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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.