannarbor.org. Those who would like (743) 677-0100. n

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Frankel Center hosts lecture by historian Samuel Kassow MSU Hillel and HCAM Kelsey Robinette, special to the WJN announce registration n October 25, Trinity College his- sources…. So in many ways it was a battle for into a weapon… you can fight with paper for Birthright Israel tory professor Samuel Kassow will memory, “said Kassow. and pen, and not just guns.” O be in Ann Arbor to give a lecture The most surprising thing he discovered Mimi Marcus, special to the WJN on one of the key archives that preserved while researching was how the archivists put Michigan State University Hillel and Jewish history in the Warsaw Ghetto in the aside their fears and political differences to the Hillel Campus Alliance of Michigan months leading to World War II. His lecture, overcome obstacles and remain focused on (HCAM) has announced that registration titled “A Historian in the Ghetto: Emanuel their mission. Many of the archive’s leaders, for Winter 2017 Taglit-°©‐Birthright Israel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive,” including Ringelblum, were members of the is now open. Founded in 1999 by commit- will be about the people who worked on the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research before ted Jewish philanthropists, Birthright Israel “time capsules” that were buried under the the war began. YIVO’s mission was to study rubble. “It was begun in the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish life from an interdisciplinary view- in November 1940, by historian Emanuel point and to involve ordinary Jews in writ- Ringelblum. It was a project to document ing their own history. According to Kassow, every aspect of Jewish life during the Nazi this was why the Oyneg Shabes archives are aims to strengthen Jewish identity, Jewish occupation. And it got bigger and bigger,” Samuel Kassow different than others that were made during Kassow summarized. the same period. “A lot of attention was paid communities, and connection with Israel The Oyneg Shabes buried thousands of He researched his book for eight years, to questionnaires, to getting ordinary people and its people. The Birthright Israel trip is a documents written by eyewitnesses in War- traveling back and forth between the three to write their own biographies. It was that journey through both Jewish history and the saw. Sixty people in total worked on the ar- cites that hold them: Washington D.C., War- history-from-the-ground-up approach that contemporary Jewish state, accompanied by chive and only three survived the war. The saw, and Jerusalem. The book is currently inspired them before the war and they took a Israeli peers (“the Mifgash”) who join the three survivors, Rachel Auerbach, and Hersh being made into a documentary film by lot of that approach into the ghetto.” trips as colleagues and friends. The Birth- and Bluma Wesser, led the effort to recover director Roberta Grossman and executive Kassow stated the most important thing right Israel journey is committed to a cul- one of the three stores of documents in 1946. producer Nancy Spielberg. The film has a we can learn from the archives is to remem- ture of open discussion and dialogue about The second was discovered by accident in planned release date of January 2018. ber the individuality and personalities of the all issues: identity, geopolitics, religion, and 1950 during construction. The third was One of the goals of Kassow’s lecture is to victims. “It helps to individualize and hu- Jewish life. The Michigan State University never recovered. convey the importance of cultural resistance manize what could easily be something that Hillel and Hillel Campus Alliance of Michi- “One of the major goals of the archives and why the past matters. Kassow comment- remains very abstract.” gan trip is planned to depart from New York kind of relates to the question I write about ed that what interested him initially in the ar- The lecture will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the on December 20, 2017 and return on Janu- it in my book, Who Will Write Our History? chives was the fascinating story about people University of Michigan Museum of Art Au- ary 1, 2018. Anyone who is eligible for the They were determined that even if they resisting through preserving their own histo- ditorium, 525 South State St. and is open to Birthright Israel experience may apply. To didn’t survive, their history would be writ- ry, “It’s an example of an historian who could the entire community. n learn more about eligibility requirements or ten based on Jewish sources, not the German turn the gathering of historical documents register, visit www.freeisraeltrip.org/msu. n U-M’s Jewish Communal Leadership Program off to a busy start Paige Walker, JCLP program coordinator n Monday, August 28, the Jewish Jewish and American Identities in this par- Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor, and Detroit and Metro Detroit, and preparing for Communal Leadership Program ticular moment in history. This year’s Wel- Hebrew Day School. A highlight of the week the next communal conversation in Octo- O at the University of Michigan held come Breakfast enjoyed the attendance and was a day in Lillie Park with School of Social ber during the annual Sukkot Open House. its first community event of the 2017–2018 participation of eight JCLP alumni: Shayna Work faculty member Tony Alvarez. Alvarez, JCLP students, faculty, and staff invite ev- year, the annual Welcome Breakfast. This Millman, Max Glick, Sharon Alvandi, Avery who specializes in Wilderness and Adventure eryone to join them in the School of Social

Students, Faculty, Staff, and Community members gathered at Michigan Hillel for the 2017 JCLP Welcome Breakfast on Monday, August 28 yearly event brings together JCLP students, Drongowski, Lauren Rouff, Haley Schreier, School of Social Work faculty and staff, and Mariel Schwartz, and Annie Shapiro. Stu- Ann Arbor community members to engage dents were energized by the discussions and JCLP Program Director Dr. Karla Goldman and the entire 2017–2018 JCLP Cohort at in meaningful conversation over breakfast. look forward to the ongoing communal con- Lillie Park for group building activities during orientation It also provides the opportunity to introduce versations throughout the year. the incoming JCLP students to the com- The annual Welcome Breakfast was just Therapy, facilitated a series of activities to Work’s courtyard sukkah as they prepare to munity. Dr. Karla Goldman, JCLP program one of the pieces that comprised the start of help build group cohesion and identify lead- welcome Sukkot, celebrate the community, director, started the morning’s conversation the seventh year of the Jewish Communal ership and communication styles. and share in meaningful dialogue. This year’s with welcoming remarks. Second year JCLP Leadership Program. Second year JCLP stu- The events of the week set the tone for a event, themed “Welcoming Sukkot” will take student Jacob Ehrlich took his role as lead dents created and facilitated three days of ori- productive and exciting upcoming year. Stu- place Wednesday, October 4, from 4–6 p.m., facilitator and helped the intergenerational entation activities to welcome and orient the dents will have a very busy semester and are at 1080 S. University Avenue. Seasonal hors group of 45 attendees engage in thoughtful newest students to the program, university, already looking forward to attending JFNA’s d’oeuvre will be catered by UM Hillel. Con- discussion about social justice work, com- and greater community. Students also toured General Assembly in November in Los An- tact Paige Walker at [email protected] munity building, and the intersection of local organizations Jewish Family Services, geles, touring Jewish service organizations in with any questions or to RSVP. n Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2017 9 I Jewish Family Services

JFS helps create solutions and promote JFS to present course on identifying and dignity through IDA Program serving victims of human trafficking Hugh Goodman, JFS IDA program/education coordinator Laurie Cohen, special to the WJN ewish Family Services of Washtenaw continue in the program to start a small he FBI in Michigan reported there will be presented by Mira Sussman. Sussman County continues to assist refugees home business cooking for parties!” The IDA were 220 sex trafficking, or forced holds a MSW from the University of South- J achieve their American dreams. Zahra, program matched savings dollar for dollar T prostitution cases last year. The cases ern California and a masters degree in Jewish and allowed Zahra the opportunity to pur- have increased each year since 2012. In re- Communal Service from Hebrew College in chase her vehicle. sponse to this, Jewish Family Services will Los Angeles. She specializes in cultural com- Wahid, originally from Afghanistan, lives be presenting “Identifying and Serving Vic- petency, diversity, and immigration issues. in Ypsilanti and works on the West Side of tims of Human Trafficking” a Continuing The course is part of the Continuing Edu- Ann Arbor. He wanted to attend Washtenaw Education Course (CEU) on October 4. The cation program provided through the Herb Community College, but could not get to CEU will be held at StoryPoint Saline from Amster Center of Jewish Family Services. The class from work on time. He was able to pur- 9:30–11:30 a.m. and will include a continen- Herb Amster Center was established in 2011 tal breakfast. to develop revenue-generating businesses to In this course, participants will be taught support the work of JFS. This event is open to what human trafficking is, learn how to iden- all. Admission: Students, $15; General Public, tify possible victims, identify frequent ethical $20; LMSWs earning CEUs, $30. LMSWs in issues that arise once victims are identified, attendance will earn 2 CEUs, 1 in ethics. This and gather resources that are available to help CEU is approved by the Michigan Social Work these victims. The “Identifying and Serving Continuing Education Collaborative. To sign Victims of Human Trafficking” CEU course up, go to www.jfsannarbor.org/ceus. n Wahid receives matching funds from Hugh Goodman, JFS IDA program/education chase a car through the IDA program and clients on becoming self-sufficient. Par- coordinator is now able to attend classes at Washtenaw ticipants can save to purchase a car, home, a young mother from Afghanistan, attended Community College. business, or for their education. JFS is able the Individual Development Account (IDA) The Individual Development Account to match, dollar for dollar, the participants’ program at JFS that helped her pay for driv- (IDA) grant helps refugees learn about the savings up to $4,000. Nine families have al- ing school. “I can now get my daughter to American financial system and to promote ready met their goal! So far, JFS has enrolled and from school and appointments,” she Fahra and her family receive a check from savings habits. Participants learn about fi- 54 participants into the IDA program and said. “The IDA program helped me to now Michael Kofsky, JFS Board Member and nancial literacy, budgeting, credit, banking, plans to work with 159 total families to help be able to sign up for classes at Washtenaw Manager of the Ellsworth Branch, Bank of savings, and goal setting. The Bank of Ann them achieve their American dreams. n Community College this winter. I hope to Ann Arbor Arbor has partnered with JFS to work with

