'Frumpies' Come to Town And Observe Shabbos in Riverdale

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April 8, 1994 | Sarah Stern | Copyright

Sarah Stern
Forward
04-08-1994
`Frumpies' Come to Town.

And Observe Shabbos in Riverdale

RIVERDALE -- It's Friday afternoon, and women in long skirts and sheytls are scurrying about, anxiously trying to finish their errands before the sun sets. Well-dressed men in yarmulkes or hats are hurrying to attend services at the synagogue.

Shabbos eve in Williamsburg? Borough Park? Crown Heights, perhaps? Welcome to Riverdale, a once-Waspish enclave of the Northwest Bronx, where there were special covenants in deeds that restricted selling homes to Jews.

A burgeoning number of Orthodox synagogues, kosher butchers and kosher restaurants is changing the face of …

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