Posts by Cyril

While Standing (Six Feet Apart) on One Foot Erev Pesach – April 8, 2020 Why is this night different than any other night? When we ask that simple question, the answer this year can be either, ‘Where do I begin?’ or ‘Oy!  Where have you been?!’  No one, and I mean no one, is ever…

March 11, 2021 – One year after…. This is the first anniversary of the declaration that COVID was a pandemic.  I should correct myself: COVID is still a pandemic.  Anniversaries are a good time to reflect.  So let’s reflect and see how much has changed.  But I don’t want to reflect on how much has…

When a maniac gets a gun, a maniac does maniacal things.  The murderer of Asian women in Atlanta ought to strike terror in everyone of our hearts, for sure.  From what we understand, a man buys a 9mm pistol in the morning and kills 8 people by the afternoon.  He may have had a sex…

When I lived down South, one of the first things I heard was how much the South had changed from its previous reputation.  No longer was it a place that was oozing racism and, even though there were problems, look how much progress we have made.  On the surface, that was certainly true and I…

When a maniac gets a gun, a maniac does maniacal things.  The murderer of Asian women in Atlanta ought to strike terror in everyone of our hearts, for sure.  From what we understand, a man buys a 9mm pistol in the morning and kills 8 people by the afternoon.  He may have had a sex…

March 11, 2021 – One year after…. This is the first anniversary of the declaration that COVID was a pandemic.  I should correct myself: COVID is still a pandemic.  Anniversaries are a good time to reflect.  So let’s reflect and see how much has changed.  But I don’t want to reflect on how much has…

The events of yesterday are evoking responses throughout the broad spectrum of political opinion. There is so much noise out there that it hurts. We all know what we saw. And what we saw was a burning hatred pitting one American against another. It seems that hating our fellow American has become a kind of…

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…