THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 9, 1977 13 Kashrut Controversy in Old Detroit By IRVING I. KATZ Although Temple Beth El is today one of the largest Reform Jewish congrega- tions in the country, it was organized in 1850 as an Orthodox congregation, and the tenets of traditional Judaism, including kashrut, were observed by the mem- bers until 1861, when Beth El became Reform. One of the duties of the alirst two rabbis of Beth El s to act as shohet for the small Jewish community. In 1859, Rabbi Liebman Adler, then the spiritual leader of Beth El, inserted a "Reli- gious Notice," in Hebrew, in the Occident, a monthly periodical published by Rabbi Isaac Leeser of Philadelphia, who was the acknowledged leader of tra- ditional Judaism in the United States at that time. The following is a trans- lation of Rabbi Adler's notice: NOTICE TO TRAVELERS OF OUR BRETHREN WHO OBSERVE KASHRUT A local Jew for some time kept his store open on the Sabbath in addition to week days. 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