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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...

I lost both of my parents within four months of each other. I knew I would say Kaddish daily, because I saw my parents saying it for their
parents. But I had no idea the impact it would have on me. It ended up becoming a life changing connection to my parents (and my shul).
For those 20–30 minutes, I was present to their memory and felt like they were with me. It was my time to honor them again and stop my
busy day and just...Read more...