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arah Davis needed help
with her Hebrew. Her syn-
agogue, Congregation Beit
Kodesh in Livonia, had giv-
en her good exposure once a week
to the language but Sarah need-
ed more.
"She just needed a little help,"
said her father, Chuck Davis. 'We
want her to be prepared in time
for her bat mitzvah (in three
years)."
Sarah, and other children like
her, have turned to the help of a
pilot tutoring program held once
a week in the Livonia congrega-
tion. The Daniel Sobel Friendship
Circle, a Lubavitch organization,
offers the services of high-school
girls who tutor the children in He-
brew and secular subjects.
While tutoring is about as new
as the concept of Hebrew teach-
ers, more options are and will be
available to students who strug-
gle with the language.
Rabbi Levi Shemtov, director
of the program at Beit Kodesh,
said the tutoring is a pilot project
that he would like to offer
through many area congregations
by the start of the next school
year.
Rabbi Dovid Polter and his Ef-
fective Tutoring Program offers
Hebrew tutoring to students who
need the extra help. His main
charge is to bring students up to
speed and prepare them for their
bar or bat mitzvah.
"There is a silent need for this,"
Rabbi Poker said. "Kids don't al-
ways want to admit that they
need help."
The demand for tutoring in the
community stems from the for-
mat for Hebrew classes, tutors
say. The best the synagogues and
temples can do is offer Hebrew
classes a couple of times a week
after the students have already
gone through a full day of private
S
or public school. Teachers must
deal with students who come to
class distracted by their secular
studies or too tired to learn.
Smaller synagogues or those
without classrooms face another
hurdle. They are left to hold class-
es on Sundays because the class-
rooms they rent are only
available then or because there
is not enough funding to hold the
classes more than once a week.
All of the factors have the
chance of hamstringing a child's
Hebrew education.
That was the case at Beit
Kodesh, where class is taught on
Sundays. Diane Allen, a teacher
in the school and the wife of Rab-
bi Craig Allen, said she began to
notice kids having trouble read-
More options are
available to children
who need help.
ing English, much less Hebrew.
When she heard about the
program Rabbi Shemtov was of-
fering, she invited him to teach
the congregation's children.
"Some of the kids were really
struggling. They needed this kind
of help," she said.
While the classes are benefi-
cial, they are not free. Rabbi
Shemtov charges $2 for the hour-
long Tuesday night class, offer-
ing individual tutoring by unpaid
volunteer high-school girls from
Bais Yaakov and Bais Chaya
Mushka, the local Lubavitch high
school for girls. For Rabbi Poker's
individual attention, the price is
$35 an hour.
But the big payoff comes with
the results of the tutoring.
The Beit Kodesh program has
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Rabbi Dovid Polter works with two students in his home.