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Temple Beth Emeth October events Sooji Min, special to the WJN Families with Young Children (FYC): Tot A men’s Torah discussion group will be but it is helpful to our planning to know Celebrate Sukkot at TBE led monthly by Rabbi Whinston on the 4th how many people may come: cantorannie@ Shabbat Service, Every Friday Monday. Participants will find their way as gmail.com. Family Sukkah Setup and Dinner October, 6, 13, 20, 5:45 p.m.,TBE Sanctuary men by wrestling with text. For more infor- Sunday, October 1, 4:30–6:30 p.m. 5:45 p.m., Tot (0–5 year olds) mation, contact Bill Parkus at parkus@com- WTBE Fiber Arts Group Get ready for Sukkot with TBE. Make dec- Shabbat Services with Rabbi Whinston and cast.net. Monday, October 2 and 16, 7–9 p.m. orations, play ga.m.es, and enjoy a free pizza Cantor Hayut 6:15 p.m. Dinner for Tot Shab- Anyone interested in Fiber Arts: knitting, dinner. Please RSVP to Sarah Wright, swright@ bat, 6:45 p.m. Shira Service Shalom Gever/Jewish Karate crocheting, and crafts are welcome. Meet templebethemeth.org or call (734) 665–4744. All of your favorite songs led by TBE’s tot Fridays, October 6, 13, 20 and 27, 4 p.m. new people and have fun with the Women tea.m., Cantor Hayut and Rabbi Levy. Health, Healing and Self-Defense of TBE! This group will be contributing to Congregational Sukkot Shindig Join us for macaroni and cheese, fish Wednesday, October 4, 6–7:30 p.m. Try out this unique martial arts instruc- the Israeli Peace quilt. Join us! (All materials sticks, applesauce, and a salad bar immedi- tion including lessons in how to live a healthy for the project provided by WTBE.) Contact Join Rabbi Whinston at TBE for dinner, sing- ately following the short service. Dinner is ing and services in the Sukkah. Cost is $5 per per- lifestyle, be energetic, do well in school, and Bobbi Heilveil for details at 734-276-5741 or just $5 per person. Buy a punch card ahead learn anti-bullying self-defense. 12-week se- [email protected]. son for sandwiches and salad bar. RSVP at http:// of time for a discounted price. Punch cards bit.ly/SukkotShindig or call (734) 665-4744. mesters for belt advancement. Drop-in when are available in the TBE office. schedules permit. Enrollment is open for Weekly Yin Embodied Jewish students and adults. Shalom Gever is taught Meditation Step Up Shabbat for 1–5 grades by Rabbi Peter Gluck, 5th Degree Black Belt Fridays, October 6, 13, and 20, 5:45 p.m., Tuesday, October 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31, 1 p.m., and martial arts instructor for 21 years. Con- TBE Chapel TBE Family Room next to Sanctuary. tact the Temple Beth Emeth office at (734) TBE’s new Shabbat experience for chil- Yin yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga 665–4744 or Rabbi Gluck, info@shalom- dren in first through fifth grades that will take with postures, or asanas, that are held for gever.org, for more registration information. place parallel to Tot Shabbat. Rotating servic- long periods of time. Sessions are led by SooJi Min. Please bring a yoga mat, blanket, es led by Rabbi Josh Whinston, Cantor Regina Jewish Mindfulness Meditation Sit La.m.bert-Hayut and Rabbi Daniel Alter. props if needed, water and wear comfortable Thursdays, October 19 and 26, 1 p.m., clothing. Contact SooJi Min, sjmin@temple- TBE Chapel. bethemeth.org with questions. Shabbat Achat: For practitioners of all levels. Inten- One Community Shabbat tion and instruction followed by 30-min- Brotherhood Presents: Yale Strom and Friday, October 27, TBE Sanctuary, 6:30 p.m. ute silent meditation. Facilitated by SooJi Hot Pstromi Concert Dinner for Shabbat Achat, 6 p.m. Min and Quyen Epstein-Ngo. SooJi Min Don’t miss out Shabbat Achat service Saturday, October 14, 7:30 p.m., TBE is TBE’s executive director. She completed Yale Strom and Hot Pstromi presents a for the entire community! All ages – come a 16-month mindfulness teacher training one come all for One Shabbat led by Rabbi unique fusion of traditional klezmer, New progra.m. sponsored by the Institute for Jewish, Gypsy, Khasidic, Sephardic, jazz, Whinston and Cantor Hayut. We will hold Jewish Spirituality and the Awakened Heart Shabbat Achat on the fourth Friday of each world beat and Balkan music with extensive Project. Quyen Epstein-Ngo is a therapist improvisation. Yale Strom has been a pio- month. Join us for macaroni and cheese, fish who holds a joint doctoral degree in Clini- sticks, applesauce, and a salad bar immedi- neer in conducting extensive field research cal Psychology and Women’s Studies. One of a.m.ong the Jewish and Rom communi- ately preceding the service. Dinner is just $5 the areas she specializes in is working with per person. Buy a punch card ahead of time ties in Central and Eastern Europe and the Sukkot Yiskor Service and Luncheon adolescents, adults, and couples on issues Balkans since 1981. Beginning with the use Thursday, October 5, 11 a.m.–noon for a discounted price. Punch cards are avail- of faith and spirituality. Contact SooJi Min able in the TBE office. Note the 6:30 p.m. and performance of klezmer music a.m.ong Join in for a annual Sukkot Yiskor Service with questions, (734) 665-4744. these groups, his focus has increased to and Luncheon. RSVP to RSVP@templebet- start time for services on Shabbat Achat. Spirituality Book Club 2017–18 exa.m.ining all cultural aspects post-World hemeth.org. War II. Strom has performed with many Weekly Lunch and Learn Tuesday, October 10, 7:30 p.m. world renowned musicians including Andy Sukkot Service and Dinner Fridays, October 6, 13,20 and 27, noon– Thursday, October 12, noon Statman, Mark Dresser, Marty Ehrlich, Mark Thursday, October 5, 6 p.m. 1 p.m.,TBE Adult Lounge Led by Annie Rose, TBE’s cantor emerita. O’Connor, Alicia Svigals, Sa.m.ir Chatterjee, Join Brotherhood in the Sukkah for our an- Rabbi Whinston meets on Fridays for an Please join us for the new season of TBE’s Salman Ahmad, Da.m.ian Draghici, Ada.m. nual observance of Sukkot as we shake off the informal discussion about religion. Sessions Spirituality Book Club! This year we will be del Monte, Lulo Reinhardt, and Sunny Jain. shackle of Yom Kippur and contemplate a less are open to the entire community. Feel free reading six books over the course of nine Join in for an exciting evening of music. n convenient/materialistic lifestyle, symbolized to bring lunch. months. Please feel free to come to our Tues- by the simplicity of the Sukkah. Contact Bill day night sessions or our Thursday after- Parkus, [email protected], with questions. Torah Study noon sessions. Registration is not required, Saturdays, October 7, 14, 21 and 28, 8:50 a.m. Supper in the Sukkah Join in for this weekly discussion of the AARTY Sukkot at Rabbi Whinston’s Home Torah portion led by Rabbi Whinston. Saturday, October 7, 6 p.m. WTBE hosts first of series on anti-Semitism Join Rabbi Whinston and Nikki Feinberg for Chapel service Saturdays, October 7, 10 a.m., TBE Chapel Trina Fuller, special to the WJN an AARTY dinner at Rabbi Whinston’s house. Join in for this Saturday Shabbat service, Contact Nikki Feinberg at nfeinberg@ Women of Temple Beth Emeth will host the first of a three-part series of programs on led by Rabbi Whinston or Cantor Hayut. templebethemeth.org to RSVP and get di- anti-Semitism, on October 17, at 7:30 p.m. with a presentation by Martin Shichtman, rections/and RSVP. the director of Jewish studies and professor of English language Women’s Torah study and literature at Eastern Michigan University. Shichtman will Sukkot Open House at Rabbi Whinston’s Monday, October 23, 7 p.m. speak on, “To Be a Jew in the Twenty-First Century.” Sunday, October 8, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. An in-depth study and lively discussion “I borrow the title of Muriel Rukeyser’s 1944 poem, “To Be Join Rabbi Whinston and his fa.m.ily at his of the week’s Torah portion led by Can- a Jew in the Twentieth Century,” Shichtman said, “because re- house for their annual Sukkot Open House. tor Regina Hayut. The group will explore cent events again require us to think about what it means to This event is open to all! Contact the TBE various passages from the portion looking be Jewish, to be Americans—and can we ever really be Jewish- office, (734) 665-4744, to RSVP and get di- at several translations and commentaries Americans?” rections/any other details. from a variety of scholars from Talmu- Shichtman has been a fellow at the United States Holocaust dic times to the modern day. No Hebrew Memorial Museum and at Brandeis University’s Schusterman Sukkot Text Study: Sukkot Justice and knowledge is necessary to participate in the Institute for Israel Studies. He has been the recipient of grants discussion. Contact Cantor Regina Hayut from the Covenant Foundation, the Academic Engagement Net- the Nature of the Sukkah at [email protected] for Monday, October 9, 7 p.m.Temple Beth Emeth work, and the Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor. Shichtman has also directed more information. Join Rabbi Whinston for a text study five summer seminars for schoolteachers at the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman about Sukkot Justice and the Nature of the Men’s Torah study Family Campus in Farmington Hills. Sukkah. Snack on wine and cheese through- Thursday, October 26, 7:30 p.m. out the discussion! Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2017 11 Celebrate Sukkot I Congregations with the Jewish Cultural Society This month at Beth Israel Congregation Sunday, October 8 Elliot Sorkin, special to the WJN Adult Hebrew drop-in coffee and cake. The sessions are facilitated by 10:30-noon at the JCC Monday October 2, 5–7 p.m. Rabbi Robert Dobrusin. Together with Temple Beth Emeth, Beth Midrash in Hebrew Israel offers Hebrew studies for adults at a variety Register: [email protected] Thursdays, October 26, November 2,9,16, of levels. If a person is new to the classes, it is 3:30–4:45 p.m. Want to visit a classroom? Come at 10:00. advised they come and speak with Education Rabbi Robert Dobrusin teaches a five Director Cindy Saper, who will determine the week session of Midrash (commentary) on appropriate level to begin. Classes start the week the Book of Jonah in Hebrew focusing on the of October 16. Tuition for members of Beth Hebrew text, but with English translations Israel and Temple Beth Emeth is $180 for 12 available. sessions. ($200 for non-members.) Interested students may register at this time as well. The Lunch & Learn series professional teachers include Milka Eliav, Ilan Wednesdays, October 18 and 25, Rosenberg, and Malli Holoshitz noon–1:15 p.m. Steak and Salmon in the Sukkah Garfunkel Schteingart Activities Center Sunday, October 8, 6 p.m. (2010 Washtenaw) Rabbi Robert Dobrusin and Rabbi Kim Beth Israel is offering a delicious dinner in Blumenthal lead informal discussions on its new sukkah. The menu is barbecued ribeye current topics. Participants are invited to steak, maple glazed salmon, roasted seasonal bring a dairy lunch. Beverages and snacks are root vegetables, mashed potatoes, dessert and always provided. fruit. The vegetarian option is mushroom and vegetable strudel. $25 per person. Payments Simchat Torah and the International are due by Tuesday, October 3. Reservations and payments cannot be accepted after that Shul of Pancakes date. The dinner will take place rain or shine; Thursday, Oct. 12, 6:45 p.m., Erev in case of rain the dinner will be served in the Simchat Torah Social Hall Friday, October13, 8:30 a.m. , Simchat Torah Morning Service 9:30 a.m. Shaharit and Hallel services, 10:15 a.m., International Shul of Pancakes Breakfast, Torah Service and Hakafot, Erev Simchat Torah includes a Maariv Service that is followed by the Simchat Torah Hakafot (family friendly Torah processionals,) dancing, and snacks. On Simchat Torah, after the Shaharit and Hallel services, Beth Israel provides a free Pancake Breakfast in the Social Hall, followed Pizza in the Hut (the Sukkah) by the Hakafot, the Torah processionals, and Wednesday, October 11, 6 p.m. the rest of the service. This dairy dinner event is open to all Baby Shabbat and New Member and honors the tradition of eating meals in the Sukkah. The cost is $8.00 per person for Shabbat ages 4 and up, with no charge for children Saturday, October 14, 9:30 a.m. under 4. RSVP by Monday, Oct. 9 to office@ The ewestn members to the congregation bethisrael-aa.org, or call the office to see if —those children born over the past Jewish there is more room. year, and those individuals and families who have joined the congregation since last Yom Shabbat Limmud Kippur are welcomed on this date. The torah October 14 and 21, 9:30 a.m. reading is Breishit— “In the Beginning”— a Held on Saturday mornings, these perfect parasha (Torah reading section) for sessions offer lively discussions on Parashat this joint event. A kiddush luncheon follows Hashavua the Torah portion of the week over the service n October events at the Jewish Cultural Society Barb Banet, special to the WJN First Friday Shabbat at the Jewish Celebrate Sukkot with the Jewish Cultural Society Cultural Society! Friday, October 6 Sunday, October 8 10:30-noon The JCS First Friday Shabbat includes Every fall, the JCS has a fun, family- secular Jewish readings, singing, candle light- friendly event to celebrate Sukkot. All are ing, challah and wine rituals, and a Yahrtzeit welcome to attend this special harvest festival observance to remember loved ones. Held at at the Jewish Community Center of Greater the JCC from 6:30–9 p.m., this secular hu- Ann Arbor on Sunday, October 8 from 10:30 manistic observance is followed by a catered a.m.–noon. Children and adults will have dinner from a local restaurant. All are wel- an opportunity to engage in Sukkot-related come. There is no charge for JCS members; craft activities and games, followed by deco- $10/person or $25/family for nonmembers. rating the sukkah. Participants are invited Register at jewishculturalsociety.org. For to bring a vegetarian, nut-free dish to share. more information, contact (734) 975-9872 Register by calling (734) 975-9872 or email- or [email protected]. ing [email protected]. n

