tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64587064528658646592024-03-14T06:42:14.232-04:00Marla LukofskyJazz Singer, Stand-up Comic, Public Speaker, Cancer Survivor, Writer
Email:mmlukofsky7@aol.comMarla Lukofskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01468204603806880806noreply@blogger.comBlogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458706452865864659.post-10373992360203106192018-07-26T22:10:00.000-04:002018-07-26T22:10:56.904-04:00Naughty Marla Lukofsky and The Good Boys (They're Naughty Too, Trust me.) Aug.4th, 2018 @ La Rev- 8pm<br />
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<br />Marla Lukofskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01468204603806880806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458706452865864659.post-69516016746491908332018-01-19T10:07:00.002-05:002018-07-26T22:26:50.509-04:00Marla Lukofsky swings 'Embraceable You' at Gate 403 with Jazz Trio<h4>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Marla Lukofsky swings with Richard Whiteman, Brendan Davis and Nathan Hiltz at Gate 403 in Toronto. This classic ballad changes faces in the hands of Marla. She loves to swing! </span></span></h4>
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Marla Lukofskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01468204603806880806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458706452865864659.post-37458512778652826772016-11-23T18:28:00.000-05:002016-11-23T18:28:40.764-05:00Tasha Kheiriddin AM640 Radio interviews Marla Lukofsky on her career Nov.23, 2016<iframe width="100%" height="450" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/294487778&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true"></iframe><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs35Hi0_YJfAEoyMyqOq4NCLGCJJRfmqIkwAqyCCjP7DumCZmbeTTkcCxpwXSO3jW1mOOVZCFpHpo5bCPPrI9g8wkjjM97Gt3EL7hm9D5n5-kaVuS9EbWXDea06WYGwWANMmMw4abaFnE/s1600/Tasha+and+Marla+Radio.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs35Hi0_YJfAEoyMyqOq4NCLGCJJRfmqIkwAqyCCjP7DumCZmbeTTkcCxpwXSO3jW1mOOVZCFpHpo5bCPPrI9g8wkjjM97Gt3EL7hm9D5n5-kaVuS9EbWXDea06WYGwWANMmMw4abaFnE/s320/Tasha+and+Marla+Radio.png" width="320" height="164" /></a></div>Marla Lukofskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01468204603806880806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458706452865864659.post-55227725065055140592016-11-16T17:56:00.000-05:002016-12-01T12:53:13.758-05:00Nov. 26th, 2016 - 10pm - Have a Nightcap with Naughty Marla and her Not so Naughty Cool Jazz Duo at 'Free Times Cafe'.<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="538" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmarla.lukofsky%2Fposts%2F10210526380776308&width=500" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" width="500"></iframe><br />
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Peter Hill - piano, Bucky Banks - bass, Marla - vocals</h4>
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Marla Lukofskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01468204603806880806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458706452865864659.post-13862017485987837342016-10-15T17:44:00.000-04:002016-11-16T18:04:41.617-05:00Marla does Jazz Marla at 120 Diner on Oct. 15th, 2016 6p to 8p. Fantastic musicians. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Mark Kieswetter - piano, Mark Micklethwaite - drums, Ron Johnston - bass, Marla - vocals</h3>
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<br />Marla Lukofskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01468204603806880806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458706452865864659.post-35123105418978056192016-10-14T18:50:00.000-04:002016-11-16T18:52:35.298-05:00Marla in action at her show Oct.15th, 2016 at 120 Diner with Mark Kieswetter, Ron Johnston, Mark Micklethwaite<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Marla Lukofskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01468204603806880806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458706452865864659.post-1405086219321054622016-07-28T16:34:00.000-04:002016-11-16T18:15:54.004-05:00Humble & Fred Sirius Radio Show talks with Marla Lukofsky on July 28, 2016<iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/282655184&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe>Marla Lukofskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01468204603806880806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458706452865864659.post-57709470480309256272016-06-28T13:57:00.000-04:002016-11-16T19:00:19.113-05:00Comic reinvents herself as Jazz Singer<br />
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<br />Marla Lukofskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01468204603806880806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458706452865864659.post-7478478003539806962016-06-26T13:43:00.000-04:002016-06-28T13:10:23.812-04:00Marla Lukofsky Quartet June 26th, 2016 Relish 7p-9p TD Toronto Jazz Festival <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<br />Marla Lukofskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01468204603806880806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458706452865864659.post-26248412065082035812011-12-12T22:00:00.000-05:002013-01-02T18:27:04.927-05:00Marla at Mount Sinai Hospital Yogathon Fundraiser<object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EugPKUyDYRo&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0"></param>
