Uncle Moishe called the other day to wish me a happy Thanksgivnukkah. We talked family and commiserated over the season the NY Giants were having, oy. Unc told me that he was recently walking in Pelham Bay Park with his good friend and pinochle partner Sol Arnstein on a pleasant fall afternoon. Solly confided in Unc that he recently had…
Uncle Moishe told me the last time we talked on the phone that he was playing some canasta in the Shul’s social hall with his childhood friend, Murray Brodsky. They both went to P.S. 50 in the Bronx and had remained in the same neighborhood all these years. Anyway, Murray tells Unc that his wife, Sarah, was working part time…
Uncle Moishe was talking to his brother Bennie, who’s son Hymie owns a supermarket in Brooklyn. Bennie told Unc a story about a young fellow named Nathan that was hired to work in the produce department. One day a customer asked Nathan where he could find half a head of lettuce. Nathan told the customer that they only sold whole…
Uncle Moishe and his friend Saul Fine were sitting in the Chester Deli on 174th St. in the Bronx after playing some penny and two poker at the Senior Center. As usual, after complaining to Irving, the waiter, about how fatty the pastrami was, the conversation turned to family. Saul told Unc that his grandson David had a little argument…
When I last talked to Uncle Moishe they were having a terrible heat wave in New York. His air conditioner wasn’t working for a few days so he and my Aunt were staying out on the Island with his brother Benny. At least there was a breeze off the ocean at night, he tells me. Anyway. Unc told me about…
I talked to Uncle Moishe this past weekend on the phone. Other than my Aunt going in for a little bunion surgery everything is pretty quiet. Unc was telling me that he and my Aunt went for a drive with their close friends and neighbors, Jake and Minnie Goldblum. They stopped off at a nice restaurant and had lunch and…
Uncle Moishe told me this story on the phone last week that my Aunt had heard when she was playing in her weekly Mah jong game at the senior center on Pelham Parkway. Ruth was telling the ladies that her husband was concerned about her hearing so he decided to give her a test of his own design. He went…
I was talking to Uncle Moishe on the phone a few days before Passover. He was in Miami with my Aunt to spend Passover with his children and grand-children who had moved to Florida from the Bronx. He told me that a few days before Passover he was in the neighborhood kosher restaurant that was frequented by many seniors. An…
I talked to Uncle Moishe this evening and here is a story he told me if you have room in the newsletter. Uncle Moishe was in a reminiscing mood last week when I talked to him on the phone. He asked me if I remembered his Uncle Mordecai who came to the Bronx to visit from Poland when my cousins…
