Picking the Perfect Financial Planner
Suppose you determine that you need a financial planner, where in this great, big American landscape would you find a good one?
Suppose you determine that you need a financial planner, where in this great, big American landscape would you find a good one?
Rabbi Benjamin Blech, author of \”Taking Stock: A Spiritual Guide to Rising Above Life\’s Financial Ups and Downs\” (AMACOM, 2003), wonders mostly how he ever got so frenzied about money — both its gain, and its loss. Of course, he is not alone. Perhaps you didn\’t sink your nest egg into dot-com stocks, but chances are very good that money — or lack of it — sometimes throws you off kilter.
After 60 years and 10 days, Samuel Goetz finally found the GI who liberated him on May 6, 1945.
Between 150,000 and 300,000 expatriate Israelis live in the Los Angeles area, and some of them are pushing for the right to cast absentee ballots in Israeli elections.
More than 500 demonstrators, mostly Orthodox Jews, gathered in front of the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles last weekend to oppose Israel\’s planned, upcoming pullout of settlers from Gaza.
Without question, Moshe Rabbeinu (Moses) is the greatest Torah personality — bar none. No human ever reached his prophetic level. No single person understood God more than he. No mortal ever communicated with God to the same degree of intimacy.
Jewish Americans are only 2 percent of the nation\’s population, but they are 25 percent of its problem. That\’s according to Bernard Goldberg, whose new, bestselling nonfiction book is called, \”100 People Who Are Screwing Up America (and Al Franken is No. 37).\”
In a few weeks I\’ll turn 33 and, sadly, I realize I\’m long past being anything \”for my age.\” I\’m no longer cute for my age, talented for my age, a good reader for my age. All qualifications and special considerations have long passed. There\’s nothing I can get away with now because, \”After all, your honor, he\’s only 33.\”
Some months ago, at a kind of evening salon in a settlement just south of Jerusalem, I read a short story I\’d written to a group of friends and acquaintances.
The withdrawal of Israeli settlements and settlers from the Gaza Strip will dominate the Jewish summer.