But what really interests Rabinowitz is a girl in the back of the photo wearing a commercially manufactured dress and holding a plastic water bottle. She looks out of place. Yet, he says, she is a glimpse into the future of this remote village, the invasion of mass-produced clothing and plastic that will soon change its way of life. Or there's the photo taken through wire mesh into the back of a Mexican general store. Rabinowitz's house speaks of a man who doesn't do anything halfway.
Shelves are full of opera and classical music tapes and CDs.
Photographs cover the walls. He never married. And it is. When he was about 12, his family moved to Jersey Homestead, an experimental community founded during the Depression for Jewish needle-workers. The community, now known as Roosevelt, had a garment factory that was operated on a cooperative basis.