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TEMPLE KOL AM,

Contact Person: Ellen R. Bates-Brackett, director
Secular/cultural community. Commitment to social
justice, 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, new
preschool/parent program.

5085 Walnut Lake Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48323
Phone: (248) 661-0040
Fax: (248) 661-5901
E-Mail: kolami@speedlink.net
Contact Person: Rabbi Norman T. Roman
Services Friday evenings and Saturday mornings.
Religious school, adult education, active youth groups,
sisterhood and brotherhood.

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TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM

3999 Walnut Lake Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48323
Phone: (248) 737-8700
Fax: (248) 737-8862
Web site: www.shirshalom.org
Contact Person: Rabbi Dannel I. Schwartz
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.

KETER TORAH SYNAGOGUE

5544 Drake Road
P.O. Box 251272
West Bloomfield, MI 48235
Phone: (248) 7 :•:-1006
E-Mail: sephardicmi@yahoo.com
Contact Person: Susan Alspector
Sabbath, Sunday, holiday services and social activities.
Wednesday night classes conducted by Rabbi Avraham
Cohen. Additional classes by guest rabbis and
educators. Our diverse ancestry provides our
membership an opportunity to participate in services
rich in Sephardic customs and traditions.

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BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE

28611 W. 12 Mile Road
Farmington Hills ,MI 48334
Phone: (248) 477-1410
Fax: (248) 477-9014
E-Mail: bhamtpl@speedlink.net
Web site: www.birminghamtemple.org
Contact Person: Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine
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.

JEWISH PARENTS INSTITUTE

5640 W. Maple Road, Suite 102
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
Phone: (248) 855-5007
Fax: (248) 855-1488
Contact Person: Arthur Doppelt, president
Modern traditional synagogue with services on Sabbath
morning and holidays at Hadassah House, 5031 Orchard
Lake Road, West Bloomfield. Active sisterhood and
men's club.

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SHOLEM ALEICHEM INSTITUTE

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

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RING, THE

26341 Coolidge
Oak Park, MI 48237
Phone: (248) 545-0985
Fax: (248) 545-2628
E-Mail: ellenbb720@aol.com
Web site: www.circle.org

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Jewish Community Center
6600 West Maple
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
Phone: (248) 661-1000
Contact Person: Marilyn Wolfe
Alternative cultural Jewish celebrations; secular
bar/bat ceremonies; adult programming; cultural
Sunday school from nursery though teens.

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CONGREGATION AHAVAT SHALOM

207 Grandview Pkwy., Suite 209
Traverse City, MI 49684
Phone: (231) 929-4330
E-Mail: finerabbi@aol.com
Contact Person: Rabbi Stacie Fine
A warm, caring, independent Jewish congregation
joyously dedicated to spirituality and social action. Full
time rabbi year-round. Shabbat, holidays, music,
children and adult education. All are welcomed.

CONGREGATION BETH EL

311 W. Park St.
Traverse City, MI 49684
Phone: (616) 946-1913, (248) 7•1300
Fax: (248) 7:.: -4144
E-Mail: plaut@rust.net
Web site: www.uahcweb.org/mi/te-bethel/
Contact Person: Ann Weitz, president
Founded in 1885. Oldest Michigan building in
continuous use. Reform congregation with bi-monthly
services, High Holiday and festival observances, Tot
Shabbat, religious and Hebrew school, educational,
cultural and community outreach. Visitors welcome.

CONGREGATION BETH EL

2525 Mark Ave.
Windsor, Ontario
Canada N9E 2E2
Phone: (519) 969-2422
Fax: (519) 969-2660
E-Mail: ableser@uwindsor.ca
Contact Person: Rabbi Jeffrey Ableser

CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL

G-5240 Calkins Road
Flint, MI 48532
Phone: (810) 732-6310
Fax: (810) 732-6314
E-Mail: cbiflint@tir.com
Web site: www.uscj.org/michigan/flint
Contact Person: Rabbi James Michaels

CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL

P.O. Box 2416
Petoskey, MI 49770
Phone: (231) 347-8740
Gail Willens(231) 347-8033
E-Mail: willens@bignetnorth.net
Contact Person: Gail Willens, president
Reform congregation.

5385 Calkins Road
Flint, MI 48532
Phone: (810) 230-0770, (810) 733-3779
Fax: (810) 733-8736
E-Mail: emchabad@aol.com
Contact Person: Rabbi Yisroel Weingarten
Orthodox congregation. Material and spiritual support
to all Jews. Serves nursery school to bar mitzvah. Offers
hospital services, prison and nursing homes visits,
summer camp and programs to counteract assimilation,
intermarriage. Mikva. Services held weekly.

391 E. Webster Ave.
Muskegon, MI 49440
Phone: (616) 722-2702
Reform congregation that holds Shabbat and bar/bat
mitzvah services.

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CONGREGATION KEHILLAT ISRAEL

2727 Michigan Ave. N.E.
Grand Rapids, MI 49506-1297
Phone: (616) 949-2840
Fax: (616) 949-6929
E-Mail: DavKrishef@aol.com
Web site: http://members.aol.com/AhavasIsrl
Contact Person: Rabbi David Krishef
An egalitarian synagogue affiliated with the United
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism. Offers religious
services, full religious school program, adult education
and library.

2014 Forest Road
Lansing, MI 48910-3711
Phone: (517) 882-0049, (517) 852-4564
Fax: (517) 882-9270
E-Mail: kilori@msu.edu
Contact Person: Liz Harrow
Highly participatory Reconstructionist congregation.
Religious school serving K-7, high school program and
youth groups. Shabbat services every Saturday morning
at 10 a.m.

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