The human body contains more potassium than salt. It also contains plenty of phosphorus and iron. Yet, when you next enjoy a fine dinner, or maybe even just a burger and fries, the odds are that there will be a small container with a perforated top on the table and it contains salt. When was
Dear Rabbi, I highly appreciate all your teachings, I am a happy warrior from El Salvador in Central America. I have a question for you. I would love to listen to your thoughts about it and what the bible says as well. I work for a company in which the culture is based on a
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In 2004, a tsunami battered Sri Lanka, leaving swathes of destruction and a death toll in the tens of thousands. In his book, Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, author Ethan Watters tells how American mental health professionals came to help the young among the devastated population and how, shortly thereafter, the
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Dear Rabbi and Susan, I thought of writing to you a few times, but I kept on saying to myself that there is nothing you can do, so I put it off but now I am just about at the end of my rope. I am desperate and maybe you can help. Let me explain.
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Shortly before electric lighting transformed cities, extended people’s productive hours, and fundamentally altered human life, Erasmus Wilson, a prominent British physician philanthropist famously announced in 1878, “the lightbulb has no future.” William Orton, president of the world’s dominant communications company, Western Union, in 1876 spurned an opportunity to purchase Bell’s invention of the telephone saying,
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Dear Rabbi and Susan, What makes a kosher hamburger kosher? No cheese? No brioche bun? Best. Boots Dear Boots, Since we both grew up eating kosher and continue in that path, it feels utterly natural to us. But thank you for reminding us that the term kosher is not easily understood. We smile when we
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Turnabout is fair play. As a homeschooling mom (currently retired) I gave assignments to my children on a regular basis. Recently, one of our daughters gave not only me but also my husband assignments of our own. She purchased a book for each of us entitled A Grandmother’s (or Grandfather’s) Life with a request that
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Dear Rabbi and Susan, I want to know, as a young man and an orphan living in an environment of confusion, still trying to figure out with little to no real adult guidance especially growing up. How do I find Purpose in life; Identity, Spirituality, Career, Relationship… ? Dan Dear Dan, The fact that you
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My husband and I spent a fair bit of this past Shabbat sheltering in a room decorated in pink, along with its principal seven-year-old inhabitant, her parents, grandmother, brothers, and two twenty-something boys who, like us, were houseguests. Incongruously for a little girl’s bedroom, it was also reinforced and outfitted with a strong door, a
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As I write these words in Jerusalem, sirens blare and we feel reverberating percussions of the Iron Dome system exploding Iranian missiles overhead. This is the second war that Susan and I have experienced while visiting Israel; we were here when war broke out with the Hamas invasion and massacre on October 7th, 2023. I
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