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He Picked Up A Hitchhiker And You Won't Believe What Happened

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He Picked Up A Hitchhiker And You Won't Believe What Happened

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in march of uh 1974 i had a shabbaton in um cincinnati we had kids from cincinnati and louisville kentucky it was just what we called a local shabbaton which meant it was just me telling stories all shabbos and a guitar player um harold frutter from what was then the revival and then ruach and he's been a million things uh now i think he's cole hyam but he's fabulous talent so saturday night at one of those things we take 140 kids to in buses to uh ice skating roller skating or whatever and then we'd go back to the chauffeur comforts or sloppy joes and pizza and whatever cincinnati is in the southwestern corner of ohio it's adjacent to louisville even the cincinnati airport i'm not to louisville to kentucky even the cincinnati airport is in kentucky right saturday night we're going bowling or ice skating or whatever a rainy miserable night okay i'm in the lead bus we have four buses louis matzmaker who is the president for life of the hebrew academy in cleveland and at that time was the regional

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  1. 0:00in march of uh 1974 i had a shabbaton in um cincinnati we had kids from
  2. 0:34skating or whatever and then we'd go back to the chauffeur comforts or sloppy joes and
  3. 1:06president of ncsy remembers this incident we pull up to a corner somewhere in rural kentucky
  4. 1:37said is he jewish he said yeah i said let's take him so we take him
  5. 2:07tallest zeckel and a hat and the whole thing and he came to tell me that
  6. 2:40that's what it is exactly

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