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Temple Emanu-El

14450 W.10 Mile, Oak Park, 48237, (248)
967-4020. Rabbi: Joseph P. Klein. Cantor:
Darcie Sharlein. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.
No Saturday services until Aug. 23.

Temple Israel

5725 Walnut Lake, West Bloomfield, 48323,
(248) 661-5700. Rabbis: Harold S. Loss,
Paul M. Yedwab, Joshua L. Bennett, Marla
Hornsten, Jennifer T. Kaluzny. Cantor:
Michael Smolash. Cantorial soloist: Neil
Michaels. Minyan Monday-Thursday 7:30
a.m.; Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 10:30 a.m.;
Sunday 9 a.m. Friday, Shabbat Unplugged.
Wedding blessings of Amy Lauren Marks
and Aaron Matthew Swedler. Baby naming
of Noa Mila Gendelman, daughter of Janet
and Vladimir Gendelman; Arielia Josephine
Ginter, daughter of Liron and Darryl Ginter;
Sari Ryan Golding, daughter of Brooke and
Mark Golding; Leonor Couceiro daCosta
Newman, daughter of Alexandra and David
Newman; Madison Jane Zoref, daughter of
Marcie and Jonathan Zoref.

Temple Kol Ami

5085 Walnut Lake, West Bloomfield, 48323,
(248) 661-0040. Rabbi: Norman T. Roman.
Rabbi emeritus: Ernst J. Conrad. Soloist:
Tiffany Steyer. Services: Friday 6 p.m.;
Saturday 10:30 a.m.

Congregation Shaarey Zedek

1924 Coolidge, East Lansing 48823, (517)
351-3570. Rabbi: Amy Bigman. Rabbi
Emeritus: Morton Hoffman. Cantorial solo-
ist: Pamela Schiffer. Services: Friday 8 p.m.
(7 p.m on the second Friday of the month),
Saturday 9 a.m.

Temple Shir Shalom

3999 Walnut Lake, West Bloomfield, 48323,
(248) 737-8700. Rabbis: Dannel Schwartz,
Michael L. Moskowitz. Cantorial soloist:
Penny Steyer. Services: Friday 6:30 p.m.
Saturday 9 a.m.

U-M Reform Chavurah

1429 Hill St., Ann Arbor 48104, (734) 769-
0500. Regular Friday evening services
through the school year. Co-chairs: Shayna
Liberman, Stefanie Albowitz, Edi David,
Rebecca Kamil. Reformchairs07@umich.edu .

Reform/Renewal

Congregation Shir Tikvah

3900 Northfield Parkway, Troy, 48084,
(248) 649-4418. Rabbi: Arnie Sleutelberg.
Services: Friday 7:45 p.m.; Saturday 10
a.m. Services outdoors, both days, weather
permitting.

Renewal

Pardes Hannah

2010 Washtenaw Ave., Ann Arbor, 48104,
(734) 213-8374. Rabbi: Elliot Ginsburg.
Affiliation: Alliance for Jewish Renewal.
Services: Friday night, monthly. Shabbat
morning the second and fourth Saturday
each month. Services are led by the rabbi
and other group leaders.

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Secular Humanistic

The Birmingham Temple

28611 W.12 Mile, Farmington Hills, 48334,
(248) 477-1410. Rabbi: Tamara Kolton.
Founding rabbi: Sherwin T. Wine. Services:
Friday 8 p.m.

Jewish Cultural Society

2935 Birch Hollow Drive, Ann Arbor, 48108-
2301, (734) 975-9872. First Friday Shabbat
observances, adult programs, pre-school.
Sunday school, b'nai mitzvah program, High
Holiday observances.

Jewish Parents Institute

JCC, 6600 W. Maple, West Bloomfield,
48322, (248) 661-1000. Director: Marilyn
Wolfe. Alternative cultural Jewish celebra-
tions; secular bar/bat mitzvah ceremonies;
adult programming; cultural Sunday school
from nursery through teen.

Sholem Aleichem Institute

28690 Southfield, Suite 293, Lathrup
Village, 48076, (248) 423-4406. President:
Alva Dworkin. Holiday observances; Friday
night oneg Shabbat; cultural events.

Workmen's Circle Arbeter Ring

JCC, 15110 W. Ten Mile, Oak Park, 48237,
(248) 432-5677. President: Arlene Frank.
Michigan district director: Ellen R. Bates-
Brackett. Secular and cultural holiday
observances. Shabbes potlucks, bar/bat
mitzvahs, educational and cultural pro-
gramming. Welcoming community, Jewish/
Yiddish culture, social justice.

