Metro
Orchard Lake Fine Art Show
July 25-27, 2008
Holding The Line from page A13
related to the April fire at Hechtman
H Apartments. The merger of JAS
and Jewish Home & Aging Services
is expected to be completed by
December.
The Schools
• Yeshivat Akiva enrollment is
expected to increase from 309 last
year to 313 this year because of a new
program for 2-year-olds. Tuition is
$7,040-$10,975, a 7.5 percent increase.
• Hillel Day School's enrollment for
2007-08 was 578, compared to 592
in 2006-07. Tuition is increasing 6.5
percent for 2008-09, from $13,840 to
$14,740. This year, Hillel provided $2.1
million in scholarship support, with
the average grant exceeding $9,000.
• The Frankel Jewish Academy had
225 students enrolled in 2007-08,
compared to 212 in 2006-07. Tuition
will increase 6 percent, from $16,300
to $17,700.
• Yeshiva Beth Yehudah had 701
students enrolled. Tuition will increase
3.5 percent, in a range from $5,500 to
$8,600. The school projects deficits of
$226,000 for 2007-08 and $258,000 for
2008-09. It provides scholarship assis-
tance for 80 percent of its students and
17 of its families had the main wage-
earner lose his job last year.
• Yeshivas Darchei Torah had 326
students last year. Tuition will go up
2 percent, and ranges from $5,000 to
$7,075. Its teachers, according to the
Federation report, are the lowest paid
in the community. There is no pension
plan and they receive a token amount
for catastrophic health insurance. The
school projects a small surplus for
2007-08, which will be used to offset
previous deficits.
• Yeshiva Gedolah had 87 students
last year; 79 were from families in the
Detroit area. It expects enrollment
of 83 this year. Tuition will increase
2 percent, from $7,700 to $8,000. A
$41,000 projected surplus for 2007-08
will be used to reduce debt.
Overseas Needs
Support for national agencies and
dues for United Jewish Communities
totaled $526,000, which includes a
decreaseof $100,000 in UJC dues next
year negotiated by the Federation.
The board of governors allocated
$9.2 million for core services to Jewish
communities overseas provided
through the Jewish Agency for Israel,
the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee, ORT and the UJC. In Israel,
the Social Welfare Ministry reports that
one out of three Israeli children is living
below the poverty line.
Detroit's elective programs overseas
received $1.8 million: Partnership
2000 in the central Galilee, Parents
and Children Together in Netanya for
1,300 Ethiopian-Israeli pre-school
children, three extended school-day
programs for 500 Israeli children, the
Youth Futures program in Central
Galilee, the Jewish Renewal program at
the Hillel in Kiev, Ukraine.
Programs in northern Israel and the
western Galilee received $3.1 million
from the Sakwa Challenge Fund and
$2.2 million from the Danto Family
Israel Emergency Fund. An additional
$582,000 was allocated for Federation's
Israel Services offices in Detroit
and Jerusalem and the Community
.Shlichut program.
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Daniela Ovtrharov, Painting
BO award winning artists on the beautiful grounds of Orchard Lake St. Mary's
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July 24 • 2008
Educator Who Mentored
Bible Scholars Is Feted
T
he Harold Grinspoon
Foundation and the Jewish
Life Network-Steinhardt
Foundation have named Rabbi
Pinchas Amior of Southfield as a
Grinspoon-Steinhardt winner. He
teaches at Yeshivat Akiva, Southfield.
The award recog-
nizes, honors and
supports outstand-
ing Jewish educators
in North America.
Recipients receive
$1,000 in cash plus
$1,500 toward pro-
Rabbi Amior
fessional develop-
ment as well as a trip to New York City
for an awards ceremony in October.
Amior has been involved in Jewish
education for 27 years. He teaches
Talmud and Hebrew language to
middle and high school students. He
also teaches Chidon (International
Bible Contest), an academic decathlon
demonstrating mastery of the Tanach
(Hebrew Bible).
This year in the contest in Israel,
two of Rabbi Amior's students finished
in the top eight internationally. They
were Dovi Nadel, 15, and Elizabeth
Goldmeier, 18. ❑