When the Supreme Court upheld the Federal law against partial-birth abortion, I let out a breath inhaled over eleven years…
If your fellow employee took off a day or two for Passover last week, he or she is a serious…
Commonsense aphorisms commonly make sense. Occasionally they use a metaphor to bolster their message, as in the bird who, by…
Some years ago in a quest to become more cultured, more literary, a better person, a deeper person, I undertook…
When they brought the salad I ordered in my business lunch the other day, I looked down at one of…
In Jewish tradition, one blessing is recited over fruit from a tree (Blessed are You Who brings forth fruit of…
This story was a favorite of my late grandfather, Aaron Homnick (graduated Syracuse 1915, Columbia School of Pharmacy 1918). A…
The late Rabbi Ezekiel Abramsky (1886-1976) was head of London’s Rabbinical Court from 1934 to 1951 (after the Soviets released…
When my entry was disqualified from the Westminster Dog Show for steroid use, I fired Jose Canseco as her personal…
There were two genius Talmudists who served as rabbis in adjoining Lithuanian communities from 1900 to the mid-1930s, Rabbi Meyer…
