נימנו וגמרו Famous blue raincoat is my favorite Leonard cohen song. - At least for tonight 😉

Reading as an act of faith in a future unknown. Or reading as an investment in a payout expected.

Netanyahu is on Ozempic. Change my mind

Most underrated thing about Dallas. How easy it is to leave.

After the Triumph of the Therapeutic - @ZoharAtkins Exquisite as always. open.substack.com/pub/etzhas…

Great article by Mike Sudhalter of the Texas Jewish Post talking about my career as a young Jewish professional in college basketball @JewishCoaches

Dear @SouthwestAir - we used to be different. I have a-list status, an empty seat beside me — and they sent my best friend to the back. He even offered to pay. “Just the rules.” That seat flew empty. Somewhere along the way, you lost your soul… and maybe we lost us.

“ One of the longest journeys in the world is the journey from Brooklyn to Manhattan.” Bde Norman Podhoretz So begins his beautiful short treasure of a book, Making it.

In 2008, Rabbi Gavriel & Rivki Holzberg were murdered by terrorists in Mumbai. Just last year, Rabbi Zvi Kogan was murdered by terrorists in Abu Dhabi. And now, Rabbi Eli Schlanger murdered in Sydney when terrorists came for his community. My message is simple: hug your Rabbi & Rebbetzin this week, and thank them for devoting themselves to Jewish flourishing. And stand with @Chabad as they build Jewish pride in the public square.

I'm afraid the American Jewish community is headed in a very bad direction. Every public event includes some weepy tribute to the victims of Oct. 7 as well empty speeches about how "they can never break our spirit," all while employing maximum security that makes us feel like we're being herded back into the ghetto. Enough. Instead, every Jewish event should celebrate the filthy animal terrorists we've eliminated--Sinwar, Nasrallah et al -- and cheerful promises to do the same to every murderous terrorist. Instead, every Jewish event should focus not on whining about the baddies who hate us but on living more robust, joyful Jewish lives, keeping Shabbat and learning Torah and bringing more light into the world. Instead, every Jewish event should have *zero* security guards and metal detectors outside and a few hundred well-armed, well-trained Jews inside. Stop saying "we're not afraid." Show it.

The first 'genocide' in history where its victims celebrate its beginning and the perpetrators celebrate its end.

Read the last section of this over Shabbos @ShabbosReads

There's this scene in the Godfather where Michael Corleone tells Tom Hagen that he's out because he's "not a wartime consiglieri". We are at war. We need war time Rabbis, war time Jewish organizations and wartime leadership.