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(855-3338)
Yeshivah: Strong Education,
Money Woes, Overcrowding
HEIDI PRESS
News Editor
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I
n the face of mounting
debt, overcrowding and a
brief absence due to ill-
ness of their driving force, the
Beth Yehudah Schools still
manage to survive to provide
a Jewish day school education
for all Jewish children.
The schools can be proud of
what they produce. They have
the highest percentage of
Merit Scholarship winners in
the state and nearly 95 per-
cent of the graduates go to
college, Administrative Direc-
tor Rabbi E.B. Freedman
said. Of last year's
graduating class of 15, 13
went to study in Israel. This
year's combined enrollment is
the highest ever, 630
students, making the
yeshivah the largest Jewish
day school in the state.
Comprised of the Yeshivath
Beth Yehudah in Southfield
and the Sally Allan Alex-
ander Beth Jacob School for
Girls in Beverly Hills, the Or-
thodox Beth Yehudah Schools
survive because of continuity
— in its faculty, student body,
board and among its
supporters.
Rabbi Freedman is the son
of long-time yeshivah teacher
and assistant principal Rabbi
Avraham Freedman. The
younger Rabbi Freedman is
an alumnus of the yeshivah
and his five children attend
the two schools. Wife Shain-
dy teaches secular classes.
Now the administrative part-
ner with Executive Vice
President Rabbi Norman
Kahn, the younger Rabbi
Freedman as a child was
Kahn's student. Rabbi Kahn's
children attend the Beth
Yehudah Schools as well.
According to Rabbi Freed-
man, one-fourth of the facul-
ty members are yeshivah
graduates and at least one-
third of the parents are alum-
ni. Even the supporters repre-
sent the second and
sometimes third generations
of their families. Real estate
developer David Holtzman, a
perennial co-chairman of the
annual Beth Yehudah
Schools' fund-raising dinner,
represents the third genera-
tion of yeshivah "angels."
His grandmother, Lena
Holtzman, was a founder of
the girls school. When she
died, Holtzman's father
assumed her role as fund-
raiser. When he died, the
younger Holtzman took over.
"I have a soft spot in my heart
0
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Rabbi Norman Kahn, left, and Rabbi E. B. Freedman, examine the
advertisement for the schools' annual dinner.
that's in my genes,"
Holtzman said. "With this in-
stitution there's something
appealing to me. There's a
commitment that comes from
inside." ,
Yet, despite this continuing
support from Holtzman, his
contemporaries such as Paul
Borman of Borman's Inc.,
federal District Judge Avern
Cohn, Broadway producer
Ivan Bloch and developer
Robert Sosnick — all carrying
on their families' traditions of
patronage — the yeshivah
faces many problems.
First is the age of the
Southfield building. Built in
1961, it is starting to show
signs of age — cracking
plaster, broken floor tiles and
general weathering of the
outside.
According to Rabbi Freed-
man, who oversees the
physical plant and
maintenance, everything that
can is being done to keep the
building up to par. "The
maintenance crew works very
hard to keep the buidings
maintained:' he said. "Im-
provements are slow, but we
try to keep the building as
clean as possible."
Recently the school spent
$5,000 for an asbestos inspec-
tion and anoher $5,000 on
repairing electrical work.
"We have tremendous
maintenance costs:" Freed-
man said.
But when it is a choice bet-
ween maintenance and pro-
viding educational materials,
education wins every time. "If
we have a dollar to spend it
will go to books or teachers'
desks before we spend it on
tiles;' Freedman explained.
The school also is faced with
serious overcrowding.
Children who need to be
tutored receive this special
service in a desk-filled closet.
Transportation costs, to get
the children to both schools,
are very high, according to
Freedman, and for a family
who also has to pay full tui-
tion, it can be prohibitive.
Freedman said he hopes a
cheaper, alternative way of
transporting the children
could be developed.
Computers are important to
the contemporary child's
education, and although the
girls school received a gift of
a computer center, the boys
have to do without. For
physical education, the boys'
only play area is a gravel
parking lot adjacent to the ad-
ministration building,
dangerously close to where
trucks for the 1-696 highway
construction enter and leave.
There is no gym or sports
equipment.
In addition, the school is in
the process of developing a
Judaic library, something
that Rabbi Kahn would like
to see as a resource center
available to all Jewish
children. But the school needs