Staff Notebook

Mayor Archer And Detroit Jewry

Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer has
announced that he will not run for re-
election this fall.
David Gad-Harf, Jewish
Community Council of Metropolitan
Detroit executive director, said he
hopes Archer's successor will continue
to keep Jews involved in the city of
Detroit.
"Mayor Archer laid down the chal-
lenge to the Jewish community at the
beginning of his administration to do
even more than it had been doing and
to do so in a more broad-based way,"
he said.
The Detroit Jewish Initiative —
launched in 1995 to forge partner-
ships between the Jewish community
and the city of Detroit — was a
response to that call, Gad-Harf said.

Mayor Archer

David Gad-Harf

"It is our hope that the next mayor
will be someone who maintains that
same desire to weave together the met-
ropolitan Detroit community," he
said. "And to portray us as being part
of a common future."

—Harry Kirsbaum

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Sunday, May 20, 2001 • 5:30 pm

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A parking lot full of shopping carts
and customers with grocery bags is a
common sight for a supermarket, but
not a synagogue.
Unless it's the day before Passover
and the activity is in front of
Congregation Shaarey Zedek. Then, it
can only mean shoppers are picking
up their orders from Paul Kohn's
Quality Kosher Catering, housed
inside the Southfield building.
"We sold thousands of matzah balls
and thousands of pieces of gefilte
fish," says Patty Paterni, Quality
Kosher's executive catering director.
Orders from the yearly Passover car-
ryout sale were set for pickup, April 6,
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. "But after 2,

people just kept on coming," Paterni
says. "They would call and say, 'My
mother told me to pick up a cake, but I
forgot. Can I still come?'" The answer
was yes for such requests, included in
orders totaling 850.
Customers entering the synagogue's
social hall came for any combination
of soups, appetizers, desserts and
entrees.
One-hundred shopping carts, on
loan from a local Farmer Jack super-
market, were continuously filled and
emptied by customers who loaded up
everything from pre-packaged orders
to hand-sliced prime rib to "extras" set
out on a table in the lobby. E

— Shelli Liebman Dorfman