Around, Around, Around you go! Parshas Vayigash 5786

Phil’s best friend in college was Jack. Jack Daniels that is. He would take Jack everywhere with him, in a natty little hip flask that Jack Daniels included in their holiday gift pack during Phil’s freshman year. By junior year, Jack started getting a little possessive of Phil’s time. He wanted to hang out with

Parshas Vayigash 5786

Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, had two consecutive baffling dreams, which even his wise men could not satisfactorily interpret.The situation, though, prompted Pharaoh’s butler, who had been in prison two years earlier with Yosef, to recall that Yosef had accurately interpreted his dream and that of the baker. The butler came forward and told Pharaoh

My time in Maximum Security Prison…Parshas Mikeitz/Shabbos Chanukah

Yesterday, I was sent to prison. Not by the judicial system, but by the Aleph Institute, a phenomenal organization that looks after the spiritual and physical needs of a number of isolated populations, most notably: the incarcerated, the military, and the institutionalized. I was sent to go light the menorah for the Jewish prisoners living

Chanukah 5786

What am I? Our first inclination regarding each of these collective properties of the phenomenon in question, is to immediately say that no such physical thing could possibly exist, defying, as it does, every rule that we observe in nature. Once, however, you come upon this riddle’s answer, you will see that every item is

Let’s Build a Nuclear Reactor in the Backyard

Becoming an Eagle Scout, the highest-level Boy Scout, is much like stamp collecting, except that you have to do specific tasks to collect those stamps, or merit badges as they are called in Eagle-speak. There are over a hundred different areas of interest in which you can earn a badge, ranging from bugling, to dentistry,

Me Time: Be’haloscha

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