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2000 Accord
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Loaded! Auto, air, p/wind., p/locks

Sale Price $17,621*

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2000 Accord
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Staff Writer

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an informational meeting last week.
With non-Orthodox Jewish day
schools flourishing in such communities
as Cleveland, Atlanta, Toronto and
Boston, a sense of community, or
chevra, is building among students from
different geographical areas, he said.
"We are not just starting a new
school here in metro Detroit," he said.
"It will be a new kind of school."
The meeting, held at the West
Bloomfield home of Marty and
Sharon Gene, drew largely from par-
ents of current Hillel Day School stu-
dents. Among the other parents was

he Jewish Academy of
Metropolitan Detroit has
received a challenge grant
of $250,000 from the
national Partnership for Excellence in
Jewish Education (PEJE).
The grant brings to more than $1.3
million the amount raised by the
transdenominational Jewish day
school, set to open in fall 2000 with
grades 9 and 10.
News of the grant was received at
Academy
:-Se000.10AVAC:
offices late
Tuesday. "We
are absolutely
delighted," said
Rabbi Lee
Buckman, head
of the school.
"This will be a
big boost to
our program
from an orga-
nization that is
seriously inter-
ested in day
high schools."
Alex Stiebel of Bloomfield
Rabbi Lee Buckman
Based in
Hills, whose children attend
discusses
the
Academy
Cambridge, Mass., the
East Hills Middle School.
with
Hillel
Day
School
PEJE is a consortium
"Lahser High School has
eighth-graders
Shirah
of 12 individuals and
a
high
scholastic level," he
foundations, including Farber and Pammy
said, "but this might be
Gene,
and
Shirahs
-
the Avi Chai
mother Miriam Farber even better.
Foundation, Andrea
Hillel parent Miriam Farber
and Charles Bronfman
of Farmington Hills said she
Philanthropies, Edgar M. Bronfman
would
love
to see the Academy get off
and the UJA-Federation of New York.
the
ground.
"Having alternatives for
The grant is one of two awarded by
anyone
is
good,"
she said.
the PEJE to Jewish day schools :his
With 10 months to go before the
year.
first day of classes, the Academy has
Other funding received by the
been
endorsed by the Frankel Center
fledgling Academy comes from a chal-
for
Jewish
Studies at the University of
lenge grant of $750,000 awarded by
Michigan.
Rabbi
Buckman also has
the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
forged
links
with
Michigan State,
Detroit, along with about $300,000
Wayne
State
and
Eastern
Michigan
from local contributors.
universities.
"The day high school movement is
And, although application forms
one of the largest-growing educational
have
yet to be printed, the school has
movements in the United States,"
verbal
commitments from 15 students
Rabbi Buckman told a group of two
who
are
eager to be members of its
dozen prospective Academy parents at

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