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Robert Lichtman

Jan 6, 2025, 4:50 AM

Pretty much no one wakes up in the morning and says “Today I am going to insult someone who does not deserve it,” or “Today I am going to make someone who feels special feel invisible,” or, “Today I...

Nov 27, 2024, 9:54 PM

Mere minutes that uprooted millennia

UN votes on Partition Plan, November 29, 1947

It took all of three minutes for the nascent United Nations to approve a resolution recommending the establishment of a Jewish state, 1,900 years since Jews last held sovereignty over their homeland.* The date was November 29, 1947 and...

Oct 22, 2024, 7:15 PM

The Woman in the Moon

Take a drive out of town one moonless night. You probably don’t have to go too far to get away from the ambient light and find yourself under a sky so black that, if not for the stars, you...

Sep 20, 2024, 7:13 PM

It was October 7, but it will always be Shmini Atzeret

This is what we will do as communities, federations, congregations, Hillels, JCCs, day schools, and clusters of close-knit friends. We will gather to mourn the tragic plague inflicted last year upon our loved ones in Israel, and through a connection cherished by...

Sep 6, 2024, 6:34 AM

“BRING THEM HOME!” IS NOT QUITE RIGHT.

Most people that I know are reluctantly planning to attend an October 7 memorial program of some type. This is for the people who are planning them here in the States. I am so grateful for your leadership. Unfortunately,...

Aug 14, 2024, 11:50 PM

Rabbis, follow the yellow brick road and free Agunot to love again on Tu B’av

MISHNA TA’ANIT, CHAPTER 4 - There were no days as joyous for the Jewish People as the fifteenth of Av (Tu B’Av) and as Yom Kippur, as on them the daughters of Jerusalem would go out and dance in...

Jul 1, 2024, 8:19 PM

Almond joy

We are going to solve a mystery older than the Jewish People. It is a mystery that had its genesis at the time of Genesis. The Talmud (Pesachim 54a) tells us that as God completed the creation of Heaven...

May 23, 2024, 9:24 PM

Death & Love

This whole Omer thing was hijacked. What was for 1,500 years a 49-day transition, an anticipation, an ascension, a culminating crescendo of time travel beginning with the Exodus at Passover and ending at the portal of the infinite at Mount Sinai on...

Apr 11, 2024, 11:04 PM

The Eclipse. A Final Word.

I was minding my own business in the mid-1990s when I got a call from my 14-year-old daughter. “Abba, a car is coming to pick me up at school to meet the president.” “What president?” I asked. “President Clinton!”...

Mar 28, 2024, 9:50 PM

in memoriam

Good for the Jews: Joe Lieberman, z”l

He was the kind of person who would share coffee and good cheer with the people who didn't want anything to do with him

About Me

Robert Lichtman lives in West Orange, NJ and draws upon his long tenure of professional leadership to teach and write about strategic issues and opportunities impacting the Jewish community, and other things. He writes his own bio in the third person.

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