THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
YOUR WEDDING—
BAR MITZVA
ALBUM
FINER
WINE
Friday, February 25, 1977 35
Detroit's Traveling Holy Ark Finds New Home
,and .installed in the
sanctuary.
According to a Detroit
In 1867, Detroit's Tem- Free Press story (Aug. 31,
ple Beth El purchased the 1867), "The 'Ark of the
Tabernacle Baptist
WHEN PHOTOGRAPHED BY
Church on Washington New Beba ldelson
and Clifford and trans-
formed it into a syna- Facility Dedicated
gogue.
AND ASSOCIATES
HAIFA —Dedication of
A new, massive Holy one of Israel's largest
357-1010
Ark, about 18 feet high, modern community cen-
was built "in the style of ters highlighted the
the New York Temple" gathering here of Pioneer
Women leaders from
North America, Latin
America and Europe to
formulate plans for a
world congress of the or-
ganization in 1978. •
KOSHER MEATS & POULTRY
"Beit Beba" in Kiryat
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Eliezer, the facility which
also offers a program of
vocational training, was
renamed in memory of
Beba Idelson, long-time
lb. head of the Pioneer
Women movement and
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vice president Dr. Judith
Diesendruck.
By IRVING I. KATZ
Executive Secretary,
Temple Beth El
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Detroit's Wandering Aron Kodesh
* * *
Covenant' was located on El's Ark on Woodward
top of a pyramid of four and Gladstone because
steps, carpeted with Temple Beth Or of
crimson, enclosed by dou- Raleigh is moving into a
ble columns on each side new building and is seek-
and concealed by a crim- ing to purchase an Ark.
son veil in front, heavily
I replied to him that the
ornamented with gold. Ark was transferred to
The columns support an the Benard L. Maas
Ark, beneath which is a Chapel in our new build-
circular stained glass ing but that, coinciden-
window, upon which are tally, Cong. Beth
represented the two tab- Tephilath Moses of Mt.
lets of stone, bearing the Clemens was seeking a
Ten Commandments in home for its Ark.
the Hebrew tongue. The
Dr. Kanoff communi-
veil of the Ark also bears cated with the Mt. Cle-
an inscription in the same mens congregation and
characters."
negotiations were begun.
In 1903, when Temple
Architect Michael
Beth El moved to Wood- Landau of Raleigh re-
ward and Eliot (now the cently advised me that the
Bonstelle Theatre), the Ark was purchased by
Ark was moved to the new Temple Beth Or and is
building and placed in the being taken apart and
assembly hall.
crated for shipment to
When Beth El moved to Raleigh.
Woodward and Gladstone
Our "Wandering Ark"
in 1922, the Ark was sold has again found a new
to Cong. Beth Tephilath home for a long time to
Moses in Mt. Clemens, come.
and installed in its new
sanctuary.
In 1975, Cong. Beth Library Acquires
Tephilath Moses decided Ancient Mahzor
to build a new synagogue,
NEW YORK — A rare
with a new Ark, and when
the work was almost 16th Century prayer book
completed, the president that was not completed
of the congregation wrote because its printers were
to me and wanted to know sent to jail has been ac-
whether Temple Beth El quired by the Schocken
would be interested in Institute of the Jewish
housing its 1867 Ark in its Theological Seminary of
new temple in Birming- America.
ham.
Only four or five copies
Regretfully, there was of this mahzor survive
no appropriate place from the 1,500 printed in
where the Ark could be Tannhausen, in Schwa-
placed, primarily because
ben, Germany in 1594.
of its size.
They all end abruptly on
Leonard N. Simons, im- page 232, but the Schoc-
mediate past president of ken copy has additional
the Detroit Historical pages from a later, and
Commission and a past otherwise unknown edi-
president of Temple Beth tion printed in Basle,
El made inquiries at a Switzerland some time
number of Jewish institu- before 1599. However, it is
tions but could find no in- missing the title page and
stitution to house the Ark four others.
because of its massive-
The acquisition was
ness.
A few months later I re- announced in Jerusalem
ceived a letter from my by Dr. Yaakov Katzens-
friend, Dr. Abram Kanoff, tein, librarian of the
of Raleigh, N. C., a na- Schocken Institute for
tionally known authority Jewish Research, origi-
on Jewish ceremonial art, nally a private library
asking what had hap- which moved from Ger-
pened to Temple Beth many to Israel in 1934.
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