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75TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS
The highlight of Adat Shalom Synagogue’s 75th Anniversary Celebration will be
a Diamond Jubilee Concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29. The concert will fea-
ture members of the Cantors Assembly, including Adat Shalom’s Daniel Gross,
Jack Mendelson, Alberto Mizrahi, Alisa Pomerantz-Boro, David Propis, Pamela
Schiffer and Marcia Tilchin.
Admission is $18 for Adat Shalom members and $25 for nonmembers in
advance, and $36 at the door for all.
The anniversary festivities will kick off with a “Shabbat-Appella” singing ser-
vice and Oneg Shabat at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 26.
Shabbat morning services Oct. 27 — and a Torah study with Rabbi Daniel
Nevins and Soulful Yoga with Rabbi Rachel Shere — will be followed by a
Kiddush lunch.
For more information, call the synagogue office at (248) 851-5100.

A NEW BEGINNING
The bankruptcy “shaped our philoso-
phy as to how we operate,” said Alan
Yost of Farmington Hills, who joined
Adat Shalom as youth director in 1980
and became its executive director a
year later. “We always remember that
we are a synagogue first and a business
second. We paid off the synagogue
mortgage (in 1984) and operate today
with no financial debt service.”
The area around Northwestern and
Middlebelt began to grow rapidly, and
Adat Shalom grew with it. A new nurs-
ery school attracted young families.
Seymour Rosenbloom, who had
joined as assistant rabbi in 1972, suc-
ceeded Segal; he was followed by Efry
Spectre in 1978.
The congregation welcomed Cantor
Howard Glantz in 1993 and Rabbi
Daniel Nevins in 1994. Nevins served
until he was named dean of the rab-
binical school at the Jewish Theological
Seminary in 2007. He will return to
Adat Shalom for the 75th Anniversary
Celebration weekend, when he will
lead the Shabbat morning Torah study.
Aaron Bergman followed Nevins in
2008. Assistant Rabbi
Rachel Shere and
Cantor Daniel Gross
round out the clergy
team.
Bergman, 55, grew
up in Oak Park and
returned to the Detroit
Danny Nevins
area in 1991 to become
the first rabbi-in-res-
idence at Hillel Day School. He later
served as senior rabbi at Congregation
Beth Abraham Hillel Moses (now Beth
Ahm).
At Adat Shalom, members are wel-
come to practice Judaism in various
ways, including Shere’s “soulful yoga”
practice on Shabbat morning. There’s
also a Torah study in the small chapel

during the Shabbat Torah reading.
“We’re a large shul, but we offer
a lot of programs for small groups,”
Bergman said. “We don’t offer every-
thing for everyone, but we have some-
thing for everyone. There’s a sense of
balance.”
Adat Shalom’s only merger,
with Congregation Beth Achim in
Southfield, took place in 1999. “It was
a genuine merger,” said Bergman, with-
out friction between members of the
two congregations. Beth Achim’s rabbi,
Herbert Yoskowitz, served as rabbi,
alongside Nevins and Bergman, until
he became rabbi emeritus in 2018.
“Beth Achim” has been kept as the
name of the congregation’s religious
school.

A MODERN CONGREGATION
The congregation recently hired
Michael Wolf as director of outreach
and spirituality.
Vieder says it’s the clergy — all
of whom recently signed long-term
contracts — that distinguishes Adat
Shalom. “Each of them is very warm,
welcoming and responsive to the needs
of our congregants,” he said. “They are
not afraid to try new things.”
But he’s also proud of the mem-
bership, now about 1,000 families.
The congregation, he says, is “truly a
melting pot of wonderful Jews from all
walks of life. Each member is import-
ant. Each member matters. We don’t
mind children running around and
talking in services. We want them to
feel comfortable and find the joy of just
belonging — much like I did.”
Yost says Adat Shalom continues the
philosophy that marked its founding.
“The congregation was formed to
serve the religious, cultural, education-
al and social needs of a neighborhood
community. We continue to operate
within this framework.” ■