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Jewish and Chaldean teens embrace their similarities.

Robin Schwartz I Contributing Writer

In the blur of a busy school

day, Josh Morof, 17, of West

Bloomfield paused for a

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Ite, need to go outside of our comfort zones

Hiba Chaab, 17, Josh
Morof, 17, and Tahas
Suharwardy, 18, all
Bloomfield Hills Andover
students, listen to Face to
Faith speakers.

and our friend zones. It's imperative that

moment and glanced around

we break down those barriers and create a

the halls of Andover High

community:1 4Y

School in Bloomfield Hills. He

— Josh Morof

was in the midst of his junior

year, and he was troubled by

what he saw.

"I started to notice how segregated
our school was," Morof said. "The Jewish
students hung out together in front of

the staircase, the Muslims in the library,
and the Chaldean students would stand
together in the main hallway."
Now a senior, Morof says he knew
something had to be done. His solu-
tion was to form a group called "Face to
Faith" to bring Christian, Muslim and

Jewish teenagers together. The idea
evolved from an October 2010 Chaldean-
Jewish high-school teen forum hosted
by Bloomfield Hills Schools and the
Building Community Initiative of the
Chaldean News and Jewish News.

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December 2011

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