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ffnaz David presses its suit for West Bloomfield site.

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agogue buy the land.
The five-year verbal extension to the
Staff Writer
written option was allegedly given at a
July 12, 1995, meeting at Shapiro's
C ongregation B'nai David had
office. In court, Shapiro said he couldn't
its day-and-a-half in court
remember the specifics at
Monday and
that meeting.
Tuesday in its effort
Below:
Ferber, the synagogue's
to get land to build its syna-
Fred Ferber testifies
gogue.
with members of president at the time of the
The Traditional synagogue
Congregation ffnai land search in 1987, said on
is suing C.B.D.S. Limited
David looking on. the witness stand Monday
morning, "I thought the
Partnership, which was formed
option should've been exer-
in 1987 to purchase 10 acres in
cised. The partnership held the land
West Bloomfield, on Maple Road
hoping that B'nai David would turn
between Halsted and Haggerty roads.
around their thinking and build there."
The three C.B.D.S. partners were mem-
The synagogue had sold its build-
bers of B'nai David at the time.
ing
on Southfield Road to the City
Judge Rudy Nichols, who heard the
of Southfield and moved to the
case in Oakland County Circuit Court
Kahn Jewish Community Center in
in Pontiac, is expected to hand down a
West Bloomfield. It is now located
decision in late March.
in an office building in West
The general partners of the limited
partnership, Jerry Soble, Mickey Shapiro -Bloomfield on Maple Road, east of
Orchard Lake Road, former site of
and Fred Ferber, were all named in the
Temple
Shir Shalom.
suit because they had ultimate control
A 1994 proposal to merge B'nai
over the partnership, according to the
David with B'nai Moshe failed by six
Oct. 20, 1987, agreement.
votes. "After the failed merger vote, we
B'nai David, which had held an
tried to build on the site we had found,"
option on the property through 1988,
said Joseph Berenholz, president of B'nai
claims the partners verbally approved a
David.
five-year extension of the option. The
The suit was filed in October,
partners deny that they gave any such
1997.
n
approval and have refused to let the syn-

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Congregation Shaarey Zedek has
acquired an interest in a 20-acre site in
Novi, but its executive director,
Leonard Baruch, emphasized that it
has no plans to move from Southfield
or West Bloomfield.
"There may be land but that doesn't
mean we have plans to move," he said.
The 20-acre Novi tract is at the
northeastern corner of Twelve Mile
and Meadowbrook roads.
Deed records for two neighboring
parcels, each about 10 acres, carry

the congregation's name. Shaarey
Zedek moved from Detroit to
Southfield in 1962, merged with
B'nai Israel of West Bloomfield in
recent years and opened an educa-
tion and youth center in West
Bloomfield in mid-1997.
Planning officials in Novi said the
land is zoned residential. Additionally,
no site plans have been submitted to
develop the site.

— Jill Davidson Sklar