Comments on: Saturday in the (Theme) Park

By: Where You Sit Side by Side on Space Mountain | CHICAGO CARLESS

Where You Sit Side by Side on Space Mountain | CHICAGO CARLESS — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:18:25 +0000

[...] trip is a weekend one over Shabbat. Back home in Chicago, we’ve tended to have angst-ridden visits to Six Flags Great America on the Jewish Sabbath. Usually ending with me complaining that, much as I like Great America, it’s sure no [...]

By: Dan Sniderman

Dan Sniderman — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:07:42 +0000

You can take the boy out of New York….

By: Mike Doyle

Mike Doyle — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:41:33 +0000

Shelli, thanks for reading. I still owe you that challah! To me, that would just make me someone pretending not to be a Jew. A Jew cursing is a Jew cursing. Taking off the kippah doesn’t erase that, and it’s an honest move–that, like it or not, Jews aren’t perfect, just like everyone else isn’t perfect either.

Besides, there’s no commandment involving wearing a yarmulke. More important was the fact of Shabbos, and that obviously can’t be erased, nor should it.

Perhaps my self-control would have been more apparent had I been wearing my tzitzit. I wasn’t, but I’ve always found tzitzit–the wearing of which IS a mitzvah–to be good for giving one pause before acting, as they’re pretty hard to forget you’re wearing.

By: Sheli Lulkin

Sheli Lulkin — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:00:21 +0000

My dear friend David W. Mack reports:

south of the border men have taken to wearing a new form of headgear when singing or reciting verses from the bible- it’s being called a psalmbrero.

Next time uncover your head before you drop the bomb. I try to restrict myself to Oy Vey on Shabbos.