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Common Good

Muslim and Jewish doctors help students afford college.

Marielle Temkin
Jewish News Intern

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n an unusual collaboration between
two historically contentious faiths,
Drs. Mahir Elder and Theodore
Schreiber, who are Muslim and Jewish,
have worked together at Detroit Medical
Center (DMC) to better Detroit through
medicine since 2004.
Now they are working to benefit the
community in a new way: On July 15, the
duo donated $10,000 of their personal
money to a scholarship fund that sends
underprivileged African-American stu-
dents to college.
The scholarship, part of the Jesus Was A
Teenager Too (JWATT) Foundation at the
Rose of Sharon Church of God in Christ
in Detroit, awards college scholarships to
high school graduates who were accepted
to college but unable to attend for finan-
cial reasons. Elder, 41, of Dearborn, heard

of the church and its scholarship through
the pastor's wife, a patient of his.
Elder told Schreiber, 57, of Bloomfield
Township, about the foundation, and the
two doctors decided they wanted to con-
tribute to the students.
"We have given our time and intensity
through professional efforts to help health
outcomes in Detroit: Schreiber said, "and
now we want to help young students suc-
ceed and benefit their community in an
academic way. I believe the best invest-
ment of funds is to help young minds?'
Pastor Ronald Griffin said JWATT was
able to give scholarships to 10 students,
three of whom are going into medicine,
with the help of the personal donation
from the doctors. "Their donation was
phenomenal: he said.
"They're both amazing people, and we
are so grateful for their generosity. Neither
one of them had to do what they did, and
their commitment to the advancement of

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than anyone else in Michigan. Elder was
one of the first doctors he trained. When
Schreiber created Cardio Team One at the
DMC, he named Elder as one of the senior
physicians on that staff.
"We are not the most likely pair to be
working together;' Elder said with a smile,
"but we do hope our collaboration isn't
unique in the future. For me, I have been
blessed that I chose medicine and that
my path led me to Dr. Schreiber. I've fol-
lowed in his footsteps, and together we'll
show that by working together, despite our
faiths, we can help an area that needs it,"
he said.
Through working together, the doctors
have established a relationship that goes
beyond a professional one. They spend
time at each other's homes on holidays
like Passover and Eid and feel they are
better people because of their understand-
ing of their faiths and background. The
duo also mentioned that when they talk
politics, it is always as a dialogue, never an
argument.
Griffin said, "This event crossed lines of
diversity and faith. This was the first time
in my 20 years of being at this church that
we had Christians, Muslims and people of
the Jewish faith in the same pulpit. It was
a remarkable experience."

young people is exceptional."
Schreiber said, "This isn't just a contri-
bution to individuals but also to Detroit
— a city that needs young, active, creative
minds with a desire to move us forward.
"I'm 57 and, unlike Dr. Elder, old age
is looming for me. Seeing effective social
change with these young kids with so
much potential tickles
me pink. I'm excited
to see the kids as they
smile toward a suc-
cessful future."
The doctors first
met when Elder came
to the DMC to be
trained in interven-
tional cardiology (a
catheter-based treat-
ment of heart diseas-
es) by Schreiber, who
says he has trained
more heart doctors
Schreiber with the pre-med recipients of the scholarship

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