If necessity is truly the mother of invention, we should have invented teleportation devices long ago. The current air travel system desperately needs revamping, as it is far from great and only getting worse. More people are flying each year,…
Manju Das was quite possibly the richest housemaid in the world at one point, with close to two million dollars in her bank account. Today she lives in a hut, her body wracked in pain because she can’t afford any…
Of all the tens of thousands of emails being released from Hillary Clinton’s private email account, the one I find most interesting has two words in the subject line: Gefilte Fish. While the subject line of the email Hillary sent…
The fifteen passenger van was dented, rusted, and filled with benches covered with industrial strength vinyl. For four years that canary yellow van conveyed me to school, about twenty minutes from my house, and deposited me back home again in…
It was business as usual for a man we’ll call David (name changed upon request), and as a large shoe manufacturer and wholesaler, today that meant going down to the port in south Tel Aviv to inspect a container of…
It was only after Kevin McNally got in his car and switched on his Uber app that he saw the words that would upend his life; “You’ve been deactivated.” Kevin had been driving for Uber for the last seven months,…
It was only 9:15AM and the bickering had already started. Is Teddy Roosevelt good for the Jews, or is he not. Are steamships going to overtake sailing vessels or are they not. Are there too many greener Jews flowing into…
I’m pretty confident I have weird feet. I don’t know if they’re flat, crooked, or inverted, but they don’t seem to fit into most shoes like a hand fits in a glove. If you’re a podiatrist and reading this, please…
Dear Friend, It is that time of the year again, time for the largest event on the Detroit Jewish Community’s calendar, the amazing and outstanding Yeshiva Beth Yehuda Dinner. It is a rare night that you can be in the…