6 | SEPTEMBER 15 • 2022 

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LETTERS continued from page 4

Conservative Movement, 
which was co-founded by 
Rabbi Aaron Bergman, Rabbi 
Elliot Pachter and me in 
1996 and was co-sponsored 
by all six local Conservative 
synagogues, Hillel Day 
School, Women’s League 
Michigan Branch, and the 
then regional offices of the 
Jewish Theological Seminary 
and United Synagogue for 
Conservative Judaism. 
Eilu v’ Eilu offered a 
plethora of lifelong learning 
opportunities, including 
classes at community venues 
such as Borders Books & 
Music. We audio-recorded 
many of our classes (this 
was before video) and 
maintained a lending library 
of cassette tapes for adult 
learners to borrow. Eilu v’ 
Eilu also sponsored annual 
community scholars in 
residence who came to 
Metro Detroit for six weeks 

at a time, enabling lifelong 
learners to learn with a 
distinguished scholar at all 
six local Conservative shuls 
and other venues during 
their time in town. 
After a couple of years 
on a shoestring budget 
with me serving as unpaid 
coordinator, Eilu v’ Eilu was 
awarded a three-year Fisher 
Foundation grant which 
provided a modest salary for 
me and expired at the end of 
2001. At that point, funding 
we expected to receive from 
Federation’s Alliance for 
Jewish Education did not 
materialize (a victim of post-
9/11 budget retrenchment). 
After Eilu v’ Eilu lost its 
funding, I took up the role 
of volunteer coordinator 
of lifelong Jewish learning 
at B’nai Moshe, where we 
launched a project we called 
Kolel Moshe. This was the 
vehicle for many creative 

adult learning opportunities, 
including Stay & Learn on 
Shabbat, Drop In & Learn, 
and other classes and 
lectures, including many by 
Professor Howard Lupovitch, 
who had recently moved 
back to the area. Kolel 
Moshe was sponsored by just 
one shul, but we beamed our 
effort at learners throughout 
the community, in the spirit 
of Eilu v’ Eilu. I coordinated 
Kolel Moshe until the fall 
of 2006, when I joined Beth 
Ahm.
Finally, lest anyone get 
the mistaken impression 
that Beth Ahm’s daily 
minyan has been operating 
on auto-pilot for the past 
seven years: that’s not how 
it works. In 2015, I handed 
over the reins to Rick 
Emmer, who has coordinated 
Beth Ahm’s daily minyan 
masterfully ever since. It 
takes a centralized effort 

to reach out to current 
and prospective minyan 
attendees to ensure that 
there is always a quorum, 
twice a day, six days a week. 
Rick has done a superb job 
in this complex role!

— Nancy F. Kaplan

West Bloomfield

CORRECTIONS
In “Michigan Maccabiah 
Men,” (Sept. 1, page 36), 
Michael Fishman was 
misidentified as Michael 
Friedman.
In “Lost and Found,” (Sept. 
8, page 26), Naomi Lerman’s 
age was wrong. She is 44 not 
46. 

