Building Community
STEPS, HIGH HOPES
Growing Together
Jewish-Chaldean partnership sparks interest in inter-group collaboration.
Robert Sklar
Editor I Detroit Jewish News
Vanessa Denha-Garmo
Editor I Chaldean News
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Chaldean community and Israel for
the Jewish community — both also
are important players in the econom-
ic, philanthropic, political, cultural
and religious vitality of Southeastern
Michigan.
Together, Jews and Chaldeans
in Metro Detroit number 193,000
— 121,000 Chaldeans and 72,000
Jews. But while the two communi-
ties have lived side-by-side here for
years, many residents know little
about each other's history, faith and
traditions.
Hence, Building Community. We
welcome your feedback.
Creative director, Deborah Schultz
Senior copy editor, David Sachs
Third of a nine-part monthly series
wilding Community is
fast becoming a model for
ethnic understanding and
interaction.
Organizations and individuals
continue to express a desire to get
involved in the groundbreaking
initiative of the weekly Detroit
Jewish News and the monthly
Chaldean News, both based in
Southfield.
The thrust of the initiative
is to enlighten the Jewish
and Chaldean communities
about each other's common
roots and potential for work-
ing together in pursuit of a
better quality of life for all
Metro Detroiters. The hope
is for new contact points to be
created between the two com-
munities in business, healthcare,
political advocacy, education and
humanitarian causes. Mentoring
relationships and lasting friendships
are other anticipated outcomes.
While both ethnic groups are com-
mitted to safeguarding and strength-
ening their ancestral homelands
in the Middle East — Iraq for the
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COLLEGE
OF BUSINESS
WHAT'S YOUR VIEW?
AS PART OF THE BUILDING COMMUNITY INITIATIVE,
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-DEARBORN IS SURVEYING
READERS OF THE CHALDEAN NEWS AND THE JEWISH NEWS.
WE ASK THAT YOU TAKE THREE MINUTES TO COMPLETE AN
ONLINE SURVEY REGARDING YOUR VIEWS OF THE JEWISH AND
CHALDEAN COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN.
ALL RESPONSES ARE CONFIDENTIAL AND ANONYMOUS.
PLEASE VISIT
HTTP:HTINYURLCOM/BUILDINGCOMMUNITYSURVEY
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SURVEY.
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Our third two-page monthly spread,
developed by the Farmington Hills strategic
communications firm Tanner Friedman,
appears today on pages 28-29.
Today's staff-generated stories as well as the
two-page spread are appearing in both the Jewish
News, published each Thursday, and the Chaldean
News, a monthly coming out near the first of
each month. Each month during the Building
Community initiative, the two-page spread
as well as related coverage about the
two communities will be similar in
both publications.