Author Archives: rabbisteinman

I’m confused.  I remember Halloween taking place on October 31, as a kid I remember trick-or-treating, the Halloween parade at school, and carving pumpkins and roasting pumpkin seeds.  I have zero recollection of Halloween greeting cards, wearing costumes for a … Continue reading →

Happy birthday to the best father I’ve ever had (yes he’s the only one, too).  In honor of your birthday, I’m going to write a list of 29 reasons I love you!  (Why anyone in my family couldn’t be born … Continue reading →

Today was a very sad, yet simultaneously happy day.  It was the final day of the Pri Adamah season.  As you probably know, Pri Adamah is the Temple Sinai Community Supported Agriculture program that I have blogged about before.  It … Continue reading →

Torontonians, today is the day!  There are only 3 reasons you should not vote today: You already voted. You are not a citizen of Canada (like me). You are not of age. So get out and do it!

There is a great article in The New Yorker.  Here is the most interesting part. Polls show that Americans have also become steadily more critical of the military’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. According to an ABC News/Washington Post poll … Continue reading →

15 years ago (according to the Hebrew calendar) today I was doing my brief foray in retail sales.  I got home in the afternoon to my mom sitting in front of the television.  She told me that Yitzhak Rabin had … Continue reading →

Hello blogosphere.  It has been awhile.  I am not sure why I haven’t been writing and perhaps there is no good reason.  Sure work has been busy. I was in New York City (technically just Newark, NJ) for a nanosecond … Continue reading →

New York was really wonderful.  I am sorry that I didn’t get to see VeggieBerger, KosherBerger, SliderBerger, my favorite CPA, RVT, Mr. and Mrs. Margolis, and pretty much everyone else that I didn’t get to see.  The grade 10s had … Continue reading →

I’m headed your way with 11 grade 10 students, 2 Israeli shlichim, and Dr. S.  We will be running around the city and I’m going to tweet the whole experience (never exactly where we are or any of the kids … Continue reading →

My sister, frequently referred to as THE DIVA is called such because she is amazingly talented.  She is smart, creative, organized, thoughtful, hard-working, dedicated, and generally all around awesome. On Friday she officially announced that after eleven years of living … Continue reading →