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May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!

Harvey & Marilyn Saperstein
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Johnny Katz of Harvard Row Kosher Meats chats with shopper Marcia
Grossman of Toledo, while Leonard Rosenberg prepares a meat order.

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Travelers spend time in Metro Detroit
doing pre-Rosh Hashanah shopping.

May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!

Shelli Liebman Dorfman
Contributing Writer

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group of shoppers from
Toledo may not have gone
to the ends of the Earth to
make sure their Rosh Hashanah din-
ners were complete, but they can defi-
nitely boast about going beyond their
state's border on an eight-hour, 175-
mile round-trip bus excursion.
After participating in a Sept. 11
shopping spree to the Detroit suburbs,
19 seniors returned home with cool-
ers filled with briskets and pullets
for chicken soup and bags and boxes
of kosher grocery items. They trav-
eled home surrounded by the scent of
challahs and seven-layer cake and the
sounds of laughter and stories of holi-
days past.
For at least 16 years, the Jewish
Federation of Greater Toledo's Jewish
Family Service Senior Adult Center
has sponsored pre-Passover and pre-
Rosh Hashanah shopping trips. This
year's group purchased kosher goods
in Oak Park at Zeman's Bakery and
One Stop Kosher. In West Bloomfield,
they visited Harvard Row Kosher
Meats, Hiller's Market and Diamond
Bakery. Around midday, they took a
break for lunch at Pickles and Rye Deli
in West Bloomfield.
The group came prepared with
shopping lists. With no kosher butcher
in the Toledo area, some planned to
stock up on meat and poultry items
and called in advance orders to
Harvard Row. Others looked around
at the shop and "just ordered on the
spot:' said Rene A. Rusgo, Toledo
Federation's director of senior services,
who coordinated the trip.
She also traveled with the group,
along with Joyce Moran, social worker
at Pelham Manor, a Federation senior
adult community where the Senior

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Jeanne Ryan of Toledo chooses bags
of baked goods at Diamond Bakery.

Adult Center is based, and with Eileen
Gates, Pelham Manor director.
"They've been coming to us twice a
year since the beginning:' said Larry
Zager, manager at Harvard Row. "They
make a whole day of it. They get off
the bus and suddenly there's an orga-
nized mob of people in the store:'
In addition to the Toledo group,
Harvard Row owner Johnny Katz said
he has been visited by shoppers from
other cities.
"Customers drive in from Flint and
Kalamazoo and Traverse City by the
carload to pick up big orders before
the holidays:' he said. "We're here for
the whole Up North area:'
Rusgo said, "We have so much fun
shopping, kibitizing and being togeth-
er and seeing what's new in kosher
offerings. Our outings allow our com-
munity members the opportunity to
shop and reminisce about their child-
hood and the shopping trips they took
with their families and all the prepara-
tions that went into getting ready for
the chagim [holidays]:'

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May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!

HELEN & FRED BROWN
AND FAMILY

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May the coming year be filled with
health and happiness for all our family and friends.
L'Shanah Tovah!

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