Lines at an Open House? By Nechama Polak | January 28, 2021
This time last year I was in Israel visiting my daughter, son in law and grandchildren. Yeshiva week has always been the perfect time to go away. The slower winter season is usually coming to an end and the spring season usually starts in full force shortly thereafter, during the early weeks of February. Having an Open House on the Sunday of Yeshiva week was unheard of…. Who would even show up?
Fast forward to this year and Yeshiva week is unrecognizable. One of my agents was telling me that when she pulled up to start her open house last Sunday there was already a line of people waiting to get in.
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In 1973, on a cold and rainy winter night, I was returning home to my apartment at Terrace Circle in Teaneck, from classes at NYU. I was recently married and this was my first time taking the bus from Port Authority. Having no cell phone or GPS tracker, I got off as soon as the driver called out “Teaneck Road.” That night I would learn the hard way that Teaneck Road and Degraw Avenue are not remotely close to Teaneck Road and State Street. I cried the whole walk home as bus after bus drove past me of course outbound buses won’t pick up passengers. I walked into my apartment, turned to my husband and exclaimed, “I hate New Jersey!”
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