A Party In Miami Beach

June, 1978

My friend the humorist Reuben Kazarsky called me on the telephone in my apartment in Miami Beach and asked, "Menashe, for the first time in your life, do you want to perform a mitzvah?""Me a mitzvah?" I countered. "What kind of word is that--Hebrew? Aramaic? Chinese? You know I don't do mitzvahs, particularly here in Florida.""Menashe, it's not a plain mitzvah. The man is a multimillionaire. A few months ago, he lost his whole family in a car accident--a wife,...

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