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favorite among the younger students
are slinging canvas or leather-like sacks
at Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, too.
over their shoulders. Teens can't drive
Eight-year-old Mayer Engelsberg
wearing a backpack, and strapping it
just moved to Oak Park from Seattle,
on when they get out of the car is
and said he likes the Yeshiva better
awkward and time-consuming.
than his old school.
There's not much the schools can
"It's only boys in my class and
do about the number of books and
there's a longer recess," he said. The
supplies their students carry, but they
Hebrew subjects are more at his level,
can make rules about how and when
he added, and he likes having a rabbi
they carry them.
teach the class.
At West Bloomfield High School,
Tzvi Ungar, another third-grader,
packs of any type must be stowed in
had a long list of favorite subjects:
lockers, except in the middle of the
"English, science, inventing things,
block schedule. The district's middle
Hebrew, Chumash, davening."
schools have instituted a no-pack poli-
Akiva's secular
cy, except when corn-
principal,
ing to school and
Rosalie Lake,
going home.
summed it all
This is not so much
up:
out of concern for the
"I'm look-
students' muscles —
ing forward
although the high-
to a peaceful,
schoolers packs may
happy, gor-
weigh as much as 60-
geous begin-
70 pounds — as it is
ning of the
for safety, said
school year."
spokesman Steve
Wasko.
The big news this
fall at Yeshivat Akiva is
the building itself.
"It's gorgeous, but
you get lost," said
10th-grader Michael
Skoczylas of West
Bloomfield.
Unlike the school's
previous home in
Lathrup Village, the
new facility in the for-
mer Beth Achim syna-
gogue in Southfield
has contemporary
heating and cooling
systems. Now if the
weather is "really cold
or really hot,
Skoczylas said with a
wisp of regret, "we
don't get to go home."
Tenth-grader Ari
Gotlib said the build-
ing was admirable, but
lamented, "I haven't
woken up this early in
),
three months.
Akiva second-
graders Molly
Goldmeier and Rena
Jacobovitz had no
Top: In 5thgrade Chumash class at Yeshiva Beth
trouble getting up.
Yehudah,
Rafael Berger of Oak Park answers Rabbi
They said their favorite
Mordechai Katz's question.
activities in school
were coloring, daven-
Above: Moshe Rothstein, a fifth-grader at Yeshivat Akiva,
ing and recess.
prays
before class.
Recess was a big

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