12 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2017 Frankel events October 2017

Non/Human Materials Before Modernity Symposium Oct. 2 & 3, 9:00 AM Mira Balberg, Todd Berzon, Clara Bosak- Schroeder, Miranda Brown, Catherine Chin, Paroma Chatterjee, Aileen Das, Youn- Mi Kim, Daryn Lehoux, Sarah Linwick, Peggy McCracken, James McHugh, Ian Moyer, Ellen Muehlberger, Rachel Neis, Sonya Özbey, Elizabeth Roberts, Francesca Rochberg, Michael Swartz, Melanie Yergeau Louise Bourgeois, Nature Study, 1986 1014 Tisch Hall, 505 S. State St. Co-Sponsored with Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Comparative Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures, International Institute, Classical Studies, Romance Languages and Literatures

“Below the Line”? The Feuilleton and Modern Jewish Cultures Symposium Oct. 16, 10:00 AM Ella Bauer, Naomi Brenner, Olga Borovaya, Ofer Dynes, Brian Horowitz, Mikhail Krutikov, Shachar Pinsker, Paul Reitter, William Runyan, Johannes von Moltke, Liliane Weissberg Room 2022, 202 S. Thayer St. Co-Sponsored with Near Eastern Studies, Center for Russian, East European, and Fueilletons by Theodor Herzl, translated into Hebrew by David Frishman (Warsaw, 1911) Eurasian Studies, Slavic Languages &Literatures, and Germanic Languages and Literatures

Louis and Helen Padnos Lecture Series: Intersex Bodies in Tosefta Bikkurim Oct. 24, 4:00 PM Sarra Lev, Louis & Helen Padnos Visiting Professor, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College Room 2022, 202 S. Thayer St.

