Hank Greenberg's Jewishness

By Jonathan Kirsch
Published on May 8, 2013

The big question in Detroit in the fall of 1934 had nothing to do with the troubled state of the world. Rather, the fans of the Detroit Tigers wanted to know whether their star first baseman, Hank Greenberg, was going to play on the Jewish High Holy Days. After all, the Tigers were in first place and they were contesting the New York Yankees for the pennant.

Rabbi Irwin Groner, ex-Rabbinical Assembly president, dies at 81

Published on January 3, 2013

Rabbi Irwin Groner, a former president of the Conservative movement's Rabbinical Assembly, has died.

Michigan St. student says attack at party was anti-Semitism

Published on August 28, 2012

A Jewish student at Michigan State University said he was attacked at an off-campus party in what he is calling a hate crime.

MLB suspends Delmon Young over anti-Semitic altercation

Published on May 1, 2012

Delmon Young, the Detroit Tigers outfielder arrested in New York for allegedly attacking a group of men and making anti-Semitic remarks, was suspended without pay for seven days.

Tigers outfielder arrested after shouting anti-Semitic remarks

Published on April 27, 2012

Detroit Tigers outfielder Delmon Young was arrested outside of a New York hotel for allegedly attacking a group of men and making anti-Semitic remarks.

FBI: Radicalized individuals, Hezbollah are potential terror threats for Detroit-area Jews

Published on April 25, 2012

Hezbollah poses no specific threat to Jewish communities in metropolitan Detroit, the FBI's head of counterterrorism in Michigan reportedly said at a suburban Detroit JCC.

About a dog, lost and found

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on April 22, 2012

In Detroit, Jewish resurgence led by young aims to transform city

Published on November 30, 2011

Blair Nosan grew up in the Detroit suburb of West Bloomfield, attended the University of Michigan and then, like thousands of other young Jews from the beleaguered state, moved away.

In Detroit-area activists’ newsletter, celebs send their Shabbat best

Published on November 10, 2011

Sending out a weekly e-mail newsletter to friends has become a passion for Lisa Mark Lis.

Drive aiming to attract young Jews to Detroit

Published on August 3, 2011

The Detroit Jewish community is launching a nationwide campaign to raise money to bring 25 young Jews to live in the city.

Ron Bloom: Car czar in the Labor Zionist tradition

Published on August 25, 2009

By now Ron Bloom's professional road to becoming the Obama administration's car czar has been widely reported. Missing from the coverage, however, has been any mention of those formative years at Jewish summer camp.

Motown Jews invade Hollywood

By Danielle Berrin
Published on August 6, 2008

For the young Jews of Detroit now living in Hollywood, Bob Aronson might as well be a movie star. The gentle-voiced CEO of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit has the money, power and prestige to throw a respectable Hollywood party. More importantly, he knows the magic ingredient required to attract young, aspiring industry types to the much-stigmatized Jewish mixer: Make it free.