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From the pages of the Jewish News for
this week 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50
years ago.

1990

Joanne Zuroff was chosen as the
Akiva Hebrew Day School Ayshet
Chayil (Woman of Valor) awardee.
The 1990 Jewish News Mitzvah
Heroes were Rae Sharfman, Jeff
Lazar and Dorothy Goldberg.

A woman who wants to take over a
kosher butcher store is in a dispute
with the Council of Rabbis.

1980

Berkley High School presented the
play Fiddler on the Roof
Dr. Leonard Moss, professor of
anthropology at Wayne State
University, has been named
Distinguished Lecturer of the Year
by the Central States
Anthropological Society.

ALAN HITSKY

Associate Editor

T

he woman insists she just wants to continue
operations as usual. The rabbis insist they just
want some Jewish references.

But until the two sides come to agreement, one of the
dwindling number of kosher butcher stores in the Detroit
area may lose its kosher supervision.
Sherry Gilman sees a business opportunity at Dexter-
Davison Kosher Meats at 10 Mile and Coolidge in Oak
Park. She has put in five months of unpaid time at the
store, learning the business. She says she has a purchase
agreement with owner Eugene Feldman and a lease exten-
sion with the shopping center's owner.
But she doesn't have a hechsher (certificate of kosher
supervision).
Gilman met with members of the Council of Orthodox

Rabbis of Greater Detroit (Vaad Harabonim) three
months ago. She says the rabbis told her she would have
to purchase pre-packaged, pre-koshered meats from
Cornbelt Packing in Detroit. The store currently pur-
chases sides of beef from Cornbelt — at a 30 percent sav-
ings over pre-packaged — and cuts and kashers the meat
at the store.
"No other store has this requirement," Gilman says of
the pre-packaged meat.
A representative of the Vaad has a different issue. "We
have told her repeatedly," says Rabbi Joseph Krupnick,
"that we would like to have her references."
Rabbi Krupnick, director of kosher supervision for the
Vaad, says supervision cannot be transferred from one
owner to another. "We need to know her personal level
of Shabbat observance, of kashruth. We asked for refer-
ences three months ago, but she never bothered to follow
up."
-
Pre-packaged meats are required if a non-Jewish or non-
observant person wants to sell kosher products.
Gilman, a native of Kalamazoo, came to the Detroit area
2'/2 years ago. A single mother, she lived in Israel nine years,
has a son, 22, in Tel Aviv, and twin 10-year-old daughters liv-
ing with her.
She has a degree in commercial art, training in accounting,
worked for an Israeli engineering firm and for Pharmacia &
Upjohn in Kalamazoo, before moving to Detroit to find "a
larger Jewish community." She has taught Hebrew school,

3/24
2000

34

A group of vacant buildings along the

Woodward Avenue corridor of
Detroit's medical center will be reno-
vated for use by the Jewish Vocational
Service and Community Workshops.
Grand-prize winners at the Hillel
Day School science fair were Arthur
Nusbaum, for his electric motor,
and Hillel Frankel, for a working
computer.

Gilman at Dexter-Davison Kosher Meats

ere were an estimated 70 kosher
e metropolitan area now has

is at Coolidge and 10 Mile
10 Mile
Orchard Lake
d and Webster
and. Orchard Lake
d and Lincoln

Nine Mile and Coolidge

belongs to Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park, is shomer
Shabbat (observes the laws of the Sabbath) and keeps kosher.
- At present, Gilman and the Vaad seem to be at a standoff
Gilman says she answered the Vaad's questions three
months ago when she met with Rabbis Krupnick, Elimelech
Goldberg and Chaskel Grubner. Rabbi Krupnick says Gilman
has ignored repeated requests — delivered by the store's kosher
supervisor, Leo Steinmetz — for Jewish references.
Although Gilman is scheduled to take over the store from
Feldman between April 1 and Passover, no one seems to know
how the supervision question will turn out. ❑

A V\
Seven hundred and fifty survivors
of the Auschwitz concentration
camp met in New York for their
first reunion since liberation by the
Allied forces 15 years earlier.
Cantor I. Katz of Mt. Clemens
and Rabbi Joseph Katz of Saginaw,
his son, will lead sederitn at the
Colonial Hotel in Mt. Clemens for
the sixth year.

4*ks

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The archives of the Nuremberg tri-
als of 22 leading Nazis arrived in
The Hague for safekeeping by the
International Court of Justice.
President Harry Truman indi-
cated that he would seek termina-
tion of Britain's shipping arms to
Arab states.
Ellis A. Gimbel, last of the seven
Gimbel brothers who founded the
family chain of department stores,
died at age 84.

— Compiled by Sy Manello,

Editorial Assistant

