The following evening Aunt Evelyn phoned and bubblingly informed us that out of the one hundred New Jersey boys who’d gone west that summer under the sponsorship of Just Folks, Sandy had been selected as the statewide “recruiting officer” to speak as a veteran to eligible Jewish youngsters and their families about the OAA program’s many benefits and to encourage them to apply. Thus did the rabbi extract his revenge. Our father’s older son was now an honorary member of the new administration.