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A Historian in the Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive Oct. 25, 7:30 PM Samuel Kassow, Trinity College UMMA Auditorium, 525 S. State St. Co-Sponsored with Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies

Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw

Franz Kafka and Max Brod: Trial and Judgments in Israel Oct. 31, 4:00 PM Mark Gelber, Ben-Gurion University Room 2022, 202 S. Thayer St. Co-Sponsored with Germanic Languages and Literatures

Max Brod and Franz Kafka

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Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2017 13 IRabbis’ Corner

Inspiration at the movie theater The unique mitzvah of the sukkah Rabbi Robert Dobrusin, special to the WJN Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, special to the WJN s you might suspect, I find great mense power and creative ability, there is still n the first week of October we find the needs are turned into a mitzvah. When we do meaning in Jewish prayer and ritual something that is needed and appreciated by holiday of Sukkot, so let’s take this oppor- these ordinary things in a sukkah, they become A and have had many spiritually mov- the one who is clearly superior. Simply put, we I tunity to learn something about that holi- mitzvahs. So as we go about our daily business ing experiences in the synagogue. can be teachers. day. In Leviticus 23:42, the Torah tells us that of eating, drinking, praying, socializing, etc., we As a lover of na- To me, this scene epitomizes the spiritual we should dwell in are racking up mitzvahs if we are in the suk- ture, I also have been message of the movie. The search for extrater- a sukkah for seven kah. This is different from all other mitzvahs. spiritually moved on restrial intelligence can be seen as a parable for days. The mitzvah of In all other mitzvahs of the Torah we do the mountaintops and in a more important search that we all should be dwelling in a sukkah mitzvah because God said that it was the proper the woods. undertaking in our lives: the search for some- is the first mitzvah thing for us to do, e.g., putting on tefilin, light- But I have also expe- thing which will inspires us to find more mean- that comes after Yom ing Shabbat candles, eating matzoh on Pesach. rienced deeply mean- ing in our lives. Kippur - the day that These (and others) are done because God said ingful moments in For me, that search is a large part of what the Jewish people to do them - not because it is a natural thing to other settings and makes Judaism so meaningful to me. Through have been forgiven do. But when it comes to the sukkah, there is one of those places is our sacred texts, through prayer and ritual and for everything dur- no ritual that we have to do when we’re in the in the movie theater. even through inspiring movies, I find glimpses ing the previous year. sukkah in order to perform a mitzvah. Other Rabbi Robert Dobrusin Rabbi Aharon Goldstein I’m not really a of something significantly greater, namely God. Therefore, since this mitzvahs we do as mitzvahs, for the purpose of frequent moviegoer but when a movie sounds I believe that in the interest of free will and in is the first mitzvah after we have a clean slate, performing an action that God prescribed — interesting to me, I try to get to the theater as order that we fulfill our potential as human be- it’s a general mitzvah for every Jew that teaches as previously mentioned (tefillin, matzoh, etc.). soon as possible. Then, if the movie hits me ings, God has retreated from active involvement us the way Torah and mitzvahs work ---- with When it comes to the sukkah there aren’t any just the right way, it often becomes the subject in our physical lives. But God is very much pres- other people and with the world. When we look rituals that are necessary to be performed in or- of a sermon or a blog posting as I feel com- ent in our lives as inspiration to be the best we can at the sukkah we see two apparently conflicting der to successfully complete the mitzvah. Just pelled to interpret it in light of Jewish tradi- be and when we perform an act which brings the opposite principles. go into the sukkah and go on with our regular tion or theology. world to a better place or demonstrates a con- On the one hand we are told to dwell (to lives. Eat normally, drink normally, etc., and all Such was the case 40 years ago this fall. structive use of the wisdom with which we have live) in the sukkah, as the Rabbis teach us in the of these normal activities are transformed into On a Saturday night in November 1977, I been created, I conceive of God as smiling with Talmud of Sukkah, not only we should sit there mitzvahs by virtue of our being in the sukkah. found myself in a movie theater in Philadelphia that same knowing, loving, proud smile that the but we should live there. This means to reside in This is what the sukkah teaches us. It shows with a friend from school, waiting with great alien at the end of Close Encounters displays. the sukkah just as we would in our house. Every- us that all of our physical needs are only means anticipation for a movie which I had heard The movie uplifts me in so many ways. I thing that we would do in our houses, we should to an end and temporary. Our most important about only a week before. The movie focused think of the simple musical phrase that is wo- do in the sukkah during the holiday of Succot. aspect is our soul and spiritual nature as it re- on a theme I have always found fascinating: the ven throughout the movie. I love the pure won- So, from this perspective, the sukkah is a dwell- lates to our spiritual well-being. search for extraterrestrial intelligence. It had der in the eyes of the little boy who delights in ing place, a living place during these seven days. This leads to an interesting side note regard- already received some very positive reviews his new friends who are so determined to have On the other hand, the sukkah has to be a ing the proper construction of a sukkah. A suk- including from one well-known reviewer who him join them. Finally, I marvel at the scene on temporary structure. If it is a permanent struc- kah doesn’t have to be a fancy dwelling. It can said on TV (and I remember these words 40 yes the slopes of Devil’s Tower in which a man and ture, and it is up all year-round with the cover- be made of very simple materials and covered later): “If you want to see perfection, go look woman reach towards each other and first only ing, and nothing is done to prepare it for the with something very simple. This is to show at an egg. If you want the next best thing, you touch fingertips unmistakably a reference to holiday, it is considered an invalid sukkah. that the physical aspect of living is something have to see this film.” Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam from the Sis- So, we are expected to use the sukkah in the temporary and less significant than the spiritual That’s all I needed to hear. tine Chapel. same way as our permanent home during the aspect of living. When we eat or sleep, it is all in And so, my friend and I settled in to watch To me, this movie will always stand out as holiday but simultaneously expected to con- order to better serve God. what I would come to consider the finest movie I the classic example of a film’s ability not only to sider it as a temporary structure. How do we Another thing we learn from the mitzvah of have ever seen: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. entertain but also to move the viewer in a very reconcile this apparent contradiction? Sukkah is that the reward for the mitzvah is not Let me stop right here. If you have never personal way. I stayed up most of the night talk- The Rabbis tell us that the mitzvah of Suk- the main reason for doing the mitzvah. In some seen this movie, put this paper down (make ing with my friend about the symbolism, the kah is an easy mitzvah to do. It only requires other mitzvahs we might answer that the reason sure to pick it back up later) and find a way to foreshadowing and the theological references in that we be in the sukkah. When we are dwell- for doing it is for the reward. But when it comes see it. Immediately. the movie and I have watched it over and over ing in a sukkah we don’t have to change in any to the mitzvah of Sukkah that is not the case. How Now that we’ve all seen the movie, I again always seeing something I missed before. way or do anything differently than our normal do we know this? According to the code of law, if it can continue. Several years ago, our family took a trip to ways. The whole concept of the mitzvah of suk- is raining in a sukkah and we are uncomfortable, This movie, a tale about the moment of the Black Hills of South Dakota. One afternoon, kah is that we should conduct ourselves in the we have to leave the sukkah. But, it says, don’t be contact with extraterrestrial aliens was a truly we wanted to take a ride into the vast emptiness same way that we do during the rest of the year. mad and leave, but leave with humility and disap- spiritual experience for me and I find it just as of the plains. I asked a waitress in a restaurant Everything we do in our permanent houses we pointment that you were forced to leave. Don’t moving every time I see it. It is exhilarating and in Rapid City if she had a suggestion on where should also do in the temporary sukkah. be mad at the sukkah for its protective shortcom- inspiring in its beauty and its message. we might go. She said: “Well, you probably don’t So what is the lesson we can learn from ings. Because when we get mad in this situation, I have several favorite scenes in the movie. want to drive two and a half hours but you the sukkah. The sukkah teaches us to have the it betrays our improper motivation. It shows that The first is the scene in Mexico where an old could go to Devil’s Tower”. proper attitude for this mortal existence. On the we went into the sukkah in order to get a reward man keeps saying in Spanish: “The sun came That’s all I needed to hear. Off we went one hand we are told by the Torah to occupy and we are mad because we are not going to be out last night and sang to me.” Then, there is through the South Dakota plains to the higher ourselves in this physical world. We have to able to get the reward. But here we say no, don’t the scene in India where hundreds of devout ground of Wyoming. eat, sleep, drink, make a living, etc. All of these get mad. If anything we should be upset because men are asked by a man on a mountaintop When I first caught a glimpse of Devil’s things are obligations from the Torah in order we can’t be inside the atmosphere of the sukkah where they learned the musical phrase they all Tower, the site of the “contact” in the movie, I to lead a functional life. Nevertheless, we should for its own sake, not because we aren’t going to get are repeatedly chanting and all that we see are felt that I was truly approaching a holy place. always view them solely as a means, not as ends a reward for being there. hundreds of fingers pointing up to the heavens. And when we arrived, I stood, staring at the because they are temporary. What are the ends? So here again we see the importance of the But, the best scene in the entire movie is huge rock in front of me. With the movie’s five What is permanent? That would be the study of mitzvah of sukkah. We should love the mitzvah clearly the moment of contact between the sci- musical notes playing over and over again in Torah and the performance of mitzvahs. of being in the embrace of the atmosphere of entists and the aliens who have come peacefully. my head, I felt for a brief moment, in some bor- This is what we see in the Torah regard- the sukkah. When we can’t be there because I wrote these words about that scene in my re- derline sacrilegious way, like I was standing at a ing our patriarch Jacob - he built for himself of rain we don’t just say that our obligation is cently published book in the context of a chap- place as sacred as Mt. Sinai. a house and for his cattle he built huts. Go- no longer in effect and we can “get out of it” ter on my love of space exploration: That only lasted for a very short time. I do ing deeper than the literal text, what does this without repercussions. The proper attitude is There is a memorable scene from the end know that movies are movies and Torah is To- mean? It means that for his essential self — his that we are upset that we are missing the op- of Close Encounters in which human scien- rah and it’s important to remember which is soul and spiritual needs — he built a perma- portunity to experience the beautiful mystical tists, standing in the presence of aliens who are more important and must be more lasting to nent structure — a house. But for his physical embrace that being in the sukkah bestows upon clearly superior to them in intelligence, take a us as Jews. needs, represented by his animals — he viewed us. This attitude is not only specific to the mitz- moment to teach a simple musical scale using But, occasionally, movies and Torah inter- them as merely temporary and only necessitat- vah of Sukkah, but it is also a general attitude in hand motions. The alien leader, on the second sect and when they do, we should be open to ing a temporary shelter. our approach to our place in the physical world. try, mimics the simple hand motions and smiles the experience. This is what makes the mitzvah of Sukkah Our spiritual well-being is primary — the end, a knowing, loving, proud, smile. Happy 40th birthday to my favorite movie unique. There is no other mitzvah in the Torah if you will, to our physical well-being which is This is the paradigm. In the presence of im- of all time. n in which all of our ordinary, physical, mundane the means to that end. n

