Steve Friess
By Steve Friess
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News The last free-standing synagogue in Detroit is growing fast — and set for a $5 million renovation
Until recently, the 100-year-old Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue was too small to afford a rabbi or staff
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News Steve Sheffey is behind the Chicago Jewish newsletter that even Republicans have to read
Steven Sheffey was annoyed, deeply annoyed. The annoyance oozed out from the newsletter he sent in late May, a newsletter that is, arguably, the most widely shared local Jewish media in Chicago. Republicans in Congress had spent the prior days claiming Democrats in the U.S. House had voted against funding a refresh of Israel’s Iron…
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News The Jewish zookeeper whom even PETA loves
When Ron Kagan closed the Detroit Zoo’s elephant exhibit, the elephants were happy, but a lot of humans weren’t. Elephants were a signature attraction that drove attendance, and no American zoo had ever given up the prized pachyderms on humanitarian grounds. But 16 years ago, Kagan, the zoo’s soon-to-retire executive director, decided that the harsh…
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News Ilhan Omar easily beats Antone Melton-Meaux, but it should have been even easier
Rep. Ilhan Omar, the last member of The Squad to face a Democratic primary in the quartet’s first re-election cycle, handily beat back a challenge Tuesday from attorney Antone Melton-Meaux in her Minneapolis-area district, continuing a summer of impressive wins for hard-left progressives. Omar, one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress and…
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News Early results show Rep. Rashida Tlaib, staunch supporter of BDS, crushing primary opponent
In a dramatic show of newly acquired political strength, Rep. Rashida Tlaib appeared well on her way to crushing City Council President Brenda Jones in Tuesday’s Democratic primary just two years after scraping by Jones by about 900 votes to win the seat. Tlaib, who in 2018 became the first Palestinian-American woman and one of…
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News Antone Melton-Meaux, Ilhan Omar’s challenger, calls her a ‘divider’
Early in her brief tenure as a member of Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota received some advice on how not to sound like an anti-Semite. Local Jewish leaders met with the Democrat to provide a crash course in what’s so offensive about suggesting that for Jews “it’s all about the Benjamins” or that Jewish-American…
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News Meet America’s Only Jewish Political Dynasty: The Levins Of Michigan
For as long as Andy Levin can remember, politics was part of his life. He was 4 when his father, Sander Levin, was first elected to Michigan’s State Senate; he spent his pre-teens traipsing around the state through Dad’s two failed gubernatorial bids; and he returned from a college gap year in India to find…
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News Messianic Jews, Pittsburgh Shooting, Political Correctness: Michigan Jews Vote
There was precious little that could have compelled Susan Hershberg Adelman to vote against a Democrat in Tuesday’s mid-term elections. To her mind, President Donald Trump has earned continued support in Congress by being the “most pro-Israel president we’ve ever had.” But last week, when Republican congressional hopeful Lena Epstein, who is Jewish, brought in…
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