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menagerie Haverford Square
Eagle Village Shops
385 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, Pennsylvania 19041
Tel: 610-658-9989
503 W. Lancaster Avenue, Ste 500
Wayne, Pennsylvania 19087
Tel: 610-971-1769
www.menagerieboutique.com Ronne Hellman at the Beth Sholom
Congregation gift shop
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your home. The way people shop to-
day, it makes sense for us to have Ju-
daica. We have some items no one else
has — like handmade bagel earrings
made of clay. We make some of our
own items and work with smaller and
larger artisans on some others.”
Being unique will set you apart
from the rest. At the same time, it nar-
rows the marketplace.
That’s what they’re discovering at
NMAJH.org., the website for the Na-
tional Museum of American Jewish
History store. It takes in 20 percent of
the store’s business.
“Our online store’s extremely suc-
cessful,” said store manager Kristen
Kreider, who owned brick-and-mor-
tar stores featuring Judaica in the late
1980s. “Without it, we’d be taking a
hit. But variety has disappeared over
the years. Twenty years ago, it was a
lot easier to find Judaica, but a lot of
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