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Wendy Wagenheim, Maxine Berman, Rabbi Marla Feldman, Bryan Taylor
and Rabbi E.B. "Bunny" Freedman take part in the discussion. Feldman,
of the Jewish Community Council, served as moderator.

LONNY GOLDSMITH
Staff Writer

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ven with three children in
the West Bloomfield school
district, Lisa Garfinkle came
to the panel discussion on
school vouchers on Dec. 3 to educate
herself on an unfamiliar subject. She
left the Kahn Jewish Community
Center with a very decided opinion.
"A voucher or tax credit will proba-
bly make things worse," she said after
the event. "I think it will take away
from, or ruin, the good stuff we have.
"I choose to use public transporta-
tion, but that doesn't mean that others
should help me buy my car."
The debate, "Public Funding For
Private Schools: Is it Good or Bad for
the Jewish Community?", sponsored by
the Jewish Community Council of
Metropolitan Detroit, drew 50 listeners.
Unlike Garfinkle, many were not
newcomers to the issue.
"I found that most walked in with a
position," said Rabbi E.B. "Bunny"
Freedman, a pro-voucher panelist and
director of Jewish hospice for the
Southfield-based Hospice of
Southeastern Michigan. He estimated

80 percent of the crowd was anti-
vouchers. "These are very politically
informed people who came in and said
that this was an issue for them," he
said. "It didn't bring out the curious."
The Jewish community historically
has opposed vouchers, a position reaf-
firmed by the Jewish Community
Council in April 1997.
The anti-voucher crowd was vocally
behind Maxine Berman, a former state
representative, and American Civil
Liberties Union lobbyist Wendy
Wagenheim, cheering the women on
with applause. These listeners mut-
tered in disbelief and rolled their eyes
at opinions they disagreed with. One
of those opinions was Freedman's
insistence that Orthodox Jews feel that
it's mandated for them to send their
children to private school.
"It's actually a deprivation that we
don't get money to send our kids
there," said Freedman, who was the
executive director of Yeshiva Beth
Yehudah from 1985 to 1992. "There's
a wide coalition who understand inno-
vation, and the Jewish community
should jump on the bandwagon."
While TEACH Michigan Executive
Director Bryan Grant Taylor is a pro-