At An
Exhibit
HARRY KIRSBAUM
KRISTA H USA
Congregants of a church
and a synagogue visit a
Detroit museum.
shley Kaploe was confused. The 9-year-old
from Farmington Hills was staring Sunday at
a picture on display at Detroit's Museum of
African American History. It showed a sign
saying "Rooms for Rent and Sleeping - Colored Only.
Daddy, she asked her father, "what does 'colored"
.,,
mean
"It's a bad word we don't use any more," replied her
father, Mark Kaploe, one of a dozen members of Temple
Emanu-El who visited the museum Sunday as guests of
Bethel A.M.E. Church.
The little lesson in cultural history for Ashley and
other Emanu-El members was part of a continuing effort
to build an ecumenical bridge between the two congre-
gations that grew out of a friendship between Emanu-
El's Rabbi Joseph Klein and Bethel's the Rev. Norman
Osborne.
In the third of seven monthly interfaith dialogues
between the two congregations that began in November, ,--/
five families from the Oak Park temple attended an
hour-and-a-half service Sunday, lunched together and
then went to the museum in Detroit's Cultural Center.
The program's success is measured in the number of
participants who return, said Hendrean Williams of
Detroit, who came with 9 nine-year-old son Clayton.
"You can give somebody an idea and tell them to come,
but they don't have to show up," she said. "If they keep
coming every month, it must be working." 1-1
',
Mary Oliver says
a hallelujah.
Nine-year-olds
Caitlin Bollnei;
Julianna Tschirhart,
Kevin Burnstein,
Ashley Kaploe,
and Clayton Williams
• play in tilt rotunda.
Stuart Burnstein
of Farinington
chats with Janie Fulton
of Detroit.
Lynn Cummings
shakes hands with
Kevin Burizstein as
Maxine Burnstein
watches.
1/22
1999
20 Detroit Jewish News