Praying for Preschool
Desperate times call for desperate measures. In a city where parents have to start plotting their children's education on or about their first Match.com date, some are enlisting God in their cause. New York City parents are Mapquesting area churches and synagogues with early-childhood programs, canceling weekend appointments with bikini waxers and personal trainers, and filing bleary-eyed into services, checks in hand.
Preschool consultants say institutions are hip to what's going on, but religious leaders like rabbi Andy Bachman don't mind:
People approach affiliation from a variety of motivations. The same people who say they joined just because of the preschool are the ones who can't stop eating the chocolate-covered matzo at the children's Seder.
Once you've eaten of the chocolate-covered matzo, you're a goner, all right. That stuff's like God's heroin.
Learnin' on a Prayer [New York Magazine]
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