A passionate and compassionate educator, Ellen Maiseloff likes solving puzzles. Even as a student teacher, she chose the path that would challenge her beyond the standard curriculum — to work with children with learning disabilities.
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.
Giving it a toot, discovering hidden talents, preschoolers gather to sound the shofar with a little help from Rabbi Rob Morais, Director of Shalom Street.
Beyond the Four Questions and Chad Gadya, every family brings to the table something special and uniquely theirs for Passover.
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.
Stranger things have happened in our kitchens, but the stars have aligned to create a fusion of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah menus.
A model program gains a national endorsement – and a thumbs-up from Max Granitz
Chairs line the dance floor in the synagogue social hall. Parents sit in rows to one side, shifting in their chairs, some remembering when they were on the dance floor 20, 30, even 40 years earlier.
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.
Introducing Rabbis Arturo Kalfus, Mark Robbins, Jeffrey L. Falick and Shragie Myers
