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the non-kosher restaurants – and
fish you buy at the same price,"
Kohn said.
Kosher meat, in other words,
is much too expensive — a factor
in both chefs' decisions to do
milchig . Prentice added that a
fleischig restaurant would re-
quire the regular patronage of
non-observant Jews to be suc-
cessful.
Plus, "The thought of cooking
without butter and cream, espe-
cially with pastries, is not very
appealing to me," he said.
Prentice, who is married to a
Jew who was reared in a kosher
home but no longer keeps kosher
at home, had received final ap-
proval from the Vaad in May, but
members came back to him with
"concerns," among them that he
owns non-kosher restaurants.
That stalled the opening of a
restaurant, but he said he feels
he was treated fairly by the
agency.
"They caught me by surprise,
especially when they told me I
couldn't have keys to my own
restaurant," but, "They've been
very much on the up and up with
me. I've been very happy with the
way they've dealt with me," he
said.
Rabbi Joseph Krupnik of the
Vaad, whom Prentice praised for
his support, said his only disap-
pointment is that the restaurant
won't be opened until next sum-
mer.
`That might be the reason why
he succeeds. He doesn't go rush-
ing into things," Rabbi Krupnik
said.
The Vaad approved Prentice's
plans on Aug. 8. The restaurant
will be closed on Shabbat, and
Prentice will hire a full-time and
a part-time mashgiach (kosher
supervisor), with the hope that
one or the other will become a
managing partner.
Prentice also has the catering
contracts with Temple Israel and
Temple Shir Shalom and wants
to be able to offer them kosher
food when requested. He'll use
portable ovens and a truck in
which to do the cooking. The
Vaad, of course, will keep the
keys.
Both chefs say they don't mind
the competition from the other.
"I think it'll be synergistic,"
Kohn said. "It's like having
Neiman Marcus and Saks in the
same mall. I think it will give le-
gitimacy to the idea that you can
do a kosher restaurant in Detroit
and it will succeed."
Prentice agrees. He compli-
mented Kohn on his cooking in-
novativeness.
"[Kohn] is a very, very good
caterer, although the restaurant
business is new to him. But that's
okay. We're not going to open this
restaurant and market it as a
kosher restaurant. We're open-
ing a great restaurant that hap-
pens to be kosher," he said.
Kohn said his teen-age son has

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taken on the restaurant as a
"personal project," even coming
up with a name: Strega Nona, af-
ter a popular children's book
about a grandma with magical
powers who feeds everybody
pasta.

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Oak Park District Court Judge
Benjamin Friedman calls the
volunteer policing program "a
disaster waiting to happen." He
said he and the other judges on
the bench are leery of the pro-
gram because it sends out un-
armed civilians to do police
work.
"I'd like to be pleasantly sur-
prised," the judge said.
Luxton said he and city offi-
cials researched similar pro-
grams in other cities —
Farmington Hills and Novi
among them — before they ini-
tiated their own. It took a year
of planning to put it in place.
"These people are taught to
back off, not confront. We've had
no close calls. Just seeing the or-
ange vests is good," he said.
"It's an education for them,"
Littman added.
If a driver moves his car
before the ticket is complete,
he is informed that the judge
will consider all the facts in
court. It happened with one
man who hadn't placed his
handicap registration in a visi-
ble place.
Oak Park's community polic-
ing program also involves vol-
unteer crossing guards and
watchdog programs inside the
Jewish Federation Apartments.
Magar is a volunteer with the
Vertical Eye Watch program at
Prentis, and Littman, a former
travel agent, proofreader, book-
keeper and singer and dancer
who moved to Detroit in Janu-
ary, plans to get involved in
that, too.
'What [Luxton] has done is
utilize our seniors, which is ex-
citing," said Iris Mickel, admin-
istrator of Prentis Federation
Apartments. "They're pumped
up about it. It's such an ener-
gizing program for everyone
here. My philosophy is, if you
move into senior housing at 62
and live to be 100, that's a lot of
years. You've got to have some-
thing fun to do."
Magar, who moved to the
United States in 1961 from
Egypt, via Paris, said her chil-
dren are supportive of her new
career.
"My older one thinks it's
`Wow, mom,' " she said.
Mickel said two other Pren-
tis residents are on a waiting list
to get into the action. O

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