And Some Calendar Anomalies    October, 2021 The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR, was formalized under the Bush administration. Its mission is self-explanatory.       Leading into our current yom tov season, when the blunder in Afghanistan began to unfold, SIGAR published a one-hundred-and-forty page document titled ‘What We Need to Learn: Lessons from … Continue reading Hoshanos: Understanding the Hoshana Chart & Daily Order Found in the Siddur