When we’re not watching painful baseball beatdowns, we love this job, because we get to write about things we never thought we’d get to.

This evening, members of the Tribe….no, not that Tribe…will go to synagogues all over America.  The luckiest of them will even perhaps run into UPH.

The rest of them, however, can still be glowing with excitement, because it’s official: The biggest matzah ball in the universe, ever, has landed.  It contains 1,000 eggs, 200 pounds of matzoh meal, 20 pounds of something semi-worrisomely referred to as “chicken base,” and 80 punds of margarine.

Margarine?  Our bubbe is turning in her grave.  In any case, the 267 pound sphere of carbohydrate goodness is celebrating an exhibition game scheduled for October between the New York Knicks and an Israeli national team, the proceeds of which will benefit Migdal Or, a huge orphanage/educational center for underprivileged kids, recent immigrants to Israel, and others.

You can find out more about the program and buy tickets here for either the Knicks game versus Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv on October 18th or the Israeli team’s tilt versus the LA Clippers on October 20th.  UPH wishes we could be there.

In the meantime, we’ve got some cooking to do.