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Temple Beth Israel

801 W. Michigan Ave., Jackson 49202, (517)
784-3862. Rabbi: Jonathan V. Plaut. Rabbi
emeritus: Alan Ponn. Cantorial soloist: Clara
Silver. President: David Cwynar. Services:
Friday 8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. the first
Saturday of the month.

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 wedding blessing for
Breanne Brown and Jeffrey Kay. Baby nam-
ing of Landon Henry Halprin, son of Audra
and Dan Halprin.

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.

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.

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

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.

Congregation Shir Tikvah

3900 Northfield Parkway, Troy, 48084,
(248) 649-4418. Rabbi: Arnie Sleutelberg.
Services: Friday 7:45 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.
Steve Klaper will lead services Friday and
Saturday. Tisha b'Av: Saturday, Havdalah led
by Jan Laurencelle and Mike Pytlik 8 p.m.

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 second and fourth Saturday each
month — led by rabbi and group leaders.

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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.

Can We Stop
For A Blessing?

Shabbat Ki Tavo: Deuteronomy
26:1-29:8; Isaiah 60:1-22.

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the mezuzah by my
with a new leader:
door is a beautiful ceramic
"One who will go out ahead of them
plaque that a friend gave me and who will come in before them,
inscribed with the blessing mentioned who shall take them out and bring
in this week's Torah portion: "Blessed
them in, so that the Lord's community
shall you be in your comings and
may not be like sheep that have no
blessed shall you be in your goings!'
shepherd."
It is one of those blessings that
As we soon face the choice of a new
leads us, and our sages, to muse about leader of this country — and in Israel,
what kind of "comings" (literally
too, they will select a new prime min-
"enterings") and "goings"
ister in the coming months
(literally "leavings") are
— we need to think seri-
there in our lives to which
ously about the interpreta-
this blessing would apply?
tion of this blessing: to
Certainly, we live in an
choose a strong and coura-
age of a great deal of com-
geous leader who will not
ings and goings. We rarely
leave us adrift without clear
stay in one place — be it a
plans nor effective action to
home, a school, an office, a
cure our country's ills.
store, or even a synagogue
Pausing on our way
— for more than a couple
out
to recognize whatever
Rabbi Dorit
of hours without going in
blessings
we have received,
Edut
and out at least once.
how
we
can
now carry
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When we listen to the
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us
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traffic reports or are out
elsewhere in our lives, is
driving on the highway,
important for us and for
we often wonder, "Where is everyone
our world.
going in such a hurry?"
If we live our lives this way, then
We can all use a little sitzfleish, sit
perhaps we can understand what
still for a minute and think about the
Rashi meant by his interpretation of
blessings of coming and goings.
the blessings of "comings and goings"
In Deuteronomy Rabbah, the rab-
when he said:
bis understood the verse in context
"May you leave this world (at death)
of the previous blessings referring to
as blameless as when you entered it
material gain. Therefore, they said the
(at birth)."
"comings and goings" meant our busi-
ness transactions that would lead us
Dorit Edut is rabbi at Temple Israel in Bay
to prosperity.
City.
Anyone who has ever witnessed the
floor of the New York Stock Exchange
has a modern visual example of what
our sages meant.
Conversations
Our prosperity is a blessing from
Where do you think you need
God; it should lead us to express our
to pause in your life to be able
feelings of gratitude in prayer and to
to appreciate the people, ideas,
give a portion of our earnings to help
sights or feelings more in your
others who are not so blessed.
life? What blessings do they
Another understanding of the bless-
bring to you? What blessings
ing of "comings and goings" relates to
do you bring to them? Who are
the leadership of the Jewish people.
leaders that you think have been
Hizkuni, a famous Torah commenta-
strong and courageous for the
tor, connected this blessing to the
Jewish people in our modern
verse in Numbers 27:17, where Moses
history?
asks God to provide the Jewish people

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