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have never in my life done the same menu
twice. We do recipe testing all the time'
The winner of several national and
state culinary competitions while still in
high school, Sklar worked in the kitchen
at the now-closed Emily's restaurant in
Northville and completed an externship
at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Dearborn
during culinary school.
He took culinary arts dasses at the
Oakland Schools Technical Campus
Southwest in Walled Lake while he was a
student at North Farmington High School.
His love of cooking evolved into a busi-
ness."While I was in school in New York,
I started doing small, high-end, six- to
eight-course sit-down parties in homes:'
he said. Ifs something he continues to
enjoy planning. "I was getting a following,
so I opened Cutting Edge Cuisine:'
A Web site, cuttingedgecuisine.com , will
be accessible soon. Sklar is ready to launch
cuttingedgetogo.com, an online extension
of his catering business. "It will serve the
highest-end food — with a focus on Jewish
foods — delivered to homes on holidays','
he said.

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Sklar is moved by some of the responses
he gets from clients. "A woman hugged me
and said, `You made my event, and that
touched me; it was so rewarding."
And he is thrilled to be a part of Shir
Shalom in his new capacity. "I was bar
mitzvah on the bimah there and now they
are one of my clients. This place is my home
and I want to do more things for them:'

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Name: Zack Sklar
Age: 22
Residence: Farmington Hills
Family: Sherry and Larry Sklar
Education: North Farmington High
School, 2004; associate of culi-
nary arts and bachelor's degree in
hospitality management, Culinary
Institute of America, 2007
Employer: Corporate chef, Cutting
Edge Cuisine inside Temple Shir
Shalom, 3999 Walnut Lake Road,
West Bloomfield, (248) 444-9789;
zack@cuttingedgecuisine.biz

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Temple Elects
Officers
Members of the
Birmingham Temple in
Farmington Hills elected
Paul Goldman of West
Bloomfield president for
the 2008-09 fiscal year.
Paul Goldman
The executive board
also includes Rob Lasker, first vice presi-
dent; Paul Kadish, second vice president;
Myra Jacobs, treasurer; Judy Nave, secretary.
The board of trustees includes Sandy
Altman, Marci Bean, Chellie Eick, John
Gardon, Amy Good, Jennifer Grodsky,
Marc Hirsch, Afi Kresch, Les Kutinsky,
Harriet Maza, Charles Nave, Nancy
Peshkin, Jacki Roessler, Dan Schechter,
Aaron Silver.

of Beth El Memorial Park
Cemetery in Livonia for
10 years and has been
active on the Temple
Board of Trustees and
the executive committee.
He is also a member of
the
International Board
Jim Deutchman
of Governors of Technion
(Israel Institute of Technology).
Other officers installed with Deutchman
are first vice president, George Stern;
vice presidents, Mark Canvasser, David
Handleman and L. Steven Weiner; treasur-
er, Herschel Fink; and secretary, Miriam
Cohen.
New members of the board of trustees
include Karen Borenstein, Nicole London
and Patti Phillips. Serving a second
three-year term are Wendy Bice, Cindy
New Board At Beth El
Cohen, Joan Halpern, Jerry Kline, Phyllis
The 158th annual meeting of Temple Beth Loewenstein and Sheldon Toll.
El was the occasion for the installation
Members of the 2009 Nominating
of James Deutchman as the Bloomfield
Committee will be Lawrence Epstein,
Township temple's 72nd president.
chair; Howard Barron, Jill Gurwin and
A builder and developer in Southeastern Michael Leib.
Michigan, Deutchman served as chairman

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