I highly doubt that I was the first Jew or even the first rabbi to go to the computer to see what information I could get on former astronaut and Senator John Glenn and the Jews. No, I did not learn that John Glenn was a staunch supporter of Israel. And no, I did not learn that John Glenn peppered […]
Menachem Begin has always been and in all likelihood will remain my hero. I miss him more than one can imagine. In response to the resolution passed by UNESCO last Thursday which charged Israel with a long list of violations regarding Haram al-Sharif and al- Aqsa Mosque and purposely omits the sacred connection that exists between the site of the […]
I have a proposal. When Israel inaugurates its rapid transit train service between Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv, I propose that the German Ambassador to Israel, The British Ambassador to Israel and the Jordanian Ambassador to Israel be invited to be passengers on the maiden voyage. It’s not the trains’ speed of up to 100 M.P.H. that ought to serve as an […]
Timing is everything…including bad timing. With the Tisha B’Av still on the minds and hopefully still in the souls of a good many of us, it appears that the way we Jews interact with one another has recently become an issue. A “help wanted” ad published by a manpower company in Israel on behalf of Expose, a producer of high […]
Forty years ago this week, Israel accomplished a feat which many saw as being nothing short of a miracle. As the United States of America celebrated two hundred years of independence, the State of Israel, barely twenty- eight years old at the time, showed the entire world what independence was really all about. A week earlier, Palestinian terrorists (read murderers) […]
Ramadan, is a month long festival on the Muslim calendar which celebrates when the first verses of the Quran were believed to be revealed to Muhammed in the year 610. Each day of Ramadan, Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset. At the conclusion of Ramadan, Muslims participate in a festival known as Eid al Fatir. Recently, a roving reporter accompanied […]
In his autobiography, automobile industry icon Lee Iacocca who, in the latter part of the 1970’s, performed the miraculous act of Tchiyat HaMetim (resurrection of the dead) on moribund Chrysler Corporation teaches a profound lesson. He tells the reader that he would always make it a point to train Chrysler dealers never to ask new car owners how they liked […]
