Opinion

The fun thing about our elders is that most of the time we ask them why they’re doing something, they’re very happy to tell us. But when the thing they’re doing is something that everyone associates with being old, they usually don’t. Or we don’t always ask them. We just assume this is just something they do “because they’re old.”

After all these years, I’m a little bit tired of trying to get my sons into yeshivas. I’ve been doing this at the rate of at least one child a year for like 7 years now.

Once again, the most dreaded night of the school year is upon us – Parent-Teacher Conferences, or PTA for short. Though nothing about it is short.

As we do every year, we once again present the winners of this year’s annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. This is a real ceremony, sort of like the Nobel Prizes, but whereas the Nobel prizes are for concepts like (this year, for example) quantum dots and attosecond pulses of light, the Ig Nobel Prizes are for things that

From time to time, I write an article about sholom bayis issues. Not because I have answers. Far from it. I have only ever been married to one person, so even me giving answers that work for my wife might not help you unless you too are married to my wife.

The Tishrei yomim tovim are an inspiring time. For example, many people walk away from them inspired to lose weight. The inspirations might have started off as something better after the first couple of yomim tovim, but by the end it’s largely about losing weight. No pun intended.