THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 13, 1985
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UHS Seeks School
Location In Novi Area
BY ERIC WEXLER
Special To the Jewish News
By next fall the Novi Jewish
community will have a Hebrew
school for the children who are
in nursery school through
elementary grades, the superin-
tendent of United Hebrew
Schools said.
At a meeting held at the Novi
Sheraton Oaks Hotel last Tues-
day, Rabbi Gerald Teller met
with eight people from the Novi,
Northville, Milford and
Brighton areas to discuss the
formulation of a Hebrew School.
The school would not only
bring the Jewish community to-
gether, but a Novi location
would be convenient for those
families who are forced to send
their children to West Bloom-
field or Southfield for a Jewish
education, Rabbi Teller said.
Since 1919, the United He-
brew Schools of the metropolitan
Detroit area has established and
operated Hebrew schools wher-
ever there's been a need to unify
the Jewish community. United
Hebrew Schools are in South-
field, Farmington, Oak Park,
West Bloomfield and Troy.
"The school becomes the focal
point around which the Jewish
community will get started,"
teller said. "At United Hebrew
Schools we try to be the first
Jewish institution in a commu-
nity and the last one out."
It was the first time Jewish
families from the four commu-
nity areas have met to discuss
the idea of a Hebrew school.
Teller said there is a feeling
that more Jews are moving to
the 'Novi area and he wants to
make sure that future residents
have a real Jewish community.
"When Jews move to certain
areas, it's time to start building
Jewish institutions," said Novi
resident Julie Solomon, who is
also a member of the Nov-
i`Northville Hadassah group.
After the meeting, Teller said
the next step is to meet at the
home of a member of the Novi
Jewish community and plan a
concrete strategy that will bring
together residents of the com-
munity and allow them to par-
ticipate in the project.
At this time, Teller has yet to
find a location for the school,
but at the meeting the Will-0-
Way Day Camp on 12 Mile and
Beck Road in Novi was men-
tioned as a strong possibility.
Nothing has been pursued as
far as meeting with Will-O-Way
and the UHS but the procedure
of negotiating a location will re-
volve around the space that can
be provided, the cost of renting
the space and the number of
teachers needed to implement
the program for the Hebrew
school.
UHS will work closely with
the Education and Cultural Di-
vision of the Jewish Welfare
Federation in obtaining a one-
to three-year grant to push the
school into operation.
Wexelberg-Clouser,
Tom
planning associate for the JWF's
Cultural and Education Di-
vision, said seed money from the
Max M. Fisher Jewish Commu-
nity Foundation will be given
according to the needs of the
community.
We view education as a rally-
ing point around which families
can explore other ways of iden-
tifying with the Jewish culture,"
Wexelberg-Clouser said. "The
Cultural and Education Division
sees itself as addressing com-
munal Jewish education and
working wih all movements in
metro Detroit on an equal
basis."
In 1982, the division gave a
grant to the United Hebrew
Schools' Troy branch for the
purpose of a nursery and
elementary school. The program
started with eight students and
3Y2 years later there are 61.
The school, located at the
Bemis Elementary School in
Troy, has also influenced the
Troy Jewish community to start
its own Reform congregation.
At the meeting it was men-
tioned that a Reform temple has
discussed the idea of branching
out to the Novi community. Tel-
ler, however, could not reveal
the temple's name.
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New York (JTA) — Baltic and
Ukrainian emigre groups have
stepped up a campaign in the
past six months "to undermine
the Justice Department's Nazi
prosecution program," the World
Jewish Congress charged last
week.
Kalman Sultanik, vice
president of the WJC, said that
there had been "a dramatic es-
calation of a shocking cam-
paign" directed against the Jus-
tice Department's Office of Spe-
cial Investigations (OSI), the
agency responsible for inves-
tigating and taking legal action
against U.S. residents suspected
of complicity in Nazi war
crimes.
Last April, the WJC first dis-
closed the existence of the
anti-OSI campaign by 'docu-
menting efforts by various
emigre groups which included:
lobbying for an amnesty for
Nazi war criminals, and deceiv-
ing members of Congress into
acting on behalf of Nazi war
criminals.
Sultanik, a Presidential ap-
pointee to the United States
Holocaust Memorial Council,
said that since disclosure of the
campaign it has "signifieantly
intensified."
He added that the WJC was
particularly concerned about
"the unabashedly anti-Semitic
statements that continue to
emanate from some of these ac-
tivists" and "the increasing ten-
dency among some of them to
work with Holocaust-denying
hate groups such as the Liberty
Lobby and with notoriously
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