Detroit Jewish News Foundation

The mission of the Detroit Jewish News Foundation is to educate and strengthen the Jewish community of Detroit and Southeast Michigan by capturing, telling and learning from the community's ongoing story. Thankfully, those issues were backed up on microfilm at another location, so they were not lost for good. However, that fire sparked a dream in JN Publisher Arthur Horwitz to digitize the entire history of the Jewish News and make it available and searchable for the public. That dream is getting closer to fruition. Earlier this year, the Detroit Jewish News Foundation was born, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that will support the educational mission of the Jewish News. Its first initiatives will be to digitize every issue of the Jewish News, dating from March 27, 1942, and to create forums, town hall meetings and other events to best utilize and share this historical community resource. Our Greater Purpose

To pursue an educational, cultural and scholarly mission that offers new and additional opportunities to research, learn, discuss and know the ongoing story of the Jewish community of Detroit and Southeast Michigan. OUR GREATER PURPOSE
To provide an historical resource and venue for this purpose while training, educating and informing students, interns, community leaders and others.