May 19, 2013
3:50 pm

Kotel Dissonance

Thomas Friedman is not my hero - far from it. His Op-ed pieces in the New York Times often turn my stomach but I continue to read his work......

May 13, 2013
12:50 am

Kotel Standoff

There are so many easier, smarter and more efficient ways to allow all people to pray at the Kotel, the Western Wall, than the limited and restrictive approach that......

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May 7, 2013
6:21 pm

What makes a terrorist?

In the wake of the bombings in Boston and the renewed desire on the part of the media to determine the root causes for why people allow themselves to......

6

April 30, 2013
3:57 pm

My Beard

Some people are polite. They just say nothing and try not to stare. Others say things like “If you keep it until December you can cash in on the......

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April 22, 2013
5:29 am

My next life

There are no more worries now that I no longer have to sleep with one ear awake worrying that the phones will ring in the middle of the night......

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April 3, 2013
4:01 pm

I can’t keep up

One of the greatest thrills of my youth was going to work with Dad. He was a stern disciplinarian at home with a survivors approach to family......

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March 29, 2013
8:39 pm

Pseudoscientific coupling

It is definitely time to get out the Ouija boards or maybe the divining rods and use them to help make the latest marital matches. Maybe we can even hire......

4

March 25, 2013
2:40 pm

Discipline and Four Sons

As a mandated reporter, someone who is by law required to report any suspected case of abuse to the proper authorities, I have had, on occasion, to interact with......

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March 21, 2013
1:00 am

A broken wing

This is not a drasha. This is not a sermon or a religious exhortation. It is a simple observation of the human experience from the perspective of someone who......

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March 8, 2013
4:33 am

Confronting Communal Avoidance

How is it that even now so many weeks after the trial of Nechemya Weberman there are still so many individuals raising funds for a legal appeal on his behalf? How......

7

March 4, 2013
10:46 pm

Pre-marital cold feet

The December 2012 issue of the Journal of Family Psychology has what the editors refer to as a brief report about a study regarding the relationship between......

4

February 22, 2013
7:48 pm

Acceptance Diagnoses

If you or your children or grandchildren or anyone you know applied to college or graduate school you know that it is at this time of year the acceptance......

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February 18, 2013
1:52 am

Costumes

Purim is less than a week away. What will your Purim costume be? I was thinking of maybe dressing up as one of the Beatles or perhaps Spiderman or......

February 14, 2013
3:48 pm

From the – Can individuals possibly be as transparent as they seem? File.

An interesting incident occurred to me yesterday. Let me give you some background first. When my book The Shidduch Crisis: Causes and Cures first came out it was greeted......

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February 7, 2013
1:17 am

Bullies

“I am tired of bullies. I am tired of the attempts made to bully me and I am tired of those who give support to bullies by supporting them......

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