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Ladies get cooking demo at joint sisterhood event.

ESTHER ALLWEISS INGBER
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

TOP: Gayle Bialick, Fran
Hildebrandt, Bobbie
Lewis, Susan Friedman
and Susan Cohen, all of
Congregation Beth Shalom.
RIGHT: Pearlena Bodzin of
Congregation B’nai Moshe
and Joyce Weingarten of
Adat Shalom Synagogue.

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embers of Metro Detroit sisterhoods recently had the
chance to “explore the delicate balance between life and
food” at a social evening created especially for them
by the Central Great Lakes Region of the Women’s League of
Conservative Judaism.
Area Director and Vice President Robin Lash spoke
with Region President Edna Schrank about arrang-
ing a joint sisterhood event in Metro Detroit after an
absence of several years. Then Lash brainstormed
with her friend Fran Hildebrandt, the region’s Torah
Fund vice president, to plan something fun.
“We discussed different ideas,” said Lash, immedi-
ate past president of Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Sisterhood in Southfield. “What would attract women
from all of our Detroit sisterhoods and bring them
together for a night?”
Hildebrandt, a former sisterhood president at
Congregation Beth Shalom in Oak Park, designed a cute “It’s a
Balancing Act” flyer.
In spite of high winds that knocked out thousands of powerlines

on March 8, 42 sisterhood women came for a kosher cooking demo
in Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital’s Demonstration Kitchen.
They also toured the hospital’s free-standing greenhouse.
The largest contingent was 10 women from Congregation B’nai
Moshe in West Bloomfield. One member, Betsy Leib Ragowsky, was
impressed with “the energetic and engaging personality”
of Chef Hunny Khodorkovsky of Epic Kosher Catering
as well as the opportunity to “sample the chef ’s creative
and user-friendly recipes.”
It was a pleasant surprise for participant Sharon Moss
Lebovic of Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills
to get the recipe and another chance to eat Chef Hunny’s
main entree of salmon over ancient grains salad.
The chef prepared the dish earlier that day for Moss’
Roosevelt Hadassah group luncheon at Soul Cafe in West
Bloomfield.
Sandy Schwartz of Congregation Shaarey Zedek plans
to prepare Chef Hunny’s pavlova (meringue) recipe, saying two days
after the event, “I have already bought the vanilla paste.”
Under the direction of “Farmer Trevor,” the greenhouse produces

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