This Week
Staff Notebook
What's To Eat?
Up And Griffin'
Chuck Ehrenreich says food choices will include
sandwiches for the deli-lovers, salads for the healthy-
minded and bison burgers for the adventurous.
With meal prices starting at $1.99 for a hot dog, the
restaurant will offer grilled foods, including burgers,
with or without parve cheese, side orders, including'
fries and potato skins, specialty sandwiches from Dinty
Moores and Reubens to tuna-on-rye and a variety of
salads. Combos will include fries and soft drinks.
- With parking available at the InLine Hockey Center
entrance, and patrons ordering food at the counter,
the hope is to provide made-to-order fast food.
In addition, staff within the Center building will be
able to call in food orders to be delivered to their offices.
Children's birthday parties will be offered within
the 40-seat restaurant during off-hours. In the sum-
mer, a window in the kitchen will open to the pool
area for outdoor counter service.
The restaurant will be under the supervision of
the Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit-
Vaad Harabonim in Southfield, which monitors and
certifies kashrut adherence.
David Ehrenreich prepares vegetables for opening day of
'A lot of people come in and out of the Center
David's Grill in the West Bloomfield JCC.
every day," Chuck Ehrenreich says. "Now they have
a place to eat."
Milk and Honey of West Bloomfield, a full-service
— Shelli Liebman Dorfman
Kosher dairy restaurant to be run by Matt Prentice,
president of the Bingham Farms-based Unique
David's Grill will be open in the West Bloomfield
Restaurant Corporation, is expected to open in the
JCC,
6600 W. Maple Rd., for lunch, noon-2
West Bloomfield JCC in the near future.
Sunday-Friday
and for dinner, 4-8 Sunday-
Negotiations are underway for the opening of a
Thursday
For
information
or for carryout orders
restaurant in the Oak Park JCC, in the space vacat-
call,
(248)
661-1000,
ext.
5489.
ed after the closing of Meyer Cohen's Soup Bowl
Deli last fall.
David's Grill, a kosher diner, opens at the West Bloomfield ICC.
F
or the first time since Labor Day, the grill
at the West Bloomfield Jewish
Community Center is fired up again.
JCC staff and guests lined up Jan. 15 to grab a
quick bite or sit leisurely in David's Grill, located
near the JCC's InLine Hockey Center.
Though only 19, managing a restaurant comes
naturally for David Ehrenreich, for whom the
restaurant is named. His food service training came
from work at his parents' eatery, Taste of Class in
Oak Park, where he began working at age 16.
"I've been learning about the business little by lit-
tle through the years," he says.
After Meyer Cohen of Meyer S. Cohen Catering
closed his InLine Grill in September, the
Ehrenreichs looked into renting the kitchen and
adjacent eating area.
"We knew there was a need for staff and visitors at
the Center to have a restaurant," Chuck Ehrenreich,
David's father, says. "We want to be able to service
people who can't get out of the building at mealtime."
David's Grill will be open for lunch and dinner,
expanding their hours, if necessary.
The meat and parve (neither milk nor meat) restau-
rant will stay open until 8 p.m. for late dinner service
as well as snacks and soft pretzels for the inline skaters.
Encapsulated
City History
The celebration of Detroit's 300th
birthday was completed Dec. 31 with
the sealing of the Tricentennial Time
Capsule by Mayor Dennis W. Archer
and Edsel B. Ford II.
Detroit's mayor 100 years from now
will find among the 98 letters one
reporting on the state of the metro
Detroit Jewish community written
by Judith Levin Cantor, author of
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philanthropy in the city's major cul-
tural institutions, the strong represen-
tation of physicians in the Detroit
Medical Center, judges and lawyers in
the legal community, faculty at Wayne
State University and Jews involved in
the city's revitalization efforts.
Other Jewish letter writers included
Julie Fisher Cummings, daughter of
Max Fisher, who wrote about philan-
thropy in the city; Gary Torgow,
Jews in Michigan.
The letters requested by the
mayor from business, cultural and
civic leaders will be stored in the
city treasurer's vault. A similar cap-
sule of 55 letters, commissioned by
Mayor William C. Maybury. in
1899, was opened last New Year's
Eve by Archer and Ford.
Cantor's letter includes an
overview of the Jewish presence in
Detroit, dating back to Chapman
Abraham, who came to Detroit as a
fur trader in 1762. She also focused
on current Jewish contributions to
the city, including leadership and
.
Edsel Ford II and Judith Cantor
"
owner of the Sterling Group
development firm, who wrote
about business history and pre-
dictions for the next century; and
Paul Gross, WDIV-TV meteorol-
ogist, who wrote about global
warming.
The "Middle East Peace.
Commitments Act of 2001,"
introduced by Reps. Gary
Ackerman, D-N.Y.,
Benjamin Gilman, R-N.Y.,
and Tom Lantos, D-Calif.,
proposes sanctions, including
— Staff report
denial of visas to Palestine
Knollenberg
Liberation Organization
(PLO) and PA officials, des-,
ignation of the PLO or other con-
stituent groups as a foreign terrorist
organization and prohibition of assis-
tance to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
As four Israeli soldiers died in an
"The United States is leading the glob-
attack by two Palestinians and Israel
al campaign to eradicate terrorism," said
intercepted a ship carrying 50 tons of
U.S. Rep. Joe Knollenberg, R-
weapons allegedly intended for the
Bloomfield Hills, the bill's only Michigan
Palestinian Authority in recent weeks,
co-sponsor. "If Palestinian terrorism
a bill introduced in the U.S. House
against Israel does not stop, there must
last May haS taken on new impor-
be consequences for our relationship
tance.
with Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian
H.R. 1795 requires imposing sanctions Authority. H.R. 1795 puts those conse-
against the Palestinian Authority (PA) if
quences into place."
it does not comply with certain commit-
The bill has 84 co-sponsors, but,
ments, including taking "all measures
according to a Knollenberg spokesperson,
necessary to prevent acts of terrorism,
Reps. Ackerman, Gilman and Lantos are
crime and hostilities against Israel." It is
seeking as many as 150 co-sponsors
on the House floor, seeking additional
before bringing the bill to a vote.
co-sponsors before coming to a vote.
— Harry. Kirsbaum
Palestinian
Sanctions?