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The Detroit Jewish News Explores The Jewish Bizarre
The Detroit Jewish News explored The Jewish Bizarre podcast with host Eddy Portnoy, who calls it a “Jewish Atlas Obscura of historical material.” Each podcast episode was researched extensively and that listeners can expect a mix of humor, seriousness and, of course, very shocking stories, he said. Read the entire article in the Detroit Jewish News here.
Find out more about the podcast here and listen now to the full season of The Jewish Bizarre podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, YouTube or wherever else you get your podcasts.
Coming of Age: Detroit – Labor Pains
This week marks the 48th anniversary of the founding convention for the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), formed to help women become union leaders and give their issues greater weight during contract talks. The presiding officer at the event, which attracted more than 3,000 women from 82 unions, was Myra Komoroff Wolfgang (May 1914 – April 1976), one of the nation’s first women union organizers. A labor leader and women’s rights activist in Detroit from the 1930s through the 1970s, Wolfgang advocated for the working poor and for women in the workforce. Learn more and watch here.
Coming of Age: Detroit – Crossing The Aisle
Carl Levin, the late Michigan Senator who represented The Great Lakes State for 37 years until his retirement in 2015, was a big believer in oversight and bipartisanship. A model of leadership and authenticity, he recognized that effective governance required necessary compromise and worked to find common ground with political rivals and the opposing party from the City Council, to the State House to Capitol Hill. Learn about his work and legacy in this interview from early 2020 here.
Coming of Age: Detroit – Pipe Dreams
In this episode of the award winning digital series Coming of Age from Silver Screen Studios and Reboot, Joel Katz shares memories about the civil disturbances in Detroit during the late 1960s, the experience of being an observant Jew in the midst of his military service in Vietnam and loving his kids even when they annoy him. Learn more and watch here.
Coming of Age: Detroit – Sherman’s March to the Promised Land
In this episode of the award winning digital series Coming of Age from Silver Screen Studios and Reboot, Fisher family scion and matriarch Jane Sherman previews seminal moments that strengthened and deepened her Jewish identity throughout her life and offers insights into the Detroit Jewish community’s steadfast commitment to the State of Israel.
Coming of Age: Detroit
Tiffany Woolf has always had an affinity for the older generation, seeking advice from other older people’s stories after her own parents died in their 60s. With the help of Reboot, she launched Silver Screen Studios to start building a library of wisdom, advice and encouragement; a chronicle of daily hopes and misgivings from the greatest generation. Our latest series, “Coming of Age” season 2, premiering in a rollout through the month, shares the stories of some of Detroit’s most colorful and dynamic older role models. Read more about Tiffany’s passion for gathering stories and see all the interviews here.
Coming of Age Detroit About
Coming of Age is a series of short documentaries from Silver Screen Studios about amazing seniors who continue to thrive in old age. At a time of great uncertainty in our changing world their wisdom, humor and insight are a powerful model for navigating the peaks and valleys of aging. From the loss of friends and loved ones to the impact of ageism, these everyday Silver Screen stars share personal journeys more dramatic, entertaining and authentic than any Hollywood movie.
Coming of Age: Detroit Trailer
The award winning digital series Coming of Age from Silver Screen Studios and Reboot returns for a second season to feature profiles of an incredible group of older Detroiters, some whose names are sure to be familiar to locals and others to discover and fall in love with for the first time. Learn more and watch.
Coming of Age: Detroit
The award winning digital series Coming of Age from Silver Screen Studios and Reboot returns for a second season to feature profiles of an incredible group of older Detroiters, some whose names are sure to be familiar to locals and others to discover and fall in love with for the first time. Watch them here.
Detroit Chanukah Memories
Highlights of Chanukah memories from the Detroit Jewish community are featured in a new music video from Reboot in celebration of their new Chanukah album A Great Miracle: Jeremiah Lockwood’s Guitar Soli Chanukah Record. In the video, Lockwood is playing the album track “Ritual.” This is a love letter to the Jewish Community of Detroit, celebrating the moments of togetherness that the holiday of Chanukah has fostered over the years.
Modern Loss: A candid conversation about grief featuring Rebecca Soffer
Join Rabbi Jennifer Kaluzny, Rabbi Michael Moskowitz and guest speaker, Rebecca Soffer, on April 9, 2024 for a candid, warm, and even humorous conversation exploring Rebecca’s book, “The Modern Loss Handbook,” and the global movement to destigmatize the universal experience of grief while encouraging people to find meaning and live richly.
