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DETROIT (JTA) – Just off Woodward Avenue, the Motor City’s main thoroughfare crowded with high-end shops, sleek office buildings and a luxury hotel, a synagogue with multicolored stained-glass windows anchors

In a first-of-its-kind mobilization, 20 major Jewish organizations announce the formation of the Jewish Climate Leadership Coalition, which will bring together Jewish community leaders and organizations who recognize the existential threat and moral urgency of climate change and commit to taking action.

With a planned $5 million renovation set to be complete in 2024, a young contingent is revitalizing the century-old congregation and renewing Jewish life in the urban center

Kol: A Retreat for Jewish Music Across the Diaspora takes place Sept. 9-11 in Berkeley and offers classes on a variety of Jewish musical styles.

Following 1967 riots, Jewish community of metropolitan Detroit migrated outwards, but with Motor City filing bankruptcy in 2010s, many business people, including Jews, flocked to the city over potential for experimentation at low cost

The Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, seeing rapid growth, is embarking on an ambitious expansion.

Since its establishment in 1916, Beth Israel Congregation has had a key influence on Jewish life in Washtenaw County. 

At least a dozen major dynasties were historically or are now involved in the fossil fuel industry, and they have diverse giving patterns when it comes to environmental causes

A selection of recent real estate deals in Israel including in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Holon, Bat Yam, Rishon Lezion, Beer Yaakov, Rehovot and Ra'anana.

Today, more than 100 years later, the descendants of Louis and Jacob Blaustein are using a fortune built on fossil fuels to fund, among other causes, climate justice and environmental groups.