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ne of Detroit's youngest
Orthodox day schools has
received the bar mitzvah gift
it has long coveted: con-
stituent agency status by the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.
Yeshivas Darchei Torah, a fervently
Orthodox, or haredi, school with 282
students in kindergarten through high
school is now eligible to receive annual
allocations and other forms of financial
assistance from the organized Jewish
community. Four other area day
schools already have such status and
received a total of $1.5 million in allo-
cations last year. Part of Federation's
overall strategy for improving Jewish
education, allocations for day schools
are based on each school's size and
financial needs, said Jordana Weiss,
who staffs Federation's education divi-
sion. Once allocated, funds are not
earmarked for specific purposes,
although Federation meets frequently
with school leadership to ensure that
they are fiscally responsible.
Darchei Torah leadership expressed
pleasure at the school's new status,
approved Tuesday by Federation's
board of governors.
"We think this will be a really big
thing for the school in terms of
becoming a regular part of the corn-
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munity and being recognized as an
institution that is giving something to
the Detroit community," said Darchei
Torah President Ed Hurvitz.
"We're delighted," said Eliyahu
Allon, chair of the school's Federation-
relations committee, adding that the
decision was "validating."
Founded in 1986 by husband and
wife team Rabbi Dovid and Sara Kahn
(he heads the boys' school and she is
the principal of the girls' school) and a
group of parents, Darchei Torah has
been applying for the status since 1993.
The requests were always denied for
a variety of reasons. At first,
Federation said Darchei Torah was
duplicating the services of another fer-
vently Orthodox institution, Yeshiva
Beth Yehudah.
But both Darchei Torah and
Yeshiva Beth Yehudah grew far more
rapidly than other area day schools;
Darchei Torah's enrollment rose 64
percent in five years, while Beth
Yehudah, Detroit's largest Jewish day
school, is up 33 percent.
Then Federation decided both
schools serve a community need.
However, it expressed concern about
the young school's fiscal management
and weakly structured board.
Now Darchei Torah has changed to
meet those concerns, said Federation
Education Division Chair Barbara
Cook.
"They've established a board that is
fiscally responsible for the workings of
the school and has oversight of all the
workings of the school," she said.
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Gitty Pellstein,
Shifra Leah and
Batsheva Hurvitz,
fourth graders at
Yishivas Darchei
Torah, participate in
the school's second
annual Chinese auc-
tion. Organized by the
high school girls, the
event — where the
90 goods auctioned
ranged from a "Rashi
Memory" game to
homemade challah to
a large stuffed cow —
raised $3, 000 to
provide Passover food
for low-income Jews.
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