Anna Ben Yehuda
By Anna Ben Yehuda
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Life This 89-Year-Old Furrier Knows The Secret To A Long Life
Every morning, Leonard Kahn takes the Q train around the corner from the Upper East Side apartment that he shares with his wife Talia, rides it down to the 34th Street/Herald Square stop and walks the two blocks to Mink Mart, where he works as a furrier. On his way home at night, he stops…
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Life How Loyal Customers Saved 83-Year-Old West Side Judaica From Shutting Down
“The rent went up and the sales went down,” explains Yaakov Saltzer matter-of-factly over the phone when discussing his decision to close down the 83-year-old West Side Judaica shop he has owned since the early 1980s. That is, until sales started going up again. Following a July report in West Side Rag announcing the store’s…
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