by Rabbi Yaakov Salomon | Feb 18, 2005 | Beginner
Reprinted with permission from Aish HaTorah’s award-winning website, aish.com Advice to my newborn grandson on his first day on Earth. My Dear Precious One, Happy Birthday! While you are sure to hear those two words every year around this time, this is really...
by Dr. James D. Weiss | Jul 23, 2004 | Beginner
On a trip to Israel, Rabbi Berel Wein attended morning services in a synagogue in Jerusalem. He relates that, unlike his own synagogue, which has benches facing the front of the synagogue, this synagogue had tables and benches, so he was forced to look at those...
by Judy Gruen | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
Last spring, a friend of mine lost both her parents in a three-month span. To add to this emotional juggernaut, she was planning her son’s bar mitzvah at the same time. I told her, “I simply can’t imagine how difficult this must be for you.”...
by Debbie Cohen | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
TV, or not TV — that was the question. I may not be Hamlet, but I struggle with my own issues of existence. And that was the issue. When the decision to banish the television to the closet finally was made, I did not realize there would be times I would be...
by Rabbi Daniel Bouskila | Feb 19, 2004 | Beginner
What happens when a rabbi sits down to watch The Wizard of Oz with his three-year-old daughter? Well, in addition to a trip down memory lane (or is it down the yellow brick road!), and the joy of watching my daughter singing and dancing, I had, of all things, a...
