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costs of opening the school
will run into the six-figure
range and will be largely
funded through private do-
nations.
Rabbi Levin also said that
once the initial funding and
operating expenses are in
place for the boys' yeshiva,
there are plans for a yeshiva
for deaf high school girls.
There are no plans to include
elementary school or middle
school students because of
the difficulties and costs
associated with housing
smaller children.
Estimates of the number of
deaf Jews in the United
States range from 25,000 to
30,000. An enrollment of 10
to 15 students is expected, a
number that will enable the
high school to create a more
familial atmosphere than
exists at most schools.
Rabbi Levin said 40 high
school students from around
the country are interested in
the school.
- "These are kids who are
looking for a Jewish deaf
community, a place that
they can call home," Rabbi
Levin said. "These are kids
who aren't generally being
accepted where they are
now."
Both Rabbi Rabinowitz
and Rabbi Levin will be
moving to Baltimore once
the school opens. Rabbi
Rabinowitz, who has worked
throughout his life to bring
religious education to deaf
youth, will assume the title
of dean of men while Rabbi
Levin is the school's exec-
utive director.
Rabbi Rabinowitz's hope is
to provide both quality
secular and Torah education
to his students so that they
can turn around and teach
the generations coming up
behind them.
"It is very important,"
Rabbi Rabinowitz said,
"that these students be
trained so that they can go
out and become spiritual
leaders themselves one day.
Since the standard Jewish
day schools cannot deal with
the special needs of the Jew-
ish deaf, it is incumbent
upon us to establish one that
can."
The yeshiva's location will

also enable it to become a
community within a corn-
munity, again a goal of
Rabbi Rabinowitz. The
Upper Park Heights area is
largely Orthodox. There are
many support services near-
by, such as an active Na-
tional Conference of Syn-
agogue Youth chapter for
the hearing impaired called
Our Way. Also, Rabbi Fred
Friedman, the nation's other
Orthodox deaf rabbi, is ex-
tremely active in youth ac-
tivities in Baltimore.
The area will also better
facilitate one of deaf
America's greatest educa-
tional issues: manualists,
who use sign language, ver-
sus the oralists, who read
lips.
While the manualists will
reside in the dormitories at
the proposed yeshiva high
school and attend classes
there, oralists will be main-
streamed into programs at
Baltimore area- schools. The
high school will provide sup-
plements, support and a
sense of community for the
oralists.
But the main issue, accor-
ding to Rabbi Levin, is the
formation of a deaf Jewish
identity. When a deaf school
is formed in a community,
the community tends to sur-
round it with support, the
rabbi said. He was quick to
add that deaf Jews need each
other and understand one
another better than hearing
people.
Rabbi Rabinowitz also has
an urgent reason to open the
school quickly. "The number
of missionary groups going
after deaf students is grow-
ing and growing," he said.
"And unfortunately in many
cases, the Jews don't know
much about their own re-
ligion so they see the mis-
sionary group as at least
someone trying to reach out
to them. We've got to stop
that from happening.
"The Jewish deaf are
vulnerable to the mis-
sionaries because they are in
a world of silence," the rabbi
said. "We need to reach
through this silence and
make them feel good about
themselves. That's what this
school is going to do." ❑

Sinai Opens $8 Million
Rose Imaging Center

KIMBERLY LIFTON

Staff Writer

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porting its new logo
encased in a Star of
David, Sinai this week
opened its $8 million diag-
nostic imaging center named

for Lillian Rose and her late
husband, builder and
philanthropist Edward Rose.
"This is an example of
where Sinai is going," said
Merle Harris, chairman of
the board of trustees. "We
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