The 1970's were marked by still another renaissance, both of membership and spirit. Rabbi Sack's impending retirement at the end of the decade led to the investiture of Rabbi Gerald I. Weider, a young rabbi from the Bronx and service in a Washington, D.C. pulpit. Benjamin P. Feldman assumed the presidency, and, jointly with Rabbi Weider, looked after a growing Temple. This period saw many innovations.

The Temple's immediate Park Slope area- which previously was almost impenetrable by the Jewish community-blossomed with many Jewish families, who filled the Temple's ranks. Their needs-as the needs of generations before-were met within the Temple: this time, by the creation of a nursery school, an after-school program and a summer day camp. The Temple had a series of female cantorial soloists (after Cantor Harvey's death), continuing the gradual tradition of giving women a larger place in the synagogue. The Temple was alive with out-door services, Shabbat Sharings, and crafts fairs.

Beth Elohim in many ways was in a transition period: its membership numbered some of the descendants of early Temple generations, as well as scores of younger members who came from diver-gent backgrounds. The spiritual essence of the Temple was also evolving again: yarmulkes were seen in the sanctuary; The Gates of Repentance, the Reform movement's new prayer book for the High Holidays was approved, and some Hebrew was blended in with the traditional English-spoken Sabbath service. In essence, new forms of religious yearnings sought new forms of religious expression.