Alan enjoys time with his wife and their children and grandchildren—mostly out of town because none of the kids or grandkids live in St. Louis. In 2024, they took a big family trip to Iceland, checking off a bucket list destination for one family member while getting to spend lots of time with the grandkids. An avid if not highly accomplished squash player for almost 30 years (with no family who also play the game), Alan picked up tennis in 2024 in order to have a sport he could play with one of his sons and some of the grandkids.
Alan is also a dedicated Talmud student. In July 2000, he made a commitment to learn Daf Yomi, a regimen for studying a front and back page of the Talmud every day. Alan completes all 2,711 pages of the Talmud roughly every seven and a half years. In January 2020, he and his son-in-law traveled to MetLife Stadium to mark the most recent Siyum Hashas (celebration of the worldwide completion of all 2,711 pages) with 90,000 other Daf Yomi learners. Alan is greatly looking forward to the next Siyum Hashas in June 2027.