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Ophthalmologist and humanitarian Zvi Kresch Lisa Carolin, staff writer vi Kresch is an ophthalmologist, a options were limited, there was always some- life who is cataract blind.” morning and because of how incredible Jamie family man, and an international thing you could do to alleviate suffering.” When the High Holy Days neared, Kresch was at handling the last minute logistics and Z traveler. The path that led him to Ann The gap year between undergraduate was training to do a cataract surgery tech- issues that arose during a cataract campaign,” Arbor began in Southfield, Michigan 37 years school and medical school became two years nique in a remote jungle area of Nepal and said Kresch. ago and has followed a worldwide trajectory. with time also spent studying in Israel. Then was debating where to spend Rosh Hashana. During their year abroad, Kresch learned Kresch grew up attending Yeshiva Beth Kresch headed to Wayne State University for “I called the Chabad House in Nepal where about an opportunity to join the Kellogg Eye Yehudah and Yeshiva Gedolah through his ju- medical school and did his residency in oph- they had 300–400 people (mostly Israelis trek- Center. In 2014, he got the position and the nior year of high school when he graduated. thalmology at West Virginia University. That king), and we went there,” he said. couple moved to Ann Arbor. He grew up in an Or- was in 2009, and he jokes, “It’s been incredible being part of the Kel- thodox household and “I was part of the trade logg Eye Center and the quality of people and was drawn to studying, with Rich Rodriguez.” education that goes on there,” said Kresch. learning, maintaining Kresch loved liv- “We love living in Ann Arbor. I had amazing traditions, and spend- ing in Morgantown and experiences here as an undergraduate at U-M ing holidays with fam- thought West Virginia and with the Ann Arbor Orthodox Minyan ily and community. In was beautiful. It was dur- and was excited about joining that commu- his junior year of high ing that time that a friend nity.” school, he participated put him in touch with Now the couple has a daughter-2-year-old in the International a woman named Jamie Amalia, and Kresch says the family is enjoying Zvi Kresch March of the Living Clearfield, who was fin- the spectrum of Jewish life and events that in- and was exposed to students from many Jew- ishing up a job at a girls’ volve the Jewish community coming together. ish backgrounds. After graduating from high high school in a rural Ke- Kresch is on the Jewish Community Center school, he spent a year studying in a yeshiva nyan village. board. The family regularly hosts U-M stu- in Israel, as well as learning to be a sofer (ritual “We had our first date dents for meals. scribe) and shochet (ritual slaughterer). when Jamie was flying “The nice part about being in a small com- He returned after a year to study religion back from Kenya and munity is that each person’s presence is felt,” at the University of Michigan, where he liked had a stopover at Dulles said Kresch. “Since our arrival, each successive learning about people and cultures. International Airport,” year has brought new people and energy to “He who knows one religion knows none,” said Kresch. “I picked her up from the airport For Yom Kippur, the couple went to the the growing community.” Kresch said, quoting Max Muller. and we went on a hike to a waterfall. Once Southwest Indian coastal city of Cochin, This past summer the family was invited “I grew up in a fairly sheltered religious en- we started dating, we explored West Virginia which some claim has Jewish roots going back to work with Peruvian ophthalmologists for a vironment and was impressed by the breadth together going to festivals and even a snake to the time of King Solomon. week and they spent an additional week in the of what I was learning at U-M.” handling church.” “Kresch said, “Everything there had in- Sacred Valley of Peru. He had a career in medicine on his radar, The couple moved to New York City where credible history including the synagogue, “It’s a very different traveling experience but while an undergraduate, he took courses Kresch did a fellowship in uveitis and intra- which was built in the 1600s, a cornerstone having a child, and our interactions were en- ranging from Zoroastrianism to a mini-course ocular inflammation at the New York Eye and from the 11th century, and the floor was made hanced by it,” he said. “We hope to make more in acting. Then he took a class in Tibetan Bud- Ear Infirmary. The couple married in Decem- of 17th century Chinese tiles that were donat- international trips.” dhism and had the chance to be part of a study ber 2012. ed from a rich merchant. Unfortunately, most Clearfield continues her work for the Hi- abroad program in Tibet. “We loved exploring New York City and of the community had moved away or died. malayan Cataract Project working remotely He decided to take a year off before go- went on long walks and once even strolled the However, we did have a minyan on Yom Kip- with program evaluation and grant writing. ing to medical school and worked in Ethiopia entire perimeter of Manhattan in the course por. I was number ten and got to read from “A person who is blind is a mouth with no with the American Jewish Joint Distribution of a day,” he said. the Torah.” hands” Kresch said, quoting a Nepalese say- Committee. He served as assistant director of In 2013, both he and Clearfield wanted In Ethiopia, Kresch has been involved in ing. “Cataract is the most common cause of a primary care clinic working under physician to travel abroad and both got jobs with the multiple high volume cataract campaigns blindness on the planet and cataract surgery Dr. Rick Hodes, who became his mentor and Himalayan Cataract Project (www.cureblind- where a team of ophthalmologists performed really transforms someone to be able to care role model. Kresch also taught English at a lo- ness.org) working in Nepal, India, Ghana and 600–1,000 cataract cases in a week while for themselves. I’m honored to be a part of cal college to girls from rural parts of Ethiopia, Ethiopia. Clearfield was involved in the logistical man- having that kind of impact on people’s lives.” and volunteered at Mother Teresa’s Mission “The Himalayan Cataract Project focuses agement of the cataract campaigns as well as Kresch enjoys long distance running and for the Destitute and Dying. on training local ophthalmologists and staff, gathering data from the organization’s local describes his other hobbies as “universal “It was an extremely broadening experi- building eye care infrastructure for hospitals, partners. languages”-chess, playing harmonica, and do- ence,” said Kresch. “I wished my family and and organizing high volume cataract cam- “One of the founders of the Himalayan ing magic tricks. friends could be there to experience the cama- paigns,” said Kresch. “I was drawn to how Cataract Project, Geoff Tabin, told me he “They are immediate ways to connect raderie and to realize how good they had it in important people’s vision is to them and how was happy I was the international Fellow for with people, even if we don’t have a common the U.S. However, even in cases where medical dramatically surgery can change someone’s two reasons: Because of a joke I told him that spoken language,” he said. n

