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Community efforts that join people of different faiths together on projects of social justice can create moments of communitasthat can, in turn, foster tolerance and greater mutual understanding. In yet another local initiative to improve interfaith relations, Detroit’s Jewish Federation, the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan joined hands (literally and figuratively) in a Christmas Day community service project in 2009. Nearly 1,000 Muslims andJews worked together at a food bank in nearby Pontiac as part of Mitzvah Day, a 20-year Jewish tradition in the Detroit area to help people in need through local social service agencies. Leaders of both faith groups “recognized a shared commitment to community service”based on religious tenets and wanted to take a “small but significant step in defusing tensions and promoting good will”(Karoub, 2009: 9A). As the executive director of the Jewish Council noted, “the grass-roots connection builds relationships on a personal level ... because you work side by side with ... other people”,a sentiment shared by the Islamic Council chair who observed that it was “a public way for the two faith communities to ‘build bridges of understanding and cooperation’”(Ibid). Similarly, members of Temple Judea, a reform congregation in the Coral Gables area of South Florida, have partnered with volunteers from Christ Episcopal Church in running a weekly soup kitchen at the historically-black church in nearby Coconut Grove for more than 20 years. Ties between the two congregations “are deep”and rooted in the Civil Rights movement when the leaders of both faith communities began a partnership for social justice in many areas including hunger although as the pastor of Christ Episcopal explained, “it was a bigger thing than just the food”(Isensee, 2010: 12SE). Hafner and Kram (2010) explain the broader communitasnationally that sprang from a shared sense of human rights:
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