by Rabbi Avi Shafran | Mar 10, 2008 | Beginner
Barack Obama is black. Hillary Clinton is a woman. John McCain has hair and is clean shaven. So who’s a balding, bearded Jew like me supposed to support? If the question strikes you as silly, or worse, you haven’t been paying attention to the media and...
by Rabbi Berel Wein | Jan 28, 2008 | Beginner
During my recent trip to the United States for the wedding of my grandson I suffered the dreaded fate of many airline passengers – standing at the luggage carousel and slowly realizing, to my horror, that one piece of my luggage is nowhere to be seen. After...
by Rabbi Berel Wein | Dec 13, 2007 | Beginner
I always attempt to write my weekly comments on the forthcoming parsha of the week as well as this type of “On Judaism” article on Saturday night or early Sunday morning. It is then that I am still under the influence of Shabat and I find that to be...
by Avraham Schwartzbaum | Oct 18, 2007 | Beginner
Excerpted from THE BAMBOO CRADLE, the journey of a Jewish father. Reprinted with permission of Feldheim Publishers. In Israel: POB 35002, Jersualem. In the USA: 200 Airport Executive Park, Spring Valley NY 10977Feldheim Publishers. Professor Allan Schwartzbaum always...
by Rabbi Berel Wein | Aug 22, 2007 | Beginner
Two weeks ago I suffered the worst nightmare that we computer devotees can ever experience – my trusty computer was apparently dead, kaput, blank screen and all. Since I was never wise enough to truly back up my computer’s hard drive regularly, I was in a...
