Posts Tagged: Jewish Wisdom
10 Stirring Life-Lessons From My Mentor, ‘Rav Adin’
Across the globe, people from all walks of life came together on Monday to mark the one-year anniversary of the passing of my beloved mentor,...
The Problem With Quick-Fix Jewish Wisdom
2021 has begun, and the pandemic is still looming. So many aspects of our lives feel like they remain on hold. In the chaos and uncertainty...
Report: ‘Jewish Wisdom Network’ Scam Targets Chinese
A Ponzi scheme called the "Jewish Wisdom Network" bilked Chinese people by playing off the stereotype of Jews as an inordinately successful people, Foreign Policy reported on Tuesday. The scheme apparently enticed...
Burying a Friend Younger Than Me
Today I buried a man who had everything to live for. He was youthful and handsome with a beautiful young family. He came from prosperity...
A Lousy Excuse
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse," we are told. Try explaining to the traffic cop that you simply never knew crossing a red light...
The Road Less Traveled
My GPS is conspiring against me. It tricks me into taking the wrong direction. It usually does not start giving me directions until I am...
How in Losing a Congressional Race I Found More of Myself
A few hours ago I lost my bid to unseat Congressman Bill Pascrell in New Jersey's Ninth Congressional District. But thank G-d, I'm in a...
Leaderless
People love taking credit for creating revolutions, but are not always fast to own up to long-term solutions, as we learn from Proverbs 28:2: "When there...
The Dynamism of Chabad Franchises
The Chabad (Lubavitch) Chasidic movement is one of the phenomena of our time. It originated in Eastern Europe. Its transplantation to the USA in...
Chabad 2.0: The Shluchim Conference Must Focus on a Chabad Quantum Leap
The annual gathering of Chabad's global emissaries, the Kinus Hashluchim, elicits a paradox. Here is an organization that is truly international, operating even more...
