Jewish Family Service invites you to a special screening of “Three Minutes: A Lengthening,” a documentary written and directed by Bianca Stigter, narrated by award-winning actress Helena Bonham Carter and co-produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen. So long as we are watching history, history is not over. Three minutes of footage, shot by David Kurtz […]
Join us for an exciting exploration of Bulgaria’s rich Jewish heritage, from the arrival of Sephardic Jews in the 15th century to the survival of 50,000 Bulgarian Jews during the Holocaust. Our final destination will be Jaffa, Israel, where large numbers of Bulgarian Jews settled between 1948 and 1952. Joseph Benatov holds a Ph.D. in […]
Hadassah Annual Meeting
Quarterly Board Meeting
The Jewish Working Women’s Network Presents Pure Networking – no agenda, no stress, an easy way for working women to meet each other and network
Join the Detroit Jewish Book Fair and JLearn for a in-person talk with author Andrew Lawler, Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City
Join us on Wednesday, September 14, at 7:00 PM for A Michigan Perspective on Ken Burns’ Latest Documentary: “The U.S. and the Holocaust.” The three-part series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the […]
Help us send wishes for a sweet new year to some of our community members living in non-Jewish senior care residences. We’ll be coloring Rosh Hashanah cards and packing them up with yummy honey cake to be delivered in time for the holiday. Drop in anytime between 4 to 6 PM and enjoy kosher cider […]
Yad Ezra annual fundraiser
Community wide event for the 2023 Annual Campaign
We will meet in the parking lot of Ferndale Foods (600 W. Nine Mile Road, Ferndale, MI – intersection of Nine Mile and Livernois) and ride from that point to visit the homes of some of Motown’s greatest artists. We will ride some residential streets and up the protected bike path on Livernois to the […]
From its opening in 1927 to its closure in 1939, Littman’s People’s Theatre was Detroit’s premier destination for Yiddish-language theatrical performance and film. Managed and founded by Abraham Littman, the theater served as one of the most significant hubs of Yiddish-language cultural production and consumption in Detroit. Nadav Pais-Greenapple is a second-generation Jewish educator from […]