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FRIDAY, OCT. 30, 1987
Shaarey Zedek
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members of the Hebrew
teachers' negotiating team,
said the teachers would meet
Monday evening and decide
on what action to take. The
Michigan Federation of
Thachers, which represents
both Shaarey Zedek teacher
units, is filing an unfair labor
practice charge against the
synagogue in response to the
pay reduction.
Shaarey Zedek has ap-
proximately 350 elementary
students and 120 high school
students in classes at the
synagogue and at Orchard
Lake Middle School in West
Bloomfield. There are more
than 160 children in the Beth
Hayeled nursery programs at
the synagogue and a separate
West Bloomfield site.
John Schlosser, a field
representative with the
Michigan Federation of
Thachers which represents
the two units, said a full-time
Beth Hayeled teacher with 14
years experience earns
$13,329 per year. They are
also provided health and
disability insurance and a
pension plan.
The Hebrew teachers, he
said, can earn $13,965 after
15 years experience if they
teach 13 hours per week.
They have similar fringe
benefits, but select the ones
they want based on a percen-
tage of their salary. The
synagogue's imposed pay cut
will immediately affect the
fringe benefits of the Hebrew
teachers, and Schlosser add-
ed, "I have been told by
management that the Beth
Hayeled teachers can also ex-
pect substantial cuts in fringe
benefits."
Last Thursday, a meeting
of concerned parents was call-
ed by Karen Adelman and
Linda Garfield. A Shaarey
Zedek board member atten-
ding the meeting claimed the
reductions were necessary
because of a deficit in the
synagogue budget. President
Fleischman refused to com-
ment on the issue, or say if
other synagogue employees
had received pay reductions.
He repeated that he did not
feel it proper to comment in
public while negotiations are
in progress.
The dispute between
Shaarey Zedek and its
teachers caused the resigna-
tion last month of a 22-year
veteran of the Beth Hayeled
program. Teacher Ann Car-
ron told The Jewish News, "I
felt it was an insult to my
reputation and experience to
go backward in pay and
fringe benefits." Mrs. Carron
has not yet found another
position.
Rena Weintraub, head of
the Beth Hayeled unit, said
Carron's resignation "was a
tremendous educational loss
and a tremendous personal
loss for all of us." The
teachers, she said, have
received parental and com-
munity support for their posi-
tion, "but we have not talked
about striking. We are con-
cerned about the children and
we want to keep things
smooth for them." Mrs. Wein-
traub said that as of mid-
week no new negotiations
have been scheduled.
Brodsky
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Union. However, the
authorities weren't interested
in having him around.
Leaving behind his only
son, Brodsky, who never mar-
ried, arrived in Detroit after
a brief stay in Vienna — shab-
bily dressed, carrying a single
suitcase and $100. He was
forced to leave his
manuscripts behind, but says
he knew half of his poems by
heart and attempted to
reconstruct the other half.
Born to a Jewish family in
Leningrad, Brodsky was the
son of a photo-journalist. A
high school drop-out, Brodsky
went to work as a manual
laborer at age 15, writing
poetry in his spare time,
teaching himself English,
religion and philosophy. But
his poems upset the
authorities and in 1964 he
was convicted of "social
parasitism" and sentenced to
five years of hard labor in an
Arctic labor camp.
Due to protests and
pressure from Western and
Russian intellectuals, Brod-
sky's imprisonment was com-
muted to 18 months on a col-
lective farm.
Until his deportation in
June, 1972, Brodsky lived
with his parents in their Len-
ingrad apartment. It was
there that the Soviet police
arrived to tell him he would
be leaving and had been "in-
vited" to go to Israel. But, in-
fluenced by his friends Carl
and Ellendea Proffer, owners
of the renowned Ardis Press
in Ann Arbor, the largest
publisher of Russian material
outside of Moscow, Brodsky
decided to move to Ann Arbor,
where he was assured a posi-
tion as poet-in-residence at
the University of Michigan —
a post filled only once before,
by Robert Frost from 1921 to
1923. Carl Proffer, who has
since died, made all the final
arrangements for Brodsky's
Ann Arbor arrival, even fly-
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