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Saturday, October 19, 2002
The Lower East Side's fading Jewish community is profiled in today's NYT...they apparently missed the story for the last thirty years and are playing catch-up now. It's a scorchingly long piece, far longer than that piece on the new dominance of the Orthodox some time ago. I haven't read the whole thing yet, but doubt that the rest of the story can top the following quote:
Two weeks ago, H&M Skullcap moved from its home on Hester Street, where it had been for half a century, to 13th Avenue in Borough Park, Brooklyn, a thriving Jewish business thoroughfare. "The Chinese don't want to buy yarmulkes," said Mendel Fefer, a salesman.
Steven I. Weiss 9:57:00 PM
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