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FAMILY CIRCLE SEMINAR

For parents, educators and community professionals

Sunday, March 25, 2001

Featuring

Becea Hornstein

Executive Director, Council for Jews with Special Needs, Scottsdale, Arizona

At the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum
Jewish Family and Parenting Center
of Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
4200 Walnut Lake Road
West Bloomfield

12:45 p.m.
Kosher Lunch

1:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Parent and Professional seminar

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Parent session

Co-Sponsors

Cost: $5 per person

Payable to Agency for Jewish Education

Questions / Registration

Call Haviva Jacobs at AJE

(248) 645-7860 ext. 375

2 NIRIM units for this session

The Friendship Circle Respite Care

is available for children with special
needs and sibling babysitting at JCC WB
from 12:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Pre-registration mandatory.
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Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit
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Jewish Vocational Service
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"Until the GPJC was established,
most people in the Jewish communi-
ty assumed that there were no Jews
there," he said. "Now, we know for
sure there is a critical mass in the
Grosse Pointe area."
With an increasing Asian, Arab and
Russian population, greater diversity
has developed in the Pointes.
For several years, the GPJC has
been a member of the Grosse Pointe
Ministerial Association, which has
played a supportive role regarding
diversity.
The Rev. Mary Ann Shipley of the
Grosse Pointe United Methodist
Church, a ministerial association
member, agrees.
"It's a very open and growing com-
munity in understanding of other
people," she said.
Rev. Shipley said at first she was
"horrified" when she was sent to the
Grosse Pointe community.
"I was an inner-city girl who grew
up in Pontiac, and to come to the
most suburban community in our
state was a little bit of a shock," she
said. "I was very pleased to find out
that the stereotypes I assumed all my
life were not true. I drove a Geo
Metro with three hubcaps, and it
didn't make a difference. I was totally
accepted and loved here."
Rev. Shipley cites ongoing toler-
ance programming in the schools.
"As those generations grow up, they
will be better prepared and have bet-
ter knowledge," she said.
Eddie Bray, pastor of the Grosse
Pointe United Church, said his
denomination come from the group
who came over from the Mayflower
"seeking a place where their faith
would be tolerated."
People who worship God are all
the same, he said. "Having folks
from the Jewish community use our
space to worship is not a problem."
"Our faith community is not just
entrenched in a building," he said.
"A church is a body; of people."
Weingarten shares the same
thought and said no building is
planned in.the near future because it
would be an expensive undertaking.
"We're doing great without it," he
said. "We can bring 50 people into
someone's home for an activity that's
warmer and friendlier and breeds
more cohesiveness than bringing in
50 people into an institution."
To members of the Grosse Pointe
Jewish Council, community certainly
is not an edifice, but a feeling of
Jewishness shared in that special way
that works for them. L