As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on August 16th, 2019. While the middle of August means that Ben-Gurion airport is running at full capacity with Israeli’s taking advantage of cheap vacation deals abroad, it also means that there is some very special inbound traffic arriving as well. It’s the pinnacle of North American Aliyah, symbolized by […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on August 8th, 2019. Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it. Hunter S. Thompson A few days ago, I was Whatsapping back and forth with my brother about the prospects of a few stocks and I had […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on August 1st, 2019. Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on July 26th, 2019. I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. –Mia Hamm A few weeks ago I mentioned a former baseball coach of mine that liked […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on July 18th, 2019. Stock market goes up or down, and you can’t adjust your portfolio based on the whims of the market, so you have to have a strategy in a position and stay true to that strategy and not pay attention to noise that could surround any particular investment. […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on July 12th, 2019. “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana One of the constant themes of my articles is a distrust of politicians. I have written numerous times how they always seem to know what’s best for each and every individual and have created […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on July 5th, 2019. Earlier this week on back to back days I was asked by a newlywed couple and a single lady on the verge of getting engaged what I thought of married couples keeping separate bank accounts? The single lady started trying to convince me that each spouse keeping […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on June 28th, 2019. When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. –H. L. Mencken A few days ago I met a […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on June 20th, 2019. ‘There’s no vacation from being a parent.” – Chevy Chase The high schools are now officially on summer vacation and the elementary school kids are not far behind. It hasn’t even been 24 hours and it seems like the kids are already stir crazy. The common refrains, […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on June 13th, 2019. Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated –Erma Bombeck I mentioned a few weeks ago that my oldest turned 18. Well, last week she graduated high school – though in true Israeli fashion […]
