Editor’s Note

Have you noticed that we’re hearing “Shana Tova” a lot more than “Shabbat Shalom”?

The thing with labels is that they stick. That is a good thing for a group like the Nazis, but to nonchalantly slap the “genocide” label on Israel and its supporters is criminal.

This thought came to me while I was visiting with my friend Dennis Prager and we discussed him writing our Rosh Hashanah cover story.

The art of humility may be the toughest. Who wants to look weak and admit mistakes? We much prefer to win, but it’s not always clear how humility can get us there.

The column went from being about a neighborhood to being all over the map. Now, I can’t attend any event, watch any movie, read any essay, discover any story, hear any conversation, see any news item without thinking, “this might be a column.”

Maintaining a positive disposition so consistently is difficult to pull off. I know I can’t.

On Monday, the council will vote on a motion to cut ties with Israel.

“Her prose disrupted my mind,” I wrote, “confronting me with words I had never seen come together before.”