Sixty
Years

THE JENVISEI NE

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SERVING DETROIT'S JEWISH COMMUNITY

SEPTEMBER 26, 1986 / 22 ELUL 5746

Interfaith Symposium
Stresses Reconciliation

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Organizers of U-D meetings pleased despite
disruption at one workshop

DAVID HOLZEL

Staff Writer

A public "trialogue" was opened
Sept. 17 between Jews, Christians
and Muslims at a day-long confer-
ence organized by the Greater De-
troit Interfaith Round Table, and
held on the campus of the University
of Detroit.
The amicable tenor of the sym-
posium — "Respect and Reconcilia-

Money, Vote
Not Enough

ALAN HITSKY

News Editor

Former Detroiter Marc Pearl
wants your money and your vote.
But more importantly, he wants
your political activism.
Pearl, the American Jewish
Congress' Washington liaison, came
back to his native Detroit last week
to argue against "single-issue poli-
tics" — and to attend a baby naming
at Temple Beth El. But dearest to
his heart is his stumping for the re-
birth of political activism within the
Jewish community. Speaking at a

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tion among the Abrahamic Reli-
gions" — was broken briefly during
a workshop on terrorism.
In all, the 150 people attended
the day of workshops, small-group
discussions and addresses by the
three conference leaders — Dr. Muz-
zammiel Siddiqi, Dr. R. Marston
Speight and Rabbi Marc H. Tanen-
baum.
Speaking on Our Common
Heritage," Dr. Siddiqi, director of
the Islamic Society of Orange
County, California, drew a long list
of commonalities. between the three
religions: a belief in the same God,
common Semitic beginnings, a con-
cern for law and ethical behavior
and a reference "to the same land

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