Dear Rabbi and Susan, My wife and I are having a disagreement. I feel that it is our responsibility to pay for our children’s college education, and my wife feels that, while we can help, they have to have a sizable stake in the game. I came out of college with no debt, thanks to
There was a time when I was the sole source of knowledge for recommending books to my children and grandchildren. The tables aren’t quite turning, but they are rotating as the next generations are as likely to recommend a book to me as I am to them. Rather than a modern offering, my granddaughter recently
Dear Rabbi and Susan, I need kind guidance from you if you can assist or help me enquire from your community. My son is going to University early next year and has started university applications but he’s a bit unsure of what major he wants to study between engineering and medicine. Even though Mathematics &
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I hope you have read our grandson Eliyahu’s post, Purging Evil from Our Midst. My husband and I are incredibly proud and moved that so many of our older grandchildren felt such deep sadness at Charlie Kirk’s assassination. These include Eliyahu’s sixteen-year-old sister and our fourteen-year-old Israeli grandson, who personally knows young men who have
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As a greeting, “Happy New Year” tends to conjure up pictures of parties in public places and participants who have imbibed too lavishly of “wine that gladdens the heart of man.” (Psalms 104:15) Yet, as inappropriate as it is, with the festival of Rosh HaShana being observed this coming Tuesday and Wednesday, “Happy New Year”
The bullet that struck down Charlie Kirk not only ended the life of a good and brave man, it also killed the American tenet of meritocracy of ideas. His assassination forced our eyes wide open: the age of reason and debate is dead because the icon of free speech was killed for exercising it. We
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Dear Rabbi and Susan, A few months ago, my husband was offered a business opportunity to partner with a friend in opening a vaping store. Over my objections, he moved forward. I am miserable. I think that vaping is unhealthy and that encouraging it may well be immoral. We have 2 children, 10 and 12,
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Yesterday’s assassination of Charlie Kirk swept much of the country into shock and grief. I think that the last time some of us were stunned to this level of sorrow was in November 1963 when forty-six-year-old John F Kennedy was assassinated. Like Charlie, he too left behind a young widow and two small children. Many
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I wrote this Musing before Charlie Kirk’s assassination on Wednesday. I have read a number of beautiful and meaningful reactions to that tragedy which speak what is in my heart. The United States–and the world–is a darker place today. Thirteen years ago, as Professor Dan Ariely was awaiting the publication of his book, The Honest
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I have a problem: An increase in income would be a good thing. In a number of places you have recommended sales as a good field. The problem is that I am classified as “low vision” due to AMD, so operating a motor vehicle is prohibited. I have a long-range electric scooter that enables me,
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