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 B 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 26 June 3 . 2010 11 - building community DEARBORN 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. Similar Content 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.