Shocking

Two events occurred last week that I find absolutely shocking.

First, a junior trader at SocGen managed to lose $7 billion dollars (to be fair, he only lost $3 billion; the bank lost the rest of the money closing out his positions). As someone who's worked at four investment banks for a total of over 22 years, it's hard to even imagine how that could happen without being discovered. I follow the story with interest.

Second, and equally shocking, is that, at a tish last Friday evening in Yerushalayim, the boys (virtually all DRS alumni learning at Yeshivas in Israel), overwhelmingly preferred the white part of two Brooklyn Bakery "black and white" cakes to the black part. How can this be? Where did we go wrong in our educational system? Vanilla frosting over chocolate? Say it ain't so!