August 20, 2010
Source: The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/nyregion/21bigcity.html?ref=religion_and_belief
Why was Jay Mustafic, 14, wearing slippers over his tube socks the other afternoon on a basketball court in his neighborhood in Ridgewood, Queens?
The slippers — technically more like slides — are to ward off temptation. For a teenage boy who is fasting during Ramadan on a hot August afternoon, temptations abound. Ice cream. Water. Basketball.