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A bomb threat forced children to evacuate from Hebrew Day School in Ann Arbor Monday morning, as similar threats were reported in Florida, Pennsylvania,…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - A national humanitarian organization says Michigan's prison system is keeping Jewish inmates from celebrating Hanukkah because they…

An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor has fulfilled her longtime wish to sing the U.S. national anthem at a Major League Baseball game.Hermina Hirsch sang…

Anyone with even a passing knowledge of world history knows about the horrors that came out of the Nazi attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe.Some six…

Dr. Emanuel Tanay died of metastatic prostate cancer on August 5. A visitation is planned for Saturday, September 13 at 11:00 am at the Nie Family Funeral…

Gabriela Frank is probably not what comes to mind when you think of a contemporary classical music composer. For starters, she considers herself a hippie.…

The Michigan Opera Theatre Children’s Chorus will perform Brundibar this weekend at the Detroit Opera House. The children's opera was originally performed…

There's an exhibit going on now through December 8 at the Hatcher Graduate Library at the University of Michigan. It's entitled "American Foodways: The…

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, begins this evening. Half a century ago, that would have meant thousands of…

When older generations die, there’s always the fear that we’ll lose their stories.But in metro Detroit’s Jewish community, they’re trying to keep history…