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the Seder.
Rabbi Stern thanked the JCRC
for sponsoring the event and
Shearith Israel — 9401 Douglas
Ave. in Dallas — for hosting
it. The rabbi commended the
commitment of Jan DeVries, the
senior pastor of 150 churches, to
the process of making the Seder a
success.
“The credit goes to her,” Rabbi
Stern said. “She did a fabulous
job of creating turnout from her
presbytery. She was part of it, every
step of the way — for something
very important to our shared
DALLAS — The fourth annual
JCRC Interfaith Seder at Shearith
Israel on Wednesday, April 6
attracted a record 415 attendees.
Marlene Cohen, Seder
committee chair, said that the
audience number was double that
of the previous year’s 200 or so.
The year before that the audience
was under 100, she added.
The audience is comprised of
representatives of different faiths
such as Judaism, Christianity and
Islam.
The number of those in
attendance seems to be increasing
by the year.
“I think a friend tells a friend
and it multiplies from that,”
Cohen told the TJP at the Seder.
“Through the Jewish Federation
we have a great mail list and the
synagogues also tell their members
about the program. Other Jewish
organizations do the same.”
Additionally, Cohen said, the
Presbyterian church had much
involvement this year.
“They really let their members
know about this and encouraged
them to come,” she said.
The Jewish Community
Relations Council of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Dallas
sponsored this event.
Rabbi David Stern of Temple
Emanu-EI and Presbyter Jan
DeVries of Grace Presbytery co-led
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Based on the traditional Jewish
Passover Seder, the program
encouraged the hundreds of
leaders and community members
from diverse faith backgrounds
to explore the universal value of
“Welcoming The Stranger.” In
this case, every person had his or
her own stranger depending on
the endless possibilities to which
someone can seem “foreign” or
“other.”
This difference could
based on the color of skin,
on place of nationality
or something else.
To improve the world, members
of the community are encouraged
to dedicate their minds, bodies
and spirits to “Welcoming The
Stranger” every day.
Participants consumed four
cups of grape juice (symbolic
wine) as part of the ceremony.
These traditionally are in honor
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community.”
DeVries, in turn, said she
appreciated the opportunity to
work with Rabbi Stern on the
event.
“It was important to give
witness to the very thing Interfaith
Seders are about — that we as
people of faith can come together
and bear witness to the world,” she
said.
DeVries said after last year’s
Seder, she volunteered her help
toward organizing this one.
“And that’s exactly what we
did,” she said. “We had a goal of
doubling the attendance. We had
120 Presbyterians sign up even
before the walk-ins tonight. I went
to the leadership and said, “I’d like
to underwrite the first 100 people
to sign up,’ and that’s what we
did. We kept encouraging people
to come both as a witness and
what they would learn — to bring
children with them. It was a great
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