18 | DECEMBER 30 • 2021 

YEAR IN REVIEW

 AUGUST

AUG. 2 – JVS HUMAN 
SERVICES AND KADIMA 
ANNOUNCE MERGER 
JVS Human Services and 
Kadima, both nonprofits that 
serve vulnerable communities 
in Metro Detroit, announced 
they will move forward with a 
merger expected to be opera-
tional in 2022.

AUG. 12 – BIRMINGHAM 
TEMPLE CHANGES ITS 
NAME
After nearly 60 years, the 
Birmingham Temple becomes 
the Congregation for 
Humanistic Judaism of Metro 
Detroit.

SEPTEMBER

SEPT. 11 – 20TH 
ANNIVERSARY OF 9/11
For 81 Metro Detroiters, the 
memory of Sept. 11, 2001, 
includes a stop for ice cream 
in a mall at Alonim Junction 
in the Jezreel Valley, en route 
to Migdal HaEmek in the 
Detroit Partnership region in 
Israel. They shared their mem-
ories with the JN.

TOP: 9/11 
Memorial 
shines 
brightly.

BELOW: 
Larry Jackier 
speaks to the 
Detroit Group 
in the lobby 
of the hotel in 
Israel in 2001. 

ISTOCK
DEBBIE HILL

LEFT: 
Yoav Raban 
on the World 
Trade Center 
observation 
deck, Sept. 10, 
2001, the day 
before he came 
to Detroit.

