SEPTEMBER 1994
The Noah Webster Academy, a home-
based private school connected via com-
puter, seeks state funding as a charter
school. A number of Lubavitch students
enroll.
The Jewish Federation and Jewish
Home for Aged announce that Borman
Hall in Detroit will cease being an exclu-
sively Jewish home and many residents
will relocate to Menorah House in South-
field.
Sara's kosher deli in Southfield is ex-
periencing financial difficulties.
OCTOBER
Hillel Day School announces an $11
million campaign to create an endowment
fund and add 28,000 square feet to its Mid-
dlebelt Road building.
Borman Hall is sold to the Heartland
Group. Bill Davidson announces a $15 mil-
lion gift to the Jewish Theological Semi-
nary of America. Fifty adults enroll in the
Melton Mini-School through the Midrasha
- Agency for Jewish Education.
The. Jewish Community Council and
the Arab Community Center for Economic
and Social Services encourage Detroiters
to invest in business in the Gaza Strip and
West Bank.
After three years of "flat" — $26 million
— Allied Jewish Campaigns, Federation
makes several changes, including moving
Super Sunday to October, doing away with
some of the traditional Campaign divi-
sions and stressing face-to-face solicita-
tion. On Super Sunday, Oct. 23, more than
$640,000 is raised.
Rabbi Jack Goldman of the Metropoli-
tan Kashrut Council withdraws his certi-
fication of Shirlee Bloom's Kosher
Restaurant and Carry Out in Farming-
ton Hills
NOVEMBER
Heartland announces that it will retain
90 percent of Borman Hall's 140 employ-
ees. Volunteers are sought to match up
with Borman residents, to help them
through the move to Menorah House.
The Tnuatron dance troupe from Israel
visits schools in metro Detroit.
In the education field, the Pivnick Cen-
ter for Humanistic Judaism opens at the
Birmingham Temple. A prayer retreat
sponsored by the AJE's NIRIM program
is believed to be a first. Lubavitch parents
say they will try to continue to educate
their daughters through the Noah Web-
ster Academy because of the $1,000-$1,200
cost savings. The national Bais Yaakov
Convention brings 450 young ladies to
Oak Park.
Darchei Torah's bid is one of three re-
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jected by the Birmingham Public Schools
co for the Evergreen Center at 13 Mile and
Evergreen. Meanwhile, Akiva Hebrew
Day School accepts a $1.35 million con-
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field Road. The school must find another
building and Lathrup Village must ap-
prove a zoning change to permit develop-
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ment of a mini-mall.
Oakland Mall owner Jay Kogan offers
Hillel Day School 55 million, but the school
-
must move to the Jewish Community
Campus if it accepts. The offer receives
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