Coming Home
Still In Limbo
Rabbi Joseph P. Klein returns to the region
to serve as Temple Emanu-El's new leader.
David Tenenbaum remains off the job
while the FBI continues its investigation.
JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER
JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER
Detroit Jewish community as a
strong, vital and viable Jewish
community," he said.
While in Chattanooga, Rabbi
Klein organized and co-directed a
community religious school that
is supported by his Reform syna-
gogue, the local Conservative and
Orthodox congregations and the
Bradley Bleefeld, who has been Jewish federation. He also served
serving as Temple Emanu-El's in- as adjunct professor at the Uni-
terim rabbi, will leave on June 30 versity of Tennessee at Chat-
to become rabbi of Congregation tanooga and as Sparkman Scholar
Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park, a for the Thorne Sparkman School
of Religion.
suburb of Philadelphia.
Before working in Tennessee,
Mr. Jacobs said he hopes Rab-
the 49-year-old rab-
bi Klein will help
bi served for 15
draw new mem-
years at the United
bers to the temple
Hebrew Congrega-
and explained that
tion in Terre
the new rabbi will
Haute, hid.
play a central role
In addition to
in Temple Emanu-
his rabbinical de-
El's "Year of
gree from He-brew
Rededication." The
Union College,
year involves a ren-
Rabbi Klein holds
ovation of the syn-
a degree in anthro-
agogue, which is
pology and sociolo-
expected to be com-
gy from Oberlin
pleted by the High
College. He and his
Holidays, along
wife, Barbara, have
with numerous
a daughter, Ellie,
Rabbi Joseph T. Klein: Taking
other events.
who will graduate
Rabbi Klein said over at Temple Emanu-El.
this spring from
he was looking forward to getting
to know the people at Temple American University, and a son,
Emanu-El and is excited to be part Adam, who is completing his
of the metro Detroit community. sophomore year at Emory Uni-
"I've always thought of the metro versity. ❑
fter years in Indiana and
Tennessee, Rabbi Joseph
P. Klein is finally coming
ome to the northern Ohio-
southeastern Michigan region.
The Toledo native was recently se-
lected to fill the position of senior
rabbi at Oak Park's Temple
Emanu-El.
Currently the spiritual leader
of Mizpah Congregation in Chat-
tanooga, Tenn., Rabbi Klein is well
known for his educational pro-
grams for children, which incor-
porate magic shows and banjo
sing-alongs, and for his long
tenure on the rabbinic faculties of
the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations' (UAHC) summer
camps.
"We felt that he would really fit
in with our members," said Tem-
ple Emanu-El President John Ja-
cobs.
Rabbi Klein will join Temple
Emanu-El on Aug. 1 and will be
replacing Rabbi Lane Steinger,
who left last summer to take a po-
sition in St. Louis as a regional co-
ordinator for UAHC. Rabbi
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polygraph, or lie detector test,
was part of a routine security
clearance upgrade.
Mr. Tenenbaum's attorney,
Martin Crandall, said he and his
client are simply waiting for the
FBI to move. He is confident the
outcome will favor Mr. Tenen-
baum.
"My sense is they will review
the documents they removed
from his home, determine there
was no culpability on his part and
give him a clean bill of health
[and] hopefully apologize," he
said.
Following the reports of Mr.
Tenenbaum's admissions, he was
placed on paid administrative
leave. His entrance privileges to
the facility were revoked.
Should the FBI accumulate
enough evidence to press charges
against Mr. Tenenbaum, he
could face up to 10 years in prison
for gathering and transmitting
defense information to a foreign
government.
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avid Tenenbaum, the
Southfield Army engineer
who admitted giving clas-
sified military information
to Israeli associates at a Warren
Army plant, remains on paid ad-
ministrative leave pending the
outcome of an FBI investigation.
FBI Special Agent Dawn
Moritz said on Monday that the
investigation of 39-year-old Mr.
Tenenbaum continues. No new
search warrants have been ob-
tained since documents — in-
cluding computer files, phone
bills and various financial records
— were seized from his home in
late February, she said.
Mr. Tenenbaum, a mechani-
cal engineer for 10 years at the
U.S. Army Tank Automotive
and Armaments Command, told
a polygraph examiner in mid-
February that he had inadver-
tently passed information on
missile and defense technology
to Israeli liaison officers at the
base and to a director of the Is-
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