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Comedian Marla Lukofsky knows something about living, losing and facing adversity. In her highly acclaimed show, <b><i>"I’m Still Here…and so is my Hair!"</i></b>, this 30-year entertainment veteran (she started when she was a fetus) takes audiences on a very personal and achingly hilarious ride, covering her journey from comedy to cancer and back to comedy again.<br />
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The Toronto Star calls Lukofsky, <i>“A captivating story teller with lightning-quick comic timing.”</i><br />
The Globe and Mail calls her , <i> “A suave stylish comedian.”</i><br />
Gilda's Club says<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">,</span> <i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Marla's </span>show will save lives<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">."</span></i><br />
Over the past 3 decades, Marla Lukofsky has performed stand-up comedy in every major city in Canada, the United States, and the UK. A veteran of television, Marla's credits include <i>Evening at the Improv</i>, <i>The Alan Thicke Show</i>, and CBC's national news show <i>Midday</i> with Valerie Pringle and Keith Morrison. As a guest columnist and writer, she has worked on such shows as CBC radio's <i>Basic Black, The Vicki Gabereau Show, Fresh Air</i>, and is a frequent guest on <i>Newstalk 1010</i> with Ted Woloshyn and Larry Fedoruk. On Saturday mornings, you can hear her voice on <i>The Care Bears </i>cartoon series as Good Luck Bear. Marla was also a proud member of <i>Second City</i> for one WHOLE month until they realized she wasn't Andrea Martin and asked her to leave. <br />
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While living in Los Angeles, Marla was suddenly diagnosed with breast cancer which had spread to her lymph nodes. She had two operations, followed by aggressive chemotherapy (is there any other kind?) and radiation treatments. That life-altering event changed the course of Marla's career. “I don’t like to say that I’m cancer-free,” she admits. <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"</span>The word ‘remission’ works best for m<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">e."</span><br />
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After returning home to Toronto, she had to deal with serious family issues. Her father suddenly died and the following year her mother was diagnosed with acute myloid leukemia. “She fought a hard fight,” Lukofsky reveals, “but after being my biggest supporter while I underwent my cancer treatments, my brave mother lost her own battle with blood cancer eight months after it was discovered.”<br />
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Losing both parents so close to each other proved devastating. “They were the core of my foundation,” she says. “Life will never be the same without them. I’m moving forward by sharing my story of facing adversity with comedy and candor.”<br />
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Since her cancer, Marla has written not only her one-person show, <i>"I'm Still Here...and so is my Hair!"</i>, but her memoir that the show is based on. In addition, a collection of Marla's short stories and poems have been published in several international medical journals. Most recently Marla was invited to speak at the prestigious speakers series <i>TEDx Talks,</i> in India and Toronto where she shared some of her powerful messages. In them she talks about her journeys and challenges in a unique manner with honesty, frankness and humour. Currently, Lukofsky is booked for speaking engagements across North America and abroad all in the hopes of helping others. "If I can touch even one person, and have them feel that they are not alone, then I have succeeded." <br />
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Without losing any of the comic edge she’s become well-known for – remember, this is the gal who became famous for performing the entire <i>Wizard of Oz</i> in less than three minute – she has become a huge supporter for those who have gone through life-threatening challenges. Lukofsky jokes about cancer, about intimacy challenges and about her body. “I was born with my father’s eyes, my mother’s mouth and both my parents’ noses!” After her appearances, it’s not uncommon for audience members to hug her, share their stories or cry. “It still surprises me when I receive these amazing and very personal e-mails from people who have seen my show. It’s incredibly moving and it inspires me to keep going,” Lukofsky says. “When I wrote this show, my hope was to help others and pay it forward but each time I perform, it helps me as well as I see my having cancer has not been in vain." <br />
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“I’m a writer and a comedian and my sense of humour is not a coping mechanism but rather an innate part of my personality...it's just how I see things,” explains Lukofsky. “One night while I lay in bed, feeling extremely sick after hours of chemotherapy, a mosquito flew into my bedroom, bit me and sucked up my poisonous blood. I watched it fall fast to the ground, and all of its little black hairs fell out of its little black legs. It was stilled forever. Good.” She smiles. “Now that’s what I call sweet revenge!”Marla Lukofskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01468204603806880806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458706452865864659.post-59588117532774238022011-07-08T08:08:00.000-04:002016-06-28T14:11:24.034-04:00The Toronto Star by Diane Flacks : 'Stand-up becomes Inspirational'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The first time I saw Marla Lukofsky perform comedy, she had me
