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Samantha "Sam" Woll (June 15, 1983 [1] – October 21, 2023) was a Jewish community leader, founder of the Muslim-Jewish Forum of Detroit, the president of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in Detroit, Michigan. On October 21, 2023, she was found stabbed to death outside her home. [2] Her killing, amid increased tensions during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, drew international attention, but police ...
The Detroit City Council is the legislative body of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The full-time council is required to meet every business day for at least 10 months of the year, with at least eight of these meetings occurring at a location besides city hall.
Mary D. Waters (born August 27, 1955) is an American politician from Detroit, Michigan. She is a member of the Detroit City Council. [1] Previously she served for three terms as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives, where she was Michigan's first African American minority floor leader from 2003 to 2006. [2] [1]
History. The first mosque in the city was the Highland Park Mosque, and the first imams who lived in Detroit were Kalil Bazzy and Hussein Adeeb Karoub. This first mosque failed in 1922. A multiethnic coalition founded the Universal Islamic Society (UIS), the city's second mosque, in 1925. [1] Early Muslim communities in Detroit "navigated ...
DETROIT (FOX 2) - A series of violent weekends threatens to undo the work Detroit has done to have its lowest crime rate in 60 years. Two people are dead, 19 were wounded after gunfire ripped ...
Waters served three terms in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006. She became an at-large member of Detroit City Council in 2022.
Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past is a 2014 book by Sally Howell, published by the Oxford University Press. It discusses the Muslims of early 20th century Detroit, Michigan, and Detroit prior to 1970.
Community members and elected officials gathered at the Church of the Messiah in Detroit Saturday for the 17th annual Silence the Violence march.