You Really Didn’t Have to….Eikev 5776
The beast lumbering by my van’s window had a face as large as a pizza pie, and a body that weighed as much as a small car. Its gait was clumsy and graceful all at once, massive muscular haunches dutifully…
We Didn’t Start the Fire… Devarim and Tisha Ba’av 5776
The following story is true, however the names and details have been fictionalized to bring out the story. The pounding in Shlomo’s head wouldn’t stop, but it was easily drowned out by the pain in his heart. The city lie…
Let’s Talk Trash for a Minute… Matos-Masei 5776
Let’s talk trash for a moment. It’s one of the few things that American do exceptionally well. The world will throw out 2.6 trillion pounds of garbage this year (here’s a visual to help you grasp that: 2,600,000,000,000 pounds!), and…
I’m Going to Build a Wall… – Pinchas 5776
For ten years, one million men did nothing but eat, drink, sleep, and lay bricks. Brick after backbreaking brick, mile after backbreaking mile, the million-man workforce built a wall like the world had never seen before. Up mountains, along rivers,…
Don’t worry, you’ll get used to it – Parshas Balak
Doing your taxes is about as much fun as a paper cut. As soon as tax season appears, the cut is cleanly sliced open, but the pain isn’t there yet. There’s an impending sense of doom, “this is going to…
They’re Gr-r-r-r-eat! Korach 5776
To say that the Kellogg family grew up in austerity would be an understatement on par with saying that surgery without anesthesia might tingle a bit. As strict Seventh Day Adventists, the Kellogg family believed that taking indulging in any…
The Richest Place on Earth… Sh’lach 5776
If you’re like 99% of the world, you’ve never heard of Nauru. That is because the Republic of Nauru is a tiny country with only .00014% of the world population! Naura is the third smallest country in the world, only…
You Could Jump Over the Grand Canyon or…Behalotcha 5776
There are two kinds of people in the world: People who live to do any stunt that will take them close enough to death that they can run their fingers through its hair, and people who like to watch them…
It Could all be Over in 20 Minutes… Nasso 5776
The world as we know it could end in 20 minutes. It almost did on November 9, 1979. In the middle of the night, Zbigniew Brzenzinski, the national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, got a call from the US…