‘And Coming Up at 11…”
Tuesday, 15. December 2009
My dad talked the other day about going over to the Berkeley JCC for a Chanukah event last Sunday afternoon.
“Good for you,” I thought. “Get out of the house. Enjoy the festival.” He was even planning on taking BART, the Bay Area rapid transit system instead of driving. This by a man in his 80s.
By all accounts, he’s doing well. Keeping busy. Going to dinner at my brother’s and sister-in-laws on occasion or to one of his nephew and nieces who live nearby. Baking his salmon in the toaster oven. Having Nelly, the Peruvian cleaning lady, cook a few things for him on the day she comes to clean the house.
Still, I was more than a little surprised when I got an email from my brother with this link that features my dad lighting the menorah at the JCC festival. Apparently the event was also honoring Holocaust survivors, of which my dad is one. But now he’s also a veritable local TV celebrity. Well, for 19 seconds. There’s a short promo in advance of the very short news clip. That’s my dad wearing the cap lighting the menorah: http://cbs5.com/video/?id=59238@kpix.dayport.com
Sharron Freeman Says:
Len,
Wow – what fun it was to see your dad – wearing a baseball cap, of all things – lighting the good old menorah. I think it’s great that he’s getting out and about – AND snagging a spot on TV, as well. Those famous Feldmans are everywhere – writing editorials in the Hartford Courant, on TV in California. Fame. Fortune. Feldmans.
Sharron Freeman Says:
I mean FELSONS… OY – forgive me for the misspelling. Don’t know what I was thinking!
Leonard Felson Says:
Thanks Sharron. I was about to edit your comment and correct the name, but I see you’ve already done it. Just a footnote: the name was not always Felson. Before my father and uncle arrived in the U.S. after the Holocaust, their name was Feigelson.