Parshat Vayechi 5780
Parshat Vayechi תש"פ When thumbing through the pages of the Chumash, have you ever wondered what the פפפ or ססס at the end of almost every Parshah in the Torah mean? The פ stands for פתוחה,an open paragraph, and the…
Parshat Vayechi תש"פ When thumbing through the pages of the Chumash, have you ever wondered what the פפפ or ססס at the end of almost every Parshah in the Torah mean? The פ stands for פתוחה,an open paragraph, and the…
Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. Let’s do a simple equation: 1. If it bleeds, it leads. Media today is a massive business, generating hundreds of billions of dollars a year in revenues. The…
Parshat Vayigash 5780 By way of background, Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had two consecutive baffling dreams, which even his wise men could not satisfactorily interpret. Pharaoh’s butler then recalled having two years earlier been in prison with Yosef, who…
Art Basel, according to Art Basel, is “the leading global platform connecting collectors, galleries, and artists.” The organization runs major art fairs in three cities around the world; Hong Kong, Basel (Switzerland), and Miami. Art Basel is not the place…
Of all the tens of thousands of emails that were released from Hillary Clinton’s private email account a few years ago, the one I find most interesting has two words in the subject line: Gefilte Fish. While the subject line…
Parshat Vayeshev 5780 This week’s Torah portion relates the events leading up to Yosef becoming the Viceroy of Egypt. HaShem told Avraham Avinu in the "ברית בין הבתרים", The Covenant Between The Parts, that his children would be slaves in…
April 17, 2005 John Brisbane came home from work exhausted. A full day of meeting with clients and cajoling them into taking out mortgages far larger than they could afford was more tiring than most people could ever imagine. As…