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KOGAN page 1
a new site would not fit con-
struction goals.
Since the announcement that
the grade school would stay in
its present location, rabbis from
yeshivas around the country have
lined up at Mr. Kogan's door, hop-
ing to get a piece of the rejected
gift
"Oh boy, you should have seen
these people," Mr. Kogan said. "I
wish I had enough money to sat-
isfy all of them."
But this week, Mr. Kogan put
other schools' hopes to rest when
he committed the $1 million en-
dowment and promised to help
fund the beginning of the high
school.
"I am trying to do what is right
by the Jewish community," he
said.
He also said once the site is
chosen, he may add another $1
million to help construct the high
school, bringing his total contri-
bution to $6 million, the largest
donation to a local Jewish insti-
tution in the history of the Detroit
Jewish community.
He said the reason for the
change of heart had to do with
the memories of his visit to
Europe after World War II. He
stopped at'a concentration camp
to see for himself the horror in-
flicted upon millions of Jews at
the hands of the Nazis.
"I saw the cruelty of what hap-
pened to the 6 million people,"
he told the crowd at the dinner.
After viewing the gas cham-
bers, Mr. Kogan vowed to repop-
ulate the Jewish people, a task
he now sees best served through
Jewish education.
"I want our people to survive
not for 100 years, not for 1,000
years, but in perpetuity," he said,
praising the Hillel audience for
their commitment to Jewish ed-
ucation. "That is how you sur-
vive."
Mr. Kogan said a location for
the new high school must fill the
requirements he originally set
for the grade school: that the
building be constructed on a
prominent street in a prominent
location.
"I want the site to be agreeable
to the community," he said.
Robert Schostak said there is
no target date for starting class-
es at the high school nor has a
site been chosen. Classes will
more than likely begin at anoth-
er location and be moved into the
new building after construction
is complete.
Mr. Schostak said the addition
of the high school will potential-
ly boost support for the grade
school. Hillel parents have always
questioned what to do with their
children's education following
eighth grade.
"A high school answers their
questions," Mr. Schostak said.
"It gives the parents and the fam-
ilies the option of Jewish educa-
tion after the eighth grade."
There was support for the new
high school among Hillel parents
who responded to a survey con-
ducted this year. Seventy-five
percent said they were interest-
ed in enrolling or needed more in-
formation to enroll their children
in a high school.
Marcy Borofsky, first vice pres-
ident of the Hillel board, was ex-
cited about the high school. "Hillel
has had a longstanding history
of educational excellence in both
Judaic and secular studies," she
said. "Extending these achieve-
ments to a high school opens up
great opportunities for the Jewish
community."
There is no date set
for the opening of
the high school.
Other Jewish high schools in
the area offer Orthodox educa-
tion to their students but the
Hillel High School would the first
in Detroit history to provide a
Conservative education.
Mr. Kogan's donation, howev-
er, does not fulfill the capital cam-
paign Hillel embarked upon in
October. The school started the
$11 million campaign to fund an
$8 million construction project
which would add 28,000 square
feet to the existing school. The
rest of the campaign would boost
the school's $1 million endow-
ment to $4 million.
So far, $6.7 million has been
committed toward the building.
Mr. Kogan's gift provides $1 mil-
lion of the $3 million endowment
goal. Groundbreaking is set for
mid-June.
Carla Schwartz contributed to
this report.
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