There’s a certain charisma that comes with being unapologetically old. But politicians often run the other way.
What’s the secret to being old — unabashedly, openly old — and also popular, charismatic, beloved?
David Roffe, 72, might know. Scraggly-haired and mustached, he’s one of the faces of the lifestyle brand Old Jewish Men of New York. Its social media accounts have hundreds of thousands of followers, whom Roffe and fellow Old Jewish Men keep entertained with videos of themselves doing things like digging into pickles at Katz’s Delicatessen or holding up a sign at Costco that reads “KEEP HOT DOGS $1.50” and yelling, “Enough is enough!”