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first graduating classes.
Rabbi Buckman envisions the
Academy as a school that will produce
"passionate, committed Jews —
mentshes as well as mavens."
The school will be entirely co-edu-
cational, in religious as well as secular
classes, he said. Its curriculum will be
approximately 60 percent general
studies and 40 percent Judaic studies.
Each day will start with three separate
minyanim, one each for students iden-
tified with the Reform, Conservative
and Orthodox movements.
The teenage years are a time of ques-
tioning, of seeking a way of life that
makes sense, Rabbi Buckman said.
"We want them to learn Mishnah
and Talmud with the same level of
seriousness that they learn physics and
biology," he said. "When they ask
those questions, our answers will be
based not on what's in vogue, but on
wisdom based on centuries of God-
inspired laws."
For at least its first year, the
Academy will be housed at the D.
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Dan and Betty Kahn Building
of the Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan Detroit
in West Bloomfield. Eventually,
the school envisions having its
own building elsewhere on the
200-acre Eugene and Marcia
Applebaum Jewish Community
Campus.
Between 30 and 50 ninth-
and 10th-grade students will be
accepted for the 2000-2001
school year, Rabbi Buckman
said. 7
The Jewish Academy of
Metropolitan Detroit plans more
informational meetings through-
out the Detroit. area. dot. irifoi-;.
mation, call (248)" 5925
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Help Wanted
Jewish education
workgroups grapple
with attracting
quality teachers.
hen the Jewish Academy of
Metropolitan ID t d't opens
next fall, it will be c
teachers with more than 24'
local Jewish schools, both su
mentary and day schools.
Finding and retaining qu.
Jewish educators for these sc
has been a perennial challe ri
Harlene Appelman, direct \b`
Federadon's Alliance for
Education.
"The more we scratch the surface,
the more we realize that we need
more educators," Appelman said.
"We are looldng at increasing the
sources for Jewish educators but we
don't haNre enough young people
going into the field."
Since January, FADE wo rk
have been analyzing the
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Jewish educ.ation at all levels,' from
preschool though adult education.
The workgroups, made up of about
80 community members, v\Till present
their first round of recommendations
to the M Alliance on Nov. 4,
Appelman said, The Alliance has set a
target date of late December to sub-
mit its initial recommendations to
the Jewish Federation of
:Metropolitan Detroit.
Jewish communities throughout
the United States are
1 competing for a
ed pool of applicants
who are qualified in
both teaching skills
and Judaica, Appelman
said. And those who
are qualified frequendy
want to stay in the
New York or L,os
Angeles metropolitan
areas.
Rabbi Lee
Perhaps the biggest
Buckman
staffing challenge is in
the area of early child-
hood educ.ation, she added.
"It's an area of high impact and
great opportunity," she said. "If
we do it right, we have a shot at
keeping those families in the
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