http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/10/09/walking-in-brooklyn/ A First Things Blog Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:33:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/10/09/walking-in-brooklyn/comment-page-1/#comment-76585 Graham Combs Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:18:08 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=49047#comment-76585 I lived in Park Slope for several years in the early 1980s. On the way to pick up the Saturday morning paper I was stopped as I passed by a large synagogue. The man needed me to turn on the lights which I was happy to do. It wasn’t until the next week that I mentioned it to my friend Bernstein who explained what I had done. It seemed at the time the neighborhood had either synagogues or Episcopal churches (I occasionally attended one that served primarily the Caribbean population –one of the few white worshipers). If that happened today — unlikely in the hyper-secular northern suburbs of Detroit — I think I would have expressed more gratitude for being the shabbos goy.

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