The Height of Civilization

Right next to our absorption center, there is a little square with a bunch of stores. One of them has one of those machines where you can put in a sheckel to move a mechanical claw to pick up a toy. We passed by the machine one evening as a little Orthdox boy was playing, to take a close look. THe game was just as we remembered it in North America, except, the floor of the contraption was mostly bare. The prizes were, I counted, 8 little dolls and a couple dozen packs of cigarettes. This has to be the greatest thing I have ever seen. Am Yisrael Chai.