Detroit

  • Joanne D. Gilbert, M.Ed., is an acclaimed author, sought-after educator, and captivating public speaker. Raised in the close-knit community of Oak Park, Michigan—a predominantly Jewish suburb of Detroit—Joanne was surrounded by individuals whose lives bore witness to extraordinary resilience. Many of her neighbors were Holocaust survivors who had courageously defied the Nazis. Their poignant and

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  • I am not sure what they were smoking in Detroit when this happened but it must have been some heavy stuff. In 1980 America, the Cold War was still very much hot, Ronald Reagan was elected President, and the United States’ Olympic hockey team shockingly upset the USSR in what would be dubbed “The Miracle on Ice.”

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