My dad, Rabbi Dr. Nathan Drazin (1906-1976), was a brilliant man. Unlike virtually all other rabbis, he not only earned rabbinical ordination at Yeshivah University in New York but also a Yadin Yadin degree, thereby qualifying him to serve as a judge. Because he wanted to be as helpful as possible to fellow Jews, he also studied all the laws of slaughtering animals. He secured a degree as a ritual slaughterer, although he never killed animals. He studied psychology and mastered it, earned a PhD in Jewish History from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and wrote a history of Jewish education as his PhD thesis. He earned membership in Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest and most prestigious undergraduate academic honor society in the United States, founded in 1776 to recognize excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. Only about 10% of US colleges have chapters, and they invite only the top 10% of arts and........

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