Happy ChanUkah from Akiva Accepts Building Sale Proposal Countrywide JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER Home Mortgage Loans A America's #1. Residential-Mortgage Lender ANN ARBOR 313/663-6767 DETROIT 313/891-7200 FARMINGTON HILLS 810/489-8500 LATHRUP VILLAGE 810/443-2449 LIVONIA 810/476-6699 Now 810/344-9050 TROY 810/680-9880 WATERFORD 810/673-4860 Countrywide® HOME MORTGAGE LOANS No one works harder to deliver the American Dream. Equal Housing Lender. © 1994 Countrywide Funding Corporation. Cr Trade/service marks are the property of Countrywide Credit Industries, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries. RBA 94657-994 In the last 40 years, the death rate from heart attack has dropped 34% the death rate from con- genital heart defects is down 41% and the death rate from stroke is down 60%. The American Heart Association of Michigan is 40 years old. WE BUY DIAMONDS of Michigan A United Way Agency w w LU F- CC F- LU (Z) UJ F- 10 NOVI • Industrial • Retail • Office JONATHAN BRATEMAN PROPERTIES yP 810-474-3855 ON WE BUY ESTATES DIAMONDS Ladies Watch 0 Ebel "BELUGA" T 0 F ,P A w N American Heart Association LOANS 18 ct. Compare at $8,000 Now B A G A N $3,840 LEW SILVER 11∎Me377M11144.01 4th Generation Jewelers GIA Graduate in Diamond Grading & Evaluation T.J. MARBLE RESTORATION "Bring your Marble back to life" call for an estimate 810-356-6430 kiva Hebrew Day School's the building but said that it is not board of directors has tak- on the sale block. "A number of day schools are en another step in their quest to find more space currently reviewing their space . by voting to accept a local devel- needs and we have had some con- oper's offer to purchase their versations about that," Mr. Davidoff said. building for $1.35 million. ME building tenant Darchei Akiva's board preSident, Dr. David Beneson, said the board Torah is in the same bind as Aki- agreed Nov. 16 to accept the of- va. With an ever expanding stu- fer with a contingency that the dent population, the Orthodox school will be able to occupy the building until July 1997. The buyer, a developer, also has a contingency that a zoning change be passed by Lathrup Village in order to ac- commodate his proposed de- velopment. The board also formed a committee to locate a build- ing to suit present and future needs of Akiva. The commit- tee narrowed the future site to the Southfield-Oak Park area but is willing to look into surrounding communities. "We don't want to exclude anything, but with our demo- graphics we want to stay in a specific area," Dr. Beneson said. None of the local school dis- tricts in question now have buildings for sale. Southfield, Oak Park and Berkley are us- ing all of their buildings. Birmingham is considering Barry Eisenberg: Hunting a building. the future of two elementary schools but currently has day school has outgrown its rent- nothing for sale. Akiva plans to have a fund- ed space at AJE. However, Darchei Torah re- raising effort once a suitable building is found. "We want to cently suffered a setback in its find a location as soon as possi- quest to find a larger, more per- ble," said Barry Eisenberg, Aki- manent home when its bid of $1.3 million for a former Birmingham va's executive director. One building that Akiva has elementary school was rejected reportedly looked at is the 12 Mile in favor of William Beaumont Road location of the Agency for Hospital's $1.5 million offer. Jewish Education. The former United Hebrew Schools building, owned by the United Jewish Foundation and the Jewish Fed- eration of Metropolitan Detroit, was home to Akiva before the move to their Southfield Road site in 1981. The 35,000-square-foot facili- ty on five acres of land currently Sol Lachman, volunteer chair- houses Hebrew Free Loan, Michi- gan Jewish AIDS Coalition, man of fund-raising, said the Darchei Torah and the AJE of- school recently bid on another fices. The building was con- school building but would not say structed in 1969 to house the if it was the ME building. He an- United Hebrew Schools, which ticipates a response to the offer within two months. dissolved in 1989. "We are still raising money and Mark Davidoff, chief financial officer of Federation, said that a we are still looking for a build- Federation committee is study- ing," he said, adding that the ing the future use of the building. parents of students have con- He could not confirm or deny that tributed $260,000 to a building any organizations are bidding on fund. ❑ When a building is found, a fund-raising effort will begin.