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Teaneck, NJ Thanksgiving Preview with Elie Y. Katz on Today’s JM in the AM
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Nachum Segal welcomed Elie Y. Katz and Tani Katz to the studio during this morning’s JM in the AM to discuss a number of timely topics including the latest news out of Teaneck, the “Thanksgiving in Teaneck” initiative for seniors, veterans, emergency service workers etc. and more.
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AM in the A.M. It is a Wednesday
morning. It is Arab Thanksgiving. Those
of you listening around the world, you
may not know what that means here. It
means a really, really chill day in the
United States of America as we get set
for Thanksgiving and then Black Friday
and all that stuff. It's a weird week
here in the United States of America
because people do go to work, but they
find every excuse to leave early. We
know people who left early yesterday. We
know people who are off today. We know
people who are turning Thanksgiving week
into a very very uh vacation type uh
atmosphere. Anyway, with us live in our
studio, we've got the one and only Ellie
White Cats. I've been on the air of
course many many times before. He is
somebody who has his uh
hand on the pulse of what's happening in
the community, especially in Bergen
County in Tene, New Jersey. A pleasure
to welcome you back to JM in the AM.
>> Thank you very much, Nah. It's an honor
to be here.
>> Appreciate that. Mastoics.
>> Yes. We had a beautiful wedding.
>> How is it that I ended up sitting
sitting next to you?
>> Next to me like right like we were
sharing forks and knives.
>> Correct. I mean, we couldn't get out of
each other's way. That's how close we
were that way.
>> My goodness, what an honor it was for
me. And I'll tell you, you mentioned
about people taking off.
>> My company where I work today at 2:00,
we have a flyer that went out that says,
"Take a nap. Excuse me.
>> Take a nap. That's the meaning. Turn off
your computer, relax by your desk.
That's my company today. Citizen um
National Retail Solutions.
>> Meaning what? That an hour later, you're
back at work or you're or you're off for
the weekend at that point.
>> We didn't put we didn't put an end time,
but you know, we wanted to
>> So, the nap could last till Monday
morning.
>> Yeah. Our office has a has a has a
built-in nap,
>> right? And it could last for days in
this case.
>> It could last. We didn't actually Maybe
we should have
>> I mean, I'm assuming you're not going
into that office Thursday. You're not
coming in on Monday, Tuesday. We'll
start sending out flyers saying nap time
is over.
>> Understood. But I can I can I I can
assume you're not going in Thursday and
Friday.
>> I'm not going in Thursday or Friday.
Correct. Thursday we have a big
Thanksgiving. Um
>> which we'll talk about, right?
>> What's What's Tonnie Catz doing on
Thursday and Friday? Does he have plans
>> or we should ask him directly?
>> Tonnie Cats is in our studio as well.
Tonnie, good morning.
>> Good morning. How are you?
>> Shout out to the FR community. Shout out
to the Camp Marisha community.
>> Rabbi Senior. Rabbi Senior. Boy,
>> we love Rabbi.
>> He was the topic of conversation this
past week because um we were hosting one
of the great leaders of Jewish education
in Israel who you know I'm not going to
reveal who it was but you know you could
imagine who I'm talking about and uh
Rabbi Cena was a big topic conversation
what he's doing with the first school.
Pretty amazing. So
>> it is really amazing and and I've said
it to him and I I'll tell you what makes
it so amazing and you're hearing it from
someone who was never really a school
person.
Um,
>> I like the way you put that.
>> Yeah, I did it very gingerely.
>> Um,
>> I call myself academically challenged.
How do you like that? I'm fancy when I
say it.
>> But look how well you turned out. Look
how much look at the contribution.
>> We accomplished something. Thank God.
>> Rabbi Senior knows as as large as the
first school is, Rabbi Senior knows how
to give personal attention and personal
I guess whatever your needs are for each
individual student. And how many
students are in each grade? Are there
200 in each grade?
>> It grows every year.
>> More than 200 in each grade.
>> Yeah, easily.
>> Wow.
>> And that's really a a braha, you know,
to be able to treat someone as you know.
