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New B'nai Moshe Era
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ongregation B'nai
Moshe broke ground
for a new era on Sun-
day, with several hundred
onlookers attending
ceremonies in West Bloom-
field inaugurating construc-
tion of a new synagogue.
Actual construction of the
new facility is not expected
to begin until December.
Synagogue officials told con-
gregants during High Holi-
day services that construc-
tion was delayed by the
battle with West Bloomfield
Township over site plan ap-
proval.
"We could not let the plans
out for bid until we received
approval," said Robert Roth,
the synagogue's immediate
past president and building
committee co-chair.
The battle with the
township cost the synagogue
four months, Mr. Roth said.
B'nai Moshe officials hope to
be in the new facility for
High Holiday services next
fall, even if construction is
incomplete.
The congregation is also
seeking an additional
$900,000 to keep the $5.5
million building project mor-
tgage-free. The congregation
raised $1 million in pledges
from 80 member families in
recent months and an addi-
tional $100,000 during the
High Holidays.
B'nai Moshe sold its 30-
year-old Oak Park building
to the Jewish Welfare Fed-
eration last winter and mov-
ed at the end of June.
Yeshivah Beth Yehuda has
taken over the building and
is converting it for its Sally
Allan Alexander Beth Jacob
School for Girls.
B'nai Moshe has been
holding services at the
Maple-Drake Jewish Com-
munity Center, a quarter
mile north of its future
home.
At Sunday's groundbreak-
ing ceremonies, each mem-
ber of the audience was urg-
ed to help turn the earth, led
by the families that made in-
itial pledges to the building
fund. Speakers during the
program included Matthew
Levin, who presented an
American flag to the con-
gregation on behalf of his
uncle, Sen. Carl Levin.
Other speakers were
David Page, vice president of
the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion; Sandy Draur, West
Bloomfield Township super-
visor; Shelby Solomon, state
budget director; ground-
breaking Chairman Sylvia
Ross, B'nai Moshe's Rabbi
Allan Meyerowitz and Pres-
ident Sharlene Ungar.
College students Beth
Bodzin and Lowell Fried-
man, third-generation mem-
bers of B'nai Moshe, recited
a prayer titled "Inherit the
Past, Build the Future."
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1990
Joel Tauber, center, is presented the Fred M. Butzel Award for com-
munity service by Mark Schlussel and Max Fisher at last week's Jewish
Welfare Federation annual meeting.