Passover is around the corner. This year, as I begin to prepare in Jerusalem, where cleaning products went on sale the morning after Purim and municipal posters wishing everyone a happy spring holiday decorate the streets, I think back to preparing for Passover four years ago, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was still winter and…
(JTA) — A former counselor at a JCC camp in suburban Detroit convicted of sharing pictures of nude boys online overdosed on drugs a day before he was scheduled to enter federal prison. Matthew Kuppe, 22, was taken into federal custody on Friday, a day after he had been scheduled to enter prison and two…
A former camp counselor at the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week for taking nude photos of his campers in a locker room and posting them on a website frequented by Russian pedophiles. Matthew Kuppe, age 22, pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography. The presiding judge,…
(JTA) — The website for the metropolitan Detroit area’s Walk for Israel was hacked and peppered with hate-filled and anti-Semitic expressions. The messages appeared on the site’s home page for about three hours on Tuesday, according to local reports. Thousands of people, both Jews and non-Jews, participate in the march, which is marking its 12th…
You know that you’re a Proud Detroit Jew, because for decades you boasted about growing up less than a mile away from the house of Smokey Robinson. Maybe you never saw him “Shop Around,” but you could point out his house on Outer Drive. You still brag about the fact that you saw little Michael…
A well-known Detroit-area physician who is a pillar in the Orthodox community has been sued for malpractice by two female patients who claim he repeatedly molested them during examinations. Maury Ellenberg, a doctor in suburban Novi who serves as of Michigan’s largest Jewish day school, allegedly fondled the two women after they went to him…
— The Jewish Community Relations Council of Metropolitan Detroit is merging with the American Jewish Committee. The partnership between the local advocacy group and the national Jewish organization, announced Thursday, is meant to boost the regional council in its efforts in support of Israel, interfaith affairs and outreach to elected officials. Members of the AJC’s Detroit board will…
— A Holocaust survivor sang the national anthem before a Major League Baseball Game between the Detroit Tigers and Tampa Bay. Hermina Hirsch, 89, performed the national anthem on Saturday at Comerica Park in Detroit, fulfilling a long-time dream. Hirsch told local television station WWJ in an interview in April in which she called on…
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