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5 a.m. and delivered it to the
Capuchin Soup Kitchen.
He was hiring blacks long before
the civil rights movement and has
hired Cuban and Soviet immigrants,
the handicapped and even convicts
who otherwise would not qualify for
parole.
He has paid for, or helped
employees pay for their schooling, ma-
jor surgeries and bail bonds and their
family members' funerals, as well as
given them extra money for their
children's birthdays.
When an acquaintance died, leav-
ing no survivors, Kay paid for the
funeral, burial expenses and grave
upkeep.
And, in the past 30 years, Kay has
sold 10,000 trees for Israel's Martyrs
Forest, the most ever for the Jewish
National Fund by Detroit B'nai
B'rith.
Kay is a charter member of Eins-
tein Lodge B'nai B'rith, the Detroit
Holocaust Memorial Center and the
interfaith Knights of Pythias and has
raised money for Israel Bonds,
American Red Magen David for Israel
and the City of Hope. He is active in
Friends of Israel Cancer Fund,
Hebrew Benevolent Society, the
,
Jabotinsky Society and the Zionist
Organization of America.
Typically, say friends Diana
Berlinberg and Minnie Berman, he
helps without being asked, often
anonymously, and never turns anyone
away who needs help. They say he fre-
quently raises money for a sick per-
son or makes sure to include widow-
ed or needy friends in social activities.
Kay's powerful desire to do good
for others comes from memories of his
parents' goodness and the Holocaust.
He recalls the little blue pushke
— the Keren Keyemeth JNF box
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