Clockwise from left: Eric and Randy
Silver enjoy the celebration.
Rabbi Joseph Klein doubles
as an entertainer.
Lois Greenberg and Adele Brod
prepare to cut the celebratory cakes.
The first shovel of dirt, courtesy of
Rabbi Joseph Klein, Temple
President Glen Liebowitz, Cantor
Norman Rose and Rabbi Milton
Rosenbaum.
After a year-long fund-raising
campaign, Temple Emanu-El
is about to reassert itself as a
vital Reform institution.
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n one more show of the dynamism of
the south Oakland County Jewish com-
munity, Temple Emanu-El is on the
brink of expanding.
On Sunday, temple members got to-
gether for a groundbreaking, and while
they were at it, a party.
Rabbi Joseph Klein, who officially joined
Temple Emanu-El on Aug. 1 as its new se-
nior rabbi, entertained with his banjo and
performed magic tricks. Storytelling, vol-
leyball, singing and dancing rounded out the
The temple, which was built in 1955, will
expand and renovate its sanctuary, social
hall, kitchen, foyer and other areas with the
$1.5 million it has raised since May last year.
Work should begin this month. El