Sept. 11 is a day of great national mourning, noted in commemoration and steeped in reflection, but also a day…
Thank God for the Coast Guard. Those boys were in New Orleans in no time, sun-up the first Monday morning,…
There was an American scholar of the Talmud named Chaim Zimmerman (my father’s teacher in high school in 1946), quite…
These are the times that try men’s souls. But trying is not good enough. You have to get it right:…
NORTH MIAMI BEACH — Quick quiz question: which major motion picture featured Albert Einstein, in the flesh, playing alongside the…
One of the staples of Eastern European Jewish humor was the imaginary town of Chelm. It was a fantasy locale…
When I looked in the mirror yesterday morning I felt a twinge. Not just the fading looks; also the fact…
NORTH MIAMI BEACH — The confluence of two stories in Tuesday’s news, one from Japan and one from my neighboring…
George Burns reported that his married sister showed up back at home one day with her suitcase. She told their…
PHILADELPHIA — There is an old Jewish joke that goes like this: A young Talmudic scholar took a vow that…
