People Speak – 13

description of book You Must Meet Grisha Business consultants trying to turn around a failing factory tell the owner to fire half his workers. Instead, he hires a new worker, a Russian immigrant named Grish. Why? Because "He has no source of income." The advisors quit. As for Grisha… 　 Where's the Chasan?! The Yerushalmi is back again, this time with a shidduch story the likes of which you've never heard before. There's the suggestion…a crowded vort…a plate broken…a kallah… All Meah Shearim is abuzz with the exciting news. Only one person doesn't know a thing about it: the chasan himself! 　 Compassion and Forgiveness A Yekke wedding, a sixty-year-old bachelor, the wound of a bitter humiliation festering for years, a surprise meeting between the hurt party and the one who hurt him… As a famous shadchanit put it, "Things that only happen in People Speak!" 　 The Broker If you want to sell an apartment, a car, or even old furniture, you go to him. But if you call him a broker, he'll take offense. When someone outsmarts him one day, he doesn't go to beis din and definitely not to court. But don't worry. He'll come up with something. After all, he's a Yerushalmi, isn't he?