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Sylvia Jordan and Judi Rosen co-chaired the seder.

Coming Together

African-Americans and Jews join hands
to celebrate escapes from slavery to freedom.

LYNNE MEREDITH COHN STAFF WRITER

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food, African-Americans
and Jewish Americans
came together Thursday,
April 10, for the eighth annual
Anti-Defamation League-spon-
sored black-Jewish seder at Tern-

ple Shir Shalom in West Bloom-
field, which combined common
histories of oppression with com-
mon goals for the future.
Shir Shalom Rabbis Dannel
Schwartz and Michael
Moskowitz as well as Pastor Lar-

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ry T. Jordan and the Rev. Carl
Graham of the Family Victory
Fellowship Church in Southfield
participated.
Right:
About eight years
ago, the ADL in New The Family
Victory
York started a black-
Jewish dialogue Fellowship
Church
groups, out of which
Dance
the idea for a seder
Troupe
grew, said Judi celebrated
Rosen, co-chair of at the seder.
the event. "The
seder talks about the escape from
slavery. Perhaps in different
ways, the two groups share this
common bond," she said. "The
seder was begun as another
means to bridge the gap between
the communities, and it's a way
to come together in our similar-
ities and still recognize our
uniqueness."
The seder mixed the Four
Questions, prayers and tradi-
tional seder plate with "relevant
passages from the Rev. Martin
Luther King, Jr., Archbis
hop Desmond Tutu, Anne Frank
and Peter Fischl [a 15-year-old
Holocaust victim]," Ms. Rosen
said.
'With so many things dividing
us, this event is a meaningful and
invigorating way to keep our eyes
on the prize of the eradication of
racism and anti-Semitism," said
Leonard Sahn, president of the The Rev. Carl Graham, Rabbi Dannel Schwartz, Penny Steyer, Pastor Larry Jordan
and Rabbi Michael Moskowitz lead the black-Jewish seder.
Michigan ADL board. ❑