One Fine Day the Rabbi Bought a Cross
“Greenberg, forty-five, short, balding, and fattish, had left the States fifteen years before, but not long enough to have softened his Brooklyn accent. And he still retained his street-smart cynicism. As they made their way to the police station where Ish-Tov was being held, he said, “What you’ve got to understand, Rabbi, is that punks are punks whether in New York or Jerusalem, Arab or Jewish. And it doesn’t make any difference how pious they are. When I was with Legal Aid in New York years ag...o, many a time I found myself defending a Hasidic punk—theft, armed robbery, once even murder. They wore the black hat and the dark clothes and had the tsitsis showing. I remember once I was seeing my client in the jail, and he asks me which way is east so he can face that way and daven shachris while I wait. And he was guilty of armed robbery, guilty as hell. Maybe he thought seeing him daven I’d be more apt to think he was innocent. Or maybe it was just a habit with him that he couldn’t break or he’d feel like he forgot something all day.MoreLess
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