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Article content Thirty-one days to go! That’s how many days I’ll be counting until my second dose of the COVID vaccine. Then there’s a three-week post-vax waiting period, at which point it will be 25 days until my 73rd birthday. Too much math? Sorry about that. The obsession with the aforementioned numbers is a consequence of far too many days of COVID confinement. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Winter may have kept T.S. Eliot warm. It kept...

Last week I walked around the tidal basin in Washington DC. It was a beautiful spring day with the famed cherry blossoms in bloom, boaters on the water, and tourists scampering about. I came to DC for a conference and ended up meeting with several legislators on a number of issues important to me and too much of the Jewish community. What was not on the docket of the conference nor on the minds of the legislators were issues of food justice. Immigration, gun control, entitlements, education, la...