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Melton Mini-Schoo
Debuts; 50 Enroll
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W
hen Nancy Kaplan
opened her mail one
day last week, two tu-
ition checks and two ap-
plications for the Florence Melton
Adult Mini-School fell out of en-
velopes and
onto her
desk.
Ms. Ka-
plan, director
of the Agency
for Jewish
Education's
Midrasha
Center for
Adult Learn-
ing, was
pleased. "It
has been like
this every
day. Every
day I get fax-
es for the en-
rollment or
envelopes
with checks.
It's great," she Nancy Kaplan:
Melton success.
said.
The Detroit
branch of the school, the latest
franchise of a national program
that claims enrollment of about
1,600 students, had a warmer
welcome than anticipated. As of
Monday, 50 Detroiters had sub-
mitted enrollment forms, sur-
passing the 30 expected.
Classes begin Oct. 10 for one
daytime class at Hadassah in
West Bloomfield and Oct. 13 for
two evening classes at Temple
Emanu-El in Oak Park. Next se-
mester, Congregation Beth
Shalom in Oak Park will host the
evening classes.
One reason for the successful
debut of the program, Ms. Kaplan
said, is that a community part-
nership formed to support it. Sev-
eral area Conservative
synagogues and Reform temples
worked with Midrasha to help de-
fray costs for their members. Oth-
er local sponsors include the
Greater Detroit Chapter of
Hadassah, Hillel Day School, Hil-
lel of Metro Detroit, the local
chapter of the National Council
of Jewish Women and The Jew-
"This is for adults who stopped
being educated Jewishly when
they were younger or never have
been educated Jewishly at all but
want to know how to do an
aliyah, for example," Ms. Kaplan
said.
"We do a
good job with
the children's
education
but when it
comes to
adults there
really
weren't very
many op-
tions until
now," she
said. "Ju-
daism did
not get this
far by being
pediatric."
The course
work is divid-
ed into five
PHOTO BY GLENN TRIEST
classes which
teach Jewish
history, reli-
gion, philosophy, language, ethics
and vocabulary. Three of the
classes are 30 weeks in length
and two, taken back-to-back, are
15 weeks long. The classes meet
once a week for 21/2 hours.
"It gives people the whole
matzah ball, the whole Jewish
experience in a community set-
ting," Ms. Kaplan said.
The school is the creation of
Florence Melton, a supporter of
Jewish education for adults. In
1985, the first classes were held
Community
partnerships help
program's success.
at the Melton Centre for Jewish
Education in the Diaspora at He-
brew University.
Now the school has 30 branch-
es in North American cities as
well as in Sidney, Australia, and
Montreal, Quebec.
The tuition is $295. Members
of the Melton Mini-School part-
ners will receive a rate of $245. A
$50 non-refundable registration
fee is required with enrollment
and is deducted from the full tu-
ition amount. ❑
ish News.
"We worked with the partners
as a way to build community
awareness," Ms. Kaplan said. "In
the process, we built community
support for the program and a di-
verse student body."
' The two-year program is de-
signed primarily for Jewish
adults who strive to live a Jew-
For more information regard-
ish life but have little under- ing the Melton Mini-School, con.
standing of Jewish heritage. tact Nancy Kaplan at thei
Knowledge of Hebrew is not a re- Midrasha, (810) 354-1050.
k4A,.
quirement.