T he annoyance kept growing like a crack in the windshield and Barry Penner wasn’t sure why. He left shul after Shacharis taking the long route home.
“Reimer is really shaking things up, pushing the head staff, actually spending money. It’s like he’s trying to make it a real camp”
T he annoyance kept growing like a crack in the windshield and Barry Penner wasn’t sure why. He left shul after Shacharis taking the long route home.
A few years ago after the financial downturn of 2008 and the rise in gas prices he’d been part of a committee that aimed to help the chareidi community cut back on spending. Penner’s solution had been to decrease car use — to educate people to start walking and take public transportation. Because he prided himself on teaching by example Penner had even donated his new car a gray Infiniti to Someich Noflim.
Since then he’d taken to walking purposefully feeling that he was teaching others with each step. The campaign hadn’t really caught on but Penner had become a familiar sight his back straight a faint air of privilege on his face as he offered stately nods to acquaintances from the sidewalk.
But today the long walk home after Landau’s eight o’clock minyan hadn’t calmed him and when he stepped through the front door Devorah felt it right away.
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