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… District, and to University of Michigan Regent Mark Bernstein for their forceful condemnations of anti-Semitism and the demonization of Israel. As Jewish centers and day schools remained on high alert amidst…
… Shalom Synagogue in Detroit. Judy Schultz Ancell Farmington Hills Gratitude To Trott, Bernstein The Jewish community owes a debt of gratitude to U.S. Congressman Dave Trott, representing Michigan’s 11th…
… com- munity, Trott was sensitive to the heightened concerns as both our Jewish Community Center and Hillel Day School were among targets of multiple bomb threats made by a disgraced St. Louis reporter…
… documentary Hate Spaces, and given our state legislature’s passage of bills outlawing discrimination against Israel, Bernstein’s principled stand shines as an example for other regents and university administra…
… visceral in Detroit, especially 50 years after 1967. So, in my capacity as a BCTC board member, I am joining a gen- erous group of black and Jewish supporters who will match every pledge made (by you!) to…
… our cam- paign (bctcdetroit.org) by April 28 (next week!), dollar for dollar, up to $20,000. I hope that my friends and readers will join me in investing in justice and joy at the corner of Woodward and…
… Gladstone. Ben Falik Huntington Woods Adat Shalom Made Historic First In the March 30 Jewish News, there were some interviews of people active in our community (“Mitzvah Memories,” page C28). One of them…
… was Sally Krugel, who said she was one of four girls who were the first to read from the Torah in her com- munity in Flint at a “progressive, Conservative synagogue.” She also stated that their small…
… community was ahead of Detroit where girls did not read from the Torah until 20 years later. Ms. Krugel has a right to feel very proud of her accomplishments both as a teenager in Flint and of her many hours…
… spent on behalf of the Metro Detroit Jewish community. However, she didn’t know that in 1953, my family was very proud of my sister, Elaine Schultz Steinhardt, who was the second bat mitzvah at Adat…