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neighborhood and settling in
the Kirby, Ferry and Brush
streets area. Here, unlike
many of the highly divided
neighborhoods in the rest of
the country, Jews lived
among blacks and gentile
industrialists.
Yehuda Leib Levin was
not the only rabbi on Ferry
Street. From his 1923 ar-
rival in Detroit until 1927,
Moses Fischer, rabbi of Con-
gregation B'nai Moshe,
resided with his family at
448 E. Ferry, east of Beau-
bien.
A number of synagogues,
too, were once located on or
near Ferry.
Two congregations that
stayed the longest in the
East Ferry area were B'nai
Israel and Mogen Abraham.
Founded in 1876 as an off-
shoot of Shaarey Zedek,
B'nai Israel built its syn-
agogue in 1913 on East
Ferry near St. Antoine. The
congregation remained at
this site until around 1935.
The building, now a church,
still stands.
Three blocks south, on
Farnsworth, between St.
Antoine and Beaubien, stood
Mogen Abraham. Founded
in 1911, the congregation
built its first synagogue in
1914. For many years,
Mogen Abraham was the
only Detroit synagogue open

24 hours a day. The Jewish
Free School that adjoined
the facility later evolved into
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah.
Mogen Abraham remained
on East Ferry until 1941,
when it was sold to a church.
The building was demolish-
ed in 1977, but some of its
interior fixtures were saved
by the newly formed Con-
gregation T'Chiyah
downtown.
Other neighborhood syn-
agogues and institutions in-
cluded Aguda Achim, at the
southeast corner of Hastings
and East Ferry (demolished
for the construction of I-75),
the Hebrew Memorial Socie-
ty, Chesed Shel Emes, on
East Frederick (since
demolished); and Beth Ab-
raham, which in 1923 put up
a building on East Palmer
near Beaubien, only to leave
in 1929. The synagogue was
leveled in 1989.
The Young Israel move-
ment in Detroit had its
beginnings in the East Ferry
neighborhood. Initially, the
group held services in the
basement of Mogen Abra-
ham, later moving to Chesed
Shel Emes. Services were
held in the Kirby Center un-
til the late 1920s, when it
moved to the Jewish Com-
munity Center on
Melbourne in the Oakland
Avenue area. ❑

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