Communicated: TefillaChillul Tefila Bifarhesia, as well as halachicly challenged verbiage and dress, are external manifestations of a critical lack of personal yiras shomayim which has lethal consequences.
Posted on: May 10th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriWelcome back to “You’re Asking Me?” where we attempt to answer questions sent in by people who fortunately have fake names, so they won’t be embarrassed. I don’t know how they got through school, though.
The Ultimate Revenge: Erwin Weinberg Fights Back Against the Nazis
Posted on: April 18th, 2013
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesNot too many Jewish World War II survivors from Germany can say that they had the distinction of being both interned in a concentration camp and liberating the captives in that same camp. Erwin Weinberg did just that.
Posted on: April 18th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriThe date May 4th, 1945 will forever be etched in their memories, and now it will be forever etched in ours. That fateful day toward the end of World War II was the day that American soldiers liberated Gunskirchen Lager, a subcamp of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.
Posted on: April 12th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriWelcome back to “You’re Asking Me?” where we delve into questions sent in by readers. We might as well. It’s not like we can listen to music.
Posted on: March 22nd, 2013
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriI stare, and I stare, trying to connect to those deep, seeing, eyes, to the wisdom and depth within that face. And all I can think, murmurs sliding in a circle through my mind - is, hadras panim... hadras panim... hadras panim...
Posted on: March 8th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriWhile Pesach cleaning, I found a whole bunch of questions that were sent in at some point that I somehow haven’t gotten to. So I’m going to address them now, in the hopes that doing so will get me out of Pesach cleaning.
Posted on: February 22nd, 2013
InDepth → Interviews and ProfilesRecently I had the opportunity to spend some times with Bernard (Bernie) Walz and get a glimpse of his war experiences.
Posted on: February 8th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriI get a lot of questions around Purim, and I don’t always have a chance to answer them all. So let’s get started:
Gefilte Fish Gone Hip at The Gefilteria
Posted on: January 18th, 2013
Food → Kashrut SceneArtisan gefilte fish. For some, the phrase seems like an oxymoron. While salmon, chilean sea bass and tilapia may all be in vogue, gefilte fish, the traditional ground fish mixture that is de rigueur in Ashkenazic Jewish households at Shabbos and Yom Tov meals, is like the Henny Youngman of fish: it gets no respect.
Could You Repeat The Question?
Posted on: January 17th, 2013
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriYou know what I noticed since I started writing this column? That people don’t write in to ask questions so much as they write in to complain.
Posted on: December 28th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriThe blade of the penknife sliced cleanly into my thumb and a thin stream of crimson blood appeared immediately, getting thicker by the second. I dropped the penknife onto my lap and reached for the green hem of my school skirt. I pressed it tightly against my thumb. Only then did I glance up at Sister Giovanna who was standing, as usual, slightly to the right of the black board. I raised my hand and hoped that she would call on me soon.
Posted on: December 14th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriOn the twenty-fifth day of the month of Kislev, over twenty-one hundred years ago, the Temple in Jerusalem was rededicated after it was wrenched from the hands of the defiling Greeks. Thus ended a war no one planned or even dreamed could happen.
Posted on: December 13th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriWelcome to “You’re Asking Me?” the column where people are basically saying, “This guy doesn’t know me at all. Let me ask him for advice.”
Lightening Up Your Chanukah Table
Posted on: December 7th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriI found these sleek looking shot glasses in a number of stores. Lined up neatly, they can create simple, yet striking (and certainly sweet) centerpieces for your Chanukah parties. Here is one colorful suggestion. (Tip: When purchasing the shot glasses, stick with something simple. The simpler the glass, the more dramatic the projects will look)
What I Learned from Hurricane Sandy
Posted on: December 7th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriI am writing this column as Hurricane Sandy is barreling through the greater New York area, after having sorted a load of clean laundry by the light of a group of yahrtzeit candles and having washed my supper dishes with the aid of a clip on barbeque lamp. My electricity went out almost four hours ago and thoughts of what I did right and what I did wrong in preparation for a one of a kind storm that ironically, bears my name are still fresh in my mind.
Posted on: December 6th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriChaos - that is how the world is described at its inception in the book of Beraishis (Genesis). Confusion. A lack of clarity and boundaries. Or, as I teach my kindergartners, "a mishmash".
Have You Made A Difference In Someone’s Life?
Posted on: November 30th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriA rose that I picked from our garden to enhance the beauty of our sukkah is so exquisite that visitors remarked that they didn’t realize it was “real” until they noticed the water in the vase.
Posted on: November 30th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriI quit my full-time job eight months ago without another one to fall back on. In hindsight, it wasn’t one of my better decisions, but it was time for me to move forward. I was in a position that never quite suited me – like an ill-fitting pair of shoes that’s one size too small and rubs across the toes. Sure, a nagging thought called a recession cropped up from time-to-time before I resigned, but I was confident I would only be on the market for a few weeks, max. Armed with a new LinkedIn profile and a heaping dose of faith, I bid farewell to my boss and colleagues of six years to embark on my new journey.
Avoiding Weight Gain This Winter
Posted on: November 23rd, 2012
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriWinter seems to be a time when many people put on some extra weight. Have you ever considered why that is? Here are some of the top reasons and what to do about them.
Posted on: November 19th, 2012
Sections → Magazine → PotpourriThe taxi driver was old and rather shriveled, with a crop of white hair fringing his head. Ah, I recognize this one, I thought with relief, hurrying to open the door. If I recall correctly, he knows Lakewood. You would think that a taxi driver, being that his/her job is, well, driving, and being that the town they are driving in is, well, Lakewood…
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