By Ryan Torok
Jewish Journal Staff Writer
It was Purim, and the people of Skid Row were rushing Shari and Maya Rosenman’s minivan at Seventh Street and Gladys Avenue.
Maya Rosenman, a student at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Massachusetts who was home on spring break, scrambled to provide bags full of supplies to the dozens and dozens of people grabbing at the piles stacked in the van’s trunk.
Meanwhile, her mother sat at the wheel, ready to help the pair make a quick getaway if the situation became threatening – which, arguably, it already had.
“I was sort of expecting it, but it was also overwhelming,” said Maya Rosenman, 17. “Although I wasn’t scared, I was thinking the whole time, if I need to get out of here, which way am I going to move?”