Sephardic

Keter Torah Synagogue

5480 Orchard Lake Road, West Bloomfield,
(248) 681-3665. Chazan: Ben Zion Ben
Shimon. Services: Friday at candlelighting.
Saturday 9 a.m., 5:45 p.m. Monday and
Thursday 6 a.m.; Thursday 9:15 p.m.

Traditional

B'nai David

P.O. Box 251574, West Bloomfield, 48325,
(248) 855-5007. Cantor: Ben-Zion Lanxner.
Services: Saturday 9 a.m. Services held at
Hadassah House, 5030 Orchard Lake Road,
West Bloomfield.

Minyans

Fleischman Residence

6710 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, 48322,
(248) 661-2999. Rabbi: Avie Shapiro.
Services: Sunday-Thursday abbreviated
Minchah: 10 minutes before sunset, followed
by Maariv. Friday and Saturday, Minchah
5 p.m.; Maariv 6:10 p.m.; Saturday and
Sunday, 9:15 a.m. Call to confirm times.

Yeshivat 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. Community is invited.

Legacy And The Land

Shabbat Masei: Numbers 28:9-15,
33:1-36:13; Jeremiah 2:4-28, 3:4;
Isaiah 66:1, 23.

Torah in their midst. This third party
may have been doomed to fail, but at
least their idealism regarding the land
his is what God has com-
spawned the very special five daugh-
manded concerning the
ters who never lost faith either in God
daughters of Zelophehad
or in the equality of His
saying: 'they may marry
Torah or in the significance,
anyone they wish provided
centrality and Jewish con-
they marry into a family
quest of the Land of Israel.
of their father's tribe. No
Rabbi Akiva identified
inheritance of the children
Zelophehad with the cul-
of Israel may pass from one
pable gatherer of wood, a
tribe to another, for the chil-
wicked Sabbath desecra-
dren of Israel shall cleave
tor who was condemned
everyone to the inheritance
to death. I believe that
of the tribe of their fathers'
Rabbi Akiva was stress-
(Numbers 36:6,7). In effect,
Rabbi Shlomo
ing a crucial foundation
this final biblical deci-
Riskin
stone of Judaism: We are
sion orchestrates a bridge
Special to the
both
a nationality as well
between women and famil-
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as a religion; God entered
ial rights on the one and
into a national covenant
tribal rights on the other.
with Abraham "between the pieces" in
In biblical history, tribal rights
which He guaranteed the first patri-
were very zealously guarded (not
unlike individual state's rights in early arch eternal progeny and the bound-
aries of the Land of Israel as well as
American history).
the Divine Revelation of a religious
These five women went all the way
covenant at Sinai.
up the judicial and political ladder
Zelophehad certainly "lapsed" in
until they stood before Moses himself,
terms of his religious obligations by
insisting upon the justice of their
desecrating the Sabbath; however, this
claim to inherit their father's land so
dare not distract from his national
that Zelophehad have a portion in the
status as a member of Klal Yisrael, the
future eternity of Israel through his
Jewish nation. Remember that the basis
descendants' working and living in
for the claim of the daughters was that
ancestral land in Israel.
"the name of their father not be dimin-
Let us look at Zelophehad, as well
ished" by his inability to bequeath land
as the character of his daughters,
in Israel if he lacked male heirs.
from the perspective of a talmudic
The counter argument might have
discussion. R. Yehuda b. Beteyra sees
been — according to Akiva — that
Zelophehad as one of the ma'apilim,
your father doesn't deserve a heri-
the brazen would-be conquerors of
tage in the Land of Israel if he was a
Israel; and this perception assumes
transgressor of the law. Perhaps Akiva
three distinct parties of Israelites all
specifically identifies Zelophehad as
opposed to Moses in the desert but
the culpable wood-gatherer in order
each with its own unique platform.
to stress that one may cut himself off
The first is Datan and Aviram, who
from the religious covenant without
saw the fleshpots of Egypt as the real
removing his privileges as a member
land flowing with milk and honey,
of the national covenant, the historic
and that's where they wanted to be;
nation of Israel. And since his daugh-
the second is Korah who, like Naturei
ters learned their Zionism from him,
Karta, wished to remain in the reli-
his name is glorified throughout
gious "Koller of God outside of Israel,
Jewish history through the special
so as not to become sullied by the
daughters whom he parented and
stench and struggle of a new startup
inspired.
state; and the third are the ma'apilim,
the non-religious Zionists who storm
Shlomo Riskin is chancellor of Ohr Torah
the ramparts of the land of Canaan
Stone and the Chief Rabbi of Efrat,
without God or the Holy Ark of the

Efrat, Israel

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