For Purim, the youth group does a play and members dress in costumes. Baking for the Election Day bake sale, which has been going on for decades.īesides Shabbat services, TBI does events for Sukkot, a latke party for Chanukah and a big second-night Passover seder, which usually draws about 120 people. Services are lay-led on weekends the rabbi isn’t present. DeGroot comes one Saturday morning and one Friday night a month and leads all High Holidays services.
TBI’s current rabbi is Nate DeGroot, formerly the religious leader for Hazon. TBI has had part-time rabbis that live in the Michigan area and come in every other Shabbat for many decades. TBI has had many short-term and student rabbis, but one of the most recent long-term rabbis for 12 years was Rabbi Jonathan Plaut, son of Rabbi Gunther Plaut. Preparing for the annual latke party for Chanukah. The first female rabbi ordained in the United States, Sally Priesand, did her student rabbinate in the congregation. “A lot of them grew up in this town and congregation so they’re all friends with each other because they went to Hebrew school and confirmation class together.” “There are a lot of families that have been in this congregation for decades and decades,” Glick said. It’s been in its current building since 1952. Like many small congregations, TBI started in people’s homes and smaller buildings. And the first thing they did was to build the cemetery,” Glick said.
Some of them were trappers from Northern Michigan and came down. “There were some Jews from Detroit who moved out here. There are at least 200 people buried there, representing four and five generations of Jackson families. “And we have a Jewish cemetery that we own, and it’s the oldest still-active Jewish cemetery in the state of Michigan.” The sanctuary at Temple Beth Israelĭedicated in 1859, Temple Beth Israel Cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. “This is either the oldest or second-oldest Reform congregation in the state of Michigan that is still active,” said president Cathy Glick.
The congregation includes fifth-generation members. The temple developed out of the Hebrew Benevolent Society, which had been organized in 1858. Jackson’s Temple Beth Israel (TBI) is a Reform synagogue formed in 1862 by Jews of German background. Jackson’s Temple Beth Israel serves multiple counties as sole synagogue.
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