As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on August 26, 2021. “Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on August 19, 2021. ‘I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?’ –Ernest Hemingway Though we are in the midst of surging corona numbers, and though many skeptics don’t think it will happen, the school year is still slated to […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on August 13, 2021. In this week’s Torah portion we read the famous verse, “Righteousness, righteousness you shall pursue so that you will live and take possession of the land that Hashem, your G-d, gives you.” [Shoftim 16:20]. Many commentaries are bothered by the double usage of the […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on August 5, 2021. We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. – Jesse Owens We are about to enter the month of Elul, which means that Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on July 29, 2021. “People are so bad at driving cars that computers don’t have to be that good to be much better. Any time you stand in line at the DMV, and look around, you’re like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on February 25, 2021. “I never had one day that I didn’t want to be on the ice, because I always had an objective for that day. I had a rigorous plan and schedule in place that I had to adhere to. It was a step-by-step process of […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on July 15, 2021. “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” – HL Mencken It’s been a quite challenging couple of weeks for our family, as it appears the Delta variant set up shop in our home. First our 10-year-old, after being in quarantine for […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on July 8, 2021. “I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on July 1, 2021. “These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.” – Charles Barkley I […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on June 24, 2021. “You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, […]
