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EMANUEL INSTALLS LAY LEADERSHIP

Temple Emanu-El’s lay leadership
for the coming year are: president,
Dennis Kayes; vice presidents,
Richard Gold, David Hart, Lynn
Cooper, Jackie Bean and Susan
Stettner; treasurer, Debora Renner;
secretary and president elect, Martin
Leibowitz; and immediate past presi-
dent, Bruce Klein.
Trustees installed are: Vickie
Edwards, Ruth Hurwitz, Janeen

Fetterman, David Gubow, Jon Kabbe,
Ivan Katz, Laura Sacks Kohn,
Ruthanne Okun, Russell Wise, David
Findling, Fern Katz, Bob Levitt and
Stuart Trager.
Sisterhood co-presidents are Rae
Mandel and Robin Gold; and the
brotherhood president is Robert Kahn.
For information about Temple
Emanu-El, visit www.emanuel-mich.
org or call (248) 967-4020.

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TWO OAK PARK
SHULS NAME
SCHOOL HEAD

Abi Taylor-Abt of Moshav Shoresh,
Israel, moves to Oak Park this sum-
mer to be the new religious school
director of the Yachad (together)
Religious School program. Yachad
is the K-7 combined religious
school partnership of Temple
Emanu-El and Congregation Beth
Shalom, both located in Oak Park.
Taylor-Abt has been a Jewish
educator her whole career. She
was born in London, England,
and finished school in Israel. After
attending college in South Africa,
she began her career in Jewish edu-
cation working as the teen director
at Moshav Neve Ilan, Israel. She is
currently the director of program
and curriculum development at
Alon Community School, Kiryat
Anavim, Israel.
In addition to leading the com-
bined religious school, Taylor-Abt
will coordinate family and commu-
nity education programs and the
high school/young adult program
at Temple Emanu-El.
The Yachad Religious School
program will begin its second
year after a successful inaugural
year. This is the first inter-denom-
inational religious school in the
area, according to the congrega-
tions’ rabbis, Robert Gamer of
Beth Shalom and Arturo Kalfus
of Emanu-El. The school meets
on Sundays at Emanu-El and on
Wednesdays at Beth Shalom.
“I anticipate a year of enthusi-
asm and warmth and look forward
to beginning an exciting year,” said
Taylor-Abt.
For information about these
education programs, contact
Temple Emanu-El (248) 967-4020,
templefamily@emanuel-mich.
org or Congregation Beth Shalom
(248) 547-7970, yachadrelschool@
congbethshalom.org.

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Dr. Richard Krugel and Barak Barfi

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One Year Later,” at the Oakland
Center of Wayne State University
in Farmington Hills. Barfi is a
research fellow at the Washington,
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tank. The program, which was co-
sponsored by JCRC, the Columbia
University Alumni Association of
Michigan and Wayne State’s Cohn-
Haddow Center for Judaic Studies,
also featured WSU Professor
Howard Lupovitch.

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