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For example, an interfaith religious freedom legislation. group in an outlying region like the Downriver area or the east side may not include Jews or other minority Who talks to whom religions and thereby focus on a nar- Areawide interfaith efforts have largely rower body of concerns. consisted of paid professionals and cler- Father Budde illustrated the point gy speaking among themselves. To by saying each of the archdiocese's make the efforts most effective, leaders parishes are required to have an ecu- say that interfaith relations must expand menical council that interacts with beyond the executive level to include other religious groups in its neighbor- more individuals on a regular basis. hood. On top of that, clergy are often The more people who are involved invited to participate in ecumenical in interfaith relations means there will councils that cover larger areas like hopefully be less people who are will- southeast Michigan, such as the ing to believe stereotypes," U-M's Ecumenical Institute or the NCCJ. Reeves said. Then, there are more global measures such as the pope's recent statement on accountability and the Holocaust. "We have relations going on at all levels," he said. While the vast interac- tion is encouraging, at times the efforts duplicate or triplicate the amount of work being done. For example, instead of one or two regional interfaith Thanksgiving celebrations involving a wide variety of David Gad-Haif at a prayer service Sunday. faiths last November, sever- al different ones took place that morning. Perhaps the reason for the fewer Krichbaum said his organization is numbers is the lessened urgency for developing an Interfaith Coordinating such relations, said Arnold Michlin, Council that will publish the area's who helped start both the Muslim- first community interfaith calendar Jewish-Christian Trialog and American this month to list the events of all Arab and Jewish Friends at NCCJ. related interfaith groups. Another With a well-established Jewish state, a NCCJ program, dubbed Partners in decline in overt anti-Semitism in the Service, seeks to bring different United States and a general feeling of church, synagogue and mosque pro- prosperity, fewer people are signing up grams or youth groups together to to volunteer for the cause. work on social action projects. "I don't think there are many people And religious coalitions have taken who are working in this area," Michlin on moral and political causes. said. "It is disheartening. There is no The Religious Leaders Forum, a eagerness, no intensity, no desire, no group of the heads of the area's major drive. I like to say that our religion is a religions, took its first major stand in mile wide and an inch thick. We all 1995 when Rabbi Irwin Groner of belong to a synagogue but we don't get Congregation Shaarey Zedek joined an involved in anything. Episcopal bishop, a Catholic cardinal "Listen, my contemporaries are and a Muslim imam in declaring assist- going and that is sad. But what is sad- ed suicide immoral. The group later der is that there are no young people held a press conference and took a unit- on fire to take their place," he said. ed moral position on the general issue "Prosperity doesn't breed action." of poverty and social disintegration. One of the challenges in involving Their work marks the first time a more people is the fear that conver- diverse clergy body has undertaken a sionary efforts will take place. public stand on such issues in Michigan. The fear is reasonable, said David A statewide political action coalition Blewett, an ordained Lutheran minis- — made up of representatives of every ter who novv heads the Ecumenical religion, from the Christian Michigan Institute for Jewish-Christian Studies. Family Forum to liberal Jews, from "I see it way too often," said Blewett, moderate Muslims to mainstream adding that he has frequently confront-