Posts by Cyril

March 11, 2021 – One year after…. This is the first anniversary of the declaration that COVID was a pandemic.  I should correct myself: COVID is still a pandemic.  Anniversaries are a good time to reflect.  So let’s reflect and see how much has changed.  But I don’t want to reflect on how much has…

The events of yesterday are evoking responses throughout the broad spectrum of political opinion. There is so much noise out there that it hurts. We all know what we saw. And what we saw was a burning hatred pitting one American against another. It seems that hating our fellow American has become a kind of…

As you may know, I try to find Jewish content and Jewish meaning in everything.  There always seems to be a Jewish moment in even the most secular of things.  I have found Jewish moments in baseball.  After all, what is the whole point of baseball except finding your way back home?  And isn’t that…

If you were to look at the Days of Awe from 36,000 feet, you would see something that you may never have seen before.  You see, the Days of Awe are not simply Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.  They are really a 53 day period beginning at the start of the month before Rosh Hashanna.…

In the middle ages, it is well known that the Jewish community was constantly under assault.  Anti-Jewish crusades, daily anti-Semitism and periodic bursts of manic Jew hatred was simply a way of life.  So what did the Jews do?  Their response was not to hide and cower and discard their Jewish selves.  Instead, their resistance…

Many years ago, I found myself in the bottom of 30 foot hole digging in an archeological ruin in Israel.  My discoveries were hardly earth-shattering although my partner and I found a floor of the very earliest Cannanite dwelling in Tel Dan.  If you ever read ‘The Tel’ the very first floor of the very…

While Standing (Six Feet Apart) on One FootJuly 8, 2020 So now it appears that we are at some kind of a point in this pandemic when we are supposed to open the schools. The politicians know that the virus tends to be more fatal in older people so they can’t really say ‘Let everyone…

While Standing (Six Feet Apart) on One FootJune 22, 2020 I love science. Always have. When I was in school, I couldn’t wait for science class. Biology mesmerized me. Physics tried to satisfy the many ‘whys’ that danced around in my head. And chemistry – oy gevalt – the hardest of all the disciplines was…

While Standing (Six Feet Apart) on One FootJune 8, 2020 As my congregants will tell you and for which they jokingly ridicule me, I am not a sports fan. Of course I have been to sporting events and enjoyed them – especially hockey. But I could not name the players on any team, its statistics…

While Standing (Six Feet Apart) on One FootJune 4, 2020 When the President walked to the Episcopal Church through a phalanx of armed guards to hold up a Bible for what was a photo op immediately after his announcement to send in the troops, I fully understood in my own frame of reference what the…