Archive for October 2020

As you may know, I try to find Jewish content and Jewish meaning in everything.  There always seems to be a Jewish moment in even the most secular of things.  I have found Jewish moments in baseball.  After all, what is the whole point of baseball except finding your way back home?  And isn’t that…

If you were to look at the Days of Awe from 36,000 feet, you would see something that you may never have seen before.  You see, the Days of Awe are not simply Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.  They are really a 53 day period beginning at the start of the month before Rosh Hashanna.…

In the middle ages, it is well known that the Jewish community was constantly under assault.  Anti-Jewish crusades, daily anti-Semitism and periodic bursts of manic Jew hatred was simply a way of life.  So what did the Jews do?  Their response was not to hide and cower and discard their Jewish selves.  Instead, their resistance…

Many years ago, I found myself in the bottom of 30 foot hole digging in an archeological ruin in Israel.  My discoveries were hardly earth-shattering although my partner and I found a floor of the very earliest Cannanite dwelling in Tel Dan.  If you ever read ‘The Tel’ the very first floor of the very…