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July 28, 2005

Don’t Stress About Your Stock Portfolio

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.

Political Journal

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.

Gaza Settler Pullout Protest Draws 500

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.

What Is Greatness?

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.

Goldberg’s List

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).\”

Happy Birthday, Me!

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.\”

How Can Right, Left Each Be So Sure?

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.

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