Orthodox Jewish girls will get school
An Orthodox Jewish school for girls will open in this South Florida city later this year.
The local Chabad Lubavitch community has agreed to pay $4 million for an old, three-story bank building. Classes are set to begin in the fall, pending a city permit for remodeling.
Many of the students are expected to come from Coral Springs, home to one of the largest Chabad Lubavitch communities in Broward County. Chabad Lubavitch is an Orthodox, Hasidic branch of Judaism that has several synagogues in the county, including one each in Coconut Creek, Plantation and Weston, two in Fort Lauderdale and three in Hollywood.
The Hebrew Academy Community School in Margate, which is run by Chabad, has provided co-educational classes from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade for 20 years.
After eighth grade, girls have been shuttled to private schools in Miami or out of state.
The schools teach secular subjects such as chemistry, algebra and trigonometry, but there is an emphasis on religious studies.
"We called Tampa, Clearwater, Daytona, Orlando, Arkansas, these small Jewish towns that don't have a high school, and we asked, 'What do you do with your girls when they graduate?' " said Rabbi Yossie Denburg of Coral Springs. "They were going to Toronto and Chicago, and then you have to find a place for your child to board."
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-school2007jan20,0,2871091.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-state
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