FEBRUARY 4 • 2021 | 5
1942 - 2021
Covering and Connecting
Jewish Detroit Every Week
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The Detroit Jewish News (USPS 275-520)
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29200 Northwestern Highway, #110,
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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
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Director of Advertising: Keith Farber
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Senior Account Executive:
Kathy Harvey-Mitton
kmitton@thejewishnews.com
| Business Office
Director of Operations: Amy Gill
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Operations Manager: Andrea Gusho
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Operations Assistant:
Ashlee Szabo
Circulation: Danielle Smith
Billing Coordinator: Pamela Turner
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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
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