Hip and Humorous
Two twenty-something Jewish boys from South Florida have recently launched a new line of Jewishly-themed T-shirts as part of their Challah Clothing line. Some of their inaugural designs include “Hebrew School Dropout,” “Orange Jews,” and “Challah At Yout Boy.”
“We were interested in funny shirts and noticed there was not anything targeted to Jewish people. We wanted something that was funny that we would wear,” said David Shiffman, who co-owns the company with Bradley Bailes.
Shirts can be purchased on the company’s Web site. For information, go to challahclothing.com.
Coming to Town
In her one-woman production, “Out of Sight,” solo theater artist and world-class juggler Sara Felder tells the tale of a nearly blind mother and her adult lesbian daughter. Incorporating circus tricks and shadow puppets, she explores how mother and daughter see each other and how they try to bridge their many differences, from family loyalties to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The show runs at the Theatre Project from Dec. 3-13. For more information, call 410-752-8558 or go to theatreproject.org.
Thirty Seconds With Nicole Schwartz
I am camp director of the JCC’s Noah’s Ark, a preschool teacher at the JCC Owings Mills and a photographer. I graduated in 2001 from The George Washington Carver Center for the Arts and Technology and in 2005 from
Towson University.
My Favorite:
Movie: “Pulp Fiction”
Book: “Fall on your Knees” by Ann-Marie MacDonald.
Holiday food: Matzoh ball soup
Creative activity done with your students: “Superhero Day.” Everyone dressed up and picked up recycling items. After all, superheroes “save people.”
On my iPOD you will find: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty.
If I had more time I would: Sleep.
Thing in my kitchen I can’t live without: A telephone to order take-out.
Person I’d like to have dinner with: My grandfather. He passed away and I would give anything to have one more meal with him.
Dining with…Allie Pearlman Sax
Thanksgiving will be here in about two weeks, and Lutherville resident Allie Pearlman Sax will be ready with her carrot soufflé. It’s a recipe she discovered on the Internet several years ago and doctored to make healthier.
Experimenting, she changed the sour cream to a fat-free version, sugar became Splenda Baking Blend and butter was replaced with margarine. She also reduced the amount of margarine needed.
The recipe was a hit several years ago, when she first brought it to the Thanksgiving table, along with a potato au gratin. She thought the potatoes would be the more popular dish and was surprised it was a bust. “No one liked it, but everyone ate up the soufflé,” she recalls.
This year, this 1999 graduate of the McDonogh School, who is married to Scott Sax, will be bringing two or three soufflés to her Thanksgiving feast.
ON BOOKSHELVES
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Little, Brown and Company, hardcover,2009, 352 pages, $25.99
In his first work of nonfiction, Jonathan Safran Foer, whose novel, “Everything is Illuminated” won a National Jewish Book Award, explores dietary options in anticipation of the birth of his first child. Incorporating philosophy, literature, science, memoir and detective work, he visits factory farms during the middle of the night, lets factory farmers and food reform activists speak in their own words, and recalls the meals from his childhood.
Although a vegetarian, Foer does not preach and this book, which reads like a novel, is both a funny and serious look on the contemporary food industry.