In the month of November we celebrate the blessings of family and community ties, ever growing and building anew through the years. So many reasons to give our thanks.
A look back at Jewish Senior Life: November 1991
Our thanks to our fathers, our Zaydes and grandchildren, caring, sharing, learning from one another, from generation to generation.
![November 1991: Jewish Apartments November 1991: Jewish Apartments](http://myjewishdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/inset-archive-november-2012-06-979x667.jpg)
A ground breaking year: 1988
Our thanks to the visionaries, the dreamers, the partners – a strong foundation in a caring community, building for its future.
![Groundbreaking ceremony: Jewish Apartments, Phase IV Groundbreaking ceremony: Jewish Apartments, Phase IV](http://myjewishdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/inset-archive-november-2012-04-1000x447.jpg)
A good year: 1993
Our thanks to the Bubbes, the volunteers, the staff and the interns, all helping hands at Jewish Federation Apartments.
![Hands-on, working together at Jewish Federation Apartments Hands-on, working together at Jewish Federation Apartments](http://myjewishdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/inset-archive-november-2012-05-928x667.jpg)
The school year: 1997
Our thanks to our students, our teachers, our rabbis, our network of Hebrew Day Schools and congregations.
![Celebrating Yom Yerushalayim at Akiva Hebrew Day School Celebrating Yom Yerushalayim at Akiva Hebrew Day School](http://myjewishdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/inset-archive-november-2012-03-977x667.jpg)
Our 3rd Annual Jewish Book Fair: November 1954
Our thanks to the “People of the Books” – the writers, the readers, the speakers, celebrating a vibrant Jewish Book Fair.
![1954 Book Fair at the Jewish Community Center on Woodward Avenue 1954 Book Fair at the Jewish Community Center on Woodward Avenue](http://myjewishdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/inset-archive-november-2012-01-843x667.jpg)
Summer 2004: Federation’s Teen Mission to Israel
Our thanks to our trips of a lifetime, to our people-to-people connections and friendships made in Jewish Detroit’s Partnership 2Gether Region of the Central Galilee.
![Federation's Teen Mission to Israel, 2004 Federation's Teen Mission to Israel, 2004](http://myjewishdetroit.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/inset-archive-november-2012-07-953x667.jpg)