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What’s in Your Suitcase?

At the airport, Yankel asked the woman at the check-in counter if he could have one bag delivered to Los Angeles, the second suitcase to London, and the third to Tev Aviv.

No way, she said. That’s against policy.

Please, I need this to happen, Yankel says.

“Not, this is a ridiculous request! How do you even entertain such an absurd idea?”

“Well,” Yankel says, “last time you did it without me asking…”
Should we dance on this Simchat Torah, one year since the horrific massacre of complete Jewish communities, one that plunged a country and a nation into a year of untold grief, sorrow, and pain?

It is a powerful question. But we ought to remember this: Hamas attacked the Jewish people on Si… Read More »

Seven Nights of Nonstop Dancing

Moshe was talking to his psychiatrist. "I had a weird dream recently," he says. "I saw my mother but then I noticed she had your face. I found this so worrying that I immediately awoke and couldn't get back to sleep. I just stayed there thinking about it until 7 am. I got up, made myself a slice of toast and some coffee, and came here. Can you please help me explain the meaning of my dream?"

The psychiatrist responded, "One slice of toast and coffee? Do you call that breakfast for a growing boy?"

It was a glorious sight to behold.

For as long as the Holy Temple in Jerusalem stood, every year during the festival of Sukkot, the celebration accompanying one ritual would bring raucous celebration to the entire c… Read More »

DO YOU HAVE A GAME PLAN FOR THE NEW YEAR?

This evening Yom Kippur begins with Kol Nidre expressing our fear that the lofty resolutions we might make during the High Holidays often have no substance 

 “Our vows are no vows; our oaths, no oaths.”

But to not follow through on those resolutions is a problem: it is only by taking seriously our obligations to others and to G-d that we grow. But what if there were something we could do that would dramatically improve the odds that we would follow through on our vows? Well, guess what? There is.

Ingenious researchers at Stanford designed a simple but elegant study that examined why some college students donated to a canned food drive for charity and some didn’t. Going in, the researchers knew that some studen… Read More »

A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Berkowitz and Rabinowitz were business partners, and both were avid golfers.

"Rabinowitz, listen up, "exclaimed an excited Berkowitz. "Those buyers we have been schmoozing up called to say they got a reservation for us to meet them for golf at their exclusive country club this Saturday at 8 A.M."

"Sorry, replied Rabinowitz, I can't go. It's Shabbos and I will be in shul."

"Shul, shmool, what are you talking about?  This is a BIG deal!  And, anyway, YOU in shul?  Since when? As long as I've known you you've been an atheist.  When we were kids, you were a communist."

"That was all before Goldstein came to town. Do you remember when he came as a refugee without a penny in his… Read More »

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