I UP FRONT

Yeshivah Teachers Walk
Over Late Payroll Checks

ALAN HITSKY

Associate Editor

M

ore than 600 students at
the Yeshivath Beth Yehu-
dah and its Beth Jacob
School for Girls had shortened school
days Monday and Wednesday after
secular studies teachers walked off
the job.
The teachers' contract permits
them to stop working if the school
fails to issue pay checks on time. The
school did not meet the deadlines on
either day.
Rabbi Nachman Kahn, executive
vice president of the schools, told The
Jewish News that teachers were

Mother Waddles
Gets Mazon Aid

Mother Waddles' Perpetual Mis-
sion in Detroit received a check Tues-
day for $10,000 from Mazon — a
Jewish Response to Hunger. Rabbi
Norman Roman of Thmple• Kol Ami
presented the check on behalf of the
national Jewish organization.
Mother Waddles said the grant
will allow her to restart her lunch pro-
gram, where meals are provided to
those in need for a 35 cent token fee.
She said that Mazon approached
her and asked her to apply for the
grant. "I didn't know they existed,"
she added. "I'm eternally grateful.
The allocation was one of 26
grants by Mazon totalling $210,000 to
organizations that feed the poor and
carry out advocacy programs on
behalf of the hungry.

notified Tuesday afternoon their
paychecks would be available Wednes-
day morning. Teachers were schedul-
ed for in-service on Tuesday, so no
classes were scheduled for that day.
But the school missed the deadline
again, and the students were sent
home before noon.
The yeshivah uses a staggered
payroll system in which teachers are
paid at different times during the
week. The payroll affected the
schools' secular studies and Hebrew
teachers, but only the secular
teachers have the contract clause
which allows them to walk out.
"There is always a problem of
finances at the yeshivah," said Rabbi
Kahn, "but we work things out. It has
been the same way for 30 years."
The rabbi said the yeshivah tradi-
tionally has to borrow money during
the second half of the school year.
"Contributions come in a little
slower . . . I expect a check on Mon-
day and it doesn't come 'til Tuesday;
that causes a problem," he said.
Despite the on-going financial
situation, a teacher representative at
the yeshivah, Sue Colbert, indicated
that there had not been a payroll pro-
blem in several years. "But the
teachers felt they had to support those
who were not paid," she said.
Rabbi Kahn said the yeshivah is
considering a tuition hike for 1988-89,
and a decrease in expenses. Although
he declined to provide figures for any
proposed increase, he said that the
current budget of $2.2 million for the
schools "is a little too high. I'd like to
see it at $1.9 million."
Full tuition is currently set at
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Barbara Benary taps a two-ended, sheepskin-and-silver drum during last Sunday's
performance of the Sephardic Band at the Maple/Drake Jewish Community Center. The four-
member New York group played the lute, sackbut and other Sephardi instruments.

ROUND UP

Drive-Thru Is
First In Zion

Tel Aviv — Israel's first
24-hour drive-through
restaurant is set to open out-
side of Rishon Lezion. The
Burger Ranch's "Drive
Ranch" will be open every day
of the year except Yom
Kippur.
The drive-through will also
include a small children's
park, and separate smoking
and non-smoking sections in
the restaurant inside.

Progress On
Y-I Branch

Detroit's Young Israel
movement, which is planning
to erect a new synagogue in
West Bloomfield, has 20

families committed to joining
the synagogue and another
11 families willing to relocate
to West Bloomfield when the
synagogue opens, according
to Rabbi Emeritus Samuel
Prero.
The Orthodox movement
has purchased land on Maple
Road between Farmington
and Drake roads for its new
synagogue. An organizational
meeting, held earlier this
month, brought together the
founding core group of the
synagogue. Rabbi Prero said
that Young Israel of Bloom-
field would eventually be
home to 100 families.
The project is only in the
planning stages and funds
must be raised to construct
the building. Rabbi Prero said
that construction would cost
at least $750,000.

Supremacist
Tells Of Plot

New York (JTA) — The pro-
secution's chief witness
against the 14 white
supremacists on trial in Fort
Smith, Ark., testified Monday
that the death of an ally in
1983 spurred a plot to kill a
federal judge and special FBI
agent.
James Ellison, 47, former
leader of The Covenant, the
Sword and the Arm of the
Lord, said that Gordon Kahl,
a Posse Comitatus tax pro-
testor who was killed in 1983
in a shootout with law en-
forcement agents, was
declared the "first hero of the
second American revolution"
at a 1983 meeting of right-
wing paramilitary leaders.

Their murder plot was
halted when a van carrying
weapons to be used in the plot
was involved in an accident.

Israel Accused
Of Genocide

Geneva (JTA) — The United,
Nations Human Rights Com-
mission adopted a resolution
Monday accusing Israel of
"genocide against the Palesti-
nian people" and criticizing
countries that give "military,
economic and political sup-
port" to Israel.
The vote was 30 to 4 with 8
abstentions. The negative
votes were cast by the United
States, Norway, West Ger-
many and Britain. Abstain-
ing were Belgium, Costa
Rica, France, Ireland, Italy,
Japan, Portugal and Spain.

Rabbi Schwartz
To Be Honored

A testimonial dinner in
honor of Rabbi Dannel
Schwartz, formerly of Thmple
Beth El, will be held on
March 27 at the Troy Hilton
Inn.
The dinner is being hosted
by friends and colleagues of
the rabbi, who led the Reform
congregation from 1982 until
December of last year.
Rabbi Schwartz left the
1,500-member congregation
not long after the temple's
board of trustees decided not
to renew his contract beyond
June 30, 1988. Temple Beth
El Rabbi Emeritus Richard C.
Hertz has been serving as in-
terim rabbi of the congrega-
tion until a replacement for
Rabbi Schwartz is found.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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