Federation’s 2023 Motor City Mission marks the
first community-wide mission since 2008.
Promised Land
DANNY SCHWARTZ STAFF WRITER
12 | MARCH 24 • 2022
F
rom March 12-21, 2023, the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit is
sponsoring its first community-wide,
adults-only mission to Israel since 2008:
Motor City Mission.
The team planning the trip is led by
Federation chairs Diane and William
Goldstein, and Lisa and Richard Broder,
along with Federation’s Israel and Overseas
Department. Federation is also working
closely with congregations throughout the
city that will be participating in the mission.
Collectively, the team has led hundreds of
journeys to Israel.
Federation CEO Steve Ingber said this trip
will be special because of the strong commu-
nity experience the group will have with so
many Jewish Detroiters traveling together at
one time.
“
A community-wide mission is something
we’ve all been dreaming about for the past
several years, and I’m incredibly excited to
see it becoming a reality,” Ingber said. “Not
only will the participants develop closer
bonds to the people of Israel, they’ll also
develop new and more meaningful relation-
ships with their fellow Detroiters.”
Ingber’s first trip to Israel was the inau-
gural Teen Mission in the summer of 1996.
Another memorable mission for Ingber was
the last trip he was on just before COVID,
with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
“That trip showed how far we have come in
strengthening the bonds between Israel and
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