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Article Excerpt
REMINISCENCES:
Kol Yisrael Chaverim
On my visit to Israel in 1968, one year after the Six-Day War, with my wife Sylvia and our two sons, Howie and Eddie, we stood in awe at the back end of the widened plaza in front of the Western Wall. We chatted eagerly in English, when a stranger came over to us and asked, "Atem Americanim?"
"Yes, we are Americans," we answered.
"Where do you live?" he proceeded in very heavily accented English.
"In Brooklyn," my wife responded.
"In Brooklyn?" he repeated excitedly. "Maybe you know my cousin?"
I looked at my wife and sons sheepishly, somewhat embarrassed to reply, but I finally did. 'You know, sir, there are more than two million people living in Brooklyn. It's a very big city by itself."
"Nu, so what?" he exclaimed. "Jews are Jews, one people. My cousin's name is Pinchik."
"The only Pinchik in Brooklyn that I know of," I said, "is a large store that sells paint on Flatbush Avenue."
"That's my cousin!" he shouted triumphantly. "Send him a drishat shalom from me and my family when you go in there." And he walked away apparently...
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