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Should Jewish Schools
Exclude Non-Jews?

N

ew York — The mo-
tives of non-Jewish
parents are mixed,
but their persistent interest
stirs an occasional debate:
Should Jewish day schools ad-
mit non-Jewish children?
The question was addressed
recently in a report in the
Jewish Floridan by staff
writer Ellen Ann Stein, en-
titled: "A Day School Dilem-
ma: The Exclusively Jewish
Student Body."
Stein talked to officials of
Orthodox, communal, Con-
servative and Reform day
schools in Dade County,
Florida.
Stein's findings summed it
up this way: The more fun-
damentalist the philosophy of
the school system, the more
rigid the rule against admis-
sion of non-Jewish pupils.
The interest of non-Jews
sending their children to
Jewish day schools is two-fold:
First, the parents of pre-
schoolers view these pro-
grams as an excellent
substitute for scarce, well-run
day care facilities.
Second, some non-Jewish
parents, lacking in strong
personal religious convic-
tions, are nevertheless im-
pressed by the high quality of
Jewish day school education.
In theory, barring students
based on race or religion
could subject the day school to
a loss of tax-exempt status,
and to the loss of such public
entitlements as funds for
secular textbooks, state test
fee reimbursement and other
state financial aid.
In fact, an Internal Revenue
Service ruling provides pro-
tection from charges of racial
or religious bias.
The IRS has ruled that a
school which chooses pupils
on the basis of membership in
a religious denomination
"will not be deemed to have
a discriminatory policy if
membership is open to all on
a racially non-discriminatory
basis."
A Florida official of one of
the least-known day school
movements in the American
Jewish community told Stein
the purpose of his school "is
to give children a Jewish
education and non-Jews don't
need a Jewish education."
Rabbi Menachem Raab is
dean of the Samuel Scheck
Hillel Community Day
School. There are 37 such
schools nationally, according
to David Shluker, director of

the department of communi-
ty consultation of the Jewish
Education Society of North
America (JESNA), successor
agency to the American
Association for Jewish
Education.
Shluker, who said that
JESNA was instrumental two
years ago in pulling together
the 37 communal day schools,
which serve 2,500 students,
into a Communal Jewish Day
School Network (CJDSN), ex-
plained why such schools are
unique in the day school
movement.
He said that community
day schools are, in the truest
sense, committed by their
educational philosophy to pro-
mote pluralism and a "trans-
ideological" approach in
which all Jewish denomina-
tional views are given value.
CJDSN pupils from Ortho-
dox, Conservative and Reform
backgrounds are taught as
classmates that Jewish unity
transcends denominational
differences.
He said the community day
schools "generally use
materials published by any
and all of the Jewish
denominational school move-
ments."
Dr. Michael Halzel, head-
master of the Bet Shira

"Non-Jews don't
need a Jewish
education."

Solomon Schechter Day
School, told Stein the rules
for Bet Shira and for the one
other Dade County Conser-
vative day school, the
Lehrman school, are based on
the policy followed by the
Solomon Schechter day
schools nationally.
He said the admissions
manual for the Conservative
day schools is issued by the
United Synagogue Commis-
sion on Jewish Education, of
which Rabbi Robert Abram-
son is director.
Halzel explained that some
policies in the manual are
guidelines "and some are
rules. Not accepting non-
Jewish students is a rule."
He is one of the day school
eucators who feel that imers-
ing a non-Jewish child in
Jewish studies would create
confusion for that child.
In New York, Abramson
confirmed that the United
Synagogue education com-
mission rule is unequivocally
against accepting non-Jewish
children.
But he conceded Solomon

