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1998

10 Detroit Jewish News

WHOME98

This fall the Windsor JCC will offer
a Melton Mini-School adult educatiorkprogram.

a two-year course of study, which,
according to its brochure, enables
learners to "master the essential build-
ing blocks of the Jewish tradition and
Ilir ith the American dollar.
to see its totality at the same time."
strong and the loony
In Windsor, which Brownstein says
weak, many Detroiters
is "the smallest Jewish community to
are heading to Canada
have a Melton Mini-School," the pro-
for shopping bargains.
gram is being heavily subsidized with
Now, they can also get an inexpen-
a grant from the Morris and Beverly
sive Jewish education across the bor-
Baker Foundation. Bloomfield
der. Assuming it finds a
The Windsor
teacher, the Windsor
Hills resident Beverly Baker,
chair of the Canadian founda-
Jewish Community Centre KC.•argain
prices for adult •
will be offering the
tion, declined to be inter-
Jewish education.
viewed for this story.
Florence Melton Adult
From 1994 to 1996, Detroit
Mini-School this fall for a
offered its own Melton Mini-School
tuition of approximately 200
through the Midrasha Center for
Canadian dollars, about $130 U.S. at
Adult Jewish Learning, a service of the
current exchange rates, said Executive
Agency for Jewish Education of
Director Steve Brownstein. He said
Metropolitan Detroit. However, while
some 10 Windsor Jews have expressed
one class finished the two-year course,
interest in the program, and he's hop-
the program closed its doors to new-
ing to attract Detroiters as well.
corners after the first year.
A two-year program, with its cur-
In an October 1997 interview,
riculum developed at the Hebrew
then-AJE Executive Director Howard
University of Jerusalem, the Melton
Gelberd stated that the Melton pro-
Mini-School is offered in 35 sites in
gram, which charges an $8,000 fran-
North America and expects to enroll a
chise fee and expects communities to
total of more than 3,000 studentssin
pay for their own teachers and publici-
the coming year.
ty, had been too costly "with no . neces-
Operating through a local sponsor-
sary return on the money." However,
ing agency with local teachers, the
former Melton teachers and students
mini-school provides the materials for

JULIE WIENER

Staff Writer