>> Oh, I get that.
>> You leave fresh, you go to rait.
>> Yes.
>> Right. We we of course acknowledge the
uh passing of Ryan Marcus who was the
great founder of Rach. You were there
for one year or more? I was there for
one year, but um currently I just
finished my semester and I'm going to be
going for a month like the rest of my
semester back to Ray.
>> That's cool.
>> Yes.
>> When do you leave?
>> I leave in a week.
>> Ah, nice.
>> Mhm.
>> So, which semester just ends at the end
of November? There are semesters in
college that ended the at the end of
November.
>> I had a little like early exit dropout,
but
>> uh for good reasons.
>> Yeah, we can say for good reason.
>> Okay, good.
>> He didn't drop out of school. He's still
enrolled in school. So you go to race
and then when you get back is it
back to college or back to work or
>> Yeah, back to college.
>> And is that how you spend most of your
day with hitting the books? Is that how
you uh is that generally what you do
most of the day?
>> Not really most of the day. It's
honestly college is way shorter than I
thought.
>> It's like only an hour, two hour day.
>> When you go to Yeshiva High School,
college ends up being a joke in terms of
schedule.
>> Yeah, exactly.
>> Yeah.
>> Boy, does it prepare you for college
when you're sitting in school from 8:00
in the morning until 6:00 at night or
whatever time
>> the high school's closed these days. All
right. So, how do you spend your time?
Are you involved in any special projects
or, you know, give me some insight into
the life of Tiny Cats?
>> Um, I work on some, um, clothing things
on the side. And, um,
>> what does that mean? You're online?
>> No, not online. Um,
>> so you and I do a big and tall fashion
thing.
>> You go ahead. I interrupted you guys.
>> No, all good. All good. Um mostly like
like some instore stuff and some like
working with other brands. So yeah, we
can say online.
>> Interesting.
>> And um
>> so you're an entrepreneur.
>> Some might say. I wouldn't say.
>> Ellie, would you call him an
entrepreneur?
>> He definitely is an entrepreneur. He's
very very creative.
>> Nice.
>> Yeah. And he's got that creative spark
which is very important. And I noticed
that he joins you at a lot of uh your
own business encounters. Like he's uh
>> Yeah, he he
>> goes to some of the meetings you go to.
>> Well, this summer he actually interned
in the office with me.
>> Wow.
>> So, he went to a lot of different
meetings.
>> That's allowed. Some companies
discourage that. You know,
>> I'm not a big believer to be honest with
you. I I hire family members. I'm okay
with that. You know, to to me it
actually is like you say I mean I'm not
just hiring my family members. I'm
saying I hire other people's family
members. I figured, you know, when you
come from good stock, the good stock
runs throughout the family.
>> Well, we know about your family and it's
good stock. All right. Did he join you
on any of the uh travel, any of the
business trips that you generally take?
Cuz you you spend time in a lot of
different cities around the world.
>> Absolutely.
>> Where were you and what cities were you
with the good dear old dad?
>> So, we did Vegas
>> convention?
>> Yes.
>> Or meetings or both?
>> Both. Right.
>> I was a speaker at one of at uh I
believe one of those.
>> Nice.
>> Yeah. What did you do? Prepare on the
plane. I
>> I don't prepare on the
>> How do you secret?
>> I just sit and I'm ready for action, you
know? I mean, I live I live my business,
so I know what to say for the most part,
>> right?
>> No, I get that. Where where else? Any
other uh any other traveler I was at?
>> Oh, I think we did Florida. There's
always like a Nashville or somewhere
random in the map. Like some more men in
the map every year. Yeah, we got to show
them all the different states, even the
square ones.
>> I get it. Uh, what state or rather what
site did you say we should start with
this morning? There's a new website that
you wanted to promote to our audience.
And which one is that?
>> We are fortunate to be sitting here in
the heart of Tene on West Anglewood
Avenue, Restaurant Row as many people
call it, but uh I've uh given it a uh
shopteneck.com
website.
>> Nice. and you're part of that
shopteneck.com.
