Robert Kraft Should Know That A Good Defense Is Having A Strong Offense
As appeared on my Times of Israel blog. The author, in a ‘cool’ Karate stance. (mid-1970’s) A lot has been written about Mr. Robert Kraft’s Blue Square 2026 Superbowl commercial on antisemitism. As a former advertising and marketing professional, I would have strongly recommended that the scenario in the commercial should have played out like my own personal high school experience. As a teenager, I was short, weighed about 135 pounds, and had very thick lenses in my eyeglasses, meaning I had very poor vision without them. I was also a poor athlete yet somehow I found the love of Karate when I was in tenth grade (1968-69). I grew up in a suburban Long Island religious modern Orthodox community and went to a yeshiva day school. However, for eleventh and twelfth grades, I attended a local public high school. Life changing to say the least. Left vs. right. Hippies vs. Jocks. Girls and boys actually sitting together, eating, and even playing together. A great m...