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New home of
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Shabbat programming, when HUC-JIR
student rabbis come to town, begin-
ning with Friday night services.
“On the Saturday following Shabbat
services, an adult education group
led by the student rabbi meets to
study and discuss the Torah, Mishnah,
Jewish traditions and Jewish holidays,”
Perlove said. “On the Sunday follow-
ing Shabbat services, Sunday school
is available. These three consecutive
days are known by the congregation
as ‘rabbi weekends.’”
B’nai mitzvah preparations are also
offered during these visits, with some
continuing through digital recording
and videoconferencing.
The next rabbi weekend is Friday,
Aug. 10, for an 8 p.m. Shabbat service,
with adult Torah study at 10 a.m.
Saturday, Aug. 11.
“Additionally, TBS sponsors an
annual seder and participates with
the surrounding interfaith commu-
nity in Holocaust Remembrance Day
events,” Perlove said.

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TBS’s new building, long-ago named
“the Citadel,” was built in 1925 as
a Christian Science church, later
becoming an event venue and then
an apartment complex, before it was
transformed into the synagogue.
Surrounded by three Christian
churches, the synagogue, with its
Greek revival columns, has been a
longtime landmark in the city’s center.
“It was a church that was converted
into a residential building,” said Cary
Gottlieb, TBS treasurer, and mem-
ber of the building committee. “We
remodeled it back to its original pur-
pose.”
The handicapped-accessible facility
includes a vertical wheelchair lift run-
ning from the main area of the build-
ing up to the sanctuary and down to
the social hall, and there is a ramp
leading to the bimah.
A mezuzah, created by 90-year-
old Holocaust survivor Martin
Lowenberg, a frequent speaker at
the Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington Hills, now hangs in the
new synagogue.
Much of what is inside the building
is new, but original pews and other
religious items were transported from
the Ishpeming building to Marquette.
Stained glass windows depicting the

Ten Commandments, Shabbat and
the High Holidays — designed for TBS
by artist A. Raymond Katz in 1952 that
hold historical landmark status —
have been remounted.
The building houses a sanctuary,
social hall, library, three kitchens and
storage areas — and an apartment to
house the student rabbi and guests.
“We do not have any formal offices
because we do not have any perma-
nent employees,” added TBS rab-
binic liaison, Aaron Scholnik. “We are
essentially a volunteer organization
except for rabbinical students and
some maintenance staff. Our religious
school classroom is generally the
social hall because the number of stu-
dents is small, like an old one-room
schoolhouse. We actually take pride in
our DIY Judaism.”
Gottlieb said, “One of the rea-
sons we were excited to move from
Ishpeming to Marquette is that,
since the temple was founded in the
1950s, the Jewish population, never
large to begin with, shifted from one
city to the other.” The move is largely
attributed to the growth of Northern
Michigan University (NMU) — with
both an active Hillel and Jewish
Student Union — and the UP Health
System-Marquette regional hospital
whose staff make up a large portion of
the congregation’s membership.
With the next closest synagogue,
Temple Jacob, located 100 miles
from Marquette in Hancock, the con-
gregation is hoping to attract more
members and visitors, as well as NMU
students, and is happy to offer tours of
the new building.
Marquette, with a population of
21,355, is a draw for those looking for
everything from fishing, camping and
live theatrical productions to walking
and biking trails, beaches, skateboard
parks and a golf course featuring pan-
oramic views of Lake Superior.
“Having a Jewish community and
synagogue in such a beautiful part of
Northern Michigan is the best of both
worlds,” Perlove said. •

For information on Temple Beth
Sholom, go to www.tbsmqt.org
or contact Shannon Ruiz at
tbsmqt@gmail.com or
(906) 362-3388 or David Perlove
at dperlove@charter.net.

