From the Max M. Fisher Federation Building on Telegraph in Bloomfield Hills, it’s a straight shot, just eighteen minutes down the road, a Michigan left turn to Fenkell, then right onto Grayfield Street.
Over lunch and a quick Google search, the idea sparked: Why not start a Jewish Bar Association of Michigan. Where’s there’s a need, there’s a way.
If ever you’ve been to a Bar Mitzvah, a wedding, a Federation community event of any size, you’ve seen their work.
Yad Ezra. The words are Hebrew and mean, “helping hand.” You might add, “loving kindness.”
The event was a first – organized primarily for Jewish college students on the cusp of graduation, making those first critical choices – to stay in Michigan – to come to Detroit – or to chose otherwise in pursuit of opportunities elsewhere.
If bike lanes, food trucks, pop-up retailers, hipster coffee houses and designer watches made in Detroit are an indication of the vitality of people living, working and moving back to the city, then take heart.
It’s a seductive mix, alright. Where urban chic meets Detroit chutzpah.
Mary Kramer from Crain’s Detroit with Faye Alexander Nelson, Cindy Pasky, Laura J. Trudeau and Jackie Victor
The Jewish Fund’s Teen Board initiative is a youth-led program where students are empowered as grantmakers.
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.
