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2023:
Year in
Review
OUR COMMUNITY
ON THE COVER
04
JUNE
JUNE
JewishGen, the
world’s leading
digital archive
for Jewish family
history, races to
preserve 1 million
records related to
Ukraine Jewish
family history.
Wayne State University
Professor Howard Lupovitch
is honored with the
Jewish Historical Society
of Michigan’s Leonard N.
Simons History-Maker Award
The Jewish
Agency for
Israel — North
American
Council presents
the inaugural
Max M. Fisher
Award to Jane
F. Sherman.
16
JUNE
FBI arrests
19-year-old
Michigan man
who planned
to kill people at
Congregation
Shaarey Zedek in
East Lansing.
18
JUNE
17
JULY
Jewish Fraternity at the University of
Michigan is struck with hateful graffiti.
19
JULY
Israel President Isaac Herzog
addresses a joint meeting of
Congress in commemoration of
Israel’s 75th anniversary.
31-01
JULY-AUGUST
Detroit hosts
National Young
Leadership
Cabinet retreat.
After 15 years as executive
director of University of
Michigan Hillel, Tilly Shemer
announces her departure.
AUGUST
01
AUGUST
Rabbi Dan
Horwitz leaves
Adat Shalom
Synagogue to
become chief
executive officer
of the Jewish
Federation
of Greater
Nashville.
Shir Shalom begins a major building
expansion project.
Professor Howard Lupovitch
The vandalism included a swastika
painted on a window.
Israeli
President
Isaac Herzog
speaks at a
joint meeting
of the U.S.
Congress at
the Capitol
on July 19.
CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES/
JTA
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer spoke
at the JFNA National Young
Leadership Cabinet retreat
held in Detroit.
Tilly Shemer
Rabbi Dan Horwitz
Members of Temple Shir Shalom signed
this beam going into its expanded facilities.