VISIT COCO KEY WATER RESORT — Once you read this, you won’t be able to get the CoCo Key Water Resort theme song out of your head (at least I couldn’t!). Torah Learning Center has teamed up with CoCo Key Water Resort to offer some winter break discounts. Visit tickets.cocokeykansascity.com and enter code name TLC to receive a buy one get one free offer. There is also a Holiday Bundle package of 10 passes for $10 each (a savings up to $150!). Torah Learning Center will receive a percentage of sales received via this offer (valid until May 31, 2013). CoCo Key is offering extended hours of operation during winter break, from Dec. 21 through Dec. 31. For more information, visit www.cocokeykansascity.com, call Greg Madden at 816-737-4775 or email .
THE LATKE DOUBLE DOWN — Here’s one to file away for next Chanukah. Last week NPR aired a story about a sandwich created by Rob Eshman and Jay Friedman of the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles in 2010. It is patterned after the KFC Double Down: the sandwich that replaced bread with fried chicken. The Latke Double Down replaces the bread with latkes, aka fried potato pancakes. The print journalists used lox as their sandwich filling. The folks at NPR filled theirs with brisket. To get the recipe for the Latke Double Down and the story behind it, visit http://www.jewishjournal.com/foodaism/item/the_double_down_latke_sandwich_video_and_recipe_20101118. To hear the entire NPR story, visit http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/12/10/166878737/sandwich-monday-the-latke-double.
BASKETBALL PLAYER TO WEAR YARMULKE — My friend and loyal reader tipped me off to this story about a Jewish player for Northwestern University who plans to wear a yarmulke during games. In August JTA reported that Aaron Liberman of Los Angeles’ Valley Torah High School was joining the team as a non-scholarship walk-on this season. The 6-foot-10 forward/center, who is already being referred to as the “Jewish Dwight Howard,” spent a gap year after high school studying in Israel while he continued to practice basketball. He’s battling an injury and has not played this season and may be redshirted, meaning he will sit out the year and not lose a year of eligibility. When, or if, he does play, the school plans to provide the 215-pound forward/center with a purple and white yarmulke for home games and purple and black one for the road. Liberman also plans to wear tzitzit, a knotted fringe or tassel worn on the corners of garments, underneath his jersey, a Northwestern spokesperson confirmed.
