[etni] Private secular-religious school opens in Ra'anana

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Private secular-religious school opens in Ra'anana
Haaretz - August 29, 2003

It's Wednesday morning, less than a week before the school year starts, and
Hedva Fensterheim has received six phone calls this week; Robyn Gross
received three phone calls on Tuesday alone, as did Michele Kaplan-Green.
The three women, all Anglo immigrants, are comparing notes on how many
parents have called them about enrolling their children in "Meitarim
Ra'anana," the new junior and senior high school which will open in the city
on Monday, at the start of the new academic year.
"We've been flooded with calls," says Fensterheim, a former New Yorker who
chairs the non-profit body Parents for Pluralistic Education, which is
setting up the school. "The level of interest is increasing by the day. And
this is without advertising - just through word of mouth."
The enthusiasm for Meitarim Ra'anana, which the three women possess in
sackfuls, is because no other school in the area is offering quite the same
mix of Jewish and general studies in an "open environment," says
Fensterheim, who is Orthodox and wears a large hat. Jewishly pluralistic,
and with a strong emphasis on Jewish learning, the private school is being
established by local parents who have been unsatisfied with the education
their children have been receiving to date.

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