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December 29 • 2016 31 continued on page 32 The community commemorated the 50th anniversary of the death of Rabbi Morris Adler, who was shot by a disturbed congregant on the bimah at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in 1966. The Detroit Jewish News Foundation created a new page on its web- site that includes stories about Rabbi Adler and memories from Shaarey Zedek members. The U.S. Department of Education, accusing the Michigan Jewish Institute in West Bloomfield of illegally obtaining federal Pell Grants in its study abroad program, denied the school recertification in the Title IV student financial aid program. NCJW/Greater Detroit launched its 125th anniversary year with many special activities planned. The Detroit Section, with more than 1,500 members, is one of the largest in the United States. The inaugural Limmud Michigan was a resounding success, offering more than 50 learning opportunities in one day at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor on March 13. Entrepreneur David Farbman announced a $1 million commit- ment to Federation, becoming the youngest major donor to the Federation's Centennial cam- paign. The University of Michigan Hillel earned AIPAC's 2016 Duke Rudman Leadership Award, the organization's highest honor that recognizes campuses leading in pro-Israel political leadership and activism. APRIL Two resolutions to boycott Israeli academic institutions and divest funds from companies doing business with Israel were over- whelmingly voted down by fac- ulty members at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. During a ceremony held April 11 in Detroit, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced the next Arleigh-Burke class destroyer, DDG 120, will be named USS Carl M. Levin in honor of the longest-serving senator in Michigan history. After the Michigan Jewish Institute filed a 33-page response to Department of Education allegations of widespread and long-term misuse of Pell Grants, the DOE said in a letter that the denial is now "a final agency decision" and that MJI is ineli- gible to participate in Title IV programs. Rabbi Norman Roman, Temple Kol Ami's rabbi for the past 30 years, announced his retirement effective July 1. Seventy-five years ago, the late Rabbi Leon Fram, Temple Israel's founding rabbi, wrote The History of Temple Israel. It began, "It was a significant event in the history of American Judaism that occurred when a new Reform congregation was organized in the city of Detroit in the sum- mer of 1941." Looking back three quarters of a century, it is hard not to marvel at his foresight as he remembered the beginnings of what would become the largest Reform congregation in North America. FEBRUARY: Members of the new coed Harvey Milk BBYO chapter. MARCH: Moishe House residents: Dan Hacker, Paul Green, Abby Rubin, Hayley Sakwa and Gabe Neistein. MARCH: U-M Hillel receives AIPAC's top pro-Israel campus award. APRIL: Temple Israel members fulfill the 613th mitzvah.