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May 9, 2025, 12:31 PM

Visions of the Eternal: Parshat Acharei Mot

This week, a soldier who lives in Omer was killed in action. Our whole community mourned. Maps were sent out to the whole community detailing the route from the deceased's home to the local cemetery. His home happens to...

Apr 6, 2025, 6:52 PM

Enslavement, Freedom, & Addiction: Life Lessons at the Seder Table This Year

At our Seder table, we never make assumptions about the choices our guests will make regarding the four cups. Through experience, we have learned to always respect each participant's choice when they engage with this particular mitzvah. When we...

Gitty Orah Gadol

Jan 7, 2025, 5:41 PM

Addicted by Design: How Tech Manipulates Our minds

We are experiencing a digital age of innovation, and the most sought after commodity is the demand for our attention. Social media and mobile apps have grown and advanced far beyond their original purpose. Initially they may have been...

William Hamilton

Jan 3, 2025, 5:02 PM

Change-for-the-Better

“We need to talk,” said the father of 17-year-old Barnash, nicknamed the wild stallion. It was back in 2005 when Israel removed all traces of Jewish life from Gaza. Barnash was furious. He and his extremist friends were hostile...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Dec 23, 2024, 4:55 PM

‘I’m too poor to buy junk’

Saying among the pre-WW-II Amsterdam working class If you have little money, you don't want to buy inferior stuff that breaks down easily so that you need to buy a replacement. If you're not rich, you can't afford junk food. That doesn't...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Oct 21, 2024, 11:34 AM

‘Nova survivors who used alcohol or drugs have a harder time healing the trauma’

Yet another faulty, pseudo-scientific, dishonest 'study' The psychiatrists were surprised by this finding. They don't say why. I know why. They advocate drugging traumatized people 'to 'help' them not experience it.' They won't tell us their idea was disproven—so dishonest. Yet,...

Rena Perlmutter

Sep 23, 2024, 4:44 PM

Parenting and Life’s Trials: Seeking Divine Guidance and Repentance

One of the most exhilarating moments in a woman’s life is giving birth. I remember the excitement of hearing the midwife announce whether it was a girl or a boy, and then holding my newborn in my arms. During...

Andy Blumenthal

Sep 1, 2024, 4:51 AM

Life is Full of Oohs and Ahs

I'm calling on the Savior to be all that I need Please forgive me, my behavior had me lost at light speed - GRITS Ooh Ah (My Life Be Like): featured in The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift The Rabbi told a...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jun 8, 2024, 10:07 PM

Why are poor people often so happy?

It's free, and they only need to smile and mean it They say to themselves: We already have no money. If we also have no happiness, then we have nothing. It's not really true, but maybe it can help the people...

Apr 17, 2024, 4:50 PM

Addiction and Recovery

As we are in the middle of Alcohol Awareness month and also immersed in the often challenging period between Purim and Pesach, I’d like to share a story about a woman who is fighting the battle of her life...

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