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Cornerstone Comes Some
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cornerstone from Temple Beth El's second building, origi-
nally placed 130 years ago, was discovered in, of all places,
the Detroit Public - Library
"We got a call at the Archives last April that someone in
the library found the stone upside down and flipped it over and saw
what it was," says Holly Teasdle, archivist of Rabbi Leo M. Franklin
Archives at Temple Beth El.
Jim Armbruster, the Bloomfield Township syn-
agogue's building superintendent, went to the
library and retrieved the stone with an Archives
representative. At first, it was thought to be a
piece of concrete from over a doorway of the old
synagogue. High-powered magnification of old
photos revealed the find was actually a corner-
stone.
The stone was included in material gathered
by historian Irving Katz, former executive secre-
SHELLI
tary, at the synagogue for research for his publica-
LIEBMAN
tion,
"The Beth El Story" It was among items
DORFMAN
donated
to the Burton Historical Collection at
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the Detroit Public Library in 1955.
"Three years ago, Beth El bought it all back,"
Teasdle says. "We had a large collection — almost 300 boxes, but we
didn't know about the cornerstone."
The cornerstone was originally dedicated in 1867 by then-Beth El
Rabbi Elias Eppstein and Dr. Isaac Meyer Wise of Cincinnati,
founder of American
Reform Judaism. It was a
part of the building at
Washington Boulevard and
Clifford Street that housed
the synagogue until 1903.
The cornerstone is now
displayed in the Nate and
Ruth Shapero Judaic
Museum inside Temple
Beth El.
Says Mary Shapero, co-
chair of the Archive
Temple Beth El cornerstone
Committee and grand-
daughter of Rabbi Leo M.
Franklin, rabbi of Beth El from 1899 to 1941: "It is one of the great
treasures of the Franklin Archives at Temple Beth El, and we are most
thrilled to share it with the community" El
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