Jewish Thought of the Day

Unless you’re reading this in a third-world country, you have more choices about what to eat – and likely eat considerably more every day – than 99.9% of the human beings who ever walked th...

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Every Passover, Jews read passages from the Haggadah that tell us to visualize ourselves as former slaves who were just freed from the bondage. To some, the request seems antiquated. In the moder...

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Love is best expressed by that which you do not do. Hillel the Elder said this when he summed up the entire Torah, “If you do not like something, don’t do it to someone else.” What is...

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Ralph Kramden, the world’s most famous bus driver, was a contestant on the popular “$99,000 Answer” show (not to be confused with the “$64,000 Question” show). He had already won the $6...

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Countless lines have been written about Hurricane Sandy, the storm that recently battered the eastern coastal states of the U.S. How to prepare, how to repair and how to react has been the subje...

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Sociologists have confirmed that if you speak to enough people about enough people, someone is going to know someone who knows someone who ultimately knows you. No matter where you are in the wor...

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I’m not a betting man but I know something about “The Odds”. For example, if I had to pick a number between one and ten, the odds against picking the right number is ten to one. One number...

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A revisionist or an outright liar? That, in essence, was the question brought to one of England’s highest courts regarding the views about the Holocaust by David Irving, author of some 30 his...

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Most people are not even familiar with what the first 7 are, even though we use the expression all the time.   Actually, you have a choice.   If you prefer the “Ancient” 7 Wonders of ...

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“Cinderella, clean my clothes!” “Cinderella, where’s my dress?” “Cinderella, wash the floor. And when you finish, don’t forget to clean the cinders out of the chimney.”   See...

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