 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.In 2005, Hillel Day School shut down its teachers’ union



.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.