Parashas Vayishlach B“H Uri Zohar, a former prominent Israeli film director, actor, and comedian, left the entertainment world to become a rabbi. He was one of the most prolific directors and if you were to ask anyone growing up in Israel in the 1960s and ’70s who they thought had made the…
Author: Yitzchok Friedman
The Beauty Of Unity
B”H Yisrael (Robert John) Aumann is a 91-year-old Israeli-American mathematician. He received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2005 for his work on conflict and cooperation through game theory analysis. In 1982, he lost his oldest son, Shlomo, who was fighting in the Israeli Defense Forces during the Lebanon war. Shlomo was married and had…
Five Hot Tips In Building A Great Crowdfunding Team!
Five Hot Tips In Building A Great Crowdfunding Team! Great crowdfunding comes through great team building. Just as no great business has ever reached its achievements without a great team. No crowdfunding campaign has ever raised a significant amount of money without building a solid dedicated crowdfunding team The most important factor in a successful…
Wrap Your Discipline With Love
B“H When I was in Neveh Zion some thirty years ago, there was an incident where a boy was stealing from everyone. As teenagers, we did not know that this was indicative of a mental disorder known as kleptomania. Every student had something stolen by him, and the dormitory was fueled with extreme rage…
The Deal Of The Century
B’’H In 2015, after a decade of ownership and management, The Sapir Organization closed the sale of Eleven Madison Avenue in New York City to SL Green Realty Corp. for $2.6 billion dollars, which was a record price for any single asset transaction in the American real estate market. Eleven Madison Avenue is…
Crowdfunding Starts With A Crowd
Crowdfunding Starts With A Crowd! So this amazing idea hit you and you know it’s going to be a winner! Your excitement is driving you berzerk. You can see the people lining up in the stores to buy one. You can envision people all around you benefiting from your product or service! However, there is…
The Holy Casino Players
B”H It was a beautiful sunny Thursday morning in Northern Cyprus. We had just completed a successful summer season at the Malpas Hotel. Running a kosher section in a 5-star hotel for three months straight had drained me both physically and emotionally. I was looking forward to flying back to my family for the…
The Hidden Gifts Buried Within Failure
Every failure you have had in your life brought you closer to your inner core. So if you are like me and have failed miserably over and over in life I have some good news for you. You are probably knocking on the door to your inner core. The purpose of failure in our life…
Looking Past the Bitter Moments In Life!
B’’H Well-known Mystic and Chasidic public speaker Daniel Katz likes to tell his own inspiring story. He used to daven (pray) in a variety of different shuls depending on his schedule and mood. However, while his children were growing up, his wife pressured him to just choose one specific shul (synagogue) that their family…
How To Discover The Real You!
Do you dislike the feeling of not being appreciated by your employer? Have you given up on making suggestions to management since it always seems to fall on deaf ears? Do you feel that management is wasting their time and money by giving you jobs that are way below your level of talent and education?…