Patterns Of Change Partnership Of Faith Adat Shalom has welcomed the former congregants of Beth Achim. SHELLI DORFMAN Editorial Assistant T David Wachter &Sons International Award Winning Jewellers Since 1922 100 S. Old Woodward, Birmingham, Michigan 48009 248.540.4622 Certified Gemologist A Healthy and Happy New Year To All My Friends and Customers! CINDY SCHLUSSEL sHuman Members American Gem Society American Heart Association.. Fighti ,g Heart Disease and Stroke The Most Important Instrument in the Treatment of Stroke 669— 2 0 "1 0 COMPLAISANT We wish all our customers a happy, healthy New Year. From everyone at Complaisant WEST BLOOMFIELD PLAZA 6720 Orchard Lake Road W. Bloomfield (next to Deli Unique) 248-855-6566 9/10 1999 26 Detroit Jewish News ©1995, American Heart Association 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.