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Stiefel wrote that by the 1970s the exodus of Jews from the City of Detroit to the suburbs had increased from a "trickle" to a "deluge." [5] There were 80,000 Jews living in Metro Detroit in 1976, of a total population of 4,138,800, and in the metro area there were 34 congregations: 23 Orthodox, 6 Conservative, 4 Reform, and one Humanistic. [10]
First Jewish American male (Third Judicial Circuit): Harry B. Keidan in 1927 [13] First Jewish American male (Michigan Supreme Court): Henry M. Butzel in 1929 [14] First Greek American male: Emmanuel N, Karay in 1946 [15] First African American male (judge): Charles W. Jones in 1950 (upon his appointment to the Recorder's Court) [16] [17] [18] [19]
The gang was led by brothers Abe, Joe, Raymond, and Izzy Bernstein, [8] who had moved to Detroit from New York City. [9] While in Detroit casino operator Lincoln Fitzgerald was a gambler and he became associated with the Detroit Purple Gang. [10] In 1976 Fitzgerald opened a 16 story casino which he named Fitzgeralds Casino & Hotel. [11]
1920s–1950s Major bootlegger in Philadelphia during Prohibition. He was a member of the Big Seven and later involved in drug trafficking with Meyer Lansky during the 1930s. [2] [6] Chris Rosenberg: 1950–1979 1970s A member of the Gambino crime family's DeMeo crew during the 1970s. He was later killed by DeMeo to cover up the murder of ...
In 2011, The Detroit Jewish News Foundation was created to digitally archive over 100 years of news involving Detroit's Jewish Community. Through its William Davidson Digital Archive of Jewish Detroit History, is the Michigan Jewish community’s indispensable source of primary information that educates, illuminates and makes relevant the community’s past, strengthens its present and shapes ...
Metro Detroit Jews planned to join the 1 p.m. march at the National Mall in Washington, “to condemn the rising trend of antisemitic violence and harassment, and to demand that every hostage be ...
Stanford University apologized Wednesday for limiting Jewish student admissions during the 1950s — practice that the school, for decades, denied had taken place.
1970: 69,298: 119.8%: 1980: ... Since the rapid suburbanization of the 1950s and 1960s, many Jewish Americans from ... The headquarters of The Detroit Jewish News is ...