eternity (n.) – the time between leaving a voice message and receiving a return call
I try very hard to answer my phone whenever it rings. If I don’t have time to talk, I will typically answer anyway and set a time to call back. I believe that callers are comforted in successfully makin…
Today is Rosh Chodesh Adar – The first day of the new month of Adar. The Talmud tells us that when the month of Adar arrives, we should increase our joy. Mishenichnas Adar marbim b’simcha.
This has certainly been a tough year, which for me really started last Purim. I wrote my semi-annu…
We have many types of holidays throughout the year. We have Biblically ordained days, rabbinic days, days celebrated by our friends and neighbors of different faiths, days established by the governments in the lands where we live, and days that have reached holiday status by nature of their …
Change: avoidable; inevitable; desirable; or, as the ancient Greek Heraclitus philosophized, life’s only constant?
There are many attitudes toward change, and we see all of them at the Jewish Federation.
Some fear change and cling to the adage, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”…
