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We made it through another Yom Kippur. But this was unlike any Yom Kippur I could remember to date. We prayed to Hashem for health, parnosa, and the welfare of our country, communities and of course Israel. My mind constantly took me to the crisis building in Iran, and the thought of the maniacal evil leader who was addressing the United Nations General Assembly on our holiest day.

Cleverly scheduled on yontif, it precluded our ability to express outrage in the form of protests. We used the day of intense prayer and paid heed to the joint plea of the Orthodox Union and The Rabbinical

Council of America to pray for an end to the threat of a nuclear Iran.

I raced home following the conclusion of yontif eager to view any news coverage of the day’s events at the UN. There were some protestors, but where was the outrage? Later in the evening, a news bulletin cut into programming as a “special report.” “The NFL lockout was over.”

Just days before, following a questionable call by a replacement referee in a football game, over 70,000 calls came into the NFL expressing outrage at the Green Bay snafu. If only that magnitude of people expressed outrage at Ahmadinejad. Talk about priorities. If we maintain this level of complacency, the world will surely be, NFL--Not For Long.