Archive for April, 2026

The contrary opinion

April 2, 2026

In the spirit of the Passover season, a Frank Cotham cartoon in the 4/6/26 issue of the New Yorker:


A gentle jab at the stereotypical Jewish inclination to public disputation, alluding to the saying two Jews, three opinions or three Jews, four opinions

Even Moses, parting the waters of the sea (to enable the Israelites to escape the Egyptians pursuing them) was not immune from second guessing, at least in Cotham’s telling (though the event somehow escaped recording in the Pentateuch).

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