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How Many Flavors of Ice Cream Would You Try?
Parshat Termuah 5779I like ice cream. I like it a lot. There is almost no flavor of ice cream I don’t like. I recently had a scoop of basil infused ice cream and found it delicious. If you put me in a room with 50 tubs of ice cream and a box of little spoons, I would […]
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Thou Shall Not Covington
Parshat YitroI first saw the news item on Saturday night. I was catching up on the news that I missed over Shabbos, although I’m not really sure that was a great idea. If you miss 25 hours of news because you’re in your Shabbos bliss zone, that’s a gift. There’s no reason to return the gift […]
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Jan 18 2019 
Finding the Vortex
Parshat BeshalachIf you want to have a great (and pricey!) family experience with inordinate amounts of fun for children, you might want to head on down to Disneyworld. Each year, fifty two million people, mostly families with small children, visit this Mecca of Fun, making it the most visited attraction in the world. The Orlando area, […]
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Energy Comes from Where?
Parshat BoWhether you have a watch or not, you know roughly what time it is. That is due to an almond sized beautiful piece of gray matter right in middle of your brain called the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus controls many primary human functions such as temperature regulation, heart rate, blood pressure, hunger, thirst, learning, and memory. […]
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Burn Baby, Burn
Parshat Vayechi 5779It all started with some bad rubber. On July 23rd, a couple was towing their Grey Wolf Select RV trailer down California’s Route 299 when one of the tires blew out. There was nowhere for them to pull off; the thin roadway was surrounded by deep gullies, so they continued down the road, looking for […]
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The Layaway Angels
Parshat Mikeitz/ChanukahIt doesn’t look like we’ll be having snow angels this Chanukah in our area, but instead we got a different kind of angel, the layaway angel.
Like so many good things, layaway angels got their start in the great state of Michigan. But now they are sweeping the nation, with layaway angel reports coming in from […] -
The Epidemic No One Talks About
Parshat Vayeshevlonely adjective lone·ly | \ˈlōn-lē \
Definition of lonely
1a: being without company
1b: cut off from others
2: not frequented by human beings
3: sad from being alone
4: producing a feeling of bleakness or desolation
From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Loneliness is a an epidemic. Don’t take it from me. The world is slowly recognizing the scope of this social ill, […] -
Mr. Joe American
Parshat VayishlachRush hour used to be from 7:30-9:30AM and 4-6PM, but that rush hour is a relic of a time when apples and blackberries were things you ate, and mail was something dropped off once a day by someone in a light blue uniform. Today, rush hour starts moments after you wake up and only ends […]
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Are You a Chewy or a Crispy?
Parshat VayetzeiThere are two types of people in the world, those who like their chocolate chip cookies crispy, and those who like them chewy. There are rumors that there exists a third type of human, the one who likes chocolate chip cookies thick and cakey, but not enough data exists on this subspecies, they are still […]
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Yes, Earthquakes are a Thing
Parsthat ToldotThere are two kinds of people in the world. The people who wonder why tall, strong buildings fall down during earthquakes and the people who don’t think about it much. Most people are in the latter group, as they assume that considering that an earthquake is a natural disaster, anything can happen. If a little […]
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