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Temple Beth El (Flint)

Congregation Shaarey Zedek

Jewish Parents Institute

5150 Calkins, Flint, 48532, (810) 720-
9494. Rabbi: Karen Companez. Cantorial
soloist: Aleksander Chernyak. Services:
Friday 8 p.m. unless the first Friday of
the month; call for details; High Holiday
services; lvriah religious and Hebrew
school. Web: templebethelflint.org .

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

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

Temple Beth El (Midland)

3999 Walnut Lake, West Bloomfield,
48323, (248) 737-8700. Rabbis: Dannel
Schwartz, Michael L. Moskowitz, Daniel
Schwartz. Cantorial soloist: Penny
Steyer. Services: Friday 8 p.m. Saturday
10:30 a.m.

2505 Bay City Road, Midland, 48642.
Lay service twice monthly. Contact
Stuart Bergstein, (989) 835-4822.

Roslyn Schindler and her mother,

Goldie Abt

Congregational Tribute

Oakland County's only Reconstructionist
congregation will host a tribute Shabbat to
a Holocaust survivor, the late Goldie Abt.
The first Shabbat morning service of
2009 at Congregation T'chiyah will mark
the yahrtzeit of Goldie Abt, mother of
Roslyn Abt Schindler, a past president
of the congregation. The service will be
10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, at in T'chiyah's
sanctuary in the David and Miriam
Mondry Building, 15000 W. 10 Mile, on
the A. Alfred Taubman Jewish Community
Center Campus, Oak Park.
To honor Abt's memory on that day,
Roslyn Schindler will read from the mem-
oir she has written about her mother's
Holocaust experiences, including her
life in Germany before the Holocaust
and afterwards in the United States. The
memoir, (Re)vision of Life: My Mother's
Holocaust Story, is being revised for pub-
lication. Schindler is associate professor
of German in the Department of Classical
and Modern Languages, Literatures, and
Cultures at Wayne State University in
Detroit.
One important chapter of the memoir
details Abt's deportation to and nine-
month internment (from late October
1938 through the summer of 1939) in
Zbaszyn, the first and largest work camp
for exiled German Jews of Polish descent.

Gay Network Meeting

Jewish Gay Network-Family and Friends
is having a general meeting at 7 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the Jewish Community
Center in West Bloomfield. The group will
meet in the lower-level library. Meetings
are open to the community at no cost.
JGN-Family and Friends is a program
of the Jewish Gay Network of Michigan. Its
mission is to serve all gay, lesbian, bisexu-
al and transgender Jews and their families
and friends by providing community,
information, empowerment and education
in an environment of respect. JGN is an
affiliated partner of Keshet (keshetonline.
org). For more information, contact Kim
Phillips-Knope at (248) 432-5661 or at
kphillipsknope@jccdet.org.

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Temple Beth Emeth

2309 Packard, Ann Arbor, 48104,
(734) 665-4744. Rabbi: Robert D. Levy.
Chazzan: Ann Zibelman Rose. Services:
Friday 5:30 p.m. Tot Shabbat, 6:45 p.m.
Family Shabbat, 7:30 p.m. Shabbat ser-
vices. Saturday 9:30 a.m. chapel service
(lay lead), 10 a.m. sanctuary service.

Beth Isaac Synagogue

2730 Edsel Dr., Trenton, 48183, (734)
675-0355. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.
Congregational leaders conduct services
throughout the year.

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 B'nai Israel

Petoskey. Rabbinic Intern: Tami Elliott.
Monthly services at 7 p.m. Fridays. Call
Tom Johnson for details, (231) 487-1661.

Temple Emanuel (Grand Rapids)

1715 E. Fulton, Grand Rapids, 49503,
(616) 459-5976. Rabbi: Michael A.
Schadick. Services: Friday 6:15 p.m.

Temple Shir Shalom

U-M Reform Chavurah

1429 Hill St., Ann Arbor 48104, (734)
769-0500. Regular Friday evening ser-
vices 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 6:15 p.m.;
Saturday 10 a.m. Friday and Saturday,
Steve Klaper will lead services, Saturday,
Cindy Silverman will chant Torah.

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.

Temple Emanu-El

14450 W.10 Mile, Oak Park, 48237,
(248) 967-4020. Rabbi: Joseph P. Klein.
Cantor: Darcie Sharlein. Services: Friday
7 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, Jennifer T. Kaluzny.
Cantor: Michael Smolash. Cantorial
soloist: Neil Michaels. Services: Monday-
Thursday 7:30 a.m.; Friday 7:30 p.m.
Saturday 10:30 a.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.

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. Friday,
January birthday blessings.

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 direc-
tor: Ellen R. Bates-Brackett. Secular
and cultural holiday observances.
Shabbes potlucks, bar/bat mitzvahs,
educational and cultural program-
ming. Welcoming community, Jewish/
Yiddish culture, social justice.

Sephardic

Keter Torah Synagogue

5480 Orchard Lake Road, West
Bloomfield, (248) 681-3665. 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.

Secular Humanistic

The Birmingham Temple

Woodward Avenue Shul

25595 Woodward, Royal Oak, 48067,
(248) 399-6265. Directors: Rabbi
Chanoch Hadar and Tamar Hadar.
Services: Friday, 6:15 p.m. Saturday
9:30 a.m.

28611 W.12 Mile, Farmington Hills,
48334, (248) 477-1410. Rabbi: Tamara
Kolton. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.;
monthly family service 7 p.m. Saturday
9:30 a.m. Shabbat study. Sunday school,
b'nai mitzvah program, holiday obser-
vances. Rabbi's tish Sunday 10:30 a.m.

Minyans

Jewish Cultural Society

Fleischman Residence

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

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 office 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.
The community is invited.