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qualifications and standards and
they choose to follow this person,
fine — that is their business:' said
Orthodox Rabbi Alon Tolwin,
director of Aish Detroit in
Southfield. "But:' he added, "they
deserve no power to impose their
standards and qualifications on
the governing body or the majori-
ty of the people and demand sup-
port on the same grounds as those
who adhere to a nationally accept-
ed standard. The government is
clear that it only recognizes
Judaism that is traditional, that is
committed to the laws of Torah as
they come via the traditions from
Sinai."
And he said those who choose
otherwise — like those in the
Israeli Reform movement — must
"support themselves and have no
claim on the resources of the
Jewish people."

Detroit Roots

Rabbi Gold, who was born in
Detroit, grew up in north Oak
Park in a home where she said her
mother "was always a good
Zionist with a real love of Israel."
A longtime Tamarack camper,
Rabbi Gold said she's still a Tigers
baseball fan and has "only good
feelings about Detroit."
Rabbi Gold is a graduate of
Berkley High School and the
University of Michigan in Ann
Arbor. Her first visit to Israel was
with the Conservative movement's
United Synagogue Youth, along
with Detroit friends, including

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Paula Glazier of Bloomfield Hills.
"That's when she started thinking
about making aliyah," said Glazier
who helped organize several talks
by her longtime friend at local
synagogues and agencies, includ-
ing one at Shaarey Zedek this
Shabbat.
Having kept in touch through
the years, including visits to Rabbi
Gold on her kibbutz, Glazier said,
"Miri always set goals for herself
and then worked to accomplish
them. I have never known her to
shy away from a challenge."
By 1977, Rabbi Gold was living
in Israel, where she earned a mas-
ter of arts degree from the -
Institute for Contemporary Jewry
at Hebrew University in
Jerusalem.
She and her husband, David
Leichman, director of Pinat
Shorashim, a Jewish educational
park and who also is involved
with the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit's Alliance for
Jewish Education, have three chil-
dren, Eliora, 24, Arishai, 21, and
Alon, 16.
Always involved in the spiritual
life of the kibbutz, officially Rabbi
Gold spent many years working in
capacities that included kitchen
duties and being in charge of
absorption. Unofficially, she was
-paving the road toward the rab-
binate helping to oversee religious
observance and celebrations on
the kibbutz.
After officiating as a lay leader
at her daughter's 1993 bat mitz-

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