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• How To Create Change According To God And The Berdichever Rebbe
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• April 30, 2019August 23, 2019 Hero of Synagogue Shooting

  “I scared the hell out of him.”

• July 6, 2018August 23, 2019 Modern Day Philosophers

  I sit down with comedian Danny Lobell for a hilarious session on umbrella stabbings, Harvard rowing, bad performance art and Mexican weed. 

• June 21, 2018August 23, 2019 The Summer Solstice And Judaism – Bring On the Clouds!

  The longest day of the year is a time when God’s presence is most concealed. Even on a hot, cloudless day, however, the Sages’ words of Torah aroused moisture in the air, which in turn created the beautiful semblance of a rainbow.

• May 8, 2018August 23, 2019 Shnooks at Sinai!

  A you-are-there parable based on the greatest moment in human history!

• October 30, 2017August 23, 2019 Accidental Talmudist On The Road To Uman 2017

  I like praying in rowdy congregations, so I expected to enjoy the Uman experience. What I got was so much more!

• February 6, 2017August 23, 2019 How To Create Change According To God And The Berdichever Rebbe

  To communicate effectively with people who disagree with us – especially those who are on the fence and can actually be won over – we must tailor our words to the listener. 

• December 31, 2016August 23, 2019 Two Burglars Come Down a Chimney

  A young man with degrees from Harvard and Yale decides to study Talmud….

• December 26, 2016August 23, 2019 An Anti-Semite Walks Into A Bar

  An anti-semite is drinking in a bar. He notices a Jew sitting at a table nearby and doesn’t like it. “Bartender! A round of the good stuff for everyone except him!”

• December 9, 2016August 23, 2019 The Thief And The Pomegranate Seed

  Before his hanging, the thief made an offer.

• December 9, 2016August 23, 2019 Curing Jewish Ignorance

  Too many Jews are turning their back on something they don’t even know. I was one of them.

• December 8, 2016August 23, 2019 The Secret to Chanukah

  Rosh Chodesh Chanukah, 5773 (2012)
  I wrote the Secret to Chanukah late last night. Between then and now, I heard the horrific news coming out of Newtown, CT, where a mass murder occurred in an Elementary School.