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1995, now numbers only approxi-
mately 150.
B'nai David is also enmeshed in a
lawsuit involving former members
ess than a month after leav-
over land purchased for a building in
ing Congregation Beth Abra-
West Bloomfield. The congregation's
ham Hillel Moses, Cantor
rabbi of three years, Milton Arm, is
Ben-Zion Lanxner is back in
retiring on,Aug. 8.
business a few miles away from his old
According to B'nai David President
workplace. And he has brought some
Dr. Joseph Berenholz, the congrega-
teachers and students with him.
tion sees the school — and Lanxner's
Lanxner was Beth Abraham Hillel
leadership — as an opportunity to
Moses' chazzan for 16 years and he
launch a revival.
doubled as religious school director
"I've known Cantor Lanxner for
for three years, but the board of the
over
10 years, and he has a tremen-
Conservative synagogue voted in
dous
following of teachers as well as
April to rescind a contract renewal it
parents," said Berenholz. "We
had offered him in February. Now
thought this might
be a perfect time to
bring the school in
because schools
el
bring parents in
and parents make
– young members.
2 We're very pleased,
and we're proud to
have him on
board."
Lanxner has
already assembled
most of his teaching
staff— four of
whom are teachers
who worked under
him at BAHM --
and has recruited 25
students for the new
school. He would
not say how many
of the new recruits
are former BAHM
members.
"We're going to
Cantor Ben-Zion Lanxner: From BAHM to ffnai David.
make B'nai David
into a normal, active
congregation
again,"
said Lanxner.
he's starting up a Hebrew school at
"Hopefully,
all
the
members
that left
Michigan's only Traditional shul,
when we sold the building in South-
B'nai David, where he will also serve
field will come back. When you talk
as cantor and executive director.
to old members, you can tell that
The 107-year-old B'nai David,
B'nai David is still part of their blood-
located temporarily in an office build-
stream."
ing on the corner of Maple and
Asked if it would be difficult -
Orchard Lake roads, has not operated
adjusting
from a Conservative to Tra-
a school since the mid-1980s.
ditional
shul,
Lanxner — who grew
Although it was almost 800 members
up Orthodox — said it was "no major
strong a decade ago, the congregation,
change." -
which moved from Southfield in

JULIE WIENER
Staff Writer

