THE DETROIT
CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT
SCHOLAR IN RESIDENCE
Thursday, May 1- Conservative Movement
Lunch* and Learn
Max M. Fisher Federation Building, 6735 Telegraph Rd.
12:00 lunch, 12:30-1:30 study
for reservations call JTS (810) 258-0055
Women In the Rabbinate (or What Will They Call Your Husband?)
Rabbi Debra Orenstein
Shabbat Morning Services, May 3 Shaarey Zedek • 9:00 A.M.
A Holiness Code for Contemporary Jews
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Sunday, May 4 Women's League for Conservative Judaism
B'nai Moshe • 12:45 P.M. Lunch*
for reservations (810) 788-0600 or (810) 489-0783
New Perspectives on Life Cycle, Spirituality and Gender: A Woman's View
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Friday Evening Shabbat Service and Family* Dinner, May 9
Adat Shalom Synagogue • 6:00 P.M.
The Shema: And You Shall Teach Them To Your Children
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to talking about how the mod-
el needed authentic sails. I
wanted to find him some old
cloth and so called on Skip
Boston of Doyle/Boston Sail
Makers in Mount Clemens
and another sailor, Drew
Moeller."
The two tracked down the
cloth and donated it to Mr.
Bennett. "Even they saw the
absolute parallels between en-
slavement and the Holocaust,"
said Mr. Bennett, 49.
"My wife, Helene, cut out the
sails from the cloth and stained
them in tea to make them look
even older," he explained. "It
was like a little mitzvah for me,
a genesis."
Beyond a large slave ship in
the museum sits Dr. Bland's
smaller slaver, for which the
sails were cut. It catches the
eye with its shiny wood and
polished, shapely curves.
Dr. Bland, 64, who has spent
several years studying slavery
and created a "Bowels of Hell"
exhibit of ships and shackles at
the college, built the ship from
a family heirloom.
"The wood of the ship was
from a chest of drawers that
had been in my family for more
than 100 years. That puts us
back in the period of enslave-
ment, so the model carries the
spirit of that period," he ex-
plained.
A plaque near the slaver ex-
hibit commemorates the Ben-
netts' contribution. Because Dr.
Bland wants to be sure the vis-
itors see the slave quarters be-
neath the sails, the cloth is not
displayed all of the time. He's
especially proud of this partic-
ular model.
"This is a pluralistic world
and we all have our ethnocen-
tric interests. But ultimately we
have to get along," he said. "The
African people must never for-
get the Holocaust. And the Jew-
ish people must never forget the
African people's own Holocaust.
We both have a history that is
based in suffering. That can
help us bridge the lines."U
Friday evening Shabbat Service, May 9
Adat Shalom Young Adult Services • 8:00 P.M.
Israel Diaspora Relations: Beyond Security and Philanthropy
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Shabbat Morning Services, May 10 Adat Shalom Synagogue • 9:00 A.M.
A Holiness Code for Contemporary Jews
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Selected engagements open to the public. For more information, please call the
Jewish Theological Seminary office (810) 258-0055 or the United Synagogue
(810) 642-4890.
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Kelly Slay of Ferndale High and Beth Farber and Eddie Berger of West Bloomfield
High check out the gift shop at the Museum of African American History.
SWAT Team
Against Bigotry
ADL's Dream Dialogue promotes discussion and
friendship between African-American and Jewish
teens.
JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER
M
ichael Serling is not in-
terested in dwelling on
Louis Farrakhan or
Crown Heights, issues
that have divided the nation's
Jews and African Americans.
Instead, the Farmington Hills
attorney wants the Jewish and
African-American teens he leads
in the Anti-Defamation League's
Dream Dialogue to focus on
what the two groups have in
common.
: 1"We feel that if the kids real-
ly get to know one another as
people, that the natural instincts
are to share and gravitate to-
ward more positive goals of re-
spect for one another," he said.
Established three years ago
as a followup to a national tour
by six Ethiopian Israeli high
school students, the Dream Di-
alogue brings approximately 50
metro Detroit Jewish and
African-American high school
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