Yossy Goldman / JNS.org
ARTICLES BY: Yossy Goldman / JNS.org
The Game of Life
JNS.org - You may be familiar with the story of the passionate British soccer fan who was asked whether he considered soccer a matter of...
Battling the Amalek Within
JNS.org - Why is Amalek considered the archenemy of Israel? We’ve had no shortage of vile and murderous enemies in our time. What makes Amalek...
If Not Now, Then When?
JNS.org - It’s been a very sad and difficult week for Israel and Jews around the world. Six hostages who survived and endured nearly a...
Idol Worship and the Trouble with ‘Normal’
JNS.org - Are you into the TV show “American Idols?” Do you enjoy watching all that talent on television? What about other “idols?” In this week’s...
Nepotism or Normal?
JNS.org - Isn’t it ironic that in our own advanced, enlightened and progressive generation, more murder and mayhem is going on around the world than...
Victims or Visionaries?
JNS.org - I was looking through my files and came across the notes of a sermon I made just before Israel’s disengagement from Gaza back...
Home or Synagogue?
JNS.org - How ironic that some of our most famous synagogue prayers should have come from the mouth of one of our mortal enemies. In...
Dissension in the Ranks
JNS.org - The rabbi was busy doing marriage counseling with a couple in distress. He listened attentively to the wife’s tale of woe, and then...
Sacred Spies?
JNS.org - How far away is theory from practice? “In theory,” a new system should work. But it doesn’t always, does it? How many job...
The Vibrant Menorah
JNS.org - Does your synagogue have a logo? Is there a symbol used as an emblem on its letterhead and the walls of the shul?...
Is Sinai Mountain or Desert?
JNS.org - Sinai is a mountain, but it’s also a desert. This week, we begin reading Numbers in synagogues around the world. But in Hebrew,...
Blessings, Curses and Opportunities
JNS.org - The prominent Yiddish writer B.Z. Goldberg once visited the Lubavitcher Rebbe and, as he entered the Rebbe’s study, he said, “Lubavitcher Rebbe, you...
Is God Protecting Us?
JNS.org - It’s been a tumultuous, emotional roller coaster of a week in Israel and around the Jewish world: Memorials, moments of silence and then...
‘Thou Shalt Not Be Judgmental’
JNS.org - Some years ago, I heard Rabbi Manis Friedman tell a story about a man who overheard his friend telling his wife on the phone,...
