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— Judy Cantor, congregant

THE RABBI, THE MAN
Judy Cantor, a third-generation member
Bryna Frank’s father, M.B. Lewis, told
of Shaarey Zedek who heads the shul’s
her not to cancel.
archive, says although Rabbi Adler was a
“He said, ‘I am alive, your mother is
giant figure in the community, he related
alive, you are alive, and especially Stevie
well to members on an individual basis.
is alive. We as Jews have to go on,’” she
When Cantor and her husband,
recalled.
Bernard, decided to marry, they noti-
The celebration was rather somber, and
fied Rabbi Adler of their chosen date. He
some friends were too upset by the day’s
called her personally to tell her the date
events to come. But at that point, Bryna
wouldn’t work because it was in the period
Frank said, everyone thought the rabbi
of semi-mourning before Tisha b’Av. “That
would recover.
impressed me,” she said. “He could have
Life at Shaarey Zedek also went on. “It
had his secretary call, but he called him-
was a terrible blow, but we had a cadre
self.”
of leaders, including Louis Berry and Hy
Orley remembers the day the rabbi
Safran, who saw us through,” Berman said. came to his home. “My parents were so
“It was tremendously meaningful to go
excited!” he said. They told him and his
back into the same room,” said Orley, not-
three siblings how important the rabbi was
ing that even now he can point to the spot
and what an honor it was to host him.
in the sanctuary where he was sitting that
“He had a wonderful sense of humor,”
fateful day.
said Bernard Cantor, who participated
Goldie Adler stayed active at Shaarey
in “Men’s Kibbutz,” the annual three-day
Zedek and did what she could to help the
men’s retreats Rabbi Adler organized.
congregation heal. Evelyn Wishnetsky,
“He was the most entertaining guy to be
Richard’s mother, remained a member
with. His sermons were very intellectual,
and was warmly accepted, “to the credit of but also had great humor. He could be for-
those in the synagogue,” said Judy Cantor.
mal or informal; he could be a scholar or
“A sense of dignity and a sense of survival
a buddy. As soon as you said hello to him
just took over.”
you liked him.”
The shooting, she said, “was enough to
Rabbi Aaron Starr, the congregation’s
take us down, but it did not. People felt we current rabbi, never knew Rabbi Adler
had to be about life.”
but he feels his presence
Berman remembers Rabbi Adler as
every day at Shaarey
a wise man for whom he had immense
Zedek.
affection.
“Rabbi Morris Adler’s
The rabbi’s most enduring contribu-
impactful life and tragic
tion to the congregation, he said, was his
death stir our soul to
decision to move the synagogue from its
deepened compassion
Chicago Boulevard building in Detroit to a
for our fellow man,” he
new home in Southfield, which in the late Rabbi Aaron
said.
1950s was mostly farmland.
“May the memory of
Starr
Adler recruited congregational leaders
the righteous teacher,
like Berman, Louis Berry, David Miro and pastor and spiritual leader, Rabbi Morris
Gil Silverman to be on the building com-
Adler, cause us to find inspiration within
mittee. Planning started in 1958, and the
our Judaism to lead transformative lives of
building, on a 40-acre site on Bell Road,
gratitude, obligation and joy.”
was completed in 1962.
(See related Publisher’s Notebook, page 6.)
The rabbi was intimately involved in

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Goldie Adler
stayed active
at Shaarey
Zedek and did
what she could
to help the
congregation
heal.

the planning process, Berman said. “He
and I had many long discussions about
what kind of building it should be. He was
someone whose judgment we trusted, and
he trusted us. We made decisions together.
The building looks like it does because of
Rabbi Adler.”
The rabbi was also a very strong sup-
porter of Jewish education, which he felt
was integral to Jewish identity. He helped
mold the congregation’s expanded reli-
gious school and nursery school programs
in the new Southfield building.
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program, but Adler insisted that Shaarey
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