What’s your Pet Peeve?
Parshat Vayera 5779

Pet peeves. We all have them, and we can’t really explain why we have them. The little things that could go unnoticed by most people, but seem to be particularly outsized grievances to us. People who walk slowly while texting…

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Parshat Vayera 5779

Ironman, Bourbon and Bats
Parshat Lech Lecha 5779

There’s a dial somewhere, that spans the continuum from None to Enough. It describes how much people work out, and 99.9% of the populations gets dialed in somewhere in the middle. But there are select individuals who break the dial…

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Parshat Lech Lecha 5779

Wanna Splurge?
Parshat Ha’Azinu/Sukkot 5779

When there is money in the streets, people get spend-crazy. Right now, there is money in the streets. With the stock market soaring to all time highs, the Dow Jones up over 50% in the last three years, and companies…

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Parshat Ha’Azinu/Sukkot 5779

Let’s Get Medieval on Yom Kippur!
Parshat Vayelech/ Yom Kippur 5779

Just five miles east of the I-75 is the medieval era. Get off the highway, pass through a generic town or two, drive through some cornfields, and make a left turn into the 1500’s. It’s not always there, only at…

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Parshat Vayelech/ Yom Kippur 5779

What if You Knew How to Save Thousands of Lives
Parshat Nitzavim/Rosh Hashanah 5778

Much of the information in this article was gleaned from an article by PBS Health on May 15, 2015 Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis may go down in history as the most frustrated and frustrating doctor in history, but he certainly will…

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Parshat Nitzavim/Rosh Hashanah 5778