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Rabbi Joel Meyers, executive director of the Rabbinical Assembly since 1989, hailed Rabbi Groner as "the driving force on the Torah commentary project ... overcoming difficulties and keeping us all focused to get the work done. He's a superb leader with great wisdom who was a successful president and earned the respect of everyone he met." Cover Story career. Deploring the term rebbetzin, she prefers to be known simply as "the rabbi's wife." When Rabbi Groner is asked how long he's been married, he says: "Not long enough." Actually, it's 48 years. "I think one of the high points of his career was when he was granted life tenure," she said. "And the present peri- od also is a high point. He's still strong and active, and spends more time than ever at the synagogue, involved in all of the activities. He just loves being a rabbi and serving the congregation and is held in high esteem by everyone. I'm proud and honored to be his wife." Rabbi Groner returns the compli- ment: "Leypsa is my confidant and partner, who shares joyous times with me and comforts me in times of sorrow. A True Leader' She plays a vital role in assisting me in Rabbi Groner's influence in Jewish my rabbinical response to the needs of causes always has had far-reaching the congregation." effects, sometimes in curious ways. The Groners both agree on what was Dr. Ismar Schorsch, chancellor of the one of the saddest days in the past 43 Jewish Theological Seminary of years. "It was when we met David and America in New York city for the past Doreen Hermelin for lunch to celebrate 16 years, offered: "One of the most • mutual birthdays — and they told us _important things he did for the semi- David had a brain tumor," Mrs. Groner nary was to introduce Bill Davidson to recalls. "It was a terrible time for all of us, because it resulted in Mr. Davidson's us.'' $15 million gift to fund the William Hermelin, the business entrepreneur Davidson Graduate School of Jewish and philanthropist, former U.S. ambas- Education, the most significant gift in sador to Norway and a past Shaarey our history. Zedek president, also was Rabbi "Rabbi Groner belongs to that small Groner's personal friend. circle of pulpit rabbis who has reached "They had a close relationship ... pre-eminent status on both a local and they were the best of friends," said national level ... he's a true leader." Doreen Hermelin. - Rabbi Groner gets a lion's share of "Rabbi Groner has been special to the credit for the ascension of women our entire family. He's always there into more prominent roles at the syn- when we need him, and always says just agogue, such as Dottie Wagner's presi- the right things. When I was nervous dency, counting women as part of the about my public speaking roles, he daily minyan, giving women alyiot taught me what to do and instilled con- and allowing them to read from the fidence in me," she said. Torah. Hermelin died of brain cancer in "He studied-the situation concerning November 2000; and the Groners' the role of women in the synagogue, daughter, Debbie, died at 46 of a rare then moved forward to achieve the muscle disease in March 2001. progress we have today," Wagner said. "Those personal tragedies came four Michigan Court of Appeals Judge months apart; it was the darkest period Hilda Gage, a third-generation Shaarey of our lives," said Rabbi Groner. Zedek member, was the congregation's As an example of how much he cares first woman usher. for people in the Jewish community "I remember comments from people and the Detroit area in general, he still on Shabbat when they saw my usher winces when he recalls another sad peri- badge: 'A woman usher ... what's next?' od ... the urban riots of 1967 and how Rabbi Groner gives you strength by they affected residents. believing in you and what you can do. "Many of our members owned He reaches out to everyone with gen- buildings and property that were erosity and kindness," Gage said. destroyed, while a number of people were killed and injured, disrupting A Rabbi And A Friend thousands of lives. It was a low ebb for Rabbi Groner's wife, Leypsa, who is col- .Detroit and Michigan, and a time when our congregation needed comfort," he orful and gregarious, has her own views said. on the highlights of her husband's