Purim in Boro-Park

[itzik gottesman <gottesman...>]

Once again, Purim was quite an experience in Boro-Park. And this 
year, since it happened on a Sunday Michael Alpert and I could 
finally go to Williamsburg during the day and see the kids and adults 
in costumes. This was a wonderful experience but the highlight was in 
Boro-Park at night. With us were Matt Temkin, Rachel Kafrissen and my 
wife Emily Socolov.  The Skulener Hasidim, a heymish shtibl, and one 
of the few Romanian Hasidic groups left, know how to party.   The 
spirit and singing were wonderful and a fiddler from Marmarosh even 
showed up to play for the rebbe. You don't see that anymore! At 1:30 
AM two badkhonim performed together: the well known Yoyneson Shvarts, 
whom Sam Weiss mentioned yesterday, and the older Skulener Reb 
Benyumin. Together they pushed the limit of what was allowable even 
on Purim and the performance concluded with Yoyneson taking off his 
belt and hitting  reb Benyumin on the tush in a malkus-ceremony 
before the Rebbe. Then the dancing started for real at about 2:30AM. 
What can I say - you all should come next year! I took decent photos 
but alas i can't send attachments to the list - itzik
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