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THE START OF THE DECADE wit-
nessed the rise of the Tea Party, the
targeted killing of 9-11 mastermind
Osama bin Laden, the emergence of
ISIS as a global terrorist threat and a
controversial accommodation with Iran
over its emerging nuclear weapons
capabilities.
Acts of terrorism impacted major
European cities and didn't spare
America, either, with attacks in places
like Boston, San Bernardino, Calif., and
Orlando, Fla. Meanwhile, Israeli civil-
ians, soldiers and border police were
terrorized by Palestinians with trucks,
cars, knives and other low-tech objects
that could be adapted to kill and maim.
Detroit became the largest city to
ever claim bankruptcy and emerged,
in part, through a “grand bargain”
that left it with stronger finances and
a brighter future. Extensive redevel-
opment of Detroit’s central city and
Woodward Corridor — largely fueled
by enterprises owned or controlled by
Dan Gilbert — helped to bring young
professionals, including those from the
Jewish community, back to the region
and the city.
The discovery of financial misman-
agement led to sweeping changes
at the Jewish Community Center,
including the controversial closure of
the Jimmy Prentis Morris Jewish Com-
munity Center in Oak Park.
The community lost three philan-
thropic giants, A. Alfred Taubman,
Mandell “Bill” Berman and William
Farber, as well as Jeffrey Zaslow, one
of the country’s most beloved writers
and matchmakers
The Detroit Jewish News Foundation
was formed in 2011, and 300,000
pages of the JN were digitized and
made available to the public for free in
2013 via the William Davidson Digital
Archive of Jewish Detroit History. In
2015, the pages of the Detroit Jewish
Chronicle, which published weekly
from 1916 until 1951, when it was
sold to the Jewish News, were added
to the archive.
The ongoing history of the Detroit
Jewish community continues to be
written by the Jewish News. The
Foundation's Davidson Digital Archive
will capture and share these stories so
future generations will benefit from the
wisdom of their predecessors. •