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Is Bonne Maman an anti-Nazi jam? The Internet wants to think so
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(JTA) - The heartwarming story has been hard to miss: A law professor is shopping at his local grocery store when he sees an elderly woman struggling to get her favorite jam from a high shelf. Why is it her favorite? I am a Holocaust survivor, she says. During the war, the family that owns the company hid my family in Paris.
Tens of thousands of people - at least - have shared the story since it began circulating on social media this weekend. It has prompted countless people to vow to buy only Bonne Maman-brand jam, whose 26 varieties are almost all kosher, in the future.
Do you chat with people at the grocery store? I do. Even with my mask on, but not as much as pre-COVID.
One of the reasons is I m short (and getting shorter every minute). I can t reach things on the top shelf. And isn t what you want always on the top shelf? So I ask for help. That inevitably leads to a few pleasant words.
You may have heard the story of a another short grocery shopper in New Jersey. It happened last month. But just in case, here it is.
She was trying to reach a high shelf of Bonne Maman jams. A law professor, with a Twitter account, Michael Perino, offered to help the elderly, struggling woman find her raspberry preserves. As he handed her the jar, she thanked him and asked if he knew why she bought that brand. She told him, I am a Holocaust survivor.