As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on February 13, 2025. “I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.” Ronald Reagan Earlier this week I had the fortune to take my 16-year-old son to Misrad Hapnim to get his Teudat Zehut. […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on February 7, 2025. “Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.” -Ernest Hemingway A few days ago I had a meeting with a couple who received a modest inheritance. It was approximately $400,000. Nothing to sneeze at on the one hand but nothing that […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on January 30, 2025. I’ve been learning the Talmudic Tractate of Sota, in order to finish it for the first anniversary of my father’s passing. In this week’s Tora portion of Bo, we finish up the story of the 10 plagues. According to the Midrash one of the […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on January 23, 2025. “Patience, n. A minor form of dispair, disguised as a virtue.” -Ambrose Bierce Earlier this week I was in a produce store and was speaking with the owner. He asked me what I did for a living, and I told him. He proceeded to […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on January 10, 2025. Thursday marked the end of 11 months since the passing of my father, A”H. That means that while the mourning prohibitions are still in place, I have stopped saying the kaddish prayer. It’s a milestone filled with emotion-even for those accused of being generally […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on January 3, 2025. Last weekend our family had a heated discussion about whether a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. One child was adamant that they are fruit, and others said that if they were fruit, why aren’t they grouped with fruit in the produce section of […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on December 27, 2024. “Never spend your money before you have earned it.” -Thomas Jefferson As has become customary, I am going to repeat a theme that I write about every year and that’s how we should use Hanukah to teach children about responsible money habits. Rabbi YY […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on December 21, 2024. “Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” -Thomas Jefferson Each time one of our children hit the age of 15.5 we knew that the issue […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on December 12, 2024. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” -Milton Friedman We work our entire adult lives and save money in retirement plans just like we are told. We then retire and need to start drawing on these funds and sometimes we don’t exactly understand […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on December 7, 2024. “A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” Winston Churchill After a year with stellar stock market gains, many clients […]
