A friend of mine has 4 small kids in a Jewish day school in Manhattan. Tuition is over $50,000 a year. Since after-tax money pays for tuition here (meaning the expense is not tax deductible), that means you have to
New York, New York: The New York Times reports a Catholic youth league basketball team forfeited a game because the whole team was attending the coach’s son’s Bar Mitzvah…I hear Al Gore is volunteering to be Argentina’s next president; if
A few travel ideas and late notes from London…A few additions to the packing list: A small container with a twist-lock top to hold shampoo and other liquids (usually used for pills). Too often the shampoo bottle leaks in the
I heard this really creative story. Engineers and accountants are each in their own groups buying tickets to get on a train. The accountants see that the engineers have bought one ticket for the 3 members of their group. The
Today I saw The Producers. This is the hottest ticket in New York City starring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane; it costs $480 to get a ticket from the theater if you don’t go through scalpers or get on a
Letter From New York I guess we’re getting back to normal. We can get back to hating each other now. So said a cartoon last week in the New Yorker. The radical Black Moslems are back on my corner making
Hello all! For those of you who missed out on watching this year’s New York City marathon, all I can say is, you really missed something amazing. It was a perfect, perfect, perfect day. A bit warmer and sunnier than
There were 32 responses. If the response lists a place, it means either that the person is a national of that place or that the person has been living at least 5 years in the listed place. If the answer
First a few thoughts about life in New York City since the bombings: I left town again for a week on 4 October following a couple of interesting episodes. Walked into Macy’s in Manhattan; it was a ghost town at
Friday — Flew El Al business class upper deck 747. 9:30 flying time. Arrival one hour late due to extra security in New York for passengers arriving from Toronto (they had to check in again). Food and entertainment could use
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