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Coming Home

B'nai Moshe's new cantor
returns to his roots.

//NNE MEREDITH COHN

/,'t-a Writer

ometimes, what goes around
comes around. At least that's
rue for Cantor Earl G. Berris,
who is filling the cantorial post
at Congregation B'nai Moshe, which
opened after Louis Klein "retired" in
'`ctober 1995.
Before coming back to the Motor
City,
ity, Detroit native Berris spent a
dozen years as cantor, educator and
choir leader of Kehilath Israel
Synagogue in Overland Park, Kan.
1.7tere, he designed a curriculum for
the synagogue's religious school, start-
ed a synagogue theater group and
helped create a community-wide
mer Shabbat Boy Scout program,
hich attracted hundreds of boys.
"The troop started when we moved
our congregation out to a newer sub-
Iurb area," Berris explains. "There were
two members of the congregation, Ted
,uid Jill Goldstein, who were very active
in Scouts prior to that. We did not
have a formal youth group and as we
discussed [what our options were] ...
lwe came up with the idea that Scouts is
/ very organized grouping."
The shul started with a Cub Scout
troop, Berris says, which after a few
years continued into Boy Scouts. It has
b,._en running now for about 11 years.
/—"It is a totally shomer Shabbat
troop and totally kosher at all activi-
ties including summer camp, which

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means we made special arrangements,"
Berris says. The father of two daugh-
ters, he jokes that "most men who
only have girls get involved with boys'
[activities]." Berris was the troop
chaplain until he moved back to
Detroit.
He received ordination from the
Jewish Theological Seminary in 1976
and also has a master's degree in educa-
tion, with a specialty in marriage coun-
seling and family therapy, and a bache-
lor's degree in music therapy.
Growing up in Detroit, Berris was
involved in youth and educational
work at several local congregations
prior to his years in Kansas City. He
was youth director at Beth Achim in
Southfield and associate cantor and
youth director at Adat Shalom
Synagogue in Farmington Hills.
His wife Ilana teaches at Hillel Day
School, where their daughters, Leore,
8, and Doron, 10, are students. In
addition to his responsibilities at B'nai
Moshe, Berris will also teach pre-bar
and bat mitzvah students at Hillel, like
his predecessor Cantor Klein.
"The main thing I'm going to try
and do at B'nai Moshe is stress educa-
tion of the laity" Berris says. "I want
them to all become very, very skilled ...
"Various programs will begin around
the holidays, he says, where lay leaders
will learn how to read Torah. "We want
the lay people to have all the skills that
in many congregations only the clergy
have." El

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