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… youth; Rabbi Lauren Berkun, Jewish Theological Seminary Midwest Rabbinic Fellow; Rabbi Shoshana Dworsky, assis- tant director at the University of Michigan Hillel; and Rabbi Steven Freedman, new head of…

… Nevins said. "I think most of the rabbis enjoy our unusually close working relationship, symbolized by the Michigan Board of Rabbis." Rabbi Nevins is past president of the multi-stream rabbinic group. S…

… school at Hillel Day Rabbi Krakoff School of Metropolitan Detroit. "Plus there are three rabbis at JAMD whose positions didn't exist four years ago," said Rabbi Nevins. When Adat Shalom hired Rabbi Strear…

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… clergy — like Cantor Larry Veider of Adat Shalom Synagogue and Rabbi Irwin Groner of Congregation Shaarey Zedek — the title change to "emeritus" keeps them still involved in their synagogues but on less…

… Shalom brought Rabbi Herbert Yoskowitz, other staff members and Beth Achim congregants to the Adat Shalom building. "The merger was symbiotic," Rabbi Nevins said, "allow- ing the strengths of two…

… congregations to reinforce one another." Beth Achim itself was a merger of Ahavas Achim and Beth Aaron congre- gations. "Rabbi Yoskowitz and I have truly enjoyed working together," Rabbi Nevins said. "This has…

… been the greatest blessing of the merger, from my per- spective." The merger of the two synagogues also brought together their two religious schools, naming it the Beth Achim Religious School. The school…

… retained the Adat Shalom director, Elissa Berg. 12 Noon - 5pm Tic DIAMONDS & FINE ,JEWELRY Michigan's most trusted jeweler since 1977 7,7 ec,f, While some area rabbinic positions have been eliminated…

… Detroit, following their 2000 rabbinic ordi- nation at the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism (UJ) in Los Angeles. Within three years, all had moved out of Michigan. Rabbi…

… Hillel Day School [in Farmington Hills], it was not financially viable for us to hold classes for the small percentage of those who would go to our reli- gious school," said Tessa Goldberg, executive…

… rabbi-educator at Congregation Shaarey Zedek and served as community educator at Hillel, now is head of school at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Raritan County N.J. "This is a time for great mobility…

… are a bit bittersweet at Congregation Beth Ahm. There is anticipation and excitement in the air regarding tomorrow's unveiling of a new Shabbat morning service and prayer book. [See related story, page…

… 14.] Yet, there is also a sense of loss as Charles Popky, the West Bloomfield synagogue's rabbi for the past 3 1/2 years has announced that he is leaving. Rabbi Popky sees the time as right for him to…

… a pulpit, there are so many opportunities around now that weren't available when I graduated 15 years ago," he said. "I am keeping myself open to a number of pulpit and non-pulpit possibilities." "We…

… treasure — and will continue to do so — the many relationships that we have created here," Rabbi Popky's letter read. "We are blessed in that Beth Ahm is not merely a place of work; it is a place of…

…] the opportunity to conduct his search [for a new position] as necessary. In turn, he will be supportive of the congregation's efforts and needs in the search for his successor." Rabbi Popky, who arrived…

… at the synagogue in 2000 — after Rabbi Aaron Bergman left to become director of Jewish studies at the Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit (JAMD) — will leave the con- gregation when his contract…

… expires June 30, 2004. Search Committee During his tenure, Rabbi Popky has seen the Conservative congregation go through several transi- tions, including the departure of its cantor, David Montefiore (who…