A Facebook post is foreverA man went about the community telling malicious stories about other people. Later, realizing the hurt and damage he had caused, he began to feel some remorse. So he went to the community rabbi for help in righting the wrong. The rabbi told the man, "Take a feather pillow, cut it open, ...
The winning numbersThe harsh reality is that the odds of winning the $640 Mega Millions jackpot are slim. How slim 1 in 175,711,536 slim to be exact!...
Slaughter of the pure in Toulouse
It was very early this past Monday morning -- 4:41AM to be exact -- when my phone rang. It’s not often that the phone rings in the middle of the night, and thankfully, the particular phone that was called was not in my bedroom so I did not even hear the phone, never mind know whom ...
a tale of two demagoguesWhat do Louis Farrakhan and Arthur Jones have in common? Answer: Both of them recently made headlines (though you’re going to have to dig a little to read about it) with their shrill incendiary antisemitc comments. Unfortunately, Farrakhan, the bigot that he is, needs no ...
The high rollers, and the rest of usIn the shtetl of yesteryear (and possibly, in some Synagogues today, too) there used to be an expression about those who sit by the “Mizrach Vant”. The phrase "Mizarach Vant" is Yiddish for the East wall, and as a colloquialism it refers to the “Machers” -- ...
Swallow the PillDuring the course of this week, I had the opportunity of conversing with a young man that had lapsed somewhat in his religious observance for – in his words – some negative experiences with “organized” religion. Of course he appreciated and very much understood that the ...
Election 2012It’s hard to miss the rancor and divisiveness that seems to be de rigueur for the current state of the US election cycle. The daily dose of mudslinging by those that are engaged in vying for the top spot as candidate for president during this primary season, is likely to get worse as we head ...
Facebook's IPOSo Facebook is going public, and a nice Jewish boy is poised to make a boatload of money. The price of the proposed market valuation, is $100,000,000,000 (that's $100 Billion). With approximately 845,000,000 users, this amounts to a sum of approximately $118 and change per user! ...
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