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You are cordially invited to a bountiful feast.
An afternoon of epicurean delights presented by 30 of Michigan's premiere chefs.

Sunday, February 4, 1990, 3-6 p.m.
Southfield Pavilion, Southfield Civic Center, 26000 Evergreen Road.

$30 per person advance ticket (by mail by January 26)
$35 per person at the door

Tickets available at City's Community Relations Department
at the Civic Center (through February 2).

Co-sponsored by the City of Southfield
and the Michigan Chefs de Cuisine Association.
Proceeds benefit the Michigan Chefs de Cuisine Association Scholarship Fund.

Hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, entrees, desserts, pastries and Michigan wine.

Experience the ultimate Experience Michigan's finest cuisine.
Semi-Formal attire requested.

PARTICIPATING ESTABLISHMENTS:

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Afrah Pastries
The Baker's Loaf
Bangkok Club
Beverly Hills Grill
The Bijou
Charley's Crab
Chez Raphael

• Desserts by Sylvia Lee

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• Machus, Inc.
• MacKinnon's
• Musashi Japanese Cuisine & Sushi Bar
• Oakland Community College
• Orchard Lake Country Club
• Pike Street
• The Rattlesnake Club

• Restaurant DiModesta

Detroit Athletic Club
• Savino Ice Cream
• Seasons Cafe
The Detroit Club
Excalibur Restaurant
• Sebastian's
The Garden Court Restaurant • The Skyline Club
The Golden Mushroom
• Southfield Charley's & Meriwethers
Hogan's
• Superior Coffee Co.
Jacques Demers Restaurant • Tango's European Bistro & Bouquets
• Taste of Seasons
Le Metro
Leon's Pastries
• Wine by Sommeliers Selection Ltd.
London Chop House

For more information, contact Southfield Community Relations Department, (313) 354-4854.

RESPONSE CARD — MICHIGAN THE BOUNTIFUL
February 4, 1990, 3-6 p.m.
Southfield Pavilion, Southfield Civic Center

NAME

ADDRESS

CITY

STATE

TELEPHONE: (home)

(work)

ZIP

Number of tickets:
$30.00 each Total enclosed:
Advance ticket deadline by mail: January 26, 1990
Advance ticket deadline in person: February 2, 1990

Return this form, with check payable to Michigan Chefs de Cuisine Association, to:

MICHIGAN THE BOUNTIFUL
Community Relations Department
City of Southfield
26000 Evergreen Road
P.O. Box 2 055
Southfield iichigan 48037

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1990

SOUTHFIELD

The Center of It All

based on legal precedents and
personal outlook.
Case in point. My brother
does not eat broccoli. His rab-
bi says the probability of bugs
is too great to take a chance.
A rabbi I listen to says wash
the broccoli thoroughly and
then eat it. (We don't serve
broccoli when my brother
comes to visit.)
More important, I think, is
our outlook on life. To the
Torah Jew, a decision by the
rabbi is just that. If we have
to throw out the dish because
it's treife, it's just a shrug for
us. The law is the law and
God's law if forever and never
changing.
The temptations of Red
Lobster's mouth-watering TV
ads might be considered for-
midable, but I look with semi-
amusement at them. I am
perhaps intellectually temp-
ted but certainly not actual-
ly. Again, it's just a shrug —
enticing but without actuali-
ty. Our lives are circumscrib-
ed by God's legal structure for
us as Jews.
We do not feel confined or
pent up. Ours is the true
freedom because we have a
life of clarity and purpose. We
follow God's law, thereby corn-
ing closer to Him.

Udie Goldberg
Oak Park

Causes Attract
Bad Advocates

A story in The Jewish
News, "Local Activists Form
Coalition for Peace in the
Middle East" (Dec. 29),
brought to mind the axiom
that "good causes attract bad
advocates." The fact is that in-
sofar as the mainstream
Jewish community is con-
cerned, the Israeli govern-
ment's current peace in-
itiative — fully endorsed by
the U.S. administation — is
the only game in town.
Nevertheless, the so-called
peace coalition, clinging to
the dubious proposition that
"to be pro-Israel does not
mean support for the current
Israeli government,"
presumably will bypass the
duly constituted,
democratically elected Israeli
government to push its own
peace agenda, which includes
"ceding land for peace," an
"independent Palestinian
State in Judea and Samaria"
and "negotiations with the
PLO."
While the Israeli govern-
ment is not likely to be undu-
ly alarmed by the formation
of the coalition, and genuine
friends of Israel will un-
doubtedly view it as a tem-
porary aberration, the pity is
that two bonafide Zionist
groups have been seduced to

adopt — at least by implica-
tion — the spurious agenda of
the New Jewish Agenda.
Even such a progressive
and tolerant organization as
the American Jewish Com-
mittee has seen fit to publish
a fact sheet listing at least 15
anti-Israel activities pursued
by the NJA. These include
demonstrations, displaying
lurid photos of Palestinians
maimed by brutal Israeli
troups and equating Israel
with South Afrida, Chile and
even Nazis, in front of Israeli
consulates. NJA has been
cooperating with such anti-
Israel groups as the
American Arab Anti-
Discrimination Committee,
the Arab American Institute
and the National Association
of Arab-Americans. NJA has
challenged U.S. priorities
with regard to U.S. military
and economic aid to Israel,
distributed leaflets urging
Americans to shun Israeli
products and boycott the
Jewish National Fund and
picketed the offices of Israel
Bonds and Jewish
federations.
It's unadulterated chutzpah
for an NJA spokesman to
complain that "we've seen
racists and fascists have their
platform heard, while the
peace activists were overlook-
ed." In view of their shameful
anti-Israel record, NJA "ac-
tivists" fully deserve to be
overlooked; indeed, they
merit communal repudiation
and ostracism.

Ezekiel Leikin
Louis Panush
Zionist Organization of America

NEWS

Airport Brims
With Soviets

Jerusalem (JTA) — The
heavy influx of Jewish im-
migrants from the Soviet
Union is causing problems
at Ben- Gurion Airport.
As many as 500 emigres
have arrived on a single
night, interfering with the
normal operations of Israel's
only international airport.
Rafi Harley, director gen-
eral of El Al, suggested this
week that the Airport Au-
thority and the ministries of
Transport and Absorption
consider moving the im-
migrant terminal from Ben-
Gurion to an alternate site.
One proposal is to divert
planes carrying immigrants
to Atarot Airport, northeast
of Jerusalem. Another is to
convert the domestic flight
terminal at Ben-Gurion,
used only by the inland air
carrier Arkia, into an im-
migrant processing center.

