Opinion

Though I can’t verify this anecdote, I can imagine that this really happened:

There is hardly anything more unstable and unpredictable than the weather in New York during March, April, and May.

A few years ago, I had the great honor and privilege to publish Nostalgia for Eternity, a collection of lectures from my rebbi, Rabbi Berel Wein zt”l. Produced by Feldheim Publishers, it contained lectures I heard over many years from Rabbi Wein. Some of those lectures dated back to when I was a high school student in Yeshiva Shaarei Torah, where Rabbi Wein was our Rosh Yeshivah.

It’s not often that an obituary appears in the religious newsfeeds and magazines, as well as in the secular newsfeeds and newspapers. Normally, obituaries printed on YeshivaWorld.com or Ami Magazine are not also printed in Maariv or Yediot Achronot. The latter newspapers certainly don’t usually note the passing of the rebbetzin of a great Torah leader. Yet, a few days ago that’s exactly what happened.

This “Musings” is dedicated in loving memory of Rabbi Avi Oberlander zt”l – Rabbi Avraham Zechariah Menachem ben Tzvi Yehudah – a colleague, mentor, and friend, in honor of his second yahrzeit on 16 Sivan.

This week, fans of the New York Yankees are mourning the death of legendary broadcaster John Sterling. Sterling began calling games for the Yankees in 1989 and continued for more than three decades, calling 5,631 Yankees games and five World Series championships. His death at the age of 85 marked the end of an era for Yankees fans.