DOE R
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JULIE RJSK N
City: West Bloomfield
Kudos: Using Her Noodle
Why did you decide to start a vegetarian catering
business? Aren't you busy enough with your social
work master's degree studies and as a Jewish Family
Service of Metropolitan Detroit clinical social work
intern and Young Judaea city coordinator?
"I've always loved
to cook. I've had
restaurant and
kitchen manage-
ment jobs since
high school and
thought about
going to culinary
school. I chose
social work instead,
keeping cooking as
a hobby."
Staff photo by Angie Baan
Without a staff,
how do you pre-
pare catered din-
ners and parties
from your busi-
ness, Noodles By Julie?
"I'm the one who takes orders, shops, cooks and
packages in my own kosher — but not kosher-super-
,
vised — kitchen."
Why do you spotlight noodle dishes — like fettuc-
cini with basil pesto, tuna pasta and vegetable
lasagna?
"I can be more creative with vegetarian dishes —
and pasta fit into that category. I also make appetizers
like hummus and bruschetta and salads like corn-
and-black-bean, Israeli and tomato dill.
How does Israel — where you spent several college
and post-college years — play into your future
plans?
"I would love to go back someday and continue all
my professional goals: being a therapist and a caterer.
In Hebrew, I could call my business kriot [Noodles]
by Julie."
— Shelli Liebman Dor nail, staff writer
For a Noodles By Judy menu, call (248) 855-3587.
Yawn!
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he watch moves slowly
back and forth. The
voice insists that you,
"Sleep. Sleeeep." And
the next thing you know, you are
hypnotized. Either that, or you are
really asleep.
The concept of sleep is a preva-
lent one in our society. It is promi-
SY
MANELLO nent in our lives on many levels,
from the new parents who have no
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concept of the last time they were
Assistant
able to sleep to those of us who
nod off in the easy chair at night
only to be awakened to go to bed.
On television, there is a big business connected
to the concept of sleep. Have you seen those ads
for the bed that folds into different configurations?
Well, let's hope that it is the bed that folds and not
the slumberer.
There are always mattress sales being touted (my
favorite: the one where the man awakens and
believes that he is in heaven. I do not know about
you, but I do not want a salesman standing there
when I awake in the Glory Land).
There are also those beds that are air filled and
provide different firmness for each side; I have one
of these and it is great.
I never could understand the appeal of the
waterbed; just sitting on one once made me rush
for the Dramamine!
Some of us are so sleep deprived that we are able
to drop off at the opera, the theater, at a concert,
at the dinner table. Sleeping in front of the TV
doesn't count since the source is a sleep inducer
anyway.
Years ago, Robert Benchley wrote an essay about
wearing a starched collar to the theater so that it
would keep his head erect and thereby enable him
to nod off and not draw attention by having his
head jerk up occasionally.
It is so common to have one of the above enter-
tainments prove so boring that we have accepted
into our language the phrase "It was a big snooze"
to describe a really boring event.
Speaking of snooze, how many of us employ the
alarm-clock feature called the snooze alarm? We
want so badly to put off getting up that we do
anything wgtan to prolong the feat.
Of course, while we sleep there are myriad prob.-,
--or"
°
leans that can arise. No, of course you don't snore.
(Ha!) Since you are not the one who has to listen,
how would you know?
For some people, sleep can be a danger and sleep
clinics have developed ways to help treat sleep
apnea so that it does not prove life threatening.
What about the fame of sleepers? They run the
gamut from Snow White (1 year) to Rip
VanWinkle (40 years) to Woody Allen, who awoke
in the distant future (Sleeper).
Songwriters have, for years, addressed the idea of
sleep, sleepers and sleepiness. We have "Sleepytime
Gal," "Brahm's Lullaby," "Asleep in the Deep," etc.
I'm desperately in need of beauty sleep, but it
hasn't helped yet. Oh, well.
Just remember, as some great writers reminded
us: "Sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care;" "To
sleep, perchance to dream;" "Such things as dreams
are made of;" and the fact that "Macbeth doth
murder sleep."
Just keep your eyes on the watch. You are getting
zzzzzzzzz. [1]
Shabbat Candlelighting
"I feel like a special time is coming, I feel like jumping for joy. It's a time when I think about how I
conducted myself during the past week."
— Refael Yehuda Potter, 10, Oak Park
REPORT A DOER...
Know a Doer — someone of any age doing interest-
ing, meaningful things in their life outside of their
job? Share suggestions with Keri Guten Cohen, story
development editor, at (248) 351-5144 or e-mail:
kcohen@thejewishnews.com
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Candlelighting
Friday, Jan. 30, 5:25 p.m.
Candlelighting
Friday, Feb. 6, 5:34 p.m.
Shabbat Ends
Saturday, Jan. 31, 6:29 p.m.
Shabbat Ends
Saturday, Feb. 7, 6:38 p.m.
To submit a candlelighting message, call Miriam Amzalak af the Lubavitch Women's aganization at (248) 548-6771 or e-mai• manzzalakuno.com