Where's The Beef?

On Board

Two of the 25
Oakland County
commissioners sworn
in to office Jan. 6 are
Jewish: second-termer
incumbent Helene
Zack, D-Huntington
Woods, and newcom-
er Marcia Gershenson, Zack
D-Beverly Hills.
The Oakland County Board of
Commissioners sets policy and budget
for 1.2 million residents. Terms run

two years.
Zack is a social
worker active in the
employee assistance
program field.
Gershenson's back-
ground is with non-
profit groups and is
Gershenson
one of the founders of
Gilda's Club Metro
Detroit, a cancer support community.

— Robert A. Sklar, editor

In early December, kosher shoppers at
the Farmer Jack supermarket on
Southfield Road and 12 1 i, Mile were
surprised to find the kosher butcher
counter closed.
The company believes the counter
was not doing enough business,
according to Rabbi Joseph D.
Krupnik, kashrut supervisor for the
Council of Orthodox Rabbis of
Greater Detroit-Vaad Harabonim.
The Southfield store continues to
sell prepackaged and frozen kosher
meats, the rabbi said. Some prepack-

aged fresh cuts are coming from the
two remaining Farmer Jack stores with
kosher butcher counters: 10 Mile and
Coolidge in Oak Park and Maple and
Orchard Lake roads in West
Bloomfield.
The only other Vaad-supervised
kosher butcher shops in the Detroit
area are Harvard Row in West
Bloomfield, Strictly Kosher in Oak
Park and Superior in the One-Stop
Kosher supermarket in Southfield.

— Alan Hitsky, associate editor

JET Earns Designation

The Jewish Ensemble Theater has been
designated a Category I Anchor
Organization by the Michigan Council
for Arts and Cultural Affairs
(MCACA). Anchor organizations are
recognized as major arts institutions
with the capacity and the mission to
implement multi-level programs, and
are widely recognized across multiple
regions of Michigan as hubs of signifi-
cant arts and cultural activity.
JET, a professional Equity theatre
located in the Jewish Community
Center in West Bloomfield, was
acknowledged for many of its pro-
gramming and outreach initiatives,
which are integral to theatre's mission.
In particular, JET was recognized for
its JET Youth Education Services (JET
Y.E.S.)-Dorfman Foundation Youth
Theatre, an educational outreach ini-
tiative that highlights solutions to
problems and issues common among
school-age children, and brings them
to life via lively stage productions.
JET is one of only three Oakland
County organizations — along with

PLEF

the Detroit Zoo and Cranbrook — to
receive this prestigious recognition.
"In everything we do, JET strives to
accomplish the very objectives the
MCACA has identified as crucial, and
we are proud that JET and its pro-
grams meet the MCACKs criteria,"
said Evelyn Orbach, JET artistic direc-
tor.
Category I Anchor Organizations
also must offer interrelated activities
combined with a comprehensive edu-
cational component and community
outreach as well as have a five-year his-
tory of providing high-quality pro-
grams to large and diverse audiences.
Additionally, organizations must have
a documented impact on the regional
economy as well as impact the employ-
ment of Michigan artists, creators and
innovators.
More information about JET is
available by calling (248)-788-2900 or
at: wvvvv.jettheatre.org

Supporting Art

Ann Arbor
Dede and Oscal Feldman of
Bloomfield Hills have made a
$100,000 gift to the University of
Michigan Museum of Art's "The
Museum Re-Imagined" campaign.
Both are U-M alumni and avid art
collectors.
Dede Feldman is the driving force
behind the gift. A member of
UMMNs national advisory board
since 2002, she is considered a nation-
al leader in museum governance
through her service on the board of
the museum trustees association. She
has been on the Detroit Institute of
Arts board of trustees for more than
20 years. She began her commitment
to the arts when she was trained as a

docent for the DIM Art in the
Schools program.
Oscar Feldman is a member of the
Butzel Long law firm and a longtime
volunteer in the Detroit area medical
community.
"Oscar and I feel it is important to
share our love of art and museums,"
she said in the museum's Insight publi-
cation.
"The ambitious initiatives led by
Director James Steward will do much
to create a new generation of young
people who feel comfortable and
involved with museums — and, hope-
fully, responsible for their future."

— Keri Guten Cohen,
story development editor

— Keri Guten Cohen,
story development editor

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Quotables

Do You Remember?

January 1985

"Rich in architectural treasures, the Old City is
just 247 acres, while the rest of Jerusalem is very
large. Clearly, the modern city needs its own treas-
ures, but the real challenge is for the new architec-
ture to maintain a dialogue with the old."

— Professor Michael Levin ofIsrael's
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in "Building
Israel," Hadassah magazine, December issue.

The Metropolitan New York Coordinating
Council on Jewish Poverty made one of the first
deposits in the new credit union developed by the
citywide Jewish Union for Russian Immigrants.
Loans will be able to be made to those who
have problems getting credit from conventional
sources due to a lack of a credit history in the
United States.

— Sy Manello, editorial assistant

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