Jewish Voices For Belarus At Rally
This past Sunday, nearly 600 people gathered in Battery Park under red and white banners, chanting for democracy in Belarus. They sang popular...
Politics
A Friend In Deed
Have you ever heard of Scoop Jackson? Senator Henry Jackson was an American congressman and senator from Washington State. Well known in the ‘70s...
You’re Focused On The Wrong Thing
This past week, I read more articles and heard more jokes about Ben & Jerry’s than I have in the last 100 years – okay, only the last 59 years....
Are We All Charles Schumers?
New York Senator Charles Schumer is probably the most cunning politician in the Senate today. I will not describe how I feel about him, however;...
Broadening Horizons
One day last week, my neck was feeling extremely stiff, and it hurt to turn my head in either direction. For the rest of the day, I was mindful to...
Style & Living
Rome Wasn’t Built In A Day
Equilibration - a term used by Jean Piaget, a Swiss psychologist known for his work on child development. Oversimplified, equilibration is the...
Understanding Life Estates
Transferring one’s home to another person or persons, subject to a life estate, has been a staple strategy of elder law planning for a very long...
Yehudis – Unforeseen Circumstances. Chapter XXI
Recap: Miss Gross, the woman her father is dating, is expected for supper. Just after she arrives, Yehudis’ father gets a call that his mother fell and...
Torah
Eikev: How Are You Doing?
How much is really in our control? In the midst of his five-week-long farewell speech, Moshe Rabbeinu informs B’nei Yisrael that Hashem does not ask much...
A Jew Is Never Lost
There is a famous story told about Rav Mordechai Pogromansky (Reb Mottel, as he was universally known), who was a great Torah scholar and famous in...
Eretz Yisrael: A Place Beyond Place
“I want the very best.” That’s what we tell ourselves, isn’t it? As human beings, we understand that there is a spectrum of quality for...
