Opinion

There is no day in school more exciting for kids than days when there’s a class party. Everyone gives out candy and you sing songs and you sometimes push the desks out of the way and then the teacher says, “Party’s over! Time for lunch!” and then you come home with a bag that is every kind of nosh with no wrappers sharing flavors at the bottom of your knapsack.

When people ask me, “Mordechai, is there a good pet I can get that will actually give me something in return, but not nearly as much as I put into it?” I recommend chickens. Or cows, but I live in a smallish house. So chickens. Though I did finally move them outside.

Welcome back to “What weirdo technology did Mordechai buy this week?” – the column where we talk about something I bought and ask ourselves why, and in the end, we don’t really come up with an answer.  It’s all about the journey.

I think the biggest issue with the Nobel Prizes is that it’s all for things that nobody understands.

From time to time, I write articles about expressions that people find annoying. And some time ago, I wrote an article that commented on how many of those expressions had something to do with the concept of time. I clearly wrote that one as publicity for my newest book, Jewish Time, which was supposed to come out around then, but then somehow came out late. I don’t know.

I feel like as much as men grumble about having to build a sukkah, we do enjoy the part where we get to figure out new improvements to make to our sukkahs every year, and when they don’t work out, we get to figure out how to do it differently for next year. It’s a never-ending mitzvah!