Monthly Archives: March 2020

This is the gifted and talented Kayla Goldstein’s contribution to a project that NCSY is rapidly putting together for a special Haggadah this Passover.  It has been an unusual year to say the least, one in which the Chinese Year … Continue reading →

Alone and Together is a very appropriate theme at the moment, and Parabola magazine is making their theme issue on this topic available as a public service at no charge.  Although it is from 2012, it is acutely prescient.  You can … Continue reading →

I introduced Shulem in Part 1 and here, in Part 2, is another healthy dose of this phenomenal talent.  We’ll begin with what seems like an appropriate nod to the ubiquity of the novel coronavirus and the importance of keeping … Continue reading →

If you haven’t been exposed to Shulem Lemmer before, you’re in for a real treat.  A lemming is someone who follows others blindly, but Shulem follows his own muse.  From a musical standpoint, his origins were cantorially Chasidic, but with … Continue reading →

The graphic above is from political cartoonist Mike Luckovich, depicting those on the front lines of treating coronavirus patients.  One can debate the politics of whether this fight against COVID-19 is a war on terror or a war on error, … Continue reading →

The Passover Seder is less than four weeks away, and attention will soon turn to the nature of the 10 plagues that were visited upon the Egyptians before Pharaoh relented to let the Jewish people go oh-so-many centuries ago.  It … Continue reading →

With apologies to Paul Simon’s Rosie, the Queen of Corona … … it was the Yeshiva University Maccabees who emerged victorious this afternoon as the Kings of these improbable Corona-mania times.  And Ryan rather than Rosie is royalty when it … Continue reading →