6 | JULY 14 • 2022
1942 - 2022
Covering and Connecting
Jewish Detroit Every Week
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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.
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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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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
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Associate Editor:
Rachel Sweet
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Associate Editor:
David Sachs
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Social Media and Digital Producer:
Nathan Vicar
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Staff Reporter: Danny Schwartz
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Editorial Assistant: Sy Manello
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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
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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