Central Florida's Independent Jewish Voice

Give a listen, Yenem has a store?

I’m stumped! Everybody on my Philadelphia row house street seemed to know Yenem. I don’t know what house he lived in, but he surely did live on our block. Or was it on the next street? People went to see him for everything they needed. When I was a little boy, the next-door neighbor knocked on my screen door and said he needed to use our lawnmower. I didn’t have the key to our garage and no one else was home. Later on, I told my mother. She said that Mr. Silverman probably borrowed Mr. Yenem’s lawnmower. This kind of thing happened often and not just for Mr. Silverman. I came to think that Mr....

 
 

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