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14 Seton Hall J. Sports & Ent. L. 101 (2004)
Take Me out to the Synagogue

handle is hein.journals/shjsl14 and id is 7 raw text is: TAKE ME OUT TO THE SYNAGOGUE Michael A. Mogill, Esq.* I was recently called by a member of our congregation beseeching me to deliver a sermon on the upcoming high holy days. While I naturally had the experience of speaking before judges, lawyers, legislators, client groups, faculty and students, among others, nothing quite made me so nervous as providing remarks on religion, given my own ambiguities. about formalized religion. So I reacted quite naturally - I thanked the caller for the invitation, put off any decision as long as I could in the hopes that another speaker could be found, discovered that the congregant was very persistent in seeking my supposed wisdom, and eventually caved in to the repeated requests that I preach to this new audience. Once having accepted, my panic intensified as I acknozvledged my superficial formal knowledge about the holidays to come and turned to the one source of inspiration I trusted. . The result was the following remarks, as delivered before Congregation Beth Tikvah on Friday evening, September 26, 2003. Where to begin? We greet each other with L'Shanah tovah *Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Professor of Law, The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University; B.S., University of Illinois, Champaign- Urbana; J.D., Northeastern University School of Law; LL.M., Temple University School of Law. The author wishes to thank the inspiration for these remarks, his children, Adam and Sarah, and the congregants for their kindness in listening. This essay relied on materials found in the following sources:Judaism 101: Rosh Hashanah, at http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday2.htm (last visited Sept. 25, 2003). Sanford Braun, Sandy Koufax, at http://www.jewsinsports.org/profile.asp?sport=baseball&ID=5 (last visited Sept. 24, 2003). Jeff Merron, Green, Koufax and Greenberg B same dilemma, different decisions, at http://espn.go.com/classicf/s/merron on-green.html (last visited Sept. 24, 2003). Brian Moynahan, Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax, at http://www.baseball-almanac.com/articles/greenberg-and koufax (last visited Sept. 24, 2003). And attribution also must be given to Hillary Duff of television's Lizzy McGuire for her contribution of that favored phrase of pre-teens, which is, of course, whatever...

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