“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Storeis one of the best novels I’ve read this year. It pulls off the singular magic trick of being simultaneously flattening and uplifting.”—NPR https://amzn.to/3N6OAch My friend Judy recommended this book to me, and I put it off for a while – my m...
In Kentucky, a white man shot and killed two African-Americans at a Kroger grocery store following a failed attempt to break into a black church. Only two days later, a deranged man who had railed against Democrats and minorities with hate-filled messages online was arrested for allegedly send...
I walk to the makolet (neighborhood grocery) and see Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz looking for a parking space. I stand in line at the post office and Rabbi David Hartman is ahead of me. I stop in to the neighborhood gemach (organization) for some medicine and the Chafetz Chaim’s grandson searc...
As this is going on, the manager of the store comes out and takes my wife’s side, which was nice. “If she says she doesn’t have to wear a mask, then she doesn’t have to wear a mask! Enough already!” The guard slinks off. Meanwhile, random masked grocery shoppers continue t...
At any grocery store they are able to fill their carts full and pay for it with legals tax paid government money (welfare), but compare the items in your cart. You, a hard working, legal American, buys only what your hard working dollar can afford. But they get it all for free and...
Most people still remember waiting for the day that their most favorite magazine would be put into the grocery store every month. They remember waiting daily to get their newspapers delivered so that they could keep up with what was going on in the world around them. However, now we have ...
“taught” about racism, she draws a blank. Her first experiences were mostly second-hand – an instance from a family friend in the grocery store, or a grandma’s sage commentary on a news story, explaining what the anchors can’t. Later, racism for her wasn’t so much in a single ...
While we were drinking tea, he asked me if any of my books had been translated into Hebrew. If they had not been, I had better see to it immediately, because, he said, they would survive only in the Holy Tongue. Bellow had little Hebrew and Agnon had less English, so they must ha...
24 This finding is reflected by the statement of a clerk in an Israeli Russian food stores when describing what his work entails, given the social atmosphere created in the store by consumers and staff alike:People come here to talk. To remember. They share with us what is happening to ...
The rabbi sees Mrs. Schwartz in the grocery store just before the High Holidays. He greets her as most rabbis would, “Mrs. Schwartz, it’s so good to see you. I look forward to seeing you in the synagogue for the High Holidays.” ...