Tag: chance

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As noted here last week, the Monitor is coming up on its tenth anniversary as a weekly column. The very first Monitor ran the week of July 3, 1998, and on the chance that some (a few?) readers might be interested in what the maiden voyage looked like, it appears below.

As parents, it is our job to help our children develop and grow into adulthood in small steps.

In my previous column I wrote about older singles who were undermining their chance at getting married by letting others make decisions for them on as to whether to date a proposed shidduch or not.

Why I've Set Up My New Dating Website

Last week, I wrote an article about mothering yourself, particularly on Hallmark holidays like Mother's Day.

"You never get a second chance to make a first impression" might be a clich?, but people ignore it at their own peril.

"You never get a second chance to make a first impression" might be a clich?, but people ignore it at their own peril.

Our journey through the culinary delights of kosher brings us to R.A.B.

I was at a wedding just the other day, and the music was deafening.

The Torah tells us that we are put onto this world to give, not just to take, as difficult as this may seem for some people. Married life provides a unique opportunity to give to another person. When husband and wife are willing to give whatever it takes to make each other happy, they will move onto the next stage called “love.” This is where the Shechina (Divine Presence) rests.

One of the most distressing issues that pre-occupies the minds of young and old alike is the growing "Shidduch Crisis."

There are many things that come to mind as Israel marks 55 years since it won its independence in 1948. If nothing else, Israel has demonstrated that Jews, given even less than half a chance, can collectively rise to the very peak of human achievement. We Jews have always contributed to mankind in much greater proportion than our numbers would suggest,wherever we found ourselves. But it is in Israel, where Jews have organized a state, which after a mere 55 years, has fostered wondrous achievements in virtually all areas of humanendeavor, that what we are capable of is so obvious.

Phil Donahue, the godfather of trashy daytime TV talk, has taken himself out of mothballs, seemingly determined to remind persons of discriminating taste exactly why they were so overjoyed to see him go into retirement in the first place.