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I had a Jewish friend who once remarked that he knew when rosh hashana and yom Kippur were upon him because it added another forty minutes to his commute in Los
by nimbius 4y ago
I had a Jewish friend who once remarked that he knew when rosh hashana and yom Kippur were upon him because it added another forty minutes to his commute in Los angeles. he affectionately called it "the ten days of 'awe come on merge already'"
- js2 4y agoI'm Jewish but I don't get it... am I to take it that Jews going to temple added enough traffic to L.A. to slow down his commute by forty minutes?
- wbl 4y agoProbably being extra polite at the expense of using the road effectively
- arrosenberg 4y agoYes, adding several hundred drivers all entering/exiting at the same spot in rush hour at specific spots the 405 can do that. Thinking the one on Mulholland Drive right near the 101/405 interchange.
- thakoppno 4y agoIsn’t that where the skirball center is?
- svat 4y agoTom Lehrer wrote a song called "I'm Spending Hanukkah in Santa Monica" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LslsgH3-UFU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LslsgH3-UFU) — I had assumed it was just a joke for the rhyme, but looking at this conversation I'm wondering if there's anything more to it :)
- antognini 4y agoThere's something to it, historically LA's Jewish population has been clustered in the West Side.
- riffic 4y agohistorically, it wasn't though. Breed Street Shul is one example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breed_Street_Shul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breed_Street_Shul > The Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, located east of downtown, was home to the city's most populous Jewish community from 1910 to 1950. The area around Breed Street Shul became a center for the Jewish community.
- antognini 4y agoYeah, that's fair. I was thinking more the post-WWII population which became centered more in the Pico-Robertson neighborhood. Pre-WWII Los Angeles was very different.