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It has its ups and downs, I tell you. Even when times are tough I use a credit card, otherwise you never know where your account is up to. And then you have kids going in and writing down without their parents' permission. And no, it's not all high praise for us frummies; they get their jabs in at our exclusiveness and our dislike for alternative lifestyle people and such. And the OTDers have their say too. [Why do I say that? why not leave good enough alone and be happy with a mostly-positive article/feature? I guess I'm just a glass-half-empty kind of guy.]
You can't win 'em all...
bh, lo alman yisroel, supposedly, lakewood, has about a million dollars outstanding at its local groceries.
ReplyDeletei think its a good piece over all. i mean, they cant paint us as angels because we arent.
ReplyDeleteyes, but why they had to mention Jews and Italians in Canarsie in the 70s ---- is beyond me!
ReplyDeleteYeah that is weird...
ReplyDeleteI would not defend the mention of Canarsie etc. But we should understand the 'context' of this report; its about 'micropolis' how people live in a metropolis so the reporter has a long standing series of how people live in this or other metropolitan areas.
ReplyDeleteIf you listen carefully you understand why he tried to show the other side of 'close ties' of a neighborhood. But in this piece he tries to give secular individuals a glimpse of what is 'lost' when social ties are not so strong and as he titles the article "the down side of diversity"
It's not a story about Hasidim or about the system of "aufschraben" per se; it is rather about what people miss in a city that is mostly based on secular modern life of individualism and the resulting alienation. that is the thrust of what he is trying to report on.
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