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Yom Kippur 5768 Part One: Contradictions Part Two: Apikorsim, A Knock on the Door Part Three: The Sins of the Rabbis, and Me Part One: Contradictions At the beginning of every...

Nothing is more important, nor more ephemeral, than time. There is no way to hold it, prolong it, save it, or push it off. It comes and goes as regularly and...

A Lesson For the Children – This is a story that took place during the terrible days of the Holocaust. Together with thousands of other Jews, I was sent to work...

New Canaan was a quiet, lazy town in the southwestern Connecticut until the late 40’s when the Harvard Five descended on the town. The Harvard Five was a group of teachers...

A Lesson For the Children – Summary of the previous chapter: Many years before the invention of the airplane, an engineer named Yosef Miller thought of a similar idea: an airship....

Holy and Secular – Lyndon Johnson was the thirty-sixth President of the United States. He was known as a brilliant politician, ambitious and with a strong will. When he was a...

Ever since I can remember I knew that I had a cousin in Hawaii. I didn’t think much of it. It was just another bit of trivia, to be filed away...

The details in the following story are not necessarily true, but for all I know, they might be. Last names have been left out to protect the ??? The sky was...

Being an immigrant to any new culture means having nearly limitless opportunities to humiliate oneself. The cultural and linguistic land-mines that await the newcomer to Israel are so numerous as to...

Parashat Ki Teitzei: Painful Allowances, The Low Ground of Mediocrity and Cheap Shots Dear Friends; From time to time, I receive e-mails criticizing my weekly messages for their repetitiveness in dealing...