Akron Life March 2022

PARTING SHOT

by London Green, photo cour tesy of Summi t Memory/Akron-Summi t County Publ ic L ibrary

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Traditional Meal Akron, 1948

stomach. The Akron Jewish Center moved out of the building on Balch Street in 1973, relocating to a bigger headquarters on White Pond Drive, which is the present-day Shaw Jewish Community Center. Today, the city of Akron-owned building on Balch Street is a community cen ter, and Shaw JCC offers swimming lessons, fitness classes and camps for teens and young children.

“This is a Kosher Kitchen. Please abide by these rules: Milk Dishes for Milk Meals Only, Meat Dishes for Meat Meals Only. Maintenance staff has no authority to change these rules. If you want something, ask Mrs. Allison.” These rules allowed ingredients to be kept apart from one another, as Jewish tradition requires that meat and milk be kept separate in the kitchen, on the table and in the

After the Akron Jewish Center opened its doors in 1929, com

munity members often visited for sports tournaments, social clubs, theater groups, camps and religious schools — and the hungry partici pants got to enjoy meals prepared according to the traditional Jewish diet. Pictured here is Sonia Allison, the resident cook in the Kosher Kitchen, standing in front of the kitchen’s rules:

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