I can’t wait for the self-driving car. I can’t wait to get into my car, which will know where I’m going because it’s connected to my calendar, and take out a book and start reading, or take out my laptop…
Toldot תשפ"ד Antisemitism (Hatred of Jews), a phenomenon that dates back to the Jewishsojourn in Egypt, has perplexed pundits, Jew and non-Jew alike, for millennia.What is the source of the world’s deep hatred for us?Were the Jewish people a militant…
A fuming red brown liquid at room temperature that readily evaporates to form a similarly colored gas. Sounds like a ton of fun on a Sunday afternoon, at the Weevly World of Wacky Science Wexperiments! Probably not something I want…
Toldos תשפ"ג Yitzchak and Rivka had been married for 20 years and had yet to be blessed with a child. To seek to remedy the problem, they stepped up their prayers and began beseeching Hashem. The Torah tells us that Yitzchak…
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,…
Toldot תשפא Parshat Toldot is the Torah’s only parsha in which all three patriarchs, viz, Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov, were alive at one time. Although we read of Avraham’s death at the end of last week’s portion, and this week’s portion begins…
There are three kinds of people in the world. The people who wonder why tall, strong buildings fall down during earthquakes, the people who don't think about it much, and the people who wonder why anyone would think about earthquakes…