MARCH: Moishe House residents: Dan Hacker, Paul Green, Abby Rubin, Hayley Sakwa and Gabe Neistein.

FEBRUARY: Members of the new coed Harvey Milk BBYO chapter.

The community commemorated
the 50th anniversary of the death
of Rabbi Morris Adler, who was
shot by a disturbed congregant
on the bimah at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek in 1966. The
Detroit Jewish News Foundation
created a new page on its web-
site that includes stories about
Rabbi Adler and memories from
Shaarey Zedek members.

The U.S. Department of
Education, accusing the
Michigan Jewish Institute in West
Bloomfield of illegally obtaining
federal Pell Grants in its study
abroad program, denied the
school recertification in the Title
IV student financial aid program.

NCJW/Greater Detroit launched
its 125th anniversary year with
many special activities planned.
The Detroit Section, with more
than 1,500 members, is one of
the largest in the United States.

The inaugural Limmud Michigan
was a resounding success,
offering more than 50 learning
opportunities in one day at the
Michigan Union in Ann Arbor on
March 13.

Entrepreneur David Farbman
announced a $1 million commit-
ment to Federation, becoming
the youngest major donor to the
Federation’s Centennial cam-
paign.

MARCH: U-M Hillel receives AIPAC’s top pro-Israel
campus award.

APRIL: Temple Israel members fulfill the 613th mitzvah.

The University of Michigan
Hillel earned AIPAC’s 2016 Duke
Rudman Leadership Award, the
organization’s highest honor that
recognizes campuses leading in
pro-Israel political leadership and
activism.

Ray Mabus announced the next
Arleigh-Burke class destroyer,
DDG 120, will be named USS
Carl M. Levin in honor of the
longest-serving senator in
Michigan history.

Two resolutions to boycott Israeli
academic institutions and divest
funds from companies doing
business with Israel were over-
whelmingly voted down by fac-
ulty members at the University of
Michigan-Dearborn.

After the Michigan Jewish
Institute filed a 33-page response
to Department of Education
allegations of widespread and
long-term misuse of Pell Grants,
the DOE said in a letter that the
denial is now “a final agency
decision” and that MJI is ineli-
gible to participate in Title IV
programs.

During a ceremony held April 11
in Detroit, Secretary of the Navy

Rabbi Norman Roman, Temple
Kol Ami’s rabbi for the past 30

APRIL

years, announced his retirement
effective July 1.

Seventy-five years ago, the
late Rabbi Leon Fram, Temple
Israel’s founding rabbi, wrote The
History of Temple Israel. It began,
“It was a significant event in the
history of American Judaism that
occurred when a new Reform
congregation was organized in
the city of Detroit in the sum-
mer of 1941.” Looking back three
quarters of a century, it is hard
not to marvel at his foresight as
he remembered the beginnings
of what would become the largest
Reform congregation in North
America.

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