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W

hy is this summer different 
from all other summers? 
Because for the first time in 
my life, I’
m spending more than two 
months of a summer in New York City. 
My wife and I have a brand-new 
granddaughter there, 
and we were asked if 
we’
d be interested in 
helping out for a little 
while. It took my wife 
about five minutes to 
book an apartment on 
66th and Broadway. So 
now I’
m kind of living 
the life of a real New 
Yorker. I even carry a subway pass in 
my wallet, so I’
m pretty sure that makes 
it official.
I have been to New York many times, 
both for business and pleasure, but 

always for just a few days. But when 
you’
re here for a few months, it’
s an 
entirely different mindset. You don’
t 
feel compelled to pack everything into a 
tight schedule. You can leisurely explore 
Central Park, stop and listen to street 
musicians, compare the best gelato 
street vendors (Lincoln Center, hands 
down), study the architecture and just 
get lost in the vibe of the city. In other 
words, you can experience a true New 
York state of mind.
Of course, the city is crazy expen-
sive. That’
s hard to get used to. Going 
to the movies cost my wife and me 
almost $50. Lunch can easily cost close 
to $100. And a nice dinner … fugged-
aboutit! Let’
s put it this way, I’
m done 
complaining about the price of things 
in Detroit.
One thing this Detroiter could not 
get used to is celebrity spotting. I prac-
tically brushed into Sean Lennon and 
Liam Neeson. And then there’
s the 
story of my close encounter with none 
other than Jackie Mason. I was sitting at 
a deli when suddenly in walks my all-
time favorite comedian. He sits down 
next to me, and for a while I tried my 
best to act like it was no big deal (I am 
a New Yorker, after all). But the Oak 
Parker in me could no longer restrain 
himself and I just had to say hello. He 
was instantly friendly, funny and doing 

schtick for me. I was having a private 
audience to a Jackie Mason show!
I told him his one-person Broadway 
show was hysterical and he immediate-
ly asked me if I ever saw it.
“Well, not exactly,
” I admitted. “But I 
saw it on YouTube.
”
“So I lost money on you!” He 
snapped back.
He was in a talkative mood and I 
soaked up every moment of it. He 
loved all the accolades I was giving 
him, and he didn’
t seem to be in a rush 
to end the conversation. He asked what 
I did for a living, and when I told him 
I was a lawyer he said “Oy, I’
m sorry to 
hear that.
”
Just a normal day in NYC.
New York is, of course, the largest 

essay
Summer in the City. New York City
Jew-hatred that fueled Adolf Hitler’
s 
murdering crusade — one reason we 
needed a safe Jewish haven to begin 
with.
If you doubt BDS’
 bias against Jews, 
consider why it denies the existence of 
the one Jewish state in the world while 
ignoring human rights violations in 50 
Muslim-majority nations without chal-
lenging any Islamic country’
s right to 
exist. I don’
t see Omar boycotting Saudi 
Arabia’
s honor killings, beheadings or 
the lashing of rape victims for adultery.
Omar has denied being anti-Semitic, 
but her ongoing vendetta against Jews 
seems irrational. When I read Ayaan 
Hirsi Ali, another Muslim Somalian 
who was elected to Dutch Parliament, 
explain how she was raised in Somalia 
to be a virulent anti-Semite indoctri-
nated with anti-Zionism that she is 
only slowly learning to overcome, I 
wished Omar would follow suit.
The answer to hatred and race bait-
ing is not more hate and racial division. 
By pushing her intolerance and bias 
against Jews, Omar is alienating obvi-
ous allies and further splintering her 
own party. Paradoxically, she’
s only 
helping bolster the real enemy against 
her: Trump’
s white nationalism. ■

Originally from West Bloomfield, Susan Shapiro 
is a New School professor and co-author of The 
Bosnia List and author of The Byline Bible. She 
will be at Temple Israel Aug. 21 to talk about her 
new book, Barbie: 60 Years of Inspiration. This 
essay originally appeared in Newsday.

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Mark Jacobs

continued on page 8

Comedian 

Jackie Mason 

and Jacobs

Jacobs and his buddy Greg Bernhardt at the 

Celebrate Israel Parade down 5th Avenue

