{"id":24409,"date":"2016-05-18T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=24409"},"modified":"2016-05-25T09:58:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T13:58:59","slug":"shul-shlub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/18\/shul-shlub\/","title":{"rendered":"SHUL SHLUB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>During the<\/strong><\/span> Torah processional at synagogue, Cohen said to me, \u201cThat zipper on your shirt makes a nice tie. Metallic!\u201d\u00a0 He shook his head. Cohen<strong> &#8212;<\/strong> a snappy dresser &#8212; wears a Brooks Brother suit, legit tie and vest. At home, Cohen collects clothes catalogs, like his men&#8217;s overcoat catalog from pre-World War II. Cohen once tried to sell me a bomber jacket. I said no. I can\u2019t stand old Jews in bomber jackets.<\/p>\n<p>He eventually sold the bomber jacket on eBay. \u201cSame price you would have paid, Bert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you paid shipping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>\u201cNo, that<\/strong><\/span> was an extra $12.50 to the buyer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cohen kept looking at my zipper. I said, &#8220;I spray it with WD-40 to keep it shiny.&#8221; It had no name, not even YKK.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to be comfortable at shul. I usually walk to shul &#8212; a major hike. I&#8217;m not trying to make a countercultural statement. The zipper shirt is the least of it. The rabbi often wears tennis shoes (for health reasons, I&#8217;m told). I&#8217;m not a complete shlub.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24456 \" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/zipper-shirt-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"zipper shirt\" width=\"317\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/zipper-shirt-259x300.jpg 259w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/zipper-shirt-768x889.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/zipper-shirt-885x1024.jpg 885w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/zipper-shirt.jpg 895w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><small><em>Cohen is a pseudonym<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Torah processional at synagogue, Cohen said to me, \u201cThat zipper on your shirt makes a nice tie. Metallic!\u201d\u00a0 He shook his head. Cohen &#8212; a snappy dresser &#8212; wears a Brooks Brother suit, legit tie and vest. At home, Cohen collects clothes catalogs, like his men&#8217;s overcoat catalog from pre-World War II. Cohen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shul-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24409"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24478,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24409\/revisions\/24478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}