28 Friday, November 13, 1981
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Halpern, Two Cantors Retire at BAHM
Rabbi Halpern sits on the
executive of the Jewish
Community Council and is
chairman of its Committee
Rabbi Israel I. Halpern, — Rabbi Halpern came to
the forerunner of the cur-
senior rabbi at Cong. Beth
Abraham Hillel Moses, has rent congregation, Cong.
Beth Abraham, in 1949.
announced his retirement.
He will assume the role of when the synagogue was lo-
cated on Linwood Avenue.
rabbi emeritus on Jan. 1.
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RABBI HALPERN
He moved with the congre-
gation when it erected a
building at Seven Mile Road
and Greenlawn and in 1971
when it relocated in West
Bloomfield.
Rabbi Halpern studied at
the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan
Theological Seminary and
Yeshiva College in New
York, and holds a master's
degree in sociology from the
University of Detroit.
He was ordained at the
Yeshiva of Radun (Po-
land) by the rosh yeshiva,
Rabbi Mendel Zaks, son-
in-law of the Chafetz
Chaim of Radun.
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CANTOR ACKERMAN
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is a board member of Akiva
Hebrew Day School, Miz-
rachi, the chaplaincy com-
mittee of Sinai Hospital,
Detroit Round Table of the
National Conference of
Christians and Jews, De-
troit Chamber of Commerce
Religion and Business
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counseling staff of the De-
troit Institute of Technol-
ogy. Rabbi Halpern also
serves on the national and
regional rabbinic cabinets
of State of Israel Bonds.
The congregation also
announced that Jan. 1 will
mark the retirement of
Cantor Shabtai Ackerman
and Associate Cantor Israel
Fuchs. However, Cantor
Fuchs will serve as interim
cantor for the congregation.
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Rabbi A. Irving Schnip-
per will remain in his post
as rabbi of the congregation.
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Synagogue
Services
ADAT SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: Services 5:15 p.m.
today and 9 a.m. Saturday. Michael Rocklin, Bar
Mitzva.
CONG. BETH ABRAHAM HILLEL MOSES: Services 6
and 8:15 p.m .today. Marni Grant, Bar Mitzva at late
services. Services 9 a.m. Saturday.
CONG. BETH ACHIM: Services 5 p.m. today and 8:45
a.m. Saturday. Neal Karlinsky, Bar Mitva.
TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi
Hertz will speak on "Mordecai Kaplan at 100." Adam
Springel, Bar Mitzva. Services 11 a.m. Saturday.
Rabbi Hertz will speak on "Sodom and Gomorrah." Jill
Altman, Bat Mitzva.
BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today.
Rabbi Wine will speak on "Israel — Life Under Begin."
Amy Ernst, Bat Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 4:45 p.m. today and 8:45
a.m. Saturday. Dr. Eli Brown will read the Maftir.
DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE: Services 8 a.m. Saturday.
Rabbi Gamze will speak on "The Two Faces of Anti-
Semitism."
TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 8:15 p.m. today. Jason
Horowitz, Bar Mitzva. Services 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
Andrew Friedman, Bar Mitzva.
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Joel
Wittstein, who will be installed as the temple's new
educational director, will speak on "From Shul to
School and the Long Way Back Again." David Trepeck,
Bar Mitzva. Services 11 a.m. Saturday. Adina Blum,
Bat Mitzva.
TEMPLE KOL AMI: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Erik Stone,
Bar Mitzva. Services 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Julie Ro-
sender, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Services 5:10 p.m. today and
8:45 a.m. Saturday. Sanford Aaron, Bar Mitzva. Serv-
ices 6 p.m. Saturday. Jeffrey Cutler, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. T'CHIYAH: Services 7:45 p.m. today, conducted
by Martin and Marcia Baum. -
Regular services will be held at Cong. Bais Chabad of
Farmington Hills, Cong. Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield,
Cong. Beth Isaac of Trenton, Temple Beth Jacob, Cong.
Beth Shalom, Cong. Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah, Cong.
Beth Tephilath Moses of Mt. Clemens, Cong. Bnai David,
Cong. Bnai Israel of West Bloomfield, Cong. Bnai Israel-
Beth Yehudah, Cong. Bnai Jacob, Cong. Bnai Zion, Cong.
Dovid Ben Nuchim, Livonia Jewish Congregation, Cong.
Mishkan Israel Nusach H'Ari, Sephardic Community of
Greater Detroit, Cong. Shaarey Shomayim (Jewish Center
Jimmy Prentis Morris Branch), Cong. Shomrey Emunah
Cong. Shomrey Israel (18995 Schaefer), Cong. Solel, Young
Israel of Greenfield, Young Israel of Oak-Woods and Young
Israel of Southfield.
Bnai Moshe Bond Dinner
Will Honor Shalom Ralph
Cong. Bnai Moshe will
honor Shalom Ralph, for
more than 33 years the
ritual director (sexton) of
the synagogue, at the an-
nual Bnai Moshe Israel
Bond dinner on Dec. 6 in the
synagogue's social hall. The
announcement was made by
Dr. Leonard Demak, con-
gregation president, and
Rabbi Stanley Rosenbaum.
The dinner will be
chaired by Bernard Klein
and Abraham Pasternak. A
tribute committee is in for-
mation.
Ralph was born in Po-
land, the younger of two
brothers and a half-sister.
His father was a "yeshiva
bokhur"; his mother died
when Shalom was three.
His father re-married and
the Ralph family later
moved to Palestine where
Shalom was educated at Bet
Sayfer . Tachkemoni in
Jerusalem. When the fam-
ily immigrated to. the
United States, they eventu-
ally settled in Detroit where
a livelihood was earned at
their confectionary store in
Hamtramck.
Ralph became active
in Mizrachi and in the
Young Israel movement._
SHALOM RALPH
Ralph accepted the posi-
tion of sexton of Bnai Moshe
in 1948. In addition to his
duties with the synagogue
he has been an active He-
brew and Bar Mitzva tutor
and a certified mohel.
The honoree is a member
of Pisgah Lodge of Bnai
Brith, Red Magen David,
Friends of Shaare Zedek
Hospital in Jerusalem and
Bichur Cholim Hospital,
Jerusalem.
Ralph will be the reci-
pient of the "Lion of
Judah-Peace Award." For
dinner reservations, call Is-
rael Bonds, 557 - 2900. -