Let’s talk about the phenomenon of Super Bowl Sunday.
A football game is the impetus behind the near equivalent of a national holiday. I cannot think of another example of this feat.
Baseball is our national pastime. Every fall there is a champion series. Baseball fans watch. Hometown fa…
Kol Yisrael arevim zeh ba-zeh—All Jews are responsible for one another.
This concept of communal responsibility, imposed by the Talmud, has been a hallmark of our people for centuries, and likely one of the reasons for our continued survival as a people.
Many of us remember “Freedom Su…
On a family trip to Israel back in 2007, on the way into a grocery store one of my young kids asked, “Daddy, why are they looking in our bags on the way into the store? We couldn’t have stolen anything yet.”
On reflection, it’s not that my child was young without the ability to unde…
