Kol Nidre 5778 “Things that Go Bump in the Night”
“Daddy, there’s an alligator under my bed.” “Mommy, there’s a giant spider on my ceiling.” “Help, there’s a monster in my closet.” Those words are familiar to anyone who has…
Parasha Ki Tetze “Immorality in the Torah?”
Recently, I had a discussion with a friend as to whether humanity has made any moral progress in the 200,000 years Homo sapiens have roamed the earth. My friend did…
Parasha Shoftim: The ‘Common Sense’ of the Torah
“Freedom speaks with a Jewish accent,” writes Rabbi Sydney Greenberg. By this he means that the Bible describes a G-d who wants man to be free. G-d hears the cries…
Who Moved Moshe’s Cheese?
Countless books, articles and sermons have been written about how difficult it is to engage in meaningful prayer. Learning to pray is not easy even if you are the son…
When It’s Time to Change A Leader: Parashat Chukat
Over the past several weeks, two high profile organizations made stunning changes in leadership. Travis Kalanick, the founder and CEO of UBER, the ride sharing company, was forced to step…
Parashat Shlach Lecha — A Sense of Purpose
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Face Book, gave the Commencement Speech this year at Harvard University. It caused quite a stir in the Jewish world. At the conclusion of his…
Parashat Korach: How to be Disagreeable
On Friday evening, April 6, 1962, Leonard Bernstein was to conduct the New York Philharmonic in a performance of Brahms D minor Concerto. The guest soloist was Glenn Gould, one…
O Jerusalem! Parashat Bahaalotecha
Isn’t it amazing the things from childhood that stick in one’s mind? Why do we remember some things, and not others? Psychologists tell us that events which are emotionally charged…
Drink “Lechayim — To Life”! Parashat Naso
Posted: 06 Jun 2017 08:24 AM PDT Can drinking wine help you at work? This was the question that blared from the headlines of this Monday’s Business Section of the Chicago…
Parashat Bamidbar “Torah for Everyone”
Posted: 29 May 2017 07:14 AM PDTBefore the Sinai Desert was returned to Egypt in the Peace treaty of 1978, it was possible to take a bus directly from Tel Aviv…