If you go to shopteneck.com and you look
for the NSN logo,
>> it's there.
>> It's there. And make sure you
>> We're on the map.
>> Click on it and visit the entire Nakam
Seagull network and all the other empire
is there one click away.
>> One click to the empire. I like that.
>> Why is it that restaurant row is on only
one side of West Englewood? You can
never get a restaurant to open up on
what would this be, the east or west?
What side is this? I go of
>> technically it's the north.
>> This is the north side. So on the south
side you have all the restaurants.
>> Yes.
>> And on the north side you can't get one
to open up.
>> I was trying to do more like the
clothing area on the north and the
>> So did that happen on purpose? Like are
all the kitchen facilities on the south
side?
>> Yeah. I mean I had options to build
kitchens on this side as well, but I
>> but it never worked out.
>> I felt that I wanted to keep it over
there. Although at one point I did want
to do a pottery cafe downstairs. Um, we
did a Kayla's gelato downstairs. Um, if
all goes well and I introduced you to
the individual, we're going to have a
fantastic health.
>> Is that moving forward
>> or it's hard to say?
>> It's hard to say until people actually
>> Yeah, I get it. They got to make the
commitment and they got to, you know,
hey, food business is 24 hours a day,
Ellie. You know that.
>> It's It's true.
>> It's a real commitment.
>> It's 25 hours a day. That's the crazy
thing about the food business. It just
they figure out how to squeeze in an
extra hour. I'll tell you who I really
feel bad for.
>> Who,
>> and I assume you could relate to this
cuz I assume some of your businesses
have this. The ones that have to be open
Saturday night
>> because they don't even rest on Shabas.
They're worried about opening up and
getting there.
>> Rushing over
>> and is the staff going to show up and I
got to rush over and everybody wants
pizza 15 minutes after Shabas ends,
>> right? So, you know,
>> it's not easy.
>> You know, the chopsticks when we first
opened, we were open Saturday night.
>> He gave up on that.
>> So, I made a calculated decision and
this was my decision. It was basically
people were coming in Saturday night
stuff from the chull and stuff from the
cougle,
>> right?
>> And you know they were spending $5, $6
on a lunch special or whatever it was.
You obviously at Saturday night there
wasn't lunch special, it was like a
dinner special, right?
>> And I said, you know what, I'm paying
all this money to bring all the chefs
over and all the staff and this the
sales are not so spectacular. I could
probably grow it to be spectacular, but
do I want that $10 ticket on a Saturday
night or do I want them coming back to
me on a Sunday for the $40, $50 ticket?
>> So, that's a different pizza places
can't think like that,
>> right? So, if you look at the chopsticks
menu, it actually says Saturday night
closed, go for pizza. Actually, now when
they say closed, go for chickies cuz
chicks used to be open like also.
>> Are they open Saturday?
>> I think they are.
>> And what are Fridays? Chopsticks open
Fridays or not? Chopsticks is is
wallto-wall Fridays.
>> Big shop is special place.
>> Who knew that Friday night, you know, we
all knew we all knew that the is coming
up on December 25th for Chinese, right?
And we're all preparing for the December
25th kog of for Chinese.
>> But who knew that Friday night was a
Chinese food night as well? And they put
it in metal tins. You get your soup.
It's already
>> Oh, and the 25th's a Thursday this year.
You'll be inundated.
>> Oh boy.
>> Holy cow. Ellie Cats is here. Tiny Cats
is here. Uh, tomorrow, Thanksgiving,
Chopsticks open or closed?
>> Chopsticks is open.
>> It is open tomorrow.
>> Chopsticks is open. And and more
importantly, tomorrow we have our
community Thanksgiving event.
>> And where does that happen?
>> Rain on Water Street.
>> And when did this start? How many years
ago did you implement a Thanksgiving
program?
>> Over 12 years ago, we do a Thanksgiving
event for emergency service workers,
right? They're not with their families.
They're with the Tene families. So, we
invite them to come and join us.
Seniors, you'd be amazed how many
seniors do not have a place to go. Um,
we
>> Oh, it's a kosher event.
