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As the clock
ticks toward a
new year, a look
back at 2012.
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Schools And Shuls
Lubavitch Yeshiva Educational Center
middle school and high school students
love their a new building.
New Lubavitch High School
Middle school and high school students of
the Lubavitch Yeshiva Educational Center
in Oak Park left their old building to the
elementary students late this summer
and moved into a new educational facility
built on the Harry and Wanda Zekelman
Campus, where most will live in dorm
rooms on the 4-acre site.
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Jeri Fishman, Leypsa Groner and Mary
Temple Kol Ami pledge form
Knoll at the Shaarey Zedek 150th party.
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Marks 150 Years
Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield,
Detroit's largest Conservative synagogue,
marked its 150th anniversary year with
events that included a performance of
Cantor Meir Finkelstein's original cantata
with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and
a culminating community bash that drew
1,000 people for food, dancing and fun.
Kol Ami Launches Pledge System
Temple Kol Ami voted May 22 to abol-
ish the synagogue's dues structure and
instituted a pledge structure, which allows
members to pledge the amount they can
afford and intend to pay over the course
of the coming year. The new system is an
attempt to retain members and attract new
congregants as well as create a plan that
shows respect for those unable to pay the
full dues amount.
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Another StepForward for Jewish Detroit *
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Future home of:
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A new Yeshiva facility will soon sprout
in Oak Park.
New Girls' High School, Preschool
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah embarked on a
major project to build a new school for
both the Meer Preschool and Girls' High
School on land leased from the Federation
and United Jewish Foundation at the cor-
ner of 10 Mile and Church Street, alongside
Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park.
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December 27 • 2012
The Temple Emanu-El family
Temple Emanu-El Turns 60
Temple Emanu-El in Oak Park celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2012 with a calendar
full of events and commemorations that kicked off Jan. 13-15. When the Reform con-
gregation was founded in 1952, the Jewish values of social action and tikkun olam were
regarded as most important, and those values have endured at Emanu-El to this day.
Rabbi Tamara Kolton
Birmingham Temple,
Rabbi Part Ways
The board of the Birmingham Temple in
Farmington Hills accepted the resignation
of its senior rabbi, Tamara Kolton, in late
August. Next spring, the Temple, which
has 250 family units, will celebrate its 50th
anniversary. It was founded in 1963 by the
late Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, the founding
figure of Humanistic Judaism.
"There is a void when a rabbi leaves
a congregation, but no one person is
Humanistic Judaism, and those of us who
have found this philosophy and relevant
Jewish experience are not going to let it
fade it away. We certainly won't let the
Birmingham Temple fade away. There's
continuity," said Rabbi Miriam Jerris, rabbi
for the Society for Humanistic Judaism
and one of the rabbis to lead services after
Kolton's departure.