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The Seymour family:
At home with Kol
Ami and strongly
committed to Israel.
John and Adele Seymour keep their children
Elizabeth Applebaum
AppleTree Editor
Family: John Seymour and Adele Rapport
Seymour; children Joseph Morgan, 18, and
Clara Lauren, 15.
Residence: Farmington Hills
Professionally Speaking: John is a
consulting civil engineer with URS Corp.;
Adele is regional attorney for the Equal
Opportunity Commission.
How They Met:
John and Adele grew up in Marquette and
attended the same high school. John was
captain of the wrestling team, of which
Adele's brother was a member.
"My parents had a rule: My brother got to
approve whoever I went out with — even
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and themselves — involved in Judaism.
though I was a year older," Adele says.
[Note: the younger brother, now rabbi at a
Reform congregation in Louisville, Ky.,
approved.]
John and Adele began dating when she
was 16 and he was 18; they were married
six years later. Rabbi William Rudolph of the
Ann Arbor Hillel Foundation performed the
couple's wedding ceremony in Marquette.
Congregation: Temple Kol Ami in West
Bloomfield
"Before moving here we lived in Chicago,
where we had belonged to the Jewish
Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston,
Adele says. "We liked it because it was a
very heimish [warm, welcoming] place.
Everyone could do a d'var Torah, and we
had member-led services.
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