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Commentary: Stop Making Excuses For FDR’s Abandonment Of The Jews

Letters & Viewpoints / 06.21.2018

Commentary: Stop Making Excuses For FDR’s Abandonment Of The Jews
President Franklin D. Roosevelt could have saved many Jews from the Holocaust without interrupting America’s war effort. The notion that there was a contradiction between rescuing Jews and fightin...
What is Orthodox Judaism?

Metro Detroit / 06.21.2018

What is Orthodox Judaism?
Some of the consternation regarding Modern Orthodox Rabbi Asher Lopatin stems in no small part from a lack of familiarity with the history and development of Orthodox Judaism itself. The term “orth...
‘Overflowing With Optimism’

Israel / 06.14.2018

‘Overflowing With Optimism’
Israeli ambassador addresses Metro Detroit crowd. Expressing optimism for the future, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer said that after 70 years of existence, Israel’s innovational advances a...
A New Permanent Home

Metro Detroit / 05.17.2018

A New Permanent Home
JN digital archive to reside at U-M in perpetuity. A copy of the digital archive containing the entire contents of the Detroit Jewish News and its predecessor publication, comprising more than 330,00...
Time Travel

Columns / 05.03.2018

Time Travel
This week’s edition of the Jewish News publishes on the same day (May 3) that a sold-out audience will gather at JN75 for the paper’s 75th Diamond Anniversary Legacy Gala, the most prestigious event a...
From Holocaust To Independence

Israel / 05.03.2018

From Holocaust To Independence
Above: The FIDF delegation marches into Auschwitz-Birkenau on April 15. Michigan FIDF supporters travel to Poland and Israel. More than 150 Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) supporters f...
Hillel At 60

Metro Detroit / 04.26.2018

Hillel At 60
Above: Hillel students, faculty and staff spell out 60 in honor of the school’s 60th anniversary. Nurturing Jewish leaders traditionally and now in 21st-century fashion. As Hillel Day School of Me...
Germany Close Up

Metro Detroit / 04.19.2018

Germany Close Up
Story and Photos by Julie Bagley and Avery Drongowski Special to the Jewish News The Well takes a group of young professionals to Germany to discover its Jewish history. In late February, The Well...
Quick Click … From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History, Oct. 13, 2016

Uncategorized / 10.13.2016

Quick Click … From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History, Oct. 13, 2016
Since the 1950s, every generation grows up with a different set of childhood television entertainers and influencers. Early pioneers were Howdy Doody and The Mickey Mouse Club. Power Rangers and Power...
QuickClick…From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History

Uncategorized / 12.17.2015

QuickClick…From the William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History
The long-awaited new Star Wars movie — The Force Awakens — debuts in theaters everywhere this week. During the hype for the new movie, we thought we ought to look back a long time ago, in a galaxy fa...

Uncategorized / 07.31.2014

QUICK CLICK … Vignettes From The JN Archives, July 31, 2014
DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital is the largest of the eight hospitals that comprise the Detroit Medical Center. It has been known as Sinai-Grace since 1999 following the merger of Sinai and Grace Hospitals, ...