6 | JULY 14 • 2022 

1942 - 2022

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 

32255 Northwestern Highway, #205, 

Farmington Hills, Michigan. Periodical 

postage paid at Southfield, Michigan, and 

additional mailing offices. 

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Detroit Jewish News, 

32255 Northwestern Highway, #205, 

Farmington Hills, Michigan 48334

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
32255 Northwestern Hwy. Suite 205,
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
248-354-6060
thejewishnews.com

 
 
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
 Associate Editor:
 Rachel Sweet
 rsweet@thejewishnews.com
Associate 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

Contributing Writers:
Nate Bloom, Rochel Burstyn, Suzanne 
Chessler, Annabel Cohen, Keri Guten 
Cohen, Shari S. Cohen, Shelli Liebman 
Dorfman, Louis Finkelman, Stacy 
Gittleman, Esther Allweiss Ingber, 
Barbara Lewis, Jennifer Lovy, Rabbi 
Jason Miller, Alan Muskovitz, Robin 

Schwartz, Mike Smith, Steve Stein, 
Julie Smith Yolles, 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 
 Farago & Associates
 Manager: Scott Drzewiecki 
 Designers: Kaitlyn Iezzi, Kelly Kosek, 
 Deborah Schultz, Michelle Sheridan 
 

PURELY COMMENTARY

STRANGER from page 4
80 YEARS from page 4

publications like the 
Jewish News have a special 
responsibility. 
First, they chronicle 
that dance, celebrating 
and memorializing the 
community’s comings 
and goings along the 
way. But they also stand 
up for the lasting values 
that preserve, protect and 
sustain a people, while 
serving as forums where 
new ideas and diverse 
perspectives can be 
explored and debated for 
all to understand. 
Dive into the William 
Davidson Digital Archive 
of the Detroit Jewish News 
Foundation and one can 
see the enduring pride 
and resilience. And one 
can also read how once 
important, but peripheral 
ideas go mainstream 

— including founding 
publisher Philip Slomovitz’s 
early devotion to Zionism, 
Detroit’s support for 
Soviet refuseniks and the 
spread of pluralistic Jewish 
education. 
Often, communal 
challenges stem from 
discomfort with the 
unfamiliar and grow 
from an unwillingness to 
engage different views with 
curiosity and empathy. 
But take it from this 
once-outsider: that is not 
the story of Detroit or its 
Jewish community at its 
best. We don’t shy away 
from strangers; we welcome 
them. And for that and for 
you, I am grateful. 

Darin McKeever is president 

and CEO of the William Davidson 

Foundation.

On page 11, readers find 
these words: “Forward 
together. Toward the 
Promised Land.”
In foreshadowing of what 
was to come, with the real-
ization of the unthinkable 
tragedy of the Holocaust, 
and then the dream of the 
founding of the State of 
Israel in 1948, these lines 
echo the words of Winston 
Churchill: There was a long 
and difficult journey ahead.
Each week, a dedicated 
team produces your Detroit 
Jewish News with passion to 
fulfill the founding words 
of Mr. Slomovitz and the 
refreshed mission of today. 
We are grateful to our team 
for their dedication and 
commitment.
Although much has 

changed in 80 years, so 
much still seems the same: 
a war-torn world searching 
for a spirit of brotherhood 
and an air of civility among 
all peoples. 
You have our commit-
ment that the Detroit Jewish 
News will continue do its 
part to further this aspira-
tion. 

Gary Torgow
Chairman, Detroit Jewish 
News Foundation

Mark Davidoff
Senior Advisor to the Board

