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ouring over figures and
findings, the board of Hil-
lel Day School huddled last
week in a meeting that
lasted until midnight, studying
a potential move to the Jewish
Community Campus at Maple
and Drake roads.
On the other side of town, an-
other group of parents of Hillel
students also gathered to study
options. Their task was different.
"This meeting, consisting of
Hillel parents from Huntington
Woods, Oak Park, Southfield,
Farmington Hills, Lathrup Vil-
lage, West Bloomfield and Bloom-
field Township, was held because
we are of the belief that the pro-
posed move is not in the best in-
terest of Hillel Day School," said
Lynne Avadenka, who hosted the
meeting with her husband Marc
Sussman in their Huntington
Woods home.
"The purpose of the meeting
was to discuss the most positive
and constructive way to express
our concern to the board of di-
rectors of Hillel Day School," she
said.
The board of directors is
preparing to decide whether to
accept a $5 million gift by Oak-
land Mall owner and developer
Jay Kogan. The potential dona-
tion carries a stipulation that the
school move from its Middlebelt
campus to Maple-Drake.
A task force assigned by the
board to study the potential move
delivered its findings at a meet-
ing March 7.
Subcommittees of the ap-
pointed group found that there
would be no educational impact
if the school moved; that a free or
cost-reduced bus service should
be offered to children in South-
field, Huntington Woods and Oak
Park; that 57 percent of respon-
dents of a parental demographic
survey favored the Middlebelt
site over the Maple-Drake loca-
tion; and that a new facility at
Maple-Drake would cost $18.3
million.
The board then voted to delay
a decision until a further review
of the task force's findings could
be conducted and a professional
cost estimate of building a new
facility at Maple-Drake could be
obtained. The cost analysis is due
Monday.
Robert Schostak, president of
the Hillel board, said that the
board has been meeting each
week.
"We are exploring compelling
reasons to move or not to move.
We are thoughtfully deliberat-
ing," he said. "We are asking
p
Rabbi David Nelson: Speaking out.
questions. We are being a board.
"There is no hidden agenda
here," he said.
The board met again this week
and will meet April 11. No date
has been set for a decision.
But some parents aren't wait-
ing for the decision to be passed
or even for the construction com-
panies to put forth their esti-
mates. Instead, people like Mr.
Sussman and Ms. Avadenka are
voicing their concerns about a po-
tential move.
Some parents have called
board members out of their own
concern; others have organized,
forming a group to work collec-
tively. Some have turned to writ-
ing letters to individuals on the
board; others, seeking a larger
audience, have written to The
Jewish News.
According to Rabbi David Nel-
son of Congregation Beth
Shalom, many parents believe
the board will vote to accept the
gift in spite of what the task force
found.
"They want to know, is there
some kind of hidden agenda?" he
said.
Rabbi Nelson delivered two
sermons on the topic in recent
weeks. In one, he spoke of a gift
that Yale University recently re-
ceived and returned. The donor
of that gift had attached a stip-
ulation that he have a say in the
hiring of faculty.
Rabbi Nelson compared this to
the Hillel situation.
"It is essentially the same," he
said. "(The donor) will be choos-
ing the location over the desires
of the parents to keep the school
where it is."
"There is no end to the damage
the board can do by ignoring the
findings of the task force," he said,