"Shopping While Fasting, a Tricky Two-Step"
By Bao OngFor some Jewish New Yorkers fasting during Yom Kippur, a good part of the day still centered on food — even if it meant they could only look...
At Zabar’s on the Upper West Side, Lisa Jablonsky weaved a shopping cart stacked with towers of tuna fish, egg salad and lox between strollers as workers restocked shelves with containers of whitefish salad...
David Tait, a Zabar’s manager, said it’s the busiest day of the year for the family-owned store. Four men started making bagels at 3:30 a.m., and the staff expected to sell more than 600 dozen in one day.
While fasting on Monday, Lisa Jablonsky
and her brother Gregg Jablonsky shopped
at Zabar’s on the Upper West Side.
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