howling out loud at a routine she did called, “The Wizard of Oz in Three
Minutes.” It was silly, funny and very clever.<br />
Thirty some years later, Marla was a guest on my radio show talking
about her latest offering, “I’m Still Here … and So Is My Hair”, which
chronicles her battle with breast cancer. Not so silly, but very funny
and truly inspirational.<br />
“I was living in L.A when I felt a lump on my breast. It was
malignant and it had spread to my lymph node which had to be removed,”
she said.<br />
An oncologist advised her to begin radiation and chemo treatments,
and then presented a list of their potential and guaranteed side
effects.<br />
“People ask me how do you find humour in cancer? I tell them about
the list which included chemically-induced menopause, sterility, hair
loss, mouth sores, leukemia, and weight gain. And I said ‘What? I’m
going to gain weight?’ I thought it was funny that the only thing I was
worried about was gaining weight,” she said.<br />
Lukofsky endured a hellish half-year period of treatments. So was it her sense of humour that helped her through?<br />
“No. I lost my job, my agent, and friends abandoned me. There were nights I didn’t think I WOULD get through it,” she said.<br />
But the things she endured she turned into funny stories, like having to get a new bathing suit.<br />
“I was now bald, bloated and 20 or 30 pounds heavier. I told my
friend the bathing suit experience was more painful than battling
cancer,” Marla said.<br />
Following treatment, Marla sought to continue her career but there were no offers so she came home.<br />
Things were not much better here on the career front and in 2004, her father died, then her mother a year-and-a-half later.<br />
Six months after that, her dog and another one came running toward
her, leapt up and broke her leg in four places. She spent six months in a
cast at a time she was going to synagogue twice a day to say the
Kaddish (a prayer for the departed).<br />
It was there she met a new friend who encouraged her to turn the
daily journal she had kept into a book. Another enrolled her in a
speaker’s agency that got her a job in Saskatoon at a cancer conference.<br />
“It was amazing. There were 600 people in attendance — some
terminally ill. They laughed, cried and gave me a standing ovation, and I
thought ‘Oh my God, this is more important than I realized.’ One
gentleman told me he had six months to live but that what I said gave
him comfort.”<br />
Since then, she has had her work published in online medical journals
and was asked by a doctor in India for a video, which he showed at a
prestigious TEDx conference.<br />
Marla has spoken at a women’s shelter and at high schools, making
people laugh while touching and inspiring them with the message she
learned from her mother, “You are stronger than you think.”<br />
Seems like the Tin Man, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion didn’t need to
meet the Wizard of Oz after all. They just needed to meet Marla
Lukofsky.<br />
— Woloshyn hosts “Saturday with Ted” from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Newstalk 1010</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">February 10, 2015</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yesterday was the anniversary of my mom's death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On
that day back in 2006, in the afternoon, my mom took her last breath,
in her own bed, just as she had wanted, just as it should be. She was
diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia one year after my dad died. It was
terminal. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">I remember when I went to say the mourner's prayer,
the Kaddish, twice a day for 11 months at synagogue. I met so many
people in the same situation. They were of great comfort to me. This
daily prayer and those people helped me get out of bed every morning. It
was there that I met one of my now dearest friends,out of my tragedy. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Some
people were there for the anniversary of their loved one's passing. One
woman who was in her mid 60's said to me, "It's been 10 years now since
my dad died and it still hurts. I feel like an orphan." I wondered
then, will that be me as years go by. Now I know the answer. Yes, it
still hurts.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's still a surreal feeling/sensation that you
are gone. I carry on in disbelief. I carry on with distractions,
superficial as they may be. I carry on by hearing your words in my head.
You said I am stronger than I think. I don't know about that. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes
I think I see you at the supermarket, or the drug store. I want to run
up and hug you and tell you I've missed you so. But it's not really you.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(And that strange woman keeps wondering why I'm staring at her.)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I
think about you often. Maybe more than you thought I would. Maybe not.
