Monkey See, Monkey Do
Allan Rolnick, CPA Every so often, I come across a newspaper headline and think, “I have got to turn that into story!” Usually, it comes from someplace like The New York Times or Wall Street Journal. Sometimes it’s from a specialized business publication like Bloomberg or a tax journal. But this week’s “ripped from the […]
Hadran Aloch: TA Celebrates Siyumim and Hosts Dessert Gala and Concert
It was a magical night. On Thursday, June 16th, TA welcomed hundreds of donors, parents and guests to a spectacular Dessert Gala and Concert Under the Stars, featuring Abie Rotenberg and Baruch Levine. The extravagant evening was the culmination of weeks of excitement at TA during the “Hadran Aloch- A Life of Torah” campaign. Starting […]
JCSL by “Shimz Cars” approaches the “Camp Shoresh” Post-Season
With all regular season games but one completed, the 2022 season of JCSL by Shimz Cars is just about wrapped up. Going into the final week of the season, the slots for the top four teams in the Camp Shoresh post-season are still up for grabs. As of this article, the standings are as follows: […]
SBL Completes Another Season
SBL (Sunday Baseball League) completed another season of baseball in dramatic fashion as the the various championship games came down to the wire. The excitement was palpable as the winning teams celebrated following a season of hard work, grit, and of course achdus. Over 400 boys from the different day schools played together each Sunday, […]
Parshas Shlach
Rabbi Berel Wein We are taught by a Mishnah in Avot that the Jewish People, as represented by the generation of the Sinai Desert, tested the L-rd 10 times. The idea of testing G-d is a difficult one to understand and appreciate. This is particularly striking when we can see that this generation did not […]
Left Foot, Right Foot
Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow Lefties have it hard in a world that is made for righties. Starting in school, students encounter desks that are made for righties. There are one-piece desks where the student enters the desk on the left side and is able to use the right side for writing. There are ergonomic scissors that […]
Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
Allan Rolnick, CPA Americans tend to think of “the taxman” as a single all-consuming ogre, demanding sacrifices of cash instead of children. In reality, though, our federal system of government gives us tax collectors at national, state, and federal levels, all chasing the same income dollar. And that’s before the taxes we pay to go […]
Parshas Beha’aloscha
Rabbi Berel Wein One of the tasks of the kohanim in the Mishkan and the Beis Hamikdash was the rekindling of the great Menorah on a daily basis. We are taught in this week’s Torah reading that the kohen had to keep the flame, with which he was lighting the wicks of the lamps, next […]
Yonah & His Prophesies
Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow A scholar was relating a ruling about converts. To buttress his position, he declared that Rebbe Akiva issued a ruling about this very issue. To demonstrate his perfect recall, he said, “I remember that Rebbe Akiva was sitting on this very bench when he issued his ruling. Additionally, at that same time […]
Mmmm, Donuts
Allan Rolnick, CPA In 1917, the Salvation Army sent 250 volunteers called “Donut Lassies” to deliver donuts to soldiers serving on the front lines in France. They collected excess rations for the dough, used shell casings and wine bottles as makeshift rolling pins, and filled a soldier’s helmet to fry the first batches of crullers. […]
