Kosher?

The first official day of Passover and for our son's lunch I packed: a ham sandwich with a Marshmallow Peep for dessert. That makes me a bad Jew, right?

Dentist Jesus

A woman at our Mom and Me class (in a Baptist church) remarks that she'd just come from her son's kindergarten play. He had the starring role of... Jesus. I wondered about the costume. Do you go with swaddling clothes Jesus, walk on water Jesus or maybe Resurrection Jesus? "He wore a carpenter's tool belt," she offered.

Not caring about the venue, I blurt out, "they got the story all wrong. There's no way Jesus was a carpenter. A doctor, lawyer, banker, accountant maybe. Even a jeweler or a merchant. But I guarantee you a Jewish man didn't go into the trades." And if he did his mother never would have admitted it to her maj pals.