It’s mid-winter. In the deep past it was really no big deal, in fact, decades ago when I was a student in yeshiva, I don’t think there was anything even resembling mid-winter vacation. There was summer vacation and that was it for the year. The fact is, the only way you could stay home from […]
There’s an ongoing dispute down here in Florida that has to do with the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. And it’s a complicated situation because as a matter of course we are a people who prefer to not get entangled in conflict. But sometimes these matters end up at our front doors or […]
Christine Vachon (Past Lives), Tom Ackerley (Barbie), Ed Guiney (Poor Things), Natalie Portman (May December), Scott Sanders(The Color Purple), and George C.
Last weekend, I attended the annual Presidents Conference of Torah Umesorah at the National Doral in Miami. The conference is a days-long event that brings together Jewish leaders, educators, and askanim to discuss issues pertinent to the subject of education and how it can be improved. We didn’t know what to expect, but we’re always […]
Spending parts of the winter in South Florida is a wonderful perk. If you can pull it off as far as work and budget are concerned, I highly recommend it. A long time ago and I mean a very long time ago I used to wonder why we had only two months of summer […]