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Bloomfield Hills. Services are
conducted in the Northminster
Presbyterian Church on Big
Beaver Road in Troy. Purim ser-
vices are held in Rochester,
Pesach is in Rochester Hills. The
rabbi's office is his Royal Oak
home.
"Although we have good rental
relationships, we would be hard
pressed if we lost even one lease,"
Mr. Katz said. "Our own build-
ing helps ensure our long-term
survival."
Shir Tikvah is in the process
of forming a building committee.
Congregation leaders said the
proposed facility will be about
12,000 square feet, with on-site
classrooms and an area that
could be used for the sanctuary.
Future additions would include
a permanent sanctuary.
"Our biggest need is education.
For a small congregation, we
have a lot of young kids," said
Larry Littman, a former Shir
Tikvah president. "We need an
education facility that is ours and
under our control."
In the coming months, a build-
ing will be designed, various com-
mittees will be formed, an
architect will be hired, money will
be raised for a religious school
endowment and fundraising ef-
forts for construction will contin-
ue.
"We don't have one person in
our congregation who could write
a check that amounts to much,"
Mr. Littman said. "Our biggest
challenge will be fundraising.
But, based on the support we've
received from congregants and
the community at large, I don't
think groundbreaking a year
from now is unrealistic."
With more than $100,000 al-
ready in its building fund, Shir
Tikvah is asking families to con-
sider donating $2,400 to the
building fund over a six-year pe-
riod. The congregation is hopeful
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50 families will donate a mini-
mum of $3,600 over three years.
"We haven't even officially be-
gun and already 20 families have
volunteered to give at the $3,600
level," Mr. Katz said.
One couple particularly excit-
ed about a permanent home is
Pam and Richard Spitzer of
Troy.
Long before Shir Tikvah was
established, Mrs. Spitzer longed
for a house of worship east of
Woodward.
One evening, after dropping C \
her son off at a relatively new
Troy branch of United Hebrew
Schools, Mrs. Spitzer and a few
women in the parking lot dis-
cussed the possibility of starting
a congregation in Troy.
Instead of just talking about
how nice it would be to have their
own congregation, the women de-
cided to act. After a few parlor H
meetings, Shir Tikvah became
more than an idea.
"We didn't know what move-
ment we would belong to," Mrs.
Spitzer said. "We started because
of geographical location more
than anything else."
During its first year of exis-
tence, in 1983, the congregation
was unaffiliated. "We considered
joining the Conservative move-
ment, but because we met in
church and had quite a few
mixed-marriage families, we be-
came a traditional Reform con-
gregation," Mrs. Spitzer said.
Men often wear tallitot and
yarmulkes and the service takes
on a more Conservative ap-
proach.
"It took a few minutes to sink
in," Mrs. Spitzer said of Sunday's
vote to build. "This is very emo-
tional for my husband and my-
self because, as founders, it had
been a dream for so many years.
It's nice to know we will finally
be a permanent presence in this
area."
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meetings throughout the
metropolitan area. The firms in-
cluded manufacturers of plastic
structural foam, anti-corrosion
packaging, production-line lasers,
injection-molding products, pre-
cision stampings, computer soft-
ware and electronic circuitry.
Monday night, Paul and
Marlene Borman hosted the del-
egation and their automotive
counterparts at their Bloomfield
Hills home. The group also had
breakfast forums Tuesday and
Wednesday at the Troy Marriott
and meetings with Ford, Chrysler
and GM executives.
Mr. Friman was optimistic
about his company's chances.
And realistic. "We want to sell
electric motors," he said, "but we
have to come up with a better
proposal. We'll see them again."
Last year, the United States
imported $4.4 billion worth of
goods from Israel, with $5 million
of the total auto related. GM is
the runaway leader in that area
and expects to boost its imports
from Israel to $20 million in the
next two years.
The Israelis want auto-related
exports to America to reach $50
million by the year 2000.
At the Bormans' Monday night
gathering, Big-3 automotive ex-
ecutives and leaders of the Israel
Economic Mission, the Israel
Export Institute and the
American-Israel Chamber of
Commerce of Michigan talked
about a bright future. For Mr.
Nitzan, the future is now.
"We would like to be in this
market," he said. "We would like
to think about cars, not wars." ❑