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He was Sure he is going to Oregon
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So much he was sure he had already
started calling the JCC there. So my
father always used to sit at the Shabbos
table and he used to tell us that he was
sure he was being sent to Oregon.
So much he was sure he had already
started calling the JCC there.
He was cuz then eventually they
announced these were the three that were
picked. Cuz you had to like Rabbi Heller
from Kyol had to write a letter of
recommendation for you. It was very
serious. Like they had a they had a
stick little structure. Yeah, they had
to like you had to get a letter of
recommendation from Rabbi Heller.
And um
and he was convinced that he was being
sent to Oregon which I guess was like
the furthest sent and the least, you
know, desirable. At least Vermont was
closer to New York.
But Vermont was Raskin who's married to
a Popeck who
who was from there.
I think like the Zayde was a Shliach in
baby in Vermont.
And Oregon, Reichek was on the West
Coast also.
So I think somehow and then
and then we heard growing up that the
Shliach that was there before my father
spoke a good English.
And that basically in the office they
decided that like you can't replace my
father grew up with a high school like
he grew up in Australia so they had a
high school like education. So they said
you know, if the Shliach was a good
orator beforehand.
Right. So they they had to they had to,
you know, send send someone
So it it made sense. So he got the the
he got hooked up with Atlanta. He got