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SIVAN 5755/JUNE 2, 1995

A School Is Born

Jay Kogan renews his gift to the Hillel Day School
community: $4 million to start a high school and
$1 million for an endowment.

JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER

A fter months of de- up where Hillel leaves off in

eighth grade. Another $1 mil-
lion will fund an endowment for
a kindergarten-through-eighth-
grade math, science and com-
puter curriculum.
"Before the end of this
decade, there will be a Hillel
High School," Mr. Schostak told
the crowd of nearly 800. 'Words
cannot express our gratitude.
We are filled with emotion and
pride."
Mr. Kogan originally pro-
posed a $5 million gift to Hillel
in December, with the stipu-
lation that the school move
from its present Middlebelt
Road and Northwestern
Highway location and construct
a new building. A site at the
Jewish Community Campus at
Maple and Drake roads was
targeted.
After months of study, debate
and some parental protest, the
school's board avoided a vote on
the issue, declaring instead that

Jay Kogan: Doing "what's right."

KOGAN page 20

PHOTO BY JEFF KOWAL SKY

bate Jay Kogan is
giving $5 million to
Jewish education.
At the Hillel Day
School annual din-
ner Tuesday night at Adat
Shalom Synagogue, Hillel
President Robert Schostak an-
nounced Mr. Kogan is planning
to contribute $4 million to start
a high school that would take

High Flier

A Bloomfield Hills resident is about to donate his
impressive collection of memorabilia to the Israel
Air Force Museum.

ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR

R

udy Newman didn't know
much about Zionism, but
he was ready to give his
life for it.
Rudy was a Wayne
University law school student
in January 1948 when the rab-
bi at the Hillel House asked him
to consider doing a little under-
cover work.
Jews in Palestine needed
arms, he said. Rudy would be
just the person to help. The na-
tive Detroiter had been a fight-
er pilot with the elite U.S. Naval
forces during World War II.
It didn't take long for Rudy to
make up his mind. School was

boring. Being a pilot was ro-
mantic.
"I didn't go because I was a
Zionist," Mr. Newman says. "I
went because I loved flying.
"But if you've ever been to
Israel, you know the feeling you
have when you first set foot
there. I tell you, the minute I
touched ground I felt like I was
at home. That's when I became
a Zionist."
Stacks of books and photo al-
bums, sll neatly organized and
categorized, are the devoted
guardians of Mr. Newman's
past. A man who helped bring

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