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Increased Applicants
For Federation Scholarship

JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER

F

or the third year in a row,
the awarding of need-
based scholarships for lo-
cal children seeking a
Jewish education fell short of the
total amount allotted by the Jew-
ish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit.

Giles Commission, an educa-
tional committee that suggested
the closing of United Hebrew
Schools in 1992.
Called "a three-way partner-
ship between Federation, the
congregations and the families,"
the scholarship fund was set up

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the lack of applicants has not ne-
cessitated this preference, Dr.
Krugel said.
In the 1993-94 school year,
none of the $75,000 was distrib-
uted because funding was not in
place until after the beginning of
the school year. The amount was
then earmarked to be distributed
over the next several years, thus
boosting annual allocations to
approximately $100,000.

The number of
applicants has
risen.

Last year, $55,000 of the
$100,000 was distributed to 325

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Dr. Richard Krugel: More 1995 96 applicants.

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Approximately $47,000 of the
possible $100,000 total was doled
out to 358 applicants. Although
another 120 to 130 applications
have yet to be reviewed and
awarded funding, the total
amount is not expected to be giv-
en out.
"We anticipate that we will
give out the bulk of what was al-
located," said Dr. Richard
Krugel, chairman of the educa-
tion planning and allocations di-
vision of the Jewish Federation.
The scholarship was financed
originally from a 1993-94 Allied
Jewish Campaign allocation fol-
lowing a recommendation by the

to provide funding to families to
make the transition from UHS
to temple- and synagogue-based
schools, said Randi Levin, Fed-
eration assistant planning di-
rector.
Three variables are considered
for an award, including the cost
of the program, the number of
hours a week the program re-
quires and the financial need of
the family.
Originally, priority was-to be
given to families considering or
having a synagogue or temple
membership in order to encour-
age affiliation among those who
were not considering affiliation;

families. At the time, a lack of
communication regarding the
application process and the
scholarship availability was
blamed for the low figure. An im-
plementation committee re-
viewed the application process
with input from participating
families, temples and syna-
gogues.
This year, a few changes were
made and the number of app-
licants rose from 325 to about
480.
"We tried to get the syna-
gogues and temples to be more
aware that the program exists
and we tried to communicate
earlier with them," Dr. Krugel
said.
Federation also scaled back
the allocation to $65,000, and
was able to utilize funding left
over from the past two years.
In addition, a deadline of July
15 was not strictly adhered to,
in part because some parents en-
rolling their child for the first
time had not heard of the schol-
arship. Many of the applications
yet to be reviewed were turned
in after the official deadline, Dr.
Krugel said.
Future changes in the pro-
gram will facilitate the applica-
tion process for congregations
and families, he added.
"We are trying to make this
as user-friendly as it can be," Dr.
Krugel said.
Ms. Levin said she was
pleased with the progress of the
scholarships.
"Whenever a program starts,
it starts slowly," she said. "Now
the families are aware of it and
the congregations are aware of
it." ❑

