“Don’t you think the people here will resent a group of noisy teenagers in the shul every night?”
This was Akiva’s territory. “I teach stuff like this, I would love to hear some of your best ideas, it’s so relevant to what I do. Tell me a chiddush”
She couldn’t meet her son’s eyes, knowing that she had just interrupted his kiddush and sort of killed the atmosphere
“The people around here aren’t the 9:15-minyan kav, if you know what I mean”
Nechama suddenly realized where the story was going. Moishy hadn’t retired, he had died
Chaim didn’t even look up this time. Maybe, Shaindy thought with a little stab of satisfaction, he was also at the end of his rope Friday night, during the seudah, Heshy Brucker began making fun of the davening at the Alameda Gardens Ashkenaz shul. “It’s like everyone there was already chazzan or gabbai or
