Israel in the Gardens

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Dikla Kadosh

June 5, 2007

“>annual celebration of Israel’s Independence Day a month after everyone else because they hope by June, the sun might decide to poke its head out of the clouds. Well, it didn’t. Sunday, June 3rd was cloudy, windy and frigid in downtown San Francisco, but no one seemed to mind except me. I was wearing flip flops and a short sleeved t-shirt and I was not happy about it.

San Francisco is a bit outside the reach of The Jewish Journal calendar section, so what was I doing all the way up there? I design shirts and tank tops with “>Woodley Park every year. Maybe it was the absence of Israelis. The multi-terraced beautifully landscaped Yerba Buena Gardens are surrounded by high rise buildings and have a very Upper Eastside New York feel to them. The people seemed more pleasant too. They were polite, they didn’t haggle over prices, they smiled and waited patiently to be helped.

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