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It is June 7th, a beautiful Michigan Sunday.  My last bulletin article was written just a short time after Beth Ahm and the other synagogues in our area suspended in-person activity.  Three months later, and it feels that we are not close to the end of this crisis.  While many businesses and other institutions are opening back up, the sense of caution remains. Beth Ahm has not made plans for in-person activities in the coming...Read more...

Based on a recent teshuvah (rabbinical ruling), Congregation Beth Ahm will be implementing several changes related to our religious services online.  Click here to read Rabbi Rubenstein's statement outlining the changes and the halaka allowing online services during a crisis. Read more...

The Detroit Jewish community has made an unprecedented but necessary decision to limit the spread of the coronavirus; all in-person synagogue activities have been suspended through April 30th.    Congregation Beth Ahm fully supports this decision. We recognize our obligations to be both a center of Jewish life and part of the greater society. The Jewish values of pikuah nefesh (protection of life) and derech eretz (proper behavior)...Read more...