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Jul 2, 2024, 7:20 PM

Heat and Hiking and Ariel’s Checklist

This is an essay about life. Your life. My life. And my son’s legacy. I need you to help make his death from exertional heat stroke a legacy of life for others, a legacy perpetuated in part by Ariel’s...

Jul 15, 2022, 12:51 AM

Is Assimilation Possible?

For all the Jews who don’t want to live by the Torah’s commandments, for all the Jews who want to assimilate with the Gentile culture around them, for all the Jews that ignore Hashem and just want to “do...

Jun 27, 2022, 12:04 AM

‘In Every Generation,’ Gratitude, and Italy

Last month, I came back with my wife from a 16-day vacation to Italy. We were celebrating my upcoming 60th birthday and while we had many amazing experiences there, one overarching theme, Jewishly, remained with me above all others. Let’s...

Dec 26, 2021, 11:34 PM

Feeling G-d’s Presence: Is That Enough?

From time to time, I have individuals who write me directly questions on topics of interest that I had forwarded for their perusal. A couple of weeks ago, someone wrote me the following: “How can one follow all the laws...

Dec 14, 2021, 4:51 AM

Drunk Driver Kills Teenager–Is God With Us?

Every year since 2008, over 30,000 people each year have been killed in the US in an automobile accident. From 1981 to 2007, over 40,000 people each year were killed in the US in an automobile accident. In each...

Jan 17, 2021, 10:05 PM

Mom and Dad are still with us

My 85-year-old mother, Rut bat Avraham, died on Tevet 8, 5871 and my 92-year-old father, Yosef ben Avraham Yechiel, died on Tevet 20, 5781. They had divorced over 30 years ago and while my mother remained in NY near...

Dec 9, 2019, 7:34 AM

Who’s Better: Shmuel the Prophet or President Trump?

Anyone who even casually knows the Hebrew Bible (Tanach) has heard of Shmuel the Prophet. He accomplished many great things of which two were anointing Shaul (Saul) of the tribe of Binyamin (Benjamin) the first king of Israel and...

Aug 26, 2019, 3:37 PM

Prosecutorial Bias and Justice for All

The second Bagatz hearing of Ellen and Mark Newman against the prosecutors in the Attorney General's Office is coming up on September 23rd. The Israeli prosecutors continue to fight against justice when Americans are negligently killed and this must...

Aug 1, 2019, 5:13 AM

Transforming Mourning into the Morning

We are in the period of the Three Weeks and, moreover, the Nine Days culminating with Tisha B’Av (the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av) begins this week. It’s difficult therefore to not think about the destruction...

Apr 16, 2019, 3:37 PM

A Word (or two) From the Wise: Isaiah 29:13

Pesach/Passover will soon be upon us in only a few more days. This year, the first day coincides with Shabbat which of course occurs every week. Furthermore, we know women are obligated to daven/pray at least once a day...

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About Me

Mark Newman is married to Ellen Newman and together were blessed with raising Ariel Yitzchak a”h for 18 years in Great Neck, NY to love Judaism and Israel. Mark has worked professionally for over three decades in the US Federal government as a civil law enforcement officer.