Photo Credit: Photo Credit: Screen grab via Marc Kligman YouTube
The two Orthodox baseball players drafted last week, Elie Kligman (pictured) and Jacob Steinmetz, will inspire our children to love davening, kashrut, tefillin, etc.
I donât usually write about pop culture or sports. I tend to focus on Torah, Israel issues and Jewish values. Yet this week I had to change topics. Iâve been disturbed by some of the discussions surrounding two Orthodox Jewish baseball stars drafted to the Major Leagues and the infamous Netflix show âMy Unorthodox Life.â
Jews have just finished commemorating the three weeks of mourning over our 2,000-year-old state of exile. The exile was largely brought on by divisions among our people. Not long ago we commemorated the mourning of Rebbe Akivaâs students who died for not showing each other respect. This is to add to our recent catastrophes of Covid, Meron, Surfside and a war with Hamas.