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August 19 • 2010
Ricky Behar of Farmington Hills
Rabbi Shneur Silberberg of West
participates in the service before
Bloomfield tosses a ball to a Bais Chabad
playing on Keter Torah's team.
teammate.
Shelli Liebman Dorfman
Senior Writer
O
n top of color-coded jerseys
that showed their differences,
a group of men donned a uni-
form of another sort that stressed how
they are really all on the same team.
Before the weekly game of the Inter-
Congregational Men's Club Summer
Softball League on July 25, members
got together to put on a tall and tefillin
and participate in the morning service.
The group met under a covered picnic
area at Keith Elementary School in
West Bloomfield "to instill a little more
Jewishness into the synagogue softball
league,' said league player Ricky Behar of
Farmington Hills.
The service and breakfast that fol-
lowed were planned by members
of Keter Torah Synagogue of West
Bloomfield, where Behar is president,
and their opponents for the day, mem-
bers of the West Bloomfield-based Sara
and Morris Tugman Bais Chabad Torah
Center. Members of all 10 teams that
play each Sunday were invited to the
first-time gathering.
The league includes teams from syna-
gogues of various streams of Judaism
who "all play together in friendly compe-
fition',' said league founder Brad Silber of
Commerce Township. "All players must
be members of the Men's Club of the
shul they are playing for."
Teams come from the Conservative
Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington
Hills, Congregation Beth Ahm in West
Bloomfield, Congregation Shaarey Zedek
of Oakland County; Orthodox Bais
Chabad and Keter Torah; and Reform
Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Township
and Temple Kol Ami, Temple Shir
Shalom and Temple Israel (two teams)
— all of West Bloomfield.
"Thirty men from at least four syna-
gogues participated in the services and
tefillin instruction before the first game
[of the day]," Behar said.
The plan evolved after Behar suggest-
ed it to Bais Chabad member Richard
Luger of West Bloomfield in advance
of the first time the two teams would
play each other. Extra tallitot and tefillin
were on hand for those who didn't bring
them as well as fellow players who gave
instruction on how to put on the tefillin.
"Rabbi Shneur Silberberg of Bais
Chabad facilitated it really coming
together," Behar said. `And then he pro-
ceeded to have an outfield assist from
right center as Bais Chabad crushed
Keter Torah."