“Can a Literary Mafia Affect Your Choice of Books?”: Jews, Publishing, and American Literature Josh Lambert, Wellesley College In the 1960s and 1970s, many American authors, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, complained about a “Jewish literary mafia.” While perniciously circulating antisemitic ideas, such claims also reflected the remarkable success of Jews in the U.S. publishing industry. […]
ORT’s WINGO Fundraiser – Women’s Only Bingo
Register here: bit.ly/cbstrivianight2022 We hope you will come out and show off your trivia expertise at our trivia fundraiser on Saturday, November 5th, starting at 7:45pm. Trivia will begin at 8:00pm. There will be ten rounds of play on a variety of different categories. Tables (made up of eight seats) or individual seats can be […]
Jewish Family Service’s annual Fall Fix Up event to help older adults prepare their homes for winter.
Join us for a special evening honoring the “B’nai Mitzvah” of Rabbi Aaron Bergman and Hazzan Daniel Gross for their 13-plus years at Adat Shalom Synagogue. Hazzan Gross will perform alongside with The Cliff Monear Trio and special guest, Cantor Neil Michaels, and Rabbi Bergman will surely make you laugh with his one of a […]
WP Executive Committee Meeting
Merav Alush-Levron, Inbal Blau, Yali Hashash, Noa Hazan, Naphtaly Shem-Tov The interdisciplinary field of Mizrahi studies covers a wide array of issues, approaches, and methodologies, illuminating in compellingly diverse ways the intricacies of the Mizrahi experience. This hybrid panel brings together scholars who published invaluable books over the past year, thus contributing to the expansion […]
Kristallnacht
Join Jewish Family Service as Rina Hennes Sabes, LMSW and Julia Cohen, LMSW, PMH-C as they facilitate this free support group for new moms with babies 0-12 months to come together to share their experiences, give and receive support, and learn about helpful tools and resources for postpartum wellness. Topics include: stress, adjustment to parenting, […]
JFMD/UJF Combined Board Meeting
Please join us for a candid look at child sexual abuse in our community. Our guest speaker will be author, attorney and abuse prevention advocate Rachael Denhollander, the first to publicly raise her voice against former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar. According to the CDC, about one in four girls and one in thirteen […]
Meeting of the NEXTGen Detroit Executive Committee.