>> Fully kosher.
>> Douggee, Chopsticks, Butterflake. You
got amazing sponsors.
>> Douggee, Chopsticks, Butterflake. Um,
and it's done with We actually have a
gentleman in the kitchen, Shommer
Shabas, who's helping the chef. What?
Yeah. I mean, he's cooking. is, you
know, it's and obviously it's it's all
sealed. Um, so we have veterans,
seniors, emergency service workers, and
>> you know, you'd also be amazed how sadly
in in these times how difficult it is,
people um that just need a warm meal.
>> You know, especially when we just went
through what we went through with the
government shutdown and and how many
families uh are rely on wick and and EBT
and um
>> the people that are mentioned, including
yourself, these are what are these
government officials? Are these
community people? Who are these folks?
>> I didn't put any titles on anybody.
These are
>> Everyone has a role.
>> Everybody Well, Dean Kazinski is a
famous township manager who retired
about about a year and a half ago and um
he's always been helpful and active.
Jackie Hash Jacqueline Hashmat is the
current township manager and she's doing
a spectacular job. I mean, I want to
tell you how good of a job she's doing.
One of the number I guess the top three
complaints that we get as government
officials are obviously taxes,
snow and leaves and how do I get into
the senior facility on East Cedar Lane.
>> Parking tickets is not among those.
>> No, it's probably like a number number
nine or 10, but we tell everybody
obviously that you know once a ticket is
written only the police officer him only
the judge himself, not even the police
officer can remove it. But with that
said, so snow we Tene is is the the
darling child in in New Jersey.
Everybody wants to know how Tene gets
does their snow, right? And we do such a
spectacular job. I get calls from
residents in Bergenfield saying, "Do you
think you can send a plow over, you
know, but leaves is another one of those
top items that people complain about."
And this year we got ahead of the
schedule and we, you know, told people
we're going to be on your block on a
Wednesday. We ended up showing up on
Monday, Tuesday. We got there early.
That's how good of a job our town
manager is doing.
>> Nice.
>> Gets there early. In fact, I'm told that
the snowstorm that's coming in the next
couple days, she already took care of
it.
>> I was wondering if you had heard about
it.
>> I heard about it.
>> I heard this morning. I know. A November
snowstorm. Like, give me a break.
>> Yeah.
>> Remember 2010? Do you remember the end
of 2010?
>> Um,
>> where it snowed in November and and
there was snow on the ground till April.
>> Yeah,
>> it was crazy. New Year's weekend was
like two feet of snow. That was crazy.
That was the end of that was really the
last time that we were inundated by
terrible snow. The end of 2010, early
2011. And I'm hoping we don't replicate
that this winter. I hope.
>> I hope. I hope as well.
>> And if we do, we'll blame you. You get
blamed for everything else. Why not?
>> Connie and I are set to go to Atlanta on
Saturday night.
>> No snow there. Although when I was in
Atlanta in December one year, there was
a threat of snow and there was a mist
that fell in the early morning. They
canceled school. They cancelled school.
>> I was with my wife in Ushalam many many
years ago and there was like a dust of
snow and the whole the whole city shut
down.
>> So I was in December of 2013 for the
blizzard,
>> right? And you'll find it funny. Uh the
people in the hotel took a water garden
hose and started hosing this. I said,
"Do you guys realize what that water's
going to turn into in a few minutes?"
They had no idea how to deal with it.
And the funniest part was I was near
Dinka on that Sunday morning when there
was still five, six inches on the on the
ground and somebody was trying to get
their car out and I said to them in
Hebrew, I said, "Would you let me do
it?" I said, "I've done this a million
times. I'll show you how to get and I
took out the carpet." If somebody had a
newspaper, all you have to do is shove
it under.
>> Exactly. Or a good shovel, which
basically nobody has unless you live in
that front and you're and you're able to
plan ahead. All right. So, all these
folks that you some you mentioned, some
you didn't mention are all part of this.
