Mordechai Lightstone demonstrates the proper use of a lulav I was harassed by the police outside of Kalamazoo, Michigan for using my lulav and etrog. Last Tuesday, while traveling between Chicago and Detroit, my family and I stopped at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. Traveling with small children is always a challenge, and the museum offered…
Scars in the Garden from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo. “The Black community was resistant to the Jewish community coming into the neighborhood at first,” explained Chava Karen Knox, an African-American woman who converted to Judaism a couple of years ago. Knox is referring to the Jewish volunteers who work on a weekly basis in…
A Jewish college at which almost all of its 2,000 students study overseas and where few students graduate has renewed its grant of accreditation — at the fourth attempt. The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools renewed Michigan Jewish Institute’s grant of accreditation “with admonishment” after three times deferring its decision. An article in…
An Israel divestment resolution was defeated at the University of Michigan while a similar measuer was narrowly passed a second time by the student government of Chicago’s Loyola University. The Central Student Government of the University of Michigan reversed a decision to postpone indefinitely consideration of a divestment resolution and then voted down the resolution….
Before my blood ran Michigan maize and blue, I would not be surprised if it were apple cider for 4 months out of the year. Beginning every Labor Day weekend and lasting through Thanksgiving, my neighborhood mill has churned out the best cider one could hope for—pure, unadulterated, unpasteurized, unfiltered, fresh, and preservative-free. As far…
Author Alice Walker will be invited to speak in a public forum on campus, the provost of the University of Michigan said, after being disinvited from a women’s center celebration. The provost, Martha Pollack, said in a letter to university faculty posted on the university’s Center for the Education of Women’s web page that the…
Democratic U.S. Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee, said on Thursday he would not seek re-election in 2014, ending more than three decades in the Senate. “This decision was extremely difficult because I love representing the people of Michigan in the U.S. Senate and fighting for the things that…
Six highly untraditional sukkahs — imagine black ash, recycled wood, inflatable inner tubes and grass — took over Liberty Park in this city’s downtown section in late September, inaugurating a locally sponsored national competition for environmental sukkah design. The sprawling scene was the work of a project known as Sukkah Arbor. The project is one…
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