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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community About once a year, give or take, I write an article about food trends. Yidden are not really ones...
Have you ever been sitting at a bar mitzvah and wondering when the father is going to wrap up what he’s talking about already?
Now that summer is once again upon us, a lot of people are wondering, “Should I go to a bungalow?” And the answer is: It’s too late. If you try to get a bungalow now, all you’re going to end up with is some dinky little house way out in the boondocks with no air conditioning or functioning door locks and an insufficient number of bedrooms.
There are a lot of interesting bar mitzvah minhagim that people have, and one of them is for the father to stand up and thank the mother for doing everything.
With congestion pricing going into effect, more and more people are taking the public transportation into the city (Manhattan). Just all those people on a bus, sharing fumes. Talk about congestion.
When my wife and I went to buy couches recently, we found that there are basically two kinds of couches: the ones we like, and the ones we can fit in our living room.
About once a year, give or take, I write an article about food trends. Yidden are not really ones to keep up with trends, but they are when it’s about food.
So every year, for the past 17 years or so, I’ve been going to a food show called Kosherfest, which took place every November during flu season, and scoping out new products and saying, “I guess these must be the trends!”
