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The Heritage provides equal housing opportunities to all individuals 62 years of age or older.

1999

16 Detroit Jewish News

JN 12/98

from page 14

low at the University of Michigan's
Hillel organization. "We are focused on
the short term. We are focused on trying I
to get those people we can touch and
bringing them to the table."
• Fewer volunteers to work at the
grassroots level. As the number of
dual-income families rise, the number
of volunteers drops, leaving more work
to be done by fewer people who
inevitably burn out faster. Merryl
Schwartz, chairwoman of the social
action committee at Temple Shir
Shalom in West Bloomfield, said it is
hard to attract helpers to any cause and
interfaith relations are no different.
"I don't think people are deliberately
shying away from interfaith relations,"
she said. "Rather, it is a problem of find-
ing people to volunteer for anything.
"Our society is too self-centered.
We are too busy with our own things.
I have a corps of people I can call who
will do anything I ask them to do but
it is always the same people."

A basis in history

The current situation is a disappoint-
ment, considering the promising start
interfaith relations experienced almost
a century ago.
That was a time when Thanksgiving
had nothing to do with a parade down
Woodward Avenue or a Detroit Lions
football game. It was a time when
nothing could hold a candle to an
interfaith Thanksgiving prayer service
that drew thousands of Christians and
Jews who eagerly jammed Detroit's
Orchestra Hall and other venues to
celebrate the secular holiday.
Then, Rabbi Leo Franklin of
Temple Beth El stood shoulder to
shoulder with dozens of ministers and
priests from Protestant and Catholic
churches to lead the mixed congrega-
tion in song and prayer in a feel-good
ecumenical celebration. The service
grew in popularity among the parish-
ioners and congregants of the churches
and synagogues that lined Woodward;
a few hundred attendees grew to thou-
sands in a few years.
The turn-of-the-century celebration
did not, however, herald a period of
strong interfaith relations. Instead of
building, interfaith relations eroded,
seeing peaks during times of crises and
valleys during less strenuous times.
Interfaith dialogue was unable to
prevent the riot of 1943 during which
a number of Jewish businesses burned.
Nor could it turn back the tide of anti-
Semitism before, during and after
Father Charles Coughlin began to spew
it and the world turned an indifferent