My Sister’s Challah

Writer and challah-maker extraordinaire, Elizabeth Applebaum is Marketing Director at the Jewish Community Center. When not attending to the news and events at the JCC, Elizabeth enjoys spending time with her four children, reading at leisure and playing a curiously competitive game of Words with friends.
My sister, Becca, and I are different. I’m obsessively clean; she is not. She loves shoes, and I like purses. Becca lives yoga; my idea of exercise is walking across the room to get cookies.

Good Books and Sweet Dreams

There’s nothing like getting tucked into bed with a good book. PJ Library keeps the tradition alive. . .with a Jewish spin.

Startup City

There’s plenty of startup buzz to go around and enough to inspire entrepreneurial enterprises to open doors.

A man standing behind a sitting woman places his hand on her shoulder, an unwelcome attention that can be avoided.

From Macho to Mensch

Gender violence is not just a woman’s issue. Let’s talk about it.

The Legacy We Leave

Tales of the Over-Involved from a rockin’ Detroiter who isn’t afraid to yell from the rooftops her passion for her hometown.
To the naysayers who wonder where our Detroit youth have gone, let me say we are here and we are staying.