It was amazing. We had Christian contractors and other businesses donating their time. It really was an ecumenical effort.

It was an exciting time for all of us.

It's a good feeling to know we set an example for people when we (established) our congregation all those years ago. We're proud of what we did, and everything the community did for us. It was a time of real sharing in those days, when we started from scratch.

We were absolutely determined to keep our Jewish kids together.

People seem really excited and supportive. It shows me a really good, strong grass-roots effort.

A teacher always has to make the effort. Whether it's Chicano history or any other. We don't want to go back to the way things were, back when black kids got hand-me-down text books after white kids had used them ? if they got textbooks at all.