Kream Kastle is a greasy spoon and a living fossil
Kream Kastle is a greasy spoon and a living fossil Bacon Cheeseburger at Kream Kastle
A hundred years ago Thursday, March 4, 1921 President Woodrow Wilson put his name on a document declaring a lush, mountainous strip of land in the Ouachita Mountains as Hot Springs National Park. What had been designated by Congress in 1832 as a reservation was established as a heralded bellwether of Wilson’s relatively new national parks program, with government-led protections for the 47 thermal springs that bubble up from the Earth at a feisty 143 degrees, believed by many then and now to be medicinal. To mark the centennial, we’re celebrating all things Spa City the things that make it a geological anomaly, the things that make it a haven for lovers of pizza and gambling and cycling, and the things that keep it perennially weird.
Phil Cohen grew up in the Philadelphia area of New Jersey with a basic suburban Jewish education. After college, he took the leftover money from his college fund and went to Israel, where he studied at a yeshiva, an Orthodox Jewish school.
âI wasnât directed enough from college to know what I wanted to do when I grew up,â he said.
Rabbi Phil Cohen, pictured Dec. 14, has been the interim rabbi since July at Congregation Beth Shalom. Because of the pandemic, Cohen has been broadcasting virtual services from the synagogue. Heâs invited some members to stay after Friday services for a virtual dinner together.Margo Wagner/Missourian