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1999

10 Detroit Jewish News

school-to-he names
a Milwaukee rabbi
as its first leader.

Rabbi Lee Buckman was recently named
headmaster for the Jewish Academy of Detroit.

JULIE WIENER
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abbi Lee Buckman is leav-
ing his longtime pulpit in
Milwaukee, in part so his
four young sons can attend
a Jewish high school.
The only catch is, he has to build it
first. And, although an experienced
educator, he has never run, much less
created, a school before.
Nonetheless Buckman, 37, and the
Jewish Academy of Metropolitan
Detroit search committee that hired
him to be headmaster, say they are
confident that this Conservative rabbi
will be able to hire faculty, develop a
rigorous dual curriculum of Judaic and
general studies and recruit students for
the coeducational "centrist" day high
school they hope to open in fall 2000.
To help prepare for the challenges,

Julie Wiener can be reached at
(248) 354-6060 ext 247, or by
e-mail at: wiener@thejewishnews. corn.

Buckman, who will be joined by a
still-to-be-hired head of general stud-
ies, is taking a "principals" course at
Harvard University's graduate school
of education this summer. Last sum-
mer he studied school administration
at the University of Judaism in Los
Angeles.
In the planning stages for over
two years, the new school will differ
from Detroit's existing day high
schools, all of which are Orthodox,
by reaching to a broad spectrum of
the community, including modern
Orthodox, Conservative and Reform
Jews. It also will offer a range of
extra-curricular activities, along with
a preparatory track for students who
lack day school backgrounds.
The Jewish Academy's board is
composed mainly of Hillel Day School
parents and Conservative rabbis.
Buckman was selected from a pool
of 80 candidates because of "his clarity
of vision for the school, which coin-
cided with our own," said Robert
Roth, co-chair of the school's search