6 | SEPTEMBER 15 • 2022
PURELY COMMENTARY
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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.