“The Modern Loss Handbook” offers a welcoming space in which to grow thoughts and feelings as they evolve and create a personal roadmap toward resilience. With warmth, wit and disarming humor, Rebecca and the rabbis will unpack the wisdom of the book and discuss how the long arc of loss can be woven into our lives in a way that is practical, creative, comforting, provoking, and, finally, hopeful. This event is intended for adults and will include a conversation with Rebecca Soffer and the rabbis, followed by strolling refreshments and book signing. Learn more and get tickets here
Reboot Ideas Presents: Monster Mash
Reboot, with Detroit Public Theatre and Detroit Public Television, invites you to celebrate the most famous Jewish monster, the Golem, its history and contemporary lessons. This Reboot Ideas conversation, hosted on October 30, 2023 at Third Man Records in Detroit, featured New York Times bestselling author Adam Mansbach and Dr. Justin Sledge, a Detroit-based professor of Ethics, Religion, and Social-Political Philosophy whose research has an emphasis on Jewish esotericism and the occult. In a conversation moderated by Angelique Power, president & CEO of The Skillman Foundation, the two discussed the historical and contemporary connection between the legend of the golem and Jewish links between the supernatural, creativity and tikkun olam (repairing the world). Presented together with PBS Books. Learn more and watch the conversation here.
Reboot Ideas Presents: Monster Mash
Reboot, with Detroit Public Theatre and Detroit Public Television, invites you for a pre-Halloween event to celebrate the most famous Jewish monster, the Golem, its history and contemporary lessons, at a festival of music, film, conversation and art in Detroit. This interactive experience on October 30, 2023, features Adam Mansbach, the #1 New York Times bestselling author whose latest novel The Golem of Brooklyn was just released this fall, and Dr. Justin Sledge, a Detroit-based professor of Ethics, Religion, and Social-Political Philosophy whose research has an emphasis on Jewish esotericism and the occult. In a conversation moderated by Angelique Power, president & CEO of The Skillman Foundation, the two will discuss the historical and contemporary connection between the legend of the golem and Jewish links between the supernatural, creativity and tikkun olam (repairing the world). The evening will also feature the release of Reboot’s new vinyl record The Golem and Detroit artists Oliva Guterson and Faina Lerman manifesting Jewish monsters with a live painting installation, along with a new video by Lynne Avadenka, along with film screenings, music and more. Details and tickets here. This event will be recorded and available to stream following the program. Subscribe to Reboot’s YouTube channel for updates.
The Golem of Brooklyn
The Golem of Brooklyn (on sale now!) is a ferociously funny reimagining of the golem of Jewish folklore. Accidentally brought to life in a basement apartment in Brooklyn, he embarks on an absurd road trip through modern America to face off against the rising threat of antisemitism in America. A thought-provoking novel from from Reboot network member, Adam Mansbach, author of the New York Times bestselling pseudo-children’s book Go the F*ck to Sleep, The Golem of Brooklyn is a modern-day adventure shadowed by an ancient past. Learn more about the book, upcoming events, and and how to bring it to your community here.
A Partnership of the Generations
The shutdown of the pandemic in 2020 hit older adults hard. The isolation was devastating, especially for those locked down in communal living environments and the reverberations are still felt by many seniors. The upheaval of the pandemic has made it particularly difficult for senior living homes to find and maintain staff and provide meaningful and enriching programming to residents.
For the first time, as a pilot with Jewish Senior Life in Detroit, Reboot has created a Digital Catalog to provide select experiences, programs and opportunities for residential programmers to access, curate and distribute meaningful Jewish content to their residents. The impact has been so great that it has been recognized as a model by the Association of Jewish Homes and Aging Services of North America (AJAS) and received a 2023 Jewish Programming Award. Learn more from our partners in Detroit here.
That’s a Wrap on 2022
2022 was an ambitious, exciting year for Reboot! We launched a new production arm, Reboot Studios, which was announced with a splash by Deadline. Reboot Studios, which funded 15 diverse grantees, will significantly expand our ability to create new projects that will grow our audience and further our mission to use art to educate, inspire and create movements. Through all of our programs this year, we feel proud of the questions we asked and topics we probed through multiple mediums. We could not have done this work without you. We are grateful to be on this collective Jewish journey together. We look towards the new year with hope and curiosity. Read more here about what we accomplished this year and what the path ahead looks like.
Grieving the Earth: The Spiritual Technology of Yom Kippur
There’s a gap between knowing a truth and living it. The ongoing climate crisis is one place we experience this, where knowing and acting live far apart. Similarly, there is a gap between acknowledging and truly feeling that we will die. Facing overwhelming impermanence – the elemental weight of sacred change – is an exercise in learning to grieve, to face our planet’s dying and our own.
