“It’s like you’re running your own little show within this kehillah, is what I’m trying to say, I guess”
It was one thing and then the other, but Akiva Putterman and Reuven Stagler finally found a time that worked for both of them to go meet with Heshy Brucker.
They couldn’t do it when his parents were home, of course — that would lead to too many questions.
On Tuesday morning, Shaindy Brucker told Nechama that she and Chaim had to be menachem avel a cousin in Far Rockaway that night, so Reuven arranged the meeting.
“The president himself? Coming to me?” Heshy asked in such a pleased, respectful voice that Reuven felt bad about the whole thing. Don’t get emotional, he told himself, just do what you have to.
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