Verkkothis fishing line, barely visible between manhattan buildings, is an eruv, used by observant jews to create a symbolic domestic perimeter for the sabbath. Verkkothere goes the neighborhood. Markowitz was born in 1947 to holocaust survivors in the western ukrainian town of mukachevo, better known in. Verkkoa barely visible boundary around brooklyn, strung with fishing line from telephone pole to streetlamp all around the borough, allows observant jews to. The answer lies in the radical changes that have occurred in the thinking and in the problems of living. Verkko(new york jewish week via jta) — brooklyn’s williamsburg neighborhood is known as a center of gentrification and a gathering place for the. Verkko(new york jewish week via jta) — brooklyn’s williamsburg neighborhood is known as a center of gentrification and a gathering place for the.
