It’s Mordechai and Esther’s docudrama... what they left out speaks volumes about the rise and fall of world events
Frum newspapers are identifiable by a few markers — one of them, the absence of a sports section.
Officially, that is. In reality, they cover professional sports extensively. It’s just called politics.
The fervency with which Bochurim of All Ages (an official, internal Mishpacha classification, by the way) follow politics is confirmation of an anthropological fact: Humans, by nature, need spectator sports.
So if they don’t compete over a spherical or oval football, they’ll find a substitute — say, obsessing over who gets to carry the nuclear football.
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