It happens on Thanksgiving tomorrow at
Rain on Water Street in Tene, New
Jersey. It starts at 11:00 a.m. And your
goal is simply to provide a good hot
warm meal for everybody who's
>> for everybody. And we're looking for
volunteers. And what we always say, and
this really makes a lot of people feel
comfortable, is that our volunteers are
there to participate and part of their
participation is sit down and eat. I
know it sounds crazy, but yeah, like
nobody wants to be the person who needs
a meal and standing there going, "Okay,
can you, you know, you want to give them
their dignity." So part of giving them
their dignity is we eat as a community,
we talk as a community, we laugh as a
community, and Tonnie is going to be the
DJ for like the 10th year in a row,
minus the year that he was in ratio
where he gave it to his 12-year-old
sister to do.
>> Now, when did we discover that Tonnie
has the ability to be an effective DJ?
When did you uh when did we discover
this and toss you into the limelight on
Thanksgiving Day? I tested my waters
doing like a couple bar mitzvah like the
classic like Coke and Pepsi like on the
mic
>> and it worked well, huh?
>> Uh, mixed results.
>> Interesting. And now And now you're a
seasoned veteran when it comes to DJing.
>> Yes. Now once a year I get my time.
>> And And what will be prominent on the
playlist tomorrow? Is there are there
any Thanksgiving or USA tunes that might
seep into your playlist tomorrow to
really give it a flavor of the day?
>> Yeah, I might keep it patriotic.
>> Nice. Yeah,
>> I like that.
>> Sometimes I'll sneak in like a little
Jewish music.
>> Wow.
>> And the veterans will like it.
>> Like a toad song or something after all,
you know.
>> Yeah. It is a day to give thanks, isn't
it? For everybody. And by the way, to
your and and we should mention that the
event tomorrow is co-sponsored by
American Legion 128 and Tene Veterans
for foreign wars 1429 1429. my friend
Lenny Henig who's actually unfortunately
recovering right now, but his son Mike
Henik is he's he's recovering in a rehab
facility. He had some type of um
problems with his legs, but his son Mike
Henik is our chef in the kitchen.
>> And I got to tell you something, Ellie.
Yeah.
>> And and this is one of the reasons I
think this conversation is so important,
and I'm sure it's shocking some of the
folks that are in this audience.
>> You're going to be sitting there
tomorrow with a completely mixed crowd.
people from the Orthodox community,
people from the general Jewish
community, people from the secular
community, people from the general
T-neck and Bergen County community. And
I've noticed this since I moved here,
and everyone realizes again that I'm
here since the the fire took out my
studio in Manhattan. I'm splitting my
time between Tene and New York City
since then. So, I've gotten, you know,
used to this place. And it is amazing to
see the brotherhood and camaraderie
between so many different communities
here. And I think I and people may think
I'm exaggerating, but if you come from,
you know, areas that the Jewish
community is generally used to, it
doesn't usually work that way.
>> I think you nailed it on the head. And
that's why it's uh really a community
unity Thanksgiving event. You really
have everybody, all your neighbors from
all four corners of the town coming
together, enjoying just a warm meal,
sitting together. People bring board
games. People are singing. People tell
Tonnie, you know, change the music to
this and change the music to that. Lower
the music depending upon your age group,
you know.
>> Takes a lot of requests all day. I would
imagine.
>> It's not an easy job for him. It's
>> true.
>> You know, but uh but but the most
beautiful the most beautiful part is
when you see the pictures, when you come
there live and you see the energy. And
by the way, we're going to be uh raising
um we need we need non-p perishables for
Never Home uh Never Alone Again uh
resource center. It's a resource center
that's around the corner. So,
>> and you'd like people to actually bring
items?
>> Yes, bring some items. Bring some uh uh
we're collecting feminine products,
shampoo, body wash for this pantry um
and the people in need.
>> And that serves everyone in the
community.
>> That serves everyone. You know what's
interesting, by the way, and again, I
hope I'm not exaggerating when I say
this, when the protests were going on
and people weren't very happy with
Israel and all the stuff that was
happening in Bergen County and so many
other counties in this country at that
time, there were those who said that the
agitators are being bust in from other
places. Here, it was easy to believe
that because I see the way people
generally get along here, even when they
disagree on stuff.
