For the Sin of Hard-Heartedness
2020-09-18 – Tonight begins the Days of Awe: the 10 days from Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) through Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). It is a time during which we […]
Tag Archives: Religion
Is QAnon Repackaged Antisemitism?
2020-08-14 – Like many people, I my understanding of the right-wing nut-job conspiracy movement called QAnon has been limited. But you’ve probably heard some of their fanatical rants without the […]
#Pocalypso | When Antico Became a Terrorist Group
2020-07-09 – You’ve probably heard of Antifa. According to Trump, Antifa is a terrorist group—even though it isn’t a group. But you can’t be too careful. And maybe it is […]
#Pocalypso | Anti-Darwinism and Herd Immunity? What?
2020-05-12 – I had to shake my head when I realized that some of the people who are saying that herd immunity will “save” us are the same people who […]
#Pocalypso | A Strange Package in the Mail
2020-05-05 – Got a strange package in the mail yesterday: a book called The Case for Christ and a package of toilet paper. It was a surprise, because it was […]
#Pocalypso | The Good Rabbi and the Bad Rabbi
2020-04-28 – I had two rabbis back when I was in the yeshiva. One was a gaon, a genius at parsing the words of the Talmud and inspiring because of […]
#Pocalypso | Today is TGIF – Yesterday Was TGIT
2020-04-24 – Thank God It’s Friday! And yesterday was Thank God It’s Thursday. This is not some apocalyptic realization that we owe some deity thanks for every day. This is […]
#Pocalypso | March Winds Bring April Winds?
2020-04-13 – OMG is it windy this morning? I was hoping to go on a bike ride today that was more on a normal route. I knew it was forecast […]
#Pocalypso | At Least I Made Matzah Ball Soup
2020-04-09 – So, for the first time in my life, I didn’t attend a Passover Seder. As we say every year in the Seder: L’shana Haba’ah – Next year. At […]
#Pocalypso | The Passover Seder and the Child Who Doesn’t Know to Ask
2020-04-08 – Tonight is the first night of Passover. Although I have become a fairly secular Jew over the years, I still host a seder. Over the years, I’ve compiled […]
