In Honor of Yaakov Starting School

The Pharmacist’s Monday Morning:

Upon arriving home, a husband was met at the door by his sobbing wife.
Tearfully she explained, "It's the Pharmacist. He insulted me terribly
this morning on the phone. I had to call multiple times before he would
even answer the phone."

Immediately, the husband drove downtown to confront the Pharmacist and
demand an apology.

Before he could say more than a word or two, the Pharmacist told him,
"Now, just a minute Sir, listen to my
side of it. This morning the alarm failed to go off, so I was late
getting up. I went without breakfast and
hurried out to the car, only to realize that I'd locked the house with
both house and car keys inside and had
to break a window to get my keys. Then, driving a little too fast, I
got a speeding ticket. Later, when I
was about three blocks from the store, I had a flat tire."

"When I finally got to the store, a bunch of people were waiting for me
to open up. I got the store opened
and started waiting on these people, all the time the darn phone was
ringing off the hook."

He continued, "Then I had to break a roll of nickels against the cash
register drawer to make change, and
they spilled all over the floor. I had to get down on my hands and knees
to pick up the nickels and the phone
was still ringing. When I came up, I cracked my head on the open cash
drawer, which made me stagger back
against a showcase with a bunch of perfume bottles on it and half of
them hit the floor and broke."

Meanwhile, the phone is still ringing with no let up. I finally got back
to answer it. It was your wife. She wanted to know how to use a Rectal
thermometer.

Believe me mister, as God is my witness, all I did was tell her.

Happy Birthday Miriam!!

 

From Pictures

Have you ever seen these 2 rabbis in the same room at the same time? hmm?

Irene

New York is preparing (scaring) us for the hurricane. They are talking about shutting down the
subway Saturday afternoon til Monday. Evacuating Coney Island Hospital too. I have a working flashlight, charged phone, food, a book and a battery powered radio. I am not in a hurricane flood zone so I am set. If mom and dad could get married in a hurricane, then I am not going to worry.

Naomi's Phone # in Israel

Cell #: 050-709-2314

If you want to call her from the US use this #:
901 881 7788

FREE text messaging via Facebook:
Friends can visit http://facebook.com/talknsave/ and send FREE text messages.

(Naomi - that means you have to "friend" us.)

My Childhood Choir Director, of blessed memory

I recently heard that Teddy Silbermintz, Choir Director at my elementary school who recruited me to be in his High Holiday shul choir, passed away recently. First I heard it from Fran & then yesterday I received an email out of the blue from his daughter, Sandra Silbermintz.

I really haven't spoken to the man since 1975. I don't think we've had any contact since I left his choir in 9th grade, but the more I think about it, the more I realize the impact he had on me & what turned out to be my career.

I sang in his High Holiday choir for 5 years. For 5 years from 5th grade thru 9th grade I left my family for Rosh Hashana & Yom Kippur. For 2 years we sang in East Flatbush in Rabbi JJ Hecht's shul. I believe I stayed in the shul one year & one year with Tillie & Lou Fisch who lived in that neighborhood. Then for 3 years we sang at the Brighton Beach Jewish Center which coincidentally was where my parents got married. The Chazan there was & amazingly still is, Herzl Pineles, whom I have recently been in touch with thru the CCA Conventions. It was he that I first saw walk down the aisle while singing "Hinneni".

I think I used to get paid $75 & then when I became a soloist, maybe $100. Back then Selichos night the shul would be packed & it would take a good 2 & a half hrs. The ladies still used to cry during davening.

I guess I was a bridge connecting the tail end of the previous generation of old-timers to the current generation where so much has changed.

I wish I was in contact with the other kids in the choir. I often search on Facebook for those few names that I remember, but haven't stumbled on anyone yet.

Nothing humorous or cute here, but I just wanted to put this down in writing somewhere & share this with the family.

Hope all you Yankees survived the Great Earthquake of 2011. I just had this vision of Meir about to miss the winning putt when the earthquake hit causing the ball to double back & sink that "eagle".

Click here to read email exchange with Sandra Silbermintz.

earthquake

I hear there was an earthquake. I think I was outside saying good bye tothe clients when a couple of trucks rummbled down the street. I came inside and heard there was an earthquake. People at work who were sitting down felt it. Aunt Helen felt it but thought she was dizzy.
Earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes,dust storms, thunder storms with baseball size hail. Crazy weather we are having this year

wedding

It was good seeing most of you at Tamar's wedding. I hope everyone got home safely. If I could figure out how to dwnload any pictures I will.

& how was YOUR day?

I got " airtraned"

Here's what I felt like yesterday.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWEcYdihRwI&feature=player_detailpage#t=292s

Airtran! I got all your names!

Wabbit Season

They wouldn't let me shecht my own duck at the live poultry market I went to. Something about city ordinances blah blah. I am very upset. Now I am trying to find another market that is not so anti-Semitic.

Duck Season

After two years of being a shochet, I am finally going to shecht a duck tomorrow (if all goes as planned).

I will let you know how it goes.

Anyone have any good recipes?

Greetings from Arizona!

Hi everyone! Hope all is well. Just wanted to keep you updated with our life. B'h we are settling in nicely and the kids have made some friends. I started work last week and work 3 days a week . Yisroel just started inservice and school starts for the kids and him on August 23. We are meeting people and getting a lot of invites for shabbos which is nice. We live about a 7 minute walk from the shul, which isn't so bad. The average temperature these days is 110 degrees (but its a dry heat!) and we are staying cool in the pool. The kids are making progress putting their head in the water, but not actually swimming. Chana is walking everywhere, babbling, and has 2 teeth (finally!). We are unpacked and just got dining room chairs and a kitchen table (on craigs list) and maybe once we hang up our pictures, we will take some pics of the house to show you. This picture is taken by the neighbors yard. Our yard doesn't have any cactus (or grass) and the front area is basically just rocks. Another big adjustment is that the tap water does not taste good at all so we have to only use bottled water and refill gallon bottles of water at the store. Can't wait to see you all in person- the weather is supposed to get nice here really soon! We miss you!

Bloopers!

Four Eyes

Since I (Mindy) got glasses when I was two, we decided to take Akiva to get his eyes checked. Sure enough, before he was a year, he already needed glasses. We took him to two different eye doctors who both said he needed glasses for nearsightedness. This is what we got him for his 15 month birthday:
Sometimes, he'll actually keep them on, so we're pretty sure they're working!

happy birthday zev

Zev,
I hope you had a wonderful Birthday.

Brotherly Love

Tiger Meir

Meir's golf camp had a color war event today. It went into sudden death. Meir hit the put the forced the sudden death. In the sudden death Meir hit the winning putt. Here is the link for the video winning putt. Skip to the 6:30 minute of the video. We are taking sponsors for Meir's budding career.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfNSfnqF9Bg

Chana Leah Walking in Memphis