Storm Kirschenbaum was the Jewish News Male High School Athlete of the Year in 1997 and a 2012 inductee into the Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.Now, the 40-year-old is the CEO of the Birmingh...

I got involved with Repair the World through the PeerCorps program when I was only a sophomore in high school. Since then, I’ve volunteered dozens of times with RTW and have worked hard to help bridge...

Song leader Sheldon Low will help highlight a love for Jewish music at Israel’s birthday party in Detroit. When singer-songwriter Sheldon Low takes the stage on June 20 during the Israel@70 at River ...

Gil Seinfeld Special to the Jewish News Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor awarded gift by the Farber family. This spring, the Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor secured one of the largest donations in its ...

The Well named among top 50 innovative Jewish organizations. The Well was named one of North America’s top 50 innovative Jewish organizations in the 13th annual Slingshot Guide for the second year in...

As it leaves its longtime home in the Aaron DeRoy Theatre, the JET theatre company will be remembered for many things — not the least of which will be its season finale production, Harvey Fierstein’s ...

Oak Park pool offers gender-separated hours. The likely closing of the Jewish Community Center’s Jimmy Prentis Morris (JPM) branch in Oak Park, announced in January 2015, was a low point for many res...

Vivian Henoch Special to the Jewish NewsAbove: Melyn and Karen RubenfireMeet the Rubenfires, Detroit activists and founders of Project Healthy Community. Four days a week at the Fredrick J. S...

Rusted Root front man Michael Glabicki brings his new band to Metro Detroit. The JCC Ethan & Gretchen Davidson Music Festival returns for its second year at the Berman Center for Performing Arts....

Tikkun Leil Shavuot has evolved over the last decades as a holiday ritual. Since Jews stopped bringing sacrifices, the festival of Shavuot has looked like a generic Yom Tov, without distinctive ritua...

Underlying the self-congratulatory hype of the Jewish Community Center’s supposed “revisioning, rebranding and repositioning” (“Let It Ride,” April 26) is a sad reality.I was a JCC employee in...

Community celebration to be held on the Downtown riverfront. When Israel@70 meets River Days on Wednesday, June 20, a sea of blue-and-white flags will wave along the riverfront where thousands of J...

Editor’s Note: Last week, the JN ran a story “Standing With Israel” (page 17, May 3) about a protest the group IfNotNow held at Hillel Day School on April 19. We asked two community members to share t...

Leonard Bernstein, the legendary composer, pianist, conductor and all-around great man of American music, would have been 100 years old in 2018. There will be thousands of events around the world this...

Local dance competitor recalls her mother as she dances. Judie Goodman dances for her mother.The 64-year-old oncologist/hematologist takes to the dance floor with her husband, Kurt Vilders, and c...

For David Mamet’s American Buffalo, set designer Elspeth Williams transformed the JET stage into a resale shop in Hamtramck.As the JET theater is forced out of its home at the JCC, it looks forwar...

“We’ve been in the black for two years and we expect to remain in the black for the foreseeable future,” Jewish Community Center CEO Brian Siegel said.The operational gap was closed at first w...

Above: JCC executive team members CFO Larry Poupard, Assistant Directors Judy Loebl and Heidi Budaj, COO Jeff Lasday and CEO Brian Siegel with JCC senior directors in the windows.Reimagined JCC is...

Father’s Centennial gift honors his children who head Federation agencies. Members of the board of governors of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and United Jewish Foundation had reason t...

Federation’s Awards Night event slated for May 22. Each year, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit honors individuals from Jewish Detroit for their outstanding dedication, leadership and com...