Police Break Up Intense Game of Dreidel at Local Bar Mitzvah

By Jill McKay

Published: December 11, 2009

BROOKLYN, NY – Police broke up a heated match of dreidel today at the bar mitzvah of Abraham Feldstein. When police arrived, several guests were gathered in a circle yelling insults in Hebrew and Yiddish. One of the players, David Rosenbaum yelled “GIMEL!” and raked in the large pile of gold coin chocolates just as police arrived to break up the suspected game.

Police questioned the suspects, ages 13 to 14, but several of the boys protested, “I got babkes!” while pulling out their pockets to indicate that they had no money.

One of the boy’s mothers, who said she’d been noshing on latkes and wasn’t aware of the intense game in the next room waved her hand in the air and said, “I’m very ferklempt. After I schlep Saul home he’s going to be cleaning out the gutters for weeks.” When asked for a statement, Saul Rubenstein said, “Moooom! Oy.”