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Kids are learning the facts of life at a much earlier age these days. I know this because my little guy lost his first tooth a few months ago. When I...

A street named for a date was pretty unusual in the neighborhood in which I grew up. In fact, it was unheard of. We had street names like Pimlico Road, Greenspring...

Part One: The day after Part Two: Parshat Va’yey’gash 5765 Part I: The Day After Devarim 28:10 וראו כל עמי הארץ כי שם ה’ נקרא עליך ויראו ממך “And all the...

The six-year old and I have something in common. He’s a ‘keeper of the list’ and so am I. His father, a fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants kind of a guy, swears it’s genetic, but...

One of the things I enjoy about my job is that it affords me the opportunity to interact with Israelis from all parts of our rich national/cultural tapestry. The people...

My Cold War childhood took place in the shadow of the A-Bomb. It was the ever-present terror of my life. I’m therefore puzzled, as a citizen of Israel, by what seems...

Part One: Parshat Miketz 5767 Part Two: The second Shabbat of Chanuka 5766 I. (Yishayahu 44:25:) משיב חכמים אחור ודעתם ישכל “He who turns wise men backwards, and turns their knowledge...

Last night I attended the Chanukat Habayit (rededication of a new home) of our OU Israel Bayit Yehudi building in Tiberias. Before Rav Shmuel Eliyahu affixed the first Mezuzah, he shared...

BS”D Vayishlach 5767 Several questions: 1- Two episodes dominate our parsha: Yaakov’s dramatic reunion with his brother Eisav and the destruction of Shechem, at the hands of Shimon and Levi. Are...

I went to school with a guy who dreamed of living in Chevron. When he got married, he moved to Kiryat Arba and started a family. Then his baby became ill...