Juries are under scrutiny as happens whenever a high-profile case is in the news. Does the system resemble what the Founders intended as they prescribed in the Sixth Amendment, “the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury,” or has the system turned upside down? Jurists, of course,
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Sir, I’m reading one of your books, “Business Secrets from the Bible.” You talk about making your customers happy. The nature of my work now is to catch energy theft and fine/sanction them and at the end some are not happy with me. I’m confused, please still explain more for me. Thank you Jide Dear
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Americans seem to have a strange relationship with business. We extol Mom and Pop stores, love stories of individuals who have an idea and turn it into a reality and treasure the idea of entrepreneurship. However, when an enterprise gets too successful, we decry it as we patronize it. Starbucks is successful because people get
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Are you a specialist in your field of work? What career field should I go into? Will history graduates find work in their field? Why is the word field by far the most common metaphor for work, career, or profession? Why not ask, “what river do you work in?” Or, “what road of work do
Dear Rabbi and Susan, I’ve heard you say that money is one of God’s ways of rewarding us for serving other human beings. But what about people who become wealthy doing things that seem useless, frivolous, or even harmful? Doesn’t the success of people like that, disprove the idea that making money is evidence of
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Think of a spectrum line anchored at one end by the word Cynical and at the other by the word Gullible. Tend too much to one extreme and you won’t be able to form healthy relationships, be they personal, business, or communal. Tilt too much to the other end and you risk losing your time,
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I am Catholic and a good friend of mine is Jewish, living in NYC. He thinks the current antisemitism needs to be solved by protest. I believe it is more spiritual and caused by America moving away from G-d. The antisemitism is part of the demonic gaining a foothold as G-d not in the picture
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One of the most popular discussion threads among successful, single men everywhere is, “How can I know she loves me for me and not just for my money”? If you happen to belong to that demographic, today, I intend setting your minds to rest, though not in the way you might have hoped. No, I
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I cried when Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I did not watch the video clip showing his murder. The pogroms of October 7, 2023, personally affected me. I self-monitor the times when I listen to or read accounts of that agonizing day. I avoid sensational news stories that used to be the headlines on magazines and
Dear Rabbi Daniel and Susan, I am in my early thirties, married with a three-year-old and a one-year-old. I have a good job as an actuary, and my wife has cut back her hours as a physical therapist and works part-time since our second baby arrived. I am an involved father and love spending time
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