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The most unexpected places I met a yid was once when I was in Oaxaca Mexico in the highland of Mexico and while walking down the the street a storekeeper ran outt and yelled Rak Regah, I was an Israeli who owned a electronic store. The strangest place I met a frum yid was in hiking the AT in North Carolina.
How about you?I was crossing an international border and didn’t have local currency to pay for the travel visa. An Israeli noticed I was Jewish and paid for me. ישלם ה’ פעולו
Hiking in the middle of a hick town in Central Oregon.
At a small lodge along Khuvsgul Lake in Mongolia about 10 years ago. As you would guess, two younger Israelis doing a long post-IDF trek. Its one of the largest lakes in that region and one of the most beautiful areas we’ve ever traveled but the last place I’d expect to find another yid.
In North Korea.
I met a Satmar Chasid (fully dressed as one) in Tupelo, Mississippi.
We went to the outback once in australia to a small town and found a person who didnt know he was jewish.
Yabia, did you put on teffilin with him?
I met a Brisker in Mecca.
common saychel: was he thru hiking? i always wondered if its possible to thru hike the at as a frum jew.
To Common Sachel:
Read about Otto Warmbier A”H.To ujm: I ate brisket in Mecca.
My daughter and a friend were hiking through some beautiful backwoods in Ireland. They came across a man and a woman, also walking through the area. The man looked familiar; as it turned out, he was a regular customer at the Aroma where she worked.
My family was on vacation in Alaska and we stopped at the side of the road in Denali Park to look at a beaver dam. There was already a man and his son standing there wearing the uniform of Yidden on vacation everywhere (man in a taxi driver hat, son in a baseball cap not covering the peyos behind their ears). My father ambled up and casually asked “Nu? Any chance we can get a minyan for mincha?”
Common saychel: I’m pretty sure you can inn hike that stretch.
You can often find frum Jews in unexpected places during Chol Hamoed Pesach and Succos.
In the Vatican during an audience with Pope Paul VI.
I remember when i unexpectedly and shockingly met CTLAWYER in the YWN coffeeroom when we were having coffee together. I was completely unexpectedly shocked and wasnt event pregnant yet forget about expecting yet.
It was an experience of a lifetime to meet him. And I keep waiting to meet him again in the coffeeroom
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