Israeli Principals' Seminar includes
senior educators from Hillel Day School
and Yeshiva Beth Yehudah.

aa

a M

a al av

PS:

IA

sgg

Barbara and Michael Horowitz

offer Jewish day-school

administrators participation in

Bar-Ilan summer program.

SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN
Sta Writer

program established at
Bar-Ilan University in
Ramat-Gan, Israel, soon
will make its way to stu-
dents in local day schools through
their administrators, thanks to the
help of a West Bloomfield couple.
"We are the largest center of
Jewish studies in the world," said
Les Goldstein, the Bloomfield
Township-based midwest executive
director of Bar-Ilan University.
The school's 26,000 students are
offered several hundred Judaic stud-

o x, a,a-Ar

ies courses in cultural and religious
areas, from Yiddish to Jewish philos-
ophy to archaeology "We have-this
expertise, but w,e're 7,000 miles
away" from the United States,
Goldstein said.
Established to make that connec-
tion was the Rabbi Dr. Joseph H.
Lookstein Center for Jewish
Education in the Diaspora, housed
at Bar-Ilan's School of Education.
The two-year-old Israeli
Principals' Seminar at Lookstein
Center partners Jewish educators in
Israel with senior educators in
schools throughout the world.
Drawing on the Jewish and academ-

is resources of Bar-Ilan, the program
combines educational theory with
practical applications relevant to dif-
fering Jewish educational systems in
communities worldwide. The focus
is on leadership, and teacher and
curriculum development.
Last year when the seminar held
its first summer program, it had no
Detroit-area participants.
This year, longtime Bar-Ilan sup-
porters Barbara Horowitz, president
of Detroit Friends of Bar-Ilan
University, and her husband,
Michael, executive board member
and leadership development chair,
made funding possible for two local

educators. The gift was made in
memory of Michael's parents, Louis
and Helen Horowitz, who began
the- family's involvement with Bar-
Ilan in the early 1960s.

Detroiters In Israel

The Horowitzes' generosity made it
possible for Susan Colbert, general
studies principal at Yeshiva Beth
Yehudah in Southfield, and Amittai
Ben Ami, head of Jewish Studies for
kindergarten through fifth grades at
Hillel Day School of Metropolitan
Detroit, to attend the July seminar.
They joined 27 other educators of
various denominations from as far

