Injury, Meet Insult
Allan Rolnick, CPA Back in the day, investors looking to realize gold-plated dreams on Wall Street spent hours poring through newspapers and magazines to sniff out promising stocks. By the 1980s, though, many investors grew tired of picking their own and turned management over to mutual funds. Peter Lynch became the iconic celebrity manager after […]
Parshas Behar
Rabbi Berel Wein This week’s portion creates an eternal connection between Mount Sinai, the Jewish people, and the Torah itself. The fact that the Torah emphasizes its eternal association with Mount Sinai is meant to teach us important lessons regarding Judaism and Jewish life. There are grand and majestic mountains that dot our planet. They […]
Lag B’omer Around The Community
Clouds in the Forecast
Rabbi Avrohom Sebrow The Sifrei says that Bnei Yisrael brought the Korban Pesach only once during their 40 year sojourn in the desert. This Sifrei says further that this reflects badly on Klal Yisrael. Tosafos wonders why they didn’t bring the Korban Pesach all those years. He finds it unfathomable to suggest they willfully violated […]
A Little Goes a Long Way
Allan Rolnick, CPA Sometimes, when Washington changes tax laws, it’s Big Freakin’ News. Back in 1986, a bipartisan group of senators and representatives re-wrote the entire Internal Revenue Code from stem to stern. Publishers killed entire forests printing their analyses in newspapers and magazines, and tax pros spent years catching up with the changes. (Passive […]
