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"He sat me down and started
talking about the school," Mr.
Isakow said. "Then he insisted I
visit. It was a total revelation for
me to see the positive way the
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What Mr. Isakow saw was a
school on its way up. But, the
turnaround didn't happen
overnight. Various rabbis in the
community selected a fresh group
of community members to try
and reverse the school's ill-fated
direction. One of the first things
the new board did was raise $1
million earmarked for a teachers

ber, redid the boys school on a vol-
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As the school began to turn
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"Years ago, there was proba-
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said Susan Colbert, the secular
studies principal at the boys
school. "Because of the changes
that were implemented and the
spirit of unity throughout the
process, it has enabled our sec-
ular department to excel."
The school operates on a $3
million budget but just over a
third comes from tuition. Its an-
nunl dinner, held each fall, serves
as the institution's single largest

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pension fund. The senior staff fund-raiser and what could be the
was then able to retire with a largest yeshiva dinner in the
pension. New staff and adminis- country. This year's dinner, held
tration became the starting point last month, attracted over 2,000
people and took in
for rebuilding the school.
$650,000.
Another fund-raising
Akiva Ribiat
When Dr. Maury El-
campaign to pay off the
watche s Rabbi
debt coincided with these Shmuel K aufman. lenberg, chairman of the
yeshiva board, talks
efforts.
about the school's future,
Torah Umesorah Day
School Association, a New York- he is encouraged. The Orthodox
based national organization for population is growing, and more
Jewish day schools, came in to of- families appear to be sending
fer its guidance, and Federation their children to the yeshiva.
"There is room for improve-
was also willing to help.
'We went through some diffi- ment. The biggest area we need
cult times," said Federation's Mr. assistance in is financial. We
Aronson. 'We were never really need to develop a solid way to fi-
skeptical about the yeshiva's fu- nance the school," said Dr. El-
ture because there is a critical lenberg, indicating that the
mass of families using the school would like to start an en-
dowment fund.
school."
"I look at the yeshiva as an or-
Yeshiva fund raising contin-
ued over the next few years for ganization that reaches out," he
renovations, and Steve Levitz, continued. 'We touch a lot of peo-
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