Jewish Education Allocations
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
eshiva Gedolah
18,000
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"We all say that
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* Includes $22,000 for Shaarey
Zedek's High School Program.
Jewish education
should have the high-
est priority for our
community. It leads
Supplemental School Scholarship Fund
to continuity, spiritu-
Yeshiva Gedolah
ality and Jewish
$65,000
$85,000
pride," Shaarey
Zedek's Rabbi Groner
says. "But that prior-
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
ity is not reflected in
the allocation of
AJE
funds" by Federation.
He echoes the
words of former Fed-
eration Presidents
Dr. Conrad Giles and Hillel
Joel Tauber. Federa-
tion's Tauber Com-
Akiva
mission report in
1990 and the Giles
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Commission report
in 1992 led to the
conversion of United
Hebrew Schools into the Agency for Jewish Edu- with the Giles Commission's recommendations
on implementing changes in local Jewish educa-
cation.
Rabbi Groner, Dr. Giles and Mr. Tauber all sug- tion.
"The community is more accepting of the con-
gest that the Detroit Jewish community must re-
cept of education than they were in the past. If we
order priorities and cut Allied Jewish Campaign
are going to make inroads into the horrible num-
funds to some beneficiaries to provide more
for Jewish education. Rabbi Groner looks to bers for intermarriage and assimilation, this is
reductions in the amount of Campaign funds be- what we have to do," he says.
"If we could get that $1 million, we'd be in far
ing sent overseas and greater efforts at securing
better
shape. The day schools would be on much
funds from new sources, such as private founda-
firmer ground. There would be additional AJE
tions.
Richard Krugel thinks $1 million more a year programs for the learning disabled and for fami-
would solve the Jewish education puzzle in Detroit. ly education — all those plans that desperately
"A $10 million endowment would give us that $1 need more money to be successful.
"But I don't want it to come at the expense of
million per year," says the chairman of Federation's
education committee. That $1 million extra would the elderly, the needy or hungry. That's not a fair
solve budget deficits at Akiva Hebrew Day School trade."
AJE's Howard Gelberd doesn't worry where the
and Yeshiva Beth Yehudah and provide for ma-
money comes from. He believes that the next few
jor increases for all Jewish education.
When Federation's board of governors approves years will bring "future shock" to the Jewish com-
Campaign allocations this month, will education munity.
With intermarriage and assimilation, he pro-
get a $1 million increase? "No," says Dr. Krugel,
jects that only 30-40 percent of Jewish children
"but we will get more."
He points to many improvements over the past in the Detroit area are now enrolled in Jewish ed-
five years, both in programs and funding, plus ucation programs, "and there is drop-off along the
"more acceptance generally among Federation way."
"The real verdict," he says, "will come in
leadership of education's importance. But, can we
the next two to three years. Do we have the
forget the other segments of our community? We
guts to fund what we see is working? Are we go-
still have to provide social services.
"There's never enough money, but in the last ing to mobilize the community to rise to the oc-
casion?
couple of years we're $600,000 to the good. That's
"By the year 2000, (the chances for Jewish sur-
a 25 percent increase for Jewish education."
vival)
will go up or they will go down." ❑
He says the community is right on target
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