The J - Detroit

Detroit Jewish Film Festival: The Ring
2025-05-08 16:00 - 18:00 (America/Detroit) | The Berman Center For The Performing Arts 6600 W Maple Rd,
Drama / Israel, Hungary / Hebrew and Hungarian with English subtitles / 120
minutes
Arnon Noble, a devout man with a strong bond to his mother, a Holocaust
survivor, embarks on a journey to Hungary with his estranged daughter to seek
a legendary ring that once saved her life. Written by and starring Ophir
Award-winning actor and beloved stand-up comedian Adir Miller, The Ring is
based on his own family’s story of Holocaust survival.
Presented by The Lenore Marwil Detroit Jewish Film Festival
Sponsors: CHAIM-Children of Holocaust Survivors Association in Michigan;
The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
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The Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs featuring author of Judgement and Mercy, Martin J. Siegel
2024-02-21 19:00 - 21:00 | The J – Detroit 6600 W Maple Rd, West Bloomfield Township
Seminars for Adult Jewish Enrichment (SAJE) Presents: In Judgment and Mercy
: The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs
, Martin J. Siegel offers an insightful and compelling biography of Irving
Robert Kaufman, the judge infamous for condemning Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
to death for atomic espionage.

Absorbingly told, Judgment and Mercy brings to life a complex man by turns
tyrannical and warm, paranoid and altruistic, while revealing intramural
Jewish battles over assimilation, class, and patriotism. Siegel, who served as
Kaufman’s last law clerk, traces the evolution of American law and politics in
the twentieth century and shows how a judge unable to summon mercy for the
Rosenbergs nonetheless helped expand freedom for all.
Recently nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award: John Leonard
Prize for best first book in any genre.
Martin J. Siegel practices and teaches law in Houston. After clerking
for Judge Kaufman, he served as an Assistant US Attorney in Manhattan and on
the staff of the US Senate Judiciary Committee. His writing has been published
in the New York Times , the Los Angeles Times , the Houston Chronicle ,
and legal journals.
Mr. Siegel will be joined in conversation by Judge Michelle Appel. Judge Appel
obtained her Juris Doctorate law degree from the University of Detroit. She
worked at a private law firm for twenty years and served as an Oakland County
Commissioner before being elected judge to the 45B District Court in Oak Park
in 2003.
SAJE is endowed by a generous gift from Cis Maisel and supported by Carol
& Ronald P. Fogel, Sheri & David Jaffa, and Elaine & Michael Serling through
The J’s Pillar of Light Program.
This program is co-sponsored by the Detroit Jewish Book Fair, Henry & Delia
Meyers Library, JLearn, and University of Michigan Jewish Law Student
Association.
Books available for purchase at the event through a partnership with Schuler
Books.
View event on Jlive: https://jlive.app/events/6725
