Modern orthodox shuls emptier? Problem?

 It seems to me that in the last few years since the shuls and other Jewish places of study or worship re opened after Covid restrictions that the Modern Orthodox shul or synagogue isn’t nearly as full as it used to be.

There are a variety of reasons for this phenomenon. One is that the older time members who were stalwarts or die hard or loyal members have gotten older moved away or passed on.

Another is that other members have moved to the “right “ and want to go to a bais medrash or yeshiva style davening with less singing and formality than the Modern orthodox shul has.

Maybe this is for the best but it is alarming to me at some level to see fewer of my types in the shul compared with five to ten years ago.

Male voters in New York and New Jersey wimps

 The male voters in New York and New Jersey who voted for Kathy Hochul and Mikie Michelle Sherrill for governor of those states are quite feminine and weak. It is unbelievable that men would vote for these two candidates whose main qualification is their gender and ability to check boxes in the identity politics game.

Bold move needed

 While the Seattle Mariners had a good season and playoff run they still fell short of the World Series.

Therefore a bold move is needed and I believe that the owner should fire President of Baseball Operations Jerry DiPoto. He has been here the longest and consequently in order to have up the team and realize that they are not a serious team until they make the World Series someone needs to pay the price.

It won’t happen because Seattle executives don’t think like this but that is why I would do.

Baseball labor war impending

 Based on the fact that many teams owners are cheapskates and use a lot of younger players I believe that there will be a long strike after the season next year . 

What the sport needs is a floor and ceiling for each team so that teams are forced to spend a certain amount of money otherwise you have have nots who have good players who then are biding time until they go to a rich team like the dodgers Yankees and Red Sox.

Old boys club, why hockey and baseball lag behind football

 Having noticed who gets hired in the two sports of baseball and hockey I can conclude that baseball and hockey are quite backwards and guilty of the old boys network in terms of hiring practices.

You do not find many assistant coaches getting promoted to head coach or manager in baseball.

They tend to hire the tried and true candidates.

The New York Rangers fired Peter Laviolette recently after two years, one good regular season but ending short of the finals and missing the playoffs the next year. So who do they replace him with? Mike Sullivan of Pittsburgh who was fired recently as well. Yea Sullivan won two cups with Pittsburgh but that was close to a decade ago. But for the Rangers it will work.

It’s a major turnoff for me. Bring in new blood and fresh ideas.

Now you know why Bill Walsh is so revered in NFL circles. He was blocked from getting a job after Paul Brown passed on him to succeed him years ago. He hired minority assistants who would eventually become head coaches.

New era in America , is it reflected in local government and journalism

 I am not sure if the people who work for the local television stations and state government are aware of this but in November we elected Donald Trump as president as well elected majorities in the US House and Senate. Yet the imbeciles at ABC, CBS etc skew their reporting in such a way as to think that Kamala won the presidency and I’ll of her people would be elected Secretary of State , Defense etc 

We need balance in journalism and an acknowledgment of reality and the imbeciles locally are unaware of this as well as their executives who run the stations.

What should journalism be

 Every so often I think about what should the purpose or point of journalism be? 

It should be more than reporting what happened and hiring diversity hires to fill quotas and appease left wing activists . That is what most of your local news stations and papers do.

No wonder people tuned them out and went to Fox News 🗞️ and Newsmax among other outlets.

They attempt real journalism. Even that new station News Nation that Bill O’Reilly and Chris Cuomo are on is a better source than the legacy media.