>> Yeah. And I and I think that you've been
part of this effort to really make sure
that the core part of the communities
feel like they're part of a community
>> and and and I think it's because of
events like this. We don't wait for um
the bad, you know, the bad days.
>> You don't wait for conflict.
>> So on sunny days, yeah, we understand
each other. We know each other. We we
have, you know, if there's an issue,
then we can sit down and talk to each
other. And and I think that's what has
made TX so special that we're so
proactive with the multicultural and and
getting together and the event.
>> It's not perfect, but I think you do a
really good job.
>> Nothing nothing's perfect, but there's
communication. I want to tell you like I
have an unbelievable relationship with
the Muslim community. I mean, you know,
Tene used to have a Muslim mayor. Um he
did he served three terms. Um I was his
campaign manager all three terms. Um,
and uh, you know, as far as when when I
was in the hospital last year, the the
leadership of the mosque, they called me
to check on me several times. They were
the first ones to come to visit me the
day after I got out of the hospital.
Brought me a beautiful plant. I mean,
this is really what Tene and this is
really what humanity is about. So, uh,
>> yeah, it's doable. You make the effort,
it's doable, folks.
>> It's doable, you know. Exactly. You make
the effort. That's what
>> And if you're dealing with people who
are sincere to make it happen also, you
know. Correct. You have good partners in
>> open-minded re recognize that we're all
we're all children of of God no matter
who you are, where you are. And uh you
just have to treat each other with
respect. The basic principles and uh
that's what's so beautiful about this
event tomorrow. And that's why I
encourage everybody if you can hear me
and tell your friends and tell your
neighbors to come out.
>> Um National Retail Solutions are doing
all right.
>> National Retail Solutions, we're doing
great. We're the number one point of
sale register for the independent
convenient liquor tobacco shop. We do uh
credit card processing.
>> That's for the whole country.
>> For the whole country.
>> Um so thank goodness they're doing
great. Cash advance uh payroll. Um and
just an amazing
>> How many years have you been involved
with that whole thing?
>> Uh 10 years. We start I started it 10
years ago. It's under IDT. The Jonas
family who's one of the most You want to
talk about humanity and most spectacular
individuals that are out there. the
Jonases. You know, I shouldn't say this,
but I'll say it because they're probably
not listening right now, but I always
wondered when I go on to these like
synagogue plaques and I look at them and
I'm like, anonymous gave anonymous ge
who's anonymous. I never met this person
anonymous. But after meeting the
Jonases, I found out who Anonymous is.
They are the most giving people, the
most goodarted,
>> and they do so mostly anonymous.
>> They do. So, unless like people think
that they that they want to like, oh,
let me, you know, how Mr. Jonas, let me
uh put your name in. But he's they're
not into that. They don't run. They
don't run for credit. They really they
just like to help help
>> all quietly.
>> All quietly. And I don't know if you
know this, but they started, you know,
the head of yeshiva in at IDT,
>> right?
>> This year with a a partnership with Hala
Torah, they created a
>> shout out Rabbi Steckler.
>> Rabbi Steckler. I'm a big Rabbi Steckler
fan.
>> Oh yeah. And and Shimmy Catz, who's the
chief operating officer of Hal, does a
fantastic job. We kind of know him.
>> I didn't realize that.
>> Yeah. My my father's pretty active as
well on Heal.
>> But yeah, Rabbi Steckler,
>> your father's a Jewish community legend.
I didn't realize he was I'm honored to
to be his son. Honestly, I feel if I was
10% as good as he, I'd be very happy.
>> What do you think of grandpa?
>> Oh, he's the greatest.
>> What do you call him? I call him Zadeie.
>> Zadeie.
>> Yeah, he's the best. He's literally
>> Zadeie cares about people a lot.
>> Yeah, he gets people better than people.
>> It's a good one. I like that.
>> I like that. You know, and he built the
Mcfentine, the first MCN. Before that,
we had to all go to Washington Heights.
