Breakfast And Happiness (Conclusion)
Separating fun from happiness can liberate, regarding (a) time, (b) money and (c) jealousy.
A Humbling Lesson (Part VI)
Though braggarts come across as conceited, their boasting often reflects a low sense of self-regard
The Auschwitz Protocols
A great story told by a master storyteller--better still--it's TRUE!
The Breakfast Of Champions (Conclusion)
Overtime proved to be as tense and white-knuckled as the fourth quarter. Halfway through, New London grabbed a defensive rebound and charging toward their basket when Monona’s forward poked away the ball and broke away. In a slick maneuver he managed to split the defense and went up virtually slamming it to give Monona Grove the lead.
The Rubashkin Saga – XVI
Another installment in the ongoing Rubashkin saga
The Rubashkin Saga – XIV
The ongoing saga of the incarceration and punitive pursuit of Shalom Rubashkin.
Reb Elimelech M’Lizhensk (Part X)
To the misnaged-opponent, chassidus was not perceived as a different strand of normative Judaism, nor as a movement to uplift downtrodden Jews – but as an existential threat to Judaism itself. And the threat was no longer viewed as a futuristic potentiality; it was a real and imminent danger, for the movement was no longer limited to just the commoner but had infiltrated the ranks of scholars.
The Rubashkin Saga – XVIII
Another installment in the ongoing Rubashkin saga
Rav Elyashiv, A Personal Memoir (III)
I felt terror posing questions to Rav Elyashiv doing so only twice in the 9 years I was in his shiur
The Rubashkin Saga (Part XIX)
Another installment in the ongoing injustice perpetrated against Shalom Rubashkin.
Chodesh Tov
Rav Elyashiv, A Personal Memoir (II)
In a cab with Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach & Rav Elayshiv discussing if/when to say tefillas haderech
Guard Your Influence (Conclusion)
It is quite a mind-shift to look at your life from the future. This entails thinking about your greatest legacy, how will one be remembered?
The Yale Five
Yale argued living on campus meant living in the "real world," with its complexities and challenges
Reb Elimelech M’Lizhensk (Part III)
Wherever the two holy brothers went on their self-imposed exile they generated a spirit of repentance. Their standard routine was to admonish themselves out loud for their supposed crimes, when in fact their “sins” were precisely the ones that the villager within earshot needed to rectify.
The Breakfast Of Champions (Part III)
With absolutely nothing to lose, including his employment for the coming year, Dan Zweifel devised a strategy for a team that could not seem to catch an offensive rhythm and for players that had protracted shooting slumps and 10-minute-long droughts. His solution, his only recourse, was defense.
The Rubashkin Saga – XI
Rubashkin was treated like no other defendant ever arrested on illegal immigration violations. The federal prosecutors sent marshals to handcuff and shackle him as they led him past a phalanx of waiting photographers and TV crews
The Rubashkin Saga (Part II)
With the opening of Agri in 1987, Postville was beset with what the locals dubbed, “The Jewish Invasion.” The arrival of the Jews caused a local polarization.
Rav Elyashiv, A Personal Memoir
Rav Elyashiv favored books about gedolim with 2 caveats: accuracy; and no distasteful elements
Breakfast And Happiness (Part VI)
If you expect more, you will be less grateful; if you expect less, you will be more grateful.
The Rubashkin Saga – XIII
The ongoing saga of the incarceration and punitive pursuit of Shalom Rubashkin.
Jewish Practice In The U.S. Military (X)
Goldman's case would be the first time the Supreme Court considered a service member’s right of Free Exercise as protected by the First Amendment of the Constitution.
The Rubashkin Saga (Part IV)
These PETA people are not Orthodox Jews. So, why would they so strongly criticize a kosher packing plant for what they believe to be violations of kosher practice?
The Termination Of Shtetl Life
Over a year ago, I suggested that our knowledge of the Holocaust was limited because of our familiarity with only a few, well-known stories from that period.
The Breakfast Of Champions (Part IV)
Monona Grove was headed to “State” and the Silver Eagle fans went insane. The coming games would not be played in monotonous high school gyms erected in the 1950s. They were off to the University of Wisconsin's colossal Kohl Center where they would play before a crowd of 12,000. The games would be broadcast to a statewide television audience of millions, as a battery of newspapers and stations would be begging for interviews. The Kohl Center was just a short drive from Monona, technically in the same city.
A Humbling Lesson (IX)
Humility often confused with low self-esteem, truly means that a person realizes his true worth