 FEBRUARY 4 • 2021 | 5

1942 - 2021

Covering and Connecting 
Jewish Detroit Every Week
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DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 
FOUNDATION
go to the website
www.djnfoundation.org

The Detroit Jewish News (USPS 275-520) 

is published every Thursday at 

29200 Northwestern Highway, #110, 

Southfield, Michigan. Periodical postage paid 

at Southfield, Michigan, and additional mailing 

offices. Postmaster: send changes to: 

Detroit Jewish News, 29200 Northwestern Hwy., 

#110, Southfield, MI 48034.

Publisher
The Detroit Jewish 
News Foundation

Board of Directors:
 Chair: Gary Torgow
 Vice President: David Kramer 
 Secretary: Robin Axelrod
 Treasurer: Max Berlin
 Board members: Larry Jackier, Jeffrey 
 Schlussel, Mark Zausmer
 
 
 Senior Advisor to the Board: 
 Mark Davidoff
 Alene and Graham Landau Archivist Chair: 
 Mike Smith
Founding President & Publisher Emeritus: 
Arthur Horwitz
 Founding Publisher 
Philip Slomovitz, of blessed memory

 
 
 

| Editorial 
 DIrector of Editorial: 
 Jackie Headapohl
jheadapohl@thejewishnews.com 
 
Copy Editor: David Sachs
dsachs@thejewishnews.com
Social Media and Digital Producer:
Nathan Vicar
nvicar@thejewishnews.com
Staff Reporter: Danny Schwartz 
dschwartz@thejewishnews.com
Editorial Assistant: Sy Manello
smanello@thejewishnews.com
Senior Columnist: Danny Raskin
dannyraskin2132@gmail.com

Contributing Writers:
Nate Bloom, Rochel Burstyn, Suzanne 
Chessler, Annabel Cohen, Shari S. 
Cohen, Alicia Chandler, Shelli Leibman 
Dorfman, Ben Falik, Louis Finkelman, 
Stacy Gittleman, Esther Allweiss 
Ingber, Mark Jacobs, Barbara Lewis, 
Jennifer Lovy, Rabbi Jason Miller, 
Alan Muskovitz, Robin Schwartz, Mike 
Smith, Steve Stein, Ashley Zlatopolsky

| Advertising Sales 
Director of Advertising: Keith Farber
kfarber@thejewishnews.com
Senior Account Executive: 
Kathy Harvey-Mitton
kmitton@thejewishnews.com 

 | Business Office 
 Director of Operations: Amy Gill
 agill@thejewishnews.com
 Operations Manager: Andrea Gusho 
 agusho@thejewishnews.com
 Operations Assistant: 
 Ashlee Szabo 
 Circulation: Danielle Smith
Billing Coordinator: Pamela Turner

| Production By 
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Manager: Scott Drzewiecki 
Designers: Kelly Kosek, Kaitlyn Schoen, 
Michelle Sheridan 
 

T

his issue marks a new 
page in the Detroit Jewish 
News’ nearly 80-year sto-
ried history, as the editorial and 
operational staff of the JN are 
“officially” welcomed into the 
Detroit Jewish News Foundation, 
publisher of the now not-for-
profit JN. This change cements 
the future of the JN as the paper 
serving Metro Detroit’s Jewish 
community for years to come.
The Detroit Jewish News 
Foundation has appointed Mark 
Davidoff to work with the JN 
team on a weekly basis and 
to oversee the stewardship of 
the William Davidson Digital 
Archive of Detroit Jewish 

History. Davidoff, 
Senior Advisor 
to the Detroit 
Jewish News 
Foundation Board, 
is also President 
and CEO of The 
Fisher Group, 
the central office 
for the family of Max M. and 
Marjorie S. Fisher, the imme-
diate past Michigan managing 
partner for Deloitte LLP and 
previously served for 12 years 
with the Jewish Federation of 
Metropolitan Detroit, eventually 
as its Chief Operating Officer 
and Executive Director.
“With the recent transfer 

of the Jewish News to the DJN 
Foundation, we are best posi-
tioned for the Jewish News and 
the Davidson Archives to be of 
service to the greater Detroit 
community and Jews worldwide,
” 
Davidoff said.
Although this change means 
a lot to the sustainability of the 
paper’s future, readers and adver-
tisers should still expect the same 
independent journalism they’ve 
always relied upon.
The Foundation board did 
take this opportunity to update 
the Mission and Vision state-
ments of the JN at its last board 
meeting, respecting the vision 
of Founder Philip Slomovitz, 
who wrote, in part, in the first 
issue of the Detroit Jewish News on 
March 27, 1942: “The Jewish News 
pledges itself to a program whose 
concern it becomes to keep Jews 
and non-Jews fully informed on 
facts relating to the Jewish posi-
tion; whose chief interest it is to 
advance the morale of our people 
and to hold high the banner of 
democracy, religious freedom 
and good will among all faiths ...
”
Our New Mission: The Detroit 

Jewish News will be of service 
to the Jewish community. The 
Detroit Jewish News will inform 
and educate the Jewish and 
general community to preserve, 
protect and sustain the Jewish 
people of greater Detroit and 
beyond, and the State of Israel.
Our New Vision: The Detroit 
Jewish News will operate to appeal 
to the broadest segments of the 
greater Detroit Jewish com-
munity, reflecting the diverse 
views and interests of the Jewish 
community while advancing the 
morale and spirit of the commu-
nity and advocating Jewish unity, 
identity and continuity.
The DJN Foundation and the 
staff of the JN vow to hold fast 
to these ideals, which will be 
published proudly on our mast-
head, as we continue to share 
the many inspiring stories of our 
community. 

About the Detroit Jewish News 

Foundation: Originally founded in 2011, 

the Foundation oversees the digitization 

and archiving of the print history of the 

JN and the Detroit Jewish Chronicle and 

now serves as publisher of the not-for-

profit Detroit Jewish News. 

The DJN Foundation’s 
Bright Vision for the 
Detroit Jewish News

MISSION STATEMENT The Detroit Jewish News will be of service to the Jewish community. The Detroit Jewish 
News will inform and educate the Jewish and general community to preserve, protect and sustain the Jewish 
people of greater Detroit and beyond, and the State of Israel.

VISION STATEMENT The Detroit Jewish News will operate to appeal to the broadest segments of the greater 
Detroit Jewish community, reflecting the diverse views and interests of the Jewish community while advancing the 
morale and spirit of the community and advocating Jewish unity, identity and continuity.

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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JACKIE HEADAPOHL DIRECTOR OF EDITORIAL

Mark 

Davidoff

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