Nonprofit Consultant & Torah Based Life Coach
B”H Back in Europe, a Chasid (Chasid or Hassidim, a Jewish sect founded in Poland about 1750, characterized by religious zeal, spirit of prayer, and charity) was on his way to visit his Rabbi when he was offered a lift to the nearby town by a fellow Jew. This Jew was a well-respected…
B”H A young child in second grade was very frustrated. He had used a pen while taking a test the teacher had given the class and was struggling to erase his incorrect answers with an eraser, just as he had done in the past with a pencil. But to no avail. No matter how…
B”H It was late August 1991. I was sitting on the airplane looking out of the window as takeoff began. I was leaving the United States for the very first time in my life. As the plane ascended slowly the skyscrapers of NYC started appearing smaller and smaller until the point that there was no…
B“H On June 12, 2014, three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped at the bus/hitchhiking stop at the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut northeast of Kfar Etzion in the West Bank, as they were hitchhiking to their homes. The three teens were Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer, and Eyal Yifrah. My wife and I were vacationing in Amsterdam…
B’’H I once heard someone tell this amazing story that happened about thirty years ago in Jerusalem. A young Jewish couple had gotten engaged and it was customary on the groom’s side that his wealthy grandmother would buy the engagement rings for all of the family’s brides. The young bride was a bit embarrassed by…
B“H Over the summer vacation, I took my family on a trip up to the northern parts of Israel. One of the areas that we toured was the ancient city of Akko (Acre). While there we visited the famous, Museum of Underground Prisoners. The citadel of Akko was built during the Ottoman Period over the…
B’’H In the city of Chelm, there lived very simple people. In order to inspire the youth to go on to higher education, the entire town would come to the elementary school graduation event. Each one of the students of the graduating class would proudly walk up to the stage and receive his…
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…
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…
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…