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Sybil and granddaughter, Lauren arrived from Halifax to help put a lovely table of goodies together. Even Aunt Bella’s Bobka showed up! Her nieces and nephews stopped by—Norm, Gary, Jerry and Betty, Bunny and Lowell Shore; the Yazers from Boularderie, Barrie Carnat and Leslie and Josine Dubinsky of Englishtown, her caretakers, Gertie and Martha, Paula and David (Mira), Inez (Sydney), Margaret Karrel from Ingonish (probably a fellow golfer?) and her old neighbours from Glace Bay, the Kennedys.

BUT I DO REMEMBER WHEN SHABBAT SERVICES FIRST RESUMED, WE WERE A BIT TREPIDATIOUS...

There were many seats and so it was not a problem to sit far apart… but—The Kiddish?

How would we do this? Should everyone bring his or her own flask? Would it look like Prohibition in the olden days? Needless to say, we figured it out, the usual attendees: Martin and Gail Chernin, Frank Elman, Barrie Carnat, Beth Sheila Kent, David Ein, Sandra Wajstaub, the Strongs, Inez, Stanley and I, plus assorted others who carried the service, inspired the drawing of a cartoon included somewhere in this article! Please excuse me if I do not include all people visiting our little congregation. Perhaps, even some events have escaped my memory, the “old grandmere just ain’t what she used to be.”

WE STILL HAVE A BIT OF OUR “SUMMER BUBBLE”

The Yazers, Leslie and Josine Dubinsky, Heidi Schwartz and Rose Schwartz Rubinoff, Beverley Davis, Raymond Goldman, Irwin Mendleson, Joan, Marlene and Ariel of the Elman clan, the Carnats, who are quarantining as I write, and Lowell and Bunny Shore, whose voices we welcome to join the Dubinsky choir for the High Holidays!

THE CLOSING OF CAMP KADIMAH HIT HARD

I am presently reading a book entitled, “I Will Never See the World Again”. It is the memoir of an imprisoned writer, but it was the title that struck me. It was written in a bold black glaring font. It made you stop.

Everywhere people are saying, “We are entering a ‘new normal’; the world as we know it will never be the same again, life will be different”.

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PHOTOS: 1-2 Manny Strong’s Bar Mitzvah; 3 Ice cream; 4-7 Shul; 8 Michael Zatzman discovered challah made by Marlene Donovan in A Bakery in Ingonish; 9 Harold Yazer’s spiffy mask coordinates well with his outfit; 10 Bella Shore’s birthday; 11 Cartoon drawing of the Kiddish.

What with the pandemic, which has even entered the lexicon of my young grandson, the Kadimah Family could not believe camp would not happen this summer! Indeed, the question now is, “Will it happen next summer?” I believe it will, but I am a Pollyanna. My grandson, Izzy, who spent his first six weeks as a camper in 2019, was disappointed that he could not go back to Kadimah this 2020.

He described the camp as “the best place in the whole world”!

I am constantly amazed that the Kadimah legend, the mythology, keeps renewing itself, thriving and growing on the dreams it spins.

There was a group of older campers that met up for a weekend at the Algonquin Hotel in St. Andrews, N.B. You may know