As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on June 18, 2022. “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” – Mark Twain Last week a few of our older children broached the subject of summer vacation. They want to do something on their own in addition to our […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on June 11, 2022. “The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.” -Alexander Graham Bell In the beginning of this week’s Torah portion Beha’alotcha, we read that Aaron the high priest was charged with the daily lighting of the […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on June 3, 2022. Potential is a French word meaning that you aren’t worth a damn yet. -Butch van Breda Kolff Earlier this week our family reached a milestone as our middle child, PCK, graduated from high school. Far from the pomp and circumstance of graduations abroad, the […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on May 27, 2022. “Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.” -George Burns I have been a bit sick for the last week and a half, and it got to the point that I actually stayed home from the office. The first […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on May 20, 2022. Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell The world has gone mad. Gas prices have been heading a lot higher. Surging inflation is a global phenomenon. Just […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on May 13, 2022. “I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.” -Lyndon B. Johnson Like it or not there is nothing quite like Lag B’omer in […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on May 5, 2022. I don’t pay attention to the number of birthdays. It’s weird when I say I’m 53. It just is crazy that I’m 53. I think I’m very immature. I feel like a kid. That’s why my back goes out all the time, because I […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on April 28, 2022. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.– J. K. Rowling Last week, towards the end of Passover, our dear […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on April 21, 2022. “Now I’ve been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.” – Harriet Tubman As we celebrate the end of Passover, […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on April 7, 2022. Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. – Clarence Thomas Growing up, we were taught that if you saw an elderly person, someone disabled, or a pregnant woman on a bus, you got up and gave them your seat. Earlier this […]
