Everybody's Store

One Stop Kosher's new location boasts a kosher butcher,
bakery, deli, fish market and aisles and aisles of kosher food.

SHELLI LIEBMAN -DORFMAN

Staff Writer

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hen six Orthodox boys from Yeshiva
Beth Yehudah looking for a snack and
a non-Jewish couple doing their week-
ly grocery shopping can all be satisfied
in one supermarket, somebody is stocking the
shelves carefully.
"And that's the point," says Benji Silverstein, co-
owner with Shlomo Goldman of One Stop Kosher
Food Market in Southfield. "We try to make sure we
can serve everyone."
The word "kosher" is printed smaller than the others
on the store's sign so "the general consumer driving
down the street won't see it and ask, 'What can I buy
there?'" Silverstein says. "A lot of people don't realize
how much general food is really kosher. We want to
bring them in and let them see for themselves."
The new and expanded One Stop Kosher store
opened Nov. 29 at the site of the former Hiller's
Food Emporium in the New Orleans Mall.
Customers now can fill their carts not only with
items made by kosher companies or name brand
items carrying kosher certification, but also with
non-food items. Their grocery shopping can be
completed in one place.
"We have kosher products like Osem, and
everyday products like Nabisco, Tropicana, cereals
and dog food, cat food, paper goods," Goldman
says. "We have 70 freezer doors of kosher food
selections including Edy's, Haagen-Dazs, TV din-
ners and fish," Silverstein adds.

Superior Kosher Meats, previously in Oak Park,
has moved its business into One Stop, as an inde-
pendently operated butcher shop.
"The butcher already had certification from their
previous store," says Rabbi Joseph Krupnik, kashrut
director of the Council of Orthodox Rabbis. "The
same mashgiach (kashrut supervisor) will continue to
supervise at the location."
A second mashgiach will supervise other areas of the
store, making certain there is no cross-contamination of
utensils, containers and even gloves worn in serving food.

Goldman, who lives in New York with his family,
will continue his monthly visits to the new store as
he did with the old one.
Silverstein, a Detroit native, lives in Southfield
with his wife, Ilana, and their children Shoshana, 4
1/2; Yossi, 3 1/2; and Dovi, almost 2.
Many of One Stop's shoppers are old customers,
who wave hello to Silverstein, or call out, "Benji!
Can you help me find something?" Using a walky-
talky, he frequently radios the stockroom for items
not yet shelved, then takes them to customers

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Shopping At One Stop

On Dec. 4, the first Monday afternoon the store
was open, a small group of customers stood in
line, expressing delight over an incoming ship-
ment of kosher Tradition soups, while others
milled around, discovering hard-to-find kosher
gum and specialty-sized, six-ounce bottles of
grape juice.
A sign on the front doors of the 15,000-square-
foot store informs shoppers that packaged products
include different kosher symbols, and that customers
should check labels for the kashrut level they regard.
"We carry a tremendous line of different supervi-
sions," Goldman says of the certifications that include
"0-U," "0-K," "Triangle-K," "Star-K" and "Kof-K."
The Vaad Harabonim/Council of Orthodox
Rabbis of Greater Detroit, based in Southfield, will
supervise of the store's full-service areas for handling
or preparing food. This includes the upcoming bak-
ery, a just-opened fresh fish department, a 25-foot-
long meat-deli counter, dairy deli and possibly the
most exciting facet to customers observant of kashrut
— a kosher butcher.

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Charlotte Katz of Oak Park does some grocery shopping at One Stop Kosher.
Inset: Benji Silverstein and Shlomo Goldman, co-owners.

Partnership

Silverstein of Southfield and Goldman of New York
City have been partners since One Stop's original
store opened at- the corner of 10 Mile and Southfield
roads in 1996. The venture combines Silverstein's
determination and knowledge of the Detroit Jewish
community with Goldman's background as a sales-
man for a kosher food distributorship.
They had outgrown the original 2,650-square-
foot store, so they moved into the former site of
Hiller's. They spent the month of November
cleaning and restocking the new location and
adding such new items as bottle- and can-recy-
cling machines.

himself.
"That's part of being customer friendly," he says.
When shopper Aviva Zacks of Oak Park men-
tioned that it would be easier to carry a drink from
the store's coffee and cocoa machine if the cups had
lids, Silverstein immediately ordered them. "As big

One Stop Kosher Food Market is located at 25155
Greenfield Road in Southfield. Hours are 9 a.m.-9
p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. until one
hour before sundown Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
Sunday. Closed on Shabbat. (248) 569-5000.,

