Listen The noted historian, Barbara Tuchman, wrote in the Saturday Review in December 1966, “Let us beware of the plight of our colleagues, the behavioral scientists, who by use of a proliferating jargon have painted themselves into a corner—or isolation ...
Listen I sometimes feel that it is my destiny to alert the Jewish community to things it does not want to know. First, that alcoholism is a problem among Jews, then drugs among young people, then spouse abuse. Now I ...
Listen Unfortunately, in many families, more time is spent on the arrangements for the wedding, which will last only several hours, than for the couple’s relationship, which should last a lifetime. The mezuzah is affixed to the door in a ...
Listen Controlling others is morally wrong. The Talmud says that whereas G-d controls everything in the universe, He does not control a person’s ethical and moral behavior (Berachos 33b). G-d allows people to have free choice to behave as they ...
Listen Why should a person have trouble being aware of one’s strengths? Perhaps it is because if you are aware of your potential, you may feel obligated to live up to it, and if you do not actualize your potential, ...
Listen On one of my trips to Israel I visited a friend, and asked him to pray at the Western Wall for my brother, who was ill with cancer. As I was leaving, he said, “May you have many worries.” ...
Listen Parenting is a weighty responsibility, perhaps the most important task of one’s entire lifetime. Yet most people approach this awesome responsibility with the assumption that all parents intuitively know how to raise their children and do not require any ...
Listen “‘Let go of my arm!’ I shouted. ‘You’re hurting me.’ He slapped me across the face and pushed me against the wall…“Bernie didn’t speak to me again that night, and the following morning he was as calm as if ...
