JANUARY 30 • 2020 | 21
Celebrating MLK Day
Farber and Hillel Students participate
in National Day of Racial Healing.
O
n Tuesday, Jan. 21,
students from Farber
Hebrew Day School and
Hillel Day School participated in
the second annual National Day
of Racial Healing at Wayne State
University.
The event is hosted by
the Detroit Public Schools
Foundation and brings together
more than 300 middle school
students from Metro Detroit to
engage in conversations about
racial inequality and discrimi-
nation.
Students started the day by
watching a performance by
the Wayne State Black Theatre
and Dance Program’
s Freedom
Players Ensemble. The actors
each took on a persona based on
their own experience: one actor
was Jewish, one was a gay man,
another was black and so on. The
message portrayed that people
should aim to better coexist,
regardless of their background.
Students then split off into
groups of two to three partici-
pants. Facilitators led with ice
breakers to encourage students
to become more aware of their
commonalities.
“I thought it was really inter-
esting because these activities
demonstrated that even though
we all grew up in different places
and communities, we had very
similar ideas and experiences,
”
said Hillel eighth-grader Jesse
Weinstein.
The groups then dove into
discussions about their diverse
backgrounds and how to devel-
op solutions for building better
community relations.
“I think this experience was
impactful because it allowed us
to learn about different races and
different religions,
” said Farber
sixth-grader Oren Opperer. “We
became friends by the end of the
event and know that we aren’
t
alone in our communities.
”
Grace Kleinfeld, a seventh
grader at Farber, said, “
A lesson
that I am bringing back to Farber
and to our Jewish community is
that people who are from com-
pletely different backgrounds and
who value different things can
still be very similar in so many
ways.
”
At the end of the day, students
shared that they felt adamant
about changing the way society
thinks and acts when it comes
to racial inequality and discrim-
ination.
“We’
re planning on hosting
a seder for Passover with
students from one of the other
schools that we worked with at
this event,
” said Hillel eighth-
grader Meredith Shapiro. “It
will be great to see them all
again and take what we learned
from this experience and build
on our relationships and our
communities.
CORRIE COLF STAFF WRITER
COURTESY OF HILLEL DAY SCHOOL
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Middle school students of different
backgrounds find similarities.