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October 27 - 2011
Their Last Shabbat
Members of Beit Kodesh in Livonia
will miss their tight-knit congregation.
Keri Guten Cohen
Story Development Editor
F
or members of Congregation
Beit Kodesh in Livonia, this
Shabbat will be the last they
spend in the building that has been
their home since 1971 — and home
to the only Conservative synagogue
in western Wayne County.
Beit Kodesh congregation formed
53 years ago. Its closure this week is
attributable to an aging membership
with few young families able to take
over leadership responsibilities.
The synagogue's last day is Oct.
29, the day its lease ends on the
building on West Seven Mile Road,
just west of Merriman. The former
United Hebrew Schools' Molly and
Samuel Cohn Building is owned by
the United Jewish Foundation and is
now for sale.
The congregation's history started
in 1958, when a group of families
new to Livonia started holding
Shabbat services, first in members'
homes and then at Clarenceville
Central Elementary School.
About 200 people gathered for the
first High Holiday services. In 1959,
the Livonia Jewish Congregation was
officially organized; and, in 1990, the
name was changed to Beit Kodesh
(House of Holiness).
Over the years, the congregation
has held services in several locations
including a farmhouse, a tent and a
church.
"We have opened and closed many
doors, but what's most important is
the people," said Phyllis Lewkowicz
of Livonia, a founding member who
served twice as president and cur-
rently heads the sisterhood.
As recently as the early 1990s, Beit
Kodesh was a flourishing 90- to 100-
family congregation with an active
sisterhood and men's club, a thriving
Sunday school and standing-room-
only High Holiday services.
But, with fewer Jewish families
living in Livonia and the departure
of their rabbi in the late 1990s, the
Conservative congregation now is
down to 45 families. Knowledgeable
members have been leading services.
Notably, this progressive, egalitar-
ian congregation became the first
Conservative synagogue in Metro
Detroit to elect a woman president.
Volunteerism was another Beit
Kodesh hallmark. The close-knit
members helped one another like
family and also reached out to help
others at places like food banks,
Friendship Circle and a Livonia wom-
en's shelter.
In 2005, Beit Kodesh hired
Conservative Rabbi Jason Miller as its
temporary rabbinic adviser.
"The fact that this small congrega-
tion managed to keep its doors open
as long as it did is a success story:'