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when it failed three state
health inspections, including
areas of infection control. By
the time the year was over,
Borman would right its state
code violations, then fail
some more; it would cost the
Federation approximately $4
million in emergency expen-
ditures, and it would change
executive directors three
times, including Arnold
Budin, Markey Butler and
its current head, Denise
Bortolani-Rabidoux.
Questions of whether or
not there is a need for a
Jewish Home when area sec-
ular care can include kosher
foods, holiday observance
and the like for Jews, are
still being debated. And qui-
etly, Federation is still exam-
ining whether or not it can
remain in the nursing care
business.
Emotionally, it's difficult
to imagine there not being a
"Jewish" place for our elderly
to live out their days. But
with "flat" Campaigns
becoming more the
norm than the excep-
tion, and with
Federation looking
ahead at its own
future redefinition,
there are still serious
questions that
remain.
On a brighter note,
Federation and all
others watched with
pride this summer at
the opening of a ren-
ovated
Jimmy
Prentis
Morris
Jewish Community
Center in Oak Park.
The facility, complete
with a swimming
pool, new and reno-
vated class and
dance rooms, is seen as a
final anchor to the 10 Mile-
Greenfield area. It is hoped
that it will be successfully
marketed to the neighboring
Huntington Woods and
Southfield areas as well.
As part of that corridor,
the Bais Yaakov School and
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
ended years of financial
instability so severe that the
very existence of the schools
was in doubt. A new board
put into place new tuition
policies and difficult staff
cuts that seemed to have
helped the school maintain a
level of stability.
It's a similar sort of stabili-
ty that all of the area day
schools sought this year.
Hillel continues to grow and
is considering a future build-
ing expansion. The area's
only .Conservative day school
had to hike its tuition and
cut some scholarship monies
in the wake of escalating
expenses, such as teacher
salaries. It also terminated
the contract this year of exec-
utive director Robert
Steinberg.
Akiva Hebrew Day School
went to uniforms this year as
well as a change at the top.
Barry Eisenberg, its former
president, was hired on as
executive director.
Darchei Torah, mean-
while, unsuccessfully asked
for Federation support in its
second year of existence.
The Federation's Agency
for Jewish Education began
its pullout from sponsoring
elementary school education,
instead leaving it up to the
individual temples and syna-
Glen
by
tos
Pho
Left, Markey Butler was the
second of three Borman Hall
directors named this year.
Shabtaia Klein, far left middle
row, passes out shirts.
Triest family, below, walks for
Yad Ezra.
Pavel Ravitsky, far
left, from Temple
B'nai Moshe.
Joe Knollenberg,
left, emerged a
congressional
winner.
Paul D. Borman,
pictured to the right.