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On The Wagon

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Nita Heue•-Bekker

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Beth Abraham Hillel Moses
Natalie and Manny Charach
Religious Schools
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Esty Avraband
Dee lionston
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Bella Levkovich

Beth Achim's merger lets Barry Levine
slow the pace of being husband, father, farmer,
teacher and sometime thespian.

JULIE WIENER

Stepping Stones to a Jewish Me
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Beth Achim

— he acted with local theater groups.
"There was a time when I was either
acting or rehearsing for a play," he said.
During those years he moved away from
Orthodoxy and decided he felt more
comfortable with Conservative Judaism.
In the early 1970's, Levine met his
future wife, Patricia, a student teacher
he was supervising. She already had
four young children —two daughters
and twin sons — from a previous
marriage, but that was not a problem
for Levine.

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Photo by Kris ta Hu

e's been an amateur thespi-
an since high school, but
in his 62 years Barry
Levine has played more
.
roles off stage than on.
Professionally, he's been a teacher,
public school administrator and Jew-
ish educator and his theaters have
included Detroit Public Schools, Beth
Achim, Temple Kol Ami, Temple Beth
Emeth, Hillel Day
School, Akiva Hebrew
Day School and Beth
Abraham Hillel Moses.
At home, he's played
husband, father to six
children, farmer on the
family's land in Livonia
and — most recently —
a proud zayde hosting his
brood each week for live-
ly Shabbat dinners. .
Now he's retiring as
much as any workaholic
accustomed to four
Barry Levine: Retiring from Jewish education.
hours a night of sleep
can. He'll be holding
"He has fathered all of them," said
down the comparatively light work-
Patricia, who had another son and
load of one full-time job: at the Acad-
daughter with Levine. "As far as
emy of Detroit, Westland, a charter
Barry's concerned, all six of the kids
school where he is completing his first
are his."
year as principal.
With a large family to support,
With Beth Achim merging with
Levine began looking for other sources
Adat Shalom, Levine's current job as
of income and answered an ad for
Beth Achim's religious school director
youth
director at Beth Achim, launch-
there is being phased out. And with
ing
his
career in Jewish education. The
his family urging him to slow down a
Beth Achim job led to his post in
little, he's overcoming 25 years of
1974 as interim headmaster at Hillel.
habit and resisting the impulse to
After Hillel, he moved to Ann
apply for the many jobs open locally
Arbor's Temple Beth Emeth, then to
-
in Jewish education.
Temple Kol Ami. Four years later, he
Levine grew up in an Orthodox fam-
became education and youth director
ily in Detroit, attending Yeshiva Beth
at Beth Abraham Hillel Moses.
Yehudah and then Central High School,
During his 15 years at BAHM,
where he got interested in drama. As a
Levine was also working at Detroit
student at Wayne State University, he
Public Schools, teaching at Oakland
performed in school plays and in his
Community College and going home
early twenties — while teaching English
to the Livonia farm. If I wasn't work-
and drama in the Detroit Public Schools

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