Posts Tagged ‘Hebrew Free Loan’
Looking Back At Hebrew Free Loan
From the DJN Foundation Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History Mike Smith Detroit Jewish News Foundation Archivist Most weeks in the JN, one can find an advertisement for Hebrew Free Loan on page 3. This week, I decided to explore the history of this well-known organization in the Davidson Digital Archives, now hosted as…
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Commentary: Religious Liberty – It’s Not Only For Christians
In mere moments — in a speech given at the Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Summit in Washington, D.C. — Attorney General Jeff Sessions doubled down on the Trump administration’s commitment to religious liberty. On July 30, Sessions made an announcement that would further electrify right-wing evangelicals in this country — the creation of a…
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Ride For The Living
Cycle tour in Poland adds missing pieces to a survivor’s story. As she was growing up, Cheryl Berlin’s father Saul Raimi would tell her fragmented stories of his life growing up in Mlawa, a small Polish town a bit north of Warsaw. Her late father would talk of the grandfather she never knew who died…
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Quicken Loans Now Kosher
Louis Finkelman Contributing Writer Jewish-owned mortgage company adopts halachic technicality. Quicken Loans, principally owned by Dan Gilbert, the Jewish owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, is now kosher for Orthodox borrowers. The company, which also owns the online mortgage agency Rocket Mortgage, announced Friday, June 8, that it had adopted what is known as a heter…
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Business Matters – Find YOUR Corner Office
Nice To Meet You Hi, I’m Jon Dwoskin. It’s great to meet you. I’m a business coach, adviser, speaker, trainer, author, podcaster, husband, father and, most importantly, a family man. I sit on the executive committee at Congregation Shaarey Zedek and on the boards of Hebrew Free Loan and BBYO. I love what I do, growing…
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