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>> cover story

Self-sufficiency
expert hopes
to open his
first Free Food
Factory in
Detroit.

Barbara Lewis
Contributing Writer

ree food and gro-
ceries? Dan Martin
wants to make that
a reality all over the world.
He's a self-sufficiency
expert who wants to create
a grocery store and restau-
rant in Detroit where all
comers can eat for free.
Martin, 37, grew up in
Southfield and attended
Temple Shir Shalom in
West Bloomfield. He now
lives in the Piney Woods
area of east Texas.
In addition to writing
do-it-yourself books, he
has designed and built
self-sufficient, shared com-
munities around the world,

MatzoBall Detroit

Jewish singles now have their own
party on Christmas Eve.

Barbara Lewis I Contributing Writer

r

t's Christmas Eve. All the cool nightspots are closed for
the Christian holiday. What are Jewish young adults to
do?
This year, they're invited to let loose at Detroit's first
MatzoBall at Twist Night Club in Ferndale.
They'll be joining thousands of young Jewish singles in 14
other cities at an event that has become a national phenom-
enon over the past 28 years.
Andy Rudnick, 50, of Boca Raton, Fla., is MatzoBall's
founding father.
In 1986, as a senior at Boston University, he was looking
for something to do on Christmas Eve. The bar and night-
club where he worked was closed for the holiday. He went
with some friends to a dance for Jewish singles at a local
hotel, but thought it was pretty lame.
"It was like a high school prom," he said dismissively. "The
women were on one side of the room; the men were on the
other. There was nothing to drive interaction."
The next year Rudnick, now working full time in real
estate, approached the Italian owner of the nightclub, where
he still worked part time, and convinced him to open on
Christmas Eve for a Jewish singles party he named the
MatzoBall.

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Dan Martin shows off papayas he's grown in the hydroponic greenhouse
he built in east Texas as part of a prototype for his Free Food Factory.

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