Chol Hamoed Roundup

So we joined the caravan of minivans across the Delaware River to the Mecca for frum people in the tri state area called Hershey, PA.
Truth be told, its beautiful to see such diversity and vitality.
There mustve been close to a 1,000 people davening in the 8am Minyan at the Hershey Lodge, from every strain of Orthodoxy (who needs Uman?)
And although there were some things that upset me a bit, I made a conscious decision to focus on the postitive...and I’m sticking to it.

Frum people in amusement parks.
I could just sit back and people watch all day.
It looked like 2,000 candidates on a campaign trail Men pounding the flesh “Hey, How are you..”good..How’ve you been..?” Waving to people in the distance... Holding little children in their arms.. Wife a few steps behind, black sunglasses, dressed for a cocktail party (hey, our campaign manager never said anything about rides!).
Hey, as long as the kids had fun (although on the car ride home..all I kept hearing were long lists of the rides they did not get to go on...)

On an aside, it was eye opening to see white people driving cars with Pennsylvania license plates.


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