Hastings Street

Hastings Street

Hastings Street. This iconic Detroit road was more than just a thoroughfare; it was a thriving community.

Fred Butzel

In Good Company

It’s that time of year, when summer fades away, the leaves begin to turn, and Federation’s Fred M. Butzel Award is bestowed to an outstanding communal leader.

Saving Family Treasures

It’s that time of year again, when the snow (slowly!) begins to thaw, and we venture into basements, closets and drawers on a spring cleaning binge.

Sharing Sharon Alterman

A portrait of Sharon Alterman, Jewish community archivist.

Photos from the Archives

From the Archives

Perusing photos. . .thousands of phots in the Jewish Community Archives. Here are a few just for fun.

Gino Bartali

The Gino Bartali Story

Here’s a story Scott Kaufman, Federation’s CEO, likes to tell, especially as he leads first-time visitors through Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem.

Stories from the Archives

Exhibits from the Archives

Reflecting the life and times of Jewish Detroit a century ago, photographs on display at Adat Shalom Synagogue.

Latke Vodka 9

Pix from the Archives

From “attendees” to participants. From members to volunteers. From advocates to ambassadors. From fundraisers to leaders . . . the strength of Jewish Detroit has always been a torch to pass on to the next generation.

Dexter Davison Market

Notes from The Archives

Times change but the Jewish community of Detroit has remained cohesive in its migratory pattern.

Fred Butzel

Notes from The Archives

Google the name Fred M. Butzel: No one man, and certainly no one in the Detroit community has done more to earn the esteem of so many.