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Our Day Schools

There is a special sense of nachas, or pride,
that we feel when our children or grandchil-

dren attend one of our community's day
schools. These students get something

extra from their hours at school: a compre-
hensive understanding of what it means
to be Jewish.

Along with instruction in math, history and
the language arts, as kids get everywhere,
students in our Jewish day schools learn
about Torah and commentaries. Because
becoming computer literate is only part of a
contemporary Jewish child's education —
they need to become Jewishly literate.

Your contribution to Federation's Annual
Campaign provides scholarship support to'
help educate 2,257 students in our local day
school system. These fine schools run the
gamut, including Akiva Hebrew Day School,
Yeshivas Darchei Torah, Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit, Yeshiva Beth Yehudah

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and Yeshiva Gedolah. Additionally, our new
multi-stream Jewish Academy of Metropolitan
Detroit is receiving assistance from Federation
as well.

We're proud that so many day school graduates
give back to our community and our people.
We're proud that, through our Annual
Campaign and our endowment efforts,
Federation can help every child who wants
one to get a Jewish day school education.

When your child recites blessings in Hebrew for
the first time, when your grandchild explains
the reason for making up food baskets at
Purim, this is Judaism in practice and deed.
When students show they know what it means
to be Jewish, all of us can feel nachas. And
also proud of our Federation, for investing in
Detroit's Jewish future.

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Visit us on the Web: www.thisisfederation.org

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