Birmingham Temple in Farmington Hills Installs New Rabbi

A new rabbi joined Birmingham Temple in Farmington Hills Saturday, as the congregation celebrated the temple's 50th anniversary. 

According to The Oakland Press, Rabbi Jeffrey Falick follows Rabbi Tamara Kolton, who left the temple in 2012. He is originally from Florida and told the newspaper that "the temple and its community has embraced me like family and the job has exceeded my expectations in every way. I’m having a lot of fun."

Falick said the ground-breaking congregation's founder, Rabbi Sherwin T. Wine, is "one of my intellectual heroes, he was a true visionary." 

Wine and eight families founded Birmingham Temple as the world's first Humanistic Jewish congregation in 1963. According to the temple website, "Humanist Jews believe that the ultimate power for our fate is in ourselves, in our family, in our friends and in our society."

Read The Oakland Press story.