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BARBARA LEWIS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The interior design is by 
Julia Weinberg and Miriam 
Horowitz of the company 
Julia Robin Interiors. Robin, 
formerly of Southfield, now 
lives in Israel, and hopes to 
create a “mystical, spiritual 
and physically beautiful ener-
gy that only a mikvah can 
provide,” said Silberberg. “It’s 
going to be the nicest part of 
our building.”
The facility, named the 
Mallor Walder Community 
Mikvah Center, will have its 
own dedicated entrance. It is 
named in honor of Elizabeth 
Mallor Walder, a onetime 
member of the congregation 
who is now an immigra-
tion attorney in Skolie, Ill., 
where she lives with her hus-
band, Joseph. Their Walder 
Foundation is a major donor 
for the project, as is Mikvah 
USA, based in Brooklyn.
The preparation rooms 
in the women’s mikvah will 
include beautiful build-
ing materials from around 
the world said the rabbi; 
much of the décor will use 
a water motif to portray 
the feminine connection to 
water. The rooms will also 
include original paintings 
by artist Michoel Muchnik 
of Brooklyn. In addition to 
providing privacy and a sense 
of holiness, the mikvah will 
allow women using it to feel 
pampered, the rabbi said; it 
will be a luxurious physical 
experience. 
To highlight the “ancient 
energy” of the mikvah, the 
immersion pools will be lined 
with yellow stone resembling 
Jerusalem stone. Walls and 
floors will be cream-colored 
marbleized stone.
The mikvah’s opulence 
is part of a trend, he said. 
“
Around the world, mikvahs 

are taking it up a notch.”
The congregation’s old 
mikvah is now closed. The 
new one will use that space 
and space from the social hall 
in the building’s lower level. 
The mikvah will have a sepa-
rate entrance.
Representatives from 
other congregations in West 
Bloomfield, including Keter 
Torah and Ohel Moed, 
worked with Tugman Bais 
Chabad on the mikvah plan-
ning committee. The mikvah 
will be open to all, not only 
Bais Chabad members.

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WHOLE FAMILY 
The congregation, with about 
120 families, is also building 
a new playground adjacent to 
its building to serve children 
at Shabbat youth groups, 
Sunday religious school class-
es and summer day camps. It 
is named Marc’s Playground, 
dedicated by Bruce and 
Mindy Ruben in memory of 
Bruce’s brother, Marc Ruben. 
At close to 4,000 square 
feet, the playground will have 
equipment to appeal to chil-
dren of all ages, Silberberg 
said. 
The synagogue’s congre-
gants live within walking dis-
tance, and there are no play-
grounds nearby; the closest is 
over a mile away, he said. 
The playground, sched-
uled to open at the end of 
May, replaces an older, much 
smaller playground that has 
been removed. 
“We have had a real burst 
of young families with lots of 
children, so this is long over-
due,” said Silberberg.
He’s hoping the mikvah 
and the playground will 
encourage more young fami-
lies to join them. 
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