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July 29, 2009
Tears in a Bottle
In a cabinet in my synagogue’s foyer is a small glass bottle with two openings. It is an object from around 100 C.E. which caught and held the tears of those who mourned the destruction of the Temple. According to a legend, it was believed that the Messiah would come when the bottle was filled.
Estate Planning 101
A 54-year-old father of four is playing basketball with his sons, collapses and dies of a heart attack. A mother and father of six are broadsided in an intersection; both die instantly. A mother of five dies of cancer four months after being diagnosed. Situations similar to these unfortunate tragedies can be compounded by a lack of estate planning.
Business Ethics for a Post-Madoff World
The Madoff scandal, which involved so many Jews as both perpetrators and victims, inevitably raises deep questions in people’s minds about the relationship between Judaism and business. Let me ask the question that none of us wants to face: Does our tradition and the culture it spawned actually encourage fraud? Are the anti-Semites right about Jews “Jewing” everybody — even fellow Jews?
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