Erev Pesach 2021
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…
Viral Petri Dishes
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…
Targeting Asian Women
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…
Southern Pride
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…
Our Prophets are Weeping
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…
Viral Frustration
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…
Peace by Piece: A Response to the Capitol Riot
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…
Jewish Content: Rosh Hashanna Morning 2020/5781
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…
A Very Long Holy Day – Yom Kippur Morning – Pandemic 2020 – 5781
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.…
Between the Corona and the Crown: Erev Yom Kippur – Pandemic Yom Kippur – 2020/5781
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…
