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Leonhard Chrobot, president of
St. Mary's College of Orchard
Lake and Gales' co-chairman
on the task force.
Many Poles were outraged by
the portrayal in the film of
Polish peasants who were
passive, even gleeful, witnesses
to genocide. "The attitude of
some Jews is that Polish anti-
Semitism was one of the causes
of the Holocaust," Fr. Chrobot
said. "For Poles, the Nazi oc-
cupation of Poland was the
most severe of the war. It was
punishable by death to help a
Jew. lb imply that Poles were
in some way responsible for the
Holocaust is unfair."
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hat motivates and
energizes the inter-
faith coalition? Jews
and Catholics seem to have
divergent opinions.
"It is a political alignment
that has created good rela-
tions," said Philip Slomovitz.
"Sometimes you have issues
where you want others to stand
up," added David Wolock,
Wayne County assistant pro-
secutor and a Jewish Com-
munity Council executive
board member. "We're not an
island and there are times
when you don't want to stand
alone."
"From our perspective, we
feel we have to love one
another," Fr. Britt said. "As
Catholics, we have'deep tradi-
tional roots in Jewish history.
We want to give and take in
terms of our growth spiritual-
ly."
Despite these differing points
of origin and millenia of enmi-
ty, American Jews and
Catholics seem to have found a
common language. That
"language," Judge Shepherd
hints, is through the medium of
the veteran Jewish and
Catholic institutional struc-
tures. "Our institutions have a
memory and recognize the im-
portance of intergroup rela-
tions."
So is the Jewish-Catholic
dialogue, after all, merely a
dialogue between bureaucra-
cies, as postulated by Howard
Singer in his article "The Rise
and Fall of Interfaith Dialogue"
in the May 1987 issue of Com-
mentary? Do the coalitions and
bridge-building task link the
masses of American Jews and
Catholics, or just their
institutions?
Fr. Brunet believes the
dialogue has reached the
masses. "In Detroit the dia-
logue has been on the local
level and not on the bureau-
cratic level!' Catholic liturgy
has been changed to reflect the
new understanding of Jews and
Judaism, he said. And he, per-
sonally, has spoken to Jews in
their synagogues.
But Fr. Chrobot is "not
satisfied that we've reached the
masses!' His local dialogues
consist of only 15 to 20
"leaders" meeting four or five
times a year. "We need to get
the word out to the masses bet-
ter!'
With all the differing points
of view, simmering animosities
and diverging agendas, why
continue to pursue interfaith
understanding? What does
anyone, Jew or Catholic, get out
of it? Rabbi Rudin, of the
American Jewish Committee,
answered simply and starkly:
"We're living in the United
States, which is increasingly a
pluralistic society, and we have
to have intergroup stability and
pluralistic pleace. We don't
want to become another Nor-
thern Ireland or a Lebanon!"
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to figure in the costs vs. benefits
and the possibility of building
at another site.
Although final figures are not
yet available, FAS staff believe
the Adventure Center has
boosted the enrollment of
younger children of new
families at Tamarack Camps
this summer. FAS has begun a
study of the first ten weeks of
the program, which showed
2,626 children and 1,576 non-
Jewish children used the
Adventure Center's
playground, petting zoo, arts
and crafts programs and other
facilites.
However, the Adventure
Center did not achieve one of its
primary goals. "It did not
become a rallying place to get
teens out of the shopping
malls," Dr. Krugel said. "We
found the younger children and
the teens mutually exclusive!'
The Jewish Community
Center is working to develop
programs for the teens. Dr. Mor-
ton Plotnick, executive vice
president of the JCC, said teen
programs being planned for the
fall include a Council of Teen
Organizations, which would
"help kids' groups do what they
want more effectively!'
The JCC is working with the
B'nai B'rith Youth Organiza-
tion to create a youth program
for junior high school students.
Plotnick said the Center is also
planning additional sports
leagues and activities for teens
at both the Maple/Drake
Center and the Morris Branch.
"Between 200 and 400 teens
use the Jewish Community
Center now," Dr. Plotnick said,
"and our teen use goes up in the
summer!"
Dr. Krugel admitted that
there was some inter-agency
rivalry over the Adventure
Center program. "But we've
had some preliminary discus-
sions with Mort Plotnick and
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