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DETROIT
THE ENVISH NEWS
18 TISHREI 5755/SEPTEMBER 23, 1994
Borman Takes The Oath
A new federal judge achieves a 30-year-old dream.
I
The Courage
In Hannah's Saddle
ARTHUR HORWITZ ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER
Hannah is a 26-year-old workhorse. She doesn't pull wagons or plow
fields. Instead she carries Israel's broken victims of terrorism, military
veterans with head wounds, survivors of auto accidents, senior citizens
ravaged by strokes and even blind elementary-school children. Through
patience and the guidance of her trainer, this chestnut-brown mare helps
the disabled find new hope and a way to break through, to be free.
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hirty years ago, then
Assistant United States
Attorney Paul D. Borman
walked into the federal
courthouse in downtown Detroit
and thought it would be nice to
someday be a federal judge.
`Td think, Wouldn't it be won-
derful to be a judge here?' " he re-
called. "But my God, it is a
one-in-a-million shot."
Thirty years later, the
Honorable Paul D. Borman has
beat those odds.
In a robe borrowed from
Wayne State University Law
School, he took the oath for fed-
eral judgeship. More than 400
friends and relatives packed the
courthouse, overflowing two
courtrooms and spilling into a
hallway where monitors accom-
modated the large crowd.
"It was like my second bar
mitzvah, except I got to pick the
guests, not my parents," he said.
The ceremony was the last step
in a grueling 18-month journey
in the nomination and confirma-
tion process. What began with an
application to a local committee
in March 1993 continued through
approvals of both Michigan's U.S.
senators, the presi-
dent and finally the
full Senate.
Along the way,
agents from the
Federal Bureau of
Investigation ques-
tioned neighbors and
former supervisors. In
addition to reams of fi-
nancial information,
the agents asked for
all of the addresses
where he had resided
since high school as
well as the names and
whereabouts of his
past landlords.
"They really were
thorough," he said.
The ceremony was
also the latest step in Paul D. Borman: A new job.
a varied legal career
which began with his education. merly owned the Farmer Jack
After completion of his under- Supermarket chain; as prosecu-
graduate and law degrees at the tor and defender in the federal
University of Michigan, he ob- and state realms; as special coun-
tained a law master's from Yale sel to former Detroit Mayor
Jerome Cavanaugh; and in the
University.
In the legal world, he has legal department of the U.S.
worked in the private sector as Commission on Civil Rights in
corporate counsel to his family's Washington, D.C.
business, Borman Inc., which for- OATH page 8
in trouble, then it wouldn't mat-
ter if we went out of business. Or
if our restaurant wasn't run pro-
fessionally, it should close.
"But the Jewish people in the
Detroit area should be able to
support at least one profession-
ally-run kosher restaurant."
Kosher food isn't cheap.
Mr. Goodman, a native
STEVE STEIN STAFF WRITER
Detroiter who was raised
orris Goodman and the money went to the
in a kosher home, says the
is frustrated. restaurant."
kosher corned beef he
The co-owner
Sara's, named for Mr.
buys is two to three times
of Sara's Glatt Goodman's mother, has
more expensive than treife
Kosher Deli in been at its current location
corned beef.
Southfield says in the New Orleans Mall at
Chicken is three times
he's done his Ten Mile and Greenfield
more expensive and beef
best to provide since 1989. It opened in
is double the price.
the 90,000- 1987 at the former Dexter-
But kosher food is
member Davison Plaza at 10 Mile
healthy, Mr. Goodman
Detroit Jewish community with and Coolidge in Oak Park,
says. Lungs on slaugh-
Morris Goodman says kosher food is expensive,
a first-class — and its only — full- but didn't become kosher but
tered cows are checked for
healthy.
service kosher restaurant, but he until about a year later.
adhesions to make sure
is once again facing hard times.
Most of the Detroit area's Goodman, 39.
there is no cancer and chicken
"Are we fighting for survival?" Orthodox Jews live within a few
"I'd love to have the entire feathers are cleaned in cold in-
Mr. Goodman asked. "Absolutely. miles of Sara's, which is open six Jewish community — Reform, stead of hot water, helping pre-
One-hundred percent. If I days a week. The 3,000-square- Conservative and Orthodox — vent salmonella poisoning.
wouldn't have been able to bor- foot facility seats 140.
realize that it needs a kosher
"Every process is watched very
row funds recently from someone
'We're busy a lot of the time, restaurant," Mr. Goodman said. closely," Mr. Goodman said. "You
who wishes to remain anony- but our problem is volume," said "Other cities with smaller Jewish can't say that about the food at
mous, we would have closed.
Mr. Goodman, 43, a 30-year vet- populations have several kosher every restaurant.
"I've put a lot of my own mon- eran of the restaurant business restaurants.
"It seems like we get more non-
ey into the restaurant through who owns and operates Sara's
"If there were 10-15 kosher
the years, too. I sold my home along with his wife, Ruth restaurants in town and we were FOOD FIGHT page 8
Desperate Food Fight
PHOTOS BY GLENN TRIEST
Detroit's only full-service kosher restaurant is once again
battling financial woes.
Inside
DETROIT
Giving Back
An emigre tries
to repay Yad Ezra.
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BUS MS
Bird Is The Word
Loewenstein and turkeys
head for a second 100.
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HEALTH
The Best Temp
A surgeon's bandage
quickens healing.
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Contents on page 3
PHOTO BY GLENN TRIEST
JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WRITER