Schlitt spent the past five years transforming a midlife crisis, a professionally disastrous trip to India, and his burning and failed ambition to make a movie about that disaster into a one-man show called, \”Mike\’s Incredible Indian Adventure.\”
One of the most important questions we need to ask ourselves, particularly as we approach Yom Kippur, is: How will we be remembered?
When I was a small boy — 6 or 7 — I became acutely aware that being a Jew made me a member of a tiny minority.
I\’m reluctant to draw lessons from the hurricane, even if the High Holidays are a time of stock taking, and even if Jewish tradition suggests that calamities are \”heavenly alarms\” meant to arouse repentance.
Lobbyist Jack Abramoff\’s recent indictment and arrest on charges of wire fraud involve an already notorious individual.
A feeling of trepidation takes hold of my heart. The Jewish holidays are upon us again, and as a 30-something single in a family of all married siblings, I\’m feeling anxiety and pain.
In the days of communism\’s fierce grip on the Soviet Union, there lived a Chasidic Jew named Reb Mendel Futerfas. Reb Mendel repeatedly put his life at risk with his efforts to promote Jewish education behind the Iron Curtain and for some 14 years was incarcerated in prisons and labor camps for his \”crime\” of teaching Torah.
If you\’re Jewish, this is not for you to read. Please clip this editorial and hand it off to a close non-Jewish friend. I\’m certain some of your best friends aren\’t Jews.
In a tent on an ashen desert plain, seven Jews take refuge against the beating sun.
Since the early 1990s, Rabbi Abner Weiss, former rabbi at Beth Jacob Congregation and current rabbi at the Westwood Village Synagogue, has been using kabbalistic tools in his psychology practice. Recently, he published \”Connecting to God, Ancient Kabbalah and Modern Psychology,\” a book that asserts the congruity of the two disciplines.
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