The Franklin Archives contains extensive information about Rabbi Franklin and his community efforts, the institutional records of Temple Beth El from its founding in 1850, as well as other Jewish groups, institutions, and communities throughout Michigan, and material about many of the Michigan's most prominent Jewish families. The Archives houses extensive family files of Temple Beth El members and members of the Jewish community. To search the Family Files and Collections please return to the home page and click on the Families icon at the bottom left hand side. Original documents of Temple Beth El's congregant's life-cycle events, such as marriage records, membership files, and cemetery records are also represented in the collections. The Collection Guides represent organizations from the Detroit Jewish Community such as Montefiore Lodge and North End Clinic. Part of the institutional records of Temple Beth El include Temple auxiliaries (Sisterhood, Brotherhood, Young People's Society), rabbi and staff collections, and Temple Beth El programs, events, publications, and history.

All current processed collections in the Franklin Archives are available through the online database. Additional collections will be added as they are processed and guides to the collections are created. Many of the collections detailing the history of the congregation, staff, clergy and history of Temple Beth El are not yet represented on the Web site, but are available for research at the Archives. If there is a topic that you wish to explore that is not represented in one of the collections on our website, please contact the Archives to see if we have a representative collection.