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Forget The Carrot Sticks!
Forget The Broccoli!
The Bagel Diet Is Here At Last!

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emember the water-
melon diet? And how
about the pasta

diet?
Well, now the really big
news is the bagel diet(!),
described at length in an
October issue of For
Women First.
Nutritionist Eva To
insists that bagels are,
"everything a good diet aid
should be: low in calories,
filling, inexpensive, easy
to prepare, readily
found...and delicious."
(Low in calories?
Obviously, she has not
taken into account those
incomparable bagel side-
kicks, lox and cream
cheese.)
They're also big busi-
ness. Some Jewish delica-

cies like halvah and
cholent have yet to really
make it big in the world
food market, but bagels
seem to be everywhere.
Each year, Americans
spend more than $600 mil-
lion buying up those tasty
treats with a hole in the
middle.
A bagel, Ms. To says,
contains between 150 and
200 calories and can be
eaten morning, noon and
night on the Bagel Diet.
"You'll lose weight steadily
— and never go hungry
again."
Among her tempting
diet dishes: bagels with
chicken in lime and
peanut sauce, bagels with
tuna filling and the pizza
bagel.

Jewish Community Funds Camp

r efugee camp in

mittee and Israeli activist
Kenya, built pri- Abie Nathan.
arily with funds
In addition to serving
from the American Jew- refugees from the make-
ish community, opened shift camp, many of whom
earlier last month for ill are in poor health, the
Somalians.
camp will take in refugees
Located in Ruiru, out- from other facilities who
side the Kenyan capital of are in need of medical
Nairobi, the camp was care. Constructed to pro-
built at the request of the vide conditions as hu-
United Nations High mane as possible, it fea-
Commissioner for Refu- tures one tent for each
gees to serve refugees family, community halls
who have been living in and a playground.
unsanitary and unsafe
Funds for the project
conditions in a makeshift were collected by an
refugee camp.
umbrella group, consist-
The new camp, which ing of 18 Jewish organiza-
can accommodate up to tions, called the Jewish
3,000 persons, was built Coalition for Somalia
by the American Jewish Refugee Relief.
Joint Distribution Corn-

he American Society
for the Cameri
Theater of Tel Aviv,
one of Israel's leading
repertory theaters, recent-
ly opened offices in New
York.
Headed by Noam Semel,
formerly consul for cultur-
al affairs in New York, the
Cameri will feature pro-
ductions that include the
classics and showcase up-
and-coming Israeli play-
wrights. Leah Rabin, wife
of the Israeli prime minis-
ter, will serve as honorary
president with Tel Aviv
Mayor Shlomo Lahat as
honorary chairman.

Girls Are Smarter
Than Boys

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verybody has sus-
pected it for years, of
course, but now
here's proof positive that
girls and women are more
intelligent than their male
counterparts.
Remember those three
Jewish boys Larry, Moe
and Curly (also known as
the Three Stooges)? Well,
believe it or not, some peo-
ple — like guys — actually
thought they were
FUNNY! Women, though,
had a different view.
According to a report in
the 1994 Farmer's Alma-
nac, reactions to the Three
Stooges are "split pretty
evenly along gender lines.
Males think Larry, Moe
and Curly are funny.
Women think they are stu-
pid and violent."
Considering the fact,
then, that most world lead-
ers are men, it sort of ac-
counts for all the problems
on the planet, doesn't it?

Shlepping Around With The Shlepper

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urse-aholics of the
world, this is for you.
New York fashion
maven Joel Pinsky, head
of the Manhattan-based
Omega Fashions, Ltd., has
come up with a purse that
is going to send every
woman who loves hand-
bags running to the mall.
It's call the Shlepper
(Yiddish for "drag"), and it
has a compartment for
everything, absolutely
everything:
• Three
legal-sized,
zippered
pockets and
a large cen- .
ter section
with
a
magnetic
snap that
can hold
bulky items
like
a
newspaper
or pair of shoes (okay,
you'll wear those boring
beige pumps to the office,
but for that hot date
you've got right after
work? Get real!).
• Special compartments
can hold smaller objects
like pens and pencils.
• An inside key ring will

keep track of house keys.
• A mini-wallet chained
to the interior of the bag
can hold all your big (or
small) bucks.
• And there's even a
fold-up umbrella with a
matching sleeve.
The question is, how did
such a sophisticated bag
get a name like the
Shlepper?
The key is emphasizing
organization, says Mr.
Pinsky, who was raised in
a Yiddish-
speaking
home.
"Everyone
shlepps," he
explains.
"But the
problem
with many
bags is that
they're
either styl-
ish and
small or large and ungain-
ly. The Shlepper evolved
from listening to women
and the way people really
work — what they wanted
in an organizing system,
and what they didn't."
The Schlepper is avail-
able locally at Hudson's
and Crowleys.

L'Chayim In Beulah

ou would expect it
in New York. In
Chicago. In Los
Angeles.
But a deli named
L'Chayim, in Beulah,
Mich.?
The man behind the
name is Jonathan Clark,
who isn't Jewish but who
lived for years on the East
Coast where he developed
a distinct taste for tradi-
tional deli food.
Several years ago, he
returned to his native
Michigan and decided to
open a deli.
"To give up the East
Coast was bad enough,"
he says. "To give up the
East Coast and delis, too?
That would have been

too much."
So he opened L'Chayim,
which offers everything
from pastrami sandwich-
es to lox and even matzah
ball soup.
It was Mr. Clark who
picked the name
L'Chayim for his restau-
rant, which is open May
through December in the
small resort town of
Beulah (year-round popu-
lation is 600), about 35
miles southwest of
Traverse City.
He chose "L'Chayim,"
he says, because some-
thing like "Smith's" just
wouldn't cut it for a deli.
"Though I still get some
people asking if
`L'Chayim' is French."

