Hillel Day School

Hillel Day School, named after the Jewish religious leader, sage and scholar Hillel, is an independent Pre-K – 8 Jewish day school in Farmington Hills, Michigan, a city in the Detroit metropolitan area. Founded in 1958, it was the first non-Orthodox Jewish school in Michigan. It provides both secular and Judaic studies instruction for students from preschool through eighth grade.

Hillel Day School
Address
32200 Middlebelt Road

Farmington Hills
,
Michigan
48334

United States
Coordinates42°31′24″N 83°20′23″W
Information
Other namesHillel Day School of Metropolitan Detroit, Hillel
TypeIndependent Jewish day school
Motto″Mind and soul. Better together.″
Religious affiliation(s)Jewish
DenominationNon-denominational
Established1958 (1958)
FounderRabbi Jacob Segal
NCES School ID00641984[1]
HeadmasterNathan "Naty" Katz (interim)
GradesPre-K – 8
GenderCoed
Enrollment581[2] (2017-2018)
Campus size11 acres
Campus typeSuburban
AccreditationsNAIS via ISACS[3]
Websitewww.hillelday.org

History

Early years

The Hillel Day School was established in the fall of 1958, after a long period of planning, by a group of Detroit educators, Rabbis and leaders of the community.[4][5] The group was spearheaded by Rabbi Jacob Segal, who was consequently recognized as the founder of the school and its honorary life president.[6][7]

The school began with 29 students in the kindergarten and first grade,[8] a further grade being added each following year.[9] By 1960 it grew into a modern elementary day school with 51 students in kindergarten and three grades[10] which combined Hebraic-religious and general studies under the spiritual influence of Conservative Judaism and Zionism.[11] By 1963, enrollment was 115 students in grades K-6.[12] By 1966, Hillel grew up into a K-9 school and, in 1967, held the commencement exercises for its first graduating ninth grade. The next year's graduates were the first students that completed ten years of education at Hillel, from kindergarten at school's founding in 1958 to ninth grade.[13]

1970s-1990s

In 1970 Hillel moved to its current home in Farmington Hills. The school rapidly grew: the total enrollment went from 270 in 1970[14] to 533 in 1989[15] to 636 in 1992 (at this enrollment level, the school had to use portable classrooms)[16] and to 712 in 1997.[17] The school's growth was partially due to the inflow of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union: in 1979, Hillel had 20,[18] and in 1992, 49[19] Russian students.

Hillel was recognized at the time as "a crown jewel of Conservative Judaism in Detroit" because it offered Jewish education "in a form more palatable to some for whom the Beth Yehuda seemed too oldworld".[20] However, it was only in 1979 that Hillel formally affiliated with the Schechter Day School Network of schools that identify with Conservative Judaism.[21]

Hillel went on as a K-9 school for 22 years from 1968 until 1988. Sometime around 1980 the ninth grade became the entry point for local public high schools, and enrollment to Hillel's ninth grade dropped. In 1988, Hillel Day School held graduation exercises for its last graduating ninth grade class.[22] Since then, Hillel continued as a K-8 school.

Recent years

In 2000s Hillel's enrollment tapered, from more than 760 in 2001[23] to 596 in 2005.[24] The school reacted to this with several changes.

In 2008, Hillel broke off the Schechter network and reestablished itself as a community (or, non-denominational) RAVSAK Jewish day school[25][26] to better attract Reform and non-religious Jewish families.

