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Douglas Bloom To Receive Butzel Award

Metro Detroit / 09.06.2018

Douglas Bloom To Receive Butzel Award
The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit will give Douglas Bloom the Fred M. Butzel Award for distinguished community service at its 2018 Annual Meeting 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Be...
12 Steps On The Spiritual Path

Faith / 09.06.2018

12 Steps On The Spiritual Path
High Holidays provide inspiration for recovering addicts. The High Holiday season has a special meaning for most Jews, regardless of their level of observance. For those who are recovering from addic...
Sweet Success

Faith / 09.06.2018

Sweet Success
Family duo create kosher treats for the holidays. What started out as a desire to create the perfect Passover cookie that didn’t taste like cardboard has taken off into “Cookies and More by Shelley a...
Matchmaker, Matchmaker – Gary Kanner

Community / 08.16.2018

Matchmaker, Matchmaker – Gary Kanner
Avery Drongowski Special to the Jewish News NJP (Nice Jewish Person) Gary Kanner Each month, The Well highlights an amazing (and eligible!) individual. The Well has agreed to share its Q & As ...
Matchmaker, Matchmaker – Irene Slobin

Community / 06.28.2018

Matchmaker, Matchmaker – Irene Slobin
Karleigh Stone Special to the Jewish News NJP (Nice Jewish Person) Irene Slobin (Also a Matchmaker!) This month, the JN features an older, eligible single in the community: Irene Slobin. She has bee...
Talking To Ourselves

Columns / 06.07.2018

Talking To Ourselves
Once again, events in Israel have intensified and, once again, many in the Jewish community are frantically sending flurries of emails and articles to each other. “You must read this one” we write to ...
Mollie Poppins

Art & Culture / 05.31.2018

Mollie Poppins
Jennifer Lovy Contributing Writer Native Detroiter Mollie Yarsike takes care of the kids so parents can enjoy the party. I can’t believe this didn’t exist before,” is the most common reaction to Mol...
Matchmaker, Matchmaker – Zach Goldberger

Community / 05.24.2018

Matchmaker, Matchmaker – Zach Goldberger
Matt Weiner Special to the Jewish News Each month, The Well highlights an amazing (and eligible!) individual. The Well has agreed to share its Q & As with these amazing singles with the JN. This ...
All-Night Studying

Faith / 05.17.2018

All-Night Studying
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...
Ami’s Upsherin

Faith / 05.10.2018

Ami’s Upsherin
Beverly Kent Goldenberg Special to the Jewish news 3-year-old marks birthday with Jewish tradition. Although they are not religious, Etai and Caroline Goldenberg love Jewish traditions, customs and ...
Faces & Places: Passover Mural At Temple Beth El

Community / 05.03.2018

Faces & Places: Passover Mural At Temple Beth El
This year at Temple Beth El, the Early Childhood Center staff and students created an interactive, inclusive and hands-on Passover mural. Each classroom took ownership of a plague or of the jellyfish ...
Some Post-Passover Thoughts

Columns / 04.05.2018

Some Post-Passover Thoughts
Another Passover is winding down. By now, the last folding chair from your seder has been returned to the basement and that one lost piece of afikoman has finally been found — courtesy of the ants gat...
One Alexa = Four Sons

Columns / 03.29.2018

One Alexa = Four Sons
We have a new addition to the family! She’s little and cute, about the size of a hockey puck … and we’re always kvelling when we discover something new she can do.  I mean, she’s so clever...
Long Tradition

Faith / 03.29.2018

Long Tradition
For 66 years, Harriet Berg has joined the Nadis family seder. Sixty-six years ago, Sara Nadis was a newlywed whose husband, Maxwell, asked if she could make a seder. “I said, ‘Sure,’ and he wa...
Sing A Song

Faith / 03.29.2018

Sing A Song
Find songs for your Passover seder on the web. Singing is traditionally a major part of the Passover seder, and it certainly makes for a more festive and participatory celebration. But what if your r...
Inspiring Haggadot

Faith / 03.29.2018

Inspiring Haggadot
Illuminated manuscripts tell the same Pesach story in a handcrafted way. Once upon a time, owning a book amounted to a big deal. To begin with, to get parchment for the pages, you had to slaughter a ...
Viva (Jewish) Mexico! – Pati Jinich

Arts & Life / 03.29.2018

Viva (Jewish) Mexico! – Pati Jinich
PBS cooking host Pati Jinich’s Mexican-Jewish Passover. Celebrity chef Pati Jinich grew up in Mexico City, where she spent Shabbat dinners at her bubbie’s house. “When we walked into her house...
Weekly Torah Portion – We Question To Learn

Spirit / 03.29.2018

Weekly Torah Portion – We Question To Learn
Passover celebrates the Israelite exodus from Egypt, reflected upon in many places in the Torah as the cornerstone of Jewish religious faith in God. The first of the Ten Commandments declares: “I a...
Faces & Places At The Matzah Factory

Community / 03.22.2018

Faces & Places At The Matzah Factory
This year on March 11, the annual Barbara and Douglas Bloom Matzah Factory moved to Yad Ezra in Berkley, where participants not only learned about how to make matzah, but also made their own to take h...
Passover: Detroit Style

Faith / 03.22.2018

Passover: Detroit Style
Downtown Synagogue to share its pre-seder with community partners. Why is this night different from all other nights? The Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue (IADS) grappled with the question anew this ye...
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