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Family Profile

chicken soup, fresh challah and
chicken. "Then we would run off to
the temple for services," Mark
remembers.
Other guests were Chaim Gross,
who created the ark and temple
menorah, and Minoru Yamasaki,
responsible for designing the new
Beth El building.
"These are some of my fondest
memories," Mark says.
Mark and his family lived in
Pleasant Ridge, where few of the
neighbors and virtually none of Mark's
classmates were Jewish. "So my real
Jewish involvement was temple."
As a teen, he was active in the
Beth El youth group where he was
president, and in MSTY, the
Michigan State Temple Youth. Some
of his pals from back then remain his
closest friends to this day.
"I have so many great memories,"
he says. "I couldn't wait for my kids
to have the same opportunities and
make the same kinds of friendships."
Marla is the daughter of Larry and
Anna Nedelman, both of whom still
reside in metro Detroit. Larry
Nedelman was born here, while his
wife and her family came from
Germany. The two were active at the
Beth Hillel synagogue (later Beth
Abraham Hillel, then Beth Abraham
Hillel Moses and today known as
Congregation Beth Ahm).
Marla still remembers when Beth
Hillel was an Orthodox synagogue
with separate seating. There, seeing
men in tallitot and kippot was corn-
mon. So the change to Beth El —
where no one was wearing either —
was different at first.
But over the years, she says,
Temple Beth El has changed. Initially
the congregation was classical
Reform; today, she sees more Hebrew
and familiar prayers in the siddur,
while members feel free to wear talli-
tot and kippot if they choose.
Unlike her husband, Marla grew
up in Southfield with many Jewish
friends and neighbors.
When Mark and Marla married,
they settled in Southfield. After their
first two children were born, they
moved to West Bloomfield to be clos-
er to friends and family. They sent
their children to Beth El because of
the congregation's nursery school.
From the start, Marla was a hands-on
kind of morn.
"My wife participated in the whole
room-mother thing at temple," Mark
says.
Marla began helping out with
extracurricular activities, then joined

the congregation's education commit-
tee. Marla says she is impressed with
the temple school because, "the
teachers have the knowledge to really
give our kids the support they need."
She also appreciates the diversity of
the teachers' backgrounds, and has
seen them do an especially good job
helping older students learn to read
from the Torah.
"We have two daughters who will
be bat mitzvah in September," Mark
says.
"The training they have received is
outstanding."
"And it's fun," Marla adds. "Once
a week the girls meet with their
teachers for Bat Mitzvah Club, where
they're learning to read the prayers.
It's a cohesive group."

Home Life: Since they married, the

Canvassers have kept a kosher home,
just as both of their parents did.
"We're Reform," Mark says, "but
our house is kosher because we want
any Jew to feel comfortable here."
"It's very important to us," Marla
adds. "I love the fact that our chil-
dren know not to mix meat with
milk. In fact, when we got married, it
was never a question that we would
have a kosher home, as did many of
our friends."
While they acknowledge that
"Friday nights are a little more hectic
in our home" than when they were
little, they try to make it a point to
get together on Shabbat evening,
both for dinner and for services at
Temple Beth El. The children have
the option as to whether they want to
attend services. "Sometimes they're
too tired, but usually they say 'yes,'"
Marla says.
In addition to their Jewish activi-
ties, including regular Hebrew
school, all the Canvasser girls take
tennis lessons and all three love
swimming.
Lindsay also takes piano lessons,
and the family snow skis together, an
activity in which, Marla insists, "I'm
the worst of the bunch."
Lindsay and Amanda attend
Orchard Lake Middle School, and
Elizabeth is a student at Ealy
Elementary.
The Canvassers describe their eldest
daughters as "very determined" and
excellent students with many acquain-
tances — from school, from Camp
Tamarack — which they attend each
summer — and through Beth El and
other congregations. It seems a week
doesn't pass by without a bar- or bat-
mitzvah ceremony and yes, the parents

