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One Stop Kosher
Serves The Community
Your article titled "Fresh Out" (Oct. 24,
page 1) is condescending toward One
Stop Kosher!
While it's true that lack of competi-
tion is a bad thing, you neglected to
point out many other factors. Your
article needs to show that increased
competition from national chains is
not viable in Metro Detroit because
there are not enough big name stores in
our region that sell kosher groceries to
begin with.
When Farm Fresh opened its doors
and decided to expand kosher offerings
how come there was no hoopla in the
Jewish News about the harm that would
be done to One Stop and the existing
Jewish-owned businesses?
On the one hand, more options for
consumers are a good thing, but the
consumer should know of the shipping
costs involved to bring kosher products
here. You need to point out how the KC
co-op got started: the fact that a long-
time kosher food business in Kansas
City closed, leaving no other options
in that area. Hence the KC co-op was
born.
The article failed to point out that
kosher meat companies like Empire
and Aaron's and distributers like Dairy
Fresh-Morris Kosher give better whole-
sale prices to national chains.
You also need to mention that Costco
and Trader Joe are corporate entities
just trying to make a profit. Because
they are nationwide chains, their buy-
ing power drives down their prices.
What's wrong with patronizing a
place that has been around for the past
15 years? What's wrong with going to a
"Shomer Shabbos" establishment that
happens to be right in everyone's back-
yard? It's time for the Jewish News to be
fair to everyone. One Stop has felt the
pinch of the economy and rising prices
and has remained in business as a ser-
vice to the Jewish community of Metro
Detroit!
I also want to point out that there are
several employees and managers who
live locally, and shopping at One Stop
helps support their families. I have seen
firsthand how One Stop extends credit
to many in our community who other-
wise could not put food on the table. I
have helped countless Jewish families,
regardless of affiliation, prepare for
Shabbos.
I'm concerned enough to offer a
warning to our community: take any
Jewish store. The only way we can help
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Daniel Gorin
prepared foods and deli manager
One Stop Kosher Grocery
Southfield
We Need Diplomacy,
Not Inflammatory Rhetoric
Your Guest Column by Berl Falbaum
("N.Y. Times Gets It Wrong ... Again,"
Oct. 24, page 30) deserves an emphatic
answer. First, I recently attended
a commendable SOAR lecture by
Falbaum about the German Jews who
were fortunate enough to escape to
Shanghai during the Nazi years.
Falbaum then veered into another
subject: Jews returning to Germany is
incomprehensible to him. I would like
to remind him of the newly restored
gorgeous Berlin main synagogue
for 1200 congregants, of Leonard
Bernstein, the revered musical director
of the Vienna Philharmonic and State
Opera, after whom a Viennese street
was named.
There is also the frequent appearance
of the Israel Symphony under Zubin
Mehta in Vienna and at the Salzburg
Festival. Just last July, my wife and I
attended their performance of Bloch's
Avodath Hakodesh, with a huge choir,
singing in Hebrew, with German and
English supertitles. The enthusiastic
response by a sold-out house was duly
reported in the New York Times, which
sent its chief music critic to Salzburg
for the Israelis' three concerts. There is
also a Theodor Herzl Square in Vienna
not to mention numerous other sites of
remembrance.
So I would call Falbaum wrong on
that issue.
My main dispute has to do with
Falbaum's totally inaccurate and mis-
leading column, in which he accuses
the New York Times of being anti-
Semitic. He obviously has not been
reading it diligently.
What the New York Times reported
about Netanyahu's recent address to the
U.N. General Assembly is that it has
made him, as well as Israel, a pariah
among most nations for crying wolf
repeatedly. Instead of his incendiary
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