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All local day schools limit admissions to Jews, but ,y
definitions of who is a Jew vary.

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been done properly, not who has done
it." He added that the conversion
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process for a child is a quick one.
Akiva Hebrew Day School and
ast week, concerns about
, "who is a Jew" led planners
Yeshivas Darchei Torah, both Ortho-
dox institutions, say they require that
of a new Jewish high school
students either have Jewish mothers or
to define the school as Con-
are in the process of an Orthodox
servative rather than community-
conversion. Both Akiva President Stu-
based.
The New Jewish High School Asso- art Teger and Darchei Torah Principal
Rabbi Dovid Kahn say proof is rarely
ciation, which hopes to have a day
an issue.
high school up and running by fall
"It has been extremely rare that an
1999, decided that enrollment will be
applicant
is not Jewish or that there's a
limited to persons either born of,,a
Jewish mother or who have undergone question," said Teger.
"We have never had a problem try-
a Jewish conversion that includes ritu-
ing to verify," said Kahn. "Any- ,i
al circumcision (for boys) and
body who was ever a con-
immersion in a mikvah.
II
,
vert always brought in a
Patrilineal descent — the
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certificate of conver-
Reform movement's poli-
sion from an Ortho-
cy that any child with
dox rabbi."
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in the school's admis-
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fac-
sions decisions. However,
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children who have under-
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has
no set policy concern-
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that adhere to the school's
ing
admissions,
but instead
conversion requirements will be
"decides
on
a
case
by
case
basis."
admitted.
Rabbi Menachem Greenfield, develop-
"Admissions in any non-public
ment director of Yeshivah Gedolah,
school is an internal issue," said Jean
also Orthodox, says the issue of who is
Schane, former liaison at the Michigan
a Jew has never come up.
Department of Education.
Ann Arbor's Hebrew Day School
Hillel Day School states on its
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with students spanning all
application that it "admits only Jewish
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has
much
streams
of
Judaism
—
children as defined by Conservative
more flexible guidelines for deter-
Jewish law. This means children born
mining "who is a Jew" than its coun-
of a Jewish mother, one who is Jewish
terparts in Detroit.
by birth or by conversion, or a child
' "Since this is the only Jewish day
who has undergone conversion." Par-
school option for the Ann Arbor com-
ents must sign an affirmation that
their child is Jewish and, in the case of munity, we have to be pluralistic," said
Interim Principal Naomi Blumenberg.
conversion, indicate the name of the
"We don't ask if you're Jewish on the _,
rabbi who guided the conversion.
application, but parents are required -,
Rabbi Robert Abramson, director
to provide a home environment that is
of education programs for the United
supportive to what we're doing in
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism
school."
and the former headmaster of Hillel,
Blumenberg noted that the policy
emphasizes that Conservative day
works
only because Hebrew Day
schools accept conversions performed
School
ends after fifth grade, meaning
by rabbis of all denominations.
that issues like dating and who can
"We're very insistent that the ques-
form a minyan can be avoided. ❑
tion is whether the conversion has

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