Ruth Bader Ginsberg died on September 18, 2020 and buried on September 29, 2020, or 11 days later. This death and the mourning were widely publicized. I argue that this exception from normal Jewish post-death practices deprived the public of education on probably our most beautiful customs and practices. Judaism's normal death rituals are almost unique. They are well-known for centering around the rapid scheduling of the funeral, rapid burial of the body, and a short but intense mourning...

Today I played tennis in the morning. Right afterward I donated blood. The sky was a beautiful blue, and it was an unseasonable 77° or so. When I came home I went outside to read. It was a relaxing day, with no work until Tuesday, because the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur starts at sundown today and stretches to sundown tomorrow. The weather was idyllic, and with tennis and blood donation I had a constructive and satisfying day. Yet something felt terribly, terribly wrong.

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The development of Parent Organized Discovery Sites, or PODS to supplant online or partially-reopened schools threatens to upend the public school system, threatens to upend public education.

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Let's make one thing clear; I love PODS. I think that public education has become quite politicized and "politically correct." The life of education was being sucked out even before COVID. And as someone who was somewhat "bullied" back...

The New York Times headline reads Job Growth Slackens, Signaling Vulnerability of Recovery (link). The earlier print headline had been "Job Gains shrink, Showing Frailty of US Recovery." The article's opening (online) text reads "Unemployment fell to 8.4% in August, but the gain of 1.4 million jobs was the weakest in months. The end of federal aid programs is casting a shadow." In the print edition to new, lower unemployment rate is buried. Maybe the earlier more distorted...