Looking Back

Margaret Lincoln, a Holocaust-teaching dynamo from Battle Creek, has been educating people around the state for years. Three years ago, Gov. Rick Snyder signed into...

L. Brooks Patterson passed away last week on Aug. 3. For the last 26 years, he was the Oakland County Executive, the chief official...

Well-known local Jewish business, Freeds of Windsor, is celebrating its 90th anniversary. Two weeks ago, I wrote about the Holtzman family and their 100-year-old business,...

JCC Maccabi Games has a long history, with over 1,000 mentions in the JN since the 1980s. They’re back! The JCC Maccabi Games will be...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of a Jewish Detroit business that you may know. Perhaps, on your way to work today, you may...

Earlier in this issue (on page 12), you may have read about the service of Detroit Jewish community leader Larry Jackier to the Technion-Israel...

Featured image courtesy of Leonard N. Simons Jewish Community Archives, Pevin Family Papers While searching past July issues of the JN and the Detroit Jewish...

Many Detroit Jews are history buffs, taking part in Civil War reenactments in Michigan. So, it’s a warm summer day and you put on a...

The Alene and Graham Landau Archivist Chair shares his interest in discovering South African Jewish history and connections in Metro Detroit. I work with Tessa...

Detroit Jewish News Foundation archivist Mike Smith was honored as the Alene and Graham Landau Archivist. I have been the archivist for the Detroit Jewish...

Shadow Strike is a thrilling novel exploring the gripping story of the 2007 destruction of the al-Kabar nuclear reactor in Syria. By Mike Smith, Detroit...

The term Holocaust was not used as a historical concept until after World War II when the world finally understood that the Nazi party...