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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 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 She was counting ballots while people yelled ‘Stop the count!’
Jacqueline Dressler was hard at work counting Michigan voter ballots in a convention center in downtown Detroit when she heard commotion break out on the far side of the room. “Stop the count! Stop the count!” she heard people chanting. She looked up and saw a group of people assembling together and pumping their fists…
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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 Israeli Airline Brings Precious COVID Cargo to Detroit
It was around 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 12, when the wheels of an El Al jet touched down at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The plane, void of passengers, flew to Detroit from China on what could be considered a humanitarian aid mission. Inside the Israeli jet were 3.5 million surgical and KN95 protective masks, face…
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Fast Forward Rashida Tlaib Attended Jewish Voice for Peace Shabbat Service After Cancellation Of Israel Trip
(JTA) — Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., joined a Friday night Shabbat service in a Detroit park arranged to show the freshman congresswoman support after she was denied entrance to Israel. The program in Detroit’s Pallister Park, attended by about 60 people, according to The Detroit News, was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace Action, the…
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Fast Forward Woman Charged For Threatening Detroit Hebrew Free Loan Employees
(JTA) — A woman who was arrested for making racially insulting phone calls to a Hebrew Free Loan organization in Detroit was charged with ethnic intimidation. The woman arrested in last month was identified by the Detroit Free Press as April Marie Bennett, 29, of Hastings, a small town of 7,300 in western Michigan. In…
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