One of my favorite books is “Incredible,” written by my cousin Rabbi Nachman Seltzer. It is the life story of Rabbi Yossi Wallis, current CEO
After high school, I had an internship on Wall Street for an investment adviser who worked for a major Jewish businessman and philanthropist. One day,
When one of my daughters was four years old, she was looking out the front window and shouted in delight, “Daddy! Look! The chocolate truck
About a year ago I was standing next to two people shmoozing after davening in shul. One person said to his friend, “The rabbi is
My rosh yeshiva in Israel, Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel, zt”l (late rosh yeshiva of Mir Yerushalayim), was stricken with Parkinson’s disease for his entire tenure
When I got engaged to my wife after Pesach, we planned a late summer wedding so I could go back to the Mir Yeshiva in
On Lag B’Omer I was invited to participate in two Zoom weddings. One was in the Barn Estate in Clayton, Ohio. Yes, the wedding was
When I was learning in yeshiva in Eretz Yisrael as a young man, I attended the world-famous Aish Discovery Program. Despite my growing up with
When I lived in Eretz Yisrael, every year on the morning after Lag B’Omer, my apartment in Yerushalayim smelled like smoke from all the bonfires
As the COVID-19 situation continues, we are charting new territory. Many are coping with loss and others are trying to heal. Some are home all
In February this year, the famous refusenik, Rabbi Yosef Mendelevitch, spoke for our yeshiva at a community shiur hosted by the Agudas Yisrael Bircas Yaakov.
This Pesach is a very difficult one for Jews all over the world. Many are mourning the loss of close relatives or friends. Others are