In 2010, Hillel opened the Early Childhood Center, providing in its inaugural year full- and half-day programs for 69 pre-K students.[27] In March 2013, in its third year of operation, Hillel's ECC became the first licensed early childhood center or preschool in the Farmington or West Bloomfield area to receive a rating under the Michigan's "Great Start to Quality" program. Under the program — Michigan's new rating and improvement system for state preschools — area preschools can earn up to five stars; Hillel ECC received four stars.[28] In 2019, the school expanded its ECC facility and started the year with 173 pre-K students.[29] However, while the ECC grew, the school's K-8 population in 2010s was still on the decline: from 550 students in 2010[30] to 441 in 2017.[31]

In 2017–2018, Hillel held a series of alumni and community events in celebration of its 60-year anniversary.[32][33]

Governance

Hillel Day School is a private, non-profit corporation administered by a headmaster, who in turn acts under the direction of a board of trustees. In 2009, Hillel changed its governance from the original "membership model", in which parent members elected the board, to a directorship model (self-perpetuating board), in which current board members select their own replacements.[34]

Teachers' union controversy

In 2005, Hillel Day School shut down its teachers’ union[35] [36] [37] [38] .[39] The controversial move followed a Michigan Court of Appeals ruling to block union organizers at a Roman Catholic Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, from joining the Michigan Education Association.[40] Both schools (and many more religious schools across the country) used the same precedent to de-unionize their teachers: the National Labor Relations Board v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1979. In that case, the court ruled that the lay teachers at religious schools are exempt from the federal collective bargaining agreement.[41]

At the time, Hillel Day School belonged to Schechter Day School Network of Jewish day schools that identify with Conservative Judaism. Many conservative rabbis criticized Hillel's decision to no longer recognize its teachers’ union for the purposes of collective bargaining. Among them was Rabbi David Nelson, religious leader of the Conservative synagogue Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park, Michigan, who said if “you understand Jewish law, you have to have sensitivity toward the working person”.[42] Rabbi Jill Jacobs defended the rights of workers to unionize and authored conservative movement's top lawmaking body 2008 teshuvah, or religious legal ruling, dealing with unionization and other related employment issues.[43][44]

Admissions

Since 2004, Hillel offers "lateral entry" to prospective sixth grade students who didn't have any prior Jewish education. New students are placed in separate Hebrew classes, but are otherwise integrated into the general Hillel curriculum. Prior to that, students were strongly encouraged to enter Hillel by second grade because of the school's rigorous Judaic studies component.[45]

Hillel requires student's complete vaccination as a condition of admission and continuous enrollment. In 2015, when Michigan had one of the country's highest rate of vaccination waivers, Hillel declared it would no longer accept a religious or philosophical waiver from parents who refuse to vaccinate. Jewish authorities justify vaccination by the Jewish law principle of pikuach nefesh, which holds that the preservation of human life overrides virtually any other religious rule. "As a religious school, we can determine whether refusal of the vaccine has any religious merit, and we decided it does not," Hillel's headmaster Freedman said.[46]

Cost of attendance

Tuition for the 2014–2015 academic year ranged from $11,280 for kindergarten to $17,975 for grades 1–8. In 2013–2014, 54 percent of the school's 564 students received financial aid.[47]

Curriculum

From its founding, the school teaches Jewish and secular subjects in a dual curriculum.[48] The Jewish curriculum includes modern Hebrew, Jewish history, Jewish prayers and holidays, the Tanakh, and Rabbinic literature. The secular curriculum follows the Michigan Department of Education academic standards.

In 2012, Prof. Andries Coetzeea from University of Michigan Linguistics Department sat in on a Hillel's 7th grade Hebrew class. The class was taught exclusively in Hebrew, except for the occasional English explanation for Andries's sake. In spite of the fact that Andries has an MA degree in Biblical Hebrew, the 7th grade Hillel students had a better command of the Hebrew language than he did.[49]

Hillel students celebrate both American and Jewish holidays. In 2013, the first day of Hanukkah coincided with Thanksgiving. It is a rare event: the last time it happened was 1888. Hillel students integrated the two holidays — creating paper-and-paint mashups of menorahs and turkeys, and the birds combined with dreidels. In the school's library there was colorful poster designed to provoke thoughts about the convergent holidays: Under a Thanksgivvukah headline are several questions, including "How are Thanksgiving and Hanukkah alike?" Saul Rube, Hillel's dean of Judaic studies, said the light-hearted combinations of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah icons underscore a deeper bond: The Talmud, one of Judaism's core texts, describes Hanukkah as a "holiday of thanksgiving."[50]

