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Is the Gilad Shalit deal true?

Popping up one after the other, Facebook status updates around the world began lighting up in staggered succession with Gilad Shalit news. Only to be followed by...

Bar Mitzvahs: When to push, when to let go

I  saw the blinking light on my answering machine and listened to the frantic voice of my girlfriend, Debbie, as I put the groceries away. “Heeeeeelp! Jason says he...

Our wish to you for a meaningful Yom Kippur

Shabbat and Yom Kippur coinciding — as it does this year — is not as rare occasion as one might think. In fact it happened just last year. We’ve decided...

Obstacles to becoming a better person

This week, for the fourth consecutive year, I am conducting High Holiday services. Though not a rabbi, I spent 12 years studying in yeshivas and 35 years teaching and...

Surviving the Holocaust physically and theologically

Today’s neighbor is tomorrow’s history. That dispute in shul, that fellow who made a splash and then moved away, that person whose amazing accomplishments you gloss...

Not exactly Monopoly money, but fun

Here is a very little, fun and simple thing that puts a smile on people’s faces. Golden dollar coins and the two dollar bill. It is my father’s shtick, and […]

70 years since Babi Yar

Seventy years ago, almost to the day, some 33,000 Jews were murdered in Babi Yar, a ravine near Kiev. The Babi Yar numbers are numbing — equivalent to ten 9/11s...

Cutting your national nose

Spring has sprung and the palm trees of Egypt are suddenly sodden, or sick, or something. New freedom in Egypt means cutting your exports of hundreds of thousands of...

‘Even paranoids have enemies’

Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State back in the paranoid Nixon days, once delightfully said (of Nixon, we suppose): “Even paranoids have enemies.” Yes, they do....

Guns and marijuana don’t mix

Many are bent out of shape over a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives letter sent to gun sellers. The government wrote to gun sellers that it is...