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RUTH LITTMANN STAFF WRITER
Honoring
Mr. Michael Greenbaum
Alumnus
of the Year
Mr. & Mrs. Morris Flatt
Dedicating
Akiva's Beit Midrash
Rabbi Morton &
Mrs. Aline Yolkut
Community Chesed Award
Sylvia Sachs accepts the Torah from Edward Sallen.
M
embers of Temple
Emanu-El in Oak Park
on March 13 delivered
one of the congregation's
Torahs to Jews remaining at
Heartland Community Care Cen-
ter, the old Borman Hall nursing
home in Detroit.
Twenty of nearly 40 Jews at
the home attended a ceremony to
receive the Torah amid song and
prayer in the facility's chapel.
Sylvia Sachs accepted the
Torah on behalf of all Heartland
residents.
"It is our hope that this Sefer
Torah will enhance the lives of all
the residents of Heartland Com-
munity Care," said Sharon Jaffe,
president of Temple Emanu-El.
The elderly at Heartland were
left without a Torah when 54 for-
mer Borman residents, along with
religious and cultural items, were
moved to the new Jewish home,
Menorah House, in Southfield.
Edward Sallen, an Emanu-El
member and the father-in-law of
Heartland Admissions Director
Linda Blank, asked the congre-
gation's board to replace the nurs-
ing home's Torah. The board
agreed to loan the scroll, wimple
(cloth), mantel and pointer.
"It is our hope that you will
hold near and dear to you this Se-
fer Torah," Rabbi Amy Brodsky
told the residents.
Heartland, a nonsectarian in-
stitution, welcomes the Torah,
said Administrator Mary Lee
Jackson.
"It's our first Torah. The resi-
dents are just ecstatic to have a
Torah back," she said. "Some of
them were very sad to see their
Torah leave."
Shabbat services are still held
at Heartland. They are led by
Rabbi Moshe Polter, Harold
Black and Iry Tevlo.
Opposition Slate May
Run In Beth El Election
JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER
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here will be a vote at Tem-
After falling about 250 signa-
ple Beth El, but it won't be tures below the target of 800, the
the vote for which the Com- committee decided to turn its ef-
mittee to Save Temple forts to assembling an opposition
Beth El had hoped.
slate to a temple committee's
The committee, formed a few nominations for the annual June
months ago in response to a election.
board decision to place Rabbi
Committee members said they
Daniel Polish on sabbatical June decided to try a new tactic in re-
30, had hoped to gather enough sponse to comments from con-
signatures to call for a congrega- gregants.
tional vote. The vote would have
"It is the consensus of the
allowed temple members in good (Committee to Save Temple Beth
standing to potentially reverse El's) steering committee that peo-
the board's decision.
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Sunday, April 2, 1995
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