75ยข DETROIT THE JEWISH NEWS 20 NISAN 5754/APRIL 1, 1994 Celebrating Freedom Top Gun HEALTH An interfaith seder brings blacks and Jews together to reaffirm commitments. A howitzer finds a home at Machpelah Cemetery. Walk On! JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER ALLAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR Friendship and fitness develop step by step. Page 38 Coffee Talk Brothers hope a successful new business is brewing. Page 48 ALTERNATIVES From The Tap Bartenders play friend, therapist and entertainer. Page 87 Contents on page 3 Hundreds of Jewish boys in metropolitan Detroit are Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts, working on merit badges and achievement awards. he voices of over 300 blacks and Jews were overwhelmingly power- ful. They joined in hand and in song to the tune of "We Shall Overcome" at the culmination of the fifth annual Black- Jewish Seder. The entire evening made a state- ment. By its end, phone numbers were ex- changed, bonds were formed and the response to the evening was positive praise. The seder, held at Temple Israel on March 24 and sponsored by the Anti- Defamation League and the South Oakland National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is part of an ongoing effort to encourage understanding and dialogue between the black and Jewish communities. Temple Israel and Trinity-Faith United Methodist Church were this year's co-celebrants, but the event was open to the public. "Each seder you see the same faces but you also see some different faces," said Bingham Farms resident Ted J Wells. "It's a learning process that allows you to see the commonalities between the two groups. There's really not a big difference. We're both shoot- ing for freedom." Throughout the seder, members of both communities were invited to lead various parts of the Passover service, which was written to incorporate an overall message of freedom. Richard Lobenthal, the Michigan di- rector of the Anti-Defamation League, ust about everybody on U.S. 23 was stopping to look. The truck, tugging its heavy cargo en route to Detroit, was just the kind of thing to attract attention. It isn't every day that a 13,000-pound howitzer passes by. The cannon's history dates back to the 1960s, when it was used in Vietnam. Then it was put aside in an empty lot in Pennsylvania, where it sat for years. Finally, it found a home in Michigan. Several weeks ago, Machpelah Cemetery placed the howitzer in its veterans section. It will stand as a trib- ute to the fallen soldiers, making Machpelah one of the few cemeteries in the state to own a former piece of Army artillery. "When I took over, the most that had ever been done was placing the flags on graves on Memorial Day," said Machpelah manager Paul Saville. "I always thought something should be erected for the veterans." Someone suggested a granite mon- ument. Mr. Saville feared "it would be too cold." FREEDOM page 10 TOP GUN page 15 Photo by Glenn Triest Inside Marc Days and the Rev. Ed Einem participate in the seder.