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Gold 'n' Greens
Arthur Horwitz is hoisted high on a chair during a
celebratory hora at the JN 70th anniversary party.
JN Turns 70
Kosher: Detroit Style
Kosher dining has come to Wayne State University's
Midtown Detroit campus with the creation of Gold 'n'
Greens Urban Fresh Cuisine.
Certified as kosher dairy, the cheerful-looking din-
ing hall has its own ground-floor entrance at the Yousif
B. Ghafari Residence on Anthony Wayne Drive (Third
Avenue) at Williams Mall, near West Warren.
The vegetarian cuisine served here is not only healthy
and delicious, it's affordable, too. All-you-can-eat meals
at breakfast, lunch and dinner cost $5.50, $6.60 and $8,
respectively.
The Southfield-based Council of Orthodox Rabbis
(Vaad Harabonim) provides strict kosher supervision at
Gold 'n Greens. Rabbi Joseph Krupnik, the Vaad admin-
istrator, visits twice a week and always has a mashgiach
or kashrut supervisor on premises. Wayne State now has
the only kosher kitchen of its kind on any public univer-
sity campus.
Matt Prentice
Exits Group
The former Matt
..,41 Prentice Restaurant
Group took a new
name, the Epicurean
Group, after the
departure of long-
time local restaura-
teur Matt Prentice.
Epicurean Group,
through its Epic
Kosher Catering divi-
Matt Prentice
sion, now runs Milk
& Honey kosher
catering at the Jewish
Community Center in West Bloomfield and the kosher
catering at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington
Hills. Prentice continues the non-kosher catering at
Temple Israel in West Bloomfield.
According to Epicurean Group owner and CEO
Stanley Dickson Jr., it was a disagreement with Prentice
over his proposed "Morels" restaurant and on the
future direction of the company that spurred Prentice's
resignation.
Prentice went on to open Morels Restaurant on
Northwestern Highway in Farmington Hills this year as
well as Detroit Prime, a value-driven steakhouse.
The Jewish News began the celebration of its 70th
anniversary year by naming the board of directors of
the Jewish News Foundation in early February. The
Jewish News Foundation is a nonprofit organization,
whose mission is to digitize all the content from the
Jewish News archive and make it searchable online for
the community. Later in the year, the JN threw itself a
party to celebrate its anniversary milestone.
Frankel Jewish Academy students David
Gurevich, 15, Waterford, Aaron and Spencer
Schafer, 14, Daniel Chandross, 15, and Aaron
Orel, 15, all of West Bloomfield
Walk For Israel
The seventh annual Walk for Israel celebrating Israel
Independence Day at hosting synagogue, Temple
Shir Shalom in West Bloomfield, on May 5 drew
close to 1,500 people. The walk made its way south
on Orchard Lake Road to Orchard Lake Middle
School, with the line of people (and some dogs)
stretching more than a mile.
The MGM Grand ballroom was filled with 600 young
Jewish Detroiters for the EPIC Event.
Federation's NEXTGen Launches
With EPIC Event
The March 10 EPIC Event at the MGM Grand Hotel
in Detroit, a fundraiser that formally launched
Federation's NEXTGen programming, mainly in the
21- to 45-year-old demographic, attracted 600 people
and raised more than $151,000.
Boxcar Exhibit
At Holocaust
Memorial
Center
The Holocaust
Memorial Center
Zekelman Family
Campus broke
ground Aug. 29
Dedication: The final exhibit
on the Henrietta
was dedicated Nov. 20.
and Alvin
Weisberg Gallery,
a permanent addition to the building that will house
an authentic World War II-era boxcar. A generous
gift from local philanthropists Henrietta and Alvin
Weisberg of Bloomfield Hills funded construction of
a permanent indoor HMC gallery, dedicated Nov. 20,
to showcase one of the only boxcars in America used
by the Nazis to transport millions of European Jews
to concentration camps and their deaths during the
Holocaust.
A view of the path into Hebrew Memorial Gardens
Nation's First 'Green' Jewish Cemetery
The new Hebrew Memorial Gardens in Roseville
became the first Jewish nature preserve cemetery
section in the country to be certified by the Green
Burial Council (GBC), according to Otto Dube, man-
aging funeral director at Hebrew Memorial Chapel
in Oak Park.
Within Beth Moses Cemetery Hebrew Memorial
Gardens, gravesites follow the natural pathways of
the forest without destroying natural growth. Instead
of cement frames, tree limbs are piled to give the
graves a boundary. Monuments are dug out of the
ground and not altered or polished, with the indi-
vidual's information engraved to mark the gravesite.
Sinai Guild Disbands
After 60 years of dedicated service to the Metro
Detroit community, the Sinai Guild closed its
doors following a celebratory brunch at Knollwood
Country Club on July 11. Founded in 1952 as the
Sinai Women's Auxiliary, the Guild began as a vol-
unteer arm of Sinai Hospital and morphed over the
years into a nonprofit organization that gave out
$3.5 million in grants.
Year In Review on page 12
10 December 27 • 2012