Religious Life

Rabbi Emeritus Ernst J. Conrad

Services Friday evening and Saturday mornings.
Religious school, adult education, active youth groups,
sisterhood and brotherhood.

Temple Shir Shalom

3999 Walnut Lake Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48323
(248) 737-8700
Fax: (248) 737-8862
Website: www.shirshalom.org
Contact Person: Rabbis Dannel Schwartz,
Michael L. Moskowitz; Penny Steyer,
cantorial soloist

Educational, community programming for all. Monthly
children's service. Family dinners, parent-toddler
classes, religious school through high school
graduation. Adult education taught by Rabbis and
others.

Reconstructionist

Congregation T'chiyah

Royal Oak Women's Club
404 S. Pleasant St.
Royal Oak, MI 48073
(248) 559-1818 Sandy Hansel!
E-Mail: Tchiyah@rust.net
Website: www.rust.net/-tchiyah
Contact Person: Sandy Hansell, president

Lay-led services held at the Royal Oak Women's Club
every week, altermating Fridays and Saturdays.

Secular & Humanistic

Birmingham Temple

28611 W. 12 Mile Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
(248) 477-1410
Fax: (248) 477-9014
E-Mail: bhamtpl@speedlink.net
Website: www.birminghamtemple.org
Contact Person: Rabbis Sherwin T. Wine,
Tamara Kolton, Adam Chalom; Miriam Jerris,
rabbinic candidate

A congregation of cultural Jews who believe in and
practice Humanistic Judaism. Provides Jewish
education, celebration and community, and
participates in the world movement of Humanistic
Judaism.

Congregation Bet Chaverim

P.O. Box 871262
Canton, MI 48187
(734) 480-8880

Contact Person: Rabbi Peter Gluck;
Cantor Robin Liberatore

Serves Jewish and interfaith families in Western
Wayne county. Monthly play-groups, Shabbat services
and religious school.

Sholem Aleichem Institute

24901 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 313B
Southfield, MI 48075
(246) 352-6852
Fax: (248) 355-9267
Contact Person: Alva Dworkin, May Moskowitz,
co-presidents; Florence Amster, secretary

Those who seek a secular Jewish identification will
find a home with us. High Holiday assemblies,
celebration of all major Jewish holidays, lectures and
special events with a cultural atmosphere.

The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring

26341 Coolidge
Oak Park, MI 48237
(248) 545-0985
Fax: (248) 542-2628
Contact Person: Karen Rosenstein, director

Secular/cultural community. Progressive world view.
Commitment to Yiddish and Yiddishkeit. Holiday
observances open to public, discussion groups,
Shabbat gatherings created by multi-generational
community, Sunday school, teen group, personalized
bar/bat mitzvah.

Sephardic Community
of Greater Detroit

5544 Drake Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
(248) 788-1006
Contact Person: Susan Alspector;
Isaac Ben Ezra, president

Modern traditional synagogue with afternoon religious
and Sunday schools. Special education center for teens
on Tuesday night called Teen Learning Center. Active
sisterhood and men's club.

BEYOND
METROPOLITAN DETROIT

Ahavas Isaac

202 Cobden St.
Sarnia, Ontario
Canada N7T 6C4
(519) 337-7866
Contact Person: Dr. I.S. Pasternak, president

Chabad House of West Michigan

2615 Michigan, N.E.
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
(616) 957-0770
Fax: (616) 957-2368
E-Mail: rabbiyyw@aol.com
Contact Person: Rabbi Yosef Y. Weingarten

Outreach center.

Chabad-Lubavitch of
Eastern Michigan

5385 Calkins Road
Flint, MI 48532
(810) 230-0770
(810) 733-3779
Fax: (810) 733-8736
E-Mail: emchabad@aol.com
Contact Person: Rabbi Yisroel Weingarten;
Shainie Weingarten

Orthodox congregation. Material and spiritual support to
all Jews. Serves nursery school to bar mitzvah age. Offers
hospital services, prison and nursing homes visits, summer
camp and programs to counteract assimilation,
intermarriage. Mikva. Services held weekly.

Congregation Ahavas Israel

Sabbath, Sunday, holiday services. Wednesday night
classes conducted by Rabbi Avraham Cohen. Our
diverse ancestry provides our growing membership a
unique opportunity to participate in services rich in
Sephardic customs and traditions.

2727 Michigan Ave. N.E.
Grand Rapids, MI 49506-1297
(616) 949-2840
Fax: (616) 949-6929
E-Mail: DavKrishef@aol.com
Website: http://members.aol.com/Ahavaslsrl
Contact Person: Rabbi David Krishef

Congregation B'nai David

An egalitarian synagogue affiliated with the United
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. Offers religious
services, full religious school program, adult education
and library.

5642 W. Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
(248) 855-5007
Fax: (248) 855-1488
Contact Person: Cantor Ben-Zion Lanxner

Congregation Ahavat Shalom

207 Grandview Pkwy., Suite 209

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