For Openers

Passover, Kosher Carryout Style

ond."
nyone overwhelmed with
In addition to menu items, she's flexible about special
Passover cooking and cleaning
orders, including one for 22 pounds of cabbage salad.
might
Kohn's most commonly
feel a
ordered
items for Passover
little less over-
are
the
traditional
matzah
worked when they
balls, gefilte fish and
hear that staff at
chopped liver. A staff of
Quality Kosher
40 cooks, boxes and labels
Catering
made
SHELLI
completed items, includ-
6,000 matzah balls
LIEBMAN
ing
500 seven-layer cakes.
DORFMAN this week. At Elite
Foods that won't fit in
Kosher
Caterers,
Staff Writer
Kohn's freezer are stored
their preparations
off-site at Loewenstein
included the clean-
Poultry in Taylor, where
ing of 12 over-sized ovens.
the freezer is the size of
"It took 90 hours of intense
small city," Kohn said.
cleaning to get the kitchen ready,"
All ordered items are
said Mimi Markofsky, who, with
picked up during one busy
her Elite partner Jeffrey L.
but organized day. The
Rosenberg, is cooking Passover
Shaarey Zedek social hall
catered items at Congregation B'nai
is
converted into a shop-
Moshe at West Bloomfield.
ping area with items divid-
In the midst of regular non-
ed into food categories.
Passover party planning, Paul
Shopping carts, on loan
Kohn's staff at Quality scoured their
from
Farmer Jack, make
kitchen in preparation for cooking
shuttling
food to cars easy.
and baking kosher-for-Passover car-
Sometimes being
ryout items for 1,000 customers.
accommodating pays off
"We cleaned from the ceiling
in unexpected ways, says
down, starting with the duct work,"
Kohn, who has offered
said Kohn, president of the catering
Passover
carryout since
business based inside Congregation
1981.
Many
years ago, he
Shaarey Zedek in Southfield.
patiently took an order for
Then there's the cleaning of the
Assembly line creation of kosher-for-Passover cakes
specially cut chickens, side
refrigerators, each of which Kohn
at Quality Kosher Catering.
dishes not on the menu
describes as being "the size of a
and a request for delivery
small bedroom." His steam kettles
rather
than
pickup.
are so huge that when the Shaarey Zedek Beth Hayeled
"Eight months later, the woman who placed the order called
kindergarten students come each year for a tour, he said, "I let
me," Kohn said. "She wanted me to know that she remem-
them stand inside the pots to show them how big they are."
bered the kindness in accommodating her, and she told me
At Elite, the most popular carryout items have been stuffed
she
went to shul on Yom Kippur and prayed for me and
chicken breasts. "We expect orders for at least 300,"
my
family."
Ell
Markofsky said. "Gefilte fish and matzah balls came in sec-

A

IV

hile American Jews use a
traditional expression
offering comfort to
mourners when visiting
a shivah house, Jewish South Africans
express a different sentiment on simi-
lar occasions. What is it?
— Goldfine

;an 2uoT c s.moA pu-e noA
L, 'sr Jainnotu C o uoIssaldxa uroujv
tpos tispnaf feuopIpr.0 atwiamsuy

Quotables

"Our most important challenge is the
future generation and its lack of
knowledge. The Haggadah talks about
four sons, but now we are dealing
with a fifth son — one who is com-
pletely disconnected from everything.
This is something we have to deal
with. Even the bad son makes trouble,
but he is still within the framework of
the community."
— Isak Haleva, new chief rabbi of
Turkey, whose 25,000 Jews live mostly
in Istanbuh as quoted by JTA.

Yiddish Limericks

My tax man advised, (Az me fregt,
A sheileh, vert traiff* I suspect.
Tsedakah's** terrific;
Just don't be specific.
You can't write off pushkehs.*** I
checked!

Shabbat Candlelighting

— Martha Jo Fleischmann

"Shabbos candles means me and my daughter have to be by the table to
light and pray for everybody to be healthy and wise."

— Kira Shteyn, Oak Park
Hair stylist

Sponsored by Lubavitch
Women's Organization.
To submit a candlelighting
message or to receive
complimentary candlesticks
and information on Shabbat
candlelighting, call Miriam
Amzalak of Oak Park at
(248) 967-5056 or e-mail:
mamzalakuno.com

* If you ask (a rabbi) a question, he
will surely find something wrong
** charity's
*** poor boxes

Yiddish-isms

mentsh

[

Candlelighting

Candlelighting

Friday, April 11, 7:51 p.

Friday, April 18, 7:59 p.m.

Shabbat Ends

Shabbat Ends

Saturday, April 12, 8:56 p.m.

Saturday, April 19, 9:05 p.m.

A human being; an upright, honorable
person; someone of consequence.

Source: From The New Joys of Yiddish
by Leo Calvin Rosten, edited by
Lawrence Bush, copyright 2001, by
the Rosten Family LLC. Used by per-
mission of the Rosten Family LLC.

2003
11