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Chanukah is a time for new beginnings. Four years ago it was a beginning for me. Having no access to YouTube at the time, I had my internet filter disabled in order to put up a video that I compiled ten years earlier. It was a compilation of Chanukah lighting in Breuer’s Shul that I […]

I have an interesting lefty situation regarding the performance of ritual that involves the right hand.  The situation arises from the fact that I eat and write as a lefty (fine motor skills), but throw and bat, open doors, play the drums and perform strength activities as a righty.  I grew up calling myself a lefty, […]

Here is a memory from my days in elementary school in the mid-eighties. Rabbi Avi Weiss had just returned from Poland, where he bravely protested the opening of a monastery on the grounds of Auschwitz, which is essentially the largest Jewish graveyard in the entire world. The school called an assembly and Rabbi Weiss was […]

Rav Hirsch wrote his first work under the pen name “Ben Uziel”. In the leaf preceding the work he quoted the Talmud megilah 3a “ But You know very well that I did it not for my own honor, nor for the honor of my father’s house, but rather I did it for Your Honor, […]