MAINSTREETS

ON THE COVER

The Best Of Everything

With several milestones on the horizon, Danny Raskin
is still patrolling the Detroit area restaurant scene.

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Alan Hitsky

Associate Editor

ixty-six years can have an effect
on people. In Danny Raskin's
case, the years have not affect-
ed him as much as he's affected others.
Raskin, who will be 90 in January,
has been writing a weekly column in
the Detroit Jewish News since the news-
paper's first issue on March 27, 1942.
That's more than 3,400 issues and well
over 6,000 columns — for many years
Raskin wrote his "Best of Everything"
each week about Detroit's restaurant
and night-life scene and a separate
weekly column, "Listening Post:' about
people in the Jewish community.
"Listening Post" and
"Best of Everything"
were combined in the
Danny Raskin's early 1990s, but one
been checking
thing didn't change:
out the food
Raskin continues to
for 66 years.
write about a lot of
restaurants and a lot
of individuals.
Arthur Horwitz,
publisher of the Jewish News, states:
"In 1992, to mark the occasion of
Danny Raskin's 50th anniversary with
the Jewish News, I wrote that Danny was
an institution whose record of longevity
was unsurpassed in Detroit journalis-
tic circles. Here we are, 16 years later,
66 years after his first weekly column
appeared in the Jewish News, and Danny
is still going strong.
"It's a record of consistency and
continuity that speaks volumes about
Danny's joy of living (and eating) and
his desire to continue to share his expe-
riences with generations of loyal read-
ers. The good Lord could never create
another one like Danny Raskin!'
Raskin was 23 in 1942 when he joined
the Jewish News. A graduate of Detroit's
High School of Commerce (1937), he
had written for the Detroit News and
other publications when another Detroit
News alumnus, Jewish News founder and

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October 23 • 2008