…Spirituality 0 `Ib Ke10,P,C, The Door Is Open New Reform movement Haggadah displays original works by Michigan-educated artist Ruth Weisberg. SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN Staff Writer Ann Arbor A mong this year's new Haggadot is The Open Door: A Passover Haggadah (CCAR Press, 2003, $19.95), which includes dozens of illustrations created by University of Michigan alumna Ruth Weisberg. Edited by Sue Levi Elwell, it is a project of the Reform m...…
…,ua lit Temple Beth El Proudly Presents Beethoven and Beatles Music come together with Hebrew Prayers with the much celebrated 911 74Parr Tefilati - My Prayer Beth Jacob Commemorative Shabbat Contemporary Music Service Beth El Features Modern Music The music of Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney will head the list of modern music composers spotlight- ed at this year's contemporary music service at Temple Beth El, Friday, April 11, a...…
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…Synagogues BEN TEITEL ISRAEL TEMPLE BETH EL 7400 Telegraph, Bloomfield Township, 48301, (248) 851-1100. Rabbis: Daniel B. Syme, David Scott Castiglione. Cantor: David Montefiore. Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.; Saturday 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jacob Bloch will speak. Saturday b'nai mitzvah of Steven Phillip Siegel, son of Dr. Les and Ellen Siegel; Carly Love Steinberger, daughter of Terry and John Steinberger. INCENTIVE SAVINGS PLAN TEMPLE BET...…
…Torah Portion TEMPLE ISRAEL'S FAMILY LIFE CENTER In Conjunction with The Caring Community Committee & the Temple Treasures, Presents: Laws Of Purity Affirm Life Confront Death's Inevitability if impurity is the result of the symbolic forces of death? Furthermore, why would a mother's period of impurity double upon the birth of a female child? There are several compelling sugges- tions. First, childbirth in the ancient Near East was fraught...…
…V • * i, \ v : ‘. 1.. ' ' :::: :'; tiO The three-year program ends this fall, leaving its participants enthusiastic and a little unsure of what the future holds. "S2K works in some ways and fails to work in other ways," says Lisa Yufit of Huntington Woods, an S2K team member at Oak Park's Conservative Congregation Beth Shalom. "I've met some mem- bers of the shul I wouldn't have otherwise. But it's hard for us as a group to translate wh...…
…"It's been wonderful to see the different teams," Wengrow says. "Each is so unique. It reflects the richness of our community." Mission Of Improvement Synagogue 2000 seeks to improve congregational life in five areas, represented by the five letters in the word Pisgah, the mountain where, according to the Bible, Moses stood to view the Promised Land. According to the organization's mission state- ment, these areas are: • Prayer that is perso...…
…Cover Story f A evolution Founders of Synagogue 2000 recall the start of the organization. DIANA LIEBERMAN StaffWriter/Copy Editor wo highly respected Jewish educators, one Reform and one Conservative, founded the national synagogue renewal program known as Synagogue 2000 in 1995. The idea of making synagogue life more meaningful was one that had intrigued both Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman and Dr. Ronald Wolfson for decades. But it took a third ...…
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