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How to Really Win an Argument This week’s Torah portion, Korach is named after the man who led a rebellion against Moshe... Read More

Whiners and Complainers In this week’s Torah portion we have one of the more depressing lowlights of Jewish history. Faced with the... Read More

Black Lives Matter I went to a Black Lives Matter demonstration. Yeah, really – moi. I would love to say that my... Read More

A Blessing On Your Head Let not the blessing of a commoner be light in your eyes -The Talmud                                                  This week’s... Read More

When We Were Young Can we climb this mountain? I don’t know -The Killers   Shavuot, the holiday commemorating the giving of... Read More

Census 2020 This week we begin the fourth book of the Torah, Bamidbar. Bamidbar literally means “In the desert” because it relates... Read More

My Money or Yours? One of this week’s Torah portions, Behar outlines the laws of Shmittah, the Sabbatical year. Every seven years... Read More

Covid-19: One Big Fat Yom Kippur I recently gave my first Zoom class. I was apprehensive. I am familiar with speaking in... Read More

My Daughter’s Wedding My daughter was married last week despite the Covid crisis. Or better yet, because of the Covid crisis. The... Read More

How to Stay Healthy Staying healthy is on everyone’s minds these days. I am not here to offer a miracle solution to... Read More