GREAT READS → SISTER SHMOOZE Issue 953 · March 14, 2023

It Takes a Village

Come with the wandering Sisters to discover “villages” in cities on three different continents

It Takes a Village

And what, exactly, is a “town”?

It’s an amorphous, changeable concept, this in-and-out idea. When we were young, would you believe both Lakewood and Monsey were considered “out of town”? (And no, dinosaurs weren’t roaming the earth, and we didn’t have long, convivial chats with Avraham Avinu….)

Whether you live “in” or “out,” there’s one thing we’ll bet you’d say: I don’t live in a village.

Or do you?

Come with the wandering Sisters to discover “villages” in cities on three different continents. We’ll offer you a warm welcome, a cup of steaming coffee, and some insights into how you can live in a village, no matter where your home happens to be.

 

Marcia recounts…

A Tale of Two Villages

The condo kind of fell into my lap…
January 2020

 I’m in South Florida for my grandson’s bar mitzvah. Sheldon a”h hasn’t even been gone for a year, and I feel his absence acutely. I decide to take an extra week of vacation from work. I ask a friend who’s “snowbirding” in Century Village if I can stay with her, just to see what all the talk’s about.

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