People say we were alike. I didn't see it. Certainly not physically. You
were taller, thinner, blue eyed, fair skinned and had perfect posture
and profile. A real beauty. I'm nothing like that. I used to think I was
adopted because I didn't look like you. But I have my birth bracelet
and certificate that you gave me and I know I came out of you. I even
know the time. 6:05pm. Weighed in at 6 pounds even. Now even my big toe
is heavier than 6 pounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't need a synagogue or a
candle to commemorate your death, although I do it out of respect for
you. I wonder if you can see me now. I wonder if you know that I'm
singing again. You and Daddy thought I had a good voice and that I was a
good writer. I write now too. Sometimes, I even write about you. </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Love Marla, your baby</span></div>
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<br />Marla Lukofskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01468204603806880806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458706452865864659.post-48395971363016070372011-07-06T17:41:00.000-04:002016-09-10T13:42:28.739-04:00'No One's Priority' published in Cell2SoulApril 18, 2012 <style>
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It’s quite a unique feeling,
being no one’s priority. It’s freeing in a way — </div>
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an independence of sorts. Not
necessarily one that you’d wish for but nevertheless</div>
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it’s there for the taking. And you’ve been assigned the
task and title.<br />
You are now crowned… ‘No one’s priority.’ </div>
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Does this mean you are lonely? </div>
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Not necessarily. </div>
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Does this mean you might feel
scared at times? </div>
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Occasionally.</div>
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Does this mean you don’t have
anyone in your life? </div>
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Of course not.</div>
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You have friends, siblings,
relatives and acquaintances but are you their priority? </div>
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Not if they have partners,
parents or children. And if they have grandchildren, </div>
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you're dead in the water
girlfriend.</div>
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Don’t get me wrong. They may be
available to you if there’s an actual emergency,<br />
especially if it's theirs,</div>
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but in the day-to-day scheme of things, the 9-5’s, the 7 days
a week, 52 weekends </div>
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in the year, these peeps have
someone else to think about, to run to, to share with,</div>
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to take care of and it ain’t
you. It just ain't you. Don’t believe me? Think about this.</div>
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If you’re home-bound with a nasty
head cold and need someone to pick you up some</div>
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chicken soup with matzo balls and a nose-spray chaser,
do you really think</div>
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they're gonna drop what they’re doing, and put you before their own
loved ones, their child,</div>
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their lustful lover or their
beloved pet? </div>
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Nope! </div>
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Well, maybe if it’s a cat.</div>
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middle of the night from a bad dream or feel like you’re</div>
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gonna hurl your cookies after eating some contaminated food, do you think </div>
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really think they're gonna leave the
comfort of their own warm bed, </div>
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so they can place their
cool hand on your forehead to soothe your aching soul and<br />
tell you it's gonna be allll right now baby? </div>
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Nope! </div>
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But they'll definitely
call you in the morning from their hopefully</div>
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hands-free cellphone while driving to work after getting their Starbucks coffee,<br />
to '<i>check-in with
you</i>', for a bit.</div>
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And when it’s New Years Eve, or X-mas day, or a Sunday afternoon with perfect skies</div>
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and a moderate temperature, do you think it’s you they’ll be
calling to share it with </div>
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no matter what, as if it’s a
given, a guarantee? </div>
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Nope! </div>
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Or how about when you have to go
downtown for yet another mammo, ultrasound and </div>
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MRI, to follow up on your, ‘now
in remissioned’ cancer, and you have to go alone, </div>
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because the people in your life,
have their own lives and their own priorities<br />
and those priorities, just ain’t you. It just ain’t YOU!</div>
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And That reality keeps rearing it’s
ugly head more often than you care for it to, and</div>
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no matter how much you try to convince yourself that it just
ain’t so,</div>
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and no matter how many times you watch ‘The Help’ and recite
those </div>
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magical words to yourself that
the black maid said to her little white girl child,</div>
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“You is kind, you is smart, you
is important,” (and you indeed may be),</div>
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there ain’t no denying the fact that you is no one’s
priority. </div>
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<b><i>By </i></b><b><i>Marla Lukofsky</i></b></div>
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April 18, 2012</div>
Marla Lukofskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01468204603806880806noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6458706452865864659.post-43612613545969909252011-07-06T14:04:00.000-04:002016-09-10T13:45:17.982-04:00'Marla's Falafel Follies'<span style="font-size: small;">I will offer to do many things to help my family out when it comes to preparing for Jewish celebrations but going to “Jewish stores” is not one of them, especially near the Sabbath or holiday beginnings. Having said that, my bark is often far worse than my bite. Admittedly, I did in fact go, the day before Passover no less, to <i>Toronto Kosher</i> to buy myself some fixings and surprisingly the store was not too crazy (mashugana).