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Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2017 17

I On Another Note

Department of Musical Theatre 2017-2018 Season Director Mathew Brennan on upcoming production of Sweeny Todd Emily Slomovits, staff writer f all the contributions Jewish art- Sweeney is one of Anne Koch’s (co-founder ists have made to American society, of Encore Theatre, along with Dan Cooney) Operhaps one of the biggest is the favorite shows and after seeing a production Broadway musical. While on vacation she and her husband started not singularly a Jewish ac- talking about opening a theater complishment, American so they could see it again... hence musical theatre, at least Sweeney being one of Encore’s first at its inception and dur- productions! Seeing as it’s the 10th ing the Golden Age in the anniversary season they thought 1940s and 1950s, was in “we might as well bring it back great part, an art form full circle” and I couldn’t be more A new jukebox musical about love, rock ‘n’ roll, and second chances created by Jews. The very thrilled and honored to get the featuring pop hits from the 80s to today popular Yiddish theatre chance to be at the helm! I wasn’t tradition combined with involved with Encore at that point the Tin Pan Alley sound in so I wasn’t lucky enough to catch the early part of the 20th the first production.Sweeney is Century to set a standard sort of like Shakespeare in that you BOOK BY JEREMY DESMON by which all other musical can play with the setting, time and ADDITIONAL SONGS BY JEFF THOMSON & JEREMY DESMON theatre was measured. Mathew Brennen storytelling and I’ve ventured to ARRANGEMENTS AND ORCHESTRATIONS BY JESSE VARGAS

Directed by Hunter Foster • Music Direction by Martijn Appelo Choreography by Jennifer Jancuska October 12 & 19 at 7:30PM • October 13, 14, 20 & 21 at 8 PM October 15 & 22 at 2 PM • Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre

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ONCE YOU’VE SEEN IT, YOU’LL FIND IT HARD TO SETTLE FOR LESS EVER AGAIN.” —The Wall Street Journal

Among the Jewish giants of 20th Century shake up all three! We’re coming at it from a Broadway—George and Ira Gershwin, Irving very actor-driven concept utilizing 22 chairs Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and and a rolling table for the bulk of the scenery. Adolph Green, Oscar Hammerstein II, and I also shuffled the seating configuration as more—Stephen Sondheim’s name and work part of the set design. You can expect some looms perhaps the largest today. With classic surprises along the way. shows under his belt such as Into the Woods, Follies, Company, A Little Night Music, and West WJN: Was there anyone in the current cast, crew Side Story and Gypsy, (the last two for which he or creative team who was involved in that wrote the lyrics with Bernstein and Jule Styne, first production? respectively), Sondheim is one of, if not the MB: I believe the only crossover we have from most respected name in the history of musical the initial production is our amazing musical theatre writing. director Tyler Driskill. I guess he was the only The Encore Theatre in Dexter has done one to escape the barber chair last time :) several of Sondheim’s shows in its ten years, most notably last year’s Wilde Award-winning WJN: Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett may be production of Assassins, and this year they’re two of the most emotionally rich and complex bringing back Sweeney Todd, a show which they characters in all of Sondheim’s work; tell us produced for their inaugural season. Sond- how you are approaching the roles. heim’s dark, dissonant thriller is the story of MB: Sweeney and Lovett are probably two of my revenge, love, and the lengths people will go for favorite characters in musical theatre. We’re both. I spoke with director Matthew Brennan coming at them from a slightly different about his innovative design for the production, approach. We were lucky enough to snag the intricacies of Sondheim, and more. David Moan and Sarah Briggs to lead the show and a lot of the character development AN AMERICAN IN PARIS WJN: The Encore did Sweeney Todd ten years NOVEMBER 14-19 ago during their first season. What informed will come from their own personalities. MUSIC AND LYRICS BY We’re looking at Sweeney as more of a GEORGE GERSHWIN AND IRA GERSHWIN MSU’s Wharton Center the decision to bring it back, and what did BOOK BY three-dimensional person and not just a CRAIG LUCAS TICKETS ON SALE NOW! you want to do both differently from the DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY production ten years ago, and from other crazy man bent on killing. David is such a CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON WHARTONCENTER.COM ∙ 1-800-WHARTON smart actor that I think he will really lend a Illustration: Don Oehl; Logo: Esther Wu productions you’d seen? East Lansing engagement welcomed vulnerable human quality to the character. by Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C.; MB: I actually just learned a bit about Encore Jackson National Life Insurance Company; As far as Lovett goes we are aiming for more and Portnoy and Tu, DDS, PC. history and the significance that Sweeney of that. Sarah is a brilliant comic actress but has played in the theater’s development. 18 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2017 Billie Holiday Lives AT THE JET THEATRE! IN THE HIT PLAY

at also has the chops for heavy, hard-hitting drama. We’ll be playing up her sexuality and EMERSON’S BAR GRILL again, focus on her genuine human desires. You can expect a pair of hilarious, scary and By Lanie Robertson heartbreaking leads. WJN: What challenges and rewards does Sweeney Todd present to the actors, director, october 5-29, 2017 musical director, etc.? Are they different challenges and rewards than with other Alvin Waddles Lauren LaStrada Sondheim shows, or is there an overlap? MB: Any Sondheim show is an absolute FEATURING treat! I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on five different Sondheim productions in the past two years and couldn’t be more grateful. Sweeney produces some challenges as Billie Holiday on numerous levels. Large cast, complicated as Jimmy Powers technical aspects, great singers and sharp The time is 1959. TheThe time place is 1959. is aThe seedy place is bara seedy in bar Philadelphia. in Philadelphia. The The audience audience is about is to aboutwitness one to ofwitness Billie Holidayʼs one of Billie Holidayʼs actors, the list goes on and on. We’ve last performances, lastgiven performances, four months given four before months beforeher death.her death. More More than than a dozen a dozen musical musicalnumbers are numbers interlaced with are salty, interlaced with salty, often humorous reminiscences that reveal a riveting portrait of the lady and her music. decided to take those challenges, as well as often humorous reminiscences that reveal a riveting portrait of the lady and her music. the challenges brought on by the Encore space, and embrace them. Highlight them and make them a part of how we tell the Get tickets now! story. Most members of the cast have already We can special order any book said that this title alone is a huge draw and We offer book club discounts 248. 221. 1665 • www. jettheatre.org something every actor hopes to be a part of Parking validated someday. I couldn’t agree more. 213 South Fourth Avenue WJN: You are also choreographing the show; Ann Arbor, MI 48104 would you tell us something about how the 734.769.1114 choreography informs the feel and look of this production? MB: There won’t be much dance per se... however, the ensemble will be very present throughout the show and the movement and style certainly relates to our concept. The set is something reminiscent of a subterranean factory and the cast is essentially “factory BOOK BY JOE MASTEROFF | MUSIC BY JOHN KANDER | LYRICS BY FRED EBB workers who pump out the product of this DIRECTED BY KAT WALSH | MUSIC DIRECTION BY JENNIFER GOLTZ | CHOREOGRAPHY BY TYLER STICKEL story”. I’m playing a lot with opposites so if the music is frantic the movement will be anything but. We will always be winking at the audience, that they’re in on it with us and the movement and style will certainly go hand in hand with that. WJN: Sweeney Todd is in some ways an epic, grand story, filled with humor, and in some ways an intense, intimate drama. Will your production of the musical emphasize the comedy and in some cases, camp, as some versions have done, or will it lean toward the darker, horror movie side of the story? MB: I LOVE that you asked this question and my answer is yes! We’re playing up both the humor and camp as well as the darkness and drama. Look for some laughs and Sept. 28 - Dec. 16, 2017 gasps in unexpected places. We as people, A playground clash between 11-year- can experience so many emotions in such a old boys throws together two sets of short time... think about when you’ve laughed parents for a meeting to resolve the as you’ve cried. A show like this can easily dispute; a civilized get-together that turn into something “dark and heavy.” My turns swiftly and hilariously into a focus is on the story. Who are these people? battle pitting couple against couple, What do they want and how will they get it? OCTOBER 26-29, 2017 AT THE ARTHUR MILLER THEATRE husbands against wives, spouse Combine all of that with the incredible wit against spouse. Winner of the 2009 and intelligence of Sondheim’s lyrics and the THURSDAY AT 7:30 | FRIDAY-SATURDAY AT 8:00 | SUNDAY AT 2:00 Tony Award for Best Play. weight of the source material and I think FOR TICKETS AND INFO, VISIT: WWW.A2CT.ORG OR CALL 734.971.2228 you’re in for a ride that will have you laughing Contains adult language & content. and cringing... maybe even at the same time! Sweeney Todd runs at the Encore Musical The- Tickets: atre Company in Dexter, Michigan from Sep- 734.433.7673 or tember 28 to October 22. For more information, visit theencoretheatre.org. PurpleRoseTheatre.org

Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2017 19 I Kosher Cuisine

Fall harvest foods for the sukkah Lonnie Sussman, staff writer t’s Fall, the kids are back in school, the leaves the world trying to escape war, fear, poverty, and are changing, and Honey Crisp apples are horror. We eat and sleep in our beautiful sukkot 28th Iback in the markets. The holiday of Sukkot and think about those in need of homes all over is here and what is more enjoyable than a beau- the world. We have just witnessed the destruc- tiful day, eating a delicious meal in a sukkah tion of homes in Texas and other parts of the and thinking about country and can our blessings. only imagine the We are com- fragile conditions manded in the of so many peoples’ Torah to celebrate reality. While we this holiday to “live celebrate our abun- in booths (sukkot) dance of food, we seven days in order think about people that future genera- who do not have tions may know that food security. I made the Israelite The following people live in booths recipes are guides when I brought to typical Sukkot them out of the land of Egypt.’ We are further meals representing the fall harvest. Feel free told to collect branches of palms, willows and to change the vegetables, make the soup with myrtles (lulav) and a citron fruit (etrog). While chicken stock and pareve margarine or olive there are no explanations given for this mitzvah, oil, divide it half or multiply to serve more there are many Midrashim and commentaries. people. All of these recipes freeze beautifully One compares the lulav and etrog to different and it’s always fun to find a pot or tray stuck types of people, all of whom are needed to make in the back of the freezer in January. a community complete. Happy Sukkot, happy harvest and Today, we think about those traveling through happy Fall. n

Curried Butternut Squash Soup Perfect for the cooler evenings in the sukkah. Serves 8–10  1 stick of butter 4 cups chopped onions 8-10 teaspoons curry powder (or to taste) 3-4 Butternut squash, peeled, seeded and chopped (roast the seeds with a little salt for a snack while the soup is cooking) 2 Granny Smith apples peeled, cored and chopped 6 cups water or vegetable broth 2 cups apple juice Saute the onions in the butter along with the curry powder over low heat for about 20 minutes. Add the water or broth, squash and apples and bring to a boil, then reduce heat to a simmer for about 25 minutes. Let the soup cool so that you can puree it safely. Use a food processor, an immersion blender or a potato masher to get a nice thick puree. Add the apple juice, salt and pepper to taste and reheat the soup. Garnish with a chopped apple if desired.

Stuffed Vegetables (peppers, cabbage, eggplant, zucchinis) Serves 8-10 2 pounds hamburger meat ½ cup uncooked rice 2 eggs 2 onion, grated or finely chopped 2 carrots, peeled and grated or very finely chopped salt and pepper to taste ½ cup lemon juice or vinegar 1 cup brown sugar 2 cups tomato sauce or marinara sauce If using peppers, cut off the top and scrape out the seeds. Sometimes it helps to trip the bottoms so they can stand upright. If they are really large peppers you can cut them in half. If using cabbage, blanch it with boiling water to cover for a few minutes. Then carefully remove the leaves. Sometimes you have to cut out the stiff core of the cabbage. If using eggplant or zucchinis, cut in half and scrape out as much of the inside as you can without breaking the skins. Chop up the meat and add to the meat mixture. Combine the meat, eggs and rice. Add the grated or chopped onions and carrots, salt and pepper Stuff the vegetables or put some of the meat in the cabbage leaves. Roll up the cabbage leaves to enclose the meat mixture. Place in a casserole dish and add the sauce. Bake at 350° for about 45 minutes.

Sweet and Sour Meatballs Serves 8–10 Use the same ingredients as above but just make meatballs and add to a pot of the sweet and sour sauce (vinegar, brown sugar and tomato sauce, marinara or puree). Cook for about 45 minutes. 20 Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2017 I Calendar

