How to stay calm in the chaos
How would Hollywood portray the Great Flood? I picture them casting Noah as a haggard man with dark rings under […]
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Are we wired to fail?
Do you feel inspired? Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkos and Simchas Torah fill us with high-octane spiritual inspiration. Then we
Should you get drunk on Simchas Torah?
Simchas Torah is a marathon. Not the drinking endurance-challenge, though. Yes, I know many people think that “getting shikker” is the mitzvah
Rabbis lost on a hike
I’ve recently started a new exercise routine. As I was shvitzing, cursing and trying to listen to a Torah podcast
When your rabbi breaks Shabbos
How many times has your rabbi broken Shabbos? You’ve probably never thought about it, and you hope the answer is “zero”. I
Growing old is optional
I remember wishing our cute kids wouldn’t grow up so fast. Now, they’re all independent and branching into diverse areas
Getting into character
Ashton Kushner became seriously ill while filming “Jobs”. Trying to get into character, he adopted Steve Jobs’ brutal fruitarian diet,
No less than 100%
We all know the Chanukah story. Or, do we? Here are some of the misconceptions: 1) There was no oil
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger?
Five years ago, this month, we got our youngest daughter, Shaina’s devastating BPAN diagnosis. I remember the suffocating realisation that
Would it be better not to be born?
Life would be easier if we had never been born. That, it seems, is the consensus of our sages. The
