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that there would be a greater
benefit by having all of the com-
munal resources at one location.
"We were persuaded to build
there," he said. "But we didn't
foresee the number of visitors we
would have on a daily basis."
"We have 30 to 40 times the
visitors we hoped to have," he
said. "We need more space."
But Mr. Sorkin said the land
was left over during the initial
construction of the Jewish Com-
munity Center in order to accom-
modate future JCC expansion. In
his eyes, the Holocaust Memorial
Center's plans for expansion is

equivalent to planning a sik
ming pool in
a neighbor's yad,
Still, he hopes some kin
agreement can be reached toll
low the expansion of both fait
ties.
"We feel very strongly thah q
want the Holocaust Mernoris
Center as a partner," Mr. Sorb
said. "I would hope that withth
right amount of community sup
port much of what needs to be ac
complished can be accomplished.'
No time line has been setlio
formal process has begun II
regard to the possible use fiat
courtyard," Mr. Davidoff saidE

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Meadowlake elementaries into meet at the shul on Walnut Llif
one building at the former West and Orchard Lake roads.
Maple Middle School. The merg-
Shir Shalom plans to adds
er put Walnut Lake Elementary, school wing to its building inth
at Walnut Lake and Inkster near future, in part to accommo-
roads, on the market.
date its school-aged children4
Shaarey Zedek joined eight well as to house a preschool*
others in bidding for the school in the future, possibly a day-can
and triumphed with a $1.5 mil- center.
lion offer and the promise to keep
`That is in the future," Mr. S.
it a school building. Some other mons said. "Right now we are
developers had proposed tearing dealing with the present.
down the school to build single
Congregation Shir Tikvahia
family homes.
Troy has leased rooms each Sol.
The congregation plans to put day from schools in its vicinity.
about $2 million into renovations Currently, it has an agreement
for the 61-year-old building to to rent several rooms and anau•
make it one of the most state-of- ditorium from Roeper Middle
the-art educational facilities in School, a private school in Bina.
the country.
ingham. The congregation has
Plans call for a youth recre- moved its school location so many
ation complex with a gymnasi- times that filling out a changes(
um and outdoor play fields as address form for the post office
well as an advanced computer has become a regular experience.
network equipped with large
monitors in each classroom. The
Shaarey Zedek
Jewish Theological Seminary in
New York City hopes to use the
plans $2 million
site to test pilot educational pro-
grams.
renovations.
"This is going to be an over-
haul of school as we know it," Mr.
"It has been a real challenge,
Wolfe said. "It will change the
face of Jewish education."
and the fact that we are all still
School officials are looking for- friends and that the mailmen are
ward to the educational ameni- still speaking to us is amazing,'
ties offered by the 35,000- said Janet Moses, Shir Tikvah's
square-foot structure and the director of education.
As Shir Tikvah breaks ground
surrounding 3.5 acres of land.
"There are no more Jewish and builds its own shul at the cor-
neighborhoods," Rabbi Groner ner of Wattles Road and North.
said. 'The youth facility will be a field Parkway in Troy, it plans to
place where [students] can drop keep the relationship with
in and enjoy themselves. We be- Roeper until all its 120 students
lieve that religious school no can be accommodated.
longer exists, just for education."
Teachers and students at al0
While Shaarey Zedek prevailed shuls have found alternative
in its efforts to find a permanent school space to be less than home
home for its students, Temple Shir Problems have included higher
Shalom and Congregation Shir rental rates for weekend use, the
Tikvah are making advances in inability to decorate the room to
their quest for the same.
suit their tastes and the lack of
Shir Shalom's President .4gpace for storage of teaching
Steven Simons said the congre- equipment.
"For years we have been,
gation is pleased with its current
arrangement in renting seven guests in somebody else's home,
classrooms on Sundays at Do- Shir Tikvah's Ms. Moses said.
herty Elementary School in West "We look forward to having
Bloomfield. Nine other classes home of our own." ❑

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