In 2006, the school added an eighth-grade Israel trip to the curriculum.[51]

Campus

The school opened in 1958 with a kindergarten and first grade in the facilities of the Hayim Greenberg Center at 19161 Schaefer, Detroit.[52] In the next twelve years, Hillel rented space from various Jewish organisations:

In 1960, the school relocated to United Hebrew Schools at 18977 Schaefer, Detroit.[53] In 1962, the school moved to the Jewish Center, later known as Jimmy Prentis Morris Branch of the Jewish Community Center, at 15110 Ten Mile, Oak Park.[54] In 1963, Hillel moved to Congregation B’nai Moshe.[55]

German School historic building at the entrance to Hillel Day School on Middlebelt Road in Farmington Hills. The building, erected c. 1870, is listed in the Register of Michigan State Historic Sites.

The era of renting came to an end in 1968, when the school broke ground on an 11-acre site in Farmington Hills.[56] (Interesting fact: the site included the c.1870 single-room historic German School house.) In 1970, a 20-room new school building was ready and Hillel moved to its current home at 32200 Middlebelt Road in Farmington Hills,[57] with 270 students. By 1979 the school added another four classrooms. Due to increasing enrollment and overcrowding, in 1983 the school had to start using portable classrooms.[58] In 1986, the school added 12 more classrooms and a multi-purpose room for special events.[59]

In 1996, an $8 million expansion and renovation added to the school a new media center, a gym,[60] and a new school wing including the 7-8 learning community on the second floor.[61] In 2006, a $4 million expansion added to the school a bigger gym doubling as a theater with 800 seats capacity, along with a new lobby, offices, and an outside playing field.[62]

In 2014–2017, the school underwent an extensive renovation, funded by the William and Audrey Farber Philanthropic Endowment Fund. The renovation, designed by Prakash Nair, a school architect based in Tampa, Florida, included the "Central Heart" (an open space with a presentation platform and capacity for 300 people), the "Innovation Hub" with an art studio, science lab, a greenhouse, an audio-video studio and a makerspace, and the cafe and kitchen in place of the old small gym. The existing main hallways lined with lockers and classrooms were demolished to the shell, and the spaces redesigned to create the K-2 David and Nanci Farber Learning Community, the 3-6 William Davidson Learning Community, and the 7-8 Learning Community.[63][64][65][66][67]

The latest addition to the school happened in 2019, when the school expanded its Early Childhood Center wing.[68]

