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young people in the membership of
our new Temple,” he said. “We hope
that our Temple will embody the spirit
of youth. We shall avail ourselves of
the new trends and the new insights
which are giving American Judaism a
new direction.”
Loss added, “In each generation,
Temple Israel has maintained an
enduring commitment to this foun-
dational idea. When I arrived in the
community, with 18 teenagers on
our first mission, we began a sum-
mer program. Many years later, we
were asked to be the founding part-
ner and merged our Temple Israel
mission with the present Federation
teen mission.”
In Fram’s time, a challenge for the
new temple was finding a home. With
wartime building material shortages
and restrictions, the fledgling congre-
gation held services in the auditorium
of the Detroit Institute of Arts and
religious school at Hampton Public
School for nine years. It moved into its
own building on Manderson Avenue
in Palmer Woods in 1950, with nearly
1,000 members. At the end of the
1970s, the congregation purchased
land in West Bloomfield and moved
into its current space.
From its inception, the congrega-
tion and its founding clergy, includ-
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ing Rabbi M. Robert Syme, who was
raised Orthodox, worked at reviving
many of the symbols and traditions
in Judaism that were for decades
rejected by classical Reform Judaism,
according to Yedwab.
Temple Israel was the first Reform
congregation in this area to introduce
a cantor to services, to revive the tra-
dition of bar mitzvah and to give girls
a bat mitzvah starting in the 1950s.
Ritually, over the decades, it reintro-
duced a daily minyan.
Perhaps the most contentious of
rituals it incorporated was in 1996,
when it became the first Reform
congregation in the nation to have a
mikvah. At the time, Temple Israel was
putting in an expansion and leader-
ship proposed adding the ritual bath.
After studying Jewish texts, members
came to understand the mikvah could
be used to mark times of transition
and healing in a person’s life, such as
entering a stage of cancer remission,
according to Yedwab.
JEWISH EDUCATION
The more things change, the more
they remain the same, even in the
span of seven decades.
Temple Israel has always placed its
highest priority on youth and Jewish
educational opportunities from the
Style
On April 22, more than 350 guests gathered to cele-
brate Temple Israel’s 75th anniversary. Guests dined
on hors d’oeuvres and multiple food stations as well
as an extravagant dessert selec-
tion provided by the Epicurean
Group. Specialty cocktails were
created, such as the Temple-Tini,
Mazel Tov Margarita and the
Manderson Mule — homage to
the home address Temple held in
Detroit before moving to its cur-
rent location in 1980.
Libations flowed and guests
pulled out all the stops on the
dance floor. Along with the
Simone Vitale Band, revel-
ers enjoyed several selections
performed by Cantors Michael
Smolash and Neil Michaels.
Throughout the evening, video
played of the 50th anniversary as well as a photo
montage covering all the decades in Temple Israel’s
history.
Rabbi Harold Loss and Temple President Dr.
Edward Royal spoke briefly, reflecting on the past,
celebrating the present and enlightening congre-
gants to the exciting plans for the future. •
Temple Israel’s cur-
rent president, Edward
Royal, and past presi-
dent Stanley Finsilver