When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. Dale Carnegie Chip Kelly caught the NFL by storm when he took over as Philadelphia Eagles head coach before the 2013 season following a successful
As a rabbi, I am privy to many situations. I’m often informed of uncomfortable circumstances between guests and their hosts. For instance, a congregant – who had just hosted a couple for the Friday night seudah – asked me, “How do I deal with
Relationships have been changed forever. Technology has had a profound impact on relationships between friends, family and spouses. It has allowed for ease and frequency of communication between people physically apart and has introduced people who would otherwise never have met, creating marriages, friendships and invaluable support groups and relationships.
“Joining a new company is akin to an organ transplant—and you’re the new organ. If you’re not thoughtful in adapting to the new situation, you could end up being attacked by the organizational immune system and rejected.” ― Michael D. Watkins
He attends Shul daily, however, I never seem to find the opportunity to engage him in conversation. He always appears as if he never has enough time in the day to do what is incumbent on him to
It just never stops. How many times while writing this article will I be interrupted by a text, a call or an email? How many times will you be similarly interrupted while reading it? All hours of day and night we hear the pings and feel the vibrations, and we either respond immediately, or our tension and dread mount as we realize that
Dear Ezra, Firstly, I really must say how impressive it is to see a high school senior who feels so passionately about an idea that he goes ahead and writes about it in a public forum, regardless of the fact that many may come to balk at it for its raw points, or criticize it- because it brings up
The upcoming Super Bowl is perhaps the biggest event in our country. Nearly half of all Americans watch it. While we do not encourage our fellow Jews to spend time on this, the reality is that many do follow it one way or another. As such, it behooves us to take away some lessons which we can learn and use them as tools for
Last Shabbos was a most unusual one for my entire community of Passaic, NJ, my family, and for me. On Friday morning we had been emailed that a young woman from our community, Devorah Stubin, had been missing since the previous evening. No information was given at that
As I made my way to Manhattan for yet another pilgrimage to the ‘Bastion of (hopefully) Beneficence' – Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital – I knew that before performing the mitzvah of Bikur Cholim, I would first have to deal with the critical and necessary step of finding a parking spot. A legal parking spot in Manhattan 
