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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 CO 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