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In the News: Beacon Kosher
Jun. 20th, 2007 08:23 amOne of the odd things about Nomi and me being involved in so many different aspects of the world is that we find ourselves consulted on a variety of issues. And sometimes, we end up in the newspaper because of that.
As I reported last week, I was contacted by the National Geographic News to give my opinion on Eris and Pluto. This week, the Brookline TAB is running an article about the closing of Beacon Kosher, a small kosher market here in Brookline that closed after 15 years of business after the death of its owner, Moshe Cohen-Skali.
As it so happens, the TAB knows that I'm one of the "go-to guys" when it comes to Jewish issues in the town, and so they contacted me to ask my opinion on the closing of the market. Now, as Nomi posted back in March under the heading Baruch Dayan HaEmet -- Moshe Cohen-Skali, she knew the owner of Beacon Kosher because he was her Hebrew teacher for many years at Maimonides. So I suggested they talk to her as well.
The result is an article, Beacon Kosher closes after 15 years, in which we're both quoted:
As I reported last week, I was contacted by the National Geographic News to give my opinion on Eris and Pluto. This week, the Brookline TAB is running an article about the closing of Beacon Kosher, a small kosher market here in Brookline that closed after 15 years of business after the death of its owner, Moshe Cohen-Skali.
As it so happens, the TAB knows that I'm one of the "go-to guys" when it comes to Jewish issues in the town, and so they contacted me to ask my opinion on the closing of the market. Now, as Nomi posted back in March under the heading Baruch Dayan HaEmet -- Moshe Cohen-Skali, she knew the owner of Beacon Kosher because he was her Hebrew teacher for many years at Maimonides. So I suggested they talk to her as well.
The result is an article, Beacon Kosher closes after 15 years, in which we're both quoted:
Fuller Street resident Nomi Burstein first knew Cohen-Skaly as her seventh-grade Hebrew teacher at Maimonides School on Philbrick Road. The Israeli native remained her teacher until she graduated five years later in 1989.
“He was always very, very sweet,” Burstein said. “He was a tough teacher, but I credit the majority of the fluency and comfort I have in Hebrew with the consistency of Moshe as a teacher.”
Although Burstein lives steps from The Butcherie, she was always ready with a “shalom” greeting for her former teacher if she were in the Washington Square area.
“And sometimes I’d drop into Beacon Kosher if I wasn’t [sic] in the neighborhood,” she said. “I have always been astounded by how well he remembered students. It didn’t matter that I had graduated 10 years ago.”...
“The closing of Beacon Kosher is not indicative of the health of the kosher community in Brookline,” said Michael Burstein, Nomi’s husband. “It is sad that no one was able to take it over and keep it open, but the community is still here.”
