by Dovid Goldwasser | Feb 11, 2011 | Beginner
There is always the question of whether to leave the phone on full volume or to lower it before retiring. After all, no one relishes being awakened in the middle of the night. In our house, however, the decision is usually made to keep it plugged in “just in...
by Jonathan Rosenblum | Dec 22, 2010 | Beginner
The tape of conversations between President Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger released this week contained some pretty ugly stuff, but no great surprises with respect to Nixon. That Nixon harbored numerous stereotypes of Jews and was not...
by Lawrence Kelemen | Oct 7, 2010 | Beginner
Excerpted with permission from Jewish Action, the magazine of the Orthodox Union. As a counselor on the staff of a Jewish outreach group, I once met a teenager whose parents were agnostics and who had absorbed their attitude. Still, something attracted him to us, and...
by Rabbi Berel Wein | Feb 12, 2010 | Beginner
On my current trip through the Midwestern part of the United States it has become abundantly clear to me that it is very cold outside in this part of the world in February. Having become accustomed to the moderate winters that we enjoy in Israel I wonder at the...
by Rabbi Avi Shafran | Feb 2, 2010 | Beginner
It was hardly the first or only time, but one night not long ago I learned something important from my wife. We were driving home from a wedding in another city, both of us sneezing and coughing from the bad cold we shared. As I drove, she checked for messages on her...
