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© 2000

anny Jabbori, the non-Jewish owner of the Sunoco
gas station at 10 Mile and Greenfield roads in Oak
By Goldfein
Park, is participating in an innovative program to
uring the Aleynu prayer, congregants bend the
help the area's Orthodox day schools.
knee to respond to the words cor-eem Onish-
Each Tuesday, from 7 a.m. to 7 a.m. the next morning,
tachavim as they are spoken. What do the
bbori donates one cent from every gallon of gas sold to three
: words really mean?
local day schools. They are
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Yehudah's sister school in Oak
Park, the Sally Allan Alexander
Beth Jacob School for Girls.
The idea for the donations
There once was a wife known as Kitty
was the brainchild of Oak
Whose townhouse caught fire in the city.
Park's Gail Hennes, whose
She said, "Got tsu danken*
three children attend Darchei
I salvaged the flanken."**
Torah and Beth Yehudah. She
vnocos Danny Jabbori
Her husband replied, "More's the pity!"
saw a similar promotion in a
different state. Said Hennes: "I
ought, why not ask at 'my' station and see if they'd do the
— Martha Jo Fleischmann
me thing?" And "her" station happens to be the Sunoco at 10
* Thank God!
[ile and Greenfield, where she not only fills up, but also was
** soup or stew meat
clployed. At 16, she held a summer job pumping gas there.
Jabbori was happy to go along with Hennes' request. "I do a
t of business with the Jewish community and I don't mind
Aping out," he said. "It's really no big deal, but the pennies do
Id up."
"I wonder if I deserve to be here when the next name
He picked Tuesday, typically a slow business day, for the pro-
on the list is [Hank] Greenberg."
otion. Since flyers went out at the day schools three weeks ago,
— Paul Groffiky, former University of Michigan basketball
has seen an increase in business volume. "It's a win-win pro-
captain, inducted with squash champion Jeffey Deitch and
am," he said.
former U-M All-American backstroker Bernard Kahn into
Jabbori has offered use of his station to the schools for car
the Michigan Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
ash fund-raisers in the summer. "He's a real mentsh," said
ennes. "He's been very accommodating and wants to do what
"An unfortunate and completely unintentional error."
can to help."
— Linda J. Pell of Kellogg's, on a six-pointed star that
The take from the "Fuel Our Schools" program has been
appeared with the words "Jude Star" on some cereal
tween $50 and $70 a week, split monthly between the schools.
boxes and the Internet as part of Kellogg's "Pokemon
Hennes set up the program with Akiva's fund-raising commit-
and Win Sweepstakes." The Anti-Defamation League
e last year, but Julie Sherizen, who chairs Akiva's PTA, is happy
said the illustration should have read "Jade Star"
see the three schools participating jointly.
"We're all trying to raise funds to help support our schools,"
"We grow greater by dreams."
& said. "Hopefully, this is the start of more cooperative pro-
— Irwin Kahn, who with his wife Ruth were honored
cts." ❑
at Yad Ezra's 10th annual dinner at Adat Shalom
— Susan Tawil, special writer
Synagogue in Farmington Hills.

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