Staff Notebook
Booked Up
Alice Berlin and Judy
Blustein, both of
Southfield, check out
bargains Wednesday at
the 50th Annual Jewish
Book Fair hosted by
the Jewish Community
Center of Metropolitan
Detroit. The Book Fair
,̀.-1 runs through Sunday.
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Hardly Ecumenical
Team Soozie To Be Honored
dispute over how to refer to God in an inter-
faith Thanksgiving prayer service has divided
religious leaders on southwest Florida's
exclusive Marco Island.
The Naples (Fla.) Daily News reported last week
that clergy on the island could not agree on whether
to pray at the service in the name of "the Lord" or
in the name of Jesus.
The president of the Marco Island Clergy
Association has resigned over the dispute and resi-
dents will now be able to choose between two inter-
faith services, including one with a Muslim speaker,
and a Christian service.
The rabbi at the Jewish Center of Marco Island
and the pastor of the United Church of Marco had
advocated using "the Lord" in referring to God.
But, according to Rev. Bruce Fiol of Marco
Presbyterian Church, "My idea of an ecumenical
service is to allow us to be ourselves rather than to
try to artificially reduce my belief system so it's not
offensive to anyone else."
The Daily News quoted Rev. Jack Hughen of First
Baptist Church of Marco Island: "We pray in the
name of Jesus. They're trying to give us all kinds of
instructions."
hile Soozie Zussman of West Bloomfield,
battled breast cancer, her family and
w friends showed up in force Sept. 29 for
Gilda's Club of Metro Detroit's annual Family Walk.
The walk, held at Fairgrounds Park in Detroit,
raised a total of $170,000. More than 80 teams par-
ticipated. Team Soozie was the top fund-raiser,
bringing in more than $7,000.
Located in Royal Oak, Gilda's Club offers free emo-
tional and social support for men, women and chil-
dren with cancer, and for their families and friends.
Zussman, a mother, entrepreneur, volunteer and
very active member of Gilda's Club, died Oct. 16.
The team formed in her honor will themselves be
honored Nov. 19 at the club's annual pledge party.
For more information about Gilda's Club, call
(248) 577-0800.
— Alan Hits ky
Turkeys Help The Hungry
EE
eading off to the store for that
Thanksgiving bird? Empire Kosher Poultry
is continuing its holiday tradition of match-
ing mailed-in weight labels from its whole turkeys
and turkey breast products with contributions to
food banks nationwide.
Yad Ezra, the kosher food bank in Oak Park that
helps feed 1,200 families per month, in recent years
has received 4,000-5,000 pounds of kosher poultry
products from Empire as a result of the promotion.
The company has added to the 3,000-pound total
sent in by Detroit-area consumers.
The weight labels from Empire turkeys and turkey
breast packages purchased between Nov. 1 and Jan.
14 can be sent to Pound for Pound, Empire Kosher
Poultry, PO Box 165, Mifflintown, PA 17059:
— Alan Hitsky
11/16
2001
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rooms and a much larger waiting room as well as a
work/conference room for volunteers and board
members, more room for staff, expanded storage
capability and a spacious parking lot.
A capital campaign of $1.2 million is ongoing.
But things got rolling with a $500,000 gift from Ed
and Gloria Meer of Bloomfield Hills. The annual
dinner raised $316,000, according to Lea Luger,
development director.
Other news that stunned many of the 600 attend-
ing the dinner Oct. 29 at Congregation Shaarey
Zedek in Southfield was that the number of clients
rose from 1,600 individuals 1 1 /2 years ago to 2,500
individuals today, an increase of roughly 60 percent.
Much of this increase comes from a concerted effort
to identify those in need, but also from the slump-
ing economy, Luger said.
Honorees at the dinner were devoted volunteers and
donors Robert and Bluma Schechter of Bloomfield
Hills. Longtime volunteer Dorothy Last of Oak PA'rk
was given the Diane and Emery Klein Volunteer
Recognition Award by the Kleins of Southfield.
—Keri Guten Cohen
Diana Lieberman
Big Steps For Yad Ezra
T
he biggest news at this year's Yad Ezra din-
ner was the announcement of a much-need-
ed new building that quadruples the size of
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the current site.
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Renovations are going on now at the location on
11 Mile Road between Coolidge and Greenfield.
Expected occupancy is January.
The new location will allow for private intake
Corrections
• The JN SourceBook contained
the following errors in recipes.
Please correct your home copy:
• In Marcia Krupp's kugel
recipe (page 27), drain the canned
pineapple before stirring it in.
• In Muriel Silverstein's pick-
led fish recipe (page 29), she
uses whole trout cut as steaks
not boneless skinless trout.
• In Sidy Lowenthal's apple
cake recipe (page 23), the saved
Andrew Zack of Huntington Woods, Yad Ezra president,
and Emery and Diane Klein of Southfield present the
annual volunteer recognition award to Dorothy Last of
Oak Park for her longstanding dedication to Yad Ezra.
eggshell is used to provide half
an eggshell's worth of milk.
• In the article about keeping
kosher (page 30), fleishig (meat)
foods incorrectly listed fish
along with meat and fowl. Fish
is parve (neither milk nor meat).
• City Councilman Sidney Lantz
is not the only Jewish elected offi-
cial in Southfield as reported last
week ("Election Aftermath, Nov.
9, page 24). Jonathan Brateman is
also a council member.
• A sentence in last week's cover
story "On Alert," (Nov. 9, page
14) should have quoted Terry
Rotenberg, owner-manager of
Gemini Travel, as saying that a
large percentage of reservations
booked last summer for future
air travel have been cancelled, -
not reservations made now for
next summer. To learn more
about the effect of the terrorist
activities on travel, read "Fear Of
Flying," on vv-ww.detroitjewish-
news.com/inprint