The Men’s Club of Temple Israel of Natick has held four virtual happy hours since COVID began. The first two were of the unmoderated ‘off the cuff variety’. The only preparation was reserving the Zoom and sending out the link.

After the second one, I heard that some of the participants felt uncomfortable about some of the political discussions.  For the third happy hour I announced that politics was off limits and decided to have a backup topic to inject just in case.  Sure enough I had to use it.  I also found the discussion started to wane a little early.