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Musical Buildings
For Day Schools?
Task force to deliver recommendations
on day-school spacial concerns.
JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER
The 35,000-square-foot build-
f the leaders of Darchei Torah
could have their wish, they ing, owned by the United Jewish
would buy the building they Foundation and the Jewish Fed-
now rent in order to provide a eration of Metropolitan Detroit,
stable home for their growing was home to Akiva before the
school moved to its Southfield
population.
And if Akiva Hebrew Day Road site in 1981. It now hous-
School leaders could name one so- es the Agency for Jewish Educa-
lution to the space problems they tion, the Michigan Jewish AIDS
have, it would be to buy the build- Coalition, Hebrew Free Loan and
ing they used to inhabit and ex- Darchei Torah.
Although the building is not
pand it for more classroom space.
The problem? It's the
same building: the former
United Hebrew Schools
building on 12 Mile Road.
These and other prob-
lems of local day schools
are the focus of a new task
force that hopes to deliver
solutions to the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit and the United
Jewish Foundation in May.
Some schools have been
told they will receive re-
sults by April 1.
"We have not done any-
thing. We have not made
any decisions. We are just
starting our work," said
Jane Sherman, chair-
woman of the task force.
"We are going to make a
recommendation based on
what is right for everyone Jane Sherman:
and we have to find out Preparing report.
what that is."
Other concerns the task force now on the sale block, it is a
is examining include the future prime site for Darchei Torah and
space needs ofnillel Day School Akiva because space is scarce for
as well as an expansion of Bais both. Both schools have expressed
Yaakov, the girls school of Yeshi- interest in buying the building.
Darchei Torah plans to add
va Beth Yehudah.
Bulging student populations three classes next year, boosting
coupled with insufficient space enrollment to more than 260.
have pushed the schools to find Several of its classes will be lo-
more room either by expanding cated off the main campus in
current facilities or searching for classrooms at area synagogues.
"We are at least five class-
larger ones.
"We are running out of room, rooms short for next year and the
thank God," said Rabbi Eli student body is still growing,"
Mayerfeld, executive director of said Stuart Sandweiss, vice pres-
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah. "The ident of the school board.
Akiva, too, has used up all of
community is really growing and
we are responding to their need." its classrooms and would have to
The Jewish Federation is in- pour $1 million into repairs in its
volved because Akiva, Hillel and current site. The majority of the
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah are con- repair costs would be for the re-
stituent agencies. Darchei Torah moval of asbestos insulation from
has been denied community ap- the 68-year-old building, said
propriations for the past five Akiva school board president Dr.
David Beneson.
years.
Both schools looked to pur-
One of the larger concerns of
the task force is the disposition of chase a building in the immedi-
the former United Hebrew ate area since they both draw
Schools building on 12 Mile Road students from the Oak Park-
between Lahser and Evergreen Southfield area. Oak Park,
Southfield and Berkley school dis-
roads.
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