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Noon–1 p.m. Monday 2 [email protected]. 6:30–9 p.m. International Shul of Pancakes: BIC. 9:30 a.m. Jewish Mindfulness Meditation Sit: TBE. 1–2 p.m. Torah Reading and Hakafot: BIC. 11:15 a.m. Brotherhood Guys’ Night Out: TBE Offsite. 6–7:30 p.m. Non/Human Materials Before Modernity Seminar: Saturday 7 Lunch and Learn: TBE. Noon–1 p.m. Mourning and Mitzvah: TBE. 7:30–9 p.m. Frankel Institute. Scholars will consider the ma- Jewish Karate/Shalom Gever: TBE. 4–5 p.m. Caring Community Event: TBE. 8 a.m.–2 p.m. Mizmoret Rehearsal: TBE. 8–9:30 p.m. teriality and makings of humans and nonhuman Family Shabbat Services: TBE. Tot Shabbat from entities in the premodern world. Participants in- Torah Study: TBE. 8:50–9:50 a.m. 5:45–6:15 p.m. Step Up Shabbat from 5:45–6:15 Talmud–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. See first Tues- clude Mira Balberg, Todd Berzon, Clara Bosak- Chapel Service: TBE. 10–11 a.m. p.m. Tot Shabbat Dinner from 6:15–6:45 p.m. day of month for details. 8 p.m. Thursdays. 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Isabella Stetson and invited to bring vegetarian, nut-free dish to share. Jaden Boster. 10–11:30 a.m. Saturday 21 Register by phoning 734-975-9872 or email Preschool 3: TBE. 10:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Tuesday 3 [email protected]. Held at the JCC. Torah Study: TBE. 8:50–9:50 a.m. Mini-Minyan: BIC. 11:15 a.m. 10:30–Noon. Shabbat Limmud: BIC. 9 a.m. Non/Human Materials Before Modernity Seminar: Tot Shabbat: BIC. 11:15 a.m. Sukkot at the Lake: BIC. Enjoy subs in the Sukkah B’not Mitzvah Service: TBE. Olivia Braun and Eve Frankel Institute. 9.am. See October 2. Brotherhood Concert: TBE. Yale Strom and Hot and more at Cedar Lake, site of Camp Ranaana. Kaplan. 10–11:30 a.m. Yidish tish (Yiddish Conversational Group): Pstromi perform. 7:30–10 p.m. (Rain location: JCC.) For information, contact Baby Shabbat: TBE. 10:45 a.m.–Noon. Beanster’s Café in UM Michigan League, 911 Shabbat services: See listing at end of calendar. Jessica by phone at 734-971-0990 or by email at th North University. All levels and ages welcome [email protected]. $7/person; $25/ 9 Grade Madrichim Training: TBE. 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. for conversation in mame-loshn, which trans- household. 4:30–6:30 p.m. Shabbat services: See listing at end of calendar. lates to “mother tongue.” For information, email Sunday 15 [email protected] or phone (734) 936-2367. Adult Hebrew: TBE. 4:30–5:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Steak and Salmon in the Sukkah: BIC. 6 p.m. Sukkah Take Down: BIC. 9:30 a.m. Yin Embodied Jewish Meditation: TBE. 1–2 p.m. Kol Halev Rehearsal: TBE. 6:15–7:45 p.m. Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into the Sunday 22 Lulav and Etrog Making and Pick-up: Chabad. An- basic text of Chassidim and discover the beauty nual community event of putting together the Monday 9 and depth of Judaism. 10:30–11:30 a.m. Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. Delve into the four species and making the Lulav. For details, Crop Hunger Walk: TBE. Offsite. 1–4 p.m. basic text of Chassidim and discover the beauty and depth of Judaism. 10:30–11:30 a.m. phone 734-995-3278. 6:30–8:30 p.m. Sukkot Text Study: Sukkot Justice and the Nature of Adult Hebrew: TBE. 4:30–5:30 p.m. 9th Grade Holocaust Memorial Center Tour: TBE. Tea and Torah on Tuesday—for Women: Chabad. the Sukkah: TBE. 7–8:30 p.m. Kol Halev Rehearsal: TBE. 6–7:30 p.m. Reading the Torah may be easy, but understand- Offsite. 11 a.m.–3 p.m. ing it is no simple matter. Study of the text in the Adult Hebrew: TBE. 4:30–5:30 p.m. original, with the classical Rashi commentary. 8 Tuesday 10 Monday 16 Kol Halev Rehearsal: TBE. 6:15–7:45 p.m. p.m. Tuesdays. Yidish tish (Yiddish Conversational Group). See first “Below the Line?” The Feuilleton and Modern Tuesday of month. Jewish Cultures Symposium: Frankel Institute. Monday 23 Wednesday 4 Yin Embodied Jewish Meditation: TBE. 1–2 p.m. Scholars will investigate the overlooked and un- Spirituality Book Club: TBE. 7:30–8:30 p.m. dertheorized feuilleton and its connection to Women’s Torah Study: TBE. 7–8:30 p.m. Mahj: TBE. Offsite. 1–3 p.m. modern Jewish cultures. Participants include Tea and Torah on Tuesday—for Women: Chabad. Mizmoret Rehearsal: TBE. 8–9:30 p.m. Congregational Sukkot Shindig: TBE. 6–7:30 p.m. Shachar Pinsker, Naomi Brenner and others. Sup- 8 p.m. Tuesdays. Sukkot Afternoon/Evening Services: Chabad. 6:55 p.m. ported by Clifford and Fannie Epstein. Univer- Tuesday 24 Sukkot Maariv: BIC. 7:30 p.m. sity of Michigan, Room 2022, 202 South Thayer Wednesday 11 Street. 10 a.m. Yidish tish (Yiddish Conversational Group). See first A2SO Music With Friends: JCC. Small ensemble Tuesday of month. Thursday 5 Hashanah Rabbah Morning Services: Chabad. Ev- performances by members of the Ann Arbor eryone receives own bunch of willows. 7:20 a.m. Symphony Orchestra. $10/concert. Series dis- Yin Embodied Jewish Meditation: TBE. 1–2 p.m. Sukkot Services: BIC. Morning Services at 8 a.m. Pizza in the Hut: BIC. 6 p.m. count available. For information, visit a2so.org. Intersex Bodies in Tosefta Bikkurim: Frankel Insti- Maariv at 7:30 p.m. Simchat Torah Service: TBE. 6–7:30 p.m. 1:30–3:30 p.m. tute. Visiting Professor Sarah Lev of the Recon- Sukkot Services: Chabad. Morning Services at 9:45 structionist Rabbinical College, will present on Shmini Atzeret Afternoon/Evening Services: WTBE Fiber Arts Group: TBE. 7–9 p.m. a.m. Afternoon/Evening Services at 6:50 p.m. the subject of androginos, someone who osten- Chabad. 6:40 p.m. After candle lighting at 6:41 Midterm Election Forum: TBE. 7:30–9 p.m. Yizkor Service and Luncheon: TBE. 11–12:30 p.m. sibly has male and female genitals, and how the p.m., all night dancing (not Simchat Torah, but A Season of Mussar I: BIC. 7:45 p.m. rabbis manage the contradiction between their Brotherhood Sukkot Service and Dinner: TBE. Shmini Atzeret dancing.) binary gender system and the existence of bod- 6–8 p.m. Shmini Atzeret Maariv: BIC. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday 17 ies that confound the system. Supported by Louis Talmud–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. Sharpen your wits and Helen Padros. University of Michigan, Room and knowledge of the Jewish legal system by follow- 2022, 202 South Thayer Street. 4 p.m. ing the intriguing discussions in the Talmud. The Thursday 12 Yidish tish (Yiddish Conversational Group). See first Tea and Torah on Tuesday—for Women: Chabad. Talmud is a composite of practical law, logical ar- Tuesday of month. 8 p.m. Tuesdays. gumentation and moral teachings. Study from the Shmini Atzeret Morning Service with Yizkor: BIC. Yin Embodied Jewish Meditation: TBE. 1–2 p.m. original Talmud tractate. 8 p.m. Thursdays. 8:30 a.m. WTBE: What it Means to be Jewish in 2017: TBE. Shmini Atzeret Morning and Memorial Services: 7:30–9:30 p.m. Wednesday 25 Friday 6 Chabad. 9:45 a.m. Tea and Torah on Tuesday—for Women: Chabad. Sukkot Yizkor Service and Luncheon: TBE. 8 p.m. Tuesdays. Lunch and Learn: BIC. Noon. 11 a.m.–Noon. Sukkot Services: BIC. Morning Service at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday 18 Genesis Board Meeting: TBE. 7–9 p.m.A Historian Mincha and Maariv at 6:45 p.m. Spirituality Book Club: TBE. Noon–1 p.m. in the Ghetto: Emanuel Ringelbaum and the Lunch and Learn: BIC. Noon. Oyneg Shabes Archive: Frankel Institute. Pre- Sukkot Services: Chabad. Morning Services at Shmini Atzeret Afternoon/Evening Services: Mahj: TBE. Offsite 1–3 p.m. sented by Sam Kassow of Trinity College. During 9:45 a.m. Afternoon/Evening Services at 6:50 p.m. Chabad. 6:40 p.m. Maariv and Simchat Torah Hakafot: BIC. 6:45 p.m. Theology Book Club: BIC. 8 p.m. World War II, Jews resisted not only with guns Lunch and Learn: TBE. Noon–1 p.m. but also with pen and paper. Even in the face of Jewish Karate/Shalom Gever: TBE. 4–5 p.m. Kol Halev Note Learning: TBE. 7:30–8:30 p.m. death, they left “time capsules’ full of documents Washtenaw Jewish News A October 2017 21 Calendar Celebrate With Us! 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Call 995-3276 in advance. sis of the founding decades of a major Hillel RakeRake inin thethe CashCash chapter in the United States, covering the chal- lenges of trying to represent all Jewish students Weekly Shabbat services When you only have one chance to ThisThis Fall!Fall! on campus regardless of their religious orien- Shabbat Services: AAOM. Morning service, 9:30 a.m. catch that special moment tation, cultural preferences, and ideological Evening service, 35 minutes before sunset. Call 662- predilections. For more information, contact 5805 for information. Mincha/Ma’ariv with Seu- Karen by phone at 734-971-0990 or by email at dah Shlisheet and Dvar Torah every week. Torah [email protected]. 7–8:30 p.m. topics and a bite to eat. Discussions led by Rabbi Men’s Torah Study: TBE. 7:30–9 p.m. Rod Glogower and other local scholars. Home hos- pitality available for Shabbat meals. UM Hillel. Mourning and Mitzvah: TBE. 7:30–9 p.m. Shabbat Services: BIC. 9:30 a.m. Morning childcare Let Encore Sell It For You: Talmud–Jewish Civil Law: Chabad. See first Tues- from 10 a.m.–12:15 p.m. day of month for details. 8 p.m. Thursdays. Electronics • Musical Instruments Shabbat Services: AA Reconstructionist Congre- Designer Items • Antiques & Collectibles gation. Morning services held the second Satur- Automotive Parts • Sporting Goods Friday 27 day of each month at the JCC from 10 a.m.–noon Camera & Audio/Visual Equipment integrating traditional liturgy with music, chant- Lunch & Learn: TBE. Noon–1 p.m. ing and contemporary readings including Torah SPECIALIZING IN: BAR/BAT MITZVAHS, FAMILY PORTRAITS, CHILDREN, 1958 South Industrial Jewish Karate/Shalom Gever: TBE. 4–5 p.m. service and discussion. 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Call 6th Grade Shabbat Morning with the Rabbis: BIC. 663-4039 for more information. 10 a.m. Led by Like movie stars 9:30 a.m. Rabbi Elliot Ginsburg. Mini Minyan: BIC. 11:15 a.m. Shabbat Services: TBE. Torah Study with Rabbi Tot Shabbat: BIC. 11:15 a.m. Levy at 8:50 a.m. Morning Minyan with Rabbi WTBE Speaker Event: TBE. Featuring Maggie An- Delson and lay leaders at 9:30 a.m. Sanctuary love their trailers. ton. 1:30–2:30 p.m. Service at 10 a.m. most weeks. Call the office at Shabbat services: See listing at the end of the calendar. 665-4744 or consult website at www.templebet- hemeth.org for service details. Home Hospitality for Shabbat and Holiday Meals: Sunday 29 AAOM. Call 662-5805 in advance. Family Journey 6th Grade Parent Bar/Bat Mitzvah Home Hospitality and Meals: Chabad. Every Shab- Orientation: BIC. 10:30 a.m. bat and Holiday. Call 995-3276 in advance. Tanya–Jewish Mysticism: Chabad. 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