NEW YORK -- Gilad Shalit met New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at City Hall for a brief ceremony on the sixth anniversary of the day Shalit was captured by Hamas. During Tuesday's ceremony, which also featured City Council Speaker Christine Quinn,...
By Repps Hudson, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 6, 2012
Emily Stein MacDonald is the fifth generation of her family to work at Berger Memorial Chapel, which has been at 4715 McPherson Avenue, in the Central West End, for the last 98 years. A 1995 graduate of American University with a B.A. in print journalism,...
By David Baugher, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 18, 2012
Just months after its creation, the new Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School finds itself celebrating both promising fundraising figures and a healthy enrollment total. “We hope to achieve our goal by the summer,” said head of school Cheryl Maayan....
Block Yeshiva High School is once again selling raffle tickets as part of a nationwide drawing through the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation. The deadline is March 18 to buy tickets. For purchase of a $100 ticket, participants are eligible for the $100,000...
WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich.—Toward the end of his life, Apple's visionary leader, Steve Jobs, was visited by another computer innovator, Microsoft's Bill Gates. The conversation turned to the future of education. As related in Walter Isaacson's recent biography...
Twenty nine members of Central Reform Congregation (CRC) will be selling their artwork at the congregation's first "Art Shuk: A Marketplace for Artisans." The event will run from 6-7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9 and noon-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10 at CRC, 5020...
By Jason Miller, WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich.
• Published October 12, 2011
Social networking sites began buzzing immediately after word spread of the death of Apple Inc. visionary Steve Jobs Wednesday evening. Rabbis took time out of their busy preparations for Yom Kippur to halt their sermon writing and post personal reflections...
