As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on April 12, 2024. “Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.” -Alexis de Tocqueville Keep delaying. The cleaning can wait. You still have a bit more than a week until showtime! That is what we keep telling ourselves […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on April 5, 2024. “You don’t really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.” Theodore Bikel A few weeks ago, I was speaking with an elderly widower in Europe regarding issues of estate planning. He told me that […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on March 29, 2024. Well-a, beat the drum and hold the phone, The sun came out today. We’re born again, there’s new grass on the field. A-roundin’ third, and headed for home, It’s a brown-eyed handsome man, Anyone can understand the way I feel. Ooohh — Put me […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on March 23, 2024. “I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone’s got their own definition. […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on March 15, 2024. “If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You’ll want something new.” – Tim Ferriss I have become friendly with one of the evacuees from Kiryat Shemona, […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on March 8, 2024. “The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That’s approaching evil.” -Jeff Bezos Earlier this week, […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on March 1, 2024. “Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.” – Voltaire First, I want to thank all of you who reached out to me with such kind words on the passing of my father, Z”L. It seems that there […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on February 16, 2024. “We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.” Winston […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on Febrary 9, 2024. “Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” -Vince Lombardi It’s that time of the year, in the freezing-cold middle of the night, when I fire up the barbecue […]
As originally appeared in The Jerusalem Post on February 3, 2024. “I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.” -Ronald Reagan This week we have the privilege of reading the 10 commandments. At the beginning of the Torah portion, we read […]
