EPEfflrosara Lrapr_rcp cpcpagn THERE'S JUST ENOUGH 'ID1E to reserve your place at a very special event! Meet Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Gad Yaacobi, enjoy a sumptuous buffet dinner* and make valuable business contacts. The American-Israel Chamber of Commerce of Michigan 1995 Honors Dinner Sunday, March 19 at 6:30 p.m. The Somerset Collection (Troy) $95 Contact the Chamber office now: Phone: (810) 661-1948 Fax (810) 661-1730 Tickets also available at the door. Dinner Coordination: Michael H. Traison, Miller, Canfield, Paddock & Stone P.L.C. Michael S. Sarlow, Technical Writing & Engineering Co., Inc. Neil T. Jackson, Madison Communications, Inc. *Dietary laws observed JEVP cPERPcP EPLIEPEP EDERPEP A DISTINCTIVE DESIGN BY LORI GREENBERG architectOral interior design • space planning • finish selections • furnishings 6644 Orchard Lake Rd. at Maple • West Bloomfield 810 855-1600 M-Th-F 10-9 • Tu-W-Sat 10-6 • Sun 12-5 Paul Saginaw and Ari Weinzweig: "Role models for the entire community." Ann Arbor Honors Two With Good Taste ALICE BURDICK SCUWEIGER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS I t did not take the Jewish blazers, an organization that Federation of Washtenaw helps those recovering from men- County long to choose Ari tal illness, and they have pro- Weinzweig and Paul Saginaw, vided financial backing for owners of Zingerman's Deli in employees to open their own food- Ann Arbor, as the recipients of related businesses in Ann Arbor. their first annual Humanitarian Additionally, the two hire new Award. "Not only do they serve Americans, to launch their ca- high-quality food, morning, af- reers in this country, and there ternoon and night, but they are are many other projects on the wonderful humanitarian role drawing board. Because of Zingerman's, the models for the entire commu- m nity," said Nancy N. Margolis, ex- whole area surrounding the ecutive director of the federation. restaurant have blossomed," The award ceremony, which added Susan Rebner, dinner co- will take place on April 4 during chair. "Galleries have opened, a dinner at Radisson on the Lake apartments have been revamped in Ypsilanti, already has created — that area of Ann Arbor has much interest from corporate, been blended into downtown." Mr. Saginaw and Mr. business and community leaders in Ann Arbor and the Detroit Weinzweig say that helping oth- ers and changing the face of Ann area. "Because of the generous way Arbor was a part of the master that Ari and Paul run their busi- plan from the beginning. Even ness, it was only fitting that they before the two restaurateurs would be our first honorees," said opened Zingerman's, they had a Jerold Lax, dinner co-chairman vision of giving back to the corn- and Ann Arbor attorney. "They munity. "We have always had a clear have provided services to many needy individuals and to the com- picture of what we wanted to be- come, and we haven't strayed munity at large." Establishing Food Gatherers from that vision," said Mr. is perhaps the pair's most notable Saginaw, a native Detroiter who undertaking. It is an organiza- graduated from the University tion that collects surplus food of Michigan and met Mr. from dorms, restaurants and Weinzweig while they both stores and delivers it to shelters, works d at a restaurant in Ann halfway houses and the less for- Arbor. "We did not have small tunate. Since the nonprofit pro- goals — they were fairly lofty and gram began almost six years ago, they grew as we went along." Mr. Saginaw, who graduated a paid staff and volunteers have delivered more than a half mil- from Southfield High School in lion pounds of food to hungry peo- 1969 and was bar mitzvah at ple in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. Beth Aaron Synagogue, said that Over the years, Mr. Weinzweig growing up in the radical 1960s and Mr. Saginaw have hired helped mold his values. "I had certain opinions of the mentally impaired workers and provided them with job training business world and always told and experience. They offer job myself that if I ever opened a training for members of Trail- business, I would do things dif-