Borough Park, Brooklyn NY – Walk the streets in the middle of the week, and it’s hard not to notice what’s missing – or rather, who. In predominantly haredi neighborhoods such as Borough Park, where the sounds of children usually echo through the streets at all hours of the day and baby carriages abound, the change is noticeable even to the outsider. The women and kids have all but disappeared.
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For eight weeks over the summer, thousands of haredi families migrate to bungalow colonies in the Catskills in upstate New York for a country getaway. The haredim have largely replaced an earlier generation of secular Jews who used to frequent the mountain resorts, known as the “Borscht Belt” or the “Jewish Alps.”
As with many generations of summer vacationers, religious women and children usually stay the full eight weeks of July and August and are joined by the men only on the weekends. Most men make the one- to two-hour trek on Thursday evening or early Friday morning, before Shabbat begins, and return Sunday night or early Monday morning for work.
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To biGwheeel. I never did.
What’s your point?
MR?! Jewish! Did you ever hear of MARIENBAD. (no, not the drink. The city in then-Czechoslovakia). Or, Krenitza, in Poland, among others.
what would happen if one weekend, all the men will stay here in the city. what will the rabbi say.
from where comes this minhag of country, did our zeides do the same.
What do they miss more? Their wives or the food?