🎈Balloons and Jewish Brooklyn
While on travel, I'm including my two latest pieces with Jewish Unpacked for you to check out!
Good Shabbat! Makeshift Shabbat! Electric Shabbat!
… because I’m traveling and am not sure I’m going to have too many opportunities to be Jewish (though I’ll find a way, I’m sure).
This Drop is dripping into your inbox from the icy glaciers of Alaska, and yes, I brought electric tealight candles to bring in the Sabbath. It won’t feel too different from Shabbat, because I will still be consuming salmon! חחחחח
That said, I don’t have too much content this week, so I’m including links to my latest articles with Jewish Unpacked I have not yet shared here. Give them a read if you’re curious about the Jewish New York of today!
Bursting with Jewish pride: How a balloon store in Manhattan is showing up for Israel
After Oct. 7, Sharon Hershkowitz, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, proudly decorated her Tribeca storefront with blue and white balloons and a chalk-scrawled sign declaring, “Never again.”
The ultimate Jewish guide to Brooklyn, NYC: What to see, eat & do
Brooklyn is home to cutting-edge restaurants, unique thrift stores, and fun nightlife, but do you know about its many Jewish offerings across the borough? Shoutout to New York Adventure Club for the inspo. Check out my Manhattan guide here).
Shabbat Shalom. I hope you’re basking in the sunshine, reading, sipping on a frozen drink, or doing something that brings you joy. See you in two weeks,
even when you are not here you are very here. enjoy being away. So much of your stuff on Brooklyn and its Jewish places a reminder of how important the past is for Jews in the present.
I love the idea of taking tea vandals with you. You’re such a smartie! Enjoy the Alaskan lix!