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MARCH

Audience members were warned 
not to disrupt the Honors 
Convocation ceremony, yet they 
did anyway without consequence.

University of Michigan’s 
101st Honors Convocation is 
interrupted by Pro-Palestinian/
Anti-Israel protesters. 

APRIL

07-14

APRIL

Bookstock volunteer leaders Judy Robinson, Beverly 
Phillips, Carol Dmitruk, Susi Schoenberger, Bobbi Gutman, 
Jane Steinger, Janet Berman and Natalie Newman. 

Bookstock celebrates its 20th 
year at Laurel Park, Livonia. 

: JAMIE FELDMAN

14

APRIL

Iran attacks Israel with 
more than 170 drones, 
30 cruise missiles and 
more than 120 ballistic 
missiles. Israeli Air 
Defenses, supported 
by France, Jordan, the 
U.K and the U.S., shoot 
down almost all of 
them. Iran’s attack on 
Israel is a failure.

CHUCK CLOUD PHOTOGRAPHY

12-22

MAY

Mission participants at Caesarea

Forty-one women from 
Detroit travel to Israel as part 
of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah’s 
Partners Detroit Dembs 
Mission. JN Executive Director 
Marni Raitt is one of them. 

BRIAN SPECTOR

19

MAY

Jewish Senior Life’s honors “Eight over Eighty” at a 
ceremony held at Congregation Shaarey Zedek. The 
2024 honorees are Sharon Alterman, Edith Broida, 
Gerald S. Cook, Paul Goldsmith, Nancy Kalef, Barry 
Kaufman, Alan S. Schwartz and Suzanne Simon. 

22

MAY

The Frankel Jewish 
Academy baseball team 
wins its third straight 
Catholic League Division 
2 championship. 

23

MAY

Judges Lorie Savin 
and Mark Goldsmith 
are honored by 
the Jewish Bar 
Association of 
Michigan at the 
JBAM’s annual dinner 
at the Somerset Inn 
in Troy.

Wayne State University Public Safety 
officers remove an illegal pro-Palestinian 
encampment after repeated warnings 
from university administrators. About half 
or fewer of the protesters were students. 

The WSU anti-Israel 
encampment on 
campus May 23-30

HILLEL OF METRO DETROIT

More than 2,300 
people came to show 
their support for 
Israel.