Yom Kippur is a rehearsal for our own death, creating a ritual container deep enough to hold us as we step towards this reality. We’re invited to turn towards the role of death and loss in our lives – to practice inhabiting this weight and the questions it raises. By doing so, we learn to grieve – to metabolize suffering into insights to inform our futures. Read more here.
The Magical Post-Passover Tradition of Mimouna
On the night Passover ends, some Jews around the world return to chametz with an innocuous slice of pizza or a quick noodle dish from a local restaurant. But Jews of Moroccan heritage enjoy what may arguably constitute the most magical night of the year: the festival of Mimouna. And the culinary star of each Mimouna table spread is moufleta, a crêpe-like pancake made with flour, water and oil and enjoyed warm with honey and butter. As a Persian Jew who had not celebrated Mimouna before, it was the lure of that delicacy that forced me to cut in line ahead of children at the LA house of a friend who had brought his family’s delicious traditions from the Maghreb to West L.A.
Olivia Guterson – Drawing Inspiration from the Well of Being a Woman
“My art is me and in that way is influenced by all that I am and all whom I come from. My deepest source of inspiration and guidance is my ancestors and in that way, my art is how I remember them and know who I am. I come from a long line of Jewish women who used their hands to create and bring family and community together. This is the lineage I am working from.
“Being a working artist and a mother has its challenges and yet I am committed to doing both in a way that honors and uplifts myself, my child, my craft, and my community. Being a woman is so deep, wide, and expansive and it is the well from which I draw an infinite amount of inspiration.
“I am deeply committed to raising awareness about the state of Black maternal health and access to healthy, whole foods in my community. These issues are important to me as I believe caring for our mothers and children is vital to the overall health of our larger communities. We know that elevating, uplifting, and supporting women has a positive ripple effect.”
– Olivia Guterson
We Are Earth Just as We are of the Earth
Detroit artist Olivia Guterson has created a series of gorgeous “earth portals” as an offering to Mother Earth as part of a Tu BiShvat exhibition, Environmentally Speaking, with the JCC of Metro Detroit, and has contributed to a live artistic celebration of the trees with Hazon.
Engaging in a critical conversation about our changing climate and the related perils we face, Environmentally Speaking is a multi-sensory and accessible exhibition examining our interspecies connectedness, offering viable ways we can positively impact our collective future now, Guterson said.
Read more about Guterson’s connection to Tu BiShvat in her blog.
Highlights of Chanukah
Highlights of Chanukah memories from across the country and through generations in celebration of the Chanukah record A Great Miracle: Jeremiah Lockwood’s Guitar Soli Chanukah Album. In the video, Lockwood is playing the album track “Ritual.” The video features vintage photographs spanning the 1920s-1990s, gathered from vernacular collections, garage and estate sales, press archives, personal and family collections, and Jewish Community Centers photo archives that represent modern celebrations of Chanukah. Watch it here. Want more? Check out our special video of Detroit community Chanukah memories.
Magic and Mystics
In this episode, scored by Threshing Floor, we explore the themes of magic and mystics, Jewish folklore, Talmud and philosophy with Dr. Justin Sledge, a professor of philosophy and religion in the Metro-Detroit area. He looks at the mystical spiritual leader Judah Loew ben Bezalel or “Rabbi Lowe” in The Golem film, who, in an effort to protect his people and avoid their expulsion, creates a massive warrior out of clay, using magic to bring him to life. Watch here.
Forgiveness: A Visual Poem for a Visceral Time
As we ready to seal the gates at the end of the Days of Awe and consider the tradition of asking “Who shall live” and “Who shall die,” we are reflecting on the themes in the Forgiveness visual poem that Reboot released this high holiday with poet and Blavity co-founder Aaron Samuels. With it, we look to the past year to truly process the meaning of the term “forgiveness” in this context and think about how we can grow.
Evolving Reboot: a Digital Platform for the Modern Jewish World
Finally, Reboot has a place where anyone can go for a deep dive into the beautiful work we have done these past 20 years. Twenty years? Yes, we have blown past the Chai mark, having spent our 19th year locked down like the rest of the world but connecting with more people than ever with our programs and productions. Reboot at 20 – we have much to celebrate.
Reboot Shifts Emphasis to Developing More Ideas, Faster
eJewish Philanthropy features Reboot and the future of the organization a research and development platform.
Modern Loss: Community and Candid Conversations
Join Reboot for two special events with Rebecca Soffer, exploring her book, “The Modern Loss Handbook,” and the global movement to destigmatize the universal experience of grief while encouraging people to find meaning and live richly: April 9 in Detroit and April 10 in Chicago.
“The Modern Loss Handbook” offers a welcoming space in which to grow thoughts and feelings as they evolve and create a personal roadmap toward resilience. With warmth, wit and disarming humor, Rebecca and the rabbis will unpack the wisdom of the book and discuss how the long arc of loss can be woven into our lives in a way that is practical, creative, comforting, provoking, and, finally, hopeful.
