 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.

