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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

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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.