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essica glides across the room in a lyrical routine
while Rebecca taps out her own jazz steps on the
hardwood floor. When college takes a break, older
sister Michelle joins in and the three daughters of Dr.
Nick and Sue Hersh become a trio of prima ballerinas
in a place built just for their dance.
"They use it a lot," said Sue, of the special dance
floor that was included in the plan to add a bedroom
to the family colonial. With three dancing daughters it
seemed like a good idea, said mom. Dad agreed and
called Gittleman.
"They were just wonderful," said Sue. "If they said they
were coming at 6, they were here at 6. And, they cleaned
up everything. I would definitely use them again."
Punctual, tidy and most importantly, creative, the
Gittleman team listened to the Hersh's dreams before
designing plans to seamlessly add a spacious
addition to the house the family moved to. just three
years ago.
Now, youngest daughter Rebecca has a brand new bedroom with her own walk in closet and private
bathroom, connected to every dancer's dream come true — an open floor with mirrors and a barre.
Said Sue, "She loves it."
And when the daughters are done dancing, "I'll turn it into my workout room."
So next time you need to choreograph some changes around your house to make room for the
things you and your family love to do, step up to the job with the region's most appreciated home
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is kosher, has all the stuff ready
for Passover right down to the
mouthwash. The two of them work
beautifully together and their rela-
tionship really mirrors the diversi-
ty of the Oak Park area."

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The-same sort of dynamic flourish-
es at the Vineyards, where Bloom's
Catering has been part of Asmar's
store for almost 17 years.
"It started off as part of a back
counter and I've taken the place
over inch by inch," says Bloom,
whose family has been catering
affairs in the community since
1952.
"Ron is a born shmoozer and we
feel at home with each other. Oh,
we fight all the time, mostly
because we have different ideas
on improving service. But, at the
end of the day, we're friends
again."
"I ask my Jewish friends who
come in here how do you get
along with a Jewish woman,"
Asmar says, "They say just give

her a simple four-letter word:
'Fine.' Then you'll have no prob-
lems.
"I got into this business after
owning a drugstore in Detroit, and
it didn't take me long to see that
with a Jewish customer base I'd
better give them something they
can't find anywhere else. So when
Shirlee's husband passed away
and she was looking for something
to do, I welcomed her right in.
"Her best quality? .Patience. She
knows how to deal with a very
demanding kind of customer."
Says Bloom,."Like most Jewish
people in the late '80s, I really did-
n't know much about Chaldeans. I
thought they were Arabs. Nothing
against the Arabs, but running a
kosher catering business out of an
Arab-owned store didn't sound like
a good fit to me.
"But Ron and I are like family to
each other. Of course, if we actual-
ly were husband and wife we
would have been divorced a long
time ago." 0

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Alan Passerman and Sam Loussia at the drugstore they own
together in Oak Park