#1: Scene: Overheard at the bank on Main Avenue in Ocean Grove:
—–Customer: Ocean Grove has a new nickname.
—–Teller: What is it?
—–Customer: Ocean Granola—-flakes and nuts.
#2 Scene: Wegmans bagel bakery
—-Bagel baker to Paul: Inquiring about the Jewish holidays: When is Bagel Day?
—-Me: What?
—-Baker: You know, the day when the Jewish customers eat lots of bagels.
—-Me. You must mean the “break the fast after sundown on Yom Kippur.”
—-Baker: Yes, that’s it.
—-Me: It’s mostly dairy foods like bagels, lox (smoked salmon), salads, whitefish, cream cheese, and other special foods.
Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year in Judaism, known as the Day of Atonement, and in 2026 it takes place from sundown on September 20 to nightfall on September 21.
HAGEVATRON Folk music from Israel (in Hebrew) “Oseh Shalom”-— a prayer for peace.