The centennial anniversary of Temple Beth El will be marked tomorrow and Saturday evenings at special religious services and at a banquet at the Book Cadillac Hotel. Among those who will participate in the celebration are Governor G.M. Williams; Mayor A.E. Cobo; Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion; Dr. Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations; and the Rt. Rev. Richard Enrich, Bishop of the Episcopel Diocese of Michigan.
Temple Beth El was orginally an Orthodox congregation, with the first rabbi–Samuel Marcus–serving as teacher, cantor and shochet. In 1862 the congregation began the first of a series of modifications in ritual which led to its establishment as one of the cutstanding Reform temples in the U.S. The temple organized other Reform congregations in Flint, Port Huron, Pontiac, Lansing and Saginaw, all in Michigan.
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