B”H In 1962, four companies started discount chains. S.S. Kresge, a big, eight hundred-store variety chain, opened a discount store in Garden City, Michigan, and called it Kmart. F.W. Woolworth, the grandfather of them all, started its Woolco chain. One of the chains, Dayton- Hudson out of Minneapolis, opened its first Target store. And some…
Month: June 2022
Highly Sensitive Intelligence
B”H One of the most successful accomplishments of the Israeli Intelligence Agency was the capture of the Nazi War criminal Adolf Eichmann over sixty years ago. After an unsuccessful attempt once before, the then Israeli Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion (the primary founder of the State of Israel and its first Prime Minister) assigned…
Coping Successfully with the Vicissitudes of Life
B”H A few weeks ago, I drove to a town in Israel that was surrounded by some hostile and unfriendly neighbors. I had waited for my schedule to open up and for an opportune time to make this long journey to pick up a package that had been left for me. The road was heavily…
Reclaiming Your Royalty
B“H The following story I heard from Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson who heard it firsthand twenty years ago from a Jewish Community leader in Detroit Michigan who had welcomed him into his home as a house guest. The host told him that through his business dealings in England he had formed very close relationships with…