GOING THE
EXTRA MILE

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wall separating the kitchen from
the dining area and install a lunch
counter and order area.
"The kitchen needs to be
opened up so that people can come
and see the food being prepared,"
he said.
Next, he is working to keep the
cost to the consumer to a mini-
mum. The menu, for example, will
feature low-priced cuts of kosher
meats like hot dogs and ham-
burgers, and the wait staff will be
eliminated.
Mr. Rabinowitz hopes these
changes will attract a wide range
of people.
"My concept basically is that
the community really should have
a kosher place," he said. "It needs
to be reliably kosher to the high-
est standards in town.
"But a place can be glatt kosher
and still be competitive in ap-
pearance, in concept and in at-
tractiveness outside of the
Orthodox community," he said.
"The price does not have to be sky-
high either."
Raiselle Snow, a patron of

Sara's who was a part of its last
lunch crowd, said she is sad to see
Sara's close and is cautiously op-
timistic that another restaurant
will open.
"I've been saying for so long
that we need another kosher
restaurant," she said. "When it
happens, believe it."
The Council of Orthodox Rab-
bis will supervise the restaurant.
"It is really very important to
have a kosher restaurant," said
Rabbi Chaskel Grubner, execu-
tive director of the council. "It
gives the community a place to
eat."
"We have lost one, but we will
have another," he said.
Mr. Rabinowitz, a lifelong De-
troiter who attends Machon
L'Torah, is married and has four
children.
In the past he has held posi-
tions at Hebrew Memorial
Chapel, in the commercial main-
tenance industry, and in home im-
provement and construction
companies. He does not have ex-
perience in the food industry. ❑

Lathrup Village Nixes
Rezoning Request

JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR STAFF WR TER

eff Surnow is not about to
give up.
Despite Lathrup Village
city council's unanimous
vote last week to change a por-
tion of Akiva Hebrew Day
\--, School's zoning, making it im-
/- possible to develop, Mr. Surnow,
a real estate developer, said he
intends to pursue plans for a
strip mall.
"We are still interested," he
said. "We still want to pursue a
shopping center and we will have
to look at our alternatives and
see what is available."
The mayor and four council
\
/ 2 members voted July 24 to rezone
two portions of land that abut the
school building. They were
changed from a residential des-
ignation to public-service use.
One tract is owned by Akiva and
is used as a play yard; the other
is city property earmarked for
a park development.
Joel Hirsh, a council member,
\ said he was pressured by resi-
dents to vote for the resolution.
Two weeks ago, residents con-
tinuously called his nonpub-
lished home telephone number
and presented him with petitions
signed by many residents calling
for the preservation of the school
and the city land.
Mr. Hirsh said he would
rather see the city reap the ben-
• efits of a larger tax base that an-
• other development would
produce.

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"I think he had a very nice pro-
posal there," he said.
"But I did not have anyone in
the city who wanted a strip mall.
I did what I did because the cit-
izens wanted it."
The vote will not affect the
purchase agreement between
Mr. Surnow and Akiva. That
agreement, made in November
and giving Mr. Surnow the op-
tion to buy the land, was ex-
tended to the end of the century.
The school would reap $1.3
million if the deal goes through,
something Mr. Surnow plans to
have happen.
"I have plenty of options," he
said. "I am not going away."
Dr. David Beneson, president
of Akiva, said the school is con-
tinuing its quest to locate a build-
ing.
"We are still trying to contact
all of the schools and we are look-
ing at office buildings in the
area," he said.
In the meantime, the building
is undergoing minor construction
in order to provide space for a
kindergarten class. When mov-
ing the kindergarten classes out
of the building proved to be too
much of a financial strain, ex-
ecutive director Barry Eisen-
berg's office was sacrificed to be
a part of the classroom.
"I don't know where we are
going to put Barry yet but we
will find a place," Dr. Beneson
said. 0

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