Purple Sheet

Wine Review During a Pandemic? This is the time of year that I usually send out my yearly wine review. But I... Read More

Normally I try not to send the same essay on the weekly parsha two years in a row. But I was looking... Read More

Coronavirus – Wear Your Crown In this week’s parsha we read of the heartbreaking and disturbing event of the Israelites serving the... Read More

Clothes Make the (Wo)Man This week’s Torah portion details the beautiful and elaborate clothing worn by the Kohen Gadol, the High Priest. We... Read More

The Zamboni Driver Well by now you must have heard all about David Ayres. You haven’t? Well he appeared this week on... Read More

Buddy Could You Spare a Dime? One would think that after having been enslaved for 210 years, the last thing the Jewish... Read More

My brother, Murray recently returned from Israel. While there he visited our old Hebrew-school teacher from when we were kids, Mr. Munk.... Read More

All I Need is a Miracle This week’s parsha is divided exactly in half between miracle and mundane. On the one hand... Read More

Winning the Jewish Lottery There is a verse in next week’s Torah reading that hearkens back to the plague of Darkness which... Read More

Your Personal Pharaoh In this week’s Torah portion we have the first seven of the ten plagues that were inflicted upon Pharaoh... Read More