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students together for monthly
discussions, lectures and field
trips. Although anyone who
wants to join is welcome, the
group boasts roughly equal Jew-
ish and African-American mem-
bership.
Detroit is the only city in the
United States with a Dream Di-
alogue group, and, according to
Mr. Serling, "the kids like to see
themselves as a kind of SWAT
team to fight bigotry."
Participants begin the year
by discussing their cultures and
then move on to open discus-
sions about bigotry and stereo-
types. At the end of the school
year, the group visits middle
school classes and performs
skits on stereotyping and dis-
crimination.
Dream Dialogue recently par-
ticipated in a black-Jewish seder
and visited both the Holocaust
Memorial Center in West
Bloomfield and the Museum of
African American History in De-
troit.
"At school, people are divid-
ed into groups," said Beth Far-
ber, a Jewish senior from West
Bloomfield who has participat-
ed in Dream Dialogue for two
years. "This is a good chance to
meet other people not like your-
self."
Unlike most of the Jewish
students in the group who at-
tend predominantly white
schools, Alisa Biederman is a
Jewish sophomore at Oak Park
High and most of her friends
there are African American. Al-
though she already knew a lot
about African-American culture,
she still has enjoyed participat-
ing in the Dream Dialogue.
"It's a good chance to get clos-
er to people you already know,"
she said, adding that she has
learned more about the Holo-
caust as a result of her involve-
ment in the group.
Kelly Slay, an African-Amer-
ican sophomore at Ferndale
High School, decided to join
the Dream Dialogue when the
group performed at her middle
school two years ago. "Every
time we meet, we learn so
much," she said, adding that
she especially enjoys sharing
what she learns with younger
kids.
Quinn Wright, also an
African-American student at
Ferndale, said that through the