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he sign that went up on
Middlebelt Road in Farmington
Hills last week says "Adat Shalom
Synagogue/Beth Achim Religious
School." It is a six-foot-high reminder
that one year after the synagogues
merged, their two congregations have
settled into being just one.
Adat Shalom Rabbi Daniel Nevins
says the renaming of the Adat Shalom
religious school was part.of the merger
agreement and the sign is there to "let
everyone know it is important to all of
us to preserve the name of Beth
Achim."
With "the vast majority of the 300
families that were part of Beth Achim
now attending Adat Shalom,"
Executive Director Alan Yost says the
members have brought with them
changes for the better.
"We are here to share the best of
what Beth Achim has to offer," Rabbi
Herbert Yoskowitz told hi:, congrega-
tion at the time of the merger. And
that included involved members and
innovative programs.
A home-study class the rabbi led not
only accompanied the new members,
but has flourished. Yoskowitz directs
the bimonthly sessions in family homes
"for sociability, for supper, for study of
a book of the Bible." He has been
joined by Rabbi Nevins, with an addi-
tion this year of Cantor Howard
Glantz and the Detroit Conservative
movement's scholar-in-residence, Rabbi
Benjamin Segal.
Shelly Perlman, who heads the series
committee with Adele Railer, also did
so during a number of her nearly 40
years at Beth Achim. She has found
many [Beth Achim] board members
have been placed on the Adat Shalom
board and many are working on com-
mittees."
Rabbi Yoskowitz says a 42-session
lunch-and-learn program at Beth
Achim has been modified to incorpo-
rate a less frequent Adat Shalom series,
now led alternately or in teams by
Rabbis Nevins, Yoskowitz and Segal.