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1998

22 Detroit Jewish News

Yeshiva Beth Yehudah hires a dean
to coordinate its overall educational planning.

JULIE WIENER
Staff Writer

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Fishman had many of Beth Yehudah's
teachers visit his school in Cleveland
so they could observe classes at
Mosdos Ohr HaTorah and become
acquainted with him.
"I'm a big believer in the impor-
tance of staff development," said
Fishman. "You have to be rejuvenated,
whether it's from going to a conven-
tion or taking courses or observing
someone else in action."
Fishman said he has some ideas for
changes at the yeshiva, but is getting
his bearings before launching any ini-
tiatives and expects to spend his first
year focusing on the day-to-day opera-
tions of the boys' school.

abbi Avrohom Fishman's
marriage to Yeshiva Beth
Yehudah comes after a
lengthy courtship.
The yeshiva recruited Fishman to
be its first dean, despite the fact that
the rabbi was happily employed at
Mosdos Ohr HaTorah Academy of
Cleveland, a day school he helped
establish in 1978.
"Yeshiva Beth Yehudah brought me
in as a scholar-in-residence for a week-
end, then they were on my tail for a year
and a half," Fishman joked, sitting in his
new Beth Yehudah office on
the second day of school.
While searching for some-
one to replace Rabbi Avraham
Cohen as the boys' school
principal (Cohen had request-
ed more time in the class-
room), Beth Yehudah's board
decided it needed someone
who could also coordinate
overall educational and com-
munal planning for the entire
institution. And after net-
working and placing calls to
Torah U'Mesorah, the nation- Rabbi Avrohom Fishman: Proponent of staff devel-
al association of Orthodox
opment.
day schools, the yeshiva
The father of 12 (three of whom
decided on the 49-year-old Fishman.
still live at home), Fishman is joined
"He's one of the premier educators
at school by his wife, Basya, who will
in America," said Executive Director
be teaching at Beth Jacob. Born in
Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld. "He's very well
Rhode Island and raised in Brooklyn,
known and is someone people call in
Fishman has spent most of his adult
order to get outside opinions on edu-
life in Cleveland, where he attended
cational matters. And the board here
yeshiva and trained to be a rabbi.
has the attitude that if someone's right
"Rabbi Fishman is an extremely tal-
for the job, it doesn't matter if they're
ented educator and a very fine individ-
looking or not."
ual," said Beth Yehudah President
Eventually the nudging and negoti-
Gary Torgow. "He's very learned and
ating paid off Fishman became a full-
seems to be just a wonderful person."
time presence at the school last week.
Rabbi Cohen, whom Fishman
That followed months of long-dis-
replaces as boys' school principal, is
tance consulting during which
now teaching eighth grade while coor-
Fishman would periodically drive in
dinating Partners in Torah (an adult
for business visits from Cleveland
education program open to the com-
while listening to Jewish history
munity at large) and other outreach
audio-cassettes on his car's tape deck.
programs for the yeshiva. ❑
In preparing for the transition,