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Eventually they earned support from the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. [3] In April 1999, Rabbi Lee Buckman of Congregation Beth Israel (Milwaukee) was named the future school's headmaster. [4] [5] In January 2000 the Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit (JAMD) held an open house, helped by guests from Boston's New Jewish High School.
The school's curriculum is a blend of traditional secular studies and religious studies. The school is a partner agency of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. [1] As of 2012, it is the largest Jewish primary and secondary day school in the Detroit area. [2] The Yeshiva has a companion kollel with 30 postgraduate students. [3]
In the first twelve years, Hillel rented space from various Jewish organisations. The school opened in 1958 with a kindergarten and first grade in the facilities of the Hayim Greenberg Center at 19161 Schaefer Hwy, Detroit. [3] Then, in 1960, the school relocated to United Hebrew Schools at 18977 Schaefer Hwy, Detroit. [10] In 1962, the school ...
The school was designed by Isadore M. Lewis, a Jewish architect who designed a wide array of commercial, industrial, and residential buildings, primarily for Jewish clients. Lewis was born in Appleton, Wisconsin in 1888, and in 1916 moved to Detroit to open his own architectural firm. He practiced in Detroit until at least 1960, and died in ...
Torah Umesorah, the National Society for Hebrew Day Schools, was the first national Jewish organization in the United States to pioneer Jewish day schools within the country. It started to develop these in 1944, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] during World War II and at a time when the United States was at war with the Axis Powers and Europe's Jews were ...
There are 25 Catholic high schools in the Detroit area as of 2015. 24 of those schools belong to the Archdiocese of Detroit.. The current Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Detroit are from Genesee County, Macomb County, Monroe County, Oakland County, St. Clair County, Washtenaw County, and Wayne County.
Both are private, all-male Jesuit schools in Toledo, Ohio. St. John's Jesuit Academy was started as a pilot program with its first class of 30 seventh and 30 eighth graders during the 2004–2005 school year. A sixth grade was added in the 2011–2012 school year and the academy currently enrolls 160 students.
In 1952, the Jewish Theological Seminary opened a new school known as the Cantors Institute. (The school was later renamed the H. L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music.) This was at roughly the same time that the other established American Jewish seminaries, Hebrew Union College and Yeshiva University, opened cantorial schools ...