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18

JUNE

Bais Chabad Torah 
Center opens the 
Mallo Walder Mikvah 
Center in West 
Bloomfield.

20

JUNE

Congregation 
Shaarey Zedek’s 
synagogue 
is a clue on 
the national 
television game 
show Jeopardy. 

21

JUNE

Roz Blanck, Guy Barron, 
Amy Goldhaber, Shimon G. 
Levy, George Roberts and 
Tracy Proghovnick Edelstein 
are honored at the Jewish 
Federation of Detroit’s 
Annual Awards Night. 

The USS Carl M. 
Levin guided-
missile destroyer 
is commissioned 
in Baltimore, MD. 24

JUNE

27

JUNE

Four years after defacing the 
historic Temple Israel Synagogue in 
Hancock, Michigan, with swastikas, 
23-year-old Nathan Weeden is 
indicted for the crime. 
Michigan Israel Business Accelerator launches “The 
Elevator,” a landing zone for Israeli startups in the U.S. 

JULY

01

JULY

Robyn Hughey is 
named executive 
director of the Lester 
and Jewell Morris Hillel 
Center at Michigan 
State University.

David Hecker, longtime president 
of the Michigan Federation of 
Teachers union, retires. He was 
the top Jewish labor leader in the 
state for two decades.

10

AUGUST

First Phase of the Michigan WWII Legacy 
Memorial in Royal Oak’s Memorial Park is 
dedicated. The Jewish War Veterans of 
Michigan supported the Memorial; Senior 
Vice Commander Art Fishman, age 96, 
officially accepted the memorial on behalf 
of all WWII veterans. 

25

AUGUST

“Garrett’s Space,” a Suicide 
prevention center near Ann Arbor, 
holds its first fundraiser. The center 
is named in memory of Garrett 
Halpern, who lost his life to suicide 
in 2017.

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Zeesy Silberberg and 
Esther Trager inside 
the Mallo Walder 
Mikvah Center 
 
West Bloomfield.

Look what 
was a 
clue on 
Jeopardy!

The USS Carl M. Levin

US NAVY

Mark Davidoff, Matt Elliott and Quentin Messer Jr. unveil 
the chosen name “The Elevator.”

ELAYNE GROSS PHOTOGRAPHY

Robyn Hughey

David Hecker at a “Build Schools, 
Not Walls” rally in Detroit.

Art Fishman with Frances Masters, an origi-
nal Rosie the Riveter, at the dedication of the 
Michigan WWII Legacy Memorial in Royal Oak.

