As we experience a frightening increase in anti-Semitic attacks here in the U.S., both in number and intensity, it is important that we adopt the proper frame of mind. Here are some pointers from the Torah as to how we can be proactive in curbing anti-Semitism:
On one recent New Year’s Eve I had a late morning meeting in midtown Manhattan. I left my New Jersey home with time to spare and caught a bus into the city. My walk from Port Authority to the meeting at Rockefeller Center
I received a phone call early that morning. It was from Mayor Hector Lora the mayor of Passaic. I consider Mr. Lora a good friend, a sensitive individual and a caring man. He was my first phone call today. He said that he had heard
On a cold winter Jerusalem night twelve years ago, a group of elite US grad students studying law, business and public policy gathered for a warm farewell dinner after a three-week exploration of Israeli high-tech and Judaism.
Jessica Grose’s essay in last week’s New York Times offers “sanity-preserving advice” for what she describes as the “inevitable holiday regression” that will strike adult children during the upcoming seasonal family reunions. In an article titled, Your Mom
“You best teach others about healthy boundaries by enforcing yours on them.” ― Bryant McGill Did you see the video of the boy who was forced to walk to school after his school punished him by banning him from the school bus?
How do you raise beyond what you thought possible during your next campaign? Whether it's a dinner, a 'matched giving' campaign, or any other type of fundraiser, how can you raise significantly more than you have done in the past?
Annie Lowrey, in the November 28, 2019 edition of The Atlantic, bemoans our “age of polarization, xenophobia, inequality, downward mobility, environmental devastation, and climate apocalypse.” Furthermore, Lowrey maintains, the internet and social media
The essential feature of monotheism is the creation of otherness from G-d where otherness is defined as complete distinctness from G-d and distinct in and of itself from all other beings and things. That is to say, definitionally for monotheism, G-d is not the creation and the creation is not G-d. This means by definition... Read more »
Let’s assume that you want to delegate a task that’s been sitting on your desk since… forever. You know what needs to get done and have (finally) found (and/or trained) the right person to do it. Let’s call this person Sally. You sit down
