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Dr. Zaks, right, with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican.

anybody's spirituality."
Unlike most other rooms at
Providence, Zaks' office in the
adjacent medical center has no
cross on the wall. Two needle-
point art works depicting Jewish
subjects are prominently dis-
played.
"They were given to me by an
elderly Catholic patient whom I
took care of for a long time," he
said. "She had probably never
seen a Hebrew letter in her life,
yet she perfectly reproduced it
freehand from something she
saw in a book. It resonates with
me as a Jewish physician, as a
Conservative Jew."
Zaks also displays, with equal
pride, photographs of an audi-
ence with Pope John Paul II. "I'd
been taking care of leaders in the
Catholic Church," he said, who
arranged the private meeting
when Zaks was in Rome.
"He [the pope] told me: just
want to encourage you to contin-
ue seeing the poor of all faiths.'
It was an inspirational moment in
my life."
Providence, he said, was one
of the first providers of Project
Chessed, a fact confirmed by
Rachel Yoskowitz, director of
Health and Healing Initiatives at
Jewish Family Service in West
Bloomfield.
Project Chessed is a JFS
program that connects medi-
cally uninsured members of the
Jewish community to a network
of cost-free health services and
providers. It also partners with
William Beaumont Hospitals,
Botsford Health Care Continuum,

Detroit Medical Center, Henry
Ford Health System, Karmanos
Cancer Institute, St. Joseph
Mercy Oakland, St. John Macomb
and Straith Hospital.
Zaks said none of his Jewish
patients has ever objected to the
cross on the wall of the hospital
room including "Orthodox rab-
bis and very Jewish patients."
But he knows of some situations
during his tenure as chief medi-
cal officer (CMO). "If anyone has
an objection (to the cross], it's
removed from the room."
That was seconded by Dr. Jerry
Rosenberg, an orthopedic sur-
geon who has been at Providence
since 1980. "People have told me
that some have requested to take
a cross down and that's not a
problem," he said.
Rosenberg, an Orthodox Jew,
walks to Providence on the
rare instances he is called in on
Shabbat. He is one of the people
Providence President Diane
Radloff turned to in designing
Project Shalom Providence.
"I strongly supported the idea
of reaching out to the Orthodox
Jewish community and making
the hospital Shabbas friendly,"
Rosenberg said.
Over Zaks' seven years as
CMO, he heard occasional com-
plaints about the morning and
evening prayers that are broad-
cast hospital-wide. "The vast
majority of the time, the prayers
are fairly generic," Zaks said.
"Every so often one will be reli-
gion specific." One of the chap-

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