I Can’t Get Him Out of My Tires
Parshat Shelach 5779

Traveling to the Amazonian jungle in the mid-1800 was dangerous and harrowing. Bringing your entire mishpacha with you would either be described as blindly optimistic or just plain foolish. But when Henry Wickham decamped from England to build a plantation…

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Parshat Shelach 5779

Can I Get Some Embryonic Stem Cells with That?
Parshat BeHalotcha 5779

One of the great advantages of spending a vacation in the idyllic town of Chesterfield , MO, as opposed to my usual time in frenzied NY, was that I had significantly more time to spend with my family. I conjured…

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Would You Like Ice With That?
Parshat Naso 5779

This essay combines reality and futuristic predictions. Anything described as happening in 2019 or earlier is true, anything from 2020 and forward is a futuristic prediction. Obviously. The boarding team was dressed in the blue camouflage fatigues of the Seven…

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Parshat Naso 5779