In honor of Shabbat Zachor, when we recall the evil done to us by Amalek, and in anticipation of March Madness here is a link to an ingenious bracketing of the most evil villains of Jewish history, all ranked and rated, as if they were NCAA basketball teams. My son Ethan did this in 2008, but it's still pretty accurate today. Unfortunately, our enemies seem to have as much staying power as we do. Madoff wasn't there yet, so maybe we need to add a play-in game to this tournament. See it here
Author of "Embracing Auschwitz" and "Mensch•Marks: Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi - Wisdom for Untethered Times." Winner of the Rockower Award, the highest honor in Jewish journalism and 2019 Religion News Association Award for Excellence in Commentary. Musings of a rabbi, journalist, father, husband, poodle-owner, Red Sox fan and self-proclaimed mensch, taken from essays, columns, sermons and thin air. Writes regularly in the New York Jewish Week and Times of Israel.
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