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port Israel. He talked about a de-
nier's point of view and told the
high-school students they have
two choices: either argue, which
is impossible because deniers
don't want to hear about it, or ed-
ucate others.
"There are still people who
don't accept the Holocaust," said
David Rosen, a North Farming-
ton freshman. "If this continues,
it's going to happen again. We've
seen the pictures and listened
to survivors and there are
still people who can't accept it.
I don't understand why and I
never will. Hopefully, by being
here, we are getting more peo-
ple to think about the Holo-
caust."
This program was the last of
three Jewish Heritage events
sponsored by a Max M. Fisher
Jewish Community Foundation
grant. The first program, A
Taste of Israel, simulated a trip
to the Jewish state. The second,
called World Jews Tonight, gave
the teens an opportunity to ask
rabbis, from the different move-
ments, questions about Ju-
daism. O
Schools Release
`Messianic' Teacher
JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER
W
hen Anat Bross accept-
ed Jesus as the messi-
ah, she felt a sense of
love and understanding.
When some of her employers
found out about her new convic-
tions, she felt rejected.
Within the past two weeks, Ms.
`-,)
Bross, a Southfield resident, was
/-
released from her jobs teaching
Hebrew at Akiva Hebrew Day
School, Congregation B'nai Moshe
and Temple Emanu-El. A believ-
er in "messianic Judaism," she
says she has been discriminated
against because of her new faith.
"I am very happy with my (pri-
vate) life," she said. "But I am not
very happy with the way (the ter-
minations) happened."
Others dispute her claim of dis-
crimination, though, saying school
and congregation administrators
can choose to whom they will ex-
pose children.
"Messianic Jews are a prosely-
tizing organization that seeks to
enroll Jews," said Richard Loben-
thal, director of the Michigan Re-
gion, Anti-Defamation League.
\-)
"The
Jewish schools have a right
/--
to say they don't want them
teaching."
Although all Americans are
protected from discrimination
based on religion, institutions
such as synagogues and religious
schools are exempt from hiring
laws that forbid such bias, ac-
cording to Title VII of the federal
civil rights law. In other words, a
\--2
/----- Catholic school cannot be forced
to hire an Evangelical Christian
to teach the dogma of the church.
None of the three Jewish in-
stitutions that released Ms. Bross
have written guidelines about
who can teach in their schools.
Akiva hires gentile as well as Jew-
ish educators to teach secular sub-
jects like math, English and
physics. Religious subjects are
taught by Jews.
"I don't think we need a poli-
cy saying you have to be Jewish
to teach certain subjects," Akiva
executive director Barry Eisen-
berg said, adding that Ms. Bross
lost her tutorial job due to cut-
backs. "You come into an Ortho-
dox day school and you can expect
certain things."
"Our guideline is that we don't
allow 'messianic Jews' to teach at
our school," said Rabbi Elliot
Pachter of Congregation B'nai
Moshe.
"There is not a hard and fast
rule," Temple Emanu-El senior
Rabbi Lane Steinger said. "Most
of our faculty is Jewish and the
people who teach for us have to
belong to a recognized congrega-
tion."
Loren Jacobs, the local mes-
sianic spiritual leader, says his
congregation of 40 families meets
every Saturday to worship in a
rented space at Northwestern
Baptist Church in Southfield.
The group observes holidays
like Passover, Yom Kippur and
Rosh Hashanah, and Mr. Jacobs
refers to himself as "rabbi" and
performs ritual immersions he
equates to using a mikvah. The
immersions occur when a new
member joins the congregation
and accepts Jesus.
The difference that separates
messianics from other Jews, he
says, is the belief that Jesus was
the messiah.
All messianic holiday observa-
tions invoke Jesus' name. At
Passover, the messianic Jews' ser-
vices equate holes in the matzah
with the holes in Jesus' hands and
feet, caused when he was cruci-
fied.
"We feel discriminated against
because you can be a Jew and an
agnostic, no problem. You can be
a Jew and an atheist, no problem;
Jewish and gay or lesbian, again
no problem," he said. "But the mo-
ment you think that a rabbi who
is a descendant of King David is
the messiah, you are not Jewish."
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