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status. Receiving full status is a two-
year process, and the school is slated to
receive full status in May 2001, pro-
vided it meets certain guidelines.
In addition to these four schools, the
Kollel Institute of Greater Detroit/Center
for Advanced Jewish Studies in Oak Park
and the Lubavitch Foundation, which sup-
ports several schools in Oakland County,
also will benefit from the fund. More than
1,900 students are enrolled in the six
institutions.
Cohn said his wish was that funds
go primarily toward Orthodox day
rthodox Jewish day schools
face challenges in many
areas — trying to find and
retain qualified educators,
balance Jewish and secular education,
and keep tuition low enough for all
who want to attend.
A gift of $1 million from U.S.
District Judge Avern L. Cohn of West
Bloomfield will go a long way toward
meeting this last challenge.
Cohn, past president of the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit, has established the
Samuel and Maly Cohn
Millennium Fund, under the
sponsorship of the Federation and
its real estate/banking arm, the
United Jewish Foundation. The
fund is named in memory of
Cohn's paternal grandparents, who
died in 1936.
His grandparents were obser-
vant Orthodox Jews, Cohn said,
who "instilled a sense of respect
in my father, which continued in
me."
That respect has spurred Cohn
to make many contributions
throughout the Jewish communi-
ty. Several years ago, at a banquet
honoring his support of Yeshiva
Beth Yehudah, Cohn said he
looked at the Jewish people as a
symphony orchestra, "and the
U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn
Orthodox community as the violin
section."
"Many parents who believe in the
schools to help ensure that no child is
denied such an education because of
values of Judaism realize that the only
his or her family's inability to pay.
way to perpetuate these values is
The six institutions that will bene-
through a day school education," he
fit from Cohn's contribution are
said recently.
"principal agencies for maintaining
Day schools that will receive tuition
the vitality of the Jewish communi-
assistance from the new fund are
ty," he said.
Yeshiva Gedola in Oak Park, and
The new education fund is similar
Yeshivat Akiva, Yeshivos Darchei Torah
to the Shiffman Family Day School
and Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, all based in
Tuition Assistance Fund created by
Southfield. All are full constituent
Lois and the late Dr. Milton
agencies of Federation, except for
Shiffman of West Bloomfield. As
Darchei Torah, which has provisional