Jewry's Role in Human Affairs THE FAMILY FRANKS: A COLONIAL DYNASTY CONGREGATION BETH EL 311 S. Park, Traverse City 49684; (231) 946-1913. Rabbi: Jonathan V. Plaut. Cantorial soloist: Hannah Dietz. Shabbat services 8 p.m. bi-weekly. TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM 3999 Walnut Lake, West Bloomfield, 48323, (248) 737- 8700. Rabbis: Dannel Schwartz, Michael L. Moskowitz. Cantorial soloist: Penny Steyer. Services: Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m. CONGREGATION BETH EL 2525 Mark Ave., Windsor; (519) 969-2422. Rabbi: Jeffrey Ableser. Cantor: Sidney Resnick. Services: 5:45 p.m. the first and last Friday of the month; 8 p.m. inter- mediate Fridays. TEMPLE BETH EL 7400 Telegraph, Bloomfield Township, 48301, (248) 851-1100. Rabbis: Daniel B. Syme, David Scott Castiglione. Cantor: David Montefiore. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 10:30 a.m. Saturday bat mitzvah of Lesley Elyse Jacobowitz, daughter of Sandra and Chuck Jacobowitz. TEMPLE BETH EL (FLINT) 5150 Calkins, Flint, 48532, (810) 720-9494. Rabbi: Karen Companez. Cantorial soloist: Aleksander Chemyak. Services: First Friday of the month 6:15 p.m.; second Friday 8 p.m.; all other Fridays 8 p.m. TEMPLE BETH EL (MIDLAND) 2505 Bay City Road, Midland, 48642, (517) 835-4822. Guest teacher: Hal Greenwald. President: Stuart J. Bergstein. Services: Friday 8 p.m. once a month. Regularly scheduled social events and High Holiday services for the tri-city area. TEMPLE BETH EMETH 2309 Packard, Ann Arbor, 48104, (734) 665-4744. Rabbi: Robert D. Levy. Chazzan: Ann Zibelman Rose. Services: Friday 8 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. Family serv- ice once a month at 7:30 p.m. replaces 8 p.m. Friday service; call for specific dates. BETH ISAAC SYNAGOGUE 2730 Edsel Dr., Trenton, 48183, (734) 675-0355. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m. Congregational leaders con- duct services throughout the year. TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL 801 W. Michigan Ave., Jackson 49202; (517) 784- 3862. Rabbi: Jonathan V. Plaut. Rabbi emeritus: Alan Ponn. Chazzan: Evette Lutman. President: David Eizelman. Services: Friday 8 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. the first Saturday of the month. CONGREGATION CHAYE OLAM P.O. Box 250356, Franklin Village, 48025-9998, (248) 752-6669. Cantor: Stephen L. Dubov. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m. at the International School, 25888 Middlebelt Road, Farmington Hills. REIPORM/RENEWAL CONGREGATION SHIR TIKVAH 3900 Northfield Parkway, Troy, 48084, (248) 649-4418. Rabbi: Arnie Sleutelberg. Services: Friday 7:45 p.m. SECULAR HUMANISTIC THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE 28611 W. 12 Mile, Farmington Hills, 48334, (248) 477- 1410. Rabbis: Sherwin T. Wine, Tamara Kolton, Adam Chalom, Miriam Jerris. Services: Friday 8 p.m. JEWISH CULTURAL SOCIETY 2935 Birch Hollow Drive, Ann Arbor, 48108-2301, (734) 975-9872. Board president: Karla Rice. School princi- pal: Ramona Brand. Shabbat services first Friday of every month 7:30 p.m.; cultural Jewish celebrations, secular bar/bat mitzvah programming, cultural Sunday school. JEWISH PARENTS INSTITUTE JCC, 6600 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, 48322, (248) 661-1000. Director: Marilyn Wolfe. Alternative cultural Jewish celebrations; secular bar/bat mitzvah cere- monies; adult programming; cultural Sunday school from nursery through teen. SHOLEM ALEICHEM INSTITUTE 28690 Southfield, Suite 293, Lathrup Village, 48076, (248) 423-4406. Co-presidents: Alva Dworkin, May Moskowitz. Holiday observances; Friday night oneg Shabbat; cultural events. WORKMEN'S CIRCLE ARBETER RING 26341 Coolidge, Oak Park, 48237, (248) 545-0985. Chair: Arlene Frank. Michigan district director: Ellen R. Bates-Brackett. Year round holiday observances, Nokh Shabbes Havdalah once a month; secular bar/bat mitz- vah; Sunday school. SEPHARDIC KETER TORAH SYNAGOGUE 5480 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield, (248) 681- 3665. Rabbi: Michael Cohen. Services: Friday at can- dlelighting time; Saturday 9 a.m., Minchah 1 1/4 hours before the end of Shabbat; Sunday 9 a.m.; Monday 7 a.m.; Wednesday 9 p.m., Thursday 7 a.m., 9 p.m. TEMPLE EMANU EL - 14450 W. 10 Mile, Oak Park, 48237, (248) 967-4020. Rabbi: Joseph P. Klein. Cantor: Norman Rose. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 10:30 a.m. TEMPLE ISRAEL 5725 Walnut Lake, West Bloomfield, 48323, (248) 661- 5700. Rabbis: Harold S. Loss, Paul M. Yedwab, Joshua L. Bennett, Marla Hornsten. Rabbi emeritus: M. Robert Syme, Cantor: Lod Corrsin. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 10:30 a.m. TEMPLE KOL AMI 5085 Walnut Lake, West Bloomfield, 48323, (248) 661- 0040. Rabbi: Norman T. Roman. Rabbi emeritus: Ernst J. Conrad. Cantorial soloist: Susan Greener. