Chapter 7: Crisis Management
| April 2, 2024Without waiting for me to ask a single question, everything that led up to Chesky’s expulsion came tumbling out
By Yossie Strickman, as told to Bayla Hersher
Little known fact: You can watch a full-length movie on a two-inch screen.
And that’s exactly what 12th-grader Chesky Shulman was doing in his bed when the mashgiach walked into his dorm room.
“They threw him out of yeshivah for watching a movie on his flip phone,” Mr. Shulman frantically explained to me. “Now he’s home doing nothing, just getting more depressed, and we don’t know what to do. Can you please come talk to him?”
I happened to be in the Shulmans’ neighborhood that day, so I told him I would stop by in a few hours. When I did, I found Chesky was slumped at the dining room table, looking entirely miserable.
“Thanks for coming,” he said, voice devoid of any energy.
“Of course.”
And without waiting for me to ask a single question, everything that led up to Chesky’s expulsion came tumbling out.
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