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Midrasha Director Nancy Kaplan

around in congregations, Jewish
federations and delis — the kinds
of words a lot of Jews feel they
should know but are too intimi-
dated to ask about. Origins of the
words, along with definitions and
context, are introduced.
Other lessons explore para-
doxes like "one people, several de-
nominations, spread throughout
the world."
The style, Ms. Kaplan said, is
comprehensive yet accessible.
She said some early lessons are
elementary, "but what so many
people need to get a handle. They
don't talk the insiders' language.'
"I see brain surgeons who don't
know how to do an aliyah. Peo-
ple want to feel as competent as
Jews as they do in the rest of
their lives."
For costs or more information
regarding the Melton Mini-
School, contact Nancy Kaplan at
the Midrasha, 354-1050. D

New Mikvah Might
Offer New Options

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aiting lists and new
faces are considered
signs of success in the
realm of adult Jewish
education.
Both are found at some of the
sites of the Florence Melton Mini-
School.
Nancy Kaplan, director of the
Agency for Jewish Education's
Midrasha Center for Adult Jew-
ish Learning, hopes for the same
results this fall when the mini-
school adds Detroit to its list of
locations.
The program was developed in
the early 1980s by Florence
Melton and a team of educators
at the Melton Centre for Jewish
Education in the Diaspora at the
Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
The adult mini-school is a two-
year program focusing on basic
Jewish literacy within a non-de-
nominational framework. Most
cities run the Melton courses out
of a central education agency, as
in Detroit, or a Jewish Commu-
nity Center.
In 1986 three sites opened with
73 students. Last year, the pro-
gram boasted 1510 students at
22 locations in North America
and Australia.
"People are appearing at these
programs who have never been
seen in their communities be-
fore," Ms. Kaplan said. "It an-
swers a need. There are many in
the community doing nothing
specifically Jewish, but looking
for an entree."
Class structure is 2 1/2 hours,
once a week, for two years. The
curriculum centers around Jew-
ish living — its vocabulary, pur-
poses, dilemmas, rhythms and
ethics.
A sample vocabulary lesson in-
troduces words commonly tossed

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or years in the 1970s Rab-
bi A. Irving Schnipper of
Congregation Beth Abra-
ham Hillel Moses had two
options when he performed con-
versions: drive to Cleveland to use
a mikvah open to all denomina-
tions, or use natural bodies of wa-
ter like the lake at Kensington
Metro Park.
Some Conservative and Re-
form rabbis in Detroit did the

same. Others used the swimming
pool at the Oak Park Jewish
Community Center for the ritu-
al immersion — even though it
didn't meet halachic standards.
The only mikvah which exist-
ed in the community was Ortho-
dox Mikvah Israel in Oak Park.
As the Orthodox movement does
not recognize Reform and Con-
servative conversions, the mik-
vah was not available for