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 10:30 a.m. CONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK 1924 Coolidge, East Lansing 48823, (517) 351-3570. Rabbi Emeritus: Morton Hoffman. Cantor: Pamela Jordan Schiffer. Student rabbi: Roger Lerner. Services: Friday 8 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m. TRADITIONAL B'NAI DAVID 6346 Orchard Lake Road, Suite 100, West Bloomfield, 48322, (248) 855-5007. Cantor: Ben-Zion Lanxner. Services: Saturday 9 a.m.; Sunday 8:30 a.m. P/MTPANS FLEISCHMAN RESIDENCE 6710 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, 48322, (248) 661- 2999. Rabbi: Avie Shapiro. Minchah Monday-Shabbat 1:30 p.m.; Maariv 5:30 p.m. Sunday, Shabbat Schacharit 9:15 a.m. YESH1VAT AKIVA 21100 W. 12 Mile, Southfield, 48076 (248) 386-1625. Services: During the school year, morning services at 7:30 a.m.; afternoon services at 2:40 p.m. The com- munity is invited. Members of the distinguished Franks family were deeply engaged with the commercial, political and military issues of the period before and during the founding of the republic. Like other colonists, they were divided in allegiance, but were mostly aligned with our patriots. The Franks rose to prominence at a time (1750s) when fewer than 2,500 Jews lived within a population of some 2,500,000. Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazic newcomers from Holland, Poland and England formed the majority. The balance was made up by Sephardim who preceded them and were better educated, more affluent and culturally advanced. Among the Franks loyal to Britain were Moses (1719-89), the family's business representative in London, and David (1720-93) who was imprisoned by the Americans for the duration of the war. His daughter, Rebecca (1760-1823), had been a popular charmer in English social circles. On the other hand, Isaac (1759-1822) fought bravely for the rebellion and retired as a lieutenant colonel. And later, during the yellow fever epidemic ravaging Philadelphia, President George Washington took refuge in David Salisbury Franks' Germantown home. The family saga continues: JACOB FRANKS (1688-1769) b. London, England Born of German parents, the mercantile family's founder emigrated to New York in 1708 and succeeded in creating a trading empire linking his homeland to the provinces. He was appointed by the British Crown as its sole fiscal agent for the Northern Colonies and became one of the city's wealthiest Jews. In ecumenical spirit, Franks helped build New York's first synagogue as well finance the steeple of Trinity Church which still stands in downtown Manhattan. There is evidence that he had served earlier with the militia in the French and Indian Wars as a civilian commissary and supplier. A noted historian has concluded that the "real Jewish contributions to the war effort" lay in the Jews' ability to keep commodities flowing to Washington's armies and loyal citizens--as did Jacob Franks throughout the conflict. A lasting memory of his role in our nation's birth appears in the city's Battery Park district. Said to be New York's most elegant mansion of the day, the home he built was converted into a landmark: Fraunces Tavern in which Washington famously bade farewell to his Continental Army officers. DAVID SALISBURY FRANKS (1743-93) b. Philadelphia, PA His story is that of an English sympathizer whose shifting convictions brought him to adopt the American cause. David Franks was educated in his city's leading university before relocating to Montreal as a merchant. But he soon irritated local authorities with his outspoken pro-liberty views and joined the Continental Army at age seventeen. Sent off on a military expedition into Canada, he rose rapidly in rank as an officer and is thought to have been among General George Washington's aides- de-camp. Surviving fierce engagements in which he bravely fought, Franks almost ended his career, if not his life, while a private secretary to General Benedict Arnold. At first accused of complicity to commit treason with Arnold, he was cleared by the general's persuasive denial and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. At war's end, Franks was posted off on important diplomatic missions as a foreign courier of vital U.S. government dispatches to Benjamin Franklin in Paris and John Jay in Madrid. Respected as a trusted consular official, he also served our nation at the highest executive levels as an occasional advisor and confidant of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. His last office before retirement was that of assistant cashier of the Bank of the United States. - Saul Stadimauer Visit many more notable Jews at our website: www.dorledor.org COMMISSION FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF JEWISH HISTORY Walter & Lea Field, Founders/Sponsors Irwin S. Field, Chairperson Harriet F. Siden, Chairperson 680880 kmr\ / 3 2003 43