Jewish Federation of Metro Detroit expands reach despite COVID pandemic challenges
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DETROIT – The Jewish Federation of Metro Detroit has a mission to take care of the needs of Jewish people in Metro Detroit and around the world.
While that hasn’t been an easy mission, they’ve made things work while expanding their reach. Like the rest of the world, the COVID pandemic brought on many challenges for the Jewish Federation.
“It was a tough pill to swallow to tell every temple and synagogue in the area that we would advise that they shut down, effective immediately, basically and send everybody home,” Jewish Federation of Metro Detroit CEO Steven Ingber said.
Succeeds Scott Kaufman, who left in late 2019
Has served as CFO of the organization since 2016
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Steven Ingber
The Jewish Federation/United Jewish Foundation of Metropolitan Detroit named COO Steven Ingber as its new CEO following a lengthy national search.
Ingber, 42, who has served as COO since 2016, led the organization on an interim basis following the departure of Scott Kaufman, who stepped down late in 2019 after leading the organization for nine years. There could have been no greater test for a leader, the federation s president, Matthew Lester, said in a release. He has skillfully managed the complex response to the crisis while continuing to strengthen the Jewish Federation for the future.
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A photo of Nachman Doniel Morris, a student who died in the stampede at Mount Meron in Israel on Lag bâOmer, was shared on social media. (Twitter via JTA)
Donny Morris, the nephew of Rabbi Yechiel Morris of Young Israel of Southfield, was among those lost in the tragedy.
The Detroit Jewish community gathered over Zoom Sunday night to mourn the loss of 45 lives at Mount Meron on Lag bâOmer, April 29. At least 150 were injured in the tragedy.Â
Representatives of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and clergy from many streams of Judaism remembered the victims and shared their collective grief with the people of Israel through prayer and community.Â