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Federation grants $750,000 in start-up funds
for the new Jewish secondary school.

JULIE WIENER
Staff Writer

etroit is one step closer to
opening a Conservative
Jewish high school.
The Board of
Governors of the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit and the United Jewish
Foundation voted last week to
allocate $750,000 to the high
school, which is scheduled to
s tart a ninth-grade class in
September.
Some $250,000 will be grant-
ed in the coming months,
enabling the school to hire staff
and recruit students. The
remaining funds will be doled
out over the school's first two
years, on the condition that it
enrolls at least 25 students per
grade.
"This certainly is a tremen-
dous vote of confidence in the
school," said Adat Shalom's Rabbi
Daniel Nevins, one of the board
members of the Detroit Jewish High
School Association, which raised
$250,000 from individual donors
before approaching Federation for
funding. The school's planners, most
of whom are affiliated with Hillel Day
School and the Conservative move-
ment, incorporated as a non-profit
earlier this year.
"I think this community should be
in the day high school business and I
think the school has the potential to
serve a population of students that up
to this time has not been served," said
Dr. Richard Krugel, chair of
Federation's planning and allocations
steering committee. "It's a very excit-
ing prospect, and I'll do whatever I
can in the future to help make this
venture a success."
Federation President Bob Naftaly
said the school is just one facet of
Federation's commitment to strength-
ening Jewish continuity. "This is part
of a national trend to have high
schools that serve needs of different
populations, and we're excited about
the potential to start a new education-
al institution. We've also been increas-
ing support for all day schools in the

community and also will be looking at
assessing the affordability and quality
of temple schools," he said.
According to Krugel, the school
will be located on the Jewish
Community Campus in West

someone to head the school will not
be easy. In fact, founders of a new
Jewish high school in Atlanta recently
had to team a non-Jewish headmaster
with a Jewish principal after failing to
find a person with both the adminis-
trative and Jewish background
x required.
"It's not an easy process. There's not
an abundance of Jewish educators,"
said Steve Schanes, a member of the
Detroit Jewish High School
Association. "At this point, it's open
who we hire as long as that individual
can deal with the school's religious
policies. Ideally, we'll find a rabbi with
experience in schools, but that's not
mandatory."
The organizers are beginning to
market the school to potential stu-
dents, whom they hope will hail from
a variety of backgrounds. The school
will offer two tracks for Judaic studies
so that it will be accessible to stu-
dents who have not previously
attended Jewish day
schools.
Above: Dr.
Planners anticipate
Richard Krugel:
that
tuition will be
"This community
similar
to Hillel's —
should be in the
$7,30.0 annually —
day high school
with financial aid
business."
available.
Initially planned
as a transdenomina-
Right: Bob
Naftaly: Piece of a
tional community
larger continui ty
high school, the
agenda.
school redefined
itself as Conservative
last month when a
controversy emerged
over the planners'
unwillingness to rec-
ognize patrilineal
descent in admis-
sions. The Reform
movement accepts as
Jewish anyone whose
Bloomfield, probably initially in tem-
father is Jewish, even if the mother is
porary classrooms. The school also
not.
will make use of the Kahn Jewish
Although not officially affiliated
Community Center facilities.
with Hillel or the Conservative move-
With start-up funds and a location
ment's Solomon Schechter network of
in place, the school's organizers now
schools, the new high school's reli-
must recruit staff and students. And
gious policies will be the same as
with a national shortage of Jewish
Hillel's, said Krugel.
educators, particularly for high-level
administrative positions, finding

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