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BETTY LOU LOWEN-
THAL has been re-elected to
the six-member Oakland Coun-
ty Bar Association (OCBA)
board of directors. She will serve
a three-year term ending June
30, 1997. Ms. Lowenthal, a part-
ner in the Bloomfield Hills firm
of Buesser, Buesser, Black,
Lynch, Fryhoff & Graham, has
been a member of the OCBA
since 1981. She has chaired the
association's Lawyers Admis-
sion Committee, Law Day Com-
mittee and Juvenile Law
Committee and she currently
serves as a member of the state
bar's Attorney Discipline Board
hearing panel. Ms. Lowenthal
is a past president of the Detroit
College of Law Alumni Associ-
ation.
DONALD CLAYTON, pres-
ident and managing director of
Schmaltz & Co., was presented
the Walsh College distinguished
alumni award at graduation cer-
emonies this month. Schmaltz
& Co. is a Southfield firm of cer-
tified public accountants and
consultants. Mr. Clayton is
chairman of the Quality Review
Executive Committee of the
Michigan Association of Certi-
fied Public Accountants.
STUART ZONDER, in
partnership with Howard Gold-
man, has opened a Non-Con-
forming Division of Network
Mortgage Corp. in Birmingham.
Mr. Zonder, the firm's senior
vice president, is directing the
operations of the new division,
which specializes in mortgages
to consumers with special needs
that cannot be met by conven-
tional financing.
STUART SILBERT has
joined the Broadway men's
clothing store in the Applegate
Square shopping center in
Southfield. He had been a man-
ager and buyer at Kosin's
Clothes in Southfield.
Whopper Of A Story
Journalist says world's first kosher Burger King
is a dream come true.
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on't get sick," my wife
called out as I left the
house for a news confer-
ence.
"I'll try not to," I called back,
taking in stride this rather odd
salutation to a journalist.
Considering that I was going
to a press conference in
Jerusalem marking the opening
of the world's first kosher Burg-
er King, my wife's words made
sense. Overeating was a real fear.
A kosher Burger King.
For those of us who grew up in
religious homes in the United
States, the concept is mind-bog-
gling.
Who would have thought that
the Whopper, that quintessential
hamburger, that symbol of
everything goyish, would become
available to kosher Jews?
Who would have thought that
Burger King's jingle, "It takes two
hands to handle a Whopper,"
would ever speak to us, the reli-
gious set?
And all this at a time when
some argue that the influence of
religious Jews on modern culture
is marginal. Have we made it, or
what?
Now we can
have the Torah
and eat
a Whopper, too.
For thousands of observant
Jewish adolescents growing up
in the States, the Whopper —
much like blonde Betty Sue
Branch in Geometry 3 — is the
yetzer hara, the evil inclination,