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Religion's role is to aid the world,
interfaith forum told.

arly in his career, Rabbi
David Nelson of
Congregation Beth Shalom
looked to Rabbi Everett
Gendler as a mentor. On April 30,
more than 30 years later, Rabbi
Nelson renewed their friendship at an
interfaith symposium at Beth Shalom.
Rabbi Gendler offered advice to
Rabbi Nelson when the latter graduated
from the Jewish Theological Seminary
in 1968. Rabbi Nelson's first pulpit was
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — one that
Rabbi Gendler previously had filled.
Now Rabbi Gendler, retired from a .
synagogue in Lowell, Mass., is advising a
very different religious leader — the
Dalai Lama — who lives in India in exile

Catholic nun of the Immaculate Heart
of Mary order and chief financial offi-
cer at Marygrove College in Detroit,
and Mahmoud M. Ayoub, Ph.D.,
chair of Islamic studies at Temple
University in Philadelphia.
Rabbi Gendler said his involvement
with Tibetan refugees came about by
chance. He and his wife, Mary, begin-
ning retirement four years ago, went
on a worldwide tour spurred by the
need to use some airline frequent flyer
miles before the expiration date. In
Tibet, they witnessed the plight of the
people under Chinese dominance and
decided to get involved.
In India, Rabbi Gendler met the
Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan
Buddhist spiritual leader, on the first
night of Chanuka and lit the first can-
dle with him. The rabbi suggested

from Chinese-overrun Tibet.
The National Conference for
Community and Justice, Michigan
Region, is the interfaith Jewish,
Christian and Muslim group that spon-
sored the trialogue, "Religion and
Responsibility in the Global
Community" Keynoters from all three
denominations spoke on the role of reli-
gion in issues ranging from diversity to
Third World crises. Some 200 people of
all three religions attended.
Besides Rabbi Gendler, speakers
were Amata Miller, Ph.D., a Roman

that the people still in Tibet use
Western methods of non-violence as a
response to persecution. He cited as
examples Norway under German rule
during World War II and
Czechoslovakia during the rebellion
against communism in 1968. He
found the Dalai Lama open to new
ideas, with the Tibetan telling the
rabbi, "No one of us is in entire pos-
session of the truth."
Rabbi Gendler went back to India to
help the Tibetans for eight weeks earlier
this year. But why devote so much of

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