Notable alumni

See also
  • History of the Jewish people in Detroit

Notes
  1. NCES 2019-11-17
  2. NCES 2019-11-17
  3. ISACS: Search for a School
  4. Detroit Jewish News 1958-05-16
  5. Abramson 1965
  6. Cohen 2003, p. 286
  7. Detroit Jewish News 1966-06-10
  8. Jewish News 2018-04-26
  9. Detroit Jewish News 1958-05-16
  10. Jewish News 2018-04-26
  11. Michigan Jewish History 1960-11
  12. Jewish News 2018-04-26
  13. Detroit Jewish News 1968-06-14
  14. Detroit Jewish News 1960-05-13
  15. Detroit Jewish News 1990-10-05, p.102
  16. Jewish News 2018-04-26
  17. Detroit Jewish News 1997-09-12
  18. Detroit Jewish News 1979-10-05
  19. Detroit Jewish News 1992-08-21
  20. Bolkosky 1991, p. 404
  21. Jewish News 2018-04-26
  22. Detroit Jewish News 1988-05-13
  23. Detroit Jewish News 2001-09-07
  24. Detroit Jewish News 2005-09-22
  25. Forward 2012-01-23
  26. Jewish News 2018-04-26
  27. Oakland Press 2019-08-29
  28. Patch 2013-03-19
  29. Oakland Press 2019-08-29
  30. Jewish News 2011-06-16
  31. NCES 2019-11-17
  32. 2017-12-13 C&G Newspapers
  33. Jewish News 2018-04-26
  34. Jewish News 2013-06-23
  35. Detroit Jewish News 2005-08-25
  36. Forward 2005-09-02
  37. Michigan Education Report 2005-12-15
  38. Jewish Exponent 2014-04-09
  39. Times of Israel 2014-11-08
  40. Michigan Education Report 2005-12-15
  41. Jewish Exponent 2014-04-09
  42. Forward 2005-09-02
  43. Forward 2005-09-02
  44. Times of Israel 2014-11-08
  45. Detroit Jewish News 2004-01-16
  46. Jewish News 2015-02-05
  47. Jewish News 2014-02-23
  48. Detroit Jewish News 1958-05-16
  49. Patch 2012-10-18
  50. NBC 2013-11-25
  51. Jewish News 2018-04-26
  52. Detroit Jewish News 1958-05-16
  53. Detroit Jewish News 1960-05-13
  54. Detroit Jewish News 1962-09-14
  55. Jewish News 2018-04-26
  56. Detroit Free Press 1968-12-14
  57. Detroit Jewish News 1970-05-15
  58. Detroit Jewish News 1985-06-07
  59. Detroit Jewish News 1986-09-26
  60. Detroit Jewish News 1996-11-01
  61. Jewish News 2018-04-26
  62. Detroit Jewish News 2005-10-20
  63. Hometown Life 2016-09-06
  64. Jewish News 2016-08-26
  65. Jewish News 2014-02-23
  66. The Journal 2014-03-24
  67. Jewish News 2018-04-26
  68. Oakland Press 2019-08-29

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  • Applebaum, Elizabeth (21 August 1992). "Back To School Means Changes At Day Schools". The Detroit Jewish News. p. 34. Retrieved 29 November 2019. Hillel has enrolled 25 new Russians, for a total of 49. ... The school is adding a second portable classroom this fall.
  • Wiener, Julie (12 September 1997). "Steady Growth". The Detroit Jewish News. p. 37. Retrieved 29 November 2019. Hillel's student body now numbers 712, a 4.5 percent increase from last year's 684 students.
  • Hitsky, Alan (13 May 1988). "Hillel Cancels Ninth Grade For 1988-89 School Year". The Detroit Jewish News. p. 5. Retrieved 29 November 2019. The on-again, off-again ninth grade at Hillel Day School for the 1988-89 school year is permanently off. ... In recent years, while the school's overall enrollment had climbed, ninth grade enrollment had fluctuated from 10-15, generally dropping over the last decade as ninth grade became the entry point for area public high schools.
  • Lieberman, Diana (7 September 2001). "Down To The Wire. Hillel Day School teacher contract still debated". The Detroit Jewish News. p. 17. Retrieved 29 November 2019. Hillel began classes at its Farmington Hills campus on Aug. 27 with more than 760 students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
  • Liebman Dorfman, Shelli (22 September 2005). "Kids For Katrina". The Detroit Jewish News. p. 25. Retrieved 29 November 2019. Hillel provided 200 backpacks filled with school essentials as part of Project Yalkut, which asked Jewish schools throughout the country to help. To keep organized — and to allow the entire Hillel student body of 596 students to help — each grade was assigned specific items to bring in.
  • Lieberman, Diana (16 June 2011). "Weighing The Options". The Jewish News. p. 10. Retrieved 29 November 2019. Hillel had 550 students this year and expects about 520-525 in September. These numbers are deceiving, Freedman said, because the 2011 graduating class of 73 eighth-graders is the last large class in a population bump; the norm for each of the coming classes is somewhere in the 50s.
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