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first Jewish cemetery, and
half acre plot that was ac-
quired by Beth El in 1851 for
$150 on Champlain Street in
what is now the city of Ham-
tramck.
For 11 years, Beth El was
Detroit's sole synagogue. A
hall was rented as a place of
worship on Michigan Grand
Avenue in 1859. In 1861,
property for a synagogue
building was purchased on
Rivard Street. It was the old
First Methodist Church
near Congress Street. This
house of worship was dedi-
cated on August 30, 1861, by
Dr. Isaac M. Wise, of Cin-
cinnati, founder of the Re-
form Jewish movement in
America. The tendencies of
Beth El congregation
towards reform practices
created a rift in the
synagogue and a group of
members withdrew to form,
in 1861, Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, which
today is considered one of
the leading conservative
synagogues in America.
From the handful of
Jewish settlers in 1850, the
Jewish community of De-
troit has grown in the 100
years of its existence to a
community of nearly
100,000. There are two Re-
form congregations — Tem-
ple Beth El and Temple Is-
rael; three conservative
synagogues — Shaarey
Zedek, Bnai Moshe and
Northwest Congregation,
and 35 orthodox
synagogues ranging in
memberships from as small
as 25 to as high as Bnai
David's 650.
A number of distin-
guished men served Temple
Beth El as rabbis. Samuel
Marcus was followed by the
following rabbis: Liebman
Adler, 1854-61; A. Laser,
1861-63; Isidore Kalisch,
1863-64; Elias Eppstein,
1864-69; Kaufman Kohler,
who later became president
of Hebrew Union College,
1869-71; Reverend
Greenblatt, 1871; E. Gerech-
ter, 1871-74; Leopold Wint-
ner, 1873-76; Henry
Zirndorf, 1876-84; Louis
Grossman, 1885-89; Leo M.
Franklin, 1899-1948. Dr. B.
Benedict Glazer, the present
rabbi, has Sidney Akselrad
as his educational assistant.
Rabbi Judah L. Levin,
father of Prof. Samuel M.
Levin, of Wayne University,
was among Detroit's most
distinguished orthodox
rabbis. Rabbi Leon Fram is
spiritual leader of Temple
Israel. Harry C. Levine is
president of Temple Israel.
Dr. A. M. Hershman, rabbi
emeritus of Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, whose pre-
sent rabbi is Morris Adler, is
one of America's most dis-
tinguished scholars. He has
served this community for
45 years. Rabbi Benjamin N.
Gorrelick is Shaarey
Zedek's education director.
The following served as
presidents of Temple Beth
El since its founding: Jacob
Silberman, 1850; M.
Hirschman, 1859; Emanuel
Schloss, 1860; Simon
Freedman, 1861-65; D. J.
Workum, 1866-68; Simon
Heavenrich, 1868-74; Martin
Butzel, 1874-78; Seigman
Schloss, 1878-81; Julius
Robinson, 1881-91; Samuel
Heavenrich, 1891-93; Julius
Freud, 1893-97; Louis Blitz,
1897-1905; Samuel Heaven-
rich, 1905-07; Henry M. But-
zel, 1908; Bernard B. Selling,
1909-12; Benjamin L. Lam-
bert, 1912-13; Louis Welt,
1912-13; Bernard Ginsburg,
1918-19; Isaac Gilbert,
1919-23; Adolph Finster-
wald, 1924-25; Milford
Stern, 1925-29; Melville S.
Welt, 1930-32; Israel
Himelhoch, 1932-36; Morris
Garvett, 1936-39; Harry C.
Grossman, 1939-41; Joseph
M. Welt, 1941-44; Leonard T.
Lewis, 1944-47; Dr. Herbert
I. Kallet, 1947-49.
Shapero,
S.
Nate
president of Cunningham
Drug Co. and a prominent
civic leader, is the present
president of Temple Beth El
under whose leadership the
congregation is preparing
to celebrate its one hun-
dredth anniversary.
Harry M. Schulman is the
present president of Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek.
The past presidents of
Shaarey Zedek include the
following: Hiram Kran-
shaur, Max Hertzberg, Re-
uben Mendelsohn, Louis
Blumberg, Aaron Simon,
and Samuel N. Ginsburg, all
of whom served from 1862 to
1902; William B. Saulson,
1903-08; David W. Simons,
1908-20; Joseph Wetsman,
1920-21; Louis Granet,
1922-23; Robert Marwil,
1926-28; A. Louis Gordon,
1929-32; Isaac Shetzer,
1932-34-38-40; Maurice H.
Zackheim, 1924, 1935-37;
Morris H. Blumberg, 1941-
43; Harry Cohen, 1944-47.
Two leaders served as
chairmen of the Shaarey
Zedek board of directors;
Harry B. Keidan, 1923-24;
and Abraham Srere, 1925-
1926.
The other two conserva-
tive congregations, their
rabbis and presidents, are
B'nai Moshe, Rabbi Moses
Lehrman, Theodore M. Cur-
tis; Northwest Hebrew Con-
gregation and Center,
Rabbi Jacob E. Segal, Ira G.
Kaufman.
The existing orthodox
synagogues, their rabbis
and presidents (in instances
where there are no rabbis
only the presidents are
listed) are:
Adas Yeshurun, Rabbi
Leo Goldman, Meyer
Freedman; Avahath Achim
B'nai Abraham, Albert
Burke; Anshe Bereznitz,
Nathan Rose; Beth Aaron,
Rabbi Pinchos Katz, Dr.
Marvin Last; Beth Aaron
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