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arriet Siden remembers
the first time she visited
the home of Detroit cloth-
ing store magnate Ben-
jamin Siegel.
"I just loved the older house
with the beautiful woods," Ms.
Siden recalled. "The layouts are
so different from what we're used
to. Suburban homes are very dif-
ferent, with open spaces and new-
er designs. That house brought
back a lot of memories of homes
I grew up with."
Ms. Siden, a board member of
the Jewish Historical Society,
liked the stately Boston-Edison
area homes of prominent Detroit
Jewish families so much, she or-
ganized a five-house tour, pri-
vately guided by members of the
Boston-Edison Association.
The tour takes place 12:30-4:30
p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25.
The five homes richly reflect
local Jewish history. One elegant
1911 building on Edison belonged
to Leo Franklin, rabbi of Temple
Beth El from 1899 to 1941. An-
other was the Chicago Boulevard
residence of Meyer Prentis, Gen-
eral Motors comptroller for 32

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years. He built the house in 1925.
Architect Albert Kahn designed
mid-1910s homes for both Ben-
jamin Siegel and his brother Ja-
cob, who owned American Lady
Corset Company. The fifth man-
sion was once owned by the Co-
hen family, and later the Slomans.
New owners who have kept
track of the houses' histories and
local importance are now their oc-
cupants.
The Boston-Edison Associa-
tion, whose members will conduct
the tours, buys derelict houses
and fixes them up. Part of the $15
fee for the tour goes to that effort.
Although the Boston-Edison
Association has conducted tours
of private homes for about 20
years, this is the first year of a joint
project focusing on Jewish homes
with JHS.

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Rabbis Distribute
Sourcebook On Peace

REBECCA WALDMAN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

local rabbi is helping coor- joined Israel's Prime Minister
dinate a nation-wide High Yitzhak Rabin and a coalition of
Holy Days campaign to 11 rabbis spanning Judaism's
garner support from all four major branches — Orthodox,
North American rabbis for the Is- Conservative, Reform and Re-
constructionist — to compile a re-
raeli peace agreement.
Rabbi Daniel Polish, of Tem- source guide on the Middle East
ple Beth El in Bloomfield Hills, peace process.

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