What is not well known to my relatives and peers, is that I have been secretly visiting <i>Toronto Kosher</i> for some time now, buying chicken carcasses and various other chic parts in order to make my virginal chicken soups, a new quest on my cooking endeavors list. I have actually been enjoying talking to the staff and patrons alike, getting more advice on how to make the perfect chicken soup. I'm determined to make one just right. Often, I feel like a gentile amidst their company who are mostly of the Jewish orthodox and ultra-orthodox persuasion but there are still those conservative Jews who buy their meat there even if they eat unkoshered flesh outside of their homes. Thus the contradictions begin and never end.Their eyes politely hide their dismay that a nice Jewish girl such as myself still doesn't know how to make a decent chicken soup. I know, I know. Even I'm surprised.Fortunately for me thus far, everyone from the employees to the clientele have been very friendly, helpful and most courteous.
That was not the scene however, at <i>Tov-Li's</i> Kosher eatery just down the street where I had stopped by (and have done so quite often lately) for what I believe to be one of the best falafel sandwiches in town.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc6M6kI_m3vwwrNA2uTD6nGCVyF-fngSVD7OByvufcyQV5napT4QaYO9yBq8q_FIgvunLCZnn16DEb4i25bGqZ4qzcdzF7NnaJaUjyATjWDEZXA-rSu9ygw3DTVnEoFKOlr870Ndm_sTg/s1600/Falafel+Sandwich.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc6M6kI_m3vwwrNA2uTD6nGCVyF-fngSVD7OByvufcyQV5napT4QaYO9yBq8q_FIgvunLCZnn16DEb4i25bGqZ4qzcdzF7NnaJaUjyATjWDEZXA-rSu9ygw3DTVnEoFKOlr870Ndm_sTg/s320/Falafel+Sandwich.jpg"></a> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Talk about a culture shock and I don't mean the menu.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The staff was most helpful and accommodating and the procedure for giving your order and having it completed worked like a well-oiled machine but something was different. I felt like I was in another country based on the ultra-orthodox clientele. Was it being around ready-to-eat food that made it seem so different from that of the butcher store down the street?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">I found a twelve-year-old girl taking care of her 5 siblings, 2 of them crying constantly as they were under the age of 3. I asked where her mother was. No answer. Just that glazed stare of "Why would someone ask me that and I don't have to answer this strange woman." Rightly so little girl,rightly so. This prepubescent child was so dutiful and skilled at keeping her family in order, that if she had more mammary glands, I have no doubt that she would have breast fed the younger ones if asked to do so.
Then came the onslaught parade of "women-with-wigs" as I like to call them, complete with their fake hairs elaborately set by their hairdressers along with their perfectly painted on makeup, (according to their modesty-rule NOT) pushing and shoving into line, along with their ultra-orthodox hubbys, dressed in their black garb, huge hats and trailing tzit tzits, pushing me aside so that they don't touch me (according to Jewish law) but in fact had no problem pushing me aside, thereby touching me...with no apologies,and absolutely no behavioral social instructions in place for the multitudes of unruly children (6 to a family) who had the run of the joint. Oy Vey. It was a megillah of mayhem but still a mechaiyeh. Now get out your Yiddish dictionaries to find out what I just said. If you never get a chance to go to Israel's religious quarter, no problem. Just stop by <i>Tov-Li</i>'s for a great falafel and a culture shock for sure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">PS:
If you do decide to give this place a try, (located on Bathurst St. north of Lawrence and south of Wilson on the east side) keep in mind it's a dangerous area to be traveling in. Why? Because there are lots of ultra-orthodox people driving in that area, and whether it's because of their belief in God's will or bashert (destiny), they (for the most part and I realize this is a massive generalization) don't seem to follow the rules of the road in general, running thru red lights, stop signs, and rarely signaling during their travels. If you see a crooked-wigged or big black-hatted driver in front of you, change lanes quickly and get the hell out of their way. Then head over to <i>Tov-Li</i> for some delicious foods amidst the chaos. It's a cornucopia of culinary delights.
</span>Marla Lukofskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01468204603806880806noreply@blogger.com0