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"Rabbi Groner belongs to that small
circle of pulpit rabbis who has reached
pre-eminent status on both a local and
),
national level ... he's a true leader.

— Dr. Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary

a new York City-based international
obsessed with their own points of view."
organization of 1,500 Conservative rab-
Reminiscing about the events in his
bis.
career at Shaarey Zedek that have made
"This definitely has been the high-
him most proud, he cites the creation of
an endowment to financially support the light of my professional career," he said.
He was chairman of a governing
synagogue's future — it now has 170
board that launched a 10-year project
participants — and the expansion of the
that resulted in the publishing of Etz
synagogue into West Bloomfield.at the
Hayim, a one-volume text and commen-
B'nai Israel Center, which includes the
Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Life and tary on the Torah recently produced by a
Family Center and the Irving and
Beverly Laker Education and
Youth Center.
"I was deeply involved in these
projects. Our membership was
spreading out into the community
and we needed to make facilities
available to them as they moved
further north — especially our
educational programs for young-
sters. It has been very gratifying to
see these projects come to
fruition," he said.
He also is proud of his efforts
as chairman of the Stop Anti-
Ballistic Missile Committee in the
1970s, when the U.S. government
considered developing these mis-
siles to protect heavily populated
centers from possible missile
attacks by enemies.
"We held rallies and succeeded,
mainly due to the outcry of the
public and their resistance to this
unnecessary project," he recalled.
In the 1980s, he became the
first clergyman to serve on the
Michigan Judicial Tenure
Commission, which settles griev-
ances in the legal community.
Appointed by Gov. James
Blanchard, he subsequently
became chairman for four years.
He has been 'active in programs of
interfaith dialogue in the Detroit
Rabbi Groner at Shaarey Zedek in Southfield.
area and was honored at the annual
Dove dinner, along with Detroit
joint venture of the Rabbinical
Cardinal Adam Maida. He also twice
Assembly,
the United Synagogue of
served as president of the Michigan
Conservative Judaism, and the Jewish
Board of Rabbis and has been a board
Publication Society.
member of many Jewish and civic
Bloomfield Hills industrialist and
organizations.
philanthropist William Davidson was
But the crowning achievement of his
president of the congregation when the
outside activities was his presidency in
endowment program began, and he
1990-1992 of the Rabbinical Assembl y ,

A journey to see your

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