My Mishegoss

Team Ned Singer Sporting Goods, Bernard Horwich Jewish Community Center Little League, 1969 (from the collection of the author).

I don’t look Jewish. And we all know that everyone knows what I mean! I was lucky enough to have been adopted by a lovely and adoring Jewish couple and converted under rabbinic supervision within the first ten days of my life. I do not set off anyone’s Jewdar on sight. I do not have the look of one who was born to a woman named Horwitz from Chicago but rather one born to a woman named Reynolds from Campobello, South Carolina, and I can pass so easily that I can…