As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on August 2, 2024. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Edmund Burke I often complain to my friends, that in Jewish education, very little attention is paid to the interaction between everyday money dealings […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on July 27, 2024. Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day. – Gabby Douglas With times still tense in Israel, people are looking for any small diversion to take their minds off the “situation” for a short period. […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on July 19, 2024. “He taught me housekeeping; when I divorce I keep the house.” – Zsa Zsa Gabor A few days ago, I was trying to organize my desk. I specifically said ‘organize’ and not ‘clean up’ because my desk is the definition of organized chaos. It’s […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on July 12, 2024. “There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation. To put it mildly: the world is a mess.” -Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Recently most of the calls I receive deal with the fact that the world is […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on July 5, 2024. My recently deceased father used to tell us that in Russia, there was a saying that the Torah portion of Korach, the 4th chapter of Ethics of the Fathers, and the ripening of the blackberries all would fall out on the same week. It […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on January 31, 2024. “I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway.” -Taylor Swift If there is one thing that I can’t stand, it’s when people complain and whine about something. I just wish they would take their energy and try and find a solution to their […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on June 21, 2024. “Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: By consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.” –Thomas Jefferson At the beginning of this week’s Torah portion Beha’alotcha, […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on January 31, 2024. “Convent – a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.” -Ambrose Bierce A few days ago, I met with a client, and we got to the topic of retirement, which for her will be in […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on June 7, 2024. “Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.” […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on May 30, 2024. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. –Winston Churchill A few days ago, a clip of the Seinfeld show appeared on my feed. It was where George Costanza decided that he would do […]