PLAST-HALF-OVER
Until yesterday, my family had done pretty well subsisting off our larder and not generating new single-use plastic, with the exception of a few prescription pill bottles my son needed for some minor oral surgery. We were even able to obtain fruit smoothies in paper cups with no lids from an accommodating local business. But the supplies finally dwindled, so today I headed to the grocery store to see what I could bring home without creating future plastic waste
Setting Our Table – Olivia Guterson
Art can inspire us, heal us, and alter how we move through and see the world. My hope for At Our Table is that it will spark a dialogue on the true cost of convenience; ignite commitments and action so that we can secure a future free of plastic waste and help us examine how we can learn from our ancestors in our pursuit for liberation against modern-day plagues.
Dwelling in a Time of Plagues: At Our Table
From Olivia Guterson, “At Our Table” is a reimagining of a Passover table constructed from locally sourced, discarded single-use plastics, illuminating the concept of convenience, throwaway culture, and environmental responsibility during a holiday centered on the joy and the sacrifices necessary in finding our own personal liberation.
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The Light Within
Guided by her practice of moving meditation to process lived experience and give shape to the intentions and hopes she has for the world, Olivia Guterson, along with fellow Jewish artist Laura Earle, designed and constructed solar-powered, recycled paper lanterns to shine light on the homeless situation in Detroit.Their interpretation of growth, resilience, and hope is embedded in the pattern of the lanterns. The lanterns served as beacons of light, beauty, hope and a reminder that there are no throw-away people or resources.
Why It Matters
Reboot envisions powerful creative arts and cultural experiences – drawn from the rich treasures of Judaism – transforming, inspiring and rekindling Jewish connections and meaning in our day-to-day lives.
What is Reboot
As a premier research and development platform in the Jewish world, Reboot touches lives by engaging a talented community of creatives to design, produce and share with the world enticing, imaginative, memorable and experiential projects and programs that are relevant for the 21st century.
About Us
Reboot is an arts and culture non-profit that reimagines and reinforces Jewish thought and traditions. As a premier research and development platform for the Jewish world, we catalyze our Reboot Network of preeminent creators, artists, entrepreneurs and activists to produce experiences and products that evolve the Jewish conversation and transform society.
About Reboot
Reboot is an arts and culture non-profit that reimagines and reinforces Jewish thought and traditions. As a premier research and development platform for the Jewish world, we catalyze our Reboot Network of preeminent creators, artists, entrepreneurs and activists to produce experiences and products that evolve the Jewish conversation and transform society.
Dispatches From Quarantine: Ellen Burstyn
Edna Rae Gillooly was born in Detroit, Michigan on December 7, 1932. She left high school early to pursue a career as a model and actress under various names including Erica Dean, Keri Flynn and Ellen McRae.
In 1957, she had her Broadway debut in the comedy Fair Game. By the late 1960s she joined The Actor’s Studio under the direction of Lee Strasberg and came to be known as Ellen Burstyn.
Unable to perform during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ellen is taking the time to reconnect with nature and reflecting on her storied career, her relationship with her late mother and the legacy she hopes to leave behind.
An Audacious Roadmap: Reboot at 18
Can cultural reinvention galvanize the Jewish world? This year, we will unleash the answer as Reboot rolls out a whole host of new initiatives dedicated to reinvigorating and “rebooting” Jewish life through creative expression.
How We Did 10Q in 2018
For over 70,000 people, the answer to this question is already a definitive “yes.” Last month Reboot led its 11th year of 10Q – our annual reflection project during the ten days of awe.
National Day of Unplugging Wrap-Up 2018
We knew that Virgin was planning on doing something for the National Day of Unplugging (NDU), but having the entirety of Virgin’s social media accounts go dark was a testament to the universal notion that we all need to take some time to disconnect from our devices.
A Special Reboot Passover
This year, Reboot worked to re-imagine the Passover Seder with exciting partnerships, events and projects. We shared our own Passover resources, with activities used in homes and communities around the country, and produced our own events and special content. Passover was filled with thoughtful introspection into what the story of Exodus represents, and how we can apply it to the different situations we come across.
Gefilte: It’s Not About the Fish
A family tradition of making gefilte fish from scratch goes beyond simply making the dish; it’s an act embedded with the history of a family’s story and legacy. Reboot is proud to have co-produced a short documentary directed by Reboot network member, Rachel Fleit, focusing on the Hermelin family of Detroit, and how matriarch Doreen Hermelin’s annual ritual of making gefilte fish represents a tradition rooted in Jewish meaning. Watch here.