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When high school students
from the Hillel Academy of Day-
ton and the Rocky Mountain He-
brew Academy hit the basketball
court and spend Shabbat together
this weekend,. they will be light-
ing the spark that will send the
newly established Torah High
Schools Network into high gear.
Sixteen schools in the United
States and Canada, including De-
troit's Akiva Hebrew School-
Stollman Education Center, have
linked with the Network, accord-
ing to Dr. Mordechai Schnaid-
man, director of the Educators
Council of America (ECA), which
has helped form the organization.
According to Rabbi Shmuel Lo-
pin, principal at Akiva, the pur-
pose of the Network is to advance
interschool ties, and to promote
the sharing of ideas, strategies,
materials, curriculum guidelines
and other helpful pointers for effi-
cient operations.
"One of the major points we
hope to address," said Rabbi Lo-
pin, "is the solving and, more im-
portantly, the prevention of the
problems many schools face."
Many Jewish day schools in the
United States are under the au-
spices of Torah Umesorah, the
National Society for Hebrew Day
Schools. Akiva has been affiliated
with Torah Umesorah for many
years, but Torah Umesorah no
longer includes co-ed Jewish high
schools in its list of affiliates. This
is where the Network comes into
play.

Hadassah House awaits
go-ahead on library deal

BY JEFFREY GUYER
Staff Writer

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Hall goes well within the slowly
turning wheels of local gov-
ernmental bureaucracy, Hadas-
sah House Inc. will be the new
owners of the vacant West Bloom-
field library building on Orchard
Lake Road within the next few
months.
The only remaining obstacles
between the organization's rented
space in Southfield and a
privately-owned facility in West
Bloomfield are a special-use per-
mit, to be granted by the West
Bloomfield Planning Commis-
sion, and final clear title to the
land. The building is in a residen-

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"We don't want to be isolated
because we're co-ed," said Rabbi
Lopin. "Our elementary school
remains under the auspices of
Torah Umesorah, yet we need an
umbrella organization for our
high school faculty and students."
Though specific activities have
not yet been planned — "We're
still in the embryonic stage," says
Rabbi Lopin — the Network is off
and running. Representatives
from nine U.S. and three Cana-
dian schools met at the ECA con-
vention in New York last month
to help develop plans.
Among the services offered by
the Network will be faculty con-
ferences, including teacher train-
ing seminars and workshops, edu-
cational research, principal con-
ferences, development of teaching
techniques, a national newsletter
and, most importantly, a lasting
link between Jewish high schools.
These services, however, will
not stop at the faculty level. Stu-
dents will be invited to Torah
_leadership seminars and Shabbat
conventions with students from
other participating schools.
Another aim of the Network
will be the motivating of students
toward future leadership in their
communities and careers in
Jewish communal work.
The Network, which Akiva
joined "wholeheartedly," accord-
ing to Rabbi Lopin, is the first
organization of its kind, working
exclusively with co-educational
Jewish high schools.

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Dec. 28 and Jan. 4.
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tial area and would eventually
have to be rezoned for commercial
purposes. The permit could con-
ceivably take four months to be
approved.
When the library board met
Dec. 5 to vote on the issue, they
accepted HHI's cash bid of
$250,000, rejecting the township's
offer of $228,750 on a five-year
land contract.
HHI attorney Michael Perlamn
said he would petition the West
Bloomfield Planning Commission
for the needed special-use ap-
proval. The final decision to sell
the property will be made by the
township board after the commis-
sion makes its recommendation.
Perlman and library attorney
Maxine Virtue agree that HHI
qualifies for the permit in that the
structure will be a community
building and social club offering
education courses.
HHI secretary Phyllis Newman
and Diane Klein, president of the
6,000-member Metropolitan De-
troit Hadassah chapter, stress
that Hadassah and HHI are two
separate entities.
HHI, Hadassah's financial ,
backing in this venture, bought
the organization's original head-
quarters in Detroit — that build-
ing was sold six years ago. Since
then, Hadassah has been renting
space in Southfield and has been
looking at the West Bloomfield lo-
cation for the past few months.

