Are there kosher food restaurants nearby?
Bedrick: Not in this state, yet. We do have a few in Boston and thanks to the local Chabad rabbi, there’s a supermarket which carries Empire and other Kosher meats (they just dropped Rubashkin). Certain brands of kosher cheeses are also available. They even started bringing in Israeli bread. So, it’s possible to purchase kosher food, but not at a restaurant, yet. PJV: Are there synagogues to daven for minyan? Bedrick: There is a Chabad house. They don’t have a minyan every day yet. They do for Shabbat and on Sundays, but the community is growing and I’m hoping that within a few years we’ll be able to get a regular minyan. It is expanding, they’re moving into new facilities hopefully soon we’ll have a daily minyan. PJV: Have you had any trouble with legislative scheduling on Shabbat? Bedrick: No, they never schedule any votes on Shabbat. There was once that I had to miss a vote because of Passover. That was not an originally scheduled day, we had gone over time one day, we didn’t finish
