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S

o many times, the work of a
congregation president has to
do with balance sheets and
membership drives, janitorial
concerns and rabbinical duties — the
ordinary stuff
But this week, Bunni Lieberman,
the Temple Shir Shalom president, has
the opportunity to participate- in
something special.
On behalf of her West Bloomfield
congregation, Lieberman will help pre-
sent an award to Cardinal Adam Maida,
archbishop of the Roman Catholic arch-
diocese of Detroit, for his leadership in
ecumenical affairs. The award will be
given at Kabbalat Shabbat services, 8
p.m. Friday, April 28.
"We are honored to have Cardinal
Maida accept this award," Lieberman
said. "He is very deserving for all he has
done in the name of bettering interfaith
efforts. We feel that this is an opportuni-
ty for the Jewish community, through
our congregation, to show appreciation

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Temple Shir Shalom to honor Cardinal
Maida for promoting interfaith harmony.

for all he has done."
The honor is called the Open
Doors Mezuzah Award, a first-time
award intended for individuals, such as
the cardinal, who have shown great
achievement and innovation in inter-
faith relations.
"We have done some very cutting-
edge things in our congregation. This
will be a continuing tradition,"
Lieberman said.
Cardinal Maida became archbishop
of Detroit in 1990 and was elevated to
cardinal in 1994. He has been involved
in a number of interfaith efforts, includ-
ing founding and directing the develop-
ment of the Pope John Paul II Cultural
Center in Washington, D.C., the mis-
sion of which is to promote interfaith
understanding. Currently a priest, Father
Michael Bugarin, is serving as director of
the center.
Locally, Cardinal Maida's efforts have
included the founding of Cornerstone
Schools, a multi-denominational,
Christian-based school in Detroit, and
the founding of the Religious Leaders
Forum, a regular gathering of leaders
from many different faiths, including
Buddhists, Methodists, Catholics, Jews
and Muslims.
Cardinal Maida has a personal con-
nection with Temple Shir Shalom. Rabbi
Dannel Schwartz and he have been
friends since he was inducted into his
position as the leader of the 1.5-million
Roman Catholics in the Detroit area. .
The cardinal picked Rabbi Schwartz to
travel to Rome with Bishop John
Nienstedt to meet with the pope less
than two years ago. Rabbi Schwartz
invited Nienstedt to speak at his congre-
gation last year.
"Among all of the people I know who

are living, he has done the most in this
field for the longest time," Rabbi
Schwartz said, adding that the award is a
large mezuza mounted in a frame with
an inscription: "He is not a formal man.
He is kind, with a sweet soul."
Cardinal Maida, former recipient of
the Dove Award from the Southfield-
based Ecumenical Institute for Jewish-
Christian Studies, said he was pleased to
be accepting the award from Shir
Shalom. According to Steve Spreitzer,
director of the Detroit archdiocesan
office of social ministry, Cardinal Maida
recalled the words spoken by the pope
during his visit to Yad Vashem:
"Let us build a new future in which
there will be no anti-Jewish feeling
among Christians or anti-Christian
feeling among Jews, but rather the
mutual respect required of those who
adore the one creator and lord and
look to Abraham as our common
father in faith."
Temple Shir Shalom is an ideal
place for such an interfaith honor to
be bestowed. Since its founding 12
years ago, it has been a leader in such
efforts, in part because many of the
850 memb e r families are interfaith
households.
The temple was one of the first
Jewish congregations to have a sister
Christian congregation, the Trinity
Missionary Baptist Church, a black con-
gregation in Pontiac; the two have
swapped religious leaders and choirs at
times and participated in social action
programs together.
Shir Shalom is also the nation's only
congregation to have an interfaith
memorial garden where gentiles or con-
verted Jews can honor their gentile rela-
tives.❑

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