So,
>> and he used to take me every single
morning to the to the job site. I was
probably about six at the time, every
day to check on it. And uh when they
came to pouring the cement, they called
me up and they said, "We want Ellie Cats
to put his fingers in it. He's been here
every day." You know, usually I've got
to do that at night. Here I got an
invitation.
And I'll tell you one one little one
more Ellie Cats is that I don't know
about the current because the current
mikvah has been been all you know
obviously renovated
>> but it's you know for the Kalin mikvah
it's like a 15 or 20 foot drop to go to
blow
>> right. So when they saw Ellie cats at
the job site every single day, they um
said, "We need to put in some type of
protection, not a safeard,
>> a safeguard." So about 3 ft in, they put
in a like a a plastic plate with a hole
in it specific so that for the Ellie
Cats of the world, they don't go falling
into
>> because that has happened. Not to you,
I'm sure, but it has happened.
>> It's happened.
>> There have been Kayla Mick for
disasters.
>> Kayla Mick for problems. Yes.
>> Uh anyway, um so that's the story.
Tomorrow, Thanksgiving in Tene,
the location is 399 Water Street. If you
want to be involved as a volunteer, if
you know somebody who would appreciate a
warm kosher meal, who generally doesn't
get one, starts at 11:00 a.m. Any
information, contact Ellie Catz, and go
to uh I'm sure they can reach you
through the website, the shop website,
right? shopteen.com. They should go and
come to West Anglewood Avenue. Enjoy the
wonderful all the amazing restaurants
here.
>> What's Tony's favorite item at
Chopsticks? Do you have one or not?
>> Honestly, it changes, but the
consistency probably the egg roll. Just
the chicken egg roll.
>> Chicken egg roll is very, very good.
>> People don't know about the chicken egg
roll.
>> Does uh Does Tonnie know about Bardock?
Have you ever been to the Bardock
restaurant in Jerusalem?
>> We were just there.
>> What do you think?
>> I love it.
>> I gave it a 10 out of 10. Was that too
generous on my part? You also gave it a
10.
>> I I don't I I was taught at a young age
you can't give anything a 10.
>> And this this is the exception. Huh.
>> Yeah. This is the one exception. But no,
it's great. It's It's amazing. They are
really creative.
>> They're very creative. Great menu, a fun
menu, and a really good atmosphere. I
mean, that corner of Jerusalem is
fantastic.
>> Yeah.
>> The cats and the seagulls highly
recommending Bardock. Put on your You
know, people going for Thanksgiving to
Israel. You know, people going for the
end of year to Israel. You know, people
going in January to Israel. You know
people are going in February vacation is
>> you went to Israel and did not visit
Marduk.
>> You made a big mistake.
>> You made a 6,000mi mistake.
>> Six. Go back.
>> Go back.
>> Turn the plane around.
>> Yeah. Exactly. So yes, you have to abs I
say that all the time. You have to
absolutely go to Bardock if you're going
to Israel. I mean listen, put the hotel
on that list as well. You think so?
>> Harabai. It's important to go to that
area.
>> Put the coel on that list for sure.
Tonnie, any other recommendations or
that's it? That's it for your error of
Thanksgiving appearance
>> in Israel or in general you want to tell
the audience is your chance because you
know
>> in 60 seconds we're back to regular
programming if you know what I mean.
>> Just make sure they're at rain tomorrow.
It's going to be amazing, very special.
And hopefully they throw the football
game and bring everyone together.
>> Very nice. And the chances of Zade
showing up tomorrow, is there a chance
or uh
>> I think he'll be there. Yeah,
>> you'll issue an invitation later on
today. You he'll check in with him.
>> He'll have an escort there. He'll have
people heading over there with him.
>> Yeah,
>> he's got a posi.
>> Is that what he's got?
>> Yep.
>> Ellie never thought he'd be the son of
somebody with a posi.
>> True.
>> All right, gentlemen.
>> Happy Thanksgiving.
>> Thank you, Nakam. Thank you for having
us.
>> I appreciate you being here.
>> Thank you.
>> My my pleasure and best regards to the
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