1998-1999 Rothberg Yearbook

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Living on French Hill and Mount Scopus can sometimes get to be a bit boring and dull. An
amateur might ask, "W here can w e go?" As Petula Clark once said a few decades ago,
"You can always go...DO W N TOWN ."
That's exactly what a lot of us have
done. During the day there's food
shopping at the shuk or clothes shopping
on Jaffa and King George. For late
afternoon or nighttime, there are a
wide range of activities for a wide
range of people. There's the Russian
compound, Yoel Solomon, and we can't forget Ben Yehuda. Strolling down the Midrachov,
I can recall many regular and eye-catching sights: the woman with her guitar and dancing
puppet, the drummers surrounded by a crowd of onlookers either quietly tapping their
feet or dancing in the middle of the circle, the crowd of men thinking they can outwit the
dealer in a game of 3-Card Monty. And w e can't forget to mention those ever present
yeshiva kids chattering away on their pelephones or drinking alcohol from a bottle in a
brown paper bag in Kikar Zion.