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A Time For Healing
The community plans for a World AIDS Day commemoration.
JENNIFER FINER STAFF WRITER
"People don't have to identify
if or how they've been affected."
—Edwina Davis
n the first day of December, hon- the community, and specifically Jews, has
ored around the globe as World come a long way in realizing that the dis-
AIDS Day, seven rabbis and a ease isn't confined to the gay community,
handful of cantors from Orthodox, others believe Jews have a long way to go
Conservative and Reform congregations toward acceptance.
will lead a community-wide healing ser-
Beth Abraham Hillel Moses' Rabbi
vice at the Maple-Drake Jewish Commu- Aaron Bergman, the keynote speaker, sees
nity Center.
progress. He feels Jews recognize the
"This is a setting where people don't scope of the disease and that people, for
have to identify if or how they've been af- the most part, realize it can affect anyone.
fected by AIDS," said Edwina Davis, the
"Are we making strides? Not entirely,"
executive director of the Michigan Jewish said Linda Lee, president of MJAC.
AIDS Coalition (MJAC), one of the spon- "[MJAC] has a parent who was still say-
sors of the event. "We hope there will also ing Kaddish for a child she lost to AIDS,
be people there who are not affected by and someone commented [without know-
AIDS but care about those who have been ing the circumstances] that [this woman's]
touched by the disease."
son died because of his choice of lifestyle."
The program, which begins at 2 p.m.,
Rabbi Bergman, who said AIDS has
features a memorial prayer, youth-group touched someone close to him, plans to
choirs and a candlelighting for families discuss at the Sunday, Dec. 1, program
who have lost loved ones to AIDS.
the Jewish theology of illness and how the
Both campuses of the JCC will display ill should be treated. He said that as Jews
sections of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Each we have an obligation to visit the ill and
panel was created to memorialize a vic- make sure their physical and emotional
tim of the disease.
needs are met.
Event organizers are seeking donations
"This is a good time for those people
of hygiene products, blankets, and sweat who are affected in some way by AIDS
outfits and other warm clothing items that to pause, to be together and to feel a con-
will be given to people living with AIDS nection between themselves and those
as Chanukah gifts.
who are also affected," said Rabbi
While some involved with the event say Bergman.
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