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Cantor Ralph Goren
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out Los Angeles and appearing on televi-
Ralph Goren will
sion. The choir also was featured in last
join the clergy of
year's Israel 50-year celebration. He has
Congregation
studied privately with choir director
Shaarey Zedek as
Tova
Morcos, who is the Cantors'
1
c
Assembly
premier accompanist.
antor
native
The
he ti
In addition to sharing pulpit
Y ri Wayne
State University
- responsibilities at Shaarey Zedek,
graduate is former
coordinate the
bar/bat mitzvah progra—_, _ t ,P volved
assistant
choir
direc-
Cantor
in education and youth programs;—,
tor at Adat Shalom
Ralph Goren
teach adult education and help lead
Synagogue. For the
youth
and alternative services.
past 18 years, he has lived in Los
Angeles, where he was youth
director and teacher of b'nai
mitzvah.
Goren studied chazzanut
with southern California's
Chazzan Allen Michelson. He
became a member of the
Cantors' Assembly in 1991.
For four years, during the
influx of Russian immigrants
in the 1990s, Goren estab-
lished a b'nai mitzvah pro-
gram for Russian youngsters.
It combined a crash course in
Judaica, basic Hebrew and a
multifaceted Shabbat service.
Temple Beth El recently observed its third adult
Goren has enjoyed a vari-
b'nai mitzvah ceremony for this year. Pictured are
ety of musical and cantorial
Ruth Hurwitz, Vivian Smar on-Cole, Pam
experiences, singing in the
Rosenblum and Marsha Ro el. Not pictured is
University of Judaism's Adult
Esther Weitzman.
Choir, performing through-

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B'nai ffrith Leaders

At a recent ceremony, Steven Kaplan, assistant prosecutor for _Macomb
County, was installed as president of ffnai Brith Great Lakes Region. Also
installed and serving as vice presidents ware Steve Cohen and John Rofel.
Bruce Gorosh is immediate past president.