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Ark area in the newly renovated chapel
Day School of Metropolitan Detroit,
where he has been rabbi in residence
since 2006. At B'nai Israel, in addition
to running the service and teaching
Torah on Shabbat mornings, he pro-
vides ongoing halachic (Jewish legal)
guidance to the synagogue and its
members. Member volunteers assign
parts for Shabbat and daily services,
assemble a yahrtzeit list and perform
other religious and administrative
tasks.
Daily member-led morning and eve-
ning services are held, as are weekday
morning breakfasts and lunch follow-
ing Saturday morning services.
"Virtually all of our member fami-
lies regularly attend Shabbat services;'
Ellias said. "We had over 400 people on
the High Holidays. While our numbers
exceeded our original projections, we
would not enjoy the breadth of pro-
gramming we have without the sup-
port of Kol Ami."
Inside the sanctuary are two sepa-
rate boards of yahrtzeit names: one for
TKA and the other including plaques
donated from the start of B'nai Israel
in Pontiac.
Two Torahs, donated by Pontiac
B'nai Israel members, came with the
congregation. The ner tamid (eternal
light) that first hung in Pontiac and
later in the CSZ-BI building, along with
kosher kitchen supplies, were given to
the congregation by CSZ, which also
loaned B'nai Israel 225 siddurim and
225 Chumashim.
The books were returned to CSZ in
mid-November last year after B'nai
Israel purchased its own.
"We raised $32,000 last October to
purchase 250 each of our own sid-
durim and Chumashim, in addition
to five megillot books, a dozen child-
sized Torahs and other ritual items:'
Jacobson said.
B'nai Israel is a self-sustaining con-
gregation operating on membership
dues and member donations. Its first
executive board includes Jacobson,
Ellias, treasurer David Saperstein and
secretary Debra Singer.
It has no religious school, but some
area Conservative synagogues offer
member-rate tuition for B'nai Israel
members.
"We additionally offer supple-
mentary tuition for these families,"
Jacobson said. B'nai Israel families also
receive member rates at Hillel's Early
Childhood Center.
Strength In Numbers
Reflecting on the first anniversary of
the congregations' association, Kol
Ami Rabbi Norman T. Roman said,
"It has been a year of dialogue, part-
nership, give and take and discus-
sion, consistently marked by respect
and openness. Each of our congre-
gations is stronger and healthier, I
believe, because of the experiences
we have shared in making this rela-
tionship work."
In addition to sharing educational,
cultural and social programs, some
religious programming has overlapped.
B'nai Israel's Rabbi Berger said,
"One of our highlights of the past year
was the Tikkun Leil Shavuot (Shavuot
learning); it offered a model for coordi-
nated educational programming. Rabbi
[Ariana Jaffe] Silverman of Kol Ami
taught, as did I and several B'nai Israel
members, and congregants from both
synagogues came to learn."
The two congregations jointly
observed Purim, and B'nai Israel
invited members of Kol Ami to attend
tashlich (Rosh Hashanah ritual of cast-
ing away sins), which Kol Ami doesn't
plan on its own.
Kol Ami members join the B'nai
Israel congregation each week for the
Shabbat lunch they hold after their
separate Saturday morning services.
And on the second day of Rosh
Hashanah this year, when many
Reform congregations, including Kol
Ami, join together in a community-
wide service, a few Kol Ami members,
including Rabbi Roman and his wife,
Lynne, instead participated that day
in the service run by their friends at
B'nai Israel.
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