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10 Detroit Jewish News

Tanners of a new Jewish high
school in Detroit — which
is launching marketing
efforts this fall — hope their
finished product looks a lot like
Boston's New Jewish High School.
One of several Jewish schools to
have sprung up in recent years,
Boston's New Jewish High School
started with an enrollment of 50 last
fall and anticipates 70 additional stu-
dents this year. It offers an extensive
curriculum of secular and religious
studies, including Advanced
Placement courses, options for col-
lege-level study
through Brandeis,
and Judaic studies
courses at different
levels to accommo-
date students from
different back-
grounds, including
those who have
never attended
Jewish day schools.
A large percentage
of the school's
instructors hold
degrees from
Brandeis or Ivy
Students participate in afternoon prayer services at Boston's
League universities. New Jewish High School, an institution upon which the
But there is one
Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit hopes to model
key way the Jewish
itself
Academy of Detroit,
which hopes to open its doors in 1999
Bob Aronson called a meeting of
on the Jewish Community Campus in
Reform leaders to clarify that while
West Bloomfield, may differ from the
the school would not officially affiliate
Boston example: its approach to diver-
with the Conservative movement, it
sity.
Would adhere to a Conservative inter-
The New Jewish High School
pretation of Jewish law.
has made great efforts to build com-
Efforts to cooperate with the
munity while remaining pluralistic,
Orthodox community, specifically a
said its headmaster Rabbi Daniel
proposal to share resources with Akiva
Lehmann. Approximately 55 percent
Hebrew Day School,• have not yielded
of students are Conservative, 25 per-
results yet.
cent Orthodox, 15 percent Reform
The Academy's 15-person interim
and 5 percent unaffiliated, he estimat-
board is composed of two centrist
ed. In admitting students, the New
Orthodox Jews — Rabbi Rod
Jewish High School recognizes patri-
Glogower and University of Michigan
lineal descent — the Reform view that
Professor Zvi Gitelman — and 13

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a child can be considered Jewish if
only the father is Jewish — and offers
an array of prayer options.
The extent of pluralism and
diversity in Detroit's new high school
has yet to be determined.
The Jewish Academy got off to a
shaky start with the Reform commu-
nity this winter for calling itself a
"community", school but stating that it
would admit only children with
Jewish mothers or — if the mother
was not Jewish — those children who
had undergone a conversion. Shortly
before Federation's board of governors
voted to grant the school start-up
funding of $750,000 last February,
Federation Executive Vice-President

JULIE WIENER
Staff Writer

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