when i lived in the midwest, i always thought of new york city as this big , tough, anti-semitic town. then i moved here. when i was in college, i was always afraid of having a big anti-semitic incident with some scary new yorker. this was during the pre-disney times square years.
one saturday night when i was in college i was walking down fifth avenue with a group of my friends and we heard someone calling "hey jew!" from a distance. being the brave souls that we were we turned around and started running. at the time i thought that my biggest fears were becoming reality.
alas, it was not so. one of my friends happened to take a second glance at the guys who were calling out "hey jew!" . they were across the street from us waving their yamakas. a moment later they were on our side of the street. my friends and i yelled at them for scaring us.
fortunately for us , sometimes things arent always what they appear to be!!
2 comments:
That's good they weren't starting up.
But why did they call out "Hey Jew"?
You knew who they were?
there were a few guys in my group of friends walking down fifth avenue and they were wearing yamakas which is how the guys who called out "hey jew" knew that we were jewish. for the life of me i have no idea whey they thought it was okay to shout out "hey jew", but it sure scared the heck out of us. they were canadian, but im not sure that explains it. they were visiting new york at the time and wanted directions somewhere, and they saw that we were frum so they tried to get our attention.
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