Rosh Hashanah Thoughts: Absent Neighborhoods, Absent Tears
In my childhood, a half-century ago in Buffalo’s North Park neighborhood that served as a passage point between the East Side of Eastern European immigrants (mostly Orthodox) and the Amherst- Williamsville...
Pie Recipes
Tally ho! It’s pie season and the hunt is on for the best and tastiest and most mouthwatering concoctions your brain (and taste buds) can imagine. I just gotta say it’s...
Sweet Potato Recipes
How many of us have stood in the canned vegetable aisle of the grocery store and asked ourselves the question “is a sweet potato the same thing as a yam and,...
Binding of Isaac: The Sacrifices We Make For Our...
Every year as the New Year approaches I find that, despite my best intentions, reality dictates that I concentrate more on the physical preparations than the spiritual ones for the holiday....
Rosh Hashanah: Wanting Our Job
This world is a world of din – judgment and truth and Rosh Hashanah, the day the world was created, represents these 2 ideas. God wants us to earn our reward so we aren’t embarrassed...
Willing to Change: Rabbi Weinreb’s Torah Column for Rosh...
Sometimes even the corniest of old jokes has a profound lesson to teach us. “How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?” In case you haven’t already heard...
Rosh HaShanah: Mark Your Days
There are calendars which provide the convenience of viewing one day at a time. At the end of the day, the day’s page is torn off and disposed of. When the...
Rabbi Yaacov Haber – Rosh Hashanah: A Fresh New...
Close your eyes and imagine what the world must have looked like on the first day of creation. Pristine, fresh, untainted, healthy and unpolluted. Man is created. He is naive, pure...
The Same Old Story?
One fateful Rosh Hashana Day, the soul of Gershon Kleinbard stood in an endless line of living souls, each waiting to appear before the Master of the Universe for the moment...
Mishnas Chayim – Rosh HaShana: Fear Itself
Powerful Example: In pre-exile times, the Jewish people were governed according to the Torah and its system of justice. One aspect of this system was the administering of capital punishment for...
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