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Forgetting About Parshas Shekalim

(Sorry for posting this late for those who are following the blog. This was from parshat shekalim) Parshat Shekalim has a way of sneaking up[…]

The NFL Combine

It wasn’t long ago that the typical football fan simply watched his team’s games each week and checked in again for the Super Bowl.    During[…]

Lessons From the Oil of the Menorah

Certain types of characters exist in every Jewish community, and today I would like to focus on one such character: we call him the Purim[…]

Forehead Sticker

This Thursday evening, I found myself in a difficult situation. The trash needed to be brought down, but I had already changed into my pajama[…]

Trees and Socks

Edward Reichman died in Jerusalem after a long illness at the age of 80 years old. He was a real estate tycoon, and when he[…]

A Title

Putting a menu together in the restaurant industry is a very thought out and meticulous process.  It begins with the owner, likely in consultation with[…]

Get Rich Quick and Parshas Haman

Help, I’ve been abducted by pirates in the Nigeria and the only way to save me is to wire me thousands of dollars and your[…]

A Long 210 Years

In 2011, a team of three social psychologists published a remarkable discovery: listening to the Beatles song “When I’m Sixty-Four” can make a person younger. […]

Priestly Privledge

We tend to label draft dodgers as unpatriotic, but the draft dodging group of this week’s parsha are heroes.  Moshe Rabenu and his entire extended[…]

Redundancy Revisted

A colleague of mine recently shared an image in our whatsapp group: a chart depicting the speed in which people speak.  The image demonstrated that[…]