A   little over a year ago, I was facing a deadline for this column, and I had no idea what to write about. There was not much new in the news when it came to the Jewish world. In Israel, citizens were still engaged in a bitter political debate about judicial matters, but I had already written about the issue to the extent that I was comfortable. I had nothing, so I decided to write about a small bit of pop culture, a video of a recent episode of Jeopardy! in which three contestants, obviously