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Local politicians go to sweet lengths to include
constituents who keep kosher.

SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN

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'then the annual Oak Park
Independence Day parade
passed through the city on
July 4, the large contingency of
kosher-observant attendees received a
treat much more extravagant than in
previous years.
"We always hand out kosher candy
to the crowd," said Cheryl Guyer,
district liaison for Sen. Gilda Jacobs,
D-Huntington Woods. But this year
the candies — Bat Bat Lollipops,
Jelly Fruitomilla and Zaza Creams —
were imported from Brazil and pur-
chased at "Got Nosh?", a kosher
candy shop in Southfield.
While Jacobs' office had planned to
distribute the more common, Laffy
Taffy, Guyer said, " -When I checked
Costco, where we usually buy it, we
discovered [State Rep.] Andy Meisner
[D-Ferndale] had already bought it all
to distribute at the parade. So I started
to look for individually wrapped,
kosher-labeled, inexpensive candy that
would not melt."
The search took her to Rabbi
Joseph Krupnik, kashrut director of
the Southfield-based Council of
Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit.
"A lot of candy has a kosher symbol
on the original packaging, but once
it's opened, the individual pieces are
not marked," Rabbi Krupnik said.
"So I suggested she call Adina Morris
at `Got Nosh?' Her store [inside
Spitzer's Hebrew Book and Gift
Center in Southfield] is able to put
the candy in bags with the kosher
store's name on it."
In addition to Jacobs and Meisner,
Guyer said others who regularly pro-

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A woman wearing a Gilda Jacobs
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vide kosher candy at the Oak Park
parade include Oak Park District
Judge Michelle Friedman Appel; U.S.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.; U.S. Rep.
Sander Levin, D-Royal Oak; and
Oakland County Commissioner
Helaine Zack, D-Huntington Woods.
"I am very pleased to see the
interest in our city and state officials
in meeting the sensitive needs of the
Orthodox, kosher-eating communi-
ty," Morris said. "When they
couldn't get kosher candy from their
regular source, they could have said,
`OK, we tried'," she said. "But
instead, they pursued it a little
further."
In addition, Guyer said, "It was
also nice to be able to support
`Got Nosh